Recette de lapin

Voici une bonne recette de lapin! :D
(y a plein de fautes par contre... :/ )

Actually the recipe is simple...it says (and here I'll put it in tiny font so as not to spoil the effect for those who read French): Take the rabbit out of the plate and caress it...whisper in its ear that it's just a for joke...that we'd never hurt him, he's part of the family!

You can always go to the page and see the photos ;)

For car lovers

Here's a website where you can find car wallpapers There are also bikes, movies, and...ahem...babes. Why aren't there any guys? Not fair! :P

Holidays are here

Okay, finally the holidays are here... we had moved our 4-6pm class to Wednesday afternoon, and our 3-4pm class was cancelled, so we finished at 3pm.

Actually the only thing we had this afternoon was a Maths test from 1.30 to 3pm (Actually that was the reason why our 3-4 class was cancelled, it was supposed to be Maths but the teacher said that he knew we wouldn't be in a very, uh, good shape :P after the test, so he gave us something to do at home instead) The test didn't go very well, though...it was HARD! And what's more, I don't know what happened to my mind, it just "slipped" on the last question, I had thought of a method to solve it but somehow I thought that I couldn't use it (lol, this gets a bit hard to understand since it's out of context...don't mind me, I'm just complaining), and I didn't see it till it was nearing the end :( Well, at least I managed to start doing it a bit...hope to scrape a few points there.

My teachers in Angouleme have planned a gathering for all the Malaysian students who were there, so I will be going to Angouleme! (it's been 15 months...yes, I counted :P) Then, since I would be already in the west of France, I'll be going to Rennes (where a few of my friends are studying) and on the way back to Lyon I'll be passing through Le Mans where two of my friends are. So half of my one-week holiday is filled with train rides all over France (okay, maybe just the northern part :P) I hope I'll get a few good photos worth posting ^_^

Oh yeah, and the juniors who are studying in Angouleme now are also planning a Raya gathering, which will be on Sunday (the Angoumoisins (as in Angouleme people) gathering is on Saturday)

An so tomorrow I'll have to wake up early...my train's before seven! *yawn*

Slow Dance

This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital.

SLOW DANCE


Have you ever watched kids

On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain

Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.


Do you run through each day

On the fly?

When you ask How are you?

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

Running through your head?

You'd better slow down

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.


Ever told your child,

We'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time

To call and say,"Hi"

You'd better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift....

Thrown away.

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

(thanks to Geok Ching)

STUPID FRANCE TELECOM!!!

Quand je suis allée à France Telecom pour ouvrir ma ligne fixe, j’ai signé une feuille pour autoriser le prélèvement automatique, J’EN SUIS SURE ET CERTAINE ! Je leur ai même laissé un RIB, mais non, maintenant on me dit qu’ils ont rien eu, que je suis pas en prélèvement, et je dois refaire la demande ! Et c’est pas tout, avec ma facture il y a justement une feuille pour autoriser le prélèvement, cette feuille était à renvoyer avec la facture, mais maintenant que j’ai appelé pour demander le prélèvement, on me dit que je recevrais une autre feuille (qui est aussi une autorisation de prélèvement), mais cette fois il faut l’envoyer à la banque ! Là ça va encore, mais quand j’ai demandé pourquoi les deux feuilles (qui sont sensiblement les mêmes) sont pas à envoyer au même endroit (si on devait envoyer les deux j’aurais compris, mais si on doit en envoyer une seule, c’est pas plus raisonnable que ce soit à la même adresse ?) on m’a dit que je pouvais pas utiliser la feuille qui était avec ma facture puisque j’étais pas en prélèvement...MAIS JE SAIS QUE JE SUIS PAS EN PRELEVEMENT, C’EST POUR CA QU’ON M’A MIS UNE FEUILLE POUR LE DEMANDER !!! VOUS PENSEZ QUE JE SUIS CONNE ? C’EST VOUS LA CONNE QUI A PAS COMPRIS QUE LA FEUILLE ETAIT JUSTEMENT POUR CEUX QUI NE SONT PAS EN PRELEVEMENT !!! On m’a dit que la feulle était à jeter...alors vous êtes une bande de fous qui nous envoient des trucs dont on a pas besoin ? Bravo, c’est exactement ce qu’on attend de vous ! Stupid France Telecom... J’avais aussi demandé d’être abonnée à l’internet en accès libre, mais je suis sûre que la fille qui m’a ouvert le compte l’autre jour l’a pas fait non plus ! Vu qu’elle m’a aussi dit que les frais de mise en service de ma ligne serait de 23 euros alors qu’en réalité c’est de 27€50... STUPID FRANCE TELECOM ! Can’t you get some competent personnel ?!!!

