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¡Hola a todos!

¡Hola a todos!

Me llamo Martín. Tengo 21 años y estudio filología española en la Universidad Adam Mickiewicz de Poznan, Polonia. Allí estudio la literatura y cultura españolas y latinoamericanas, y sobre todo las lenguas: española, catalana, portuguesa y francesa. Me encanta especialmente el catalán. A pesar de las culturas española y catalana me interesa mucho la música y sobre todo: la fotografía. Para unir todas estas cosas, viajé a Barcelona este verano… y me enamoré. La ciudad es preciosa. Barcelona toda es una foto inconcebible. Me enamoré de verdad. El año que viene me gustaría ir a estudiar en Girona o Tarragona, ya que BCN es un poco cara.

Junto co mi carrera universitaria trabajo en la compañía de Interenet que se llama Velnet. Aquí me ocupo de muchas cosas como SEO (Posicionamiento en Buscadores) entre otras. También soy encargado de HaaBaa, una parte de Velnet, que es un directorio web de las páginas de todo el mundo pero también de países particulares. Soy el guru de la sección española en nuestra página web internacional y en el año nuevo tenemos previsto ampliarla considerablemente.

Por lo que les invito a todos usuarios de internet a añadir su página www a nuestro directorio gratuito. Estoy convencido de que estén satisfechos.

Volviéndo al grano, me gustan mucho las montañas con sus espacios abiertos y llenos de silencio. Me gustaría algún día vivir en Andorra. Ni tengo idea como puede ser en realidad, sabéis. Es un sueño cuyo tema no se sabe exactamente, pero se quiere que se cumpla.

Vale. No puedo concentrarme en un tema particular, así que paro aquí. Espero que os guste lo que hacemos aquí con grupo HaaBaa.

¡Bienvenidos a todos y hasta luego!

Besos

Marcin

Comedy

Peep Show

Mark and Jez

Ladies and Gentlemen,
we are exceedingly fortunate because we live in a great era for arts, drama, music, film, television etc etc…great advances are being made all the time, envelopes are pushed, boundaries destroyed and many great things created.
One such thing is a particular favourite of mine, a sitcom called Peep Show that appeared on channel 4 for a debut series a year or so ago. There a few special qualities that set Peep Show apart from other, run-of-the-mill sitcoms. Plot lines revolve around two main characters, flatmates Mark and Jeremy; “socialy dysfunctional in their own ways” (or so the blurb on the back of my DVD box tells me) – so far, so standard i hear you cry, but what makes Peep Show special is that we get to hear the bizare, twisted, over exagerated thoughts of Mark and Jeremy and every camera angle is from the view-point of one of the characters. This might not sound like much, but in reality its what makes Peep Show that extra bit funnier than your average sitcom. The cringe-worthy embaresment that we feel for Mark as he flails at the top of a charity bungee-jump crane or hides in the cupboard to avoid a collegue is multiplied as we recognise small parts of our own character traits, or those of people we know in his strange actions. We have heard the train of thought that has lead the character into this crazy situation and that makes it all the funnier.
Peep Show has just finished it’s third series which sadly does not seem to be quite as good as the preceeding two. I tried to tape the series but unfortunately when i put the tape in for the last episode, in a spectaular display of inept-ness i managed to tape over an episode and a half that i already had with slected bits of a Friends DVD. I guess i’ll just have to wait until pirate copies start appearing on eBay…

Authors

Patrick

Hello, my name is Patrick. I am 20 years old and I work at the internet company Velnet. I am also attending university at the University of Sussex, which is just outside Brighton, UK. I’m studying a degree course called Music Informatics. I’ve been at uni for 1 term now and I am enjoying it very much. The course is interesting and informative and I have had lectures on elements of Artificial Intelligence, Java Programming, Composition and Music and Society. As the course progresses the elements of computing and music will be drawn together and I will be studying things such as electronic studio skills. Brighton is a great town to be a part of and the social life at uni is great!
I (mostly) grew up in a small city in the West Midlands of England called Hereford. It’s a beautiful part of the country and I’ve always loved being surrounded by the hills and fields of rural England. Sometimes I forget how lucky I am to live here!
My main passion in life is Music, in all it’s many forms! I love going to gigs and finding out about new bands and DJs. I play a bit of Flute and Piano (both very badly!) and I’m also a hip-hop DJ.
Well I hope this tells you a little bit about me. Look out for regular postings from me in the music section and have a nice day!
Patrick

General

My town

What should I write about?

