Thursday, November 22, 2007

4 THINGS

WHAT 4 JOBS I HAVE HAD:
  • Supermarket assistant.
  • IC mask engineer

    4 PLACES I'VE LIVED:
  • Auvergne (Hauterive/Clermont) - France
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    Where I grew up, green hills, lovely food. And the place i've done all my studies.
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  • Alpes (Grenoble/Nice) - France
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    Mountains, where I started my working life.
    A view from my window at the time:
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  • Lombardia (Monza) - Italy
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    A short stay in Italy, but quite interesting, and my first taste of living abroad.
    Can't speak a word of Italian, but at the end i did understand it. And it's where i discovered Italians were crazy about soccer.

  • Munster (Limerick) - Ireland
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    Where I live at the moment, temple of Irish rugby, despite a bad reputation (stab city), a nice place to live, and quite close from the surf and diving spots.


    4 PLACES I'VE BEEN ON HOLIDAY:
  • Red Sea
    My first scuba diving holidays, in hot water, lovely to just need a t-shirt to dive.
    Excellent though i had to wait the last dive to spot an octopus.

  • Corsica
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    Again scuba-diving holidays.


  • Spain
    My first scuba diving holidays abroad... nice.

  • Royan - France
    Where i used to go on holidays with my parents, when i was (very) young, probably the reason why i love the sea so much.

    4 FAVOURITE FOODS:
  • Omelette with potatoes and some cheese.
  • Raclette, recipe fro winter survival made of cheese and charcuterie.
  • "Bleu d'auvergne" a cheese originated from the hills i grew up.
  • Andouillettes a tasty French sausage made from the colon and stomach of a pig.

    4 PLACES I'D LIKE TO VISIT:
  • New Zealand
    For the next world cup and see France win it :-P.
  • Iceland
    To dive in Silfra
  • Quebec
    To see a hockey game, meet people speak "quebecois" and so much more.

  • Sweden
    I like cold countries.

    4 PLACES I'D RATHER BE:
    NA at the moment.

    And you ?
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2007

    ASM - Munster [2]

    Few pics of the french supporters:
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    The Fox is here to stay in Ireland.

    Thomond Park is still under re-construction, but that did not change a bit the atmosphere.
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    The stadium is going to be fantastic with 26000 places ( and the city deserted the match day )


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    Tuesday, November 20, 2007

    ASM - Munster [1]

    So "les Jaunes et Bleus" ( the yellow and blue ) came to Thomond Park ( still under renovation ) to face mighty Munster in the Heineken Cup.

    Great game, even if i would i have prefer to see Clermont fist team, with the like of Mignoni, Bonnaire, Rougerie...

    The atmosphere was great ( as usual in Thomond Park ), with people singing The Fields of Athenry
    :
    Lyrics

    By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling
    "Michael, they have taken you away
    For you stole Trevelyan's corn
    So the young might see the morn'
    Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay"

    Low lie the fields of Athenry
    Where once we watched the small free birds fly
    Our love was on the wing
    We had dreams and songs to sing
    It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry


    By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young man calling
    "Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free
    Against the famine and the Crown
    I rebelled, they cut me down
    Now you must raise our child with dignity"

    Low lie the fields of Athenry
    Where once we watched the small free birds fly
    Our love was on the wing
    We had dreams and songs to sing
    It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry


    By a lonely harbour wall, she watched the last star falling
    As the prison ship sailed out against the sky
    For she'll live in hope and pray
    For her love in Botany Bay
    It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry

    Low lie the fields of Athenry
    Where once we watched the small free birds fly
    Our love was on the wing
    We had dreams and songs to sing
    It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry


    or the Munster's song, Stand Up and Fight:

    STAN' UP AN' FIGHT (TOREADOR SONG)

    Thanks a lot! I'm sure glad to be,
    To be where I c'n see
    So many friends o' mine.
    How've I been doin'? How've I been doin'?
    If you really wanta know de truth,
    I'm doin' fine!
    Seventeen decisions in a row,
    An' only five on points; de res' was all K.O.
    Jackson an' Johnson, Murphy an' Bronson,
    One by one dey come,
    An' one by one to dreamland dey go.
    How's it done? You ask me, how's it done?
    I got a trainer man who taught me all I know.
    Sure feels good to have him in my corner,
    Hear his voice a-whisp'rin' low:
    "Big boy, remember, you mus' remember...

