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Five Strenghs, Four People

October 13, 2007 – 12:52 am | 17 Comments

So, here’s the chal­lenge: make a list of five strengths that you pos­sess as a writer/artist. It’s not really brag­ging, it’s an hon­est assess­ment (forced upon you by this darn meme). Please resist the urge to enu­mer­ate your weak­nesses, or even men­tion them in con­trast to each strong point you list. Tag four other writ­ers or artists whom you’d like to see share their strengths.”

The Communist Girl

September 29, 2007 – 10:02 pm | 17 Comments

I don’t have too many icons on my desk­top because I use a dock under Win­dows XP. Still, you can see a few of my fold­ers : “to read” (bunch of pages I copy from the web) and “to print” (usu­ally my work sched­ule and my stu­dents plans for the week).Here is my dock : it usu­ally sits on top of my desk­top but for some rea­son it didn’t show on the first screen­shot (auto­hide probably…).

Correr Es Mi Destino Reloaded !

September 18, 2007 – 6:24 pm | 16 Comments

After one week of strug­gling with HTML, Php and other bar­baric names… here I am on Wodrpress !

The move wasn’t that smooth… but quite inter­est­ing actually.

I had made the deci­sion to switch from Blog­ger to Word­press a few weeks ear­lier. I wanted more flex­i­bil­ity, I wanted to learn more about cod­ing, and I’ve been blog­ging for almost a years now — I knew I wasn’t going to quit any­time soon.

The Word Is Collapsing

September 11, 2007 – 5:31 pm | 14 Comments

We took a sit on the bikes and watched. The sec­ond plane had crashed into the 2nd tower by then and it looked like any­thing but an acci­dent. Our Eng­lish was some­what lim­ited but we grasped most of the news. Not that it was hard to under­stand : voices and faces said it all. Peo­ple just didn’t under­stand what was going on – nei­ther did we.

Veni, Vidi, Not Quite Vinci

August 23, 2007 – 1:28 am | 22 Comments

Another bites the dust. Another Cana­dian sol­dier killed in Afghanistan, the 67th. Amer­i­cans casu­alty ? 427 sol­diers, if no one dies by tomor­row. Oper­a­tion Endur­ing Free­dom ? Yeah, right.

Summer In The City

August 16, 2007 – 7:26 pm | 17 Comments

Sum­mer usu­ally brings the worse stu­dents, along with those to busy to take classes the rest of the year and whose only chance is to come to school when the Par­lia­ment isn’t in ses­sion. I don’t mind those ones. They’re usu­ally focused on their stud­ies because they’re des­per­ate to pass their French test, which will enti­tle them to a pro­mo­tion or a pay rise. But the weirdos…

You And Whose Army ?

August 8, 2007 – 10:38 pm | 19 Comments

I got off the bus and walked towards the bar­racks. I showed a piece of ID to the orderly who was stand­ing by the huge metal door and he let me in. Behind the doors were about a hun­dred peo­ple, all my age, anx­iously smok­ing cig­a­rettes and mak­ing small talk.

Games Without Frontiers

July 29, 2007 – 10:04 pm | 24 Comments
Games Without Frontiers

— Dare to go explore the world ?

— Sure !

It started with a joke. We were both young adults, both sick of our current …