Cocoa Drinker

Goodbye, New York

asrye — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:21:09 +0000

So, it seems that even after almost a week in the States, I still haven’t got over the jet lag, since it’s 7 a.m. and I’m awake. The past week has been quite adventurous, with long days packed with sightseeing and walking long miles through the cities of New York and yesterday, San Francisco. I’ve loved every minute of it, though. For someone like me, who spent their entire life in a country of no more than 2 milion inhabitants, big cities just never lose their appeal, being the giant playgrounds that they are. Here are some of my favourite moments from the time spent in The Big Apple.

Bringing this blog out of oblivion

asrye — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:48:11 +0000

Well, I can’t believe it’s been 2 years since I posted anything here. Truth be told, I forgot completely that I had this blog at all. It wasn’t because I had lost my interest in blogs or web design … it was just that, well … life happened. The last two years of high school have been somewhat different for me. I suddenly had so many friends to call and hang out with, so many papers to write, so many tests to study for, that the blogosphere just slipped out of my mind. I put this blog on ‘hidden’ years ago and actually forgot about it … Untill now!

This is what happened: I decided to take a 10 week trip across the USA with my friend. While I was thinking of the best way to stay in touch with my friends and my family, I thought a blog could do the trick – I could never call or/and write to all of them, so I might just as well blog and make things easier for myself.

So this blog right here will, for 10 weeks in the summer, become a travel blog. Whether I will still blog after I return I don’t know, but it might happen. For now, however, I’m off to study for my finals … which I should be doing for the past hour anyway.

My evil plan

asrye — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:24:36 +0000

Is currently to create a machine, that would allow you to read and walk at the same time, meaning it would do the looking around for you! Think how much time that could save you and how many books you would be able to read this way!

No, really, this is just my excuse to avoid studying maths (did you notice I only write here when I have to study maths? No? I did.). But it would still be a great thing to own.

True Blood

asrye — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:28:28 +0000

Kinda weird. Kinda cool.

It really is spring

asrye — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:53:02 +0000

Warmer days ahead

asrye — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:33:51 +0000

Today is the first day of spring. Yay!

The big discovery

asrye — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:04:56 +0000

http://www.feedbooks.com/

Though I’m sure everybody else found it before me … Most of what we have to read for school is on this website, as are many works of major classics, like Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Dickens, Austen … I, for one, love it!

How lame is that

asrye — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:31:19 +0000

A year of doing absolutely nothing connected to HTML or CSS (except blogging, but wordpress does all the work, so …) I figured that I forgot A LOT of what I knew. Better start learning again, before I forget everything.

On other notes, why does everybody else seem to be an expert in maths, except me?

With a new speed

asrye — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:14:06 +0000

After some starter hiccups when switching to a new service provider, the Internet at my dad’s place is now working 4 times faster, when we are paying less than we did before.

Hopefully, I will switch to another service provider at my house too. I will be choosing an even higher speed there, and we will only be paying about 10 € each month (for a speed of 10Mb/s), while now we are paying about 30 € (for a speed of 1Mb/s).

In a year, we will save about 240 €, which is half the price of my trip to London this spring, so I can say I’m pretty happy with my decision.

With a brand new Internet connection, I think it’s also time to finally buy a new domain (maybe I can use part of the money we will save) and move this blog to my own server, as well as create a nice enough design, so I’ll practice my web designing skills, after I just left them lying there for almost a year. Better go and look for some inspiration!

Too much TV?

asrye — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:03:25 +0000

I dreamt of sleeping with Chuck Bass (with the body and the face of Ed Westwick, of course).

A proof I should be spending more time studying and less time watching Gossip girl. Seriously.