Since my last blog post it's been 3 months which have been quite different as I they used to be. I continue with my current job as a information systems programmer, my consulting venture, master and frontenis playing. MTB (mountain biking), PMI community and urban cycling volunteer are new on this list. Guess what, now I have less free time than before but I enjoy everything... Less free time means no TV, fewer movies and reading.
Tomorrow I begin with the 3rd. period of the studies I confess that being a student with these many activities make me feel quite stress or better said under high pressure, nevertheless I love learning new things or reaffirming knowledge that I learned during bachelor or job experiences.
Another good thing that I did during theses months is the trip to Flagstaff, Arizona; a place to the north of Phoenix where they have a ski resort :D. The on way journey was 17-hour-long, we spent 3 days there; first day (the day of my birthday) we came to the Grand Canyon, it was impressive! we were hiking down the canyon but only one hour down and one hour up, at the end every of us were really tired; the 2nd and 3rd day was designed for skiing!! hell yeah!!! Arizonas Snowbowl was the place... these 2 days were great!!
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Many things still to do!! The only thing I need is will!! have a great week!!
Showing posts with label university. Show all posts
Showing posts with label university. Show all posts
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Sunday, May 11, 2008
One day Before Monday
I just came from New Altata, I went there because today is the day when Mexicans celebrate mothers, yes… Mother’s days… we had lunch there and we spent some hours in the beach club. It was, as I use to say, not bad.
Today I started feeling the hot weather. It feels like a hang over, I mean, dehydrated… the thing is that I didn’t drink any kind of alcohol yesterday, I guess is because of the hot weather … -missing Swedish-freshness :P-…
Oh yeah … tomorrow I will deliver a project and then my student life will be over… I will have a dinner next Thursday with all of the alumnae (graduates) during this dinner I will be in charge of saying some stuff as the one that will be representing guys from information systems school. I would like to say some funny things but as you maybe have realized I’m not that funny guy, at least I will try.
The day after the dinner, in the morning, I will have an event where we receive the degree from the chancellor (president) of the university, the same day after this, we’ll be celebrating in a party; on Saturday we have to plans to go camping to the beach and hopefully on Sunday I will be in an other fest.
So these means this week will be the party week :D… Cool
Well… check the news next Sunday, cheers!
Today I started feeling the hot weather. It feels like a hang over, I mean, dehydrated… the thing is that I didn’t drink any kind of alcohol yesterday, I guess is because of the hot weather … -missing Swedish-freshness :P-…
Oh yeah … tomorrow I will deliver a project and then my student life will be over… I will have a dinner next Thursday with all of the alumnae (graduates) during this dinner I will be in charge of saying some stuff as the one that will be representing guys from information systems school. I would like to say some funny things but as you maybe have realized I’m not that funny guy, at least I will try.
The day after the dinner, in the morning, I will have an event where we receive the degree from the chancellor (president) of the university, the same day after this, we’ll be celebrating in a party; on Saturday we have to plans to go camping to the beach and hopefully on Sunday I will be in an other fest.
So these means this week will be the party week :D… Cool
Well… check the news next Sunday, cheers!
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Time to Write Again
I don’t accept myself when I don’t write on my blog because of the lack of time. When I started with this I promised myself keep writing every Sunday but like most of the times, urgent things superimpose important things.
Your know what?, I feel that I haven’t done anything important during these weeks that I haven’t written… yes… I’ve been pretty busy with project and stuff like that specially one the development of a system about a point-of-sale/inventory for a Retail store.
As you maybe know, the next, is my last week as a university student… I have this feeling again that I had when I was leaving Sweden; I don’t realized that I’m finishing my undergraduate studies and I feel that I’m gonna continue with this next semester, even thought I’ve been looking for jobs and I’ve made few interviews.
Now I remember that last week wasn’t that bad… I received the grades from two exams, the EGEL, which is an independent examination that evaluated the whole studies… damn… I got a great score… I was surprised and of course very happy, I know this is not that significant but at least I know that my knowledge is not shit J. I got my toefl score as well… I did it better that the last time anyway I need to do it better next time.
