Former Bored Intern

Alpe d'Huez

2007-03-06T16:04:00.000+01:00

Damn that felt good! :D

Ahem...

2007-02-07T02:48:00.000+01:00

I might have been a bit optimistic on the last post... Up until now it hasn't been as great as expected...

I am done!!!!

2006-08-11T16:43:00.000+02:00

Free, no mas!!!
I just finished my apprenticeship two hours ago, no more troll house, no more lousy boss, no more orders. I GET MY LIFE BACK! I am SO excited! I can now go back to being a student (which i really look forward to), fly accross the world to take a long waited vacation with my love. It is all good.
I can not wait any longer. I wish I was there already. The master plan is: 5 days in Vegas, yeah baby!! :) And then 2 weeks between LA and SD. SWEEEEEET!
Then, go back to school, graduate, fly to Hong Kong, find a greatly exciting job there - not to mention with great boss and colleagues. And the best of it all, I plan to do all that with the person that matters the most in my world. Life is going to be back on great. :D

...I guess it is the end of the bored intern :)

David and Laura are now married :D

2006-07-27T22:08:00.000+02:00

Congratulations and thank you for the fantastic week-end! Tous mes voeux de bonheur !
I uploaded all the pictures at this address: http://cyrilenchine.shutterfly.com/action/

Tribe wanted

2006-07-20T16:16:00.000+02:00

I just read an article about this new thing called "Tribe Wanted".
Two british men Ben Keene and Marc James just launched their project on Vorovoro island, a small fidji island (80 hectares). They offer to create a responsible green 5,000 people community living on the island. 100 People at at time. So everyone can stay 3 weeks maximum on the island and live like lost characters. lol
The good thing is: your plane doesn't have to crash and you can go back to normal life whenever.

Oh, apparently it's not very recent, maybe you've heard about it already. Anyway, I'm excited. :)
Check out their website: http://www.tribewanted.com/
Has it begun?

Fun pics

2006-07-15T03:01:00.000+02:00

Saf and I, matching the walls at a party.

Sof, being sexy ;)

Saf's very first oyster.

I don't know how to translate it properly but literally it says: "Zizou, you cant' leave on a header...", "Coup de tete" also means a very quicly taken decision... Does it make sense?

Paris' oldest tree, planted in 1602.

Arnaud and Marie in front of Notre Dame and the Seine. How cute are they?

Tonight, playing Monopoly (1st time for Arnaud, 3rd for me) and drinking Champagne :)

Still drinking and playing, we played for 5 hours straight.

I finally won (for the fisrt time) with 1,341,400 Francs (it was an old game) so about 204,300 EUR plus all the streets. We had to create money cuz there wasn't enough to play with... Word!

Swimming in Paris

2006-07-06T19:38:00.000+02:00

Current mood: outraged by this city and its people. I hope we lose the world cup just to piss them off.
I don't understand this country. I tried to go swimming tonight. I just got back home; 20min after I left, dry. Great.

I went to the closest pool open, two metro stations away from Nation. I got there and I what did I see? A BATHTUB! Full of people pretending they were swimming. Damn frogs! There was at least 10 people per 25 meters lane. There was TRAFFIC!!! And wearing a swimming head cap thingy was obligatory. Fuck that shit!

So I got home thinking I'm gonna call the pools and try to figure out where I can go swim, not splash. Silly me, I forgot that in France you don't get to speak to someone when you call the contact number written on their site. You get a machine that talks for an hour before it gives the timetable. Just the timetable!!! I tried another number from the city of Paris'site and the machine was saying: "If you want to declare a dead bird on the street press one, if you want..." for God knows how long. Thanks a lot Paris for being so convenient!
They are killing me. It's just exhausting when people don't want to be efficient...

If you plan on coming to France eventually, cancel. If you can't cancel, learn yoga...

...If you manage to figure out where and when.

Dead cat

2006-07-04T11:36:00.000+02:00

This morning, I got up, took my nasty hot and swet smelling train; took my bus, fell asleep in both of them; all that to find a big dead black cat right in front of the company' side entrance, under a tree, eyes open with its mouth dripping blood.

Is that a good omen somewhere? I highly doubt it.

