Saturday, June 30, 2007

Livinusfeesten

In the village where I live (Sint-Lievens-Houtem), there is an old tradition of a big party every 50 years in honor of Saint-Livinus, an irish bishop who christened our region. This weekend, it's that time again :)

So, the result is that there are four podia scattered across our village, a lot of noise for the coming days and a lot of local artists who are performing. To memorate the irish inheritance of Livinus, the theme of the feast is "when love comes to town", after a song of U2.
Tomorrow I'll be walking 29 km (from ghent to sint-lievens-houtem) like the pelgrimages of old. This kind of 'religious stroll in the park' existed already in the 15th century, but emperor Charles V forbade it because there were too many crimes committed along the way.
Let's hope that doesn't happen tomorrow!
anyway, for those of you who want to know a little more and who speak dutch, surf here

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The end is near

only one exam left.

meanwhile, you can look at my music taste right here
celtic punk ftw!

Saturday, June 23, 2007

PM

PERT, CPM, WBS, RAM, AoA, AoN, RCPSP, SGS, SPT, LPT, RND, MIS, MTS, GRPW, EST, LST, MSLIC, GRD, GCUMRD, CPLB, CSLB, BRLB, RCPSP/DC, NPV, RLP, RCPSP/WC, CC/BM, ROI, NPV, DCF, IRR, EVM, EAC, BCRW & BDRW

hope you can follow :p

Thursday, June 21, 2007

exams: part 2

three down, three to go,

so far so good :)

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

exams

ability to write diminished due to exam over load

courses I'm learning these days:

microsystems, sensors and actuators in photonics
=>basically boring stuff about temperature sensors and photodiodes

physics of technolocical processes
=>all about the wonderful world of CMOS production

projectmanagement
=>CPM, CC/BM, RCPSPWC

photovoltaïc energy conversion
=> how to make energy of the never shining sun

Quantumphysics
=> Einstein was wrong all along

Study and evolution of mankind
=> I'm a monkey

ah happy times

Friday, May 18, 2007

It's that time of the year again

Exams are approaching, so I should be working. Instead, I find thousand of other things to do, like watching as many episodes of "that 70s show" as possible (mail me If you got the first episode of season 5!), watching Edmund Blackadder throwing insult after insult to whoever is standing near him, following the giro d'italia (which is boring so far), joining clubs of crazy single woman who are apparently desperate to find a boyfriend...(allright, the last one is not entirely true, they're not all desperate)
Meanwhile I got more and more responsibilities. Word arrived from my Kazou camp in summer, they're is some kind of meeting the 28 of june, in the evening. Guess who's got an exam the 29th?
For the lot of you who don't know what kazou is, there is a vid to the right, If you know me, you can spot at some time in the movie.
I really should be working now.

ciao

jevalyninho

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

busy times, busy times

As the end of the semester draws near, the usual rush to end all kind of projects is bigger then ever. Last week I managed to complete four, this week I'm stuck at 3, but I'll hope to increase that number tomorrow. If they only would be interesting, that would make things much better. But alas, they are not: construction of a CMOS-transistor, temperature dependent resistors using for temperature detection, semi-conductor lasers and others are driving me mad.
On top of that, they expect us to choose a subject for our master thesis. We got a whole bunch of possibilities, so I've really busy to read them all (at least those of which I didn't fell asleep after reading just the title). After that I went to some profs and assistants to hear what they expect from their subjects. After long consideration I've selected "slot waveguides for biosensing applications" as my first choice. I hope that turns out good.
Meanwhile, the spring classics are over and the belgians managed to be the losers of the peloton: Boonen third in the primavera, Hoste second in "de ronde", Leukemans fourth in P-R, and they didn't play a role in the Amstel and the doyenne at all. And the giro doesn't promise to be any better. Poor, little Belgium (and there are still some lunatics who want to make it even smaller, fools!)
Still have a lot on my mind, but I'll save it up for another time.

cu l8er allig8or
JeVaLy