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At University I deal with this: MaxWi(wi)=a(wi-n*)-(1-a)(Ui+DUi)(U+DU)-b(ri-re)2 At Work I deal with this: <([A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)b[^>]*>(.*?) This is seriously starting to mess with my head. Somehow I didn't picture it like that. I'm not complaining, mind you. I'm learning something new every day. It's just different...

It was a busy week. Very busy. I had to stress from my own classes to classroom presentations, from the office to my "regular" work, from information stand to classes again. I totally lost track of time and space. I have the feeling that most of the classroom presentations went quite well. We'll see next week when we have our information events. However yesterday a guy came to me and told me

Just finnished one of the books. Political Economy. I read a lot these past days. Still I'm nearly nowhere. There are 3 more books left. Bigger ones. And only 3 days. I need some sleep. Instead of sleeping or reading I'm just sitting and pumping my head with The Vector Warror right now... God I really need this fix. The sounds of Amon Tobin and Charlie Clouser are haunting me aswell. Must resist.

Where's my header? Where are my pictures? Darn! Forgot to pay the hosting bill for my site. I just hope that it's not deleted but just suspended. Oh my data! Please please let my data come back once I pay the bill...

When it comes to movies I'm a bit picky. Well not exactly picky. A movie has to be honest above all for me to like it. Or it has to try to fool me, to make me underestimate it. If a movie pretends to be deep and complicated and is in fact deep and complicated - well done. If it pretends to be primitive and violent and is primitive and violent - well done. If it pretends to be stupid and primitive

I hope you had a good start in 2007. I for my part literally crashed into it. Still don't know how "The Black Pearl" is doing. The doctor said that she will be alright. But he still hasn't called. And now I'm here. Sitting all alone. Worrying. Waiting for this call. Call me! Call me dammit! Aaaanywaaay... I got a sexy Ford Fiesta from the doctor as a substitute while the old lady is in repair.

...is absolutely no problem at all. Seriously! What happened? I got a "no" for an internship at the swiss parliament. They say "despite the good impression that your motivation letter and your CV gave us we have to inform you that..." and so on... At the current state of my studies it's way to early for an internship anyway but when I saw the job offer I just had to give it a shot. I would like

Our biggest national conference Do-It 2006 is over. I'm home again and back to daily business. My body is home that is. But I think that I forgot my brain. I still can't really focus on my normal duties. University seems more boring than ever. On the job I'm just acting mechanically and without thinking. Time seems to go faster then before the conference. Ok those are all normal post-conference

These past few days have been very lazy... After a very long time I was able to sleep late, watch a lot of movies, be by myself, think, read etc. I've really enjoyed this time and I feel that I've gained a lot energy from it which was much needed :D I haven't posted anything about NLC yet but pictures will be up very soon! ;)

Ever ask this question to yourself?What do I ATTRACT?People who have (a) purpose in their life. Who have a winning attitude, who are always willing to learn, who are humble enough to admit mistakes, who are down to earth, beautiful, young and full of energy. Believes that success in life is leading a life of excellence: people who always want to improve. Likes valuable and well designed things People who appeciate music, who are humerous, people who love themselves and don't mind to poke fun at his self because he is comfortable with who he is. People who joke and clown around and a mot mischievious (and naughty). People who are value integrity over relationships (won't sell out).Why do I ask this question? You already know the answer, because you have already Asked it to yourself, and answered it yourself.So please share!

Medzi ľudom sa traduje také porekadlo, že "človek sa nikdy neteší z niečoho tak, ako sa teší na niečo."X-krát sa mi to potvrdilo, Y-krát sa mi to nepotvrdilo, Z-krát som si nejaké tešenie ani nestihla uvedomiť. A to sa mi teraz nesmie stať.O pár dní letím s Eďou, mojou naj (pre tých, ktorí nevedia), do Španielska. Momentálne som v takom stave, že viem, že sa mám tešiť, lebo je sa na čo tešiť, ale