PS: Don't worry, I forgot my camera :)

River's King

2006-07-04T10:11:00.000+02:00

Nothing much new these last few days except I saw Sarah and Yassmine, two very good friends from school. It's been so long since I saw them. It was excellent! We had dinner and drinks on a little boat (called River's King) on the Seine. We got drunk during the hour and a 1/2 cruise. It was nice! Sarah is now gone to Sydney, Australia for a year doing a PR Master; and Yassmine is about to go back to Marroco for the summer... Have fun girls!!!

What else is new?
I played Monopoly for the first time last week-end. Got addicted. That game's fun! :D (Fyi, no, I don't live in a cave ;D)
Went swimming a couple of times. Btw, I'm looking for swimming buddies to go swim every day after work...

Holla!

Wanna Juice

2006-06-21T15:10:00.000+02:00

You people are invading us more and more... Finally! ;D

After craving Starbucks in Paris, I craved Jumba Juice for YEARS. But now it's over for good. I just found a me-too French company which opened two stores in Paris so far. One in Odeon and one in Bastille, right next to our apartment. WORD!
Which means Jumba juice is on its way too, like when Colombus Cafe (the French Starbucks) first opened, guess who showed up within a year? Yeah, Starbucks. Yay! It is so much better than Colombus Cafe, I don't understand how Colombus didn't go bankrupt with such awful, disgusting coffee flavoured beverages... Yuck!

Anywho, Wanna Juice is AWESOME! They even taste healthier coz they don't put ice-cream nor crushed ice in their smoothies. Soooo good and sooo refreshing.

I'm loving it ;)

Who's the hottie?

2006-06-19T14:05:00.000+02:00

我想你！

Troll pictures...

2006-06-14T13:49:00.000+02:00

Last week, we had a lunch/cocktail at work to celebrate the launch of the new system Nestle's been working on for years. We had a good time, for once. Free food and free champagne were on the menu. Guess who was drunk after 5 flutes of champagne?! Yeah, that would be me. Needless to say the afternoon went by a lot faster than usual...

From left to right: Benoit, JB, myself, Julien, Fabienne, Marc, Laurence, Lorenne... random guy.

From left to right: Drunkie, Emma, Laurence, Bernard, Brigitte, Lorenne and Jean-Marc.

Wo feichang xihuan xuexi hanyu

2006-06-07T14:57:00.000+02:00

I miss studying and speaking Chinese, Chinese is fun...

Le Petit Prince

2006-05-31T11:01:00.000+02:00

It is supposed to be a book for children. Every French kid has read it or has at least heard of it. I couldn't remember weather or not I had read it so I borrowed it. It is a great, great book. I almost cried on the RER. I strongly recommend it, it's a beautiful and moving story. I think you can also find it in English as The Little Prince although it's very easy to read.
Don't miss it!
;)

Sète

2006-05-29T10:00:00.000+02:00

I LOVE long week-ends! Especially when I get to spend 4 days laying in the sun, playing poker in the pool. That is just the best thing ever, btw. Barbecue every night, amazing food! Visiting abbayes. Ice cream on the beach. Jogging every morning. Swimming. Oysters, foie gras and mojitos for aperitif... Life's been GOOD!!!

Meet the team:

Seb, Dave and myself playing poker. (Here is the only time I won against them :)

Laura and Beth by the pool.

Thank you all again for the best long week-end of the year so far!! I had so much fun with you guys!

Unityyyy...

LOST season 2

2006-05-22T14:37:00.000+02:00

I completely forgot about it but a week ago, I was watching episode 201 of LOST with Natalie and we saw this:

It is when Mickael and Sawyer are in the water, on what's left of the raft. The shark is tattoed with the Dharma initiative logo!!! How weird is that!? Apparently I'm not the only one who noticed but whatever...

This show is out of control! I can't wait for the season finale. I hope we know more about everything. And I hope the finale is not similar to the first season's which I doubt...

A Density of Souls

2006-05-22T10:26:00.000+02:00

I couldn't sleep last night (again) so I finished A Density of Souls.

I liked it but not as much as I expected. I enjoyed reading it but now, when I think about it I have that bitter feeling of incomfort. It is a very dark story, very well written but too disturbing. I can't think of a better word, it is disturbing! I mean, death, rape, murder, incest, alcohol, abuses of all kinds... It is not easy to read.

