Happy Chinese New Year to everyone!!
We Malaysians in Lyon are doing a little gathering for lunch today, steamboat is on the menu! Some of the Malays haven't tried steamboat before. There will even be 3 Malaysians coming from Grenoble to join us. The big Malaysian cny gathering will be in Tours next weekend...but I won't be there... (you'll find out why ;) )
Last night we did a smaller gathering among Chinese (actually among those of us who stay near INSA), I suppose it can be considered our reunion dinner... I learned how to make onde-onde :P (I didn't know it was so simple!) After eating we played cards... we even had stacks of casino chips (4 colours) so we had a real gambling atmosphere. I even won a whole lot of chips (I was the big winner at the end :D ) Unfortunately it wasn't real money! lol I believe we played for more than 6 hours, maybe more...it was 4am when we went home!
Surprisingly I woke up quite early today...9am without an alarm! Wonder why... :P
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Friday, February 09, 2007
I Broke My Toe Again Today
I got this from Quirkee ...it's funny :P Enjoy!
I broke my toe again today.
The little piggy that cries “wee wee wee” all the way
Home. That’s where I kicked your car
Or truck. Who knows? But I kicked it far.
I yelled out, “Dammit!” But no one heard.
Thank goodness, since we tell you not to use that word.
And you know because you tell me so
Every time you hear a word that’s even close.
I broke my toe again today.
Yes, the same one, to my dismay.
This time it was when I kicked the gate
At the top of the stairs while running late.
Your baby sister didn’t understand
When I screamed out, “Dammit! Not again!”
But she looked at me as though to say
“Are you supposed to talk that way?”
I broke my toe again today.
How many times will I scream in pain?
This month has been quite a beating
On my pinky toe as it’s healing.
It finally starts to feel okay
When out of nowhere comes another day
That I jump, and dodge, and scramble about.
To no avail, I start to pout.
I broke my toe again today.
Surprisingly, nothing was in my way
Except that chair I was walking by.
It jumped out at me! And then I cried.
Luckily the agony only lasts for a minute.
The pain subsides and I’m right back in it
Making breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
All the while looking over my shoulder.
I broke my toe again today.
And you said, “I’m sorry” in a heartfelt way.
I know it was an accident.
A crushing blow to my toe is not what you meant.
But the next time we start to wrestle and play
I’m wearing shoes and first-aid tape.
It’s either that or off to the doctor I go
To have him remove this pesky little toe.
I broke my toe again today.
The little piggy that cries “wee wee wee” all the way
Home. That’s where I kicked your car
Or truck. Who knows? But I kicked it far.
I yelled out, “Dammit!” But no one heard.
Thank goodness, since we tell you not to use that word.
And you know because you tell me so
Every time you hear a word that’s even close.
I broke my toe again today.
Yes, the same one, to my dismay.
This time it was when I kicked the gate
At the top of the stairs while running late.
Your baby sister didn’t understand
When I screamed out, “Dammit! Not again!”
But she looked at me as though to say
“Are you supposed to talk that way?”
I broke my toe again today.
How many times will I scream in pain?
This month has been quite a beating
On my pinky toe as it’s healing.
It finally starts to feel okay
When out of nowhere comes another day
That I jump, and dodge, and scramble about.
To no avail, I start to pout.
I broke my toe again today.
Surprisingly, nothing was in my way
Except that chair I was walking by.
It jumped out at me! And then I cried.
Luckily the agony only lasts for a minute.
The pain subsides and I’m right back in it
Making breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
All the while looking over my shoulder.
I broke my toe again today.
And you said, “I’m sorry” in a heartfelt way.
I know it was an accident.
A crushing blow to my toe is not what you meant.
But the next time we start to wrestle and play
I’m wearing shoes and first-aid tape.
It’s either that or off to the doctor I go
To have him remove this pesky little toe.
Bangganya... lol
Hehe, just wanted to show you all this:
It's a company that does money exchange, and this was on its "travel tips" page. And it mentioned KL! (the sentence is Where to find a tourist map/guide of KL?) Of all the towns they could have chosen... ;)
It's a company that does money exchange, and this was on its "travel tips" page. And it mentioned KL! (the sentence is Where to find a tourist map/guide of KL?) Of all the towns they could have chosen... ;)
Super stuff
I just had a table-tennis competition. It was in teams of 3, we got 3rd place out of 6 teams! ^_^ (but that’s not why I’m writing about it...)
An amazing thing happened (though it can’t beat the one I wrote about before :P) You know when you get a high ball, quite close to the net? It’s pretty hard to smash without hitting the ball out, but if you manage it it’s practically impossible to return. Well, these two guys were playing and one of them got this kind of ball, he went forward beside the table and smashed it down perfectly into the centre of the table, with his momentum carrying him over to the other side of the table (still beside the table, but beyond the net) But what do you know, his opponent (who happened to be my teammate :P ) managed to return the ball right on the table. Not even on the edge, but on the table itself! Now what do you call that?
Hehe, if you can’t quite visualise it, it was something like this:
The ball was where the red dot is, and the arrows show where it went when they guy smashed. Hmm...I think it bounced off slightly higher though. Anyway, you see what it’s like...the other guy had simply held out his bat to block the ball, and against the odds, it went in! The guy who smashed was totally shocked (and so were we! lol)
Hehe, I’m kinda lucky, aren’t I, seeing all these wonderful table-tennis scenes? lol
Oh yeah, and since I’m writing about it, I might as well write a bit about the competition... It was a bit weird really. The concept, I mean. We were in teams of 3, two guys and a girl. We start with guys’ singles up to 22 points. Then the other 2 guys continue the singles up to 44 points, picking up from where their teammate had left off!! That means that if the first one loses by 5 points, the 2nd one would need an extra 5 points to win! And well, you could’ve guessed it, the girls continue the guys’ game to get a score of 66. Then we continue with guys’ doubles up to 88, and finish with mixed doubles up to 110.
