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2:46 pm　うまい！Y

Hi everyone! How have you all been? Over at my side, been driving cross countries to Belgium for work. I'm neither the driver nor the worker. I'm the one who makes noise in the car to prevent the driver from falling asleep. I'm getting used to the long drives here and can't wait to pass my driving test and speed along the motorway at 140km/h. That's 10 km more than the speed limit by the way. But who cares? Must live life the fast and furious way, provided we don't get caught by the gendarmes of course!

Since I'm not exactly the kind of person to really organise my thoughts, this shall be a stream of consciousness typed randomly on a leisure Thursday afternoon. I am no tai-tai by the way. With yet another rejection letter from Kelly Services slammed in my face just now when I opened Gmail, citing my particulars do not really correspond to what they are looking for, I am crushed, once again. But no worries. What won't kill me will make me stronger. I feel like the orange you crushed on the traditional orange juicer. Sucked of all juice and left the pulp. Pulp. Sob. Fight.

Haha. On a happier note, the recent buzz was that of the French Elections. It's very refreshing to see how stimulating and exciting the elections here is. To start off, there are 12 candidates running for president and such a thing will, WILL, NEVER be heard off on our sunny island, set in the sea. The top four contenders are Nicholas Sarkozy which is extremely rightist, Segolène Royal, a socialist who wants to be the first female president of France, François Bayrou, a centrist who tries to reconcile the extremity of the two mentioned above and Jean-Marie Le Pen, who is your traditional hard talking extreme right wing guy who people vote for in the first rounds because they were in awe and later back off because too much awe turns into fear. Of course, results of the 22nd April elections have shown Sarkozy and Royal to be the top runners and who will face off in the second round in 6th May. Sarkozy reminds me of a certain German dictator who wants a pure aryan race. He is the hard politician with a mixed background who wanted a France made up of only French and who legislates strong immigration laws to bar foreigners. Pandering to the nationalistic spirit and fear of the people by telling them how foreigners will come in to steal their jobs and feed on their social welfare and weakening national identity if France were to be cosmopolitan, he went all out to even declare to open a ministry just for immigrations if he were to be elected. Descending from a Hungarian father and a Greek-French mother, doesn't he bear a striking resemblance to someone whom we all know? It's hard to understand why we study history when the masses don't learn from it. If he were already President, France will definitely had gone to war with Iraq as this politician is proud of the friendship with America and will do everything to maintain it.

Royal on the other hand, as a woman, is already fighting a tough battle right from the start. First, we know how conservative and closed up the French can be (not with regards to sex of course) but I'm talking with regards to the way of thinking. France may not be ready to accept a female president as yet. If Royal were to be elected, a new page will turn in the history of France as this will be the first time ever that a woman is contending for the role of President and appears as the second runner-up. She cited that the French revolution is a key force of change for France and she is the best icon to represent change since the days of the revolution. The general sentiment is that people do not buy her theory. With its archaic system and administration, France can be likened to an old woman in a rocking chair with her many cats in her well furnished house. Change will not come easy in a system so archaic and many people depending and looking forward to social welfare at all times of the day. In a country with people against globalisation, 35 hours work week, long summer/ winter vacations, many many and I mean MANY religious, public and bank holidays, change will not be something that one person can bring about. They can say anything they want because they are rallying for people to support them. One person cannot drag the old woman out of the chair, ask her to do sports, to use the internet, abandon her cats and her beautiful house and step out into the world. The woman is too old and too contented and comfortable in her comfort zone. The sad thing is, there are so many candidates, 12 in all, yet none show any promise. Sigh. Politics. Everyone wants change but not enough to risk losing their benefits. With perpectually high unemployment, never below 8% and ever increasing national debt, France need somone REALLY strong to pull her out of this predicament. However, guess we will have to wait for the next Presidential election or even the next, next for a star to be borned and people with mindsets that are open enough to accept changes. Yeah, if Sarkozy is elected, I'm on the line. (No immigrants, remember?) Cool, I'm being embroiled in the complexities of the French administration and will go down in history someday. =) *wry smile*









So the process is pretty simple. You go into the city hall (Mairie), show your electoral card, take a blue envelope from the city councillor, select several names (so that you can still have your privacy as it's pretty obvious if you just choose one), bring it with you to the curtained off area, place the piece of paper with the candidate's name you want into the blue envelope, leave it unsealed, dump the rest into the bin, pass the blue envelope back to the city councillor and sign against your name. Of course, what you have just seen is a very small town hall as our village only has 200 inhabitants. I went in to nose around and was the one to remark that there are no more pieces of papers with Sarkozy's name on it on the table. Sigh, shouldn't have done that right? Heh, then no one would have known and would not have placed another stack on the table.





Yeah, we brought the dogs for a swim after voting and look at how much fun they were having!


Kiba remarked that this is a very scary looking bunny and with a second look, I concede that it's true. Er.. kinda send a chill down your spine, doesn't it? Anyway the bunny is eaten and the wrapper thrown away. Happy ending. *smile*




Went to Brussels and decided to do a bit of sightseeing. It's a city of crazy traffic, noise pollution and graffiti. Cars cut lanes like nobody's business, vroom and zigzag all over the place! The sirens of ambulances, fire engines and police cars ring out every fifteen minutes. It seems that somewhere out there in Brussels, people are always having accidents, a building is always on fire somewhere, or a crime is always in progress. If not, I really wonder why the sirens never stop ringing. Graffiti seems to be a trademark as walls are scrawled with big, ugly, wriggly letters. There are tall modern office buildings and old majestic structures. It's a cross between the modern and the classic and it's as cosmopolitan as can be. Asians with long black hair and yellow skin,blacks with afro hair,whites with skin translucent in the sun intermingle in the city landscape. English, Chinese and Arabic signs frame the shops. Buildings and skyscrapers tower all over.














































Guess what is opposite such a beautiful park/ historial site?





































We drove down to Lille in northern France to see Kiba's cousin, Claudie and had dinner with her and her bf.It's not always easy to meet up with family and friends here as the area is so sparse. They are such nice people!

4:19 pm　うまい！Y

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