But it's good.

(What can I read next?)

Hell-p!

2006-05-16T12:08:00.000+02:00

My boss keeps being very obnoxious. He likes to yell at me for no obvious reason.
This morning I really wished I could punch him in the face. I think he wouldn't dare talk to his dog like he talks to me. It is very unpleasant. I'm tired.

Post-it

2006-05-16T12:00:00.000+02:00

Hier

2006-05-15T02:15:00.000+02:00

Hier, j'avais pas envie d'être moi demain. Trop tard.

Back in Paris

2006-04-27T11:45:00.000+02:00

To be honest with you, it is not a pleasure to be back in Paris after spending a great week in socal. We had so much fun. I was so glad to see everybody there.
The very first day we went to a club on Hollywood Blvd after a memorable "aperitivo" and a hot bubbly time in the jacuzzi at Mark and Tracie's (who I'd like to thank for their hospitality! :)
On Sunday we went to see an exhibit called "ashes and snow" at Santa Monica in a temporary museum built ON the beach; then we went to a korean restaurant in Korea town in LA with very good friends of Mark and Tracie. After what we drove and crashed in Oceanside at Jonathan's mother, who I want to thank as well for her hospitality!
We spent the week between O'side and SD and went to the Cheesecake Factory, Claim Jumper, In n' Out, Robin Thicke and Keshia Cole's concert, Jumba Juice, Sushi on the rock, Porto's Bakery!!! and many more... I have never eaten so much food in my entire life! I couldn't stop eating, the food there is way to good!!! :)
We finished our trip in LA with a tour of the Disney's headquarters and studio's where I walked pass Jennifer Garner :D She didn't recognize me though, I won't say I'm not disappointed... lol

And now I'm back to work. The people I work with are bitchier than usual, I am completely jetlagged. Went to bed at 6pm yesterday and woke up at 4am today... It pretty much sucks!

Anyway, thank you all for that week, I love you and miss you a lot!
I promise I'll be back soon!
And for the Parisians, I can't wait to see you all! Call me!

Rabbits

2006-04-12T16:04:00.000+02:00

I laughed so hard...

Blogback mountain

2006-04-12T10:44:00.000+02:00

Sorry, i haven't been blogging for a long time. There was a lot going on here these past weeks. So many friends came over. It was awesome! I had such a great time!

Laura spent a lot of time over, she's unfortunately going back to Cali' on Thursday so it was great to have her around! Eric came to Paris, Jonathan and I finally met him at Laura's and the four of us went to La Vinia for a wine tasting party. We ended up wasted out of very good wines, drinking a glass of EVERY bottle. That was memorable!
John Zeman came from London for a few days and crashed at our place one night because he had missed the last metro. Holly was here for two weeks, Chris stayed almost two weeks as well. They brought with them Aunt Jamyma syrup and an aerobed so we can welcome up to 3 people in our living room. Even Sandrine was often around, dropping by to see everyone.
Jonathan, Holly, Laura, Fiezal, Sabrina and I went to Amsterdam for a weekend. We took the train Friday evening, partied all night, all Saturday and came back Sunday morning. We also had naps between all that in a 5 star hotel. which wasn't unpleasant!! We all had an AMAZING time there. It was said that we have to go back soon... We'll see ;)
John Steven also came from Boston with his girlfriend Erica and stayed 5 days, bringing us hot sauce and oreos: the basics ;) They visited Paris en amoureux and left yesterday, leaving the guest room deserted.

Time went by so fast! It was great to have all of you in Paris! Bringing a lot of life in our apartment. Thank you all for coming over! You are all more than welcome to come back anytime... I'm pretty confident that I will see you soon, in California next week or in Paris or elsewhere, who knows? :)

Moutonus

2006-03-31T16:07:00.000+02:00

Today, I asked "Finiariel" to tell me a story by email. Finiariel is a really good friend of mine from school. I wasn't expecting a story that big. I'm sorry it's in french. Please read it!

Et toi, raconte moi un mouton...