The question is good, if you consider that I am only a begginer in blogging. I want to write something to this blog, but I don’t know exactly what I shoud write about.

I complete lack of subjects to wirte about, I will write about the town I am living in.

The name of the town is Oradea. It is a medium size town (for our country), in Transylvania, Romania. It is realy easy to find. Is the forst town when you came into Romania on E60 road. This medium size means some 250.000 inhabitants. My birthtown is 56 km away, so it is quite close if you have a car. If you need to look fo other transportation than you will see that this 56 km is quite much.
The train is not reliable to go with. It needs some 2 hours to get there by train, if it is going. The railway company is making some works on the route so there is time when the train is not going in that direction at all. The last year there was a bridge which collapsed so that was the reason why they stoped the train(for several weeks).
You can take the bus. There are some 4 buses going back and forth to my town and Oradea. Two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Thir ride will take 1.5 hours to go there and it is not very confortable. It must stop in every village to pick up the customers and there are many villages. The price is not too high, but it could be cheaper a little.
The third option to reach my town is by “taxi”. I am saying “taxi”, because they are not realy taxi drivers. They don’t have all the papers they need. This is a quick way to get to your destionation. It only takes some 45 minutes. That is if you find these taxis when you need them, or there are enough customers for them because you need to wait until the car is full and only then they go.
I use the third one. With a little luk you can go with them anytime from 6 o’clock in the morning until 4-5 o’clock in the afternoon. It is only a little more expensive than the bus and it is more confortable.

I finished up in Oradea because I was in the collage here. This is not a big collage and it is not the best of the country, but it was the closest. My grandparents live here too, so in the first few years of collage I had a good place to stay. You know how the grandparents are. Always looking to be good for you. IN the collage years I have found some new friends here and I begin to like this town. It is not very beautifull but is becomming more and more good every year. But not this year.
All over the town every company is working something. The local transportation company is changing the tram-line, the cable company and the telepfone company is mounting the cables undergournd. The authorities are changing the water and heating pipes as well as mounting the gas pipes undergound. So the whole town is looking like in the middle of a war. There are trenches everywhere, everybody is digging.

Lukily they have finished some work before the cold arrived (together with the rain and snow). But most of the work is still unfinished. The roads are not asphalted back after the works, in some places the holes are still there, uncovered. Quite a mess. But the part of the town which is finished is looking extreamly cool. The pavement is made fine from little stoned all over the finished area. They are planning to make the whole town like this.

I think that it will look realy good when all the works will be completed next year. But beside the works there are many things to see here. We have a really old citadel and other buildings from the 19th century. There is a huge museum with many findings bellonging to those who lived here.

So, if you will like to come to our nice town, you are welcomed to do so, and maybe we will meet somewhere to a drink. 😉

Miscellaneous

Video Games

Everybody like to play games, no matter their age, sex or location. There are many types: simulation games, strategy games, shooters, role playing games, tycoons, etc.

Beside the testers, who are playing as a job, everybody is playing because it is fun. Single player games are fun too, but when more people comes together from all over the world to play the same game, in the same team or the opposite team , now that is even more fun.

And because it is so fun to play games and because many people is playing, the producer companies are putting millions into the developement of these games and into the developement of consoles for these games, every company pushing the technology to the limit. Overtime games got better graphics, better gameplay, they became larger and more expensive. This is the reason why tosay’s games don’t run on yesterdays consoles. If you want to play the best game you need to buy the best hardware.

I prefer the simulators, stratagy, tycoons, shooters, well basicly I like every kind of games which have one thing in common: fun.