And then came Monday...
So another weekend is over... not that many left now. On Thursday I will be leaving sunny California and go to even more sunny Hawaii. Funkyzeit!
I am no longer as exhausted as I were after the exam, but it was a long weekend.
Friday we went to a football game and saw the 49ers marginally beat the Broncos. It was fun, but a little bit cold. Fun to see a game live again, been a long time.
After coming back from the game I expected to get a good night sleep before getting up early to see the first couple of games from the EPL. But alas, someone decided to come sneaking in and waking us all at 2.30am. Thank you Kim Åge and Diep, it was much appreciated. That said, something good came out of it. I got most of my Berkeley exam paper done between 4am and 7am that morning. And I watched Wigan bean Aston Villa and Arsenals thrashing of poor Everton.
Saturday a bunch of us went in to town to see the Richard Avedon exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It was interesting, but I actually enjoyed the Robert Frank photos they also displayed. After the exhibit we went out for a few drinks and sushi - I am getting really hooked on sushi. Went to a great place called Tsunami Sushi downtown. We might have been a little noisy, but it was all good. After dinner I was a little tired and took the train home while the others partied on. The cost of getting old :)
I just love that the Premier League is up and running again. A decent start for United. 1-0 over Birmingham is not that impressive, but compared to the start we had last season... Along with most of the other favorites, Chelsea/Arsenal/Manchester City, we got the first win. Arsenal was impressive, but pretty much scored on every chance. Chelsea got lucky with Drogbas pass going in.... and Liverpool lost away against Spurs. Najs!
Last night my room (Kim Åge, Dan Robert, Pål Bjarne and I) were invited to lasagne at one of the girls' room (Janicke, Heidi, Benedikte and Diep) and we now know that about 50% of all girls are bitter most of the time. The lasagna was awesome though. The night was finished off with us guys watching Rocky 4 on tele. Ivan Drago rocks!
Tune back next week for a hawaiian update!
mandag 17. august 2009
torsdag 13. august 2009
Exhausted...
So much for trying to be better at this stuff...
Well, to excuse myself, I have had sooo much to do the last couple of weeks. Since my last update I have been tied up with work and more importantly the business plan for school..
Lack of sleep is a key word here and I pretty much went into a coma after our presentation last night.
I'll come back to that stuff, but more importantly. I've become an uncle again! That is right, my brother Jostein and his wife Lene got a son this morning. Little August was born on the 13. of August... Fortunately they live in Bergen, so I will be able to see the little rascal right from the get go (at least when I get back to Bergen in a months time)
Back to the exam. For the last 10 days or so we have pretty much spent every evening working on the business plan for our fictional product HavFrisk. It was more work than expected and I am pretty much running on empty at the moment. Fortunately we presented it yesterday and are done with it. So the next couple of days will be nothing more than relaxation...
The only fun thing I have done the last couple of weeks were the Rock the Bells concert last Sunday. It was pretty awesome. A perfect venue for a one day festival, and we were all pretty much just laying on the grass listening to hiphop. The line-up included Nas, Damian Marley, Busta Rhymes, BigBoi, The Roots, House of Pain, Krs One, Talib Kweli, Raekwon and MOP. But, I must admit that the surprise artist were my favorit. It might be the fact that I am a little old school, but when Slick Rick entered the stage I got stoked. 'La di da di' and 'Mona Lisa' are awesome songs.
So what else is worth mentioning. Not much. I am going to the movie theater tonight to see Funny People and tomorrow a bunch of us are going to see a preseason game between San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos (Football). The weekend will mostly be set aside to write a couple of papers for school, but I'll be going up to San Francisco on Saturday....
Rock on!
Well, to excuse myself, I have had sooo much to do the last couple of weeks. Since my last update I have been tied up with work and more importantly the business plan for school..
Lack of sleep is a key word here and I pretty much went into a coma after our presentation last night.
I'll come back to that stuff, but more importantly. I've become an uncle again! That is right, my brother Jostein and his wife Lene got a son this morning. Little August was born on the 13. of August... Fortunately they live in Bergen, so I will be able to see the little rascal right from the get go (at least when I get back to Bergen in a months time)
Back to the exam. For the last 10 days or so we have pretty much spent every evening working on the business plan for our fictional product HavFrisk. It was more work than expected and I am pretty much running on empty at the moment. Fortunately we presented it yesterday and are done with it. So the next couple of days will be nothing more than relaxation...
The only fun thing I have done the last couple of weeks were the Rock the Bells concert last Sunday. It was pretty awesome. A perfect venue for a one day festival, and we were all pretty much just laying on the grass listening to hiphop. The line-up included Nas, Damian Marley, Busta Rhymes, BigBoi, The Roots, House of Pain, Krs One, Talib Kweli, Raekwon and MOP. But, I must admit that the surprise artist were my favorit. It might be the fact that I am a little old school, but when Slick Rick entered the stage I got stoked. 'La di da di' and 'Mona Lisa' are awesome songs.
So what else is worth mentioning. Not much. I am going to the movie theater tonight to see Funny People and tomorrow a bunch of us are going to see a preseason game between San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos (Football). The weekend will mostly be set aside to write a couple of papers for school, but I'll be going up to San Francisco on Saturday....
