A few days ago we visited the forbidden city. The place sure justifies the city part. To call it a palace will be an insult to the shear size of the place. It is probably bigger then most average size villages. For you dutch readers, its probably slightly bigger then the center of Leiden. In [...]
There is a hip Chinese restaurant jut under our hotel. It has swings for chairs, uses lots of green color, and is full of what I perceive to be young hip Chinese people. On the menu they have tea frappuccino in different flavours. What this basically is, is some sort of cold capuchino, in flavours, [...]
These last few days have been very impressive. Only after landing in China did it sunk in that I am, actually going there. For the first time in my life I was in a place where I could not read anything. Well unless they had some small English translation bellow, but that’s beside the point. [...]
¶ 99 days
Not a lot of time, as we are still in the getting-it-all-ready madness. This last week has been all about preparations, and we are still hard pressed to finish everything. One way or another in a few hours Paula and me will be sitting in the plane, heading to the far east, and what we [...]
Finally, and after about 1.5 years of delays, bad luck, and lack of motivation, my bachelor project is complete, done with , finished. Two days ago I gave a presentation and got the grade. 7.5 If you must know. Most important is this feeling of relief I know feel. This project has been a stone [...]
Paula just introduced me to this site where you can mark all the countries you visited, and you can see what percentage of the world you visited. Im on 10%. Long way to go.
This has been one long, and interesting day I finally got the code part of my project done. Though I still need to finish testing it, it looks like its all good. I had spent all yesterday developing the equations in Maple. I wont bore you with the math but there sure was a lot [...]
Saturday I mailed my pre-definitive version of my thesis and I am very happy about tit. Not so much my work, which i think is ok, but that I’m almost done. It has been so long coming and I’m finally seeing the end. After being a for so many years in the university I’m really [...]
The last few days I have been making great progress on my thesis. Things are finally starting to fall into their place and the pace is great. I managed to solve some weird problems and I am now at the point where the difference between the calculated and the measured matrix is practically zero. that [...]
I got an LP from Joni Mitchel, Wild things run fast, from my father a few days ago. the name was known to me but i couldn’t really come up with any song that I could connect with the name. I was so surprised when i played it, I knew each song there , some [...]