How many letters are there in the answer to this question?

Yep, it's another post for today. I'm kinda free to do what I want (it's revision week, remember?) so I can just come and post something when I feel like it. Here's a riddle I just received:

Q: How many letters are there in the answer to this question?

A: Four. It's the only number that describes the number of letters in its own name.

Not bad, huh? It's something we don't notice in everyday life :-P

15, for the tenth time!

I just got my 10th 15 on intermediate. It was quite an easy board, if I had been in better form I could have broken my record (yes, 15 is my record) I got a 13 once, but it was on a really easy board (3bv<30) so it's not officially accepted. This board has a 3bv of 32...*sigh* I really wish I'd been in better form.

Quelle déprime!

C'est déprimant...tout le monde travaille sans cesse...je voudrais bien aller faire du ping pong, mais il y a personne avec qui jouer! C'est de la folie totale, on a une semaine de révision, moi j'en profite pour travailler à des horaires que je veux, non imposées par qq'un d'autre! Alors qu'eux, ils travaillent toute la journée, bien plus que quand on a cours! Bon, on a pas les mêmes façons de travailler, c'est certain!

Pas de ping pong (jouer toute seule c'est pas marrant), donc au démineur! Espérons battre un record! (franchement, c'est déprimant quand même)

Okay, it's just a couple of paragraphs saying that it's kinda depressing in INSA right now, and guess why? It's revision week, and everyone is studying 24 hours a day (okay, I'm exaggerating, but it's almost that) Some don't eat, some don't sleep, they just don't stop studying! To me, a revision week is when I can study when I want to, take breaks when I want to, since no one's making a time-table for me! Well, I admit that we don't all have the same ways of studying, but still, seeing them study, it's total craziness (makes me feel so lazy)

Goodness, I CANNOT study all day without taking breaks! It's crazy!

2 new links

For some time now there has been a new link on the sidebar: My quotables I created this blog just to put up some of the nice little phrases I come up with ;-)

And today I added another link: PostSecret People send in postcards with their secrets on it, and the postcards are posted on this page. The page is updated every Sunday. I have been visiting this site regularly for some time, but I just never thought of putting the link here. Hope you like it! ^_^

Like maths? ;-)

Here's something interesting to check out, and you can even try to find out how it works! I assure you that it's not impossible, I found it! :-D

And if you don't have a Malaysian handphone, if works with any 7 digit number! ;-)

The following test is dedicated to all Malaysians who own a handphone. If you are the person, please do the following test:

1. Key-in your first 3 digits of your handphone number (not the prefixe - 01X number).
2. Multiply it by 80.
3. Add 1.
4. Multiply by 250.
5. Plus last 4 digits of your handphone number.
6. Plus AGAIN your last 4 digits handphone number.
7. Minus 250.
8. Divided by 2.

And what do you get? Amazing isn't it? It's your full phone number! Enjoy!



Wanna know how it works? It's actually quite simple:
Any number multiplied by 80 and 250 is multiplied by 20000 (80x250=20000) So when the result is divided by 2 we get the original number multiplied by 10000. Add the last 4 digits and we get the phone number! Steps 3 and 7 just add to the magic! :-D

And so this works for any number, you just have to take all the digits before the last 4 digits instead of only the first 3 (lol, I hope I'm making sense)

Thanks to Alex for this mathematical trick ;-)

Ah...the morning sunshine... :-P

Well, here's a photo I took from my window this morning, the sun was reflected by the little plastic disks on the bicycle wheels. It was kinda bright and shiny, we don't see that often ;-)

How obedient are you?

Look at this signboard:

Are you a good citizen? Would you do as it says?
rotfl! :-D

What a day!

I just saw a 3 x 4 block of mines! It was one of those games that you lose in the first few clicks, and I clicked to start a new game right away, so I don't even have a screenshot, and that also means that I can't even verify it! But I'll say that my first instinct was right, that it WAS a 3 x 4 block, and I'd better write it down quickly before I start doubting myself!

Okay, now for the details. An expert board. The block was on the top left corner, I just caught a glimpse of it while I clicked on the smiley face.3 mines across and 4 mines down. If I'm not mistaken there was an extra mine on the 1st row, making it
XXXX
XXX
XXX
XXX
But I'm not sure, the extra mine could have been on another row. When I think of it, it WAS probably on another row. (see? I'm doubting myself already)

(Okay, I was talking about minesweeper, in case you're lost :-P)

And earlier I was playing badminton, and one of my friends managed an amazing feat - THREE times! He smashed the shuttle, it hit the net, just slightly below the top, and flipped right over! THREE times! That's just crazy!

I managed something like that as well, but the shuttle hit the top of the net, so it was much more probable that it would go over. And I only did it once.

Lyon weather sucks!

Goodness, I hate the weather in Lyon. Mainly it's because when it rains, it rains the whole day long, and you can't go out without getting yourself soaking wet. But this week takes the cake.

On Monday it was HOT. It was all summery. Then on Tuesday it was co-o-old. Wednesday? Even colder. And today? Kick someone from the past or the future into today, don't tell him what date it is, and he'll say it's winter. No snow, but the wind was so darn cold! (and strong too, I might add)

So there you go. As my friends put it, it's the 1st of June, but the weather's more like the 1st of March.

Tribute to our Physics teacher

We had our last Physics class yesterday.

Our Physics teacher was actually kinda weird, during the first semester he hardly (or didn't?) smiled at all, he had always the same expression on his face, and it was quite "sad", if you know what I mean. But during the second semester he started to smile more often. In part I think it was because we got slightly wackier in class, a few times we did such crazy things that he started smiling (we still haven't had the chance to hear him laugh) If I'm not mistaken the first was when one of us was doing a question on the board, and when she had finished, the teacher said: "There's something wrong. Do you see why?" Then one of the other girls said "It's because [the name of the girl who did the question] did it!" I think that was the first time we actually saw him smile :-P

His class was always from 4-6pm, Wednesday and Friday. Once one of my friends said "Can we stop here?" when it was nearing 6 o'clock, and he let us leave early, so the Friday before the Christmas holidays, we signed a "petition" asking to go back a bit early (actually it was just a paper with a smiley face on it, and the words "can we stop here?"). That worked (even without looking at what was written, the teacher knew what we wanted :-P) Then the Friday before the April holidays we each held up a piece of paper with a letter on it, spelling out "can we stop here?"

So I come to what happened yesterday. One of my friends (yes, yet another one, none of the above, since the wacky people in my class are many and varied) comes often to class with a parcel, because he receives stuff from his parents and he has to go and get his parcel before 6pm. This time he came in with an enormous box, and the teacher asked him (calmly, because he doesn't ever get excited, but he did have a little smile on his face) whether he could know what was inside (usually the parcels he brings are relatively small), and my friend handed him the parcel, saying "oh, sure, it's for you" (unfortunately we didn't really get to see his face at that time, since he was turned towards the door, but I think that if he was surprised, it wouldn't have showed) And well, it was a t-shirt with "we could (maybe) stop here" written on it. Unfortunately no one had a camera with them, so I don't have a photo.

Another thing I have to say is that this teacher is always in a black sweater, and the t-shirt was white, so we don't really think he'll put it on! :-P We even considered getting a bright pink t-shirt at first! lol

"On va (peut-être) s'arrêter là" (we could (maybe) stop here) --courtesy of B.Sixou