Turning Older

I already have one birthday present, of course, I’m not expecting more than 2 or 3 but this one that I already have; a Motorola MotoMing one of the less expensive smartphones existing in the market. I feel like a kid in Christmas with new toys and stuff… however I will try to be more professional and definitely I have to learn lot of new thing for, you know, take advantage of all the features it has.

On other hand, I made a 12-hour-exam last Friday and Saturday, shit, it was exhausting. I’m just expect pass it, I guess I will get the grade in around 1 month.

And finally, cause I’m sleepy, I’m turning 23 next Tuesday, seem that I won’t do anything to celebrate it but of course I will be very happy receiving SMSs, e-mail, call phones and hugs :p… this day is gonna be a very impressing day.

Wish me a happy birthday!

Vacation at the Beach

The holydays are over and is time to continue with the last part of my so called student life. But let my relate you what I did this weekend.

The gang (some friends) were, since Wednesday and Thursday in El Tetuán Viejo… please don’t think that I’m talking about the city in the north of Morocco, believe me that would be much more interesting. Well, this beach is a swamp , … damn I don’t if I’m using the correct term for this, help me!... but your know it doesn’t have waves and the water is soother; ...Yes, I left my home this Saturday around 5 pm by my car, the journey took me around 40 minutes we have a 2 lanes motorway so the traffic is not like it used to be before.

I got there around 6 pm and I called one friend who told me about the broken car in which they were moving around so my car was very useful. After that we when to Omar’s home cuz they wanted to start getting ready to go out, finally we decided to spend the whole night in Altlata (the old one) therefore we met in el Cheto’s house (another friend that has a house in old Altata) and we drove along the main road where many people make street party, this means, they use to play music loudly or with live group playing and singing ‘banda’ and of course people dancing on the road and a lot of these four-wheel-motorcycle.

When we were fed up of being there we made a bonfire and we chatted and drank some beers until the sunrise, we came to El Tetún again to sleep for few hours because I was asked to take my friend to the place where we left the car, this was about midday on Sunday, then we waited until the breakdown van came and took the car to Culiacán. Just after that, we wanted to eat so we went to old Altata and I ate a great ‘Coctel de Camarón’, this is shrimp in its own stock with cucumber, onion and sometime tomato, served cold in a glass like this one on the left; I love this when I get hangover… yes I got some :p…

Finally we came back, I took my friends with my car…

By the way, Altata is well know for having one of the Best Sunset of the World… damn… they are really astonish… look at the pics … wow… and also, there is a New Altata and is a great project where they have house on sale and is very modern, check out the webpage http://www.nuevoaltata.net/e/index.html and the map to locate Altata is here http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=es&geocode=&q=altata+sinaloa&sll=24.824135,-107.431909&sspn=0.009932,0.019956&ie=UTF8&ll=24.612063,-107.329559&spn=0.636745,1.277161&t=h&z=10

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2nd. Round

Almost Easter… during this time I have a holyday-week but just before this I start the second part of my exams this coming week. Nevertheless, I did some project checks last Tuesday and I got frustrated because I was very motivated and I was feeling so free to do and change but I shocked when the teacher told us that the development process was shit… come on!... it’s not I methodology that I made up, it was created by IBM and it’s one of the most robust process to develop software. However I neither have the experience nor the knowledge to use it in risky real world project.

On the other hand, on Wednesday I went to the theater to watch some of the students of the university performing a something called ‘back to the 80’s’, it was nice, I had fun watching how talented people is when they’re very well leaded and when they have the commitment to make things happen http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6622449981 … I think that I’ve always wanted to be in a play, I remember that I used to take some drama lessons while I was a child but know its one of the things that I really would like to do.

As I mention in the first paragraph I have exams next week I hope to take advantage of my time to distribute my time and stuff…

Well I was nice to write again.

No-post Sunday

This time, I'm not gonna write anything cause I've been making some changes and I need to reorganize myself.

But I let you know that I'm fine I will write extra words next Sunday.

Enjoy your week

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!...