Downtown

Demain et jusqu'à vendredi, je serai en conférence au centre-ville, j'en profiterai pour écrire sur mes petites observations et prendre quelques photos!

Tomorow and until Friday, I will be in a cofnerence downtown, I will take that opportunity to write on my little observations and take a few pictures!

Vive le CANADA!

Aujourd'hui, je suis fier d'être Canadien, la nouvelle Miss Univers est Canadienne, Nathalie Geblova a été couronée hiers! Nous pouvons dire que le mélange Russe/Canadien est assez étonant!
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Today, i'm happy to be Canadian, the new Miss World is Canadian Nathalie Geblova was crowned yesterday! We can say the mix Russian/Canadian is quite stunning!

Un nouveau blogue

Après VERSTEHEN, In Limbo, Abraxas, voici L'EUxpatriée. Après des années sans nouvelles, 4 cousins(es) apprenent à se connaitre par blogues! (cela ferait un super concept de film non?)
Alors la couz, j'te mets dans mes favs et je suis tes péripéties chaques jours maintenant!
Je vous jure que si elle écrit comme elle parle, il y aura BEAUCOUP de blogues à venir!

The 30 seconds sitcom!

And so you thought you'd just buy a TIVO (or a PVR in Canada) and that way you could skip the commercials and watch your 20 minutes sitcom or 40 minutes Law and Order by skiping all the commercials. Well you thought wrong. Ads execs came up with a great idea, why not incorporate ads right in our favorite shows! Won't happen? Well ever thought about all the CTU staff in 24 driving only FORD 4X4? Bernie Mac popping Rolaids in one of his show, Extreme Makeover shopping "exclusively" at Sears for their furnitures and accesories.... You thought you could skip ads? Not when you're dealing with a 10 Billion / year revenue business.

Le coeur plein de soleil (la tête et les épaules aussi)

Je n'ai rien à écrire en fin de semaine sauf....
Je vais jouer à rock, papier, solo. C'est comme roche, papier, ciseaux, mais en plus rock!
(écoutez Musique Plus le samedi à 21h30 pour comprendre)

Je n'ai pas lu les journaux ni regardé la télé. Une fin de semaine belle comme celle là, il faut la passer dehors non? Alors that's it! rien, nada, niet!
Je me prépare à aller passer 3 jours au Marriot Chateau Champlain dès mercredi.

Bonne semaine!

Peut-on être 'trop' ouvert?

As the Quebec National Assembly rejected at 100% the 'charia' (Islamic Law), Ontario is still debating on the subject. What is there to debate? Taking out the right for Islamic Woman living in Canada? Most of whom came to find a better life? Ontario shouldn't have to go through such debates, we are open to all religions but are we too open? Can we still say that without being called racists? What about a Catholic law system (!) in Muslims States!

Pendant que l'assemblée Nationale du Québec rejette à 100% l'idée d'un recours à la charia, l'ontario continue le débat sur le sujet. Quel débat? Enlever le droit des femmes Musulmanes vivant au Canada? La plupart venant ici pour une vie meilleure? L'ontario ne devrait pas avoir à dàbatre du sujet, nous sommes ouvert à toutes les religions mais sommes nous trop ouvert? Peut-on dire cela sans se faire traiter de raciste? Pourquoi pas un système judiciaire catholique (!) dans des états Musulmans?

Idiots do exists in this Country

Here's the proof. Those stupid dumbasses have a website...
Please drop them an e-mail saying how dumb and ignorant they are, while you're there, check out their mail section, they sent funny stuff to the Federal Government!

I married an anglophone from Ontario and in no way does this website reflect the reality out there. These people ( French extremists also) should not be able to write such garbage.
They obviously need a life....
And here I thought yesterday was a bad day..... :-)

Smile!

Today was probably the shittiest day i've had in a long time, I didn't feel like writing but I got an e-mail with a few little lines that made me kinda laught so maybe if I read them again and again, i'll get better.....

Can you cry under water?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches?
Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?
Why do you have to "put your two cents in".. . but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?
Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
What disease did cured ham actually have?
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up every two hours?
If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
If you drink Pepsi at work in the Coke factory, will they fire you?
Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
How come we choose from just two people for President and fifty for Miss America?
Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going to see you naked anyway.
If a 911 operator has a heart attack, whom does he/she call?
Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?
Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet soup?
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out!"
Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
When your photo is taken for your driver's license, why do they tell you to smile? If you are stopped by the police and asked for your license, are you going to be smiling?
If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?
Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?
If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?
Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!
What do you call male ballerinas?
Can blind people see their dreams? Do they dream?
If Wyle E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Is Disney World the only people trap operated by a mouse?
Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?Why did you just try singing the two songs above?
Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?
Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride; he sticks his head out the window?

sniff sniff

Non mais avez vous tous eu une longue fin de semaine de merde? C'est la première fois que je croise plusieurs personnes qui avaient hâte de retourner au travail. Merci dame nature....