Finally I wanna tell you that next week is my last week as student. Now that I’m reflecting I sure I will miss my student days … I would say that my years as a student were very interesting, rewarding as well as challenging… it doesn’t mean that I won’t be student again, I have plans to continue learning and studying hopefully abroad…
For that moment I want to say: enjoy your student life.
Your know what?, I feel that I haven’t done anything important during these weeks that I haven’t written… yes… I’ve been pretty busy with project and stuff like that specially one the development of a system about a point-of-sale/inventory for a Retail store.
As you maybe know, the next, is my last week as a university student… I have this feeling again that I had when I was leaving Sweden; I don’t realized that I’m finishing my undergraduate studies and I feel that I’m gonna continue with this next semester, even thought I’ve been looking for jobs and I’ve made few interviews.
Now I remember that last week wasn’t that bad… I received the grades from two exams, the EGEL, which is an independent examination that evaluated the whole studies… damn… I got a great score… I was surprised and of course very happy, I know this is not that significant but at least I know that my knowledge is not shit J. I got my toefl score as well… I did it better that the last time anyway I need to do it better next time.
Finally I wanna tell you that next week is my last week as student. Now that I’m reflecting I sure I will miss my student days … I would say that my years as a student were very interesting, rewarding as well as challenging… it doesn’t mean that I won’t be student again, I have plans to continue learning and studying hopefully abroad…
For that moment I want to say: enjoy your student life.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Cool Week
This last week was very interesting; my birthday was on Tuesday, I had a meeting with the president of the university, I was part of an entrepreneur lecture and I flew to a Mexico City.
Let me start with my birthday. In the morning I had a class a 7 am, shit…, very early so I had to wake up at 5:30 am, to take a shower and dress up. I went to the uni and I got there a bit late but I didn’t miss the attendance, just when I came into the class room everybody wished me a happy birthday and stuff, after the class some friends and me went to have breakfast. At 9:30 am we were invited to be in a meeting with the president of the university because he was coming from Monterrey. He talked about the challenges of the new graduates and told us some practical thing for getting a job easily; the conference was quite interesting with lots of tips…
During lunch time my mother, sister and I went to a restaurant. I haven’t been there before, but now I can confess that food was very good. Unfortunally I had a class at 3 pm so we couldn’t stay more time in the restaurant.
Just after the class we came to my house and I replay some facebook posts as you maybe realized and I start getting ready for a small birthday party in my house. I bought some beer and I had some whisky and vodka but we couldn’t drink a lot cuz most of the people had classes the next day. There are some pics online, check them out… http://picasaweb.google.com/ochand/20080401CumpleaOs23
On Thursday I was invited to participate in the Lecture called: “Entrepreneurship, Opportunity & Managing Growing Business” by Dennis Ceru from Babson College. It was fairly interesting even thought it was specially focus of business ideas creation.
Finally, last Friday some friends and I went to Mexico City to an employment fair. I got up very early, 4:30 am, cuz the aircraft was leaving at 7 am, we landed in Mexico around 9:50 am and we took a fu&#ng expensive taxi, it was 430 mexican pesos, this is around 30 euros… but divided by 5 it was okay.
In the fair there were around 50 companies receiving résumés I left like 16 in different firms but most of them told me that they’ll check my CV and if I match with the profile they will call me… I hope to receive some calls J … lol… http://picasaweb.google.com/ochand/20080404EmpleatecSantaFe
Around 2 pm we left Santa Fe taking an another taxi, much less expensive than the first one, to Coyacan. We had lunch there and we went sightseeing for some hours and than took to the metro to the airport. We came back to Culiacan around 10:00 pm and we were very very tired.
Active week, don’t your thing so?...
Have an active week, bye.
Let me start with my birthday. In the morning I had a class a 7 am, shit…, very early so I had to wake up at 5:30 am, to take a shower and dress up. I went to the uni and I got there a bit late but I didn’t miss the attendance, just when I came into the class room everybody wished me a happy birthday and stuff, after the class some friends and me went to have breakfast. At 9:30 am we were invited to be in a meeting with the president of the university because he was coming from Monterrey. He talked about the challenges of the new graduates and told us some practical thing for getting a job easily; the conference was quite interesting with lots of tips…
During lunch time my mother, sister and I went to a restaurant. I haven’t been there before, but now I can confess that food was very good. Unfortunally I had a class at 3 pm so we couldn’t stay more time in the restaurant.
