Starting with my Graduation

Hi everyone that reads my blog. It’s good to say hello and tell you what I did this last week. Let me tell you that I was reviewing some of my post I realized that I use to make mistakes while I type, -something like: meet instead of meat… haha – and some other that I’m not gonna say… but sorry about those.

Last Friday I had my “photo session” for graduate candidates; we all dressed up like fake executives… I’m mean with formal suit (I’m not sure whether I’m using the right word for this),,, you know this kind of formal dressing with trousers and something like a tuxedo and a long sleeves shirt… … yes… you know what I mean. We made a photo session with the class, jun-may 2008. There are some pics on my picasa web … check them out: http://picasaweb.google.com/ochand/ … there you can see how ridiculous we look, but it was funny and quite sad cause I’m feeling that my student period is over… and it will be over in less than 3 months …. Shit!....

It’s funny because some years ago I was looking forward to reach the day to become a graduated and start working, now I’m still excited to overcome this working issues but I still wanna be a student… I know that many things will change… I’m wondering why many working people repeat: - I would like to be a student again -, maybe I will understand during this year but I really would like to disagree with those people and find my way of being a employee or a self-dependent worker.

Bye bye

After Valentin’s Day Post

Wow… this week was amazing!... I wanna start telling you that I finished my exam's week, the four that I had were quite easy. After my exam on Friday we made a typical Sinaloense (the name of people of the state in Mexico where I live) party; this means, grill meat, beer and some kind of banda music (or something similar). It was very funny even that the evening was a little bit cold – remember that a cold evening here is around 12 °C. We were supposed to start the party at 8:30 pm but as good unpunctual Mexicans we started it at 10:00 pm. The beef was delicious, I ate more than 5 'quesadillas mixtas' and few bits of meet. We also bought many cans of beer, I can't say how many because it can hassle some people… :P… we continued celebrating till sunrise… well I'm not allowed to say more… There tons of pics in Facebook... if you have a account you can make your own judgements...

This week, I'm gonna be doing some graduation procedures as well as continue with projects and stuff… I have the graduation photo, were all the graduation candidates take group and individual pictures and then you can buy them to decorate or undecorated walls or the dog house … lol … I think, I'm wanna get one of them!

It's late here and I'm feeling sleepy. Good Bye and Thanks to everybody that told me that read my blog! This make me feel motivated to keep typing!

Have a cool week!

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!...

Posting again :p

Weeks like this one that just passed don't get it usually... Well if you read my blog you maybe know that I went to Monterrey for recruitment. The trip was really cool. I flew, for the first time, in this airline company called VivaAerobus which I remember it's a partner of Ryanair...

Yully, my whole-life-friend, picked me up and took me to Cheto's new flat. I looked around the Campus Monterrey which is located very close where I was staying, I met Enrique and Alan that Tuesday and we 6; including Yully's boyfriend, went to have dinner. The next day, Wednesday was the presentation of the company (Accenture) and some minutes after it the interviews.

There are many job offers but most of them are for developers, which is something that I like, but I would prefer something else. During the interview the recruiter told me about a vacancy in project in Mexico city for a Brazilian company... I thought, "... cool more travel!...", this was one of the things that I liked the most of this offer. I'm waiting for call in order to continue with the process of hiring... I hope to get this job. It's in an area that I love and it sound very challenging...

This weekend was the traditional carnival in Mazatlan, "... and yes...", I went there. It was a really great time; we danced, sang and forgot our every-day-routine. We stayed in a pretty good hotel... well... many things shouldn't be explained here but you maybe guess that we all had a great time.

You know what?... I’m thinking that nobody read this blog because I never get comments… maybe I should also post more professional things… lol… I will try at least.

Keep having good times and let me know something about you.

Those smooth days

Do you believe that I’ve been sleeping less than 6 hours these days? I can recall myself on my cheap mattress, sleeping for 10 hours from 3 am to 3 pm. Now those days have gone. Well, that’s nothing out of the common lifestyle… “I wanna live like common people, I wanna do whatever common people do…”, do you know this song?. Maybe I’m sounding like a desperate guy … let me tell you… that’s false!... I’m tired but I’m happy, I’m sleepy but I wanna stay awake… :p … i didn’t take drugs by the way… maybe I’m getting crazy!

This week has been like this, very changeable. Next week, I’m gonna be in a recruitment in Monterrey (where the main campus of my university is located). The company, which I’ll be applying is called Accenture. I’ve read it’s a very important IT consulting firm with the best practices of SAP implementation… let’s see how it works!... and… wish me luck!

This is gonna be like a short post because I’m pretty tired and I miss my bed, I didn’t slept on it yesterday… guess why? … lol…

Have fun!...

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!

New Year, First Blog

It's the beginning of year 2008 and, as some people do, I made several purposes for this era. I have some plans to improve myself using different techniques to achieve my aims. I know that most of the times the motivation to continue with the goals finish during the first months of the year but, I believe, that if I think that, I'm never gonna be able to grow up... so let's start not thinking that.

You maybe are wondering why I am writing the blog in English. The main reason is that after 4 months of great way of life in Sweden I have friends from different countries of the world and bebecause is more difficult to be in touch with them than with the people that I usually see I'm not writing this blog in Spanish. Another reason is that writing it in English can help me improving my skills in this language. I'm sorry with those people that don't like English... I hope you understand me.

Well... "it's time to move on", was common a sentence of some people from Borås, I agree with them because we all know that good things of life are not forever, I mean, exactly like they used to be because change is present everywhere and it's mandatory to find new way to face it.

I could say that I didn't get a shock in the process of changing my home from Sweden to Mexico because almost my complete family was in Barcelona and I spent this December's holydays with them; during these days I made some trips to Portugal, Galicia and London and I saw some of the people from Borås, so I would say it’s been a steady changing process that it's not completed yet.

The next stage of the process is continuing with my normal life in my mother's house and, do the last semester of the university. Damn, I realized this year it’s gonna be a great year. I hope that you have a great year fill with challenges and goals.