2nd Week: Slowly getting busier...
Another week flew by! It is getting busier and busier by the day… Study really kicked off this week. I could actually be found in the library at times! I’m not even sure I know where the library is in the VU (Vrije Universiteit) back home…
Saturday, where we left off last week… i went straight after the blog update for a milkshake in town. Even though it was extremely cold and raining … we drank it outside on the terrace! :) Afterwards, me, Joy and Sigal went to ASDA to do some shopping for the Latino party, which the 2 Latino girls were having that evening. The turn up was huge! And the hostesses managed to get pretty drunk! Too bad the party was terminated by the security guards, but at least it was an ending in style! ;)
Sunday, I went to play a 5 pound buy-in Texas Hold’em No Limit Poker Tournament in the Gala Casino here in Bournemouth. Very exciting! Since it was my first real life tournament. I was surprised to find out that all the tables had to do their own shuffling, cutting and dealing… The tournament progressed and I managed to triple up at one point, after that the blinds seemed to start climbing like a madman. I made it to the final table, but after a total of 3 hours, I had to make my final stand and I threw all my chips in on 78 suited. Nothing hit and I went home in 7th place. Price money started at 4th place, so maybe next time!
I got out and found myself sitting in the cinema with Joy and Sigal an hour later… Wimbledon! Yeshhh! Some cool shots in there, but quite the “chick flicky” movie :) Went home to catch up with some reading for the next day afterwards.
Monday, a long day in university. The day started with a class in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in combination with Dreamweaver and it progressed through a really boring lecture in Media Theory to the first “Design for Interactive Media” class. We had to catch up with the class we missed last week, so it went quite the pace. This is the one of the subjects I really hope to learn the most from, since I came here for “design purposes”. It was interesting to hear that quite a lot of my course mates came to learn the technical side, cool that everybody wants something else from the course :)
Like I mentioned before, the project I have to do for the “Designing for Interactive Media” course is linked with “Narrative and New Media” course is going to be really really cool! I have to create a visual book with pen and paper to crystallize all my ideas on the design/aesthetical issues, next to that I have to write a story that can be followed in a non-linear fashion, so that the user can jump through the story as he/she chooses. There are so many forms to choose… it is overwhelming! I want to use video, but also 3D. I want to design pretty pictures, but need to be able integrate it in the Interface well… I need a story, but it should fit the design … music, sound… wahh! (:
I’ll keep you guys posted on it … it keeps my brain busy a lot though! They have so many facilities here, sound editing studios, 3D labs, video studios with blue screens and they even have a motion capture facility for animating 3D models … I wanna use ‘m allll!! So many things, so little time!! :)
Last class was a Media Theory seminar with David Gauntlett, who wrote the book “Web Studies”, which quite some of the studies at the VU use. I find him a really interesting and entertaining guy, and no I’m not writing this to suck up, just stating an opinion ;) not sure he even found his way to my blog yet ;D
After uni I felt like seeing Sigal, so I dropped by her room in Cranborne house. I intended to only stay for a bit, but we ended up telling each other our life stories for about 6 hours… :) ever sat down and told somebody your life story? Where to start? What to tell? What are you forgetting? There is just so much! :) So for today my children; tell somebody who doesn’t know your life story! …. ;)
Wednesday, the results of the ISOP photographic competition were announced. I had entered with the picture of my room with the 21 people in it … but … shockingly … I DIDN’T WIN! RECOUUNNTTTT!!! ;) – but at least the picture made it up on the board showing the best entries ;D – so we know what that means!
CELIBRATE!! Yeehaw! Off to Ozz’s place! Beer! Pasta! Music! Woohoo! Ok, there were only 4 ppl there, but that doesn’t matter. Ozz decided to stay home with his “date” afterwards and me and Jan went to a triple birthday party at the Student Village on the campus … a full house! International students all over (:
Me, Jan, Joy and Sigal took a cab around 01:00 back to Cranborne house, where the fire alarm went off at 02:15 that night! Everybody had to get out of the building, not that every did, but still … after 30 minutes we could get back in the building and try to get some sleep again … which worked, but then at 05:00 it went off again! So far for a good night sleep! Went downstairs to eat some yoghurt with Doa’a, which was nice (: although she was uttering some incomprehensible sentences that were produced from a still half asleep subconscious (; - so after 40 minutes of an extremely annoying sound, I climbed back to the 7th floor to get back to sleep (:
(the attentive reader can draw some conclusions from this last paragraph… ;)
Thursday, daytime was full of lectures and seminars at university. In the evening watched Trainspotting at Carolina’s place with about 10 people, couldn’t see the end because me and my course m8tes were going for a drink with David Gauntlett (yes, our tutor from Media Theory ;) – cool having a drink with one of your teachers! So, I bought him a beer and now I can finally say I have at least once in my lifetime tried to get my teacher drunk!
