Get set...go!

First day at work today...what can I say? One task to do...and the rest of the day wondering how I can continue and get better results. Not that I came up with anything.

I had a new computer, new login account, new everything...so I tried to make some new records on the Windows Minesweeper program. Here's what I got:


Not bad for a first day's work, I guess :P

I also spent my day customising the computer for my own use...which included changing the keyboard settings (that's the most important!!) and adding bookmarks to Firefox. By the way, the tech guy (I don't know what to call him so I'll call him that) told me that there were qwerty keyboards available as well, but I've gotten so used to switching the keyboard anywhere to US-International, I don't really mind having an azerty any more...

And just for laughs, here's something I saw on a web page today:


It's from here. I saw the article on my Google reader, so I wanted to go to the webpage...but for some reason the article was lost. Too bad...I had to read it on the Reader instead. (It was an article about different companies and their logos' evolution.)

A banana is a fruit

Just because YOU managed to learn a language doesn't mean I have to.

If you think you can insult me just because I don't speak a language that you think I should speak, then get out of my sight.

You are no friend of mine.

-As penned this morning. Penned, that's right.

That's one expensive pepper

Remember the pregnant pepper I wrote about before? I got another one...though this time the "babies" were all stuck to the mother pepper and so there was no sound from shaking the pepper (not that I tried shaking it)

I first cut off just a side of the capsicum 'cos I only wanted to use a bit of it. And there were twins staring up at me.

A pepper with twin babies!

Then another day when I wanted to use some more, I discovered another baby hiding at the back.

Oh...so they were triplets!

And as I used it up, I found FIVE baby peppers in all. That means that the baby peppers probably doubled the weight of the capsicum! And it was sold by weight...

I think I got cheated. -_-
:P

Of hypocrisy

Ooh I gotta share this quote:

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
-Ambrose Bierce

A plush mission

Time I wrote another one of my promised posts ;P

In short, for our last exam in GE I created this event on Facebook:

(I know the location isn't really the location, I put the tagline instead 'cos I wasn't paying attention :P )

Basically it calls for everyone to bring a plush toy into the exam hall on the last day. (don't ask me why, I just thought one day right before an exam that I would like to have my teddy bear with me :P )

And we actually did it! (well, some of us...) Here are some photos:

Céline, with double the plush power!

Antoine with his rabbit (that is a rabbit, isn't it?)
(It looks super-cute by the way, but I don't know him well enough to ask for a better look :P I think that when I asked him "Je peux?" (May I?) to take the photo, it was probably the first time I spoke to him)
(And if any of you GE people read this, don't you go telling him that I said that :P )

Ivan with his flat rabbit (I couldn't figure out what it was at first... -_- )

then with Aurélia and her teddy bear

and me with mine!

These are not everyone who participated...unfortunately I have no other photos. I saw Marion and Camille after the test (all these pics were taken after the test, only the one from the previous post was taken before it, as you could've guessed), and they showed me their plush toys, but they put them away in their bags again too quickly for me to take a photo. (I could have asked, I guess...but I didn't want to be pushy) Anyway Marion showed me a photo that she had taken in the exam hall (we were in several different exam halls), and I'm hoping she'll pass it to me, but we'll have to wait and see... (after the numerous times I have been left waiting for photos, it's hard to be optimistic about this though)

Actually I asked everyone to take photos...but I guess that was too much to ask. The only other person in my class (which means who was in the same exam hall) who brought a plush toy was Jérémy, who brought an elephant. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get a photo of that either...since he came a little too late for me to leave my seat and get a photo (and he wasn't sitting near me, either!) And Valentin said he forgot :/ while Pauline and Julien said that they didn't have any plush toys to bring! How is that possible?!!!!! (lol okay, I know that it's possible :P )

And I heard from Marion that Marvin, Cédric and another Céline (Thievenaz) brought their plush toys as well...but I didn't see them.

Anyway, thanks, you guys...that made my day ^_^

(If last time it was mission yumminess, this time it's mission plushiness!)

Airport-hostel-food

Okay, I'm going to write my last post about my Munich trip. Though it won't be the last if I forget something... :P

This post will mostly be of odds-and-ends photos...those that I can't exactly put in the other posts.

Shall we start at the airport? This is a room we passed through to board the plane from Lyon (we took a bus to the plane; they do that often for flights in Europe) I liked the painting on the walls...but just when I was going to snap a photo, this guy just walked up and stood there. (Argh!)


So I snapped the pic anyway...it even looks real, like he's standing on the riverbank. (by the way, I think that's supposed to be a painting of Lyon scenery...I don't know about the details, but it sure resembles it a lot)

And then I wanted another pic, of the wall further away, where two guys were using some gadget...I think it's a camera, 'cos those are the Lumière brothers (search for them if you want to know more)


And there's that same guy again...he noticed me taking photos, I think...and I just hope he wasn't perasan enough to think that I was taking photos of him! lol

Anyway, after he left, I managed to get the pic I initially wanted :P


And since I'm talking about airports I might as well put a few photos I took from the plane...though this was while leaving Munich.




I didn't know which photo was better, so I'll let you decide for yourself :P And I didn't notice it at that time...but when I look back at the pics, I wonder whether that white oval thing is the Allianz Arena...

