Paris Paris!

Tomorrow I'm going to Paris. In a few hours even, my plane is leaving at 6.30am and my boss is therefore picking me up at 5.15am... tough!

But it's ok 'cause I'm so excited to go to Paris. The last time I was there was in August and then I thought I would not be able to see my friends before Xmas. But when I learnt that there was a fair there at the end of September and that we would go, I was looking forward to it. And when it was decided to go at the end of the week and that I could stay the week-end as well, I was really really happy!! It's like a big bonus for me to see everyone! Well, not everyone... but many. :)

Back on Sunday!

Lumière

Lumière d'automne en plein mois d'août, Göteborg

A dream come true

Lu dans Métro (le journal gratuit, suédois by the way... ) ce matin.

"Jeudi, les habitants de Stockholm vont avoir une gallerie commerciale de plus. Mais dans celle-là, pas de vêtements ni de cafés - que des chaussures. Sur trois étages et 2000m2, on trouvera les magasins Nilson, Din Sko, Ecco och Skopunkten (c'est comme si vous aviez Bata, France Arno, Minelli and co en gros...). Feet First, ainsi que la gallerie va s'appeler, sera la première en son genre en Europe."

C'est y pas fait pour moi ca? ;)

La Suède, pays moderne

Today is a big day. Aujourd'hui, j'ai fait un pas dans le futur. Enfin, finalement je n'ai rien eu à faire... mais bon ca aurait pu. Je vous explique.

En 2003, le gouvernement suédois a décidé que toute la Suède devait basculer de la tv analogue vers la tv numérique pour qu'il n'y ait plus que du numérique. La transition doit s'effectuer avant le 1er fevrier 2008. Et cet automne c'est au tour de l'ouest de la Suède, donc la région où je vis. La raison pour cela est que les signaux digitaux prennent moins de place que les signaux analogues, laissant ainsi libres beaucoup plus de fréquences, ce qui permet à plus de chaines d'émettre.

La campagne de communication a commencé en 2004 et va durer jusqu'en mars 2008. Personnellement, j'ai recu de la documentation dans ma boite aux lettres m'expliquant tout ca (pas lue a l'epoque, mais bien rangée pour un autre jour). En ville il y a eu des journées d'information également.

Mais finalement après avoir stressé un peu ce week-end et finalement pris le temps de lire la doc, je me suis rendue compte que je n'avais rien besoin de faire! En effet je vis dans un immeuble avec les offres tri-machin (telephonie, internet et cable, genre noos en gros) et nous ne sommes donc pas concernés. De toute manière, ma tactique était de ne rien faire, de laisser voir et si ma tv n'affichait que de la neige, alors je serais allée acheter un de ces décodeurs!

En effet pour les autres, il suffit d'acheter un décodeur genre canal+ ou canal sattelitte ou autres. Cela concerne principalement ceux qui vivent à la campagne ou dans les plus petites villes je pense, un peu comme en France pour les regions ayant le tri-machin ou pas ou bien ayant le haut-débit ou pas...

Pour plus d'infos (en anglais) c'est ici. Sur la droite de la page, il y a un cadre violet avec les "inställningar", les settings. Vous pouvez agrandir le texte ou réduire le contraste, essayez. C'est assez fréquent pour les sites publiques de proposer ce genre de choses, on a ca en France aussi?

Et en France au fait, y a qqch de similaire qui est prévu?

Viva Mexico!

Carlos read my blog today and felt guilty, so now I have some videos, hehehe!

So here is what I attended last Saturday, the Mexican celebration of their Independance day. It was in 1810 by the way.

This dance and the costumes are typical from Veracruz:

And for a true Mexican party, you need some Mariacho, so there you go!

There were two other dances, one of which is with other costumes which I looooooved, so colourful, so bright colours, aaaah! love it! You can get a glimpse of some of them at the end of the Mariachi video, but will try to get some pics as well.

not my fault...

... am supposed to be writing about the Mexican party last Saturday which amaaaaaazing, so cool, great food, great people, great music, great dances, great singing, interesting people... Well I am not starting now, I still miss some pictures. Got some today but not about the dances. Didn't have my camera then, ooooh I feel so dependent on the others now, don't like it!

but i'm working on it guys, working on it!

Elle

Hier, en rentrant chez moi, ô joie! ô bonheur! Elle (suède) était là dans ma boite aux lettres. Je me suis abonnée pour 6 mois, Elle est un mensuel partout dans le monde mis à part la France où c'est un hebdomadaire.

Donc désormais, tous les mois je pousserai mon "ô joie! ô bonheur!" en ouvrant la porte. Et quelque chose me dit que maintenant que j'ai fait le premier pas, je vais m'habituer à ce luxe et que le réabonnnement régulier est plus que probable...