Whew, that does feel good.

Si ma demande de prélèvement ne se passe pas bien, je fais une scène.

(Je peux trouver bien des raisons pourquoi les feuilles d'autorisation de prélèvement étaient pas à envoyer au même endroit, mais si elle a pas pu me l'expliquer, elle est conne!!)

Edit: Ok, faut quand même dire qu’à Angoulême, tout s’était bien passé... Vive Angoulême, bas à Lyon et ses environs ! (avec son temps de merde...)

Stupid, stupid, so stupid fwd

This is a fwd I got... How on earth could anyone believe this? (my comments in blue)

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Ok guys, this truly is freaky, the phone literally rang as soon as I read the last word of this email!!!!! [okay...let’s say that’s true...]

I am taking the bait - what do I have to lose right? Hope it works! [hey, wasn’t he supposed to have ALREADY tried it?]

[then they tell us stories of those who sent the mail and had their dreams come true...bla bla bla...but if they had already sent the mail how on earth could they have written on it?]

If you send this to 10 more people, other than the 5 that you already have to send to, something major that you've been wanting will happen.

Message: This is scary!

The phone will ring right after you do this! [hmm...so I reached the end of the e-mail, I’ve read the last word, but NOTHING HAPPENED! That means the first line was lying. So why on earth should I send this on?]

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Duh, if you want to write a chain mail, at least make it credible!! (but then there are still people who send this on..WHY?!)

So cute!

Hehe...

L'orthographe est importante!

This post comes from a sentence is in my Chemistry book, which is in French, so I'm gonna write in French...basically it's just that a missing accent can change the whole meaning of a sentence!

J'ai trouvé cette phrase dans mon poly de Chimie:
Un constituant donné à la meme solubilité dans tous les solvants avec lesquels il forme un mélange liquide idéal.

J'ai du la lire plusieurs fois avant de comprendre...et pourquoi? Tout simplement parce qu'il y a à à la place de a! C'est la preuve absolue que l'orthographe est importante... ici ce n'est meme pas une phrase complete; il n'y a pas de sens!

(oui je sais qu'il y a des accents que j'ai pas mis...par exemple le chapeau sur le e dans meme...mais c'est parce que j'ai la flemme d'aller chercher dans Word...j'ai des raccourcis plus accessibles pour les accents qui sont plus souvent utilisés ;) )

Free phone calls!

Mainly for those who don't use dial-up though...'cos you need to use your own phone at the same time...

WebCallDirect lets us call fixed lines in several countries for free, among which Malaysia! :D We enter our phone number and the number we want to call, then when our phone rings and we pick it up, the other number is dialled. We can try it for 3 minutes if we're not registered. I've tried it; it's really not bad! I don't really know how it works when we've registered, though...it says that each call costs 3 Euro cents (and then tariffs apply, which means free for Malaysia), but I don't see how we pay...

But whatever...I find it useful :) And it costs nothing to try ;)

Sunset...again!

Well, what did you expect? The sun sets every day, doesn't it? :P

Doctors write better than teachers!

Here's the proof:



Try reading what's written...which is easier? (of course, it'd be easier to read if you know French)

I couldn't read the 2nd line of what the teacher wrote (the last word, actually), but one of my friends surprised me by reading it straight off when I asked him to. So now at least I know what it says...

Edit (12 Feb 2012): Re-reading this post, I had difficulty deciphering the lines in the first photo. :P So after a few painstaking minutes, here's what it says: Schéma du montage expérimental? Compte rendu satisfaisant. Whew! lol

I present you...my room!

