I wrote this tomorrow

Facebook is wonderful. You can write tomorrow what you write today. Um...no, you can write today what you write tomorrow. Um...no, not exactly. More like...what you wrote today is written tomorrow. Don't understand? A picture paints a thousand words. So here's a picture.

comments on a photo

I never noticed this before, so just decided to post it...for fun!

Do not read. Do not read.

Guillaume Musso's Parce que je t'aime is a good book. I haven't finished it yet, and I really shouldn't continue because I have work to do. The "good" thing is that even though some parts are pretty gripping, after finishing a certain chapter I can put the book down and do something else without thinking about the story too much.

But I still want to finish it.

Do not read. Yet.

Fleurs en dentelle

Ce post est pour ceux qui se plaignent que j'écrive mon blog en anglais.

N'empêche que j'ai déjà écrit des posts en français...pas beaucoup, mais il y en a! Par exemple celui sur France Telecom que Lionel a bien aimé...lol

Hier en HU3 (humanités) on a parlé de marques et des dépôts de marques...et on devait trouver une marque pour une entreprise qui fabrique des fleurs artificielles en soie et matières synthéthiques. Pour faire ça on travaillait en petits groupes...

Bien préparés pour le test de SED de l'après-midi, avec le cerveau bien saturé des réseaux de Pétri connexes et fortement connexes, on était d'abord parti sur le nom Pétriflora, avec un joli logo de réseau de "pétrifleurs" (enfin, des places en forme de fleurs (d'ailleurs en relisant ce mot ça me fait penser aux fleurs pétrifiées...euh, les fleurs ont trop peur donc elles bougent plus? :P ) ) fortement connexe (c'est vrai, je vous assure, avec 2 places et 2 transitions bien reliées entre elles)

Je sais plus qui a eu cette idée mais c'était soit Albin soit Benoît...ils ont même dessiné plusieurs logos, mais la prof est passé voir et nous a dit de chercher une marque moins descriptif, donc on a un peu lâché l'idée. Mais je trouve que Pétriflora reste un bon nom pour les gens qui connaissent pas les réseaux de Pétri (j'ai recours à Wikipédia pour faciliter la compréhension des non GE!)...justement ce nom m'a aussi suggéré la boîte de Petri (que je connaissais pas sous ce nom d'ailleurs...je la connaissais en malais, piring Petri)

Inspirée par la soie, Oulimata a proposé Dentelle. Ça vous évoque peut-être un autre produit, mais nous, on parlait bien des fleurs artificielles! ;)

Après il fallait dessiner un nouveau logo, puisque le premier marchait plus avec ce nouveau nom... Les garçons ont commencé à écrire Dentelle avec une fleur qui part du début du D, et j'ai fait un peu le contraire avec le mot Dentelle qui sort d'une fleur.

Donc je vous met ma création (quel oeuvre d'art!) ici... J'ai réussi à dessiner quelque chose! Je suis fière de moi! lol


Enfin c'est pas très clair, c'est un peu nul, etc... mais je dessine pas souvent...disons que je manque d'entraînement, pour avoir une excuse :P Et en plus j'ai pris la photo avec mon portable parce que j'ai la flemme de sortir mon appareil photo...ce qui améliore pas la qualité de l'image!

Précisons quand même que j'ai les droits d'auteur dessus...personne ne peut reproduire ce dessin sans mon accord! (j'ai bien appris mon cours sur la propriété intellectuelle! :P )

Le groupe de Parvan a proposé comme marque Cvete qui veut dire fleur en bulgare. Mais on savait pas (et vous savez pas :P) trop comment le lire... Pour les deux autres groupes, l'un a dessiné une feuille de cannabis (il paraît) comme logo (je sais plus quel était le nom de la marque, mais c'était pas cannabis ;) ) et l'autre une tulipe qui marche comme logo, pour aller avec la marque Tulipe Noire.

Aussi, la prof nous a parlé d'une idée trouvée par des étudiants de l'année dernière, qui est feu d'artifice, pour jouer sur les mots fleurs artificielles... j'aime bien! :D

Et à la fin, vous m'excuserez mais il faut quand même un petit paragraphe en anglais pour mes fidèles lecteurs qui comprennent pas le français...

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To my loyal readers who don't understand French: this post is basically about what we did in our humanities class yesterday; we had to come up with a brand name for a company producing artificial flower arrangements.

Home computers are such wonderful creations.

Just had to share this quote.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. -Doug Larson

One jam-packed week

I started reading a book on Sunday night, and I haven't been able to continue it since. That's how hectic the week has been. Of course, part of the reason I haven't been able to continue reading it is because of my own stupidity...I went to the préfecture today to get my visa and even though I knew there would be a long wait there, I totally forgot about bringing a book to read. In a way, maybe that shows how stressed out I am.

So what happened this week?

We have classes every day, of course. So that leaves the nights.

Monday night: ping pong club.

Tuesday night: it was supposed to be free, but I received 4 internship offers (from the same company) and replied to three of them, two of which were under the same person.

