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Snow in February

Oscar Olim — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:16:40 +0000

Finally, the snow has arrived. It took a long time, but it’s here, and it’s so cool to wake up with the snow falling down

Year of the Dragon

Oscar Olim — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:38:28 +0000

Hello everyone and welcome to my first 2012 post.

Again I’ve been a bit behind with updating this blog, but well, not much has happened anyway.

This last weekend I went to see the Chinese New Year celebrations at Trafalgar Square in London. Quite a nice event, with a lot of colour, sound and cool performances.

Here’s a couple of movies I did. Would like to have done more, but it was freezing there, so it was hard to keep filming for too long!

Forza 4 hands on

Oscar Olim — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:26:48 +0000

As a big Forza aficionado, I couldn’t help but leave this here for all of you out there.

F1 2011 XBox

Oscar Olim — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:23:45 +0000

Well, it’s not very often that I talk about games, but this had to be an exception.

Got the game today, although the official release date is tomorrow, and after playing just a bit I can tell the game is amazing.

Where do I start? The sound has improved a lot, graphics are nicer and crisp, with more detail than last year’s game.

The handling has definitely improved as well. It’s now much easier to handle the car, and took me just a couple of laps to be able to use my wheel properly.

The KERS and DRS are nice additions, but it gets a bit of getting used to. Definitely do not use DRS on high speed corners or you’ll be looking at the amazing detail of the grass.

Of course adding to the official 2011 teams we also have all the tracks, 16 players online and my favourite, co-op career mode.

This last one is one of the features I was looking forward and can’t wait to start a co-op career with my friends

And now is time to head back to the racing seat!

My instrument :)

Oscar Olim — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:32:39 +0000

Nice picture of my classic guitar. Been a while since I had played. Now is dust free and ready to be played again.

Nice Saturday

Oscar Olim — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:50:19 +0000

Well, today was finally a weekend. After a few couple of days of hard work since my last weekend, I thought it would be good to chill out a bit, so I went with a friend to Heathrow airport to take some pictures.

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The weather was really nice and we managed to get some really nice photographs.

On our way home, I decided it was time to treat myself as a reward for all my hard work so I popped into an Apple store and came home with the iPad 2.

Was a bit undecided between the black and white version, but the white has a cheap look and gets dirty easily, so black it was

Stonhenge

Oscar Olim — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:20:29 +0000

This weekend I went finally to visit Stonhenge. It’s definitely an amazing place to visit, not only for the stones themselfs but also the place around it.

It started in the city of Salisbury, which on itself it has quite a few nice attractions. It’s a small town, but with very friendly people and a nice landscape.

Cycling up the roads to Stonhenge I went trough some forest and trees, and smelling that fresh air was very refreshing.

The way back was the most difficult as after cycling for almost 40 miles I was out of stamina and the up hills where tough :p but eventually I got home.

Overall is quite a nice place and it’s worth to visit it at some point

Star Trek viewing order

Oscar Olim — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:02:30 +0000

Now that I’m on a little break from work I decided to go back and refresh my star trek. It’s been a while since I’ve watched it and now I’m watching everything in order.

It’s not as easy as it might seem, as some of the seasons and movies overlap. Bellow I’ve devised an order to watch the series and the movies without missing continuity events.

In this order I did not account for time travel episodes, as I don’t think is worth to break a season in half just to see an episode from another season or series that happened on that stardate. But I guess that for the most hardcore fans, they might do that :p

Anyway, without any further ado, here’s the viewing order for all of Star Trek. Movies are in italic bold.

Enterprise

The Original Series

The Animated Series

The Motion Picture

Wrath of Khan

Search for Spock

The Voyage Home

The Final Frontier

The Undiscovered Country

The Next Generation S01-06

Deep Space Nine S01

The Next Generation S07

Deep Space Nine S02

Generations

Deep Space Nine S03

Voyager S01

Deep Space Nine S04

Voyager S02

First Contact

Deep Space Nine S05

Voyager S03

Deep Space Nine S06

Voyager S04

Issurection

Deep Space Nine S07

Voyager S05-07

Nemesis

You could leave Star Trek Enterprise series to the end, as it was the last one released, and set as a prequel, and, in my view, showed a somewhat more advanced Enterprise. At least regarding the looks I think the NX-01 looked better than the NCC-1701.

Finally, after you’ve seen all this you should go back and watch the new Star Trek movie, which changes the time line and hopefully will, in the near future, introduce new series.

Live long and prosper.

Chinese New Year 4709

Oscar Olim — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:32:08 +0000

Today was the Chinese new Year celebration at Trafalgar Square, London. Although the new year started a couple of days ago, they celebrate it for a couple of days. Today was really cool, with a lot of performances.

Unfortunately I didn’t had the time to go to China Town, but I’m sure over there was very good, but probably packed with people.

Anyway, here are the photos I took from the Trafalgar Square performances.

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Holidays… gone and back again

Oscar Olim — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:04:42 +0000

Well, it’s been some time since I wrote something (how many times do I write this? :p)

Been back to Madeira for a week, as a surprise for everyone. Was nice seeing the faces people did when seeing me back there

The weather back there was nice as well, a big improvement over the British weather, no doubt. It also makes me even more homesick, and goodbyes are never easy either.

Nevertheless, was fun spending time with family and friends, seeing the new things the island has to offer, and chilling out in the bits of sun that were there from time to time.

Now, who knowns when I’ll be back again…