Weeee are the Champions!

17th of May, 2006. The second best thing that could happen that day, happened! F.C. Barcelona is the winner of the UEFA Champions League!
The second time of its history, maybe the rising of the Dream Team II.

We went to Centre Sportif here, in Louvain-la-Neuve with some friends and with lots of “people”. As someone said, “here there are many people but only a few persons”. Really lovely people like Pelotilla a.k.a. Facha-man, with his bull-spanish flag made the night a bit more interesting. People shouting against Barcelona, against Catalan, against Catalonia. It is really funny. I’m not a great football fan, but I will never go to watch a Real Madrid game to shout against them and show Catalan flags, or stuff like that... a bit of respect!

And the match... the referee was one of the protagonists of the match. Minute 17, Lehmann makes a fault to Eto’o just out of the area, and Giuly scores the goal. It was the perfect example of the “advantage rule” (or whatever that is the English name for it) but the referee decided to annule the legal goal. Great... 20 minutes later Campbell scored a goal.

And I’m not really a football fan, so I’ll try to summarise: Larsson is SO GOOD, he made two incredible assistances and Eto’o and Belletti scored the goals. And yep, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!
PD: the best thing of the 17th of May is that I’ve spend the two best months of my life!

11th May, THANK YOU

The speech that I didn’t do

Well people... I’m so moved about it. I really don’t know what to say...

This is the best birthday of my life, and I’m not being exaggerated. My sister has come from Catalunya to visit me today, my friends are here and Emma, my lovely girlfriend, has arranged everything. It is my first birthday party with my friends since... 1993.

Andras, Wojtek, Rasmus and Kiran

Kristof and Myriam

Eric!

Shilpa, Katja and Maija

I was guessing and hoping something from Emma and the others, of course... I’m a bit hard to surprise, but still all of you are here. I’m shacking people, I’m really moved.

Kristof, Katia, Maija, Shilpa, Wojtek, Sonia, Myriam, Gemma, Eric, Rasmus, Kiran, Andras, and (who called me later) Peter, Katia and Sami. Thank you for being my friends, for me is something spectacular that all of you have been here (or called me) to say Happy Birthday to me. I’m not exaggerating if say (again) that this is the best birthday of my life and you guys are one of the reasons.

My lovely sister Mireia

Another reason is my sister, everybody here knows how important is my sister for me. I talk about her quite often and I always talk good stuff about her! And she came here, to Louvain-la-Neuve on my birthday! A nice present.

And the other reason (I hope that anybody will be mad because of it), the most important one, is Emma. I won’t explain to you guys what I think about her. She knows it, and I think that most of you can guess it. I really love you Emma.

Emma and Roger

So, thank you very much to everybody (including my family who sent me a couple of really nice presents) for making me happy!

Your 25 years old friend, son, brother and boyfriend,

ROGER CARULLA BOVÉ

PD: sorry Gemma, Sonia and Sami, Katja, but I don't have pictures of you, but I know that you were there ;)

Work and exams, and...

It is quite obvious that everybody has a lot of work, the pressure is increasing, the deadlines are running to us, the exams start to say “we are here”, and all that stuff.

I’m not complaining, because there are another (really nice and that bring me happiness) reasons for the pseudo-isolation that everybody is living. It is hard to meet everybody, to arrange trips, dinners or whatever. I acknowledge that it is my fault too, but the work is absorbing everybody.

Why I’m writing that stuff? It is a good question. Just to remind me and remind to everybody who read this blog, that I’m here, and everybody is here. That is, here in the world, here for us, here to help, to listen, to complain. I do apologize because I’ve lost a bit of contact with most of you in the last weeks, but you know that there are two basic reasons. The first one is the fucking thesis which was absorbing me, and the second reason...

The second reason (I really want to write it hon, sorry) is the best thing that had happened to me ever. She is the best girl that I’ve ever met. She is the reason of my happiness. (I won’t write the corny stuff that I’m thinking right now). I hope that everybody understand that I want to spend as much time as I can with her. Because of Emma (because of you too guys, don’t worry) I’m living the best time of my life, and it is a beginning.

So, I really hope that we are meeting soon and often and take advantage of the remaining time together in Belgium. But anyway, have a good work, pass all your courses and good luck with your exams!!!

Latex

Oh my God! All of you have such a dirty mind! Were you really expecting something related to the material? I’m really sorry to disappoint you.

I just want to talk a bit about this tool, which is completely new for me. Ok... I don’t want to talk about it but it is a good way to introduce good news. LaTex is a something to make documents. It is not a text processor (if you were thinking in a different version of Word). You have to write, use strange characters and structures, compile, and the output file is built and it looks really professional.

The point is: I did a presentation yesterday morning and apparently my tutor is quite satisfied about it! So it means that I can start to write the paper document of my thesis (I’ve already started), and I will use this LaTex thing.

People: I’m on time!