Friday, I had invited a lot of people to my place in the evening. Turned out to be a really cool! The going out plans stranded, but lots of photo sessions made up for that … I hope to put ‘m up later on (:
Saturday, yea – here we are again! I’m going to study today, draw in my visual book and put my ideas about the design/narrative project into words. Another fun week in prospect, Tuesday there is the “Freshers Ball” – will have to find a suit for that … take a long educated guess who my date is ;) – then Thursday I’m having my first visitor coming over!! Well … dutch visitor that is … Daantje!!! I’ll go check where the best parties are this weekend and of course play the poker tournament in the casino with him ;D looking forward to it! :)
It is nice to hear people are having fun at home and things are going well. I got a phone call from mum yesterday, which made me really happy (: love you very much mum! :) – Bob also called me earlier on to let me know how things are going, thanks very much m8tey! Hang in there! ;D Also heard that people got way to drunk on Daan’s b’day party in the Paradiso, that WickdJazzSounds is still as fun as ever, that Rob managed to crash his face into the street tarmac, that Todd is doing fine as ever; cool reading your stories man! That Anna is getting along fine with her dissertation (and boyfriend! :) That Sanne is actually to be found in university … and is dancing along with Daan and Todd also :D And Remco is still in the race for a 3 year, salary included, job to become a lawyer in … St Maarten! I hope you’ll make it man! Even though that would mean I wouldn’t see you very much … but I’ll come visit of course ;D
Time for me to do some design and writing!
Big Beso,
Rutger :)
Saturday, where we left off last week… i went straight after the blog update for a milkshake in town. Even though it was extremely cold and raining … we drank it outside on the terrace! :) Afterwards, me, Joy and Sigal went to ASDA to do some shopping for the Latino party, which the 2 Latino girls were having that evening. The turn up was huge! And the hostesses managed to get pretty drunk! Too bad the party was terminated by the security guards, but at least it was an ending in style! ;)
Sunday, I went to play a 5 pound buy-in Texas Hold’em No Limit Poker Tournament in the Gala Casino here in Bournemouth. Very exciting! Since it was my first real life tournament. I was surprised to find out that all the tables had to do their own shuffling, cutting and dealing… The tournament progressed and I managed to triple up at one point, after that the blinds seemed to start climbing like a madman. I made it to the final table, but after a total of 3 hours, I had to make my final stand and I threw all my chips in on 78 suited. Nothing hit and I went home in 7th place. Price money started at 4th place, so maybe next time!
I got out and found myself sitting in the cinema with Joy and Sigal an hour later… Wimbledon! Yeshhh! Some cool shots in there, but quite the “chick flicky” movie :) Went home to catch up with some reading for the next day afterwards.
Monday, a long day in university. The day started with a class in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in combination with Dreamweaver and it progressed through a really boring lecture in Media Theory to the first “Design for Interactive Media” class. We had to catch up with the class we missed last week, so it went quite the pace. This is the one of the subjects I really hope to learn the most from, since I came here for “design purposes”. It was interesting to hear that quite a lot of my course mates came to learn the technical side, cool that everybody wants something else from the course :)
Like I mentioned before, the project I have to do for the “Designing for Interactive Media” course is linked with “Narrative and New Media” course is going to be really really cool! I have to create a visual book with pen and paper to crystallize all my ideas on the design/aesthetical issues, next to that I have to write a story that can be followed in a non-linear fashion, so that the user can jump through the story as he/she chooses. There are so many forms to choose… it is overwhelming! I want to use video, but also 3D. I want to design pretty pictures, but need to be able integrate it in the Interface well… I need a story, but it should fit the design … music, sound… wahh! (:
I’ll keep you guys posted on it … it keeps my brain busy a lot though! They have so many facilities here, sound editing studios, 3D labs, video studios with blue screens and they even have a motion capture facility for animating 3D models … I wanna use ‘m allll!! So many things, so little time!! :)
Last class was a Media Theory seminar with David Gauntlett, who wrote the book “Web Studies”, which quite some of the studies at the VU use. I find him a really interesting and entertaining guy, and no I’m not writing this to suck up, just stating an opinion ;) not sure he even found his way to my blog yet ;D
After uni I felt like seeing Sigal, so I dropped by her room in Cranborne house. I intended to only stay for a bit, but we ended up telling each other our life stories for about 6 hours… :) ever sat down and told somebody your life story? Where to start? What to tell? What are you forgetting? There is just so much! :) So for today my children; tell somebody who doesn’t know your life story! …. ;)
Wednesday, the results of the ISOP photographic competition were announced. I had entered with the picture of my room with the 21 people in it … but … shockingly … I DIDN’T WIN! RECOUUNNTTTT!!! ;) – but at least the picture made it up on the board showing the best entries ;D – so we know what that means!