    Stan' up an' fight until you hear de bell,
    Stan' toe to toe, trade blow fer blow,
    Keep punchin' till you make yer punches tell,
    Show dat crowd watcher know!
    Until you hear dat bell, dat final bell,
    Stan' up an' fight like hell!"


    When you fight out in de open air,
    In a patch o' light de ring looks small an' white.
    Out in de blackness, out in de blackness,
    You c'n feel a hun'erd thousan' eyes
    Fillin' de night.
    Cigarettes are blinkin' in de dark,
    An' makin' polka dots aroun' de baseball park,
    People are quiet den dere's a riot!
    Someone t'rows a punch
    An' plants it right smack on de mark...
    Someone’s hurt, you kinda think it's you.
    You hang across de ropes
    Da's all you want to do.
    Den you look aroun' an' see your trainer's eyes,
    Beggin' you to see it through,
    Dey say, "Remember, big Boy, remember

    Stan' up an' fight until you hear de bell,
    Stan' toe to toe, trade blow fer blow,
    Keep punchin' till you make yer punches tell,
    Show dat crowd watcher know!
    Until you hear dat bell, dat final bell,
    Stan, up an' fight like hell!"


    Few french supporters have come for this occasion and we had a great week-end, touring few pubs (Clohessys, Nancy Blake, Flannerys in Catherine Street and Durty Nellys )

    More with some pics, next post.

    Monday, November 12, 2007

    L'Auvergne debarque a Limerick.. J-6

  • Next Sunday, ASM (Clermont Auvergne) is playing Munster for the Heineken Cup in Limerick. Last Sunday night, Clermont beat the Lliannell Scarlet (semi-finalist last year after eliminating Munster ) 48-21 ( seven tries including 3 from Aurelien Rougerie ).....

  • This past week end i have start the training to be cox'n swain.
    So what is cox'n swain ?
    Definition: A person who usually steers a ship's boat and has charge of its crew. Under defined by CFT ( the Irish scuba diving federation ), it's basically, the person who's in charge of the diving boat, insure the safety of the divers on-site, and on the journey on and from the diving sites.
    So last Saturday we spend the day lecturing about knots, charts, boats, and Sunday we had some boat practice in the Shannon estuary ( man over board, attach a buoy ...)

  • Sea safety:On the Royal Navy Lifeboat Institution website, there is load of informations about boat, driving safely which can easily be downloaded.The sea safety is accessible online.
  • Friday, November 09, 2007

    Song List Week 45'07

  • Dear Darkness - P.J.Harvey (White Chalk)
  • Weird Fish Arpeggi - Radiohead (In Rainbows)
  • War - Edwin_Starr
  • All I need - Radiohead (In Rainbows)
  • Move over - Janis Joplin (Pearl)
  • Bad Skin Day - BellX1 (Flock)
  • xxxability - Maria Doyle Kennedy (Mother)
  • Thursday, November 08, 2007

    Magnificent Seven

    While waiting for the Sarah Silverman Program to begin, i had the pleasure to watch again The Magnificent Seven, and it's getting better everytime you watch it again and again... and there is such brilliant quotes, here's few:

  • Reminds me of that fella back home who fell off a ten-story building. As he was falling, people on each floor kept hearing him say, "So far, so good. So far, so good." Vin (Steve McQueen)
    The same story is also used in "La Haine" from Matthieu Kassovitz.
  • You don't happen to have an older, grateful sister, do you? Vin (Steve McQueen)
  • Fella I once knew in El Paso, one day he took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him the same question, why? He said it seemed to be a good idea at the time. Vin (Steve McQueen)
  • Once I rob a bank in Texas. Your government get after me with a whole army. Whole army! One little bank. In Texas, only Texans can rob banks. Calvera (Eli Wallach)
  • They are farmers. They talk of nothing but fertilizer and women. I have never shared their enthusiasm for fertilizer. As for women, I became indifferent when I was eighty-two. the old man ( loved the lookk McQueen gives him after hearing that...)
  • Harry, please don't understand me so fast. Chris Adams (Yul Brynner) aka the man with sea urchin in his underarms.

    And after that one hour of absolutely outrageous, dark humour from Sarah Silverman, sleeping with black god, exploring her possible not so plausible lesbian part, on her comedy central show,

    Just one example:
    A couple nights ago, I was licking jelly off my boyfriend's penis. And I thought, "Oh, my God – I'm turning into my mother!"

    Oh by the way just came back from a week of diving in the red sea.. lovely.
  • Brickmania

    Lego Smurf castle ??   Eva.... massive build Swimming in bricks ?