Since most of my colleagues are muslim and all others have not come to work on this holy day ! I almost forgot to take my lunch …
It is Ramadan, none of them are eating!!! So of course they are not going to call me for lunch…
Therefore, I had to go for lunch alone … And I felt kinda wierd when I told them :
“Ok cu guys, I go for lunch, come back later …” 
A bit awkward isn’t it…
Have you ever played to any Civilisation before?
If yes, then you know what it is to be in my condition now…
Indeed, Civilisation has been officialy released on last thursday 27th. It is already available back in France! And yet I’m still waiting, waiting to get it…
Yesterday morning around 12.30 after I woke up, the first topic which came up with my girlfriend was what to have for lunch … So in my vicious mind, totally perversed by the upcoming of Civilisation 4 and uniquely focused on acquiring the game, I instantly proposed Mc Donald in Carrefour! Because there are located 2 video games’ shops
I knew she would agree because we very seldom have fast food and as planned we decided to eat some burgers! Success!! ah ah:)
I was still at home and she and I took the time to get ready. Since I am such a clever and clear minded persons, I started to analyze under which circumstances could my plan fail. With my experience as her boyfriend, I know that on sunday her family is cooking porridge and that usually we join the gathering! Today was an exception to the rule because there was too less for the whole family but … we never know! I foresaw the fact that she would call me to ask me to come to her home … This is exactly what happened indeed!
So I decided to pass by Carrefour alone ONLY to buy this game! And this is after waiting 20 minutes in the jam of the shopping center’s parking area that finally I reached the shop ONLY to learn that the game was not yet available!
Damn it! That was a good try but a total failure!
I finally started my way to her home, stoped at one hoacker center to buy chinese snacks usually consumed together with porridge and reached her home.
I was about 40 minutes late… Never mind, I found some good excuses which didnt even awake a doubt! ah ah!;)
This is what we call a Civilisation fanatic’s episode!
Today was quite a busy day!
To make the long story short, I had an exam from 2 to 4 pm, after that from 8 to 10, I joined a wedding/registration party - a friend of Phinie is registering on next wednesday - and after that, we joined a few friends to a disco called the Poppy Garden … Out of the group I knew only two excluding my girlfriend.
That was really AWKWARD !
Sometimes, I think I should avoid this kind of gathering, I don’t get any fun out of it!
After that thankfully, it got better!
First of all, we got a proper table where we could sit and closer to the dance floor!
And also a friend of mine pushed me towards the ‘new friends’ in order to introduce myself! SO DAMN AWKWARD I tell you! I felt really uneasy! But ok let’s forget about the manners, this somehow helped things to get better because we could somewhat call ourselves a group and dance together without having such feeling like “who’s that stranger!”
So starting from then, we had fun and I was not that bored anymore!
Sometimes I think that Phinie’s friends must find me so unpleasant… But for me, there are certain ways to do things and especially with people. Politeness and respect are 2 golden rules and you don’t ignore people like some people do.
“Hello” and “How are you?” are 2 very short sentences which when said improve grantly the feeling of the person who is being asked!
Whoever may read this post please learn from it!
Today is our last day of work before the annual one week holiday for maly new year and indian new year and guess what…. I have got a bonus, actually we colleagues all got a bonus!!
This bonus consists of :
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One packet of branded Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum in a yellow packaging …!
Our only response was “and then? That’s all???
Happy deepavali and hary raya
Aujourd’hui, j’ai passé une relativement bonne journée. Je suis arrivé au bureau vers 9h10 et après avoir lu mes emails, je me suis mis au travail.
Comme précisé dans un de mes précédent post, je travaille dans une entreprise de développement de solutions informatique. Notre équipe s’occupe du développement d’une application unique qui est en fait une « application builder ». Cela signifie tout simplement que cette outil/éditeur permet de créer des applications orientées business pour répondre à des besoins urgent. Par exemple, une solution complète pour une entreprise a dimension nationale voire internationale peut se faire dans un délai de 2 à 4 mois au lieu de parfois plus d’un an ou deux. Les technologies utilisées sont principalement JAVA et compagnie…
Donc aujourd’hui, j’ai continué mon travail de création de composants pour l’interface web de notre application. Ca se passe globalement bien comparé a hier où j’ai pour dire presque rien fait… Je commence à mieux comprendre l’architecture web et les corrélations entre les différents fichiers… En bref ça se passe bien…
J’ai passé en plus de cela un long moment à discuter sur MSN d’abord avec Don, mon ancien colocataire canadien quand je résidais en Finlande. J’ai du me retenir pour ne pas pouffer de rire devant mon écran tellement on délirait … En plus de ça, mon poste informatique fait directement face à mon manager technique et ses 2 amis collègues avec lesquels je travaille… J’espère juste qu’ils n’ont pas trop remarqué parce que là c’est sur qu’ils savent que j’étais pas en train de bosser !
Après ça j’ai discuté avec Liya pendant tout le reste de l’après midi… Cette fille, c’est simple, on est complètement sur la même longueur d’onde. On s’entend à propos de tout et on s’apprécie l’un l’autre ! Donc c’est sûr, quand on commence à discuter, on ne s’arrête plus…
Pis bon la journée de travail s’est terminé normalement, je suis rentré a la maison tranquillement et j’ai mis la musique… Fin de soirée pénarde à étudier pour l’exam de samedi entrecoupé de discussions courtes ci et là avec mes colocataires. Nous avons échangé nos numéros de téléphone avec Jesvin. J’ai d’ailleurs découvert que son prénom n’était en fait pas Jasmine mais Jesvin… Bah en tout cas la prononciation est quasi identique !