The fashion victim is happy! :)

Red Soul

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Long time no see...

Tonight, or rather in a few minutes, I am going to meet my friends Carlos and Fernando that are coming here from Halmstad for the week-end. I haven't seen them in more than a year and half now and am really looking forward to it.

Carlos is from Mexico and Fernando from Columbia (The country that "gave" Shakira to the world, as Fernando was telling us proud). I met them in Halmstad when I was organising the introduction week for the exchange students and they were among these new students. We had a lot of fun under these 10 days although I really had the change to know them only afterwards. There was a really cool group that year and we were a bit sad that they had to leave to Germany only after one semester.

They were in a program where they were studying one semester in Sweden, one in Germany, one in Denmark, and for the last one, to write their thesis, they could choose any of these three. Just like Canadian Liz the year before they chose to stay in Denmark and just like her, they had problems with the thesis. Luckily for Liz, she managed to move to Halmstad in the middle of the term and finish her paper almost in time. Didn't go that well for the guys to have to start from scratch and are therefore going to spend the whole semester here in Halmstad.

I won't complain, more opportunities for me to meet them. ;-)

Have to leave you, must fix my make-up, my hair, change clothes, decide which ones, and then jewels and shoes... shouldn't take too long, right? ;-)

Marianne James, laisse moi ta place

Ce soir je vous dévoile une facette cachée de ma personnalité: je suis découvreuse de talents. En juillet, j'avais posté sur Paul Potts, un vendeur de téléphones portables qui participait à l'émission "Britain's got talent", l'équivalent d'American Idol ou de la Nouvelle Star. Pour voir la vidéo, suivez the lien...

Le mec chantait du lyrique lors de sa première audition et maintenant le programme est fini et il a gagné!! Si vous n'avez pas suivi le lien plus haut, faites-le ici et maintenant et vous comprendrez de quoi je parle...

9/11

"September 11th, the day that changed the world", such was the name of a documentary that one could see on TV tonight. I believe it's true. EVERYONE on this planet knows what he was doing on september 11th in 2001. As far as I am concerned, I was a trainee at SFR (Vodafone France) as a market manager assistant, it was a part of my studies then. Anyway, the job was in La Défense, Paris' business center (like the City in London) in one of the closest tower to the Arch of La Défense. I was working on the 24th floor and remember receiving a mail from a friend who was then in the US, it was around 14 or 15 pm and it took a while before we understood what was happening. My friend and then roomate Melanie was scared that it could happen in Paris too, but I believed that London would be first if something had to happen outside the States... The whole area was evacuated and we went home. By the time we were finally outside and on the way to take the subway, the people who were working in the lower floors must have been home since at least an hour to an hour and a half... After that, tension cooled down, we practice the evacuation in the following weeks and everything slowly started to go back to normal...

Then, two years later, another mail from another friend, in Sweden this time... On the 11th of September, Anna Lindh was murdered in Stockholm while doing her shopping. Anna Lindh was Minister for Foreign Affairs in Göran Persson's government at the time and was a very appreciated political person. In spite of her high position, she never had a bodyguard with her and on that day, she was shopping at NK, a big department store in the center of Stockholm when she was suddenly stabbed. A man was later arrested, it seems that he was suffering from psycholigical disorders. I was in France at the time, a year after my first stay in Sweden, but I had already been caught by my current country of adoption and I remember feeling a huge sadness. I feel sad for the Swedes, really sad. It was the second time one of their beloved politician was assassinated in the streets of Stockholm after Olof Palme, their Prime Minister, on the 28th of February 1986.

Luckily we won't remember everything that we did on those sad days. Let's hope 9/11 will be the one time that will be enough to remember that these things can happen and that we need to feel for the people who lost someone close.

Escapade in Sthm

Ok, still haven't written about the week-end in Stockholm, it's time now...

Well, it was really nice,I had a great time. I left on friday by car with my friends Henrik & Male (Maria Elena). We talked a lot, slept a little (not Henrik, luckily), ate a little and hop! There we were i Stora Essingen in front of Ingeborg's house. And then it was started, we started talking, hehe... and watch a bit of TV as well.

On Saturday morning, Ingeborg bought some fresh bread across the street and we had a really good breakfast. It was 11 o'clock approximatively. After that we headed downtown for some shopping: what else! Stora Essingen is really great because it's an island a bit outside the usually denominated "center" of Stockholm and it's really green, there are a lot of deers living on the island and you can easily meet one in the morning, happened to me two years ago, the last time I visited Ingeborg actually.... but still, from there, it only taked 15 min by bus to get to the city center (Hötorget).