CELIBRATE!! Yeehaw! Off to Ozz’s place! Beer! Pasta! Music! Woohoo! Ok, there were only 4 ppl there, but that doesn’t matter. Ozz decided to stay home with his “date” afterwards and me and Jan went to a triple birthday party at the Student Village on the campus … a full house! International students all over (:
Me, Jan, Joy and Sigal took a cab around 01:00 back to Cranborne house, where the fire alarm went off at 02:15 that night! Everybody had to get out of the building, not that every did, but still … after 30 minutes we could get back in the building and try to get some sleep again … which worked, but then at 05:00 it went off again! So far for a good night sleep! Went downstairs to eat some yoghurt with Doa’a, which was nice (: although she was uttering some incomprehensible sentences that were produced from a still half asleep subconscious (; - so after 40 minutes of an extremely annoying sound, I climbed back to the 7th floor to get back to sleep (:
(the attentive reader can draw some conclusions from this last paragraph… ;)
Thursday, daytime was full of lectures and seminars at university. In the evening watched Trainspotting at Carolina’s place with about 10 people, couldn’t see the end because me and my course m8tes were going for a drink with David Gauntlett (yes, our tutor from Media Theory ;) – cool having a drink with one of your teachers! So, I bought him a beer and now I can finally say I have at least once in my lifetime tried to get my teacher drunk!
Friday, I had invited a lot of people to my place in the evening. Turned out to be a really cool! The going out plans stranded, but lots of photo sessions made up for that … I hope to put ‘m up later on (:
Saturday, yea – here we are again! I’m going to study today, draw in my visual book and put my ideas about the design/narrative project into words. Another fun week in prospect, Tuesday there is the “Freshers Ball” – will have to find a suit for that … take a long educated guess who my date is ;) – then Thursday I’m having my first visitor coming over!! Well … dutch visitor that is … Daantje!!! I’ll go check where the best parties are this weekend and of course play the poker tournament in the casino with him ;D looking forward to it! :)
It is nice to hear people are having fun at home and things are going well. I got a phone call from mum yesterday, which made me really happy (: love you very much mum! :) – Bob also called me earlier on to let me know how things are going, thanks very much m8tey! Hang in there! ;D Also heard that people got way to drunk on Daan’s b’day party in the Paradiso, that WickdJazzSounds is still as fun as ever, that Rob managed to crash his face into the street tarmac, that Todd is doing fine as ever; cool reading your stories man! That Anna is getting along fine with her dissertation (and boyfriend! :) That Sanne is actually to be found in university … and is dancing along with Daan and Todd also :D And Remco is still in the race for a 3 year, salary included, job to become a lawyer in … St Maarten! I hope you’ll make it man! Even though that would mean I wouldn’t see you very much … but I’ll come visit of course ;D
Time for me to do some design and writing!
Big Beso,
Rutger :)
posted by Rutger at 01:28
2 Comments:
Can't wait any longer. Clock is ticking hours away now. I got 5 bottles of "Calve knoflooksaus" and 3 packs of "ah pure hagelslag" (yes english readers, indeed the (in)famous dutch small chocolat flakes that you can put on bread or ice). Warm the pokertables, wake up your partyspirit, invite your friends and forget the books... In 24 hours I'll lock my frontdoor for a long weekend!
*tick tock!* :)
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