Alors, il était une fois un mouton, qu'on appelait Moutonus. Moutonus vivait a MoutonLand, la terre des mouton heureux et dynamiques. Notre ami Moutonus faisait partie de l'élite des jeunes Moutonlandiens, élite que l'on dénommait à l'époque les Gicédés. Moutonus travaillait dans une entreprise pleine de vie et d'opportunités biznesse.
Le jeune Moutonus, plein d'entrain et ultra-motivé, avançait vite dans la hiérarchie de son entreprise, communément appelée "La Boîte". Tous les jours, il arrivait ultra tôt, taquinait les jeunes brebis de l'accueil, puis demandait de sa secrétaire la jeune et sexy brebis Gal Leuz, un bon café bien serré, accompagné, s'il se sentait d'humeur, d'une fellation matinale. S'il obtenait toujours le café, la fellation se faisait de temps en temps plus rare, et ce au ryhtme des différents amants de miss Leuz. lorsqu'elle était en couple, surtout au début de la relation, elle avait plus tendance à refuser la politesse demandé par Moutonus, au grand dam de ce dernier. Il lui fallait donc "pousser une bêlante", comme on dit à MoutonLand, afin qu'elle se décide à accomplir son devoir. Il y eut même une fois où la brebis refusa tout net de s'appliquer à "pomper la corne" (encore une expression de MoutonLand) de Moutonus.
Ce dernier prit peur, et enquêta sur le dernier bêlier entré dans l'arène. Il se trouva qu'il s'agissait d'un bêlier tout ce qu'il y a de plus honnête, propre sur lui, avec de belles cornes bien faites, un sexe de taille respectable et une paire de testicules fort velues, ce qui à l'époque était du plus grand chic. D'après les informations qu'il put réunir, il semblait que ce jeune bêlier, répondant au nom mâle et viril de Shouartzeu Nigga (et surnommé Schouartsi), fût tout à fait du goût de la douce bien que dessalée Gal. Mais, en dehors d'un aspect purement sexuel, extrêmement importante aux yeux de Gal [voir note plus bas], le jeune Shouartsi avait conquis le coeur de la chaude brebis. Apprenant ça, Moutonus se rendit compte du danger dans lequel il se trouvait: si l'infâme Shouartsi réussissait à garder le coeur (et le corps, car en vérité c'était surtout le corps qui l'intéressait) de Gal, jamais plus il n'aurait son petit plaisir du matin (Gal étant une ancienne professionnelle qu'il avait recruté pour ses..capacités).
Moutonus, poussé non pas par la jalousie mais bien plus par un instinct de propriété et de sauvegarde de ses privilèges (en effet, la fellation matinale n'était pas un droit pour tous les moutons de MoutonLand), décida qu'une action immédiate serait à prendre. Il fit alors jouer ses relations, nombreuses et variées, pour un soir se retrouver dans un bouge mal fâmé, à la frontière entre MoutonLand et BikettLand, la terre des infâmes boucs. Il entra dans le bar, passant sous une enseigne en néon, sur laquelle se lisait: "A la Corne Universelle". Cette enseigne de paix s'était convertie rapidement en un symbole de la racaille des deux pays. Pénétrant dans la salle, il fut tout de suite pris à la gorge par la senteur poignante émanant des clients.
"Pouah, se dit-il, je ne devrais pas venir ici... de toutes façons, l'odeur du bouc m'écoeure." Sur ce, il alla droit faire un pari.
Son interlocuteur l'attendait dans une alcôve sombre. Moutonus s'assit sur la banquette, et exposa ses demandes au bouc. Après un rapide résumé de la situation, le bouc lui dit: "Donc, ce que vous voulez, c'est qu'on élimine ce petit bâtard à l'anus artificiel?[voir 2e note]"
"En parlant d'anus... en fait j'ai changé d'avis: au lieu de le tuer, faites-le bien souffrir. Kidnappez-le et convainquez-le que ce qu'il aime ce ne sont pas les brebis mais les boucs et les chèvres. Comme ça, il disparaît pour toujours et je récupère ma secrétaire."
Le bouc sourit, et après avoir obtenu l'augmentation de prix requise par le changement de prestation, s'en alla dans la nuit. Moutonus rentra chez lui, et appela une brebipatéticienne pour se distraire de ses émotions.