An amazing thing happened (though it can’t beat the one I wrote about before :P) You know when you get a high ball, quite close to the net? It’s pretty hard to smash without hitting the ball out, but if you manage it it’s practically impossible to return. Well, these two guys were playing and one of them got this kind of ball, he went forward beside the table and smashed it down perfectly into the centre of the table, with his momentum carrying him over to the other side of the table (still beside the table, but beyond the net) But what do you know, his opponent (who happened to be my teammate :P ) managed to return the ball right on the table. Not even on the edge, but on the table itself! Now what do you call that?
Hehe, if you can’t quite visualise it, it was something like this:
The ball was where the red dot is, and the arrows show where it went when they guy smashed. Hmm...I think it bounced off slightly higher though. Anyway, you see what it’s like...the other guy had simply held out his bat to block the ball, and against the odds, it went in! The guy who smashed was totally shocked (and so were we! lol)
Hehe, I’m kinda lucky, aren’t I, seeing all these wonderful table-tennis scenes? lol
Oh yeah, and since I’m writing about it, I might as well write a bit about the competition... It was a bit weird really. The concept, I mean. We were in teams of 3, two guys and a girl. We start with guys’ singles up to 22 points. Then the other 2 guys continue the singles up to 44 points, picking up from where their teammate had left off!! That means that if the first one loses by 5 points, the 2nd one would need an extra 5 points to win! And well, you could’ve guessed it, the girls continue the guys’ game to get a score of 66. Then we continue with guys’ doubles up to 88, and finish with mixed doubles up to 110.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
A weekend off
The Asinsa association [called ADT for Année du Tigre (year of the tiger, goodness knows why)] organised a trip into the mountains during the weekend, to celebrate the end of the first semester (or more like the end of exams, what do we care about the end of the first sem? :P) So here are a few photos (in chronological order ;) ):
A small waterfall we passed by
The others walking along the path, looking cool ;) (hey, the photographer gets some credit too, for capturing these cool poses! lol)
Nice view of the mountains (looks volcano-ish with all that fog)
Some more mountains (this time I don't know what it looks like)
Nice view of the EDF lake (EDF is the electric company)
Crossing a stream
Those two closest to the stream(on either side) are the "saviours"; they're making the bridge and went on to help the others cross. (we only see their backs here but if you're smart you might be able to see their faces ;) )
In fact the stream was slightly deeper here (like 40 cm?) but less wide, which is why they chose to make the bridge here. Further up it was shallow and some people took off their shoes to wade across (I think the water covered only the feet) Actually I had crossed over earlier, with another "bridge", but for some stupid reason, when they saw another group arriving, some of them threw the branch away so that the others would have to "make their own".
There's one funny thing though; see that guy in the beige jacket? While everyone was discussing how best to get across, to make a bridge, etc, he (who had already crossed over) just re-crossed over to the other side (where you see him now) to help make the bridge. We were like: hey, don't you understand that it's on this side that you need to be? lol And he proceeded to cross over several more times! Don't be too shocked though, they had started off putting a pile of stones in the middle of the stream as a stepping stone (where the log is now) and he used that. You still need a lot of balance though.
You might wonder why we had to cross a stream. We had started out for a calm walk (not counting snowball fights) on a path. However, the real path ended and we continued on a mud one, thinking that it might lead us around the lake back to where we were staying. But then that path ended as well, and we ended up hiking up and down (no, down and up, more like it, with the stream in the middle) on muddy slopes.
(It didn't snow while we were there, but there was still some snow on the ground.)
A small waterfall we passed by
The others walking along the path, looking cool ;) (hey, the photographer gets some credit too, for capturing these cool poses! lol)
Nice view of the mountains (looks volcano-ish with all that fog)
Some more mountains (this time I don't know what it looks like)
Nice view of the EDF lake (EDF is the electric company)
Crossing a streamThose two closest to the stream(on either side) are the "saviours"; they're making the bridge and went on to help the others cross. (we only see their backs here but if you're smart you might be able to see their faces ;) )
In fact the stream was slightly deeper here (like 40 cm?) but less wide, which is why they chose to make the bridge here. Further up it was shallow and some people took off their shoes to wade across (I think the water covered only the feet) Actually I had crossed over earlier, with another "bridge", but for some stupid reason, when they saw another group arriving, some of them threw the branch away so that the others would have to "make their own".
There's one funny thing though; see that guy in the beige jacket? While everyone was discussing how best to get across, to make a bridge, etc, he (who had already crossed over) just re-crossed over to the other side (where you see him now) to help make the bridge. We were like: hey, don't you understand that it's on this side that you need to be? lol And he proceeded to cross over several more times! Don't be too shocked though, they had started off putting a pile of stones in the middle of the stream as a stepping stone (where the log is now) and he used that. You still need a lot of balance though.
You might wonder why we had to cross a stream. We had started out for a calm walk (not counting snowball fights) on a path. However, the real path ended and we continued on a mud one, thinking that it might lead us around the lake back to where we were staying. But then that path ended as well, and we ended up hiking up and down (no, down and up, more like it, with the stream in the middle) on muddy slopes.
(It didn't snow while we were there, but there was still some snow on the ground.)
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