Just after the class we came to my house and I replay some facebook posts as you maybe realized and I start getting ready for a small birthday party in my house. I bought some beer and I had some whisky and vodka but we couldn’t drink a lot cuz most of the people had classes the next day. There are some pics online, check them out… http://picasaweb.google.com/ochand/20080401CumpleaOs23
On Thursday I was invited to participate in the Lecture called: “Entrepreneurship, Opportunity & Managing Growing Business” by Dennis Ceru from Babson College. It was fairly interesting even thought it was specially focus of business ideas creation.
Finally, last Friday some friends and I went to Mexico City to an employment fair. I got up very early, 4:30 am, cuz the aircraft was leaving at 7 am, we landed in Mexico around 9:50 am and we took a fu&#ng expensive taxi, it was 430 mexican pesos, this is around 30 euros… but divided by 5 it was okay.
In the fair there were around 50 companies receiving résumés I left like 16 in different firms but most of them told me that they’ll check my CV and if I match with the profile they will call me… I hope to receive some calls J … lol… http://picasaweb.google.com/ochand/20080404EmpleatecSantaFe
Around 2 pm we left Santa Fe taking an another taxi, much less expensive than the first one, to Coyacan. We had lunch there and we went sightseeing for some hours and than took to the metro to the airport. We came back to Culiacan around 10:00 pm and we were very very tired.
Active week, don’t your thing so?...
Have an active week, bye.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Hard Work for this Week
What happen when you don’t know what to write about?... well this week has been one like this, focusing everyday in my college assignments, doing some graduation tasks, going to my tennis training, visiting the gym, and on Friday competing with my friend Adlemi, in the “Friendship Race”…
The last Friday, Adlemi and me participated in a competition; running for around 2 km around the Campus where I’m studying and reaching the finish together… well… we didn’t get a place like the first arriving people but, we enjoy it a lot... ☻
This weekend I’ve been working on my projects progress because I’m gonna have partial exams next week and my some of my teams and me were asked for some kind of progress report and some deliverable of the work we’ve done. By the way, I didn’t tell you what my university projects are about. If you’re not interested pass to the next paragraph…
For my Information Systems Seminar as teams we’re gonna implement ITIL, or at least the practices of the service management books. I guess we’ll do this in a real company, but we haven’t started it yet.
We need to develop an inventory/point-of-sale system to manage the operation of a fabric retailer where my sister works. For this project we’re self demanding a high effort because the company really needs help to organize their operations and professionalize their labor force. Technically speaking, we’re using RUP (Rational Unified Process) to accomplish the objectives that we defined; we’ll use C# with SQL Server and perhaps some ASP .NET. The big challenge is that I’ve never written a line of code in this language so I have around 3 months to learn it and develop the system. Man… I need to pass everything otherwise I won’t receive my degree this May.
In the subject: comprehensive solutions for companies, we need to find a company with a historical transactional database in order to make a data warehouse and develop something called cube… I’m not sure about this :p… but this is something such an executive dashboard for decisions making.
And for entrepreneurial development we’ll be helping micro companies from a poor community of my city. We’ll help them to make a business plan and link them with financial instruments in order to increase their turnover and/or sales. This program is part of the initiative from my university that comes with the definition of the new mission to the year 2015.
This way you maybe imagine that I’m with lot of things to do and more because of the exams next week… but I like what I’m doing so I’m sure I will overcome this issues…
By the way, some people told me that they read my blog; this motivated me to continue writing… so keep reading and have a wonderful week!...
The last Friday, Adlemi and me participated in a competition; running for around 2 km around the Campus where I’m studying and reaching the finish together… well… we didn’t get a place like the first arriving people but, we enjoy it a lot... ☻
This weekend I’ve been working on my projects progress because I’m gonna have partial exams next week and my some of my teams and me were asked for some kind of progress report and some deliverable of the work we’ve done. By the way, I didn’t tell you what my university projects are about. If you’re not interested pass to the next paragraph…
For my Information Systems Seminar as teams we’re gonna implement ITIL, or at least the practices of the service management books. I guess we’ll do this in a real company, but we haven’t started it yet.
