well yesterday was a crazy party... started with the time... 4 pm eating feijoada, drinking the sauce... (which I found to be very common in Brazilians)
met a lot a people from portugal, brasil, and last but not least... dutch!
guess I was freezing time for a second just to sort out things: " chating with couple dutch guys, a half-romenian half dutch, brazilians, portuguese, spanish etc...
it's a crazy thing to note 2 girls one cup has gone worldwide! AHA
This is gilberto doing a porradinha -> pôrradjinha
sorry about the angle! :x
by 10:30 I was about done partying! and that should have been dinner time or so!
While getting bumped... my camera fall and it was still perfect... except i dint't noticed that i no longe had the xD card... luckily somebody found it so today i was there to get it back =)
Until next time...
Love,
Diogo
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Picking up on the work
Hey hey everybody... how's life treating you?
well I’m just picking up this week because the last couple of days had been pretty tight on schedule... and since last time posting... it has happen lots of things... another basketball game work work work... some interesting stuff ... the first month milestone, more work, meeting some more people, including Telma who stayed with us for a couple of days...
But well since I missed the last week I'm doing a really short story on it (cause actually I don’t remember everything ^^)
Sunday (the week before) we played basketball for the last time since now... a Belgian guy joined us along with some Angolans who stopped by for a second... (One would expect from them... pretty funny though... wearing shirts of Mendonça and Mantorras from Angola national team)...
Monday Tuesday and Wednesday was pretty much classes and doing assignments... so not much going on...
Yeah the milestone :) aha it's nothing actually but it was a month from the beginning then! Kind of noticed it by chance and was amazed by the thought... time DOES fly!! (That is like saying... mum dad.... don't long too much!)
Telma arrived in the second... if my memory is not playing games on me... the same day I got a new mattress :) picked it up on a dry day near a building close to my place... already washed it and the mattress cover thingy... so it's good to go! Another reason to host some more guests in here!
So... Telma is Jose's friend from Valencia who came in to stay a couple of days in Delft. AND she brought the paella pan :) and it was more than promised that with a paella pan we were going to me cooking Spanish paella (and by we, I meant Jose and Telma) :)
That Thursday I was at the library... the one with the grass rooftop :) it was interesting just to see it from the inside... we were there comparing books on physics and physiology.
Friday I was at the 'kyhoske' and bought some black soup bowls... in the way back Jose and Telma were cooking the paella... it looked like a whole lot a trouble and it actually was... (Jose was just sitting in the kitchen he brought a chair from the living room!!... So all the credit goes to Telma - sorry mate :p)
The result: it was awesome!!! Very tasty... and no... I didn't learn how to do that mum!
The schedule on the paella meal was also pretty freaky... we had a full meal at 6 o'clock paella and red wine... Hugo joined us for a bite as well.
That was really late Spanish lunch =)
That week (not sure when...) I re-designed the kitchen table... the one I found on the street a couple of weeks before (yet again... the street! lol my dearest friend)
(See pics in the last section)
And with that... I skipped the previous week... no basketball unfortunately this last Sunday because the weather was dreadful.
Monday was pretty stressful working late in the night for the big assignment in EO.
Tuesday... for a change a trip to Amsterdam... but no time to go site seeing... We even lost the right train... took off in the wrong exit ended up going to Amsterdam centraal then had to take the subway to the VU... but once there... the visit was very cool. We got to see one of our friends doing a brain MRI... did a little toying with such an incredible magnetic field... and the guy even got the change to be mailed his MRI scan. After that we took the stairs down and went to see the MEG facilities... I offered to do the MEG exam... it's also a brain scan but completely different from the MRI. Once inside the room the test is kind of boring to the patient... but was pretty cool anyway... seeing my own brain activity!
For the interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoencephalography
The ophthalmology lab was also very interesting to see. With the innovative spectacles and the squares machine (that's it... I don’t recall the name :x)
Coming back from Amsterdam we needed to rush the work due for the next day... and the oral presentation for that assignment. Because of that I and Hugo had to delay the delivery of some other non-graded assignment. But it was pretty much OK with Pano, the assistant for the course.
The presentation went smoothly aside some errors that I had. But nevertheless the assignment was complicated so the professor wasn't expecting the students the get it completely right!
Well after presenting the work and still on bad night sleeping we had to finish the late weekly assignment which we delivered 7 hours delayed.
Thursday that wasn't much going on...
And that only leaves aside today... Went to Den Haag to visit the Medical Centre Hospital and its sleep research facilities. I was there with a group of 7 more and the tour was SOO interesting... I love to know how one's sleeping time affects the body and the mind and this tour answered a lot of questions.
For instance... why do we sleep? When do we dream? When do we rest? What's light sleep and deep sleep? when do people have nightmares, the REM, the Restless Legs, the snoring... it was very cool to see that amount of science and technology applied to sleep research (and with some very goods results as well).
Today was also a day for eating schnitzel... and that's English for "panados". I couldn't of course leave the 'enchumaçadinhos' so that was pretty funny to be cooking! ^^ the cool new rice is helping as well...
Last but not the least I’ll just post whatever pictures I might have this last weeks so enjoy it!
