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Enfin petite, en fait pas tant que ca ! C'est la grande vie ici ... Si vous voulez suivre un peu ce que je fait de mon temps, c'est par là !

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dimanche 31 décembre 2006

End of the year, end of the blog?

Par matt le dimanche 31 décembre 2006, 02:11

I think I will stop this blog with this article ... My time in Singapore is over now and my new life is about to begin! I'm still hesitating about starting a new one (a new blog, for the new life I don't hesitate that much) with my life and some pictures I may shoot in the future. It will almost depend on my future life and the time I'll have to do this. Let's wait and see :)

Anyway, I had a lot of fun and pleasure setting this blog up and writing some post, sharing with all the readers my adventures in Asia! Thanks to all those that came and read my posts, and special thanks to those who posted comments! You all contributed to build a nice map with a lot of red dot on the right column :)

And to have a nice end, I put here some pics I made during my holidays in the mountains. I spent Christmas there with my family. There was hardly enough snow to ski (even if already more than in a lot of other places) so I went for a walk with my parents during one afternoon. I hope you'll enjoy these mountain pics, especially you asian people who seldom saw snow!

Good bye! And of course, I cannot forget these usual seasons greeting: Happy New Year to all of you! May this coming year fulfill all your dream and see your undertakings be successful!

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jeudi 21 décembre 2006

Fading lights in Paris

Par matt le jeudi 21 décembre 2006, 17:18

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Here are a few pictures I took in Paris the day I came back and the following weeks. The weather is quite different from the Singaporian one, colder and more dry. And the thing is, cold winter evenings are a good occasion to shoot urban landscapes with wonderful colors! I hope you'll enjoy these few pictures with the Eiffel Tower, my new neighbour :).
About my life, nothing much to say, I've seen a lot of friends, ate a lot of good french things, drunk some good (and less good, thank you krevet for the brunch one :)) french wine… The basic french life to make it short :).
Or at least the basic life of a french guy coming back from Singapore and having nothing to do in a hurry! (Yes, these little things like finding a job or writing reports about my "holidays in Asia" will wait the new year to come :p)

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samedi 2 décembre 2006

Over lah!

Par matt le samedi 2 décembre 2006, 17:09

No more school
No more exams
No more evenings spent in vain trying to study
No more boring paper to read
No more uninteresting assignement to work
No more IVLE forum to read
No more 'I speak because there is a participation grade' useless discussion …

… Yeah, my semester here is over! And if everything goes well (and it should), any semester is over ... I'm done with school :) I must admit I was waiting for that moment for a few weeks now, because going to some boring lectures and write assignements and exams is not so motivating. Well now it's over and even if what's coming next may be worse :) I really enjoy it.

What's coming immediately next won't probably be that bad, since I'm flying to Cambodia tomorrow on the very morning, sightseeing Siam Reap and Phnom Penh and maybe go to the beach in the south ... I'm coming back on the evening of Friday to check out of my room on Saturday and take the big plane back to Paris via Frankfurt. I will be in the cold in the morning of next Sunday!

Last week was good too, even if studying was sometimes boring. But I didn't study too much, don't be afraid. Tuesday, I went to some french people who live and work here for 5 years. He is trader and she is inner space architect (does it have a meaning in english? :)), they have a small girl and soon another child. We talked about Singapore and how was their life, why they are here ... It was very pleasant to speak with french people, to drink Ricard and eat real bread with cheese :). Thanks to them!

Yesterday was a nice evening too. We went in the old malay quarter and ate in a cheap restaurant with some norvegian girls and few other people. Then we moved to a Chinese bar where some girls were singing. They even sang a Chinese 'Jingle bells' - Christmas is really coming here -. Volume was too loud but it was funny. And it was my last evening in Singapore too ... Tonight I will go to the airport and try to sleep a little bit there before grabbing my plane tomorrow ...