We need to develop an inventory/point-of-sale system to manage the operation of a fabric retailer where my sister works. For this project we’re self demanding a high effort because the company really needs help to organize their operations and professionalize their labor force. Technically speaking, we’re using RUP (Rational Unified Process) to accomplish the objectives that we defined; we’ll use C# with SQL Server and perhaps some ASP .NET. The big challenge is that I’ve never written a line of code in this language so I have around 3 months to learn it and develop the system. Man… I need to pass everything otherwise I won’t receive my degree this May.
In the subject: comprehensive solutions for companies, we need to find a company with a historical transactional database in order to make a data warehouse and develop something called cube… I’m not sure about this :p… but this is something such an executive dashboard for decisions making.
And for entrepreneurial development we’ll be helping micro companies from a poor community of my city. We’ll help them to make a business plan and link them with financial instruments in order to increase their turnover and/or sales. This program is part of the initiative from my university that comes with the definition of the new mission to the year 2015.
This way you maybe imagine that I’m with lot of things to do and more because of the exams next week… but I like what I’m doing so I’m sure I will overcome this issues…
By the way, some people told me that they read my blog; this motivated me to continue writing… so keep reading and have a wonderful week!...
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Play Ball
It’s time to write again, I’ve been waiting for this moment the whole week. It’s not that I don’t wanna write something when I’m feeling in the mood; it’s that I want Sunday to be the day of the planning, the review of the week and the reflections to have a better week every time.
As I wrote the previous post I started with some of my challenges this last week. I came back to my normal university not the one in Borås, that I love but it’s not that hard like the one where I’m studying now... well, maybe that’s the reason why I love the Swedish one.
Perhaps your know, this is gonna be my last semester of bachelor after four years and a half I will be graduating by the middle of May… whether everything goes alright… but I prefer to think like Bob Marley did “… everything’s gonna be alright…”.
I’m guessing that I will really like this semester because the courses that I’m taking are quite interesting: (1) software quality control, (2) client-server computer systems, (3) comprehensive solutions for companies, (4) information systems seminar and, (5) entrepreneurial development; I’m also enrolled in salsa lessons, tennis training and I’m formalizing a business plan through the business incubator of my university in order to start my own business…
For me, it’s quite a lot of things to do and I’m not considering some other stuff that I use like hobbies and going out. Well, that’s one of my challenges; how to overcome the time constraints. I’m gonna start using a goals/roles techniques to do as much as I can without neglect other things; I’m very exited to see the results…
For my international friends I wanna let you know that the city where I live has been quite cold, it means around 8 degrees the lowest… it’s like summer in Borås, isn’t it?
Well I wanna know about your!... Stay in touch!
As I wrote the previous post I started with some of my challenges this last week. I came back to my normal university not the one in Borås, that I love but it’s not that hard like the one where I’m studying now... well, maybe that’s the reason why I love the Swedish one.
Perhaps your know, this is gonna be my last semester of bachelor after four years and a half I will be graduating by the middle of May… whether everything goes alright… but I prefer to think like Bob Marley did “… everything’s gonna be alright…”.
I’m guessing that I will really like this semester because the courses that I’m taking are quite interesting: (1) software quality control, (2) client-server computer systems, (3) comprehensive solutions for companies, (4) information systems seminar and, (5) entrepreneurial development; I’m also enrolled in salsa lessons, tennis training and I’m formalizing a business plan through the business incubator of my university in order to start my own business…
For me, it’s quite a lot of things to do and I’m not considering some other stuff that I use like hobbies and going out. Well, that’s one of my challenges; how to overcome the time constraints. I’m gonna start using a goals/roles techniques to do as much as I can without neglect other things; I’m very exited to see the results…
For my international friends I wanna let you know that the city where I live has been quite cold, it means around 8 degrees the lowest… it’s like summer in Borås, isn’t it?
Well I wanna know about your!... Stay in touch!
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