Movie: the Prestige

I saw this movie this week. As a friend puts it, it is Batman vs Wolverine but in magic!

The movie is quite unpredictable and plays with magic ... It is not a bad movie at all! I can't say it is a great movie, because it is not my kind of movie but it is a smart movie, with good story-telling!!!

news ...

Obama got the Peace Nobel Prize?!! Who would have guessed it???

I don't understand? Now, we have virtual prizes?? I mean Obama has done nothing so far for the peace even though he has good intentions ...


Me too, I desire peace for the world ... Can I get the Nobel Prize and the amount of money that comes with it?? (1 or 5 millions?)

Ah!!! Life is unfair ....

un proverbe en francais:

l'enfer est pave de bonnes intentions!

ce que j'ai appris la semaine derniere

well, il parait qu'un bebe (ou plutot un fetus) de 13 semaines passe de 20 a 22 heures par jour a dormir et le reste du temps, il boit le liquide amniotique autour de lui et le fait ressortir en urine! quelle vie!! LOL

sinon, nouvelle d'hier, un bebe sumo est ne; il pesait 8,7kg a la naissance, crie plus fort que les autrs et a toujours faim!!! la pauvre maman ...

2 ans deja!!!

comme le temps passe vite!!! tellement vite que j'ai oublie que c'etait notre anniversaire ...

heureusement qu'il n'a pas oublie =)

il a envoye un beau bouquet de fleurs au bureau!!

loss

This year (which is not finished yet!) has witnessed many losses. I think it is the first time ever in my life that i know of so many losses.

It reminds of me the following passage in the bible (see below). There is a time for everything. Unfortunately, there is also a time to die.

The few past years, i went to 10 weddings per year but this year is different.

As I grow older, I realize how precious my parents are. When i was little, they were there for me, i took them for granted. In my 20s, i was fighting to acquire my own freedom. Parents have to live old so that we can appreciate them when we grow older too! we then start to understand their sacrificial love and their wisdom.

My heart is heavy for all my friends who have lost a parent or relative!

Ecclesiastes 3

A Time for Everything

¹ There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

² a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

³ a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

⁵ a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

⁶ a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

⁷ a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

⁸ a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

Ericsson is a great place to work!!

Yeah, Ericsson is a great place to work, you may become a multi-millionaire =)

Last Thursday, we learnt that an Ericsson employee won the big jackpot of 17 millions at lotto 649!!!

Of course, he resigned the day of, when he knew that he was the winner!!!!

But, the rest of us, we were wondering what we would do with 17 million dollars ...

I think I would buy an I-Phone to replace my terrible phone right now!!!!

Orange Julep

Orange Julep, c'est trop bon!!!!!

meme si ca fait quelques temps que j'ai perdu l'appetit (rien ne goute plus pareil =( !!!!)
j'ai apprecie mon orange julep aujourd'hui!! faut le faire!!!!

sufferings!!!

coeurs sensibles a s'abstenir!!!

i have been quite sick for the past 2 weeks. ah!!! life sucks!!!!

the first week, i was totally down because of a hive crises.

hives are scary. they appear from nowhere to everywhere within a hour or two!!!

i could not even sleep. that's the worse pain ever, for me.

well, the hives went away magically after 5 days! what a relief!

then, in the second week, i was down with headackes and just the feeling of feeling not well (or sick). it is terrible too. and i could not do much about that. i just slept a lot =), that's what i do best i think. so, half of the time i was suffering and half of the time, i was sleeping!

i am getting better though and when i do feel well, i am very thankful and realize how much it is a blessing to be healthy and well!!! because when i was sick, my whole world was just me, i could not think of anybody else. my focus was on me and it made me feel even more miserable!

i am learning lesssons on pains and sufferings .. the hard way =(

dreadful day when the results of the patent agent exams are received

so, i hear that the results of those awful exams have been mailed out since last friday.
my colleagues and i have been waiting for them since yesterday.
we are all so nervous, we cannot concentrate. we cannot eat, our legs hurt.

those exams are destroying me. the few days prior to knowing the results are bad and after knowing the results, the days after are usually not better. i may feel depressed because of the results themselves. it will take some days for me to recover. i have that feeling.

ah!!!

when will i be done with those exams???

vive la france!!

c'est la journee de la Bastille aujourd'hui =)

bonne fete nationale!!!!!!!!!!!

joke of the day!

here is my favourite moment in picture ...

in ferryland, at the colony of Avalon: lighthouse picnic on the edge of a cliff, in front of a huge iceberg!

moment feerique!!! =) miam!!!

Michael Jackson - 1958 a 2009

Le roi du pop n'est plus .... depuis jeudi dernier ...

alors que j'etais completement decoupee de la civilisation (a Terre-Neuve), un drame s'est produit dans le monde!!!!