Voilà une journée dépourvue de quoi que ce soit d’excitant ! Et oui… C’est ça qu’on appelle la routine. Un peu de musique française et je réapprends à parler et à écrire…
Allez je vous laisse là, je retourne à mes études !
Bye
Today was quite a horrible day,
Indeed, I started a new project whose technology is not familiar to me: JSF and AJAX!
Well I don’t mind learning new things, actually I am always happy to learn and do different things…
The problem is that I am working with another guy who had been on it for a little while before me… As a consequence, I am slow in comparison and I have much to catch up. And to tell you the truth, I get even slower because the guy simply doesn’t give a damn of me and would not give me a hand even for god’s sake! So I am slow… Who cares … Me the last, I even write on my blog rather than keep working!
Why today was a horrible day? Because my technical manager asked me to standardize the file names of the web components that we had both created… Easy task would you say! This is also what I thought… For my components at least it was an easy task because I was following certain logic in the way I was doing things… It took me no long to fix it…. However, for just two of HIS components, it took me the whole day… Because the mapping between the tag file and the renderer was wrong and I couldn’t figure out what the hell it was about… Not to mention the loud sighs of the fellow when I asked him to explain me what kind of logic it was… So I decided to write on my blog rather than to continue that way. In one day I fixed one component and the other one is just half way done. Enough for today, I now write again components which is somehow more exciting than to fix filenames and mappings…
So now you know!
Best of all, today was my birthday! My girlfriend brought me breakfast by morning time! I was totally in a blur as she woke me up and I opened the door wrapped in my blanket…. She just stayed at the door step and left almost strayed away as it was already 8.30 and she had to go to work…
Anyway, that was sweet of her…
By evening, she brought some birthday cake to me and we had a short happy birthday song with my 2 flatmates… followed by a long discussion all together until the time has come for her to leave!
Oh yes I also received one very special sms from one very special person…. Then my girlfriend had a view over it… 
wow she was kinda upset! Just to annoy her even more I pretended that I used to receive this kind of sms from my multiple, uncountable fans… Then she was even more upset … ^_^ To the one who recognise herself *hug*!
Ok got to go already, Sleep well readers!
This thursday, I left the office around 5pm like usual and head back home straight away though rain started to fall! Once I reached home, I found myself totally soacked as if I had jumped into a lake!
That was no real big deal, I stripped off, launched some music and layed down…
I put on the music that a friend gave me when I was studying in Finland. She actually is my very good friend and we sometime spent some time listening to music together…. So after I layed and listened, it is like my mind was totally flying away! taken away by memories … This was such a subtile feeling that to be listening to music with her and feel like our hearts and minds were unified together in one …. God only knows how much I miss those moments… Because for me music is so important! It happens to me, actually quite often, just simply to lay down or only sit there and listen to music doing nothing. I like to listen to the melody, the lyrics. Especially to french lyrics where meanings are flowing like a snaky river 
Unfortunately I havent found any ‘music mate’ so far… And also I am more busy that I used to be!
In fact, this is not the only reason but there would be too much to write and not enough time to explain the ‘why of the how’! Some other time perhaps you will have the chance to know more about it… I have been to Malaysia for one year now and I have learned quite a lot about the malaysian culture and society… there will be much to write about that as well Damn, you could not imagine how mych I miss my canadian flatmate Don… We both like to talk so much … And also dring wine!!! ah ah … I like to hug Don. He’s a little bit fat and it is like a big teddy bear! So sweet! Anyway those time as far behind already! Time is running… My friends are rarefying… Actually not really I’ve got some great friends where ever I have been! But this feeling that they are getting so far away is sometimes quite hard! Don in Canada, Liya in Finland, my french friends who already forgot where I am actually staying, those spanish, italian, german fellows who don’t remember neither. It is like a river drying up with time! … I am quite homesick lately … For 2 consecutive nights, I have been dreaming of my family and friends … bad sign and also I slept so badely! Last afternoon I even fell unconsious on my bed while I was listening to music … I call it “fell unconscious” because I would never call it sleeping, it is like a dream that someone forced me to have at a very unsuitable time! Therefore I felt like I was fighting the whole duration of the dream in order to wake up! Impossible! … So strange right!
Damn, I should be working, already : 10:30 and I only had been writing this post. I hope you’ll be able to read, it is really fresh out of my mind without any more reflection… Take care!
For this whole time, I thought about writting about what I was doing, maintaining kinda diary…
However, I always had been too busy or I may say lazy to write anything. Or perhaps I would write for one month then stop. I still keep a started diary about my life in Finland more precisely about my first month or so in Finland. Reading it is really bringing me back to this great time and I sometimes feel regret that I didn’t continue…
Nevertheless, here is a new attempt of doing that but this time publicly, online for me and my friends. Let’s see if I can keep doing it and for how long time.
What you will find here is what I do, how I spend my time. Some ideas about certain things. Why not some technical foundings, and sometimes some personal reflection… Perhaps also I could tell the moments I feel melancholic or homesick though those are rare…
Well much of things if I am in the mood to write otherwise … perhaps not too much. But one thing is for sure, you will get to know me better by reading it and I would even say, you might get to know this inner part which is usually profoundly hidden and showed only to the closest ones…
So enjoy yourself …
Frederic
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