Hello from Shanghai !

Hey there ! I'm in Shanghai since Wednesday !
I'm still having problems with jetlag but otherwise everything is fine !!
The people are nice, the appartment is very big and not too noisy.
Here are different views from my appartment :

I'm in "holidays" !

I've just finished my 2-year of IT and Communication course !!! I'm so happy, no more computing course ever ^^.

I've learned a lot about the Web during these 2 years, met interesting people, had interesting courses (video editing,...), had the opportunity to do my end of first year internship abroad (Philippines), had funny nights out, and... the list could go on and on.

I've spent much of my free time shopping, playing the piano, the guitar, browsing the Web, going to the cinema...

Next year, I'll be in a business school in Bordeaux, still 2 or 3 years to go !

Tuesday, I'm leaving to Shanghai, where I'm going to do a 3-month webdesign internship. So looking forward to it !!! But um... with what's happening between Chinese and French right now... I should maybe avoid telling my nationality (wo shi faguo ren in chinese)... haha.

To finish on a musical note, do you know the french band Cocoon ? Well, you should !!!
I especially love this song.

Temporary lack of concentration...

It may happen to anyone...
These few days it looks like I'm unable to concentrate in classes... which are basically useless...
I mean, I have less than 3 weeks to go, huge projects to handle... and going to class is like... basic loss of time.

The real reason of all of this... is my departure to Shanghai... I'm already "in" Shanghai in my head...

I spend most of the time surfing the Web, looking for websites and forums talking about life in Shanghai... I learn a lot on what I can expect !!! Places to see, shopping, cost of life, nights out... So want to be there already !

By the way, the company where I'll work is a german company, vielleicht werde ich deutsch sprechen ? Kidding, it will all be in english, but imagine if I could catch up with my german, it would be great... speaking german in China... I've learnt german 6 years in high school, and read german news everyday. The thing is, I do understand everything I read or hear, but I never talk, so I never practice... Don't have any fellow german friend here haha. Na ja. I figured out I actually liked the german language and it even sounds good to my hears. I'm only saying that because the basic French thinks it sounds horrible and still caricatures german people speaking in a very harsh/cut tone (Nazi period ?), which I find completely stupid. I'm always trying to convice people it's not like that and it's actually beautiful, they never believe me.

Maybe just narrow-minded ? Yeah, dass denke ich.

Busy, busy, busy...

As you can see, my blog isn't updated very frequently...
Many projects in school... and... in less than 3 weeks from now I'll finish school !

There are still big projects awaiting, and no motivation whatsoever to finish them...

In the past months I've been looking for an internship in Shanghai, and after having conference calls and mail exchanges, I finally found one and took my decision.

I'm going to do my internship in a web agency.

I'm so excited to leave, as Shanghai seems to be very appealing, and cheaper in some ways ! Great experience lies within a few weeks... can't wait to go !!!

My presentation

Click here to see my video.
This is me... then.
Sometimes my accent is a bit weird...

You are the one that I want

This is a video clip my class realized last friday. We had a lot of fun !
I'm the first girl you see.

Don't stop the music

No, I'm not going to talk about the "oh-so-many-times" heard hit song from Rihanna.
No, I don't want to stop the music.
Yes, I love music.

Music is my life savior. Music is like love, it's universal. Music can't let you down, unless people. Music is always there when you feel lonely. Music makes you smile when you were sad.

I have this real addiction to music. I can't live one day without listenning to music. In the morning, I put my iPod's earphones in my ears and walk to school, same thing in the afternoon when coming home. When I'm at home, the radio, or music from my computer, is always on.

I also play the piano and the guitar. I've been playing piano for 12 years now. Once I've started playing, I can't stop. I like to play popular and pop piano, mainly from what I hear on the radio. I also play some classics as well.

I play the guitar everyday now. I just can't stop searching for songs on ultimate-guitar.com.
I like playing Incubus, Coldplay, Cranberries, Michelle Branch and Eagle Eyes Cherry's songs. The thing is, I learn new songs by myself, but I don't really progress. Strumming gets better, but not the technique. Lately, I also sing along. I've found out I could actually sing. I'm not saying I'm this big singer, but I remember all the times I would sing and enjoy karaoke times when in the Philippines.
Well, playing and singing is tough, but I kinda manage a few songs.
I'd really like to be part of a band someday... but at the moment, I'm too shy to sing to someone to know whether it's good or not.(well some privileged heard me... "how do you do to sing and play at the same time ?!")

Music is like a companion... In good and bad times, there will always be this good song which you will remember, which trully describes a precise moment in your life. Even when you party, there will always be the "party" song of a period.

