Articles populaires – People are more important than places

14 août 2007

FAST FOOD NATION

Before and after arriving here, I have been many times encouraged to by proud locals to try out the local cuisine. We’re supposed to be really excited about it because this is such a “multi-ethnical” place, with such a wide variety of foodstuffs. These...

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8 août 2007

Most of the time

Quiero que sepas una cosa. Tú sabes cómo es esto: si miro la luna de cristal, la rama roja del lento otoño en mi ventana, si toco junto al fuego la impalpable ceniza o el arrugado cuerpo de la leña, todo me lleva a ti, como si todo lo que existe: aromas,...

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18 août 2007

Parting

Remembering There are threads of old sound heard over and overphrases of Shakespeare or Mozart the slenderwands of the auroras playing out from theminto dark time the passing of a fewmigrants high in the night far from the ancient flocksfar from the rest...

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21 août 2007

Training day

As usual I'm dead tired. Friday, dinner at Indochine, then a jazz bar, we said goodbye to Florence. I said goodbye. Got back at 3 am. Saturday. did I do anything? I pondered, I woke up at 7 am and and went to an event called "run nus". We were supposed...

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23 août 2007

School of Rock

You want me to teach you something? What? You want to learn something? Alright, here's a useful lesson: Give up! Just quit! Because in this life you can't win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end your just gonna loose, BIG TIME! Because the world is run...

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26 août 2007

Angry White Pyjamas

I feel I should write something explaining why I’ve chosen to practise Aikido. The credit mostly goes to Bert for passing me “angry white pyjamas”, the book by Robert Twigger. The book tells the tale of his time in Japan, aimlessly drifting from one useless...

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29 août 2007

Pulp Friction

Last Tuesday, a number of us received an invitation from the electronica music lab to attend a gig at a place called the velvet underground. Entry free with a password (“flash”) and free drinks until 23h. I arrived accompanying Caroline when the free...

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28 août 2007

Food Glorious Food

Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard! While we're in the mood -- Cold jelly and custard! Pease pudding and saveloys! What next is the question? - A selection of arab food : Rich gentlemen have it, boys -- In-di-gestion! Food, glorious food! We're...

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5 septembre 2007

Adaptation

Do I have an original thought in my head ? Maybe if I were happier. Life is short; I need to make the most of it. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I’m a walking cliché. There's something wrong. Oh well. I should work, I'm way overdue. If...

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11 septembre 2007

zatoichi

Yesterday I went to the dojo to practise judo with the danes. I was once a brown belt and I wanted to find out how well or how bad I remembered my training after eight years. The practise was ok but lacked discipline and was too much fun for a martial...

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2 octobre 2007

越南之行的最后两天

上个星期我跟一个法国朋友去越南旅游，他的名字是 LOIC 。因为他在新加坡的同房是越南人，所以我们问这个越南朋友我们是否可以和他的朋友在河内一块儿玩儿。他说没问题不过他的两个朋友不会说英文，只会说华语，幸好我也会说一点点。星期五晚上我打电话找到这两个越南朋友，约好在星期六晚上见面。见面后他们用他们的小机车载我们游览了河内的城市景色。然后我们去了咖啡厅和饭店，吃了好吃的东西，并且喝了河内啤酒和伏特加。他们总是在劝我和LOIC喝下更多的酒。喝酒之后我们去了卡拉OK, 唱很多越南歌。有 Thà...

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9 octobre 2007

Singapore History X

Nothing much has been happening, I'm happilly preparing my Chinese midterm exam on thursday. Yesterday however, for the first time since I've been here, I witnessed Singaporean racial hatred in a surprising way. I didn't expect it since Singapore is well...

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10 septembre 2007

The passion of Batam

The week-end has been busy and I have not had much time to catch up with my work so I must write this article as fast as possible. Don’t be surprised I write terribly. I went to Indonesia on Saturday. Had to get up at 5h30 and prepared three alarm clocks,...

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4 septembre 2007

My teacher ate my homework

All My teachers here are extremely competent. First of all, I would like to present my chinese teacher: Dr Chin, Kwee Nyet. She presented the TV news in Mandarin on Channel 8 (MediaCorp News) for 18 years before joining NUS as a Senior Lecturer in May...

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27 août 2007

My life just got flushed down the toilet

Which Disney Princess Are You? You are Pocahontas. You defy convention and sometimes do what is considered taboo. Unfortunately, others do not always appreciate your differences, so it's good that you are so strong-willed. You are loyal and you believe...

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6 août 2007

to kill a mockingturd

It's early. These last few days have been eventful.I got up early on Friday to get to NUS by 9 am, but I was jetlagged and couldn't sleep Thursday night; so I was stuck in limbo all day. The meeting at NUS was crap, I wasn't in the mood for cheering and...

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30 juillet 2007

god bless google maps

Let me explain : all those little blue knob thingies are places I contacted for accomodation. The one in red is the boon lay student hostel, where I have been granted a non air-conditioned room, which I will be sharing. According to the NUS students,...

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3 novembre 2007

Ashes of time

First of all, I'm sorry I haven't posted anything lately, it isn't always easy to live up to this promise of regularly updating my friends and family on what's going on. Especially when I'm overwhelmed with events and when I settle down I'm either too...

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2 avril 2008

献给阿尔吉侬的花束

我选择介绍的一本书叫 ‘ 献给阿尔吉侬的花束 ’ （ Flowers for Algernon ），是美国作家丹尼爾凱斯 (Daniel Keyes) 的一个科幻小說。献给阿尔吉侬的花束的故事故事叙述一名智障碍者, 他的名字叫 Charly ; 他在接受脑手术之后，智能由白痴改成了很聪明，无人可及的天才，而后又因手术，智能衰退回变到白痴。小说的特色是故事是哪个人的日记。所以他写的事，一开始好像小孩写的，但是他随着改成了越来越聪明，他的看法，语法，问题，用字，思维，都变了更聪明。...

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13 août 2007

Short Message Service

The gang and I have been exercising our thumb muscles lately. So I thought I might let you imagine what these last few days have been like through extracts of my sms inbox. A clementi tu prend le 183 ou le 96 pui le a1 ou a2 ! A tte ! Did u not have to...

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8 août 2007

2007 : a Singapore Odyssey

Sleep. Deep dreamless sleep. Finally. I discarded all administrative business early on Monday, I signed up at 9, and received an answer one hour later. I have to attend five modules this semester, which is supposed to be very heavy. We'll find out soon...

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20 octobre 2007

This world of ours

Okay here we go : last week end. How shall I start…. “I adore Singapore. I idolize it all out of proportion”… Or better, "I romanticize it all out of proportion.” Hmmm… mhya, let me start over, “I am overly romantic about this place as I am about everything...

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3 août 2007

fear and loathing in S'pore

The plane. Tired. Thank god I slept on the plane. I usually have to elbow-wrestle my neighbour for my fair share of the armrest, but this time a 3 year old kid sat next to me. After 15 minutes of flight he bundled up in his blanket and slept until we...

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17 août 2007

flush hour

Here I am at the multimedia centre, sitting in front of a documentary on the history of japanese cinema with Wyatt. Back in the fifties, even onscreen kissing wasn’t allowed. Sex was an extremely personal affair. We’ve finally planned to have a nice dinner...

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19 août 2007

10 Things I Hate About You

As I go through how much fun I’m having here in Singapore, it seems only fair to mention all the things I hate about it. The first thing that I hate is that this post may be censored if it ends up being "too radical" for some government censor's tastes....

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