vrijdag 23 oktober 2009

Got love for the K-Swiss

Hi world,

Somehow I always keep my shoe boxes in my closet to place my shoes on top if it. Probably too show off or something. A week ago my mother wanted to use my shoe boxes for here shoes in the shoe closet downstairs. There is tip for to clean up your shoe closet; put the shoes in boxes and print a image of the shoes and place it on the box. This is especially for women due the insane amount of shoes they have.

As I don't really do something usefull with my boxes, I took all the boxes and came to the conclusion: I love K-Swiss!!

zaterdag 3 oktober 2009

University: How is it going?

Well, it's been an administrative hell to begin with. The University of Amsterdam demands that you deliver a special copy of yout diploma before the start of the school year - 1 September. Well, I received my diploma on the 23rd of September so you can probably guess what kind of hassle it was.

Out of courtesy, at least that is what they think, you can the copy at the end of September. Well, only the goverment can make this special copy and my school didn't deliver one so I was !*%&ed. I just send a normal copy of my diploma but they informed me by telephone that I was too late and that the subscribtion will be valided at the end of October. Strangely I received a mail the next day of the University that I was succesfully described. Really, what were they thinking!!

As we are starting on the 6th week now, University is not hard but so much too cope with. I only follow three courses (Information Management, Organisatio Science and Statistics) at the moment but have probably read over a 1000 pages by now. The worst course is Statistics. It has become unreachable for me, it's depressing. I don't understand anything of it. But I can't give up: Keep on Pushing!!

I have a mixed class; some student are full fledged university studenst who don't know anything about the business life while other students have had four years of practical teaching like myself.

University is not enjoying and as for now it doesn't add any value to what I know but who know's: You have to bite the dust before you can sit in the office chair..

Greetz,

TyKH

zondag 30 augustus 2009

Graduated!

On the 26th of August I graduated for HBO Informatics. This is results that I'm from now on a bachelor of ICT. Fancy :D

But the job isn't done yet. The following day I received notice of the University of Amsterdam that I'm accepted for the study Information Science which starts next Tuesday :( No time to relax or to chill. This study will take two years and if I make it, I will be a Master of Science :D

Wish me luck.

TyKH

woensdag 29 juli 2009

Photo's

Yes, yesterday I had some free time on my hands to look at all the photo's I made during my Hong Kong trip. I had to delete a lot of pictures, espacially those taking during the night due the awful quality. Digital Camera's can't compete with SLR on that part of the field.

You can view them at http://picasaweb.google.com/Tyndell/HongKong . If you also want to see the pictures of my Japan trip just go to http://picasaweb.google.com/Tyndell and select the day you want to view.

My Canon automatically makes folder for each day which I used during the Japan trip. The olympus however makes on folder containing all the pictures but formats the name of images in day/month/year. I was to lazy to make seperate folder so bare with me.

Greetz,

TyKH

dinsdag 28 juli 2009

Busy

I'm so busy at the moment with work and school that I didn't had the time to post the pictures I made and give full story telling about Hong Kong.
Of course, I have unpacked all the clothing but I haven't ironed it yet. I'm also waiting for my package which I send from Hong Kong to myself. Too much clothing :D

When I have some space in my schedule I will try to post the pictures.

Greetz,

TyKH

maandag 13 juli 2009

Departing tommorow

I'm rounding up the last bits now. I have bought the souvenirs, packed my stuff (18 kg) and thinking about all the things I have to do when I get back.

The plan for tommorow is quite simpel. We're leaving at 23:50 witht the plane so I can do some things during the day. Alex has been occupied with family visits the last days so I was on my own.

I do have to send some clothing by plane. My stuff exceeds the 20 kg limit and with the 1 kg/120 euro ratio I rather ship it for around 30,- ;). But with my Chinese handicap I hope Alex can let his aunt send my stuff just as he does.

I'll post the list of purchases when I'm back in Amsterdam. It would be hassle to unpack everything. Just for the fols who had specific requests: You'll be disapointed.

Well, that were the few things I had to say. I will do a post which consist of my experience of the vacation in Hong Kong.

See you all in Amsterdam ;). And for the people who are taking their vacation shortly, have a save trip!

Greetz,

TyKH

zaterdag 11 juli 2009

Limited Movement

Folks,

My last post was six days ago. You could say unacceptable but I haven't done anythings what would interest you.

I've visited the largest Buddha that exists. A nice trip with a cable car an
d then a lot of stairs resulted in a face to face meeting with the holy statue. I wish I could upload the 4 minute long video but it is 444 MB, a bit too big to upload.



A few days ago I had a beach barbeque with the Alex, his sister and her friend and the family I'm staying with during the vacation. It was a rainy day but as you can see we had good cover.



I've also seen the origin of the flag: Bauhinia blakeana statue. This flower is shown on the flag of Hong Kong. The British Kingdom gave this flower when Hong Kong was officialy handed over to China. Let me take the oppurtinity to clarify something;
Hong Kong officialy belongs to China. On the side note Hong Kong has it's own regulations, own laws and it's own separate goverment. As I told in my "The Spa" post you even need to a passport to travel to Hong Kong to China and vica versa. Another thing, in Hong Kong the population speaks Cantonese as in China Mandarion is the mainly used language. Further more, people from Hong Kong don't want be refered as Chinese but has Hongkonese.

I find it fair to say that there are two different countries. Oke moving on..



These were my tourist activities in the past days. The vacation is starting to end. 14th of July I'm departing so I'm again in shopping mode. I even purchased a PSP :). I will have new post on the 13th.

Greetz,

TyKH