http://life.menneske.org/ en Copyright 2008 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:35:03 +0100 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I've upgraded to MT 3.x and comments are now available and working for all entries! http://life.menneske.org/archives/000271.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000271.php Website Updates Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:35:03 +0100 And just like that another December has nearly passed. It is time for Christmas vacation and soon a new year will be upon us. Time really flies these days since I've started working, despite me having every evening to myself since Carina is studying in Brussels. Of course I'm usually having lots of stuff on my evening schedule, and when I don't there is always more than enough interesting things on the Internet to keep me busy and keep that time flying. Not to mention that the time before Christmas as always have been filled with Christmas-parties, gingerbread cookies and lots and lots of work of course. The best part of this December however has been not having to study for any exams, something that I had hoped would free up a great deal of time, but business projects apparently keep their deadlines close to major holidays too, so there has been plenty of work available to fill all my hours. http://life.menneske.org/archives/000269.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000269.php Party all Night Working in Oslo Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:14:06 +0100 Christmas Market in downtown Brussels, as is the annual tradition on this first weekend of December. As usual I got on a flight there right after work on Friday, and being tired from a week at work I headed straight to Carina's apartment in Ixelles when I arrived in the evening, leaving the fun of exploring the markets for the next day. ]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000268.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000268.php The Travel Channel Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:09:59 +0100 Haveli at Skřyen. A real treat for the tastebuds :-) Also I've spent a weekend visiting Carina in Brussels, but I wasn't feeling well, so other than a little shopping downtown we spent most of the weekend hanging out in her studio apartment, with me reading Joseph Hellers "Catch-22". Oh the irony... but a good book nonetheless. Yossarian lives!]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000265.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000265.php The Travel Channel Working in Oslo Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:03:06 +0100 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and to eat more waffles of course! As usual I left with the airport express train directly from work, this time on Thursday afternoon, and as usual the SAS-flight were delayed so it got quite late before I finally arrived. Also as usual I spent the waiting time reading a classic novel, this time having selected the dystopian "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, a very gripping story about war, ethics and human nature.]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000264.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000264.php The Travel Channel Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:17:41 +0100 Gründerskolen, who will be staying at my place over the weekend during the Gründerskolen Fall Seminar, the completion of my days as a student!]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000263.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000263.php Grunderskolen SF'06 Party all Night Study all Day Working in Oslo Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:43:59 +0100 This weekend was the annual company fall-excursion, but I was instead going to back to Belgium to visit my girlfriend Carina. Most of the others left the office for the excursion just after lunch on Friday, so there were only a few people besides me there for the rest of the day. However we still managed to gather a small group to have a game of CX Darts, a weekly dart-competition with bottles of wine for the winners, and with so few contestants it was 50/50 odds, so I managed to take home a bottle before having to catch my flight to Brussels. http://life.menneske.org/archives/000262.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000262.php Party all Night The Travel Channel Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:30:06 +0100 BIT-baguette for dinner and a bus-pass for getting to Computas for my first day at work on Monday.]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000261.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000261.php Working in Oslo Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:04:31 +0100 Saturday 16th: Sis visiting and nightlife at Havana club This semester my sister is studying in Rotterdam, Holland, and as had already been there for a month she wanted to come and visit as soon as we had gotten Carina's apartment in order, so around noon we went down to meet her at Brussels Central station. To show her the sights we did another tour of Grand Place and the surrounding area, but we also checked out Place de St.Catherine and Place de St.Gery where none of us had been before. Also we tried taking the bus back to Carina's place, which due to all the cobblestones was a horribly bumpy ride. We were meeting the Americans and some more BSIS students out a bit later, so after a trip to SuperGB where I stocked up on beer that I would bring back to Norway we readied ourselves to go out and tried a couple of the new beers that I had bought. When ready we got ourselves a cab and went to pick up Keisha (from Bahamas) and then straight to Havana Club where we met up with Mari (from Japan) and a bunch of Americans and had a blast! However the place was too packed so after a while we walked over to see some more bars in the area around Grand Place. There were lots actually, but most were the really awful tourist-trap kinds of places so it was a bad call to go there.]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000260.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000260.php The Travel Channel Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:25:14 +0100 Brussels, capital of Europe. After getting off the plane we started following the exit signs at the airport, and after a while we started wondering how far away it actually was. It turns out that from the most distant gates where the planes from Norway are located, it is nearly a 3 kilometer long walk along rollers to the exit, and along the way you must take escalators up and down a total of 8 floors, so it can easily take half an hour or more just to get out of the airport, not counting the time you have to wait for your luggage! But eventually we did get out, and as the walk had worn us out and we had lots of luggage, we just hailed a cab to take us to the B&B where we would be staying the next couple of days.]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000257.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000257.php The Travel Channel Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:36:34 +0100 Airport Express train in Asker. After a short stop at their house I had my car kick-started (the battery was flat from beeing unused all summer) and headed to Skřyen to see the apartment that would perhaps be my next home. At 48sqm and quite smartly laid out it is good and spacious and it is located perfectly with less than 10 minutes travel-time both to work and to the city center. On the downside it was not exactly in tip-top shape, but as I will be living by myself for the next year and the rent beeing acceptable it will do for now, so I signed the lease and got the keys.]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000256.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000256.php The Travel Channel Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:43:30 +0100 Telehuset there. For my welcome-back dinner, my mom had prepared one of my favorite meals: an eastern inspired mango-chicken curry-casserole. Yum!]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000255.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000255.php The Travel Channel Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:21:25 +0100 airport when she left at noon on Sunday. In return I got to keep the car for an extra day so I could take myself comfortably to the airport the next morning. When she had left I went home and started packing up all my own stuff, and despite having bought an extra 120 liter suitcase I almost couldn't fit everything! It must have been those 30 new t-shirts I've gotten myself... ]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000254.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000254.php Grunderskolen SF'06 The Travel Channel Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:41:07 +0100 Yosemite, Mexico or Canada, but circumstances forced me to abandon such plans so I ended up just driving around the Bay area instead. ]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000253.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000253.php Grunderskolen SF'06 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:40:11 +0100 Searchforceand other things. He is one of the gentlemen I met at the Norwegian Club of SF last week, and works with the Merrill-Lynch Investment bank.]]> http://life.menneske.org/archives/000252.php http://life.menneske.org/archives/000252.php Grunderskolen SF'06 Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:45:29 +0100