Euro 2008

"Soccer is a game with 22 people and in the end the Germans win"

wise words from Gary Linecker, and this year this will once again be proven true.

the belgians are not present, our team is crappy (well, that's not true, but the coach is and playing with 4 defensive mids, a keeper and 6 defenders gets you nowhere)

Lords from lord of the rings

Some people asked me some questions about different names in the Tolkien world, I'll briefly try to answer them in this post.

First of all, who is Elendur?
In the stories of Tolkien two people go by the name of Elendur. The first is Elendur, son of Isildur (the guy that took the ring in the opening scene of the movie, but was murdered in that very scene...). He fought with his father and brothers and uncle and grandfather in the battle of the Last Alliance. After Isildur took the ring, he counselled his father to throw it away in the fires of Mount Doom. His father didn't listen. It is noted that Elendur had a striking resemblance with his grandfather Elendil. Elendur was killed along with his father and his brothers Aratan and Ciryon in the disaster of the gladden fields.
The second Elendur was a king of Arnor who ascended the throne in 652TA. Not much of him is known except his birthyear (552 TA) and that he died in 777 TA. He was the father of Eärendur, the last king of Arnor before the kingdom was split in three parts; Arthedain, Cardolan and Rhudaur.

Next question, who was Ereinion? Ereinion is actually more a title, than a name. It was the Kingsname of Gil-Galad and means "descendant of kings", this was of course applicable to Gil-Galad because he was of the house of finarfin. He became high king of the Noldor after the death of Turgon.

thesis troubles

I'm writing the master piece of my academic career at the moment, the thesis. It really sucks. Hopefully I finish it friday and then i can study the final exams. yeah.

on the lighter sight of things, I found another muse (albeit she already inspired me in the past), to spice up things, I added some pepper and hopefully K. (which I'll call Terpsichore), will soon realise this. (btw, terpsichore, if you read this, assure B. that it has nothing to do with such earthly feelings as love or hate or whatever, he seems a bit restless)

I really should restart working on my thesis now, so see you later alligators :)

hello motha, hello fatha...

...here I am from camp Granada.

seriously folks, long time no see, I guess. I've been busy with exams and stuff and now finally the end is approaching, next week I'll get my last exam, display technology. sounds cool, in reality utterly boring.
Meanwhile I've been scouting the jobmarket. As I'm graduating in 2008 I'd like to get an international job with many adventures. Yes, I'm naieve. Anyway, if you happen to know a job for an engineer wiht many opportunities to go abroad, let me know. Better yet, let them know!

miniville

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click click click click!

disorders

Today, it occured to me that I suffer from several mental disorders:
1) whenever I'am sleeping in class (which is practically always), I get up immediately if the tutor speaks a sentence like " this part you can skip" or " that chapter you don't have to learn". I was sitting in a lecture of the course "displays" (which sounds kinda cool compared to other courses like "design of high refractive optical systems", hence why i took it, actually is utterly boring) when the tutor spoke the magic words. BOOM! KLAPS! I was awake for the following five minutes to note that I shouldn't learn some chapters for my exam.

2) whenever a girl passes by, the first thought that reaches my brain is a sexist one. During a lecture of "christianity" the girl next to me started hydrating her lips with vaseline. first thought: she uses that vaseline not only for her lips. That particular course is funny in another way too: two types of people follow it: men with beards and long hair which look like jesus and girls. At least two of them have nice boobs. Damn, here I go again.

jevaly.

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