Deux jours plus tard, au bureau, sans même qu'il ait besoin de le demander, Gal, dès l'arrivée de Moutonus, se mit à genous et entrepris son devoir avec tout l'enthousiasme dont elle était capable. Elle l'entraîna même à la "tondre sur place" comme disent nos amis de MoutonLand, sur le bureau. Moutonus, satisfait, sut alors que le bouc avait avait bien fait son travail: Shouartsi était devenu un pervers aux yeux de la société des Moutons, un fou furieux qui forniquait tant avec des chèvres qu'avec des boucs...

Finalement, on peut remarquer que Moutonus, qui semblait être un mouton tout ce qu'il y a de respectable au début de cette histoire, n'est en fin de compte (et de conte), qu'un bel enculé.
Moralité, Rilou mon Rilou, méfie-toi des moutons, si tu veux pas qu'ils te déforment le fion.

[il faut dire qu'elle pratiquait un sport très populaire en MoutonLand, appelé l'appart Ouze; il s'agit de réunir une douzaine de moutons, vêtus seulement de leur laine, et d'asperger les brebis d'un liduide blanc et chaud appelé fioutr. ce sport semble se répandre dans nos contrées aujourd'hui, bien que peu de gens soupçonnent son origine véritable]

[2e note: il s'agit d'une insulte fameuse chez les boucs, qui sont obsédés sexuels comme chacun sait.]

Finiariel

Help

2006-03-30T09:14:00.000+02:00

It's 9:00 in the morning, I'm at home and I should be putting on my suit and hurrying to go to the Evil's chocolate house. But instead I'm on adium talking to Jonathan and telling him how much I don't want to go to work today. He's already in class...
That's why I ask y'all to help me find the best excuses in the world not to go to work. For those days when your pillow is calling you and your warm conforter won't let go of you. Please help me! What are the best excuses you use to use, used or plan on using?

I'm sure the answers will help us all!

And I'll publish a picture of the winner(s) ;) Thank you.

New books

2006-03-29T14:24:00.000+02:00

Thanks to Holly, I now have a new book that I'm reading. It's called Why do men have nipples? and it's comedy. As the book says, it's a lot of medical questions (and their answers) that people begin to ask their doctor after a third glass of martini. It really entertained me yesterday when I waited half an hour for my train to come. Stupid strikes, they weren't as bad as I thought they would be though.

And the books that I ordered on Amazon.fr are on their way. I received an email yesterday saying they were sent already. Yay! Thank you Adamma ;)
I ordered A Density of Souls and The Power of Positive Confrontation, just because I'm a messed up kid :D

Mac Fiction

2006-03-24T12:29:00.000+01:00

Look what I found on a French site called iAppz: two very interesting pictures of what Apple could launch in a near future. It's pure fiction for now but it's not that far from being on the Apple Store...

Here is a Tablet Mac:

And here is an Intel iBook:

Cool, eh?! ;)

Horaire mobile

2006-03-24T11:08:00.000+01:00

Ce qui est bien chez Nestlé c'est que l'on peut adapter nos plages horaires. Il faut être là au plus tard à 9h30 et il n'est pas autorisé de partir avant 16h. Donc plus tu arrives tôt, plus tu pars tôt en général. Sauf pour les gens très important qui arrivent tôt et repartent tard... Pour la majorité des autres qui n'en branlent pas une, c'est différent. Normalement les non cadres comme moi doivent pointer pour etre sur qu'ils fassent bien leurs heures. C'est là que ca devient intéressant, mon badge n'a jamais été activé, ou s'il l'est personne n'est au courant :) Et comme en plus mon chef se contre-fout que je sois à l'heure ou pas, je fais un peu ce que je veux. Sans trop tirer sur la corde bien sur :D

En tout les cas, je pense avoir atteint cette semaine ma vitesse de croisière : arrivée le matin sur les coups de 10h00 - 10h30 et départ le soir vers 17h00. Avec une pause dejeuner de 2h le midi. Ce qui me laisse quand meme 5 bonnes heures de rien-à-faire à mon bureau tous les jours. C'est crevant...

"Accident grave de voyageur" on the RER A

2006-03-22T10:13:00.000+01:00

I got a call this morning from a co-worker saying that something happenend on the RER and the traffic is stopped. He called at 9:30, I am supposed to be at work at that time but instead I was just starting to get ready. So it's kind of my fault if I'm late but now I have to wait for the security guys to remove the dead body from under the train before I can go to work and get even more bored there. Great.

