Sign of life
It's midnight, and Francis Rowley Court is disturbingly quiet. The main reason must be the exam period which is sneaking up on us nowadays. Yesterday, Knut, Leif Olav, Robert and I sat in our kitchen at Francis Rowley Court reading Quantitative Methods. Nice picture of Knut below. He was so frustrated he pulled up his glowing fist...
I sit in my room, trying to decide which tie to wear tomorrow. Today was the first day of the Biennial meeting, a conference arranged every two years (thus called biennial) by our Professor Costas Grammenos. The meeting this year comprise of subjects such as International Economics, Financial Markets, Shipping and Energy, and several prominent personalities are speakers and invited delegates (no, I don't look at myself as a prominent...). For instance, The Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, a number of ambassadors, assisant to the Oil Minister of Iraq and retired Lord Mayors from City are present. The location of the meeting is the IMO headquarter.
The IMO Headquarter
Today's session was quite interesting, with the lecture by Professor Harry M. Kat about how their research showed that a replicate of a hedge fund could perform much better than the hedge fund itself... Quite convincing!
Marion inside the Conference Hall of the IMO Headquarter. Note Dolf's noce and forehead to the right...
Right now I listen to "Shanty For the Arethusa" by the Decemberists (from the album "Her Majesty", for those who are weird enough) and look forward to yet another day in London.
Today, before the conference started, we were up on the 1st floor, having a nice cup of coffee, Suddenly, I saw a guy looking really interested in something down on the street below. As the curious person I am, I walked to the window and looked out. A woman had been hit by a car, and was lying on he street, receiving medical attention from ambulance personel. It was really creepy. After a while they got a stretcher from the ambulance (the stretcher kind you use when you expect a spinal injury, which I suppose they very often do) and eventually they lifted her onto it and into the ambulance. Her head had been bandaged, but it seemed she was conscious. I really hope sh'll be OK. I'll never know. Seeing things like that really makes me think. You never know what tomorrow will bring. Carpe Diem!
Before I go to bed I'll just Iron my shirt, then it's off to Neverland. Hopefully this post will keep Joakim away from the dreaded Macroeconomics books for a couple of minutes... Elisabeth gave me a "Pondus" chocolate calendar and a "Flax" calendar. The result so far is 6 chocolates and 10 NOK from the "Flax" calendar. Money! Power! I'm rich! Mohahahahahaaaaa!!!
I sit in my room, trying to decide which tie to wear tomorrow. Today was the first day of the Biennial meeting, a conference arranged every two years (thus called biennial) by our Professor Costas Grammenos. The meeting this year comprise of subjects such as International Economics, Financial Markets, Shipping and Energy, and several prominent personalities are speakers and invited delegates (no, I don't look at myself as a prominent...). For instance, The Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, a number of ambassadors, assisant to the Oil Minister of Iraq and retired Lord Mayors from City are present. The location of the meeting is the IMO headquarter.
The IMO Headquarter
Today's session was quite interesting, with the lecture by Professor Harry M. Kat about how their research showed that a replicate of a hedge fund could perform much better than the hedge fund itself... Quite convincing!
Marion inside the Conference Hall of the IMO Headquarter. Note Dolf's noce and forehead to the right...
Right now I listen to "Shanty For the Arethusa" by the Decemberists (from the album "Her Majesty", for those who are weird enough) and look forward to yet another day in London.
Today, before the conference started, we were up on the 1st floor, having a nice cup of coffee, Suddenly, I saw a guy looking really interested in something down on the street below. As the curious person I am, I walked to the window and looked out. A woman had been hit by a car, and was lying on he street, receiving medical attention from ambulance personel. It was really creepy. After a while they got a stretcher from the ambulance (the stretcher kind you use when you expect a spinal injury, which I suppose they very often do) and eventually they lifted her onto it and into the ambulance. Her head had been bandaged, but it seemed she was conscious. I really hope sh'll be OK. I'll never know. Seeing things like that really makes me think. You never know what tomorrow will bring. Carpe Diem!
Before I go to bed I'll just Iron my shirt, then it's off to Neverland. Hopefully this post will keep Joakim away from the dreaded Macroeconomics books for a couple of minutes... Elisabeth gave me a "Pondus" chocolate calendar and a "Flax" calendar. The result so far is 6 chocolates and 10 NOK from the "Flax" calendar. Money! Power! I'm rich! Mohahahahahaaaaa!!!
posted by Pandaen at
7.12.05
8 Comments:
Godt å se at du er i live..=)
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Anonymous, at 10:42 am
hmm.Blei eg satt ud når eg trykka inn denne adressen,http://andersinthecity.blogpsot.com/, for å sjekka bloggen din? JA! Begynnte å lura om du hadde bitt ein religiøs freak! :D:D:D:D
Beware London...... on the 12 th. of jan, hell comes to town............
moahahahaha
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Anonymous, at 10:44 am
Oiij, her var det mye nytt..Kult! Skal bruke juleferien (som altså begynte for omtrent 10 dager siden) til å ta til meg all den nye informasjonen :)
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Ingvild, at 12:05 pm
I think I'll reconsider taking the macroeconomics final. I REALLY need an A in development economics, and there is only seven days left to do it. But we'll talk strategy over a cup of cyber-coffee some day, and I'll brief you in my complete plan.
Had "An invitation to economics" final today.. that was rather fun! Some other guys wrote seven pages (I sneake-peaked), and the time shut me down on sixteen pages..
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Joakim Reinert Knutsen, at 6:18 pm
Hey!
Wow.. six... Hmm.. Thomas told me this years FK-calender was supposed to be a good one. Think I'll buy it, and if there are any left; I'll buy the flax one too.. Good thing about waiting is that you get to open some many at the same time.
When are you finished this semester? Will you be here at New Years Eve? Well, back to job serching! Cheers
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Ragge, at 12:54 pm
Tjohei Andy Pandy!
Noen flere som har blitt slått ned med gåstol i det siste? Eg e fremdeles i dyp sorg over at de røde djevlene ikkje får spilla mer i Europa... Trist som faen. Kjetil pepra meg selvfølgelig med meldinger underveis i kampen, har starta ein isfront mot han som hevn.... :-)
E ellers i ferd med å bli passe paranoid etter å ha fjerna tapet, pussa vegger, etc etc i gangen dei sista ukene. PASSE lei heila greiå. Blir nok jul før eller siden uansett.
Ska ta ein skål for deg på julabordet på lørdag.
Hoppalong Howie.
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Anonymous, at 11:02 am
updates please :D
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Anonymous, at 3:01 pm
Heisann! Kjekt å lesa litt om livet ditt i London. Måtte nesten hiva inn ein liten kommentar, siden eg e "weird enough" :) God jul!
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