too much studying... ended a couple a days ago!

Allo Allo everybody!

Been a long time... since the 12th of October!

Trying to remember the last couple of weeks is proving to be very hard... but luckily I write down one or two lines per day.... keeping some sort of brief diary! And doing some research on it I found I have actually lots of news to write!

After the Octofest (Brazilians and Portuguese party) I was pretty busy doing a project for 3D Computer Graphics: an L-System (algorithm of growing plants and trees).

Though desperate at times, it was funny to be back on programming OpenGL! It was definitely a bit nostalgic, because I had similar projects back when I was on the 2nd and 3rd year of college in Portugal! I wouldn't go as far as saying I actually enjoyed the project but but definitely a different kind of assignment...

So this project was taking most of my time until Monday at 6 am... (the due time was 8 am) and in between that.... guests on Friday and the 'Why not' party!

Friday night Victor's friend Eva (from Mexico) and Tim dropped by for dinner! We had pasta for dinner and after that Johan stopped by to drop the guitar to Victor... Johan was going home for the weekend and the guitar was definitely a good addition to the house during that weekend... Yeah and I managed to learn the first riffs of 'Dunas' ^^

Saturday was party night! Why not hum? As far as I know, the party was thrown by some Polish a Chilean and some Spanish! It was at Binnenhof again! This was a little different party then the previous. They had all sort of disco lights and mirror ball and even a DJ cabin! The Binnenhof looked like a dance floor! the downside about this party! We needed to pay for the drinks! And It wasn't that cheap for a student's home party. The police, yet again, showed up because of the noise... but everything was ok... aside a Greek guy that tried to get a picture on the driver seat of the police car! ^^ the policemen that were inside Binnenhof hurried back to chase him when they realized what was happening! and sadly he didn't get the picture done on time!
Binnenhof is a cool place because they have this large inside space as well as the outside garden... so it's never too crowded!

Monday started the free week at TUDelft (study period for the exams), so I was glad with no classes, Dorotea and a girl from Germany showed up for dinner and I had meatballs on sauté sauce (whatever that means)

That week wasn't very exciting as I just stayed at home most of the time trying to study for Enterprise Ontology and occasionally seeing a movie (one of the many I have by now)

Saturday though Hugo came for dinner... special dinner... I cooked the Victor's Grandma recipe (with his permission course ^^) it's pretty simple and very tasty! be sure to look it up in the pictures below! Ah and Portuguese wine to go along the rice and chicken! Grão Vasco 2005! don't even know if that's any good!

Trivia fact: Grão Vasco was a painter and besides giving his name to a wine there is also a school in Viseu named after him! lol!

The next Monday I went to Hugo's to have dinner and meet the Pavel's Czech friends that came to visit! We ended up not having dinner. Instead we were eating many types of cheese during the night and drinking czech beer (pivo) and Caipirinha... so it was a little bit of exchanging cultures :) which is a way fancier name for: 'just drinking'

It was very hard to talk to the girls because none of them spoke English... One of them was trying very hard to understand and then translate... but still it was a nice evening at Hugo's!

I managed to save a lot of money in a book for Enterprise Ontology. The book was 55 Euro which I thought it was way too much for a book I'm not even using after the exam... I never planned to buy the book, but then the professor announced the exam was open book (so we could JUST take the Enterprise Ontology book and anythin else). We that in mind I needed the book... Luckily there was an online version in the library and it was downloadable! And there is no copyright for personal use :)

The exam was a couple of days a go and it wasn't very hard!

I was able to fix the seat problem in my bike this week... I felt very proud to find a way to solve the problem with a plastic tube inside the bike's core. Now the seat won't go down any more!

Yesterday there was another party this time in Marcushof. This was the black party! Never had I seen such a crowded party... seemed like every student in delft was there... Me, Jose and his friend went to Ana's place to hand out for a minute and then hurried to Marcushof... this time Hugo didn't come because he is in Belgium! It was a very nice party full of Spanish all over, but that's nothing new for a party in Delft! Some of the people there were wearing costumes but the majority was just wearing black...

Today I'm still not sure if I'm going out or staying in... the weather as been pretty bad all day long because otherwise I could have been going to Amsterdam for museum night! So by now I'm definitely not going... perhaps another Halloween party here in Delft I don't know!

FUNNY STORY NO 1
One of these days (I don't really remember when) I had the most frightening and perhaps, one of the funniest moments in Delft.
It was late in the night... around 4 am and I was lying in bed about the reach the ending of some movie! Suddenly I hear noise outside... like footsteps climbing the stairs :O I was kind of intrigued by it because I wasn't expecting anyone at that time! I was so alert by then so when the footsteps stop somebody was at my door... and I couldn't see whom because of the curtains! But then, that somebody was tried to open the door! By then I got up and put the curtains aside to see myself face to face with a HUGE old guy... maybe Polish or Dutch I don't know... when he saw me he quickly apologized and tried to say he got the wrong house and then he left!! I got into the bed again after that but for a second there my heartbeat went sky-high! ^^

FUNNY STORY NO 2
This happened to Johan. He told me all about it when he came to get the guitar back!
One night Johan heard noise outside and since he lives on the ground floor his room is just by the street side. He thought it could be someone trying to steal their bikes so he got up and opened the door to see what was happening! What he saw was... a Bulgarian guy (he says so) completely drunk and pissing just by his apartment with a beer on his hand... Johan tried to tell the guy to go away and the Bulgarian actually was saying to him to come outside and have some beer too! After refusing and since the guy wasn't leaving Johan and his roomate called the police to tell them about the situation. The police though wasn't very keen to go on picking the guy so it was a dead end situation! They all settled for sleeping and just hoping for the drunk guy to leave. But then Johan couldn't sleep because the Bulgarian was snoring! lol! Well then... after that crazy night at precisely 7 am they all woke up (because of the construction site) The Bulgarian then just said bye and took off!

Without anything else to add I think I'll finished here the post... check some random pictures from the last couple of days!

Me and Li in Den Haag

Feijoada à Brasileira

OctoFest - the romanian, Renata & Hugo

OctoFest - outside

OctoFest - with some portuguese and brazilians

The Chef's selection =)

Pork Chop with pasta

Pasta with veggies

Pork Chop with rice

Pasta bolognese

Meatballs!!

Chiken legs on cream and veggies

Chiken breast

Chop with mushrooms and cream and veggies

Same with the fries dna turkish bread

Why not party - Tim, Sofia, an hungarian girl

Why not party - red filter

Why not party - with Nicola (green filter)

Why not party - family picture (Jose, Victor, Diogo)

Why not party - portuguese picture (with André and Rúben)

Why not party

Why not party

Why not party (Gilberto Renata and Fábio)

Why not party

After Why not party - the graffiti car

Studying

Dinner @ home - grão vasco and swedish recipe

At Hugo's

Green cheese at Hugo's

Yet another hand AHA

Hope you enjoyed it... see you next time!!

take care!

love,

Diogo