La nouvelle qui n'en était pas une....

Pour ceux qui ne s'en doutais pas, Nathalie Simard est une des victimes du pédophile Guy Cloutier. Nathalie, sûrement écoeurée de se faire regarder par tous les amateur de la poule aux oeufs d'or qui se demandent (cé tu elle?) a décidée de demander la levée de l'interdit de publication qui était ordonnée depuis le début du procès de Guy Cloutier. Bravo Nathalie, elle pourra maintenant partager son passé avec d'autres victimes et peut être aider à sa propre guérison. Pour les mauvaises langues, sachez que le cachet qu'elle recevra de TVA pour son entrevue (exclusive) de jeudi prochain sera versé à la fondation Nathalie Simard (présentement en construction) qui viendra en aide aux victimes de pédophilies. Bravo!

24

15 minutes, 15 more minutes to wait for the season finale of 24. Probably one of the most original show ever, 24, is ending tonight after 22 weeks of pure suspense with a 2 hour season finale. For those of you who were on another planet for the last 4 years, here's the thing, 24 is a show that takes place in, humm, 24 hours! so all the show represent 1 hour out of the 24. So we started this season from 7am to 8am, show 2 is 8am to 9am, so on and so on, make sense? Anyway, if you've never seen 24, I suggest you rent the DVDs on a raine shitty weekend (like this stupid weekend)

Our own scandal

Before I die, someone will have to make me undestand what it is about English Canada's fascination with the Queen.
For the life of me, I CANNOT get that buzz surrounding her every visit to this Country. We, in Quebec, understood a logn time ago that the Queen means nothing more than a few millions spent for nothing. Seem that the rest of Canada didn't get it yet. Are we missing something? What else do we owe her?
Let"s call people in Alberta and Saskatchewan who are all gaga over her.....

Hallucinations!

Non mais, il est 21h30 samedi et nous écoutons Julio Iglesias chanter en Allemand chez Drucker à TV5. Je dois aller dormir bientôt!

Side note, Nathasha St-Pierre est là aussi et franchement, elle a une voix assez belle merci!

Bon baiser de....

Après les horreurs d' "en atendant Ben Laden" et "Tout le monde tout nu" il était bien de voir une nouvelle émission franchement pas pire bonne à la R-C. Vivement son 250,000$ pour France.

Saddam wears briefs.

So now we can all sleep better since we know Saddam wears briefs, not boxers.
Some people are offended, that picture might have broken the Geneva Convention, this should have never happened, this is an outrage.....ZZZZZzzzzzzzz
CNN just found something to talk about for the next 3 weeks.

How to save 300 millions?

Just win confidence vote (have to laught at that term no?)and no elections happens. Here it is, 300 million dollars saved for Canadians. Ultimately, it just means more money available to those who really really don't need more but....

Dave's alright!

I was happy to read in the Times Canada that Dave Chapelle is alright. Last March , Dave signed a 50 million, yes, 50 million deal for his Comedy central show "the Dave Chapelle show" and then kinda disapeared. He had asked exects to postpone the next season of his show twice and soon after rumors started flying. Drugs? Gone insane? Pressure? well maybe the latter two in a small portion. Turns out he's in South Africa at his friends house thinking about when and how he'll return to America and to the show. At least nothing stupid happened and we can all still hope this comedy genuis is back soon!

Stronash passe à l'ouest

Après Sergei le russe qui grâce à Pierre Lambert et Gilles Guilbault (amateurs de lance et compte...)est passé à l'ouest, voici que Belinda Stronash passe aux Libéraux. Si la tendance se maintient, aucune élection ne sera possible cet été et Belinda, comme grand geste de remerciement, passera chef du parti Libéral dans 2 ans!

Well, Belinda Stronash just switched sides and is now a Liberal! If all remains, no elections will happen this summer and Belinda, as a big thank you, will be the new Liberal chief in 2 years!

