About halal meat...

Informative ;-) But it's gonna take more than that to change my eating habits. :-P

Insects' conversation on marriage

Nothing lasts forever

A few hours later...*sniff* My rabbit's dead! :'(

Okay, so I'm exaggerating. But let's admit that it's a sad sight. First an ear deflated (and later on I found that a tiny hole in the ear part was the culprit), then the twisted part at the base of the ears turned loose, so the air from the other ear and the head could escape through the hole. I thought it had stopped there, but no, suddenly I heard a plastic-rubbing-plastic sound, and turning around, I saw that the body had twisted loose as well. I grabbed a roll of cellophane tape to patch it together before the air escaped, but by the time I turned back around to "heal" it, the air had all escaped, and all I had left was...well, what you see in the picture. So I did a few turns around the tail (haha, I bet you forgot that that was the tail!) and sellotaped it in place. Now let's see how long it lasts.

I know it's crazy to analyse a rabbit's death this way, but let's just say that I'm trying to come to terms with my loss.
lol!

A dream come true! lol

Guess what this is!
Well, it's a rabbit. A balloon-rabbit. You know when you see magic shows and they ask a kid to go up to the stage, and the magician does a whole lot of tricks with those long balloons, "transforming" them into real animals and all? Well, I've always wanted one of those balloon-animals that they got in the end. And now I've got one! :-D

You see, the problem is that only little kids get balloons, and when we were small we only had those round balloons, not these, um...artistic ones. So I never had the chance to have one. But this weekend it happens to be the "24-hour" weekend in INSA, and there are many activities(including sumo-wrestling, which I actually did; I'll post some photos when I have them), and it's open to outsiders as well. That means that there were a lot of little kids on the campus, and there were 2 "clowns" (well, half-clowns, only their faces were painted) going around handing out balloons. Two of my friends asked for hats, but I wasn't going to waste my balloon on a hat! :-P So I got myself a rabbit :-D


Well, these two photos are just to show you the rabbit from other angles. ;-)

Auctions!

Here's an interesting site to check out:
http://auctionknowhow.com/museum/

Pika pika!

Ever wondered how Pikachu got his name? Well, I got the answer yesterday, during a presentation in my French class. It was a presentation on mangas, and it seems that when they draw something sparkling in mangas, they write "pika pika" beside it (something like "vroom vroom" when a car goes by) And that's why Pikachu is called, well, Pikachu :-D

(Thanks to Youness for this interesting bit of information :-P)

And here are a few tips on how to draw Pikachu, for any budding artists out there ;-)


Oh yeah, I managed to move the photo! (why didn't I think of doing this before? :-/)

The sun rises over INSA

The title says it all, I took this from my window one morning.

Nice, eh?

Just 2 photos I took on my way back from Nice the other day. I didn't have my camera out, so I borrowed my friend's, and she just sent them to me. We can even see the rocks underwater...nice, huh?

riddle

I'm subscribed to a newsletter that gives us a riddle in each issue, but usually the riddles are too weird to solve, but I managed to solve this one, and I think it's really not bad. Here you go:

What do the following things have in common?

1) Car brakes
2) Mouse
3) Door hinge
4) Swing
5) Old Gate

The answer's further below.



















They squeak! :-D

Okay, here's the "official" answer:
They all make the sound squeak:
car brakes when they are old;
a mouse's sound;
a door hinge when it needs some lubricant;
a swing when in motion;
an old gate being opened and closed.

Weight loss ads

I don't have the time to write much now, but I just came across this page and it's hilarious :-D

Do read the next post (don't leave a message after the beep) as well ;-)

By the way, does anyone know who's Kenny Sia? I know I've heard the name before, but what exactly does he do?

55! Fifty-five! Lima puluh lima! Cinquante-cinq! Gor chap gor! lol

Okay, I just got a 55 on expert, just got to scream it here :-P

Terms of use

I just thought of an e-mail I sent to some people some time back. I think I titled it "why you should always read the terms of use". It was this link: http://www.crushcalculator.com/content/love/785524458

At the bottom of the page there was a line saying: By using this site, you accept CrushCalculator's Terms of Use. And by sending the link with that title, I was sure that you would look at the terms of use! But then there were still some people who got fooled...tsk tsk.

Well, there you go. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to read a bit... ;-)
(for the curious ones, you can always click on the link and read the terms of use for yourselves)

Ah Singh and his friends

Hehe, I already received this before, but this is in a nice format, and it still makes me laugh! :-D
(you'll have to click on the picture to read what's written :-P)

And another photo...

I'm putting this here just because I find it nice, when I was taking the photo I saw the shooting star in the middle of the photo, and I tried to capture it (and it seems that it worked ;-) ) And it turns out that there was another shooting star on the left, and a bird to cap it off...only the red string (rope?) in front spoils it a little.

And as you can see, I'm experimenting with photo sizes :-P

Hope you like the photos! ^_^

photos, not people

And now, here are some photos without people..my specialty! :-P I must say that I love these views! I've put them in small size to save space on the page, otherwise you won't see anything but photos. Remember that you can click on the photos to enlarge them.

Annecy

Well, here I am back from my trip to Annecy, and I'll be in Lyon for the rest of the holidays, waiting for classes to start on Tuesday (Monday's a public holiday)

I took 114 photos in Annecy, and only 6 of them had people in them. :-P That makes a little more than 5% lol! It must be a new record...but then again...maybe not, I never checked :-P Here are two of the six, the photo of my friend is at the Annecy lake (I never knew there was a lake there!) I have a photo of me at the same place, but then I'm already in the other photo. So I decided to put Elodie's photo instead, to pay tribute for showing me around Annecy lol

Plan B

I am suffering from serious lack of motivation. I've done some work in the last 2 days, but not as much as I would have liked. I really don't feel like studying, and when I don't study I'm not even bored 'cos I have Minesweeper to occupy me. I still have enough time to finish this work, but if this continues I'll have to spend the last few days of the holidays rushing to finish them, and that's not exactly what I want.

So this is what I've come up with. Before leaving for Annecy tomorrow (I'm leaving for 2 days) I'm going to lock my mouse away (don't worry, I'll make sure it has enough food lol) and when I come back I won't start playing Minesweeper till I get some serious work done. And I think I won't be posting any photos until that's done, too. I hope that works, anyway if it doesn't you'll find out, 'cos I'll be back ranting about it :-P

Hope the weather will be fine in Annecy, it's a bit cold in Lyon this past few days.

The hazards of a too-small bathroom

This morning I whacked my knee on the washbasin.

You want to know how much space I've got in my bathroom? There's a shower stall of about 9 square feet (3ft x 3ft), then just beside it, in another space measuring 3ft x 3ft, there's a washbasin measuring 3ft x 1.5ft. So what does that leave me? 3ft x 1.5ft to change in. Not surprising that I banged myself, huh? It's not the first time, either. I've banged myself countless times before, and I've banged myself several times in my room as well (my foot against a table/bed/chair leg, my knee against the table, etc) But this is the first time I banged myself really hard. I mean really really hard. Now I've got a bump swelling up on my knee, I just hope it goes down quickly.

Nice way to start the month of May. lol