Ce fut un choc pour moi quand je l'ai apprise. Qui ne connait pas Michael Jackson? Cette nouvelle m'a affectee plus que je ne l'aurais cru! Pourquoi? Peut-etre parce que je vois qu'il est parti sans avoir une chance de se racheter ... c'etait un enfant prodige mais qui a mal tourne! en fait sa mort precoce renforme son destin special et confirme son genie. il me semble que tous les genies meurent plus tot que les autres. ils ont tous des destins tragiques.

bref, le monde entier pleure la perte d'un tel genie, qui n'etait pas loin du monstre non plus ....

c'est triste.

les circonstances de sa mort ne sont pas encore elucidees non plus .. ca fait une semaine quon n'arrete pas de parler de lui!!!

donc, je vais arreter la pour ne pas trop rajouter a tout ce qui s'est dit ou se dit sur lui.

rest in peace michael!

de retour!

je suis finalement de retour a la civilisation!!

terre-neuve est tres belle mais il manque serieusement du monde!!! =)

on a failli mourir de faim un jour car il n'y avait aucun restaurant sur le chemin ... des petits villages de quelques dizaines de personnes ne pensent pas a creer des restaurants!!

mais les gens (le peu qu'il y a) sont tres gentils et chaleureux.

mon moment prefere du voyage: le pique-nique sur le bord d'une falaise, en face d'un iceberg. c'etait le top!!

on a vu des plages, des falaises et des oiseaux par millions! j'ai vu pour la premiere fois un puffin- il est trop mignon!!! il est un peu maladroit quand il vole (au moins il vole, car il ressemble pas mal au penguin), car ses ailes sont faites pour voler dans les eaux. interessant.

je suis passee par St-Pierre et Miquelon, un air de francais parmis tant d'influence americaine!

la vie est tres chere la car tout est importe de la France et du Canada .. mais les drapeaux bleu blanc rouge font du bien!!! =)

ce fut un tres beau voyage, malgre le temps un peu incertain - on a eu souvent de la brume!!!

a recommander!!!

Pure joy!!

I consider it pure joy when i found this morning 120 euros in one of my pockets (i have too many pockets everywhere), just one day before i leave for vacation to a French Island!

So, happy I am!!!

super busy week!!!

- finir de planifier le voyage pour Terre-Neuve et St-Pierre et Miquelon!!
- divertir des amis et familles qui viennent sur montreal et qui restent a la maison
- finir beaucoup de choses avant de partir au travail, qui est super occupe
- faire les bagages
- dormir


je n'ai pas le temps de respirer!

Big disaster this weekend

1) More specifically this Saturday:

i was the maid of honour so i needed a decent hairdo and makeup. i had no idea where to go. so i went to chinatown.

i to into a hair saloon. "do you take people right now? i need a hair makeover for a wedding today?"

"sure".

so they washed my hair. good start. then comes the hair dresser. "how should i cut your hair?"
"no cutting, but i need something special for a wedding, like curling my hair?"
"curling your hair? no way! you have too much hair?"
i repeated 4 times that i needed a special hairdo because i was the maid of honour! i almost cried!
the hairdresser didn't care at all. he just blew my hair straight. just what i have all the time.

-so frustrating. didn't know what to do. paid and left, but very unsatisfied and worried because there was the second part and i totally screwed up the first part.

looking for a makeup place in chinatown. asked around people to find a place for makeup. i went to 4 places, first one: sorry the lady is on vacation, will be back on monday!
second one: the lady is busy now will be available only at 2pm (the wedding starts at 2pm!!!!)
third one: the lady will be only available at 3pm, even worse!!
last one: closed!! AH

well, what do you do in those circumstances?? well, i ended up just putting some makeup myself .. not that i know how to do it.

it was a catastrophe!!

Good thing the wedding went well =)

2) This Sunday:

I hear many people congratulating a friend. Someone even asked me if she was pregnant. So I assumed that she was. I even started to look at her to see if her tummy showed!!!

later on, during lunch time, i dared to say to her congratulations. she replied with a scary face: congratulations for WHAT????

then you know that you are in trouble!!!

so the morale of the story is: until someone tell you that she is actually pregnant, don't say anything!!!

attention, le BIXI est la!!!

donc, c'est arrive finalement, copie integralement sur le concept de velo-lib de Paris.
je vous presente le BIXI (BIcyclette taXI), drole de nom.

je ne l'ai pas encore utilise, non par paresse ou avarice mais juste parce que c'est un peu trop grand pour moi - c'est taille unique!

mais, je dois dire que je suis fiere de montreal quand meme. c'est un pas de plus vers la verdure =)

pour l'instant seulement le plateau et le centre-ville/vieux-port ont des bornes de BIXI. pour le reste, il faut attendre .. alors attendons.

Air France AF 447, vol de Rio a Paris a disparu dans la nuit du 31 mai au 1er juin

le mystere de la dispartion de l'avion Air France reste entier. Apres une semaine de recherches, on n'a pas trouve grand-chose. faut dire que le lieu de l'accident est en plein de l'ocean Atlantique. les avions de secours survolent les lieux pour quelques heures et puis doivent retourner vers les cotes!
je pense qu'on va envoyer des sous-marins super puissants pour l'enquete!!
on a 30 jours pour trouver les boites noires avant que tous les signaux disparaissent.

cet accident d'un airbus francais est le 2e le plus meurtrier de l'histoire d'air france. les 228 passagers ont tous peri. il y avait 32 nationalites. une boite francaise avait envoye tous ses meilleurs employes pour un petit voyage en amerique du sud en guise de recompense .. et voila, tous disparus.
ca fait quelque chose. ca me touche. la vie est si fragile.

la vieillesse

c'est dur de vieillir! je commence a sentir ses effets! je n'ai jamais eu tant de problemes de sante. mon corps ne se controle plus. je realise que c'est une machine ... et qu'un jour cette machine ne se reveillera plus ...

en attendant, je ne comprends pas trop cette machine, qui marchait tres bien et tout d'un coup, qui se met a faire des choses bizarres .. je me sens fatiguee tout le temps et ca me rend perplexe .. de plus, la vie ne devient pas plus simple quand on vieillit =(

bref, j'apprehende la vieillesse ... faut mieux que j'en profite maintenant .. hahahha .. non, faut que je sois sage maintenant!!

un jour ca va etre mon tour!!!