Entries from July 2008 ↓

I will be (at last officially) on hiatus this summer.

I will go for a trip and it is very unlikely that I will have the chance to post here. I will do so if I can, but in the mean time, until next time! (unintentional rhyme)

Long time no see, eh?

OK, here we go:

Bazaar Indonesia @ Madrid

Luthfi and I made kolak to be sold in the bazaar. I joined the PPI-Spanyol booth and managed to sell some of the goods (mainly clothes, small purses, etc) using my broken-Spanish. Some of my classmates came to the bazaar (thank you guys!) and most importantly I had fun!

It’s Summer Time

In Madrid and Spain in general, the temperature rises to 30 degrees centigrade on average. Meaning: v e r y h o t! Also means: open that window wide while you sleep at night. At summer, the sun sets at around 10 PM and rises at around 6 PM. Must adapt.

School’s Over (but Thesis/Dissertation/Project is here to stay)

All of the taught part of my program, Erasmus Mundus MSc NeBCC, has been, er…, taught and I must say that the results are not too dissapointing :p I think I’m not one of the top students in the class, but anyway, I passed almost all of the modules (just waiting for one more result to be announced).

I will do my project at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España, starting from October (but my supervisor insisted that I should start this summer). The project will be about BPEL and web wrappers. I hope I can post about it later.

Sport and Cultural Events in Spain

This summer, there are quite a bunch of events in Spain:

• Spain won the Eurocup 2008
• San Fermin festival starts at Pamplona (the one you can run for your life before a horde of bulls running after you)
• Rock in Rio Madrid festival, boasting famous artists like Alanis Morisette, Neil Young, Shakira, Lenny Kravitz, and Spain’s very own, El Canto del Loco
• and, the most shocking of all, Madrid Orgullo ‘08, a very-very large Gay Pride.

Unfortunately, (or fortunately for the last thing on the list), I missed them all. At Eurocup final match, I was studying for the next day’s exam. But I was able to hear from my room, the crowd cheered as the Spanish team scored the only goal and after the won the match. As for San Fermin, I didn’t manage to make it because it is not exactly close to Madrid, and did’t have enough time. Rock in Rio is far too expensive for me, I watched some of its highlights at TV though, Shakira was incredible! And as for the Pride, just browsed in the local news (do you know that Madrid is supposed to be the gay capital of Europe, what a world we live in).

That’s it! Sorry haven’t had the chance to upload pictures though.