Sunday, June 22, 2008

2 Weeks after the Cuban Trip

Yes… now things are different… i’m running out of money and now I need to steal or get start a job. During these two week I’ve been searching on these job portals where you can publish your CV and find a vacancy according to your profile but, you know what, I really think this is not the best way to find one effectively, therefore, I started to send résumés to people that somehow I know and are working on companies where I’d like to work too but in either cases I haven’t received good choices so I’m still looking for.

On the other hand I was asked to work as advisor or junior consultant in a fabric retailer of my city, afterward I’m working on a proposal to improve point-of-sale and inventory processes. This project is planned to be executed by my partner and me… and by the way, I have support from my uni to start a firm. It’s a challenge but is very motivating for me.

I’m really excited at this time but I’m also a bit worry about a failure on this, anyway I’ll put all the effort to achieve the goals and objectives defined. I would be glad to write good news on this blog next week, so, keep reading.

Bye bye!

Sunday, June 8, 2008

The Cuban Trip



This trip, organized during the last week of May was fantastic. The group visiting the Caribbean island was composed by Alicia, Alma, Yésica, Yohanna, Joaquín, Oscar and Me. The interesting thing about this group is that it wasn’t a group of friends before, I met most of them but I didn’t use to go out and stuff with them. Anyway during the week in Cuba we were together the whole week we shared many things.

If you thing Cuba is an exotic and very interesting country, I agree with you. They have a great mix of cultures which create a wonderful Caribbean culture. People is very friendly, they love talking with foreign, they enjoy simple things of life, they love music which is present in every place, and as extra information I would like to tell u that they don’t have analphabetism and they one of the best medical services in the world with one of the lowest infancy death rate.

Perhaps you thing that they’re not happy with their life and the government but I’d say, what I could appreciate during this week, the greater population agree with the regime. On the other hand many of the citizens would change things of the country… current politics seem to be changing.

Take a look at the pictures of Picasa (http://picasaweb.google.com/ochand)… they’re nice. Aren’t they?

Read me next week :D

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Celebrating!

I just came back from Cuba and now that I have more free time I was in the way to post when I realized that I haven written since the 11th of may, shit… 2 week off… as always I don’t want take even a week off but urgent things take control of me… hahaha…

I will start writing what I’ve been doing since the 11th…

As you read along the lines of the last post, I had a dinner with the alumnae (graduates) and our closed family, I mean, we had 4 chairs; mom, sister, bertha and me… few hours before we had a mass cuz is common in Mexico have it in order to thank God for the ending of our studies… anyway after the mass we took pics, you know, with the family and friend and other graduates then Almita, Paúl, Raúl and me went to a coffee shop closed to the cathedral we drank a beer to start with the celebration :D… unfortunately Raúl forgot the keys of his car so I were a bit delayed to the dinner, but wasn’t a problem, finally were there.

During the dinner we were so happy cause it was very nice cuz many people were there congratulating us and taking pictures with us. I was in charge of the speech of my major. I think it was quite concrete and I feel that I say exactly what I wanted to say. After that, we had the dinner and it finished around 12 am cuz the degree delivery was the day after in the morning.

The solemn ceremony took place in the main theater of the city. There were a lot of important people from the institute and one of the most important business people was in charge of the speech for the graduates. I got my degree and then we took pics and stuff… after this I had luch with my family in a restaurant, I slept during the afternoon to recover energies and start the weekend celebration.

During the evening I went to a party organized by a group of graduated, it was in the garden pretty nice, we danced and drank whisky and beer, it was funny and I really enjoy it but I couldn’t stay a long time cuz we had plans to camp at the bech the day after.

In the morning of Saturday, we agreed to meet us in Violetas’ house to depart to Altata, this beach that I’ve mentioned lots of times before. The first stop was in El Tambor, a beach near Altata, but with no houses, only the open beach not a bay. We made a kind of photo session directed by Adolfo, a friend, who loves photography. The session was great; there are lot of pictures in facebook, but in my friends profiles… I will try to get all of them to have them with me. Just after this we went to Altata and we started to make up the camping and stuff, we spent the whole night having fun, drinking some beers and eating, the day after Cynthia was celebrating her graduation with a big party, we were very tired cuz you as you might guess we didn’t sleep enough but anyway we were there and we danced the whole night… lol… :D…

… to be continue… with Cuban Trip...

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!

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.

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.