Angoulême BD 2009

Last week was ESTACA ski week, but since I didn't go with sch, so i had kinda short break before the 2nd semester starts. Although there's a C programming project to finish, but i really had a break and enjoy myself during the week. Now it's time to worry about it....Gotta hand it up on Thursday :(

After coming back from Rennes for the CNY celebration, what i did was staying at home, relaxing, and do my project. It's actually quite enjoyable when you take your time to write the program and see the result of your program. But i don't think I'll enjoy it in the next few days as I'm running out of time :p
Then, i went back to my hometown in France - Angoulême because coincidently, the 36th Angoulême International Comic Festival was organised from Thursday to Sunday during this week. Two chinese friends, Du Jun and Ma Yi whom i helped to translate 2 years ago invited me to help them again this year. So between project and friends, i chose friends :D Moreover, they paid my expenses to Angoulême, so I was too shy to reject them.

My main function was to help them to do the translation between Chinese and French. It's a tough task, but I'm happy because I've finally done it and help them through the whole festival. Although my french level is still too low to do a perfect translation, i still got a lot of praises from those French artists and editors for my translation, especially when they knew that i was only a student who helped without being paid, kinda proud of it. I've learned a lot of things from this trip. Practicing my French is 1 thing. I also learned to do business, talking bout contract, buying copy rights etc. This trip also tells me that marketing might be my future path, 'cause i find it interesting and I have a powerful tool - languages. But of course I'll finish my engineering course in ESTACA first.

This year's festival is a little bit smaller than previous years, maybe because of the economic crisis. But still there were still a lot of people in Angoulême, I think we can only see this scene 4 days a year. Last night, almost all restaurants in Angoulême were full, we finally managed to find 1 after entering more than 6 full-house restaurants. those western comics don't interest me much, cause I'm more to japanese mangas. So i just simply looked around without buying any comic. But it's interesting too see different culture through comics from different country. Hmm, i think i can show you a kind of comic which is very popular in France, why show you? because you cant see it in Malaysia :P

Happy Chinese 牛 Year

Wohoo...It's Chinese New Year again. Kinda lucky this year cause i finished my exam the week before CNY and i don't have class on the week of CNY. But what a pity, cannot go back to celebrate it in Malaysia. Anyway, i went to Rennes on Friday and had a celebration with other malaysian friends there(although there were only 2 chineses LOL), had a great time.

Since i know everyone is busy collecting Ang Pau, so i also don't want to write too long and waste your time ^^


祝你2009年牛年旺返
牛转乾坤 鼠气全消


鼠 龙
去 飞
牛 风
来 舞
辞 迎
旧 新
岁 春

宅

突然发现现在的我有倾向宅男的现象。Oh No!!!

“宅男”这个词是看我猜学来的，上我猜的宅男们个个怪的怪，邋遢的邋遢，傻的傻，还被吴忠宪羞辱。但那些已经是“level宅” 100 了，我还没有宅到那个地步。但难道有一天我会跟他们一样？靠，不敢想象。。。

为什么我会有这样一个发现？因为我具备几项宅男特点：
× 除了上课和周末去超市，很少踏出家门一步
× 不出门干什么？上网，看偶像剧，动画（除了偶尔读读书）
× 可以一整天呆在电脑前

其实我也不想当宅男，但在Laval出门也不知道干什么，而且外面又那么冷。
在家不干宅男干的事也不知道要干什么，所以我是被形势所逼。

我想我只能一直唱周董的“阳光宅男”来祈祷不会宅过头

你也是宅族吗？

P.S:由于不知道怎么翻译宅男，所以只能用中文写

I need SSI spirit!!!

Sometimes, when i think back, i wonder how i managed to study so much when i was in SSI. I remembered 1 month before SPM everyone was already "piah" like hell and i think i faced my books at least 10 hours a day. I don't know how many times i have run over the three 400+ page Fokus Physics, Biology and Chemistry. And how many essays in Chinese, English and BM I've written to improve my writing skills. How i managed to memorize those moral values with definitions without losing 1 word. Hundreds of mathematics exercises, 名句精华 etc. I'm really amazed by the amount of work that i've done to prepare my SPM. And lucky enough, i've got the result that i wished(Except 1119 which is a shame to me, but nvm, i don't use English nowadays lol).

Then when i look at myself now, i think i really have become a lot more lazier, well maybe not lazier, but just have lost the motivation that keep me study. First, there's no more goal like getting straight 1As or getting the JPA scholarship. You pass the exam and you pass your year and finally you graduate. I wouldn't say it's very easy to pass an exam in ESTACA, since I've already failed three papers before, but if I do my homework correctly and revise a minimum, i can still pass(touch wood, don't 好的不灵坏的灵).

Then, there's no more SSI's "kiasu" spirit. In SSI, you would wanna study when you see the others study. You feel guilty when you see the others are studying while you are fooling around, so what you do is you also follow them to study. And since there's a ranking of exam results, if you wanna get into top 10 then you need to study. But now, i don't really care about it, 'cause there is no ranking, so as long as i pass I'm happy already.

Last time in SSI, for my case, if I study hard i could always get the wanted result, but this is not the case in ESTACA. You can study very hard but there can be unexpected questions in the exams which you can never think of it. As a result, my heart also gets cold as time goes. I know that I'm no more in secondary school where everything follows the syllabus, in an engineering school like mine, as one of the heads in ESTACA said before, they want to form quality engineer and not engineer who can only recopy resolution method, so there are always unexpected questions which require reflexion.

Internet is the pricipal criminal. In secondary school time i didn't have my personal computer, and no broadband like i have today. It's really hard to study with my computer beside, but I've a very bad habit that is whenever I'm awake at home, my computer is always on, if you don't believe, you can see that my MSN and YM are signed in most of the time. What facebook la, blog la, youtube la, youkou la, these rubbish make me pass a lot of time in front of my PC rather than my books. Like now I've wasted another half an hour on this thing...

WHERE

ARE

YOUUUUUU

MY

S

S

I

STUDY

SPIIIIRITTTTT

How to peel a banana

What a smart idea to make people laugh, but not to peel a banana, nobody would dare to eat LOL =p

Cold!

It has been very cold since last week in France, or maybe in Europe. Today, school reopens, when i stepped on the road in the morning, the road was frozen. It's super dangerous to drive in such condition, so Renaud gotta drive more slowly(i go to school in his car). We have had the car gliding on a little slope when he braked last time, it wasn't fun at all, unless u like drifting.

Afternoon, still very cold, 0°C at least, and it snowed in Laval, which is a real rare case. But it didn't last for long time, and the snow melted once touching the ground, the ground is now wet and with the temperature that we have now, i think i can ice-skate to school tomorrow morning =p

The temperature outside make me lazy to go out, i feel good to be at home with my heater on, but at the end of the month when i see my electricity bill, i'll cry :'(

Happy 2009

New year has come, just have to admit that time passes really fast.

Had a little celebration last night with my fellow Malaysians in Laval. We went for dinner in a Japanese restaurant and we had some fireworks in the cold new year night. Luckily I'm not alone in Laval this year, or else it will be a lonely New Year which i have escaped by going to Toulouse last year.

Some people ask me what is my new year resolution, I've never thought of this, and i don't think I'm gonna think of it. 'Cause for me New Year day is just like the other days in a year, so there is no need to set what new year resolution. I just do what i think i need to do or what i wanna do. But this is just my opinion, I'm sure that these resolutions must have their own meaning to those who set them every year.

I take this opportunity to wish my family and all my friends Happy New Year and best wishes to all of you in 2009 :D