The Rule of Four

2006-03-21T11:34:00.000+01:00

I finally finished my book. It took me a lot of RER trips back and forth to work. It's a good book although I'm a little disappointed about how the Hypnerotomachia was puzzled out. It was a bit too easy for Paul and Tom to solve it compared to all the crap Tom's dad and his so called friends went through. But still, it was very entertaining.

I still have a few questions to ask:
What's with the different cover colors?
The second one is for Sabrina in the comments, this question concerns the end of the story, so if you still want to read that book, don't read the comments! Thanks ;)

I just had a car accident

2006-03-20T19:07:00.000+01:00

After work, a colleague offered to drive me home, which I accepted gladly not knowing that his car had no brakes. So we're drinving for 15 minutes when, right after a turn on a road leading to a freeway, we see traffic 50 meters ahead. And my colleague goes: "Shit! what do I do!?" That's when I realize that he can not brake whatsoever.

Fortunately for us, he wasn't driving very fast and he made a good move. We were completely surrounded by cars, so he turned the wheel to the left and here we went, changing lines and sliding straight into the guardrail on the side of the road. We hit it and ended in another car in front of us.

It all happened very fast and no one was injured, thank God! I still remember 10 minutes before all that, we passed by a crashed car and laughed at the poor guy it must have belonged to. That's karma bitches! I won't laugh at car crashes for a while...

New Edge: Cool Apple retailer

2006-03-20T15:42:00.000+01:00

This store is crazy, they have a lot of weird (but cool) stuff.
This is a pillow speacker, so you can listen to your iPod without annoying your bedmate.

The iTower looks pretty phat, I must say.

As much as the iTrip Dock connector. And the iTrip Nano.

And the iWoofer is the cutest thing for iPods...

The PC I work on (sigh) refuses to upload the pictures but as soon as I'm back on my iBook I'll put them on here. Sorry...

Book

2006-03-19T14:19:00.000+01:00

I'm looking for a good book to read. Any suggestion?

Moron

2006-03-17T11:56:00.000+01:00

My lame ass boss chose well his day to give me a load of stupid work. I'm so pissed. I had to find a list of all the French administative centers, there are 95 of them. And now I have to find out what is the distance in km between each one of them and 7 other destinations. That's 665 web reseaches. And he said it like "We have a lot of work to give you" all smiley, like I'm gonna enjoy it or thank him.
That's exactly how I wanted to spend my Friday. Asshole!

Excuse my French.

I hate people

2006-03-17T10:21:00.000+01:00

I woke up late, had nothing to eat. The Ke bakery was crowded, I didn't have enough time to get sth there. So I had to swallow my pills with a nasty ratp chocolate croissant on the RER. Then I tried to read a few pages but it wasn't possible thanks to four high school girls dressed like hoes who weren't able to be quiet.
Then I got the usual "I'm too dumb to open a door so I run into you because the other half door on your side is open".
After that I had to wait for the bus for a looooong time to finally see 2 buses coming at the same time. Of course I got on the one that stayed there for another 10 minutes, not the one that left right away...
I got to work and the minute I put my jacket on the chair, my cell phone rings, and of course at that very moment one of my colleagues HAD to ask me how to create a link in an outlook message.

It's always little things that get on my nerves...

Knee pics

2006-03-15T19:24:00.000+01:00

Here it is! Aren't my bones beautiful?

So they didn't find anything wrong with my knee, it's completely normal even if the pain comes and says hi every now and then.
Should be over soon, hopefully...

Actualité CPE

2006-03-15T12:19:00.000+01:00

Pour ceux que ça intéresse, il y a un article excellent sur le débat du CPE (contrat de premier embauche) sur le site les echos .fr
Très bonne analyse. J'adhère complètement. Lisez ici.

Day off and MRI

2006-03-14T09:56:00.000+01:00

Hey y'all.

Yesterday I went back to see my doc because there was no improvment in my knee. Still hurting when I move. I've been hitching all week. He told me to have an MRI taken to know exactly what's wrong with that joint.

