Yes

We still have snow. An every now and then it melts, but there is always some new snow just waiting to fall down on us. And it's so cold!

I have an exam in a week, should be interesting. As I have barely started reading the abnormally boring book. It looks funny on the outside, but no.

This weekend we're going to a Briskeby (Norwegian band) concert, I am really looking forward to it. Then next weekend there is the Hore & Hallik (Pimps & hoes or something) party, where everyone dresses up like - you guessed it - a ho or a pimp. Always a great party.

Karianne, who I was in Abu Dhabi with last year, is now in Boston. Check out her blog (norwegian) at karianneiusa.blogspot.com She has unlimited access to Starbucks, and I don't envy her at all :|

It never ends

Still snow! On thursday I admired the space in front of our garage, as almost all ice on the ground was gone. I smiled to myself; "finally" i thought! Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves... I have to go out and shovel some snow today.. Jostein took care of it yesterday, but it just keeps snowing.

Speaking of snow; the winter olympics are now in progress, and we thought Norway would get like 13 gold medals. So far we have one. We rule. (Then again we have lots of medals, and some countries would celebrate for years, put we are a bit picky... we want gold!). Crap.

Actually this whole week was a bit crap. We were supposed to go to a Briskeby (great Norwegian band) concert on thursday; cancelled due someone being sick. And then we were ready for a lovely weekend in Oslo; cancelled due to stupid snow and crappy weather. But we make the best of it, and yesterday we invited Line for tacopizza and had a cozy night in. Today we bought new candy for Anne, our bunny. (No, she's not a playboy-bunny but a regular furry one with cute ears...)

Exactly one year ago, I was at the Officers Club in Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates, and Emirates Palace Hotel for the e-ducation without borders 2005. I'll find some nice pictures and put them in my blog. I miss Abu Dhabi!

Madwoman playing golf

I have gone stupid(er). I lost what I had of programming skills, and I suspect my brain has gone for a vacation without asking me first. Lucky me! A bit annoying as we have deliverables at school, but I hope I'll get well before it's too late. All is well that ends well, I'll keep my fingers crossed.

The weather is not getting better either. First there was snow. Then there was rain (hurra) and now it's snowing again, so I feel like a crazy person everytime I am insane enough to leave the house. It's dangerous! Even worse, my boyfriend gets to work on a bike (bicycle, not motorcycle..). Scary! Maybe this is like an ice-age rehersal. If it is, I am so outta here before the ice-age. Unless I get some really nice skis or something.

Talking of sports, I have become addicted to golf. By miracle, a Norwegian guy is on the PGA tour, and I am hooked! I'm going to start playing golf now, definately! And that is good news to my boyfriend who hasn't played golf in like 3,5 years. I want some super cute golf shoes, and a Nike golfbag.

I have to go look for my iq.

Useful notes

So. We have lectures on Fridays, in software engineering ang compiler design. Stupid. From 10 am to 4 pm in fact. So, today I took some notes with help from Jan Thomas, and I want to share my notes with you as they are fantastic.

• You are basically lost
• Zis is something zat is not easily done
• Zese connections can happen in various ways of course
• Is it just a one-shot zing?
• Building, architect, art
• Zis module has an interface
• Too bad
• You don't really know somezing of ze type
• Pop is just..., push is... int, stack, zey are related
• You can find out how are zey related?
• If you can push, somezing must be in zere
• This means something already
• push(_,_)
• In zeory this is simple
• You can push zings in where you want
• There is a certain structure of zings
• In a way also really expertise
• What is ze data coming in, what is ze data coming out
• ..so that you find ze zings you are looking for in ze zame place
• Somezing of ze copy/paste zing
• You dont need too much of a user manual
• It had to be corect!
• Oh! Zere waz an error.
• If you had an user interface, it was just lying zere
• Zere is a important zing zat is becoming more and more important
• Zere is no screen in there
• You can usually read text
• How much cost does it cost
  

Todays Norwegian quote:

Alex til Morten: Har du sett den filmen der Chuck Norris slo ned han fyren?

English: Have you seen the movie where Chuck Norris beat that guy?

And when I thought the guy was talking about a stick, he was talking about stack.. almost the same!

Yay!

What a weekend! I had such a blast! And I am so great! I've been lying to my boyfriend for months while making evil but lovely plans for a secret birthday surprise party.

We started the party plans some time in November (when I had to friends of Jostein come for a surprise visit)! I teamed up with some of his buddies, and we all agreed they should come on the 27th. So I told him that 5 of my girlfriends were coming, and - the wonderful man he is - he was sooo happy for me to finally see my friends again! Even when this meant he had to spend the weekend with 6 silly girls.