Now a few pics of the hostel...the hostel is called Wombat's, and appropriately, there was a wombat at the counter to welcome us :)


I didn't even notice it at first...I saw it when I was asking something at the counter later on (not while checking in, I mean)

Upon check-in they gave me my key card, a voucher for a welcome drink (which is about the same as the one in Vienna), and a breakfast coupon since it was my second visit to a Wombat's. (I got a sort of loyalty card at the first one)


There's also a pretty cute weather forecast board :D


But unfortunately it was only updated once when I was there...the first or second day, I believe...and as you can see, it got warmer the last few days I was there!

And what trip would be complete without food? :P

This is currywurst, something that I saw almost everywhere, and it looked so good I decided to give it a try.


The sausage was good (normal, I guess), the sauce was like ketchup, but sweeter, which was why I liked it better (I'm not a big fan of ketchup), and the curry powder on it was just nice ^_^ And...the potato wedges were the best I had ever tasted 'cos they were really super crispy. (that's the only part I like in potato wedges...lol)

Then I tried pork knuckle.

half pork knuckle with potato dumpling

I have always rather liked "weird" parts of animals...so I liked this as well...though some people said that it made them lose their appetite! lol The skin was crispy (though rather hard), a bit like the roast pork we get in M'sia sometimes. I liked the potato dumpling as well...I don't know how they did it but it was springy...a little starchy...a bit like "lo mai kai". lol (less starchy though...)

Then on my last day I was pretty adventurous in trying this diah:


It is goat's lung stew with bread dumplings. It was rather good, though a bit too sour...the sourness kind of "accumulated" and in the end it wasn't so good any more.

And I had it with a radler (beer + lemonade ~ shandy :P ) Since it was after the beer tour, I wasn't that worried about not liking it...


I took apple strudel for dessert...I was slightly full but I still had time (with nothing to do before going to the airport) so I decided to have a little dessert! But........


The apple strudel turned out to be huge. I couldn't finish it :( (It was just okay, by the way...not that special...though maybe because I was full as well)

So that's all for Munich...the only thing I didn't write about is the visit to the Valentin-Karlstadt Museum...and I'm not sure it's worth writing about...we'll see.

Last exam in GE

Exams are over!!!

Wheeeeee..........

It feels great...now I have two days absolutely free (okay, it's short, but I plan to make the most of it!) before starting our OT (option transversale; now's not the time to explain what it is) and internship!

I have photos to share...'cos I did something crazy again. Here's one for starters:


Que du bonheur...

When you mix elephants and pancakes...

Link of the day :P


This is a sign from the Elephant Pass Pancake barn, as seen on Oddly Specific. I love the French version...it's not exactly what's in English; the first part is about the same, in different words, but the smaller print says: "Our elephants will stomp your wretched hire car like the pancakes we serve!! Thank you!!" Why didn't they say the same thing in English?! Who cares about "down to the hubcaps"?! lol

And the last is just...indescribable. I just can't find a word to describe it right. Great? No. Not as great as the French version. Hilarious? Not exactly. Somewhere between great and hilarious and goodness knows what other adjectives. I will write it here if I find a good one. In the meantime...just think of one yourself :P (Okay, I'm blabbing again) Anyway I wonder why they wrote "hee" and "hi" instead of "here" and "hire". Are there people who speak without the R's?

So on this site one of the comments said that the German translation was the same...but as which one? The English version? I would really have preferred it to be the same as the French version...can someone translate the German? Pretty please........? (lol you know who you are...)

What a man is really like

Sometimes people can be so awful.

Several of my friends on Facebook have become fans of Jérémy, a guy who called his ex on live radio and tricked her into believing that he had won the lottery, and that he wanted to get back with her. So apparently the girl is money-minded and when she heard that she instantly turned into sweet girlfriend mode while at first she wasn't at all happy to hear from him.

I figured out this "whole story" from what was written on the profile, and from listening to the beginning of the recording. Then I just stopped...I didn't feel like hearing her reaction when she found out that she had been tricked on live radio.

Okay, so this girl is supposedly awful and deserves what she got (which is what all the fans of this Jérémy think, I guess) But I don't feel like singing Jérémy's praises, either...to have come up with this trick shows that he is pretty nasty himself.

This made me think of a quote I read rather long ago... (I believe it was in the Reader's Digest) The gist of it is: If you want to know what a man is really like, don't look at how he treats a woman he loves, but how he treats a woman he leaves.

'Nuff said.

PS: Oh yeah, I put "whole story" in quotation marks because I might not really have the whole story...

Putih itu suci

There was a shower of snow a little earlier. It coated everything outside in a thin blanket of white.

There was also a quick snow shower Saturday night...and on Sunday when I went out the sidewalks were already free of snow (I guess it's because of people walking on it) though it stayed on the grass and sidewalk corners up till today...I hope tonight's snow will disappear that way too...it'd be much easier to walk around!

I doubt that the snow will really last...the weather forecast predicts 10ºC for Thursday!

Oh yeah, and as for yesterday...we were so busy eating that I didn't take any photos :P It wasn't much to look at anyway...but it sure tasted good! ^_^

As for the title...don't mind me. I'm just running out of interesting titles (what can you do when you're not writing anything interesting?)