Catch up

Have to catch up on all the lost days I have not filled.....grrrrr...blog is becoming a chore more than a pleasure (that is if you forget to fill in things for aaages).  Met Bird brain for breakfast. We were supposed to have it at Maccadies but as they opened only at 10.00 rather than 8.00 as they claim, we decided to make it to my place. Birdie is on his last legs jobwise. Two days left and he is out and ready for his new assignment. Lucky bum........we shall see if he will be able to get some durable tan this time considering he shall be gone for 2 years....will miss him I have to admit, especially his habits of complaining, whinning and being highly strung at odd moments.....there i said it....Bird Brain I will miss you...

Biatch.... 

Monday...

Nothing exciting...finished viewing the manga X Clamp.....utter crap ending....that thing is just filled with naive lovey dovey sickly feelings between the heroes wether it is between men or men and women. So we have love feelings between 2 pairs of guys, luuurve between a girl and a boy, luuuurve between a young girl and a much older man (borders pedofilia) and love between a guy and a much younger boy that he calls his son (your streak of incesteous relationship) and the best is love between a super computer (called BEAST) and a girl that can connect to the computer.....BEAST ends up killing her (Tzasuki) in a fit of jealousy.....

Mangas for you... 

Death by the pool

Death rehearsal. In the pool for over 2 hours for synchronised swimming training session aka "you are just going to die". Trying the choreagraphy figures and it feels as if we are utter trash. Poor coach she must surely despair. Though we managed to impress the water polo players from the adjascent pool, as they kept looking at us (the reserve players) and even giving us some nice compliments.

I was dead after the training so I went home and decided to skip Nando's b'day at the Raidd......still got caught watching the bleeding Death note manga series till 3.00 am....!!! Now at least it is over and Kira got nailed...a shame really...

 

Mangas....they are addictive...or am I just too weak? 

Pray the Lord

Sunday....we shall pray for the Lord and his son Jesus. We did the same thing today by ending up in a brunch cafe in the Marais with Virginie. Charlotte came up later. Then it was just as every sunday I guess, walking round there and bumping into people we knew....Marais the new church (trendy ain't be as it was trendy maybe 15 years ago)........cold very cold in Paris.......it goes straight to the bones and then it started raining. Good thing Dad took pity on me and gave me a lift home.....

Parents.....they are God's greatest invention. 

Strike...strike...

Swimming session cancelled because of the strike...yes!!!! As it was way too cold to go out I am happy.......instead gone and hit the pubs. Well first dinner with parents at a restaurant in the XVIIe, got invited by a wine producer (Chateau Ormes Sorbet). She was fun, the restaurant owned by an acquaintance. Nice decor, nice settings, niiiiice prices, lovely presentation of the food though they seem to have lost the taste element somewhere between the kitchen and the table. Food was very bland.......very very very bland. My risotto was not a good one, dig in the rice at you could see broth sipping out to fill the cavity you just made. Panna cotta was not that good either...but the coffees were OK.......

Basically not to be recommended..

Then with Virginie to the Raidd......big change of scenary, which I should have done. Going from a quite setting were we all sat down, chatted joviously, sipping wine and digestive to a noisy packed cigarette stenching place is a bit of a trauma even for my rehearsed mind..........

Never try to have the best of all at one time.....take them one by one and appreciate what you have. 

My House

Great picture by David Lachapelle....My house...

 

 

London....cold....

Frigging cold in London....have not even tried to venture out, but I can feel the chill oozing from the window I am sitting close to....(tea, need to fill my cupa again).

It shall be going to be a day filled with problems as Jonnyboy has not got power point installed on his puter and I need it to be able to write down and prepare my lectures for next wednesday! ARRRGGHHHH.....Shall see what I can do in teh meanwhile stuffing myself with a cheddar and pickle sandwich..bliss!

Eurostar

Off to London with Eurostar. Feeling rather unsettled as I had only landed in Paris on tuesday late evening and now I am off whizzing to London. All this for sis' wedding part II. Honestly I do wonder sometimes why they could not have just choosen a single date and did the whole thing there and then...rather than having to fly here and there carrying the bleeding suits with you.....anyway sunday and it will be all over.

And I get to see Jonnyboy......that should be fun fun fun...

Thick students.

Corrected the exams for my weekly teaching session. Oh boy did i have a lovely surprise when I read their answers. Basically those kids did not give a darn dung about what I have been babbling about since the start of the year. Extreme measures were needed and there shall be three questions that will have to be answered by three "volunteers" at the board at every single class.

Needless to say that the students were much against such activity being introduced in their class. Then I am the teacher, thus I decide what is best for them. Is that the privilege of being a parent? Decide what is best for you kids and have no one question your motives?...mmmm.....entices you to be a parent, though thinking of it you better have your kids very late, so you will be in a win win situation. You will be able to enforce what you think is best for you kid and you will die before he can come back and blame you for what has gone wrong in his life.....niiiiiiiiice.....

Went to the Nokia store to check what was the problem with my dud 5310 I was given. Somehow the assistant was able to switch the phone on just by pressing the on/off button (thing I have been trying for numerous account of times without success).....made me feel quite stupid when he told that the phone works and the battery needs just to be charged. Though at Virginie's when I tried to recharge the phone, the latter one just died on me again........and no way of ressucitation could be found....

I am starting to develop an allergy to Nokia phones....long live Sony Ericsson... 

 

Lost luggage

1h45 time it took me to get from mumsy's to the old town....a trip that usually takes 45 minutes tops! I do wonder how people cope with all these traffic jams and neanderthal style of driving (and the women drivers are not better). Managed to do my last minute shopping before heading to the airport. The Alitalia desk girl was really lovely as she let me go even though I did pulverise my weight allowance (50 kg!!!). Once passed passport control (a formality.....I think I will come back from x'mas if things keep going like that) got to go to the lounge (Tripoli is indeed getting on the sophistication lane) where I feasted on food as I knew the Alitalia flight would not offer any decent grubb for the length of the flight.

My Nokia 5310 died on me at the airport, the screen went just black when I was trying to unlock the keypad. Taking the battery out and in again nor trying to charge the phone did help bringing it back to life.....I suspect the phone is a dud.....or I was hit by the evil eye as everyone was green with envy when I did show it.

 Paris..oh Paris...my suitcase came out quite quickly but the rugg did not. After waiting for 35 minutes, did put a claim and it appears that the rugg is in Malpensa. As every cloud has a silver lining that means I will not have to carry it all the way home but it shall be delivered....yes!!!!

Home sweet home....phone is still dead (the 5310)...anyone got an idea of how to make it work again?