Roberto Live!

I spent such a great time in Taronga Zoo with my friends last Saturday, you can see a lot of animals and also you have a real spectacular view of Sydney from there. Check the photogallery, because there is a new album with the pictues from the zoo and also there are more pictures of the Opera House, Harbour Bridge and Circular Quay that I took from the ferry that carried us from Circular Quay to Taronga Zoo.

This is me at the zoo

Sergey, me and Laura

The ship Cuauhtemoc, of the Mexican navy, what a coincidence!

This is a picture from the people in my class including one of our teachers, Fiona (yep, just like Shrek’s wife ).

Well my four-week course of the Introductory Academic Program is over, and guess what?, I got an overall grade of “D” for “Distinction” (the grades are F for Fail, PC for Pass Conditioned, P for Pass, Cr for Credit, D for Distinction and HD High Distinction). It was the higher score of the class (I think) anyway all my classmates are really really smart and they have been, along with my two teachers Jill and Fiona, very helpful improving my English. Also I’m getting used to different accents since I have classmates from China, Indonesia, Colombia, Ukraine and South Korea.

And you know, this is Macquarie Uni, so every event needs to end in a grill

The certificate (see is true!)

The barbeque (for free, cool!)

I went to a talk with Rob Pike (like three weeks ago, sorry I was busy), engineer of Google, and he gave a brief explanation about Sawzall, a new language that Google is using to handle parallalel tasks. After the talk we had some free food, drinks, keychains, pens and shirts!

The paper is in http://labs.google.com/papers/sawzall.html

Here are some pictures of my classmates in the Aquarium’s cafeteria

From left to right are: Yun-Young (Korea), Amelie (China), Ratih (Indonesia), Cita (Indonesia), Felipe (Colombia), Lala (Indonesia) and me

and in this picture from left to right: Ratih (Indonesia), Felipe (Colombia), Cita (Indonesia), Iskandar (Indonesia), Daisy (China), Laura (China) and me

We have been doing some interesting assignments in the IAP class, in the case that someone is interested here is my essay about the reliability of Open Source Software in mission-critical areas.

Dependability of Open Source Software in mission-critical areas

The past Friday our class (I’m doing an Introductory Academic Programme if you didn’t know it) went to the Sydney Aquarium. Wow, such a great place, you can actually see sharks very very close, it is amazing! I like it very very much I spent such a great time. After that we went to the Opera House to take pictures, yep, just like tourists.

By the way, thank you very much Daisy (xie xie!) for borrowing you camera, because my small camera in the Palm is not good in low-light conditions.

This sign is great “Do not enter. If the fall does not kill you the crocodile will”

Sharky, Sharky!

Daisy and me in the aquarium

I already have a lot of pictures from Sydney, I’ve been trying to organise them in different places like Opera House or Harbour Bridge, the pictures still don’t have descriptions but eventually (which means one day from here until the end of the world) I will add some comments.

P.S. There is no kangaroos in the pictures, ha, ha.

P.P.S. Where are the pictures? In the Photogallery of course!

This is Heidi and me with Harbour Bridge in the background

and this is me in the Opera House