So, friday arrived, and I made all beds ready and was all exited about seeing my friends. And when the chicks finally arrived it was so much fun! Because the look on his face when 6 of his best friends walked in the door (they are of course not chicks) was priceless. And Håvard, currently living in Denmark arrived some time before, so Jostein was super happy over that! I lied about that too. I have never seen him so surprised ever.

The weekend was great, we had super parties on friday and saturday. I havent laughed that much in years I think. I made mojitos (worlds best drink) and there was some singstar going on. We had a blast!

The guys left on sunday, and noone got arrested on the way home.. yay!

Now I'm doing my homework, not a blast...

This was a messy post, but who cares.. if you do, get a hobby.

Winter

So. No more holidays before easter! Crap.

Christmas was good, and all is well. I passed all my subjects and what more can I ask. Actually I did quite well. This semester I am taking Information and System Security, Distributed Systems and Software Engineering and Compiler Design. Yay.

Winter has come. Again. There is a lot of snow everywhere, and I am soooo tired of shovelling snow! It is a bit cozy though.. Especially when the snow-mountain is as tall as me... Like this:


Well, that's the price we pay for living in Norway. If we were even a little bit lucky it would stay cold for a while, but I doubt that will happen. If everthing is normal it will start raining tomorow, and then all hell is loose as all this snow (and this is a lot of snow) will melt. I might even drown on my way to school! (Maybe not, but hey..).

Inspired by 50 cm of new snow, we bought ourselves some new bikes (!!) on friday. My boyfriend bought a cool one and I bought an old lady bike with a basket in front and everything. Nice! I'll put my laptop in it. Or my bunny. Not flowers. Maybe some french bread would look cool? I suspect not.

I want to go cross country skiing...

Last christmas

Finally! It's christmas! And with christmas comes vacation, so I'm a happy little girl. All of my exams and project are over and done with for now and so far I have done fairly well. Let's not talk about the Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics please.

After the crappy math exam we had a sorta christmas party with my class, much fun comes out of much alcohol. So we had a lotta fun.

In a couple of days we are leaving for the holidays, now I'm just enjoying doing nada at home. I just had my birthday, I am now 26! And I got lovely presents. The best one is a Polar watch, that keeps track of my heart beat and all kinda stuff when I'm working out, and tells me how much calories i burned and all. Wonderful and strangely motivating. I told my watch I'll be working out 4 times a week, and it will check up on me. I't like a second mom or something. Good thing, as I need to work out a lot to make up for my birthday party...

From now on I'll write all new posts in English, as my friend Asher is crap at norwegian. We taught him some words but hardly anything useful.. haha!

I must return to my GameCube now. Make up for the 1 hr spinning class I went to today.

See ya!

Merry christmas too.

Lenge siden sist!

Her har det skjedd ting!

Var en tur i Køben med Jostein forrige helg, kjempefin tur. I dag hadde vi gruppeeksamen i kommunikasjon og samarbeid, spennende å se hvordan det gikk kan man si. På fredag har jeg siste presentasjon i Webmining, og da er det bare matteprøven som står mellom meg og juleferien! Det blir bra..

Ellers går alt bra, har til og med kastet den stygge stolen vår! Også har jeg fått dilla på klementiner og CB julebrus...

I morgen skal jeg faktisk gå på matteforelesning... Adieu!

Hurra!

Pc min er hjemme igjen! Og komplett er såååå snille, de byttet ut den døde cd-brenner min og satt inn en dvd-rw i stedet uten at jeg måtte betale noe :) Også blåste de cpuviftesaken ren. Knupper fra ende til annen.

Jeg har vært vært hos frisør igjen, og jeg har dilla... hehe :) Jeg går på Twisted Scissors i Grimstad, de holder til ved siden av DnB, og de er kjempeflinke! Også er de så snille og hyggelige der. Bare kos! Denne gangen har jeg klippet litt, fått sideskillen over på andre siden, litt mørkere hår med noen fine lyse striper innimellom. Yay!

Ellers er jeg i ferd med å bli litt halvsprek. Går på spinning 4 ganger i uken helst, noen ganger litt mindre siden vi ofte er borte i helgene. Men prøver å gå mandag, onsdag, fredag og søndag. Og vi skal være i med i sånn InCycleTour ellerno, så vi skal spinne fra Oslo til Paris. Haha! Men jeg og Jostein går sammen, og da er det ganske moro. Også er det litt moro for da kan jeg kjøpe litt sykkeltøy.. hihi :) Skal sjekke spinningskoene til Nike tenker jeg. Nike er så fint.

Men nå er det leggetid for sånne som meg (hva nå det er). Skole i morgen, herlig.

Huhei

Triste greier! Den snille laptopen min er på pc-sykehuset til komplett. Håper den snart kommer hjem, frisk som en fisk!