I finally trekked to Tribeka to make use of the free wifi and to get out of the apartment. I can't beleive it's taken me so long to come in here. It's the old austin feeling mixed with new york snazzyness. Young adults, hanging around with their laptops and videocams, or with their friends and a cappucino or a mango lassi or a litchi-holunderberry-ade, snacking on a tomato rucola mozzarella bagel, or a cheesecake. Yum yum.Couldn't decide on what I wanted, but my wallet decided for me - I'm out of cash and they don't take bankomat cards.I've been chillin here for a couple hours now - doing errands online, catching up on forwards and emails, meeting some internationals that are chatting nearby. There's a loud rumble - it's a peak time - over the K&D mix.Last night, the girl I know from Stammtisch and CityYoga invited me to her friend's sushi dinner party after the Mantra chanting session. Friends from the French stammtisch - the group was a mix of French who speak German, Austrians who speak French, Erasmus students (germans studying medicine) and me. Many times I was praised for my German - which is a great feeling, and I was so happy with myself. This is why I learned it - so I can hang out with people without feeling ignored, and understanding other conversations if I want to. If I paid attention to the French enough, I could kind of get it too.I've cracked open the American's kitchen cookbook from A's mother last year. We're going to bake a coffee cake (much easier than that 5 hour killer coconut cake), and I'll try my hand at potato pancakes and etouffee. I want so badly to make clam chowder, but it seems clams are completely unavaliable here.Yes so, Graz is nice. I've been around long enough to meet people four, five times now. At the point where people feel comfortable with exchanging information and doing things outside of the large social circle. No one exchanges numbers/emails in the first meeting - they just leave it at that. Why?

Date: Saturday, March 24th, 2007 Time: 19:00 Location: the office pubCost: ?5 (proceeds go to the Styrian Children?s Cancer Society) Description: Speed-Friending is a fun variation on the ?speed dating? model with the intentions of simply meeting new friends in Graz! We?re just looking to support the International community of Graz ? Austrians and others alike. Find a pal to play tennis with, a mate to go for movies with, or just widen your network of friends! How does it work? You check in with registration, and then we assign you a random starting station number as a Mover or Stationer. That will also be your raffle number. Until we fill all the stations, you can chat with your first speed-friend buddy, mingle around and grab a drink. Once we?re ready to start, we?ll ask everyone to go back to their stations. The bell will signal for Movers to move to the next station ? quick! Then you get four minutes to chat it up with your new buddy. The idea is to just have a short conversation with each person. You?ll get a sheet of paper with the station numbers to ?take notes? on your chat buddies. When the Speed-Friending is over, you can continue your conversations at the bar and hang out all night! Throughout the game, we?ll also be drawing station numbers for raffle prizes. You could win a pair of tickets to the movies or a show, or free time at a sports center ? all prizes you can share with your new found friends. Afterwards, we?ll send out an email with everyone?s first name, original station number & email address from registration. (Of course you have the option not to release your information if you choose.) Easy enough! Pre-Registration To help us plan to accommodate you and your friends for Speed-Friending, send us your name/email to speed-friending@hotmail.com It?s our first time doing this, so we cannot make any guarantees. Be sure to arrive early!

Gipsy beats... then it sounded like Japanese. Couldn't be, make Hungarian.Sure enough: Besh O droM performs Tortapapier. Cigany Pergeto" + Roma'n Tradition www.beshodrom.hu

Blood Diamond Done well. Great performance by Leo DiCaprio - he's getting better and better at this acting thing. Praise to his pidgeon English and his messages.

Pears, yoghurt, blueberry jam, honey and fette biscottate for breakfast. Moroccan mint green tea. Went to a special ladies gym with my roommate, and relaxed an hour with Kartography. We came home and gobbled up the potato pancakes with articoke and blue cheese, then threw together the Pennsylvanian Dutch Coffee Cake (with dried apples, cherries and cranberries). Much easier than our baking session last year. And while that was rising in the oven, I tried my hand at Cajun food. Shrimp Étouffée on rice.I've made good use of the America's Kitchen cookbook from A's mother last year. Thanks.