Rock on!
torsdag 30. juli 2009
Time fly
Hmm...I am getting worse and worse at this blogging stuff...
So much has happened since last time I blogged and I'll try not to make this into a novel.
Last weekend was crazyness. Almost all the Norwegians at the entrepreneurship program went to Las Vegas for a weekend of fun. And even though I know that everything that happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas I'll try you guys a brief summary of the event. No pictures yet, but I'll try to find some decent ones and post later this week.
Seven of us left SFO on friday afternoon and amazingly, due to misunderstandings, we lost Peder at the airport. Kind of a bad omen for the weekend, but fortunately he got himself on the next plane and joined the rest of the crew some hours later.
I have a friend from high school in Minnesota, Chris, that works as a teacher in Vegas and another friend from Minnesota, Tyler, that flew down there as well. Tyler was there for one night only and Friday we went down to downtown Las Vegas. This is seperate from the more wll known strip and you can get a lot more for your money. I can truly recommend the penny slots at Le Bayou. As long as you play and tip you can pretty much get as many free drinks you can handle. In fewer words Norwegians and free alcohol is not always the best combination.
Later we went to two different night clubs, Rok and XS, and the latter was by far the most fun one. A huge club over at Wynn Encore that really rocked. Got a little tired towards the end and stumbled into bed at around 4.30ish.
I was as usual up way before the others on Saturday morning and, as the g33k I am, spent a couple of hours doing some schoolwork before Pål and I went to play poker. It was just a small 22-player $35 freeze out at the Luxor and I finished on the bubble (4th) but at least it was a couple of hours of great fun and I got unlucky at the end. Lost with full house against straight flush.
At around six most of the guys met to have dinner and we followed that up with a stretch hummer ride up and down the strip. The hummer ride ended at Ceasar's Palace where we clubbing at Pure. Somehow we got fooled doing table service, which pretty much means that you pay an amount up front to get in front of the line, get three bottles of liquer+mixers and get a VIP table. It seemed expensive to pay $150 to get into a club, but since you didn't spend much money after that the night was cheaper than the first one.
The coolest thing about Pure was the fact that DMX was hosting and did a full set of old classics. He might have been drunk or high, but it was an awesome concert at the whole club was bouncing. I was dead tired after the concert and went home early at around 3am still singing DMX songs....
Next morning was poker again, we did the same tournie, and I finished 3rd this time. At least I cashed and can brag about doing that in Vegas. This time I was a little lucky during the tournement and hit both four of a kind and straight flush along the way.
In total Vegas was a little expensive, but a whole lotta fun. I think most of the crew had lots and lots of fun, and so did I. The next couple of weeks will include a lot of schoolwork, the business plan we're doing is due august 12th....
Pictures will be posted later...
So much has happened since last time I blogged and I'll try not to make this into a novel.
Last weekend was crazyness. Almost all the Norwegians at the entrepreneurship program went to Las Vegas for a weekend of fun. And even though I know that everything that happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas I'll try you guys a brief summary of the event. No pictures yet, but I'll try to find some decent ones and post later this week.
Seven of us left SFO on friday afternoon and amazingly, due to misunderstandings, we lost Peder at the airport. Kind of a bad omen for the weekend, but fortunately he got himself on the next plane and joined the rest of the crew some hours later.
I have a friend from high school in Minnesota, Chris, that works as a teacher in Vegas and another friend from Minnesota, Tyler, that flew down there as well. Tyler was there for one night only and Friday we went down to downtown Las Vegas. This is seperate from the more wll known strip and you can get a lot more for your money. I can truly recommend the penny slots at Le Bayou. As long as you play and tip you can pretty much get as many free drinks you can handle. In fewer words Norwegians and free alcohol is not always the best combination.
Later we went to two different night clubs, Rok and XS, and the latter was by far the most fun one. A huge club over at Wynn Encore that really rocked. Got a little tired towards the end and stumbled into bed at around 4.30ish.
I was as usual up way before the others on Saturday morning and, as the g33k I am, spent a couple of hours doing some schoolwork before Pål and I went to play poker. It was just a small 22-player $35 freeze out at the Luxor and I finished on the bubble (4th) but at least it was a couple of hours of great fun and I got unlucky at the end. Lost with full house against straight flush.
At around six most of the guys met to have dinner and we followed that up with a stretch hummer ride up and down the strip. The hummer ride ended at Ceasar's Palace where we clubbing at Pure. Somehow we got fooled doing table service, which pretty much means that you pay an amount up front to get in front of the line, get three bottles of liquer+mixers and get a VIP table. It seemed expensive to pay $150 to get into a club, but since you didn't spend much money after that the night was cheaper than the first one.
The coolest thing about Pure was the fact that DMX was hosting and did a full set of old classics. He might have been drunk or high, but it was an awesome concert at the whole club was bouncing. I was dead tired after the concert and went home early at around 3am still singing DMX songs....
Next morning was poker again, we did the same tournie, and I finished 3rd this time. At least I cashed and can brag about doing that in Vegas. This time I was a little lucky during the tournement and hit both four of a kind and straight flush along the way.
In total Vegas was a little expensive, but a whole lotta fun. I think most of the crew had lots and lots of fun, and so did I. The next couple of weeks will include a lot of schoolwork, the business plan we're doing is due august 12th....
Pictures will be posted later...
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