For the ones you know me, you know the way I feel about shopping, no need to precise... so I had given myself a budget of 1000 sek (around 100€) but the thing is that I was also looking for a present for my dad so I was not looking so much at stuff for girls. And because most of the shops are actually chains or franchise or however it's called, most of what is in Stockholm, you can find it in Göteborg as well, so often I was saying "I'll go and check this again when I'm home". And the result was that, apart from the present, I didn't buy anything for me!!!

On the way home we bought some "lördagsgodis" or Saturday candies that we started eating in the subway and finished together with a glass of wine. In the evening, we went to a good Italian restaurant and drank a really good white wine and good pizza. After that we went to Östermalm (one of the fancy area of Sthm) to the Soap Bar. Great bar and we had fun. Talked to Danish guys first, actually there was one whom I was sooooo convinced that he was French from the way he looked like so I HAD to ask him. Well, so wrong I was, but they were nice and we talked a while. Then some Swedish guys but they were too drunk and focused on one thing only, finding a girl for the night, so we got rid of them quite quickly. Then, we started to be a bit tired but the DJ was soooo good, AAAALL the songs he played were good! You know sometimes you hear 2 or 3 good songs and then 1 or 2 not so good and then it's get better again and it's always like these kinds of ups and downs... well, not this time, not a single B-class song! So we stayed a little bit more and as we were about to leave two guys who had been drinking champagne the whole night invited us for a glass. Can I say no to champagne? Nope... really nice guys. And then taxi and then home and then to bed...

On the day after, we took another good breakfast, talked a little bit more because it still wasn't enought after friday evening and the whole saturday ;-) ... and then H & M picked me up to head back to Gbg.

Really nice week-end, Thank you again Ingeborg! See you soon in Göteborg! =)

Joyeux anniversaire, joyeux anniversaire...

18 ans que je sais qui tu es (le frère de "l'intello" qui est dans la classe d'Etienne à l'époque).

10 ans qu'on se connait (septembre 1997, la rentrée à l'internat de Théo).

A quelques jours près, 10 ans qu'on est bons amis.

3 ans que la distance entre nous est beaucoup trop grande (je sais, c'est ma faute.... ).

et je l'espère, encore plein d'années à compter voire à arrêter de compter....

BON ANNIVERSAIRE MATTHIEU!!!!

Et bon anniversaire à Pilou aussi naturellement! ;-)

Ca flashe...

Ca fait maintenant plus d'un mois que je bosse et je n'ai toujours pas de cartes de visite. Entre autres car on est en train de bosser sur l'identité de la boite et sur les logos etc... du coup, on en profite aussi pour discuter de mon titre. J'ai été recrutée pour un poste de "Market Coordinator" mais il est désromais plus probable que je sois:

International Marketing Manager ou si on veut se la faire franco-francaise Responsable Marketing International... dans les deux cas, moi je trouve que ca flashe pas mal!

:)

Happy

I'm happy tonight: had a nice day at work, quite relax. Came home to discover that my internet connection was back, yay! Returned some clothes at H&M (yes, it can happen!) which means I am getting money back on my bank account, that's never wrong... good food already cooked from yesterday when I got back from the gym, and now I'm going to bed early... not a perfect day because my step instructor was absent today and his replacement was not half as good as him... but a good one anyway!

BTW: had a great week-end in Stockholm, report tomorrow!

Answers illustrated

The rules are simple... Answer the twelve questions, but without words, just type in your answer in Google Images and put the FIRST picture that comes up.

Here are my results:

Vilket år är du född? / What year were you born?




















Hur definierar du din sexuella läggning? / How would you define your sexual orientation?
















Vilken är din bästa egenskap som kärlekspartner? / Which one is your best characteristic as a lovepartner?



















Och din sämsta? / And your worst?



















Vad söker du hos en partner? / What are you looking for in a partner?















Vem var din första hemliga barndomsförälskelse (förnamnet)? / What was the name of your first secret childcrush (first name)?















Vilket yrke är det sexigaste du vet? / Which profession is the most sexy according to you?




















Vilken kändis är hetast enligt dig? / Which star is hottest in your opinion?

















Vad gör dig avtänd? / What turns you down?
























Vem hade du ditt första riktiga förhållande med(förnamnet)? / What was the name of your first real relationship (first name)?











Vilken kroppsdel, förutom munnen, gillar du bäst att kyssa på en partner? / Which body, appart from the mouth, do you prefer to kiss from your partner?


















Ett kärlekspar på film eller tv som du gillar? / A couple in a movie or on TV, that you like?




















If you take the test, put a link in the comments so that I can compare. =)