Listenning to old songs can bring back the nostalgia and good memories of people and places... there are even songs you used to like that you will hate, because of this bad moment.

Well, I think you get the picture... Music is... life !

Long time no see

Hey everyone !
I've been quite busy in my life lately.

I have to decide to which business school I will go next year, here in Bordeaux. I already have to pass an exam next Saturday. I think I'll be ready for it, well I have to obviously !

The good thing is that I am now entering my 4th and last semester of school ! I will all be done with at the end of April. Then will start my internship... so looking forward to it.

Taking chances

Don't know much about your life
Don't know much about your world, but
Don't want to be alone tonight
On this planet they call earth

You don't know about my past, and
I don't have a future figured out
And maybe this is going too fast
And maybe it's not meant to last

Chorus :
But what do you say to taking chances
What do you say to jumping off the edge?
Never knowing if there's solid ground below
Or hand to hold, or hell to pay
What do you say ?
What do you say ?

I just wanna start again
And maybe you could show me how to try
Maybe you could take me in
Somewhere underneath your skin

Chorus

And I had my heart beating down
But I always come back for more, yeah
There's nothing like love to pull you up
When you're lying down on the floor there
So talk to me, talk to me
Like lovers do
Yeah walk with me, walk with me
Like lovers do
Like lovers do

Chorus

Don't know much about your life
And I don't know much about your world

Click.

Don't forget him...

Everybody now knows Heath Ledger died last tuesday. This is very sad news for his family, friends and his fans.
The Brokeback Mountain cow-boy will be remembered, that is for sure.
Only 28 years old and already gone, may he rest in peace.

We never change (Coldplay)

I wanna live life, never be cruel,
I wanna live life, be good to you.

I wanna fly, never come down,
And live my life,
And have friends around.

We never change, do we?
We never learned to leave,
So I wanna live in a wooden house,
I wanna live life, always be true,
I wanna live life, and be good to you,
I wanna fly, and never come down,
And I live my life, and have friends around.

We never change do we? No, no,
We never learned to bleed,
So I wanna live in a wooden house,
Making more friends would be easy.

O I don't have a show to say,
Yes, and I sing of a single day,
We never change do we?
We never learned to leave.

So, I wanna live life in a wooden house,
Making more friends would be easy,
I wanna live where the sun comes out.

Indeed I really think that we never really change. Of course, we evoluate, we take decisions, we change but not in that way. You will always go back to the real person you are, if ever you have found who you are.
I changed, but deep inside I'm still the same person. My tastes grew, but what I liked before, I still like. Purple was my favorite colour in high school, and still is, and the list can go on.
The Mariah Carey number one album I received for my 9th birthday, well the other day I listenned to it, and still liked all the songs. Weird.

End of the holidays...

This picture doesn't quite sum up my holidays (you can also find it on my french blog), but almost. Some reading, some Christmas gifts (I've become a "Heroes" addict, that's for sure), some chocolate, some shopping (I love MNG Jeans !) and some visiting. That's for the fun part ! I spent last week in Luxembourg.

I've also been looking for my internship in Shanghai or Luxembourg... I've been to so many websites and sent so many emails and applications... Gosh. And almost no answers... I hope I will find it in time.

And now, the sad part. End of the holidays. What, are you saying going back to class tomorrow ? Oh noooo. Time passes so quickly, which is a bad thing under these circumstances, but it is also a good thing. (the end of the year is near !!!). The end not's near, it's here. (Band of Horses, fools ! Excellent song by the way)

Belated...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008 !
May this new year be better than 2007 !!!

Eating disorders ?!

I'm going to talk to you about food.
Being half french, half philippino have made that I have 2 ranges of tastes. On the one hand, I like "french cuisine", fine and delicate, foie gras, oysters, champagne, you get it. I love having a dinner and finishing it on a sweet taste. Dessert is very important for me.
On the other hand, I love mixed tastes and flavors. Sweet and sour, spicy, very sweet. Having everything mixed in one dish (aka adobo), eating without thinking about the order, just mixing everything in the plate. The sauce, the meat, the vegetables, everything. May sound weird. I love japanese, chinese and philippino food. Japanese is my favorite. It's also delicate !

Most of all, I can't have dinner/lunch without rice and/or chocolate. I don't know, I realized rice has entered my diet. I cook rice everyday. I figured out I needed it. It would be weird for 100 % french people. I even bought a mini rice cooker here in my apartment !
Then... chocolate. Yes, I kind of have an addiction to it. Dark chocolate, or any cake or cookie but made of/with chocolate ! I have to eat that everyday.

I don't have eating disorders, but as you can see, I have some special kind of cravings...