Next post next weekend probably, if I have some time in Singapore, otherwise will be a french one :). Right now is goodbye to german friends at the New Asia Bar :)

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lundi 27 novembre 2006

An Unconvenient Truth

Par matt le lundi 27 novembre 2006, 10:41

I've been to the cinema yesterday, it is far more exciting than staying in his room reading lectures notes or lengthy articles. Anyway, next exam is on, let me remenber…, tuesday, it's quite far away :). And furthermore I went for a so called intelligent film, I think I was allowed to :)

So I've seen the Unconvenient Truth, (La vérité qui dérange, in french), the movie featuring Al Gore, the former american vice-president. It deals with global warming and climate changes. The film is easy to see (some would said 'spectacular' in a pejorative way) and not too hard to understand (to put in in a nutshell, it targets the ordinary American people…). I didn't learn many things as I'm quite interested by the topic and already read things about it, but it puts basic things in a way that everybody should understand and be afraid of. Especially American people I mean…

Because even if the film is not so extraordinary in itself, even if we see Al Gore and his life quite too much, we cannot help but thinking that it could have an effect on American politics and American people. And this is, too my mind, the most important point of this American film made for American people: it seems that they're becoming aware of all this, and given on the one hand their weight in the whole process and on the other hand their present official position, it is quite a good news for all of us!

Another question that raise seeing Al Gore so brilliant and well informed in the film is why these crazy Americans chose Georges Walker Bush twice for being their president ... but it's just another question I guess!

For more information, you can visit www.climatecrisis.org, the official website.

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jeudi 23 novembre 2006

De retour de Thailande (bis)

Par matt le jeudi 23 novembre 2006, 18:26

Ca faisait un petit moment que je n'avais pas posté. C'est pas que j'avais oublié mon blog ou que je n'avait rien à raconter, bien au contraire, mais le temps s'accélère dangereusement en cette fin de semestre ! Déjà plus que deux grosses semaines avant le retour, le rangement des sandales et du débardeur, le soleil qui se couche à 16h, l'accumulation des couches de vêtements pour combattre le froid ... Ici il fait encore et toujours une trentaine de degré, le soleil brille toujours de 7h à 7h et les gens sont encore et toujours en short. Comme la saison des pluies semble arriver, il faut juste ajouter des averses tout les après midi.

Qu'est-ce qui s'est passé en deux semaines depuis mon dernier billet ... Dans le désordre :

un week-end à Bangkok avec Adrien et Noémie, une française en échange aussi,
un gros week-end (ou une petite semaine, au choix :) dans le sud de la Thailande à nouveau, avec notamment l'ile de Koh Pha Ngan et des plongées magnifiques,
la finalisation des derniers projets , le business plan pour CS4260 et un super travail d'analyse statistique des bases de données clients d'un opérateur mobile américain pour le module CS4266: IT and CRM,
une soirée au Dbl O (prononcez dobeule oh comme double O en anglais),
Georges W Bush est venu dans notre université mais on avait pas le droit de le voir visiblement. Et il a raconté des trucs pas bien nouveaux qu'on a regardé à la télé en direct.
Noémie nous a fait des pâtes avec de la sauce tomate. Ca faisait longtemps que je n'avais pas dégusté ce plat typique de l'étudiant français. Faut que j'en profite, dans 9 jours je serais plus étudiant ...

Ce qui me permet d'enchainer sur ce qui m'attend maintenant :

Un exam bien chiant pour un module tout aussi chiant (le CS4250, évidement)(Module que j'ai noté en conséquence dans l'enquête de satisfaction de mes cours et j'ai évidement pas voté pour le prof en "prof de l'année". Ils sont marrant ces Singapouriens d'élire un prof de l'année, j'ai pas le sentiment que ça se ferait facilement en France :). C'est le samedi 25 au petit matin,
Trois autres exams les 28, 1er et 2 décembre. Plus ou moins rigolo je pense ... On verra bien !
Des révisions pour ces mêmes partiels peut-être :),
Plein de billets en retard sur ce blog à écrire :p,
Une petite semaine au Cambodge, aller Singapour-Siam Reap (au nord ouest, avec les temples d'Angkor Wat, ancienne capitale de l'empire Khmer) le 3 au matin et retour Phnom Penh-Singapour le 8 au soir. Tout seul, j'ai trouvé personne avec les mêmes dates ...
Avion du retour le 9 au soir. Paris le 10, son froid, sa grisaille, j'ai hâte d'y être. Peut-être pas pour la météo :)

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