Urban Walk: 14,000 steps, 14 snaps

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It's been more than a week since I got back. It's not the happiest time, returning from (the) home (land), the post-holiday homesickness (even if the trip back was not for the holidays). Have had my share of these moments back in uni.

Kapsalon ala-pobre

Anything with garlic sauce is yummy!

Bospolder-Tusendijken Ocular

The Delfshaven Dakpark (literally roof park) is one of the largest public parks on a roof (according to the Dakpark admin. Also running up these steps deserve a Rocky fist pump!

For the last part of the Housing and Urban Livelihoods (UHL) specialization course, we are to conduct a mini-research using both qualitative (interview) and quantitative (survey questionnaire) data collection at an actual neighborhood in Rotterdam, Bospolder-Tusendijken in Delfshaven.

Holidays a-coming...

🎜🎶🎜Holidays are coming, holidays are coming... 'tis the season... 🎜🎶🎜

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Walking riverside, from the university to the city center, at dusk - to catch the sun.

Action Planning: Feijenoord

Dispatch: Urban Planning (UP) Lecture

Moderator, ya'll...

I must have been bored shitless because somehow I found myself volunteering to moderate the debate between working groups - this lecture's (on Urban Planning: Theories, Planning & Practice; still under UGPPP) ancillary workshop.

Boot(ed) up

These boots are made for walking...

I'm a tsinelas (flipflops) person. The perks of living in an island. And doing development work.

Policy Analysis

Forbes Davidson

For his lecture Urban Policy: Form, Function and Fashion, a policy analysis exercise foll.

Prezi

Must-have: Museumkaart

Received this promptly in the mail, a week after ordering it online.

This is a definite must-have. For only €59.90, the Dutch Museum Card  gives the cardholder a year of free (mostly all; add-on of minimal € collected by some museums) access to about 400 museums in the Netherlands. (I have Farrah to thank for the tip.)

Dinner at Alma Lusa

Hipster feels...

After the UT exam and Paris, we felt like celebrating.

My bike got stolen.

My bike lock, what's left of it.

And that's that. (It was parked just right outside our dorm building, you know.) Ah well...

UGPPP³, here we go.

UGPPP Coordinator Carley Pennink does not like late-comers. I mean, who does? But (hot tip) she actually takes notice.

And we are on to course number two. Urban Governance, Policy, Planning and Public Private Partnerships aka UGPPP but actually UGPPPPP or maybe UGPPP³ (5 ECTS). If it sounds a handful, it's probably because it is. (Or not, you know, academia and its propensity in making "everything less simple".)

UT Exam Day!

Waiting outside the exam room -- nervous smiles all around!

After days of literally cramming in hundreds of pages of urban theories and academic gobbledygook, we finally dumped those back into 2 pages (mind the space limit!) of speedily (mind the time!) squiggled (mind your penmanship!) technical (mind your jargons!) abstractions (mind your mind!) of our UT Cliff's notes.