Miscellaneous evening activities ...
Fiesta Latina ...
... Salsa dancing the whole evening ... Yep! That’s an evening that I really liked! :)
Learning "How to Juggle" …
… I started once a week to learn how to juggle ... the first evening, I played the diabolo for more than an hour and am now able to throw (and catch) it ... second time, I started on the "juggling thing" ... amazing how much you can learn within an hour ... and how hard work it is ... and how much fun it is ... :)
Cinema with Fay …… “Je T’Aime Paris” … several short (love) stories in Paris … different kind of movie … BUT nonetheless, very enjoyable …
PJ O’Brien …
… on Saturday night meeting (nearly all) my class mates at the Irish Pub PJ O’Brien at Southbank (one of Melbourne’s nr-1-going-out areas) … had a great evening and left early enough to be ready for a tough 2-hour aerobic session the Sunday morning …
OpSimCom
OpSimCom? What is that?
It is a online competition from the MIT in Boston, US. It actually is a online-simulation game to manage a factory over a simulated 250 days (24 hours a day for 3 days in real life). Well, we dominated the game about 95% of the time, we managed our debt, inventory, machines, reorder quantities and reorder point, etc. really well but in the end (because of unreal assumptions in how the game works) we plummeted at place 32 of more than 60 teams … well, it was a good experience anyway. I really got hooked on that game (one night my “shift” ended at 9pm, I stayed & played till 2am!, even though I'm usually not a "computer game player") and definitely learned a lot. It was heaps of fun!!!
Easter Break
Hi all,
it’s Easter Monday, 8pm ... Easter break is therefore over but it was GREAT.
I hardly studied - not that this is not necessary this term but I needed a break (and I strongly believe I earned it!).
Thursday night
My friend Elissa had a party at her place to celebrate her birthday in particular and Easter in general. She booked a function room in her apartment complex as her apartment is too small for soooo many people. What no-one told her is, that after 11pm no-one can access that room anymore (some kind of security system with the elevators that allow you only to go to the floor you’re living on). So, we had a hard time to move around after 11pm and at about 12.30am security threw us really out … we moved 3 floors down into her apartment (by that time the number of people shrank to a manageable level). Anyway – a GREAT evening!
Friday night
Had Nadja and Fahad over for Nadja’s birthday present – Topfenpalatschinken. We had some great salmon with fruit salad as entrée and then the main, Topfenpalatschinken. Was also a very relaxing evening …
We learned some new cultural things from Qatar, e.g. that for weddings Qatari have stuffed camel which is grilled in the dessert. And that works as follows:
Eggs are boiled and stuffed into a chicken … the chicken is cooked and stuffed into a sheep … the sheep is cooked and stuffed into a camel … and finally, the camel gets on a huge barbie in the dessert (obviously no-one has a kitchen big enough to cook a camel ;)
Saturday night
Went with some of my friends here first to a Wine Bar (Jwow again ;) and then to a Jazz Club where an excellent group was playing … Really enjoyable as well!!!
Sunday night
After an afternoon hike in the Dundenong Ranges with Karen and Najda, we had an excellent, mouthwatering Mauritian chicken-curry at Karen’s place and a hilarious round of Monopoly. Karen won, then Nadja and Birgit … and David and Davide were bankrupt before the end of the game … Haven't played Monopoly in ages and definitely loved it!
Monday night
Meeting at uni for OpSimCom … boring … let you know more in the next days …
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… with a good ending
Finally, at 4.30pm I went with Davide and Fay to Brunetti’s, a famous coffee & cake shop at Lygon Street, Melbourne’s ‘Little Italy’, very relaxing … met Thanuja, Sunand, Fahad and a couple of other colleagues for a Lebanese dinner … also, very good and very relaxing …
Yesterday, Saturday, I went with Fay, Alvaro, and Davide to see the musical ‘Miss Saigon’. I liked the show a lot. Afterwards we were invited to Fay’s flatemate’s barbie … good food, nice people, lot of fun (put my newly developed Salsa skills into place! :)
Today went for a walk, it was a fabulous day, excellent weather. In the afternoon I was invited to our second engagement party of my colleague Paul from England. It was down at St. Kilda Beach in a really nice restaurant. Debra’s, Paul’s fiancée, brother was playing with his band. It was a really great evening …
This weekend definitely made up for the troublesome week … :)