You've already seen a bit of my room...and as I promised, here are some photos of my room, just to show you my "living quarters" :P

Tech Support Nightmare

I don't know whether to believe it or not...

*Actual dialogue of a former WordPerfect Customer Support employee
with a caller:*

Tech Support: "Ridge Hall computer assistant; may I help you?"

Customer: "Yes, well, I'm having trouble with WordPerfect."

Tech Support: "What sort of trouble?"

Customer: "Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the
words went away."

Tech Support: "Went away?"

Customer: "They disappeared."

Tech Support: "Hmm. So what does your screen look like now?"

Customer: "Nothing."

Tech Support: "Nothing?"

Customer: "It's blank; it won't accept anything when I type."

Tech Support: "Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out?"

Customer: "How do I tell?"

Tech Support: "Can you see the C: prompt on the screen?"

Customer: "What's a sea-prompt?"

Tech Support: "Never mind. Can you move the cursor around on the screen?"

Customer: "There isn't any cursor, I told you, it won't accept anything I
type."

Tech Support: "Does your monitor have a power indicator?"

Customer: "What's a monitor?"

Tech Support: "It's the thing with the screen on it that looks like a
TV. Does it have a little light that tells you when it's on?"

Customer: "I don't know."

Tech Support: "Well then, look on the back of the monitor and find
where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that?"

Customer: "Yes, I think so."

Tech Support: "Great. Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if
it's plugged into the wall."

Customer: "Yes, it is."

Tech Support: "When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that
there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one?"

Customer: "No."

Tech Support: "Well, there are. I need you to look back there again
and find the other cable."

Customer: "Okay, here it is."

Tech Support: "Follow it for me, and tell me if it's plugged securely
into the back of your computer."

Customer: "I can't reach."

Tech Support: "Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is?"

Customer: "No."

Tech Support: "Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way
over?"

Customer: "Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle - it's
because it's dark."

Tech Support: "Dark?"

Customer: "Yes - the office light is off, and the only light I have is
coming in from the window."

Tech Support: "Well, turn on the office light then."

Customer: "I can't."

Tech Support: "No? Why not?"

Customer: "Because there's a power outage."

Tech Support: "A power... A power outage?!? Ah, okay, we've got it
licked now. Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packing stuff
your computer came in?"

Customer: "Well, yes, I keep them in the closet."

Tech Support: "Good. Go get them, and unplug your system and pack it
up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store
you bought it from."

Customer: "Really? Is it that bad?"

Tech Support: "Yes, I'm afraid it is."

Customer: "Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them?"

Tech Support: "Tell them you're too stupid to own a computer."

It said a former employee...do you suppose he got sacked? lol

SMS - be careful

A true story:
A lady's handbag, which contained her mobile, credit card, purse..etc, was stolen.

Twenty minutes later, when she called her hubby, telling him what had happened, the hubby says "I've just received your SMS asking about our PIN number, and I've replied a little while ago."

Shocked, they rushed down to the bank only to be told by the bank staff that all their money was already withdrawn! The pickpocket had actually used the stolen handphone to SMS "hubby" in the contact list and got hold of the PIN number. Within 20 minutes, he had withdrawn all the money from the bank account.

Lesson to be learnt:
Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mum, etc.... and very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked through SMS, confirm by CALLING BACK!

[I have no confirmation that this is true, but it might very well be, and if no thief has had this idea before, they will have.]

That's the way I teach my son

> Seorang Guru Tadika bertanya kepada anak muridnya... [A kindergarten teacher asks the students...]
>
> Guru : Siapa didalam kelas ini yang mengenal nombor? [Who knows numbers?]
>
> Razif : Saya Cikgu [I do, teacher.]
>
> Guru : Apa betul awak kenal nombor-nombor? [Really?]
>
> Razif : Ya Cikgu.. Saya telah belajar dengan ayah [Yes, my father taught me.]
>
> Guru : Baiklah.. mari kita lihat...selepas 3.. [Okay, so what comes after 3?]
>
> Razif : 4
>
> Guru : Bagus... Selepas 6? [Good...and after 6?]
>
> Razif : 7
>
> Guru : Ya.. Bagus.. selepas 9? [Yes...Good...and after 9?]
>
> Razif : 10
>
> Guru : Ya.. Bagus sekali... nampaknya ayahmu benar-benar
> mengambil berat tentang pelajaran kamu.. Okeylah.. Akhir sekali..
> selepas sepuluh..berapa? [Very good..and after 10?]
>
> Razif : Jack, Queen, King

