2010

It's about time to sum up!

How was your 2010?
Choose a photo of your year that you like.
Now let us resurrect (thank you, Quoc!) yourfriends - log in (user name and password) and edit this post (the one I created) to add your photo – don't forget to tag it with your name and, if you want, a couple of words about it.

Looking forward to seeing yours :)


Max, Marie, Rodrigues - having a good time in a warm summer's night (photo taken by Max)
-marie süper


Carsten, Christiane, Marie, KW and Florian (not in this picture) - the last guests at a party in Wedding. That night we first met Florian and KW and had on our way home a short stop at a playground and very much fun..

-- Christiane


2008 is just after 2009 in my personal rank, but these moments from 2 years back are more than beautiful. Even more than views that we had from this roof. (Marie, Michal, Akos, Peter, Adam - if I remember well and Adam) Can't wait to see you again.

Michal

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Clearly one of my best for 2010. Marie Nina Sam Fransua. The goodbye picture ending a phenomenal 48h session in Berlin. One of those pic where, as Marie said then, "everybody tries not to look tired". Well done guys !

sam

u p l o a d e d b y q u o c

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Many new nice people, and old friends that I was missing since a while ; all of this for one of the best WE of 2010 at sea side!

fransua.

Peter, you're the last one.

Hope you are all good.

Breaking news:
After some serious struggles, I'm done. Goodbye discounts, welcome taxes.

How's your summer guys and girls?
I will try to organise mine (and autumn too) to see some of you, but cannot promise anything more than doing my best...

Paris break in the beginning of June was great, and definitely boosted my engines for the last bits of the thesis (thanks Francois and Claire, thanks airbnb.com). I'll try to update my picasa with these pics, and if I will, there definitely will be some more too.

If it comes to more news from my side it seems like I'll stay in London for another year, so please plan your holidays accordingly ;)

All the best!
(and have some rest).

High Five, Low Five, Top Five!

.......get prepared!

Liege new station, Santiago Calatrava's project.

Liege new station... Santiago Calatrava's project:

(Thx to Justine and Mathieu for the pictures)

You like or you don't like. Anyway, nobody can miss it... It's just enormous...
Most of the people here like it... except when they know how much it cost...

For you, maybe another reason to visit me in Liege :) So not that bad finally...

In one month I'm leaving Liege to go to Thailand and China with Brice, during one month. After that I'm going to Australia for 5 months.
Send me your address by email if you want postcards :)

Greetings from the rainy country!
m a r i e.

Summer of sports

100m - one of the first rounds


200m - the hero!


high jump - click here to watch in in better resolution (ok I just noticed the resolution is not much better - but well now I'll leave it like this)


my father and me - me being a fan! (the performance of the Finnish javelin throwers was quite poor though - the Norwegian guy looked better anyway!)



(Most of the photos were taken by my parents whose camera is much much better than mine.)

This was a wonderful world championship and although the stadium was quite empty especially in the beginning, the atmosphere was just amazing and we were very lucky with the weather. What an absolutely great week!

Apocalyptica

These are some photos I just found on my computer. I took them a couple of weeks ago, on the day of the Fête de la Musique, when we were on our way to the next stage.
The result was: we didn't reach the stage because the apocalypse caught us before we could get there. We were soaking wet and no taxi stopped for us. But the light was great!

new link!

now in your bookmarks!
;]

jardinmangetete.com

Life's strange

I've got a story for you my friends. A short story about life - how strange it is and how sudden changes it brings.











Two days ago I've spent whole day in Katowice (the nice rainy city where Phil concert was held, you remember Adam :) ) looking for a job. My point was really to find a job there, so I did my best to prepare portfolio (print it out in a nice folder and pack into selfmade cardboard box), went without any previous note and tried to reach heads of all the offices I was applying. I didn't contact them earlier, cause I didn't want to say I'm looking for a job, as I'd finish then as one of hundreds waiting for response and I didn't send portfolio via mail either, as in my opinion personal contact would be best way to convince them to hire me.

And probably it would be like that, if I'd manage to reach at least one of the architects in charge. I didn't. After visiting one of best polish offices placed in this region od Poland (some of them been really well designed) I came back home completely exhausted and mentally wasted. I took a shower and ate supper.

Then my phone rung and it occured that in 5 minutes I've got to decide if I want and I'm able to move to London for a month to work on one of latest competitions won by office of the lady at the top. Wasn't so easy, but I said yes. I had to rearrange all my plans for the forthcoming month, some of them really important to me, but I hope everything will end up well. It has to.

So that's the story. Story about life's jokes, when you cannot find a job in your own country, and suddenly you finish on a contract in one of the best practices all over. Story about the architecture student's life, about the moment when he becomes a bitch, that's able to leave everything and within 3 days move to the other country to work his ass off for a well known boss. To get this short note to your resume, that you worked for him/her, to be still able to find a job in your own country.

But I'm curiuos. Maybe even a bit anxious.

And how's your summer?

Update:
Had a free weekend, so here come some photos:

[click!]

Paris with your friends :-)

... Later than THE Super Marie :) But here are some pics from Marie 'tout court' !

'was great to cross you ! ... Waiting for the next time!

Not so disappointing

Salut, ça va?


Picknicking in Paris and trying to take stupid Eiffel Tower photos. Didn't work out. On the right: our dinner.



Good people.



Good things.



Yes, we also did some sightseeing.



Good!


Merci again to François and all of you. And the Parisian sun.
To watch all the photos, click here.

And here.