You could also ban their disgusting coffee

In another absurd attempt at censorship;
Starbuck's coffee is pulling out of their store the new Bruce Springsteen album Devils and Dust. Apparently, the song "Reno", about an encounter with a prostitute is too much for them little ears. Newsweek magazine reported that the coffee retailer had pulled albums off their stores after some complaints about that song. A Starbucks (very bright) executive said that the song in question was only one of the reasons, the main being "scheduling difficulties." :)
I think it is probably too difficult for them to schedule the "skip" button on their CD players to not play that song.......

I'm talking Brutal Outing here

Spokane Mayor, Jim West, know for his harsh comments and actions on gays such as, banning gay men and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and some state agencies, wanting to screen prospective employees for sexual orientation and firing employees whose homosexuality became known, proposed that teen sex be criminalized,etc.etc. was just caught last week in a sex "chat room" with a teenage boy (well, a journalist passing for a 17 year old kid) and came out of the closet as a gay man!
Do we say, gotcha?

Airline

As much as reality shows can (suck) sometimes or all the time, here's one that is really good. It is called Airline and it plays on A&E. The best one is still "The Amazing Race" but this one is a close 2nd. Watch it when you can!

The story of a finger!

Le manque de tueries, de scandales sexuels et de gaffes du seigneur Bush fait en sorte que l'histoire du doigt trouvé dans le chili chez Wendy's attire l'attention partout, partout, partout aux É-U depuis quelques jours (voir semaines). Vite un scandale s.v.p.

Wine

I go to bed before 10h00pm (see previous post) and I just drank 2 and 1/2 glass of red wine and feel too happy. Definite signs i'm getting old......

10h00pm.

It's Friday, 10h00pm. Probably going to bed soon.!
Remember when we used to get ready to go out at 10h00pm?

Damien Rice

My cool dude Mike from work introduced me to the music of Damien Rice. I got the CD Today and I must have listened to it 15 times already. Very mellow music "à la " Jack Johnson or John Mayer (2 other good mellow singers). Easy listening, will be very good this summer while sitting outside. For those of you who saw the movie "closer" he had a song or two in there. Worth checking out while your at the music store.

Anne-Marie à R-C

J'ai trouvée une deuxième raison d'écouter Radio-Canada. Après l'excellente émission "Minuit le soir" voici qu'Anne-Marie Withenshaw s'en va à R-C, animer une émission de type "the view". Peut importe ce qu'elle animera, je vais écouter attentivement....

Got this song in my head.

As most my friends know, I not into too much Canadian music but this one, I just can't get enough of, makes me wanna drive far,far,far without stoping :).
It's the new Jann Arden song called "where no one knows me"
"Got my suitcase, got my dog, I’m packing up my life so far
Got my pictures, got some cash, I’m getting out of here at last
Got my hands on the wheel, got my foot on the pedal
Gonna drive ‘til I drop, ‘til the tires turn to metal
Gonna sleep when I’m dead, gonna laugh like the devil
Gonna find some place where no one knows me
Gonna stop when the last drop of gas turns to vapour
Gonna ride ‘til I can’t even seem to remember
Who I was when I left and it don’t even matter
Gonna find some place where no one knows me
Feel the sun burn, on my skin
I feel the wind whip through my grin
Tore the rearview mirror down, I wrapped it in my wedding gown
Got my hands on the wheel, got my foot on the pedal
Gonna drive ‘til I drop, ‘til the tires turn to metal
Gonna sleep when I’m dead, gonna laugh like the devil
Gonna find some place where no one knows me
Gonna stop when the last drop of gas turns to vapour
Gonna ride ‘til I can’t even seem to remember
Who I was when I left and it don’t even matter
Gonna find some place where no one knows me"

Le coq

Le coq est frustré! Il se fait accuser d'avoir causé la perte de la Gaspésia. On se relance la balle, PQ, PLQ, PQ, FTQ,PLQ, PQ...Et les travailleurs au chomage? On y pensent?

Bonne fête maman!

C'st la fête des mamans et moi j'ai les 2 meilleures au monde, la mienne et celle de mon petit. Bon, je sais que tous les fistons et filles disent la même chose mais moi c'est vrai. Bon, mon épouse est une mère merveilleuse mais elle a 14 mois d'expérience. Ma mère, 37 ans. Oui 37 ans d'anciennetée, sans vacances ni moment sans inquiétudes. Chaque jour, elle pense à sa fille, son fils et son petit-fils et elle a un petit sourire en coin et pense sûrement à la prochaine fois qu'elle les verra, et bien aujourd'hui elle aura ses amours avec elle pour toute la journée et son coeur se remplira de belle photos à garder à tous jamais.
Ma maman est la meilleure car; elle fait les meilleurs repas, les meilleurs desserts, elle fait les meilleures blagues (bon, j'en mets un peut trop là), elle donne les meilleurs conseils et par dessus tout, c'est la meilleure car elle m'a aussi donnée la meilleur soeur au monde.
Maman, bonne fête et à tantôt!
P.S. À quand la prochaine tarte au Corn Flakes?