Haha...good one :D (thanks to Geok Ching...and for the earlier one as well :P)
[I've added a loose translation]

Sin Ga Po Story

Two stories for you... (received through e-mail)

>> The Titanic was sinking and there weren't enough lifeboats.
>> So the captain had to persuade male passengers to jump into the icy
>> water to make room for women and children.
>> To the British he said, "You
>> must act like gentlemen." They jumped.
>> To the Americans he said, "You
>> can be heroes." They complied.
>> To the Germans he said, "It's the rule."
>> They obeyed.
>> To the Japanese he said," It's the consensus." They
>> obliged.
>> Then came the Singaporean and they just weren't budging until
>> he came up with the appeal: "Free life jackets for those who
>> jumped."

*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*

>> One
>> day, there were an American, one Italian, a Singaporean and Bangladeshi
>> traveled around on a private helicopter.
>> After about one hour of
>> travelling, the American took out his cigarette (Dunhill), lighted it up
>> and started smoking after two sip, he threw the balance of the cigarette.
>> The
>> other three persons were surprised and asked "Why didn't you finish-up the
>> cigarette before throwing?"
>> He replied arrogantly, "There are a lot of
>> cigarettes in my country."
>> Half an hour later, the Italian took out a
>> bottle of branded perfume and applied on him and the rest he threw out of
>> the window.
>> The
>> other three persons were surprised and asked, "Why did you throw away the
>> perfume?"
>> The Italian replied also, "There is a lot of perfume in my
>> country."
>> The Singaporean didn't know what to do & suddenly pushed
>> that Bangladeshi out of the helicopter.
>> The other two persons shouted
>> crazyly, "Why did you push him!!!!!!!??????"
>> The Singaporean said
>> slowly, "There are a lot of Bangladeshi in my country."
>> Everybody kept
>> quiet and stayed away from the Singaporean.

21st century version of love pledges

Hehe...got this from recom...

January to december
sunday to saturday
Am to Pm
My feelings for u have never changed.......
u....
R....
always....

a HEADACHE to me !!!!

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When u feel lonely and alone & cannot see any one around you,
the world seems to be fading away,
come along with me
i'll take u to an eye specialist !!

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Just close ur eyes and think of urself for 10 seconds......
Open ur eyes !
Now you will realize that u have wasted 10 sec in thinking of a
fool............

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I wrote ur name on the sands.............
it got washed away,
I wrote ur name in air..........................
it got blown away,
So i wrote ur name in my heart.............
i got a HEART ATTACK

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LOVE is like a CIGAR
It starts with a fire..... continues with smoke.....and ends in ashes...
But dont worry - we are chain smokers

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ur smile can be compared to a flower
ur voice can be compared to a cuckoo
ur innocence to a child
but in stupidity
u have no comparison
u r the best

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True love is like a pillow
u can hug when u r in trouble
u can cry on when u r in pain & u can embrace when u r happy
so when u need true love
spend RM50/-Buy a pillow

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Dear Friend,
when i ask u flower,
u give me bouquet
when i ask u a stone
u give me a statue
when i ask u a feather
u give me peacock

ARE U REALLY DEAF ?

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when i call u;
1 ring means i'm thinking of u;
2 ring means i like u;
3 means i miss u;
4 means .........pick up d phone idiot

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The human brain is most outstanding thing.......
it functions 24hrs 365 days.....
it functions right from the time u r Born....until you fall in love

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SMILE - is a language of love
SMILE - is a source to win hearts...
SMILE - creates greatness in ur personality
SO....
Brush ur Teeth today onwards

Discovery!