I called the clinic and I got an appointement today at 2:00 pm; which doesn't leave me enough time to go to work neither in the morning or in the afternoon. Sweet! The clinic is usually very busy and normally I would've had to wait for a month to get an appointment but a guy cancelled his. I got lucky. Oh and btw they had another blank in their schedule tomorrow at 7:30 pm but I wouldn't have missed a whole day of work. Oops! ;)

The best thing is that my knee feels actually a lot better today. That's great. Karma is nice with me :)
I'll give you a pic of the inside of my knee if you behave :D

Shopping at Pylones

2006-03-13T19:13:00.000+01:00

Saturday afternoon we went shopping and we found the cuttest little nails brush:
I'm a little ashamed of it but it's comedy.

Click on the title to see the store's website with pictures of all their funny items.

Fearless dog

2006-03-10T14:41:00.000+01:00

Here is an exemple of what my dear colleagues send me all the time. I like them for entertaining me :)
This one is cute:

(Always have the courage to say what you think...
...Asshole!)

My knee is mad at me

2006-03-09T14:46:00.000+01:00

I swear my whole body is upset. I think it's on strike. I've been exercising for 1.5 month now, running every Tuesday and going to the gym every Friday. It seems not to like it!

Last week my bottom-left wisdom teeth started to grow again, digging its way up my gums. I could not open my mouth for 3 days. Barely enough to eat. But it's over now and no, I don't want to have them removed... ;)
Now, my right knee has been killing me for 2 days. Tuesday I tried to run and after 20 minutes my knee started to burn at each step on this spot:

I went to see a doctor who has a degree in sports medicine and he doesn't know exactly what it is. Apparently my right tibia is not in line with my femur but it shouldn't be very serious. He gave me a gel to put on the aking spot twice a day and some anti-inflammation pills...
It feels a little better now, a least I can walk in the afternoon. In the morning it hurts like hell. The worst thing is stairs. I so can't do stairs in the morning. The bad part is that I live on the 5th floor (american's 6th floor)... with no elevator.

So no more running for at least a week... :(

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Can I also have a big headache to go, for tonight?
Thank you.

Apparently it's a tendonitis... and still hurting...

Jack Johnson's concert!

2006-03-06T17:47:00.000+01:00

Guess who's going tonight? Yeah baby!
Katie (a friend of Jonathan who we went to Austria with) offered me a ticket for tonight's concert. The ONLY concert in Paris. Hmm hmm bitches!

I am SO stocked! I can't believe i'm going.

I'll tell you everything tomorrow ;)

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OMG, this concert was amazing, scrumtralescent as Holly would say ;)
I had so much fun. Even during the first part when Matt Costa wouldn't stop before he played all the songs of his 2 albums... lol
The very first song Jack played was Banana Pancakes, I couldn't believe my ears, it's my favourite song! And the second one was Do you remember, which is my second favourite. I know he played them just for me ;)

The whole concert was out of control. The only thing missing was talking. I like when people talk during concerts, tell a little story between two songs... Jack just played and said almost nothing. I like when they share more... But whatever it was still amazing!

I had to buy 2 t-shirts at the end, I HAD TO. They're so cool. I got a yellow one with this on it:

and this other one:

Thank you so much Jonathan for giving me your ticket!

Incassable, incass... Cassé!

2006-03-06T10:41:00.000+01:00

Vendredi soir, en tirant sur le fil de la batterie de mon iBook, le chargeur a pris un peu cher et s'est mis en grève. Impossible de charger ni mon ordi, ni celui de Jonathan.

Donc, plein de bonne volonté, je décide d'aller en acheter un nouveau samedi aprem'.
J'arrive dans le magasin spécialisé en produits Apple : IC computer, un nom comme ça. C'est juste en face de Beaubourg. Bref, donc je vais voir le type qui s'occupe des accessoires et je lui demande si mon chargeur est réparable (1ère erreur). Ce con me répond :

"Non, c'est jetable!"

et se casse. Il revient et rajoute

"De toute façon j'en ai plus en stock."

Ma bonne humeur envolée, je vais à la FNAC des Halles (2e erreur) pour acheter mon chargeur et peut être passer chez Jules si il me reste un peu de temps. Hahaha.
J'ai mis 2h et 1 vendeur mal aimable avant de sortir de la FNAC. J'ai jamais vu autant de monde d'un seul coup. Impossible de faire un mètre sans se faire bousculer ou marcher sur les pieds. Un enfer.

