16th February 2013 - Back from Starlight Express

Had a great afternoon at the Bord Gáis Theatre. First, I thought I got lost in the city centre. Thanks to my mobile phone which died later on due to a low battery, I found my way savely to the theatre. It was the first time, that I went to see something in there.

When I arrived, I got a lovely surprise. I had booked a ticket over the internet and was told when I went to the box office, that those seats were not available for this show so I got promoted on my seat which meant I moved down four rows towards the stage.

My previous seat was in row N, number 27. I was more than delighted. The purple finger is the Shellac treatment I got done to my nails and yes, I am wearing high heels.

I dressed up a bit for this event. A while ago, I bought this lovely beaded cardigan in a vintage store that didn't fit me before Christmas and now it finally does. So I bought it and it was still on sale.

The show was fantastic, I really loved it! It was like experiencing a childhold memory. I used to listen to the music of Starlight Express a lot when I was younger so I am happy that I finally managed to see the musical. The stage wasn't very big, all the activity during the show took place on the centre stage. During the racing parts of the musical, we had to wear 3D-glasses as these parts were prerecorded and then shown on a big screen in 3D.

I was amazed the amount of kids that attended the muscial. Shows you how much it takes you in as a child.

Dun Laoghaire tomorrow ... here I come!

16th February 2013 - A Little Owl Favour

I had a lovely knitnight in my friends house last night. We talked about knitting, fabrics and all other stuff that is going on. We had pizza and so on and watched some good old TV. When our discussion turned to fabrics again, I happen to mention that I bought two nice owl print fabrics back in Germany and she asked me to send her some pictures. I decided to put them on my blog instead to share their cuteness. Here are the pictures:

I really like owls at the moment. I think they are really cute. So cute indeed that I got the Pandora Owl charm last time I went through an airport.

Owls are so cute. This one looks so innocent.

I also found this pattern on vogueknitting.com and I think I will download it. Their patterns are on sale at the moment and I saw another few things I really liked. The owls in this picture are indeed a cute looking family.

About the fabric above, I got a sewing book in Germany just containing bags. I got some matching plain fabric and now I am waiting on my mums cutting board and cutter to start working on the pattern. I got the padding already and I know that I will turn the fabric into a clutch. With exams coming up and more assignments for college to work on, I am not sure when I will get the chance to work on any sewing projects. At least I am getting work on my sweater done, the back is almost finished.

My plans for today: I got a concession ticket for Starlight Express at 2:30pm and before anyone is asking, I am going on my own. Not really sure who to bring with me anyway. Tomorrow, I am going to a Vintage Fair in Dun Laoghaire with a friend, so I hope I get a few nice bargains and a few pictures for the blog.

Happy reading.

3rd February 2013 - Moment of Peace

Finally, I can have a bit of a break. I have no new assignments due until the beginning of March. I have to work out two pieces for Information System. This is finally the more techy stuff in college. Looking back at the first semester, we definitely had the less interesting subjects first. I would actually say it was pretty boring.

We were assigned to teams in college to work on a presentation for Organisation and Management. As I was part of team one, our presentation was due last Wednesday. We had less than 2 weeks to work on it but we managed. We used DropBox to get started and threw in all the research and the presentation into it. I was working mainly on the presentation. The topic was "Strategy" in an organisation of your choice, using the PEST analysis and Porter's Five Forces. We chose my company as it was the easiest to get updates on our strategy and insurance pretty much affects anyone. We had some very interesting discussions afterwards and we got top marks for it. We were are very delighted, as the presentation already contributes 25% to the overall module mark.

I also got my math assignment back and I am proud to announce that I got 95% in the overall assignment. Unfortunately, it only adds 10% to the overall mark of Business Methods but at least it's a very good 10%.

To some other news: I was pretty busy the last couple of days, partly due to the presentation but I also was catching up with friends. One friend of mine treated me to dinner in a restaurant called "Tigers", as she had purchased a voucher on the internet. Here are a few pictures of the food that was served:

Smoked salmon and salat with japanese mayonnaise in rice paper. Was called Vietnamese Springrolls. We shared them and they were just gorgeous

We then shared two main courses: Peanut Beef and Drunken Prawns. We chose mildly spiced dishes and it was heaven. The rice was lovely and mixing the two dishes was the best thing we did.

For dessert, we both had Coconut Panacotta, with meringue, lychee and passion fruit which was a very nice finish.

Here is a close-up picture, where you can see all the layers on it. Wished the dish had always reflenished itself. Such a pity when I had finally eaten up.

So much for the culinary side of life. After all the assignments, I so deserved going for food like this. On Monday, I am catching up with more friends for chicken wings.

Today, I am going to Howth to meet my friend and have lunch in one of the restaurants over there. I had a look at the map and it should be easy enough to drive there. Weather unfortunately is not very promising.

I got an idea yesterday for a game I think I could program in Visual Basic. I recently downloaded a game for my phone which unfortunately only works with the internet on and I am dependent on other people to join. Anyone who can download "Ruzzle" for their phones, let me know. I will do my best to be online on the train. It's like Boggle just online and you match each other. Anyway, now that we are introduced into functions and subroutines in VB, I thought I could write a programme to do exactly the same as the mobile version, less fancy but I think I could get the basics to work and then it's just adjusting the code to make it easier to use and it counts points properly. I have to do some housework and tidy up my room a bit and now that I have the 4th season of "Fringe", I think it will take some time until will start working on it. Just saw that season 5 is coming out in May. Can't believe the series is over then.

Will get ready now. I have finish a hat so that I can wear it in Howth. Looks like it's pretty cold out there. Hopefully, we will see seals.