I morgen drar jeg til Oslo, blir bra. Mamma bor jo i Oslo for tiden, så det blir akkurat passe å bo like ved slottet.. hehe :)

Ha en flott helg alle!

Skoleslit

Nå begynner ting virkelig å dra seg til. Web Mining tar mye tid, siden jeg har prosjekt alene. I dag hadde jeg første presentasjon, og jeg blir jo så nervøs! Men jeg overlevde. I tillegg tar organisasjonsfaget mye tid, og diskret matematikk er noe dritt! Jeg har jo alltid hatt passe styr på matte, men nå har jeg støtt på veggen gitt... Studentparlamentet går sin gang, og det er masse innleveringer å rette i kalkulus. Har dog endelig funnet fasit til matte 2 obligene, så da stiller jeg litt bedre som studass der...

Men nå er det (straks) helg! I dag kommer lillebror, han skal være her til lørdag. Da reiser vi til Skien for å feire pappa, som blir 50 i morgen! Det blir bra. Neste helg satser vi på å besøke Ragnhild og Håvard i Aalborg.

Campus i Grimstad!

I går ble det endelig vedtatt at HiA sin Campus Øst (Nytt navn kommer nok snart) skal lokaliseres i Grimstad. Kjempebra!

Her går jo alt sin vante gang, mye å gjøre med egne fag og de fagene hvor jeg er studass. Mye reising også, skal til Vinger igjen denne helgen, og helgen etter blir det en snartur til Porsgrunn. Pappa blir 50 år! Første helg det passer vil vi dra til Aalborg og besøke Ragnhild og Håvard. De går på masterstudier der, og vi må inspisere...

Bilder fra emiratene

Her er noen bilder fra mitt opphold i Abu Dhabi i de Forente Arabiske Emirater.


Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai, with the Burj Al Arab in the background.


På colleget (!!) i Abu Dhabi :)


Fra en øy utenfor Abu Dhabi. Herlig!


Folkene på Chi Chis synger for oss dagen før vi skal reise. Trist å dra fra dem!


Kameler er kule!

Hektisk

Hm! Ja her går det unna! Fagene tar mye tid dette semesteret, så det er mye å gjøre. I tillegg er jeg studass i både matte grunnkurs og matte 2, så jeg har nok å gjøre! I helgen skal vi til Vinger, mens mamma og Kristian flytter til Trondhjem i helgen.

Har bestilt tur til Køben i midten av november, blir bra :) Og da skal jeg på Zara!

Endelig helg!

Min helg begynner på torsdag, og godt er det. Slitsom uke, matte er ikke min greie i år har jeg funnet ut. I går var det pøbræs, og jeg og Mona måtte alene forsvare juntans ære. Vi klarte oss bra vi, hadde til og med et ekstrastopp på Fat. Huhei!

Skal være studass i kalkulus igjen, blir bra. Får rette innleveringer også, og godt er det siden det ikke er så lett å finne seg jobb i denne byen!

Men nu er det helg!

Helg

En fin helg, enda litt øresus, men det går seg vel til. Var en tur i Arendal i går, og i dag var vi i dyreparken med Håvard. I morgen er det skole igjen, men jeg lurer på om jeg har fri... haha! Har en del fri... men jeg skal prøve å være flink student og jobbe på dagen, så jeg slipper lange kvelder med skippertak. Huhei!

Høst

Sånn! Da var jeg på plass igjen, etter en måned på ferie. Litt i Danmark, litt i Norge, og jammen rakk vi ikke en tur til Mallorca også! Herlig!

Denne uken begynte skolen igjen, helt greit. Var på konsert med Håkan Hellstrøm på tirsdag, rebusløp og konsert med Trang fødsel på ondag. Konserten på tirsdag har forøvrig gitt meg øresus, får bare håpe det går bort. Det er rett og slett forbanna irriterende.

Timeplanen dette semesteret ser ganske fin ut, har bra langhelg for å si det sånn. Men jeg kan jo prøve å jobbe litt mer enn tidligere da.. hehe :)

Sommer?

Det regner.

Sommerbesøk

Man er pop når man bor på sørlandet. På søndag kommer Eli og blir til onsdag, på torsdag kommer Anne og blir til søndag. Og da er det plutselig bare en uke til vi skal på ferie!

Denne helgen er vår første alene siden før jul! Og den neste blir en eller annen gang i August. Men finværet reiser visst før helgen, typisk...

Hovedprosjekt

Nå har vi endelig fått karakteren vår, det ble en B. Får være fornøyd med det, godt å være ferdig! Nå gjenstår det bare å få godkjent faget vi tok i Abu Dhabi, så er alt flott. Solen skinner og is er i fryseren, så nå er det liksom sommer... kunne vært litt varmere for min del, men det får gå.. hehe :)