Le défi 4 tonnes.

Vous savez c'est quoi 4 tonnes? non? Je vous l'apprend. 4 tonnes c'est PAS MAL de pierre de ruisseau, c'est débuter TRÈS tôt pour un samedi, c'est 14 pelleté de roche à chaque voyage dans la "brouette" fois environs 100 allez-retour + le déversement. C'est 2 gros rouleaux de toile géotextile, 3 ampoules dans les mains, un mal de dos, les épaules amochées et un sérieux coup de soleil dans le cou. Oh et en passant il me reste encore 1/4 du travail à faire demain!

You know what 4 tons are? No? I'll tell you. 4 tons is A LOT of decorative rocks, it's starting very early for a Saturday, 14 shovelful on the "wheelbarrow" times about 100 trips + spilling it on the land. It's 2 big rolls of geotextile, 3 blisters in the hands, back pain, bruised shoulders and a serious sunburn in the neck. Oh and by the way, I still have 1/4 of it to do tomorow!

Cette mémoire qui oublie....

Le PQ projette un surplus dans les milliards quelques anéées après l'indépendance du Québec.
Je me demande pourquoi ils avaient "cachés" un manque d'environs 400 millions au Libéraux quand ils ont perdus le pouvoir!

Riche

Tiens tiens!
Depuis ce matin, on peut lire que si le Québec se sépare, chacun de nous serait plus riche!
Beau rapport fait sur "le bras" et approuvé par 4 nerds, calculatrice à la main, et stylos dans la pochette avant de l'Université Laval (à Québec bien sûr). Essayons quelque chose, ne payons plus rien au Provincial pendant un an et si nous sommes plus riche avec juste le support du fédéral, on décampe! OK?

Can we save lives in exchange of fuel?

Just read that 300 000 Ethiopian kids are dying every year of poor nutrition and that almost 200 000 are in danger of dying from malnutrition if they don't get 13 millions in aid in the next 60 days. Not to sound pessimistic but if they don't find any oil sources there, no money will come from rich Countries and kids will continue to die and be reported at the bottom of page 87, small prints, of the USA Today!

How long before I begin?

Qui n'a pas entendu la nouvelle chanson de Coldplay (sped of light) si vous ne l'avez pas entendu, vous étiez sûrement en train de faire de la plongée sous-marine depuis les 2 dernières semaines. Je sais qu'EMI mise gros sur cet album pour renflouer leurs coffres mais y aurait-il moyen de ne pas nous faire mourir avant que l'album sorte en juin? Après "Rich Girl" de Gwen na na na na na na na, voici "Speed of light" du mari de Gwyneth qui passe sans arrêt toutes les 10 minutes. Je crois que je devrai éteindre ma radio jusqu'au 7 juin pour pouvoir encore avoir le goût d'acheter l'album à sa sortie!

Evolution is on trial.

Throught the Kansas board of education, the IDN (Intelligent Design Network) is conducting an hearing against teaching about evolution in schools. They will argue that the Earth was "created through intentional design rather than random organism evolution" and they believe that God was the ultimate designer of all life. Debates over evolution are currently being waged in more than a dozen states, including Texas where one bill would allowing for creationism to be taught alongside evolution.
I have to say that if this is the effort Christian America is pulling to get people into God rather than science, something is going wrong! click here for info

That's how close it shaves?

Pour ceux qui n'avait pas deviné mon blogue précédent.
Gillette est aussi propriétaire de Duracell. Faudra donc s'habituer au M3Power et brosse à dent OralB Hummingbird à batteries, surtout qu'Energizer vient d'acheter Schick pour concurrencer Gillette-Duracell.(merci Protégez vous).

For those who didn't find the answer from my previous blog.
Gillette also owns Duracell. We'll have to get used to the M3Power and OralB Hummingbird toothbrush all working with batteries, even more so now that Energizer just bought Schick, to play in Gillette-Duracell's playgroung. (Thank protégez-vous).