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I think the "finding interesting links during my internship" phenomenon is starting again.

Here's today's pick:

10 reasons to avoid talking on the phone

I'm sorry card


Geeky? Whatever. I like! :D

And here are 30 useful web apps...take your pick ^_^
I find ScreenToaster, Read it Later, and FillAnyPDF especially interesting...

Ever wonder what they do with old movie props?

Finally, it is time. :P

It was during last December that I went to the miniature museum in Lyon with Nicole and Joe. I had already passed by the museum, and entered its shop several times to look at the free exhibition, but never paid to go in. Nicole wanted to go in, and since I was already interested in the museum, we decided to fork over the money :P Joe joined us for lunch on the day we were going, so we persuaded him to go as well :P

The main exhibit when we went was of scenes from the movie Perfume. Heard of it before? The name sounded familiar, but I didn't know it...

Does this jog your memory?

the perfume master at work

the bottles

an office with bottles

in a perfume shop

the crow looks so real!

And there was this scene on a wall (exterior of the building). The building is an old one, I believe it used to be residential...we had to go in and out of different rooms on different floors (into the cold each time!)

Looks real, doesn't it? :)
It's probably supposed to be Lyon

The miniature museum houses a lot of movie props...they were the next part of the exhibition (there were arrows showing us which way to go, so that we don't miss anything)

alien from the X-files

a sorcerer's costume from Dungeons and Dragons, and a samurai costume from Xena the Warrior Princess

as mentioned above

police costume from The Children of Men and the costume of "Moloch the destroyer" (or whatever the actual name is) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

harness for take-off and landing (you get what I mean...)

spaceship used in ALIEN and ALIENS

life-size bust of an actress whose character got hit violently on the face (stunt double, I guess :P )

Gotham City building

Looks awful, doesn't it? :P

Stuart Little! ♥

C'mere, c'mere... :P

rubber weapons

monkey masks

Men In Black's furry creatures in a closet (I couldn't remember it, Nicole and Joe told me about it. As of now, I have a vague recollection of the scene...)

explosives, fake blood and detonator...to create "injury"

I'm not done yet...the best is yet to come! But I'll stop for now 'cos this is getting long...

Oh, and this was me patting a furry creature in the shop (the free exhibit) the day before we actually went inside.

It was actually behind the glass casing so I couldn't touch it... :/

Read the 2nd part

A Malaysian evening

Okay, I really do not want to leave this longer...so here are pics from the actual Chinese New Year's Day. We held a small gathering at my place...it was really pretty small since some people were unavailable due to it being Valentine's day and the exchange students seizing the opportunity to travel during the weekends. And also, those in IUT had started their one-week holiday, whereas those of us in INSA had it the following week.

Still, there were 8 of us...a good turnout under the circumstances.

I didn't take any photos with my camera, so Alison had all the photos...that she had put on Facebook. That is why I will first link to the Facebook ones, then when I get the actual pics I'll switch them. Thanks Alison!

I spent Saturday making snacks for the guests, on and off from being on the phone :P The end result wasn't too bad...

Some of the others brought the drinks

A closer-up view...of the cornflake cookies and fudge (the other box was kuih sagu, as you might have guessed...it's pandan flavoured since I used pandan flavoured sagu)

Dinie brought keropok!

We played tarot (and now they're looking for the cards...but somehow we can't seem to find them in supermarkets any more! Does anyone know where to find them?)

Okay, I'm putting this pic only because we can see the "thief" grabbing the coke on the table :P

And a group photo to end (this was when they were leaving)
Clockwise from me: Alison, Fadhil, David, Mah, Dinie, Yik Wen and Jun Ghai

That's all folks!

Gathering in Lyon

I just came back from the CNY gathering organised by MASAF. And I might as well upload the photos right away, since I'm in the midst of going through them anyway. Never mind that there are other photos on the waiting list :P

We went to Resto Tang, a Chinese buffet restaurant. I found this restaurant through Pili-Pili (hey, it's quite useful sometimes! lol), a magazine that basically serves as advertising. (which is why it's distributed for free) The restaurant serves halal meat, which is one of its attractions for the event...

the food

On this side is mostly the fried stuff, entrées if we follow the French style. In the middle are the dishes, with the fried rice and noodles right before them (you can see them if you look carefully). And at the end there are some salads and lychees (though I don't quite know why the lychees are there instead of being with the other desserts)

A couple of pics from where I was sitting:



And then I walked around taking pics of each table:

Fadhil was taking pics too (or was his a video?)
(my hand shook...wasted my beautiful photo :/ )

Then we start the event, with a speech from Ashraf, the vice-president of MASAF (the president wasn't there yet)

En. Faris giving his speech

everyone listening

The speeches were short and sweet, with a few laughs as Ashraf started by welcoming us to "er, what restaurant is this?", and then referring to our meal as dinner instead of lunch :P

Then we ate ;)

After eating I went for another round of photos:



And I must share this...look at Fzah eating her small portion of food...


...and Joe finishing his big plate without offering some to his gf! Wakaka... >:D


Okay, in truth that was the end of the meal, and there wasn't much food (or clean plates) left. That's why Fzah took the small dish, and Joe was finishing lychees which were on a big plate because there were no bowls left! But my blogger reflexes are kicking in more quickly now...I saw the story and snapped the photos :P

Then there were the photos with some people in particular...these were taken some before, some after eating:

with my fellow ex-Angoumoisines, Mimi and Mai

Florian, the only French guy at the party...he plays badminton and that's how I met him...he came from INSA Rouen and is in the batch after mine, which means he knows the other M'sians who went to INSA Rouen! Pity those Rouen people didn't come though...

Lesley, who's in Rennes, and Jaime, (permanent?) Lyon resident

and with me butting in

Fzah with her red Chinese attire bought in Besançon (so semangat :P )

with Dinie

and with Fifi (Dinie's ex-coloc, when they were in IUT together..."Dinie and Fifi" is still a familiar expression to me...lol )

So that's it. I'm still full from the buffet...even though I didn't eat as much as I had the other times I went there.