J'arrive donc finalement à la caisse, prêt à bondir sur le caissier à la première remarque désagréable quand celui-ci m'annonce gentiment :

"Ca fera 105€ s'il vous plait."

...

ARGH. Je paye, je sors, je fais la queue pour acceder au RER, pas le temps de passer chez Jules, je rentre, je branche, ça marche. Surtout que personne me parle !

Le lendemain, je teste le chargeur cassé à tête reposée avant de le jeter et c'est le coup de grâce. Il marche...

...Pourquoi moi ?

I heart Aston Martin

2006-03-02T11:56:00.000+01:00

I think this could be my next car. I can totally picture myself driving it!

You can click here for more great pictures and here to see her official website.
Aston Martin also have very cool things in its collection.

Time's new website

2006-03-02T10:44:00.000+01:00

Check this out!

Last month, TIME INC. launched a new website for bored people at work. It's called Office Pirates. Isn't it a great idea?!
It's not very big yet but they have some funny stuff.

Meet the team!

2006-02-28T14:16:00.000+01:00

Here is a picture of the people I work with, well, most of them.

My beloved coworkers and I look like a united family, don't we? :D

Where is my car?

2006-02-27T10:26:00.000+01:00

Saturday evening, after spending the whole day sleeping and chilling at home, I decided to go out and have diner with my parents and my little brother.

I got ready, closed the door and started walking towards where I had left my car the day before. On the way I saw a van pulled out on a truck by the police and I couldn't help but laughing at the poor guy who parked there. BIG MISTAKE.
I kept walking and half way across the street I realized. The whole boulevard was empty. And my car... vanished!
I can already hear all of you thinking: oooooh, kaaarma!

It was 4°C outside (39°F), I was wearing nothing but sweater and and thin jacket. I was freezing! So I asked a cop what was happening and where did my car go. He said they were moving all the the cars on the boulevard because of the march on the following day. Why do all the marches have to end at Nation? Anyway, so the cop asked for my license plate, and called to know where my car had been moved. And while we were standing there on the sidewalk, the weirdest thing happened. Out of nowhere, a guy who was smoking a cigarette like one meter away from us let out a loud and clear fart. I was like noooo he did not just do that! The cop looked at him, he was just standing there, smoking, like nobody noticed anything. The cop then told me nobody knows yet where my car is but he gave me a phone number I could call later to know where to look for it. 30 seconds later the guy farted again, and a third time. That's when I left to take the metro. I am almost positive there was a hidden camera somewhere near us. I wanted to ask the guy where the camera was but I was freezing and not in the mood to waste my time for that kind of stuff. But there had to be one, these things don't just happen like that, do they?

Once at my parents my dad and I must have called the number the cop gave me almost 15 times. The answer was always the same: "We don't know yet where your car is but call back in 10 minutes". Right! So after a couple of hours they finally gave my dad the address where they parked the car: 4 Picpus. The problem is there is a boulevard called Picpus AND a street called Picpus. YAY! So we spent 45 minutes between 2:30AM and 3:15AM looking for my car in the wrong area; which we found out to be 50 meters away from my apartment... with an 11€ ticket on it! I could even see it from the balcony.

I love spending great weekends in Paris. Please tell me yours was better!

Cranky

2006-02-24T10:07:00.000+01:00

Why do I get up in the morning? Honestly?
I'll tell you, I get up everyday to go pretend I am working at my desk; which somehow doesn't make any sense because all of my colleagues know I am not working. They know because they are supposed to keep me busy. In theory.

Anyway, last night Laura stayed over and we all went to bed around 2AM. Fine. But this morning I was awaken at 5AM when our EXTREMELY loud alarm clock went off. I fell back asleep. At 7AM Jonathan called me from his taxi on the way to Turin to tell me he had forgotten to set the alarm at 8AM for me, which is very sweet but... you know. So I get up, set the alarm and sleep for one more hour. And when I finally threw myself out of bed and sat in the traffic for half an hour, what do I do?

Nothing. I am cranky.

Test

2006-02-23T16:43:00.000+01:00

Okay, ceci est mon premier, tout premier blog et le stress m'empeche de publier un premier article digne de ce nom.

Donc, juste pour voir ce que ça donne, ces 3 lignes serviront d'article-test.