Giant salad on hamburguer and fries
Kitchen mess one of these days
Amsterdam Centraal
Volleyball courts in the Medical Faculty
Polikliniek
VU medisch centrum
cool pasta reminiscence
cow stripes on pepper sauce and salad
Recording people's sleep
The beds outside the centrum
Den Haag Hospital - MCH
One the tram station
Couple carrying kids in Delft
Schnitzel and rice ^^
The adjustment I had to make so as the tap would fit
well I’m just picking up this week because the last couple of days had been pretty tight on schedule... and since last time posting... it has happen lots of things... another basketball game work work work... some interesting stuff ... the first month milestone, more work, meeting some more people, including Telma who stayed with us for a couple of days...
But well since I missed the last week I'm doing a really short story on it (cause actually I don’t remember everything ^^)
Sunday (the week before) we played basketball for the last time since now... a Belgian guy joined us along with some Angolans who stopped by for a second... (One would expect from them... pretty funny though... wearing shirts of Mendonça and Mantorras from Angola national team)...
Monday Tuesday and Wednesday was pretty much classes and doing assignments... so not much going on...
Yeah the milestone :) aha it's nothing actually but it was a month from the beginning then! Kind of noticed it by chance and was amazed by the thought... time DOES fly!! (That is like saying... mum dad.... don't long too much!)
Telma arrived in the second... if my memory is not playing games on me... the same day I got a new mattress :) picked it up on a dry day near a building close to my place... already washed it and the mattress cover thingy... so it's good to go! Another reason to host some more guests in here!
So... Telma is Jose's friend from Valencia who came in to stay a couple of days in Delft. AND she brought the paella pan :) and it was more than promised that with a paella pan we were going to me cooking Spanish paella (and by we, I meant Jose and Telma) :)
That Thursday I was at the library... the one with the grass rooftop :) it was interesting just to see it from the inside... we were there comparing books on physics and physiology.
Friday I was at the 'kyhoske' and bought some black soup bowls... in the way back Jose and Telma were cooking the paella... it looked like a whole lot a trouble and it actually was... (Jose was just sitting in the kitchen he brought a chair from the living room!!... So all the credit goes to Telma - sorry mate :p)
The result: it was awesome!!! Very tasty... and no... I didn't learn how to do that mum!
The schedule on the paella meal was also pretty freaky... we had a full meal at 6 o'clock paella and red wine... Hugo joined us for a bite as well.
That was really late Spanish lunch =)
That week (not sure when...) I re-designed the kitchen table... the one I found on the street a couple of weeks before (yet again... the street! lol my dearest friend)
(See pics in the last section)
And with that... I skipped the previous week... no basketball unfortunately this last Sunday because the weather was dreadful.
Monday was pretty stressful working late in the night for the big assignment in EO.
Tuesday... for a change a trip to Amsterdam... but no time to go site seeing... We even lost the right train... took off in the wrong exit ended up going to Amsterdam centraal then had to take the subway to the VU... but once there... the visit was very cool. We got to see one of our friends doing a brain MRI... did a little toying with such an incredible magnetic field... and the guy even got the change to be mailed his MRI scan. After that we took the stairs down and went to see the MEG facilities... I offered to do the MEG exam... it's also a brain scan but completely different from the MRI. Once inside the room the test is kind of boring to the patient... but was pretty cool anyway... seeing my own brain activity!
For the interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoencephalography
The ophthalmology lab was also very interesting to see. With the innovative spectacles and the squares machine (that's it... I don’t recall the name :x)
Coming back from Amsterdam we needed to rush the work due for the next day... and the oral presentation for that assignment. Because of that I and Hugo had to delay the delivery of some other non-graded assignment. But it was pretty much OK with Pano, the assistant for the course.
The presentation went smoothly aside some errors that I had. But nevertheless the assignment was complicated so the professor wasn't expecting the students the get it completely right!
Well after presenting the work and still on bad night sleeping we had to finish the late weekly assignment which we delivered 7 hours delayed.
Thursday that wasn't much going on...
And that only leaves aside today... Went to Den Haag to visit the Medical Centre Hospital and its sleep research facilities. I was there with a group of 7 more and the tour was SOO interesting... I love to know how one's sleeping time affects the body and the mind and this tour answered a lot of questions.
For instance... why do we sleep? When do we dream? When do we rest? What's light sleep and deep sleep? when do people have nightmares, the REM, the Restless Legs, the snoring... it was very cool to see that amount of science and technology applied to sleep research (and with some very goods results as well).
Today was also a day for eating schnitzel... and that's English for "panados". I couldn't of course leave the 'enchumaçadinhos' so that was pretty funny to be cooking! ^^ the cool new rice is helping as well...
Last but not the least I’ll just post whatever pictures I might have this last weeks so enjoy it!
Giant salad on hamburguer and fries
Kitchen mess one of these days
Amsterdam Centraal
Volleyball courts in the Medical Faculty
Polikliniek
VU medisch centrum
cool pasta reminiscence
cow stripes on pepper sauce and salad
Recording people's sleep
The beds outside the centrum
Den Haag Hospital - MCH
One the tram station
Couple carrying kids in Delft
Schnitzel and rice ^^
The adjustment I had to make so as the tap would fitThat's it!
Hope everybody's doing well :)
Love,
Diogo
Hope everybody's doing well :)
Love,
Diogo
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