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.

Fisheye'd

NOT a must-have: 9mm f/8 fisheye body cap lens for my OMD EM-10.

I've been wanting to buy this fisheye body cap lens from Olympus... 

11th Hour Exam Tips

Carolina and our other mentor, Veronica. Veronica is an IHS UMD alum, so she's been here, done that -- and had a tip or two to share.

Veronica is real -- and she gave us great last minute tips for the exams! Grazie!

Celebrating kalag-kalag

My simple altar particularly offered to my grandparents.

I've been wanting to host something since we got here.