Thoughts

Sometimes, I do think a lot.. I begin to philosophize about life...

Actually I needed to come and write my thoughts here, because since yesterday, I am thinking in english in my head. It happens to me sometimes, and I can't explain why. Although I'm french, I have thinking language disorders, if we can call it that way... Everyday I speak and think in french, but when I come to be alone, I start thinking in english. I don't know if it ever happened to you. I'm not telling my english is perfect, but I even come to speak to myself in english...

So yesterday I started thinking about my future life, as I am considering my further studies. The choice is hard and I realized that until now I don't know what I want. That's why a lot of questions arroused in my head. Would I rather have an easy job, and be happy with it and have time for myself ? Or a hard but fulfilling job, which would be time consumming, letting me less time with my loved ones ? (family, friends...)
What is more important in life, aside from happiness and health, love and friendship or personal success, meaning money ? Come to think of it, my motivation would be money... But combining success and money can be possible no ?

So here came my big thought : choice. Yes, life is made of choices. All along the path to happiness, you have to make decisions, which can change the whole thing.
I was thinking about going to a business top school, then I realized, if I'd do that, it was only for the further possibilites... good job, good pay. But do I really like that ? My first love is music, but it can't be my life. So I started looking, and I realized I liked languages and culture. Journalism studies, translator studies ? I think I'll apply in the 3... But this does not answer my question, what do I want in life ? I want to spend time with the loved ones, I want to party, I want to travel, I want to discover, I want to learn, I want to think... I want to have fun, without thinking back.

I'm 19

I don't usually talk about my life in full details here, as this blog is linked to my more of a "professional" blog (the french one), but talking about my birthday is... I think important.

So apparently, yesterday I turned 19. What ? Do you mean this is my last "teen" year ? Oh no... time passes so fast. I invited some people in my place, then we went to a bar where there was karaoke night... but karaokes here are not as good as karaokes in the Philippines ! Philippinos have a tendency to sing like superstars, whereas french like... ok I won't name it, you just guess. Reminded me good times though.

So far, my eighteenth year was my best year of my life, so I shall hope my nineteenth one will be even better. I'm up to many things anyway. Firstly, my internship... Australia, China, London... Where, I don't know ? i'm working on it. Then, next year's studies. I'm going to pass an exam to go in a top business school, hope it will work !

To go back to my birthday, I didn't mention gifts. So far, I didn't receive much yet, apart for Marshmallows (sweet !). I treated myself though. I bought myself a guitar, and also the new whole season of the OC, and the OC soundtrack (OC Mix 6). Yeah, more music for me !!! Guitar time in my appartement, that's just going to be cool.

Oh man, I hope I didn't bore you with these facts... anyway, this is my blog !

See you.

Help !

I completely forgot to mention something. I am currently looking for my internship, which I have to do in order to have my diploma.

I want to do an internship in webdesign/IT/communication/video editing, in Australia (Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne). I am looking on the Internet but if ever you have tips or webistes where I could look for it, I would appreciate it ! I have family in Sydney, so accomodation is not a problem.

Besides, I am aso willing to do my internship in other countries, like the Philippines, China or London, Spain or Germany.

I am willing to learn and I am a hard worker. Any help or tips would do...

Extra free time

France is definitely the number one country of strikes !
Started all with angry fishermen, than angry railway workers and now angry students...

Seems like the french are never happy, and always ready to let the others know when they're unhappy. Stereotype ? Maybe, but sometimes it is just so true. Proud, noisy and ... lazy.

Of course it is our right to protest, and show our discontentment, but I think it's going too far.
For exemple, my Technical College is on strike until Monday 12am, mainly for solidarity with the others. (and yes it was democratic vote)

Sooner on a week-end... but lost lessons, too.

On holiday, for only one week though.

I'm so happy, I'm going to be able to have a propper rest.
I also wanted to do things I don't usually do, like walking outside, reading, chilling, and being away, yes very far from any computer. But it seems like it's not going to be possible, due to the amount of work given. Several projects, which all have to be handed in or presented in November, or start of December. Gosh.

Never mind, I'll have to spend some time on my computer then... :(
What, am I saying I don't like it ? Well, I don't want to turn into a real Geek, spending my whole days on a computer. I'm almost doing that for the moment, being on my computer from morning (in school) til dawn.(slightly exaggerated)

Haha, anyway.

Some news

Exactly one month has passed since my last post. Many things happened !
Firstly, I could meet up with some of my objectives. I do play piano everyday, go out more, and work for the company. Understand how busy I am !

We are having so many projects to work on for school, too.

That will be all... if you understand french, go to my other blog here. There are more updates there.