As you probably expected, the above picture is
quite out of date ... I think it was taken some 28 or 29 years ago in my
parents' kitchen.
Here in Belgium, you still have to pay for the stuff
you take with you in a shop, this means one has to work. So, every morning I have to get up quite early to drag myself to
the train to Brussels. In Brussels, I
hurry to this friendy smiling building which houses the Statistics Belgium where I work as a
statistician.
But apart from these more or less boring things, my life is dominated by
music.
This means going to
concerts and sometimes reviewing them. Further, I try to keep some bands'
websites up : Trumans Water, Sophia and The God Machine.
I also distribute some of the Flowershop
labels releases via this internet.
Since I believe there are 48 hours in a day, apart from all the above
things, I still find the time to throw myself in Gents nice nightlife,
including student-related stuff like
'cantussen'
(typical Flemish 'singalong-and-get-drunk-thing' and parties. I'll
try to get some more recent pictures soon ...
I was born on April 3th 1971 and the
same day it was decided that my name would be Christophe Demunter. I grew
up in Knokke-Heist, some coastal
town in Belgium,
but for the past ten years, I spent most of my time in the beautiful city
of Gent. Why should one move from the sand and the sea to a medium-sized
city ? Well, since it's a bit hard to build universities in the sand, I had to come to
Gent to study.
Some people think I'm trying to become some kind of 'uomo
universalis', but in fact I didn't finish most of the things I started
...
After one year of engineering, I changed to economics and applied
economics. After graduating and writing a thesis on the very hip thing
called semi-parametric econometrics, I picked up computer sciences in Gent
and a master program 'Quantitative Analysis in the Social Sciences' in Brussels. But due to all kind of
circumstances, the first plan failed but the end of the data-analysis
thing is still scheduled somewhere at the end of this century
(update: or early 3rd millenium).
What else can one study ?
Criminology ? Well, why not ... and that's what I've been doing the past
three years. In the meanwhile I reached the fourth
and last year and finished another nifty thesis, now on the prediction of
recidivism.