New Beyonce

A friend of mine sent me this video yesterday... So funny and so cute :)

Reconciled Friendship ;)

After a few days or even weeks of crazy situations with both my PC and my laptop, I think I have reconciliated my friendship with computers :)

So many things happened... so many bad words were said... and so many times my PC was almost thrown out of the window... and considering the fact that I keep it in a room located on the first floor, landing of mentioned PC on the sidewalk in front of the house would be painful... for the PC, that is...

In short, I bought a brand new HP laptop!!! It has a great design (which is very important for a girl ;), it is all shiny, sleek and pretty :)

It has a preinstalled Windows 7 which I think rocks! It comes with a 4.00GB RAM memory and 320GB hard drive. It has a HD bright-view widescreen display and bluetooth support, great media centre and many more great features...

I am so happy :)

I can honestly say that I am falling in love with computers all over again ;)

I HATE COMPUTERS!!!

That is all I am going to write today!

Chestnuts...

Last Sunday, Slawek and I took Angie and went to Greenwich Park. I love that park. It is so beautiful and pleasing to the eye. Even though there were lots of people there that day, the park was somewhat quiet and peaceful. We took a long stroll amongst chestnut trees, oaks, thorns, birch, broom and heath trees. We stopped for a cup of cappuccino and a piece of carrot cake at the Pavilion Tea House. We laid on the grass and enjoyed magnificent panorama view of the River Thames, the Docklands and the City of London.

While walking through the park's alleys, we realized that chestnuts were everywhere... Chiara and Mauro were going to come over later that day so I thought it would be a good idea to have baked chestnuts with them... Slawek told me that those chestnuts were not the ones you could eat. I, on the other hand, was sure they were the ones... We started picking them from the ground. By the time we finished, we had about 5kg of chestnuts which Slawek had to carry in his backpack... Later at home, it turned out that they were not very good for roasting or baking... Just to make sure, I put a couple of them in the oven cutting their skin beforehand to prevent the fruits from exploding. I think the skin on one of them was not cut properly because after 15 minutes of baking we heard a very loud explosion... I really did not see that coming... How can one tiny chestnut make a mess like this is beyond my imagination... It turned out, of course, that the chestnuts were not very tasty and we ended up throwing them away... I saved just enough of them to make an autumn, chestnut decoration... of well...

Uni, Uni, Uni...

General lack of proper organization, messed up timetables and students chaotically running around campus not knowing what to do with themselves is a long-established tradition at my university. Each academic year, the beginning of the first term is exactly the same… It was like that when I started studying for a Bachelor Degree at UEL in 2005… Several years have passed, I am now doing Master’s Degree (also at UEL) and not a thing has changed… It drives me up the wall!!!

I have just been sent another, “corrected” timetable for Semester A… it is the third one within less than a week… How am I supposed to organize my life, my work and my time when they change everything every two days?!

I know it is a big uni… I know there are lots of students, lots of modules, lots of professors, lecturers and tutors… I know there are many things to organize and many issues to put in order… But, for crying out loud, they had the entire summer to do it!

I want to SCREEEAAAM!!!