Tag: 21. April 2013

2 weeks and counting

Hello everyone,

it’s Sunday evening, again, and the second week in Belfast is over.

On Friday I worked at the Ulster Museum again but this time it was very slow day because at first we, Graham and me, had to wait for the delivery  of the new iSCSI controller for the backup system. After the arrival of the part at half past 10, not half past 9 as promised, we had to wait another 45 minutes for the HP technician responsible for installing the controller. And as it turned out the controller was the wrong one, so we had to wait another 90 minutes in which the technician tried to find out if the correct controller was available, which it wasn’t. In the end the controller has to be „imported“ from Prague and is to arrive on Monday.
In between I took care of a few tickets at the Ulster Museum e.g. I installed Software for a user via remote support and deleted user accounts for employees whom have left the NMNI.

In the evening we, my flatmates and me,  went to a pub with our spanish upstairs neighbors but I went home early, around 12, because I wasn’t feeling well.

Yesterday we did our weekly shopping and replenished our food supplies, we bought cheese, cereals and other necessities, in addation I finally found some chai tea, of which I’m currently enjoying a cup.  The rest of the day was spent in peace, which means we all did our own stuff and talked about what we want to do next weekend, as of now we want to take a hike at Donard park near Newcastle.

Today we went back to the city center for smaller errands, I bought myself a new belt and postcards for my family. While on our small trip we found some cheap meat and finally had decent self made meal, also we vacuumed and wiped the floor in our apartment.

To summarize our weekend we can use one word….quiet. I hope to upload some pictures of Donard park next weekend, so you have something to look forward to.

 

Yours sincerely,

Tobias

 

Weekend

On Friday we had a Party Day, friday evening after work we went to a pub with a dance floor upstairs. With us were two guys who flew with us. They are draftsmen from the Oszimt. The four Spanish guys who are living above us and two of the other computer scientists from the other apartment went with us. That was a very funny evening. But… I´m sorry for that but the Irish people are not the best dancers and unfortunately most girls are really not the prettiest. It is funny to watch them because the more they drink the funnier it is. As an example…One of my colleagues here lost his phone and an Irish girl stole his tiger costume tail. Yes that was our amusing Friday.

On Saturday I slept until 15 o’clock. Then after breakfast I took a shower and then we bought food. We had a very relaxed evening.

Today I stood up earlier 😀 After eating breakfast and helping my girlfriend with a computer problem I went jogging along a river which was very nice but pretty exhausting. Then we cleaned our apartment and now I write this blog. After that I will make myself something to eat.

First night out…

Hi folks, it’s me again.

 

Yesterday, we went to a laundrette to have our laundry cleaned. That was necessary because of the bad laundry machines in our apartments.

 

Later, Alex and I went out to take a look at Dublin at night.

We saw a lot of people on their way to get in a club or a pub so we decided to go to our colleagues Erik and Stefan.

After we arrived, we took a look at their apartment and compared it to our apartment. Their apartment has the advantage that their hot water heater is not in one of the bedrooms so everyone can sleep well.

After the comparison we settled down and had a couple of drinks.

 

The evening was pretty funny and we talked a lot about Ireland itself and about our working places and what we are doing right now at work.

 

I am sorry to tell that there are no pictures of our journey because I forgot my camera.

 

That’s all for today. The next Blog entry will come in a couple of days I think.

 

See you soon.

Markus

Trim Castle and the propably oldest cemetery of mankind

Hi,

as I told you the day before yesterday I was on a trip about the old celtic culture in Ireland on saturday.

So my day started at 6 am to stand up early and the joy to realise again the incredible cool public transport here in Dublin. I looked on my official App when the bus is arriving so I could go out and wait just a few seconds for it. My App told me, that the bus arrives in nearly 20 minutes. After 5 minutes I watched out of my window and saw my bus passing by… The next look on my app told me, that I have to wait another 40 minutes. Really. This is the last thing I want to have on a saturday morning.

However, I arrived on time and the tour started.

Our first station was the Hill of Tara with a nearby standing old Church. I didn´t get the whole story about this location, but I understood that it was very bloody. The typical irish history.

After this awesome location we drove to Trim Castle. The biggest Castle in Ireland is now a very tall Ruin with a big Tower inside. Some scenes of the film Braveheart were taken here (god damn, I real need the Camera from my colleague! She made really good photos).

We took the bus to arrive some minutes later at the propably oldest cemetery of mankind and definetly the oldest in Ireland. It is called Lough Crew. Really. I will stop here and hope to give you all the pictures in the next days!

 

Cu, Lars

End of the second week

Hi guys

the second week ist over. Thursday and friday were very nice workdays.
In my projekt I created my first web service. I programmed this in c#.
It’s very similar to java. The test failed, because I used the
false timestamp. So I did send me 334 mails in 3 minutes to my charite
account. That was very funny.

After the work we cooked and met some colleagues in a pub called
„Buskers“.
Some guys and I went to a club at midnight. At the beginning it wasn’t
so cool, but later we had a lot of fun.
Yesterday Stefan and I went to the harbour, but we choose the wrong
one. It was the industry harbour and we didn’t see the ocean.

walk to the harbour
walk to the harbour

After a sunny walk, all our colleagues visit us and we made a little home party.

Today is our cleaningday and the rest of it we’ll chill and enjoy the sunshine at our balcony.

 

See you later