That word epitomizes my existence at the moment. A week from today, I am scheduled to fly out of Cairo. 7 days. Yet, it hasn’t hit me. I’m totally in denial of this little fact, because I actually don’t know what’s happening to me in the near future. I may or may not be leaving…. Okay – so - I am currently *trying* to stay in Cairo, but only if circumstances allow. These circumstances will be

So somehow we have double the number of people entered into the online system than attended our first info session! Quite obviously this means we are awesome. *snaps for our LC*

It's taken a while, but it's finally off the ground.Dobre Pivo. For all those people who are in my heart everytime I have a pivo.

Not just because i'm blogging for the 1st time in almost 9 weeks (though i admit it does feel a bit strange...) SO what else has changed: The weather - i never thought i would see the day when 25 degrees would make me shiver, but it's happening! I even got sick :( Bangkok - at least my feelings towards it are changing. I really start to fall in love with it, and i'm for sure gonna miss it when the time comes to move on. And i've discovered that there are incredibly beautiful beaches within half a day's travel (see pics below) My body - apart from being sick there are positive things too :) I'm goin to the gym and swimming again, and i got my 1st tattoo! (ok so it's only henna, but we all gotta start somewhere...) My mood - I'm generally much more chilled out and don't let things get to me as much as before. This could of course be entirely due to the colder weather - i'll let you know in March when it gets back in the 30's! My financial situation - an unusual but exciting investment should give me more cash to play with (details available on request, of course, but my Swiss-ness won't allow me to write about it in such a public place!) My feelings about the future - so i did what i have talked about for so long, i applied for 'that job in Rotterdam'. And i am very proud of my application. And i can't wait to go to Egypt for the next phase (i even have my visa!) AIESEC in Thailand - we have new members - over 40 of them! See my next post for more details on what we did with them so far...

the hours are long, but I'm learning loads - not just about the craft and all the back-end stuff that goes into making a magazine, but also about the stories we're covering. And I'm experiencing real deadlines for the first time - ones that if kept to, could result in millions made, while if broken, could lead to millions lost.... The trial will be over soon.

Paris aims to seduce (maybe not only) Londoners The ad campaign developed for the Regional Tourism Committee of Paris Ile-de-France is comprised of three images. Each one presents a facet of Paris or an event being held in the French capital or in the region. The objective is to show Londoners that Paris isn't a stuffy museum city, but that it is a vibrant destination brimming with exiting events that are worth visiting regularly. Not afraid to make fun of the city's stereotypes ( view the best known Parisian gestures ), the Regional Tourism Committee of Paris Ile-de-France uses humour to give Paris a new image.

2 days ago it was the half of the MC term, time passes so fast.... Last year when I applied again to the MC, some people told me I was crazy and yes maybe I am a little to crazy, but until now I do not regreat of doing a second MC term. It is a very difficult experience because you are used to one team and one style of work and then suddenly from one day to another everything changes. Well tomorrow is the start of the end of my life in AIESEC in Belgium, tomorrow is the vote of confidence for the MCVP for 2007 - 2008. I remember when I applied almost two years ago and I say it again time goes so fast... I still have 6 more months to go and for sure lots of satisfactions and frustrations to come, but anyway I love my work and I will live these next 6 months with a lot of passion and energy :)

I've never had a day where I've been so low and so high. While the things that are outside of my control have not treated me well as of late, the people surrounding me have propped me up and kept me going, and for them I am grateful. LTM tonight was a whirlwind of emotion, from angry and frustrated to excited and motivated. Its so nice to know that there's always someone to get my back, to help me when i'm down. We can, we will, we must love luke

This Guardian piece about a woman with "Body Integrity Identity Disorder" (BIID), well headlined as "I won't be happy until I lose my legs" is surreal and disturbing. If it was an excerpt from a Monty Python skit I would be laughing, but this is reality, and it's weirder and more out there than anything you could make up:"Most people want to change something about themselves, and the image I have of myself has always been one without legs......There is no instruction manual for those who want to remove their own limbs, but I always knew I would do it. I had eventually, told my husband that one day I would lose my legs. It took many years for him to understand why, but he did realise it was part of me, and I suppose he accepted it."Read the rest - it gets much weirder, and much worse. Great work by the Guardian to find a story like this and a person willing to tell it - and great work by the consistently awesome BoingBoing for delivering it on a plate to me along with the rest of their daily dose of wonderful things....