Wednesday night: it was supposed to be free as well, but at lunchtime I received an e-mail from Isitec asking me whether I had decided to do my internship there. Which led me to write this confus post (the word confus is in French, it's the most suitable word I can find at the moment). That totally stressed me out, and I was kinda glad to have badminton that day (sports class) so that I could get rid of some energy, and while warming up I whacked the shuttle just about as hard as I could...which actually helped, I think. ('cos later I was calmer, at least for a while) Then after class I went to talk to the Decathlon people who came to GE to present their company (I won't go into details about that, it's hardly interesting unless if you're my parents helping me worry about my internship)

That night GE held a GE night in a small bar less than 5 minutes away from my place (I can almost see it from my window). Initially I wasn't sure about going since the other 4th years didn't seem to be going, and I was in my room wondering what to do (I was too stressed out to study) when Thierry messaged me and told me that there were "people" there, so I decided to drop by...and there you go, another night has gone by. (not that I would have done anything else that night if I hadn't gone there...)

Here's a photo from Wednesday night, courtesy of Marion. You might notice that the photo of the year was taken the same night. ;)

from left: Marion, me, Camille, Thierry, Cheikh, Saad

Among the photos Marion sent me, not one has everyone's face on it clearly, this is the best one. Hopefully the others will send me some good ones!

Thursday: Thursday afternoons are free for us to do sport, and every Thursday in November I had a ping pong competition. Last week was an individual competition for the unranked players (non-classés), I won the girls' category (there were only three of us, all from INSA) so I was told that I could go this week to play with the ranked players. But knowing that their level is so much better than mine, I wasn't really looking forward to getting crushed like a fly, so when my prof didn't ask me to go, I was glad not to! And since the next day (Friday) we were to have a test on SED, I could then study for the test Thursday afternoon.

But that plan kinda hit a snag...when I got back home at noon, I switched on my phone and discovered that I had received a voice message from one of the guys I had wrote to on Tuesday about the internships. (let's call him Ed, just so I don't have to keep saying "that guy") Ed had tried to call me around 11am, but my phone was switched off. So he left me a message asking me to call him back.

I called him and ended up going for an interview that same day. It takes about an hour to arrive at the company, so that was the afternoon gone. You see, I had only looked at SED a little (a teeny-weeny bit, actually) over the weekend, knowing that I had Tuesday night, Wednesday night, and Thursday afternoon and night to look at it again! But it seems that it wasn't meant to be...so after getting back from the interview I forced myself onto my SED textbook (it isn't the most interesting thing...I know I said I liked SED, but only the problem-solving part, NOT the definitions! And there are a lot of definitions...) besides sending off e-mails to both Ed (to thank him for the interview) and the Isitec guy (I should find a name for him as well :P)

Friday: As I mentioned at the beginning of the post, I went to the préfecture to get my visa (titre de séjour, to be exact). I left at 10am after my humanités class and waited for two hours there. At least I could get back in time to have my lunch before going for the test at 2pm.

After the two-hour test we had an hour of tutorial for the same subject. It was pretty pointless because no one was feeling like doing any work. The teacher sensed it and let us start late and leave early :P

This weekend is the fête des lumières (light festival) in Lyon, so I shall probably go out tomorrow night. Which means I'd better get some stuff done before that...and before continuing to read that book!

For those who have forgotten: GE = my department

Photo of the year

Taken by Marion.

Aw...they're so cute! :P

More about this another time.

If I had a pintu suka hati

...all my problems would be solved.

I would just accept that darn internship and get it over with. I wouldn't have to worry about taking up 3 hours of my day sitting in or waiting for the bus/train.

I wouldn't have to worry about tickets to M'sia being waaay too expensive.

I wouldn't have to worry about being stuck in Paris for a night because my flight reaches the airport too late to take the last train back to Lyon.

It all revolves around TRANSPORT.

Argh.

Someone give me a pintu suka hati, and I shall love you for the rest of my life.

Oh the stress.

And why am I writing this now? Because I just received an e-mail from the guy who interviewed me for the internship. He wanted a reply by mid-/the end of December, and now he's telling me that it's almost mid-December and asking me whether I have decided!

But it's only the 3rd!!

Okay, it is almost mid-December. Two weeks isn't that long. Which is why I was already stressing out even before receiving his e-mail. It just added to it.

But we just received some internship offers yesterday (finally something in Lyon!) and I just sent my CV there! I cannot give an answer now!

So how do I tell him that? -_-'

Of very tall guys

You see, there is this really tall guy who's got a room in my corridor. I've seen him several times.

And today when I reached downstairs in the lift, there was a very tall guy waiting to go up. Being short, in these cases I see the person waiting there, but I don't see his face (it's not at eye level, I'd have to really tilt my head!)

So this guy said bonjour to me, and I replied the same...and that was when I realised that it could be that guy from my floor! But then, I'm not sure, and I will never find out for sure...

Tall guys are so inconvenient.

(no offense to the tall guys reading this!)

Breaking news

For those of you who follow my minesweeper journey, I just got a 13 on intermediate, a valid one this time. The earlier one was on a 3bv less than 30, 22 I believe. This one was on a 32. The exaltation has worn off a little since I screamed it on Yahoo and Facebook, mainly because I have always considered my high score 13 anyway...though it wasn't that great not to be able to submit it for rankings, and now I can! :D

So there ya go, the sidebar's updated! ^_^

Bangau oh bangau

Last night I was listening to an episode of Penang Hokkien Podcast about kindergartens. They were talking about a song they sang in kindergarten, Bangau Oh Bangau. Here's a video they found on Youtube:



Besides, I learned something about BM contractions...I think everyone knows that tadika is a contraction for taman didikan kanak-kanak, but did you know that pawagam is also a contraction? I believe I've heard about it before, but I had completely forgotten...and in the episode they mentioned it, it's actually short for panggung wayang gambar! So how's that for your culture générale (general knowledge)? ;)