You know, another bright side (hmm...if there are two bright sides, doesn’t that make it bright all around? Maybe we’d need six bright sides (like for a cube)...but how many sides do we have anyway? :P) about having seniors is that they can make you discover things :P In the photo I posted earlier the window was a bit open (take a look at the previous post), and last night I just found out that it can be opened in another way...like this!

Hehe, I couldn’t have figured it out on my own, could I? When a window opens you’d expect it to always open that way. :P But then one of the seniors is staying in the same building as I am now, so he knows about it (but then I don't know how he found out :P) Well, so...thanks Teik Siang! ^_^

(I was going to post this earlier but I couldn’t because when I tried taking a photo of my window, the light outside was so bright that the window frame was too dark.)

Mooncake Festival in Lyon!

A few of us Malaysians in Lyon had a little gathering yesterday "sempena" the Mooncake Festival (lol it's been a long time since I used "sempena"! :P) Unfortunately we couldn't get everyone to come, but it was still quite a gathering!

(that's in my room, by the way)

We even had four mooncakes (from Malaysia ;) ) thanks to two of the seniors (hehe, my seniors, at any rate)

Oh yeah, and I should mention that one of them isn't studying in Lyon, he came from Grenoble (you see, people come from Grenoble to celebrate the Mooncake Festival in Lyon! Shows how famous Lyon is for its Mooncake Festival...hahaha..)

(For those who don't know Malay: "sempena" is something like "in the occasion of"; in this case "to celebrate" would replace it very well)

Sunsets from my window

My window is facing west (this is the first room I've got with a window facing west, I hoped to have it facing east but it was not to be...), and for now the sun sets at about 7pm (I think) so usually I'm home when it sets! I've taken 2 photos of sunsets from my windows, here's the first one:



I took it because of the rays of light coming out of the clouds...I cut that part out of the photo because the rest of it is nothing special...there aren't that many views from my window...and I can't even zoom! (my camera zooms in by enlarging the photo, so it comes out as little squares...hey, I can do that myself when I've transferred the photo to my computer, thank you very much!)

So here's the second sunset, orange this time! lol It's taken from the same angle as the earlier one (you see why it was pointless to leave the whole photo?), straight out of my window.



Hope you like them! ;)

Now did you think of doing that?

Wanna know what minesweeper enthusiasts can come up with? There are too many ideas to tell you about every one of them (and I might not know all of them, either! :P) but here’s one: non-flagging no-numbers minesweeper!

I chose it because you can actually take a look at it yourselves ^_^ You can watch the video here, it’s on YouTube, and there are lots of other (normal :P) minesweeper videos as well, in this format, so you don’t have to download Minesweeper Clone to watch them. But if you want to play minesweeper, it would still be best to download it :P (link's on the sidebar ;) )

I don’t think I’ll be able to play in this mode, though; while watching the video (it’s the first time I’ve seen a no-numbers game) I was quite lost; the only numbers I knew were the 1, 2 and 3, and I had some help since they were being solved! For the other less common numbers, I really had to think a bit, and he solved them before I managed to figure out the number! (which means I figured it out from the pattern he uncovered :P)

Hehe, if you don’t know the colour of minesweeper numbers very well, it’d be best to take a look at some other videos ;)

Edit: Someone suggested to me to embed the video here, so here it is. (I hope it works) The someone happens to be the person who thought of putting these videos on YouTube (Thanks Schu ;))

Sketch Swap

Sketch Swap is a site where you can sketch something, then get someone's sketch in return. And you don't just get the "finished product", you get to see each line drawn out! (don't worry, it's speeded up so that it gets finished pretty quickly) Sometimes the sketches are really intricate, but there are also some simple ones! Hehe, I do wonder whether my sketches will be seen by anyone else...

The site even had a button for us, so I'm going to try to put it here...and I'll try to put it under links on the sidebar as well. (hope it works! :P)

Hello Kitty handphone!

I forgot to mention it, but when I went to France Telecom to get a fixed line, I saw a Hello Kitty handphone. It’s, well, cute to say the least. :P I did a search for it on the Internet and found these photos:


Well, so there ya go ^_^ Anyone interested?