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mardi 6 février 2007

Wanna go to Singapore?

A few words for those who don't speak french… Just in case you may be wondering, I'm fine. I'm still looking for a job in Paris after a few weeks of holidays meeting my friends, going skiing and so on. This post is too make my report about Singapore available online. Sorry for you, it's only in french - anyway, you won't have learnt many things, given that most of you were in Singapore when I was there!


En français maintenant, je fais ce post pour mettre en ligne mon rapport sur mon séjour à Singapour. Quelques personnes me demandant des détails pratiques et mes impressions, j'imagine que ça peut en intéresser d'autres. Faites-en bon usage et tenez moi au courant si vous partez là-bas!

télécharger le rapport (pdf)

samedi 2 décembre 2006

Over lah!

  • 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 :)

jeudi 23 novembre 2006

La nuit des filles, c'est tous les mercredis !

Ils sont sympas ces Singapouriens, ils font une soirée spéciale pour les filles toutes les semaines ! Le mercredi, c'est ladies' night et dans la plupart des boites de la ville, l'entrée est offerte. Il en est bien souvent de même des consommations, donc open bar toutes les semaines pour les filles :). Et puis ils sont surtout pas bêtes et ont bien compris l'intérêt commercial de l'opération :)

Tous les mercredi, des hordes de filles accourent en direction des clubs de la ville-état et les garçons suivent, bien évidement, en payant le prix fort. Alors qu'une bonne partie des "exchange students" içi était de sortie tous les mercredi, nous nous sommes rendus compte avec horreur et effarement (si, si!) que nous n'y étions jamais allés. Donc mercredi dernier, nous avons testé le Double O (avec prononciation anglaise, hein :)).

Adrien a l'air d'apprécier :)

La clientèle est essentiellement jeune, étudiants pour la plupart. En fait, le double O ressemblait à une soirée de l'université, ou plus précisément des étudiants étrangers (en échange) de NUS. Je crois que cette fois-ci était encore pire que d'habitude de ce que j'ai entendu, car c'était la dernière occasion de sortir un mercredi pour beaucoup d'entre nous qui vont repartir chez eux ou en voyage en Asie à la fin du semestre, après les exams. J'ai croisé beaucoup de visages qui me disaient quelque chose en tout cas.


Franck, sur la gauche, est un français étudiant en architecture. Vous aurez reconnu Sam sur la droite.

Les boites ferment à 3h du matin, la musique s'arrête 20 minutes avant. Retour en taxi et attente devant le point de dépose des taxis pour regarder le spectacle. En particulier des américains phytophones assez impressionnants ... Une bonne soirée au final!

Phytophone: qui aime parler aux plantes ... :)

vendredi 10 novembre 2006

Dinner at Crytal Jade in Holland Village

Yesterday i had a dinner with Lulu, Alisa and Kit, the people from my CS4250 group. Wu Dan was missing to have the full group, though.

The Crystal Jade is a chinese restaurant chain in Singapore, serving traditional chinese dishes. We had many of them yesterday, sharing each dish in a pure traditional chinese way. To my mind it is quite nice to share instead of having each one his one dish, you can taste a lot of things and speak about it with your friends :).

We also talked about many other things with these Singapore foreigners (they are chinese (lulu) and thai (alisa and kit), but have been living in Singapore for 4 to 8 years now!) like the way people work at the university, our modules and lecturers, my traveling life :), differences between europe and asia on many things ... It was very interesting and I enjoyed the evening very much. Thank you guy and gals :) !

We made a picture session at the end of the dinner, so as to keep souvenirs …:

photos CrystalJade  photos CrystalJade  photos CrystalJade  photos CrystalJade 

jeudi 9 novembre 2006

Packed month to come …

Here is a little post to keep you aware of my projects for the next month ...
I don't know if i will have so much time to write in the next weeks: my schedule is likely to be a little packed with exams coming, projects to finish and still so many places to go to :).

I spent the week-end in the island of Penang, malaysia. Even if Penang is a malay island, the trip was not one of these 'wonderful beach trip' again. Actually Penang is a big island in the north west of Malaysia and the most interesting thing on the island is probably its biggest city, Georgetown. With its 500,000 inhabitants and its rich history, the town is quite nice. We had a very cool week-end with Adrien and Gabor (my hungarian CS4260 and CS4266 teammate). I guess I have to write a little bit more about it and to publish pictures we took, but it will wait (and don't know how long it will, since some posts about september trips are still to be written :)).

Friday evening, I leave Singapore again to fly to Bangkok, Thailand. We're going with Adrien and Noémie, a french girl usually studying computing in Grenoble. We'll meet Laurent from the INT there, he's a former classmate of mine. I think it will be a enjoyable week-end once again. Will tell you more later (woh, some posts to be written again ...) !

I'll be back on Monday evening for my last three days of lecture here (and probably for a while :)) before leaving for Malaysia again. This time, we will drive (yes, drive :)) toward the center of the country and its highlands with the usual german people. It sounds very good too ... We'll stay there for a little week, since it will be our reading week. (We won't forget to take some books, we're supposed to read, aren't we? :)).

Saturday the 25th will be my first exam (this nice CS4250). One week later, on the 2nd, I will finish with CS4266. I will then have one more week before taking the plane back, and I think I will go to Thailand and its beautiful beaches, in order to make a huge stock of sun before coming back to the french winter. Anyway, this is in more than three weeks, I'll see !

If there were only travel, it would be quite easy ... but I will also try to see local people the most that I can before leaving. Tomorrow I will eat with some teammates (Lulu, Alisa and Kit - yes you know two of them) and I will probably eat with the people from another team in the week after.

We also have a few things to do in Singapore before leaving. Like going to this famous ladies' night (every wednesday is free flow and free entrance for girls in many places in Singapore) (so we must go there on a wednesday, problem, there is only one left :)), going to the new asia bar, maybe do a boat trip, go to the Ministry of Sound, a well-known club here ... (as you can see we really did few about clubbing and going out here, everything is still to be made ;) !)

To put it all in a nutshell, my last month here is going to be pretty busy, but woh woh woh, that's nice, I like it. (Some people may recognize these words I borrowed from a well known kazak actor, Borat :p). I'll keep you aware the best that I can!

Oh, I have a last little thing I'm sure you will be glad me to tell you. Since many readers of my blog seem pretty concerned by my look and especially my hairs, I have to warn you I've been to the hair-dresser this week-end, I no longer look like a strange animal. Don't be afraid, i won't look clean long, my beard is growing again. Little picture ?

 

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