Jan
10
My Golden Cage!
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After March 31 2008, my life will be taking a new direction. I will leave my pseudo comfort zone, my “golden cage”, for an unknown new path. Every time my life has changed dramatically, it’s always been for a better way of life. I am hoping it will continue. I came to like Brisbane as a city. It is quite funny the contrast between Brisbane and Manhattan. Moving from a megapole like New York to a small city like Brisbane was a shock. My first thought then was that Brisbane was too “small”. My personal list of cities in order of preference remains:
Lyon-San Francisco-Chicago-New York-Brisbane-Sydney
Jan
9
Strange night!
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I went to bed at 7:30 pm, woke up around 11:50 pm and could not resume my beauty sleep until 1 am. I am tired! I had a bit of a hang-over because I finished the sparkling wine bottle all by myself. I believe it disrupted my sleep. Note-to-self: do not get DRUNK at any cost ( 2 glasses of wine or 2 bottles of beer before bed time… no more!). The swim was okay. 4 slow ass jumped into the fast lane. Usually they do not bother me much if there were only 2 slow people but here it was a bit dumb since there was a full lane free. I just moved to lane 9 for a while but I had to move back because of teaching lessons. Also I had to get over the hang-over during the first 3 kms. Quite painful!
I talked a bit to Diane, my neighbor yesterday. She is really nice and she is taking a macro-economics course during the summer. Hopefully I can do the same when I go back to France. I am really tired of science! I kept on forgetting her name. It does come back though. I am really bad with names! I rented “Next” and “Romulus, my father!” Maybe I was too tired but neither one seemed good. I scrolled quickly through them.
Jan
6
vacation photos D70
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Jan
6
The high and the low of photography
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The vacation’s photos were so beautiful with a perfect background and a perfect light making it hard for me to get comparable picture quality. Besides it was raining all week long and everything looked so miserable last week. It kind of killed my hobby of the moment for a bit. Also coming back to work kept me all busy so not much to post about!
Today the light is perfect again. I will try to wander around and get some good shots. Time to think about packing up for my return to France. It is still 3 months away but I do want to send back by post some expensive and good stuffs before I leave.
Jan
3
“I am Legend”
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I went to see this movie today. I thought it was some kind of “Mad Max” remake or a sci-fiction type of movie but it was in reality a horror movie. It is quite good at keeping your attention all along but I was very disappointed in the end. No real story and not many explanations about the events. Will Smith performance was excellent!
Jan
2
Back to work!
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Lots of things to do today. Before leaving for vacation, I had some unfinished work such as reinstalling programs on my new computer and backing up my data. I had to redo all these things quickly. Swimming was great! I got back in shape quickly! No real effort today to maintain a high speed with good swimmers. Some of them had some problems like I did to resume the intense practice.
I’d like to do everything differently in life. Ordinary life is such a despair. Australia has become a routine to me and it is killing me!
Jan
1
January 1st!
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A naked man walked around the complex apartment next to mine. It was ugly and awkward. Did he loose a bet on this first day of the year or was it a strange new year resolution? Who knows…! I know where he lives and what he looks like. I hope it won’t happen again. Today is my last day of vacation. Normal life will begin tomorrow. It kept on raining strongly and regularly since Saturday night, it does not look like any New Year’s Eve I’ve had the last 3 years.
Dec
31
drop drop drop!
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Dec
31
Lone Pine!
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I am doing a tour of Brisbane and of course Lone Pine, the Koala sanctuary is one of my preferred destination. Very few good pictures. It seems that after the vacation photos I am having a hard time having really good photos to post on my site. The light was just perfect during the cruise. I swam and ran again. It was a bit hard to resume these major sport activities but no major drama.
Dec
29
Botanic Garden 2!
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