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L’espace Schengen up to 24 pays ; c’est pas cool ça ?
Les tits nouveaux sont : Estonie, Lettonie, Lituanie, Pologne, République tchèque, Slovaquie, Hongrie, Slovénie et Malte.

En quoi c’est cool ?
Ben la Pologne est l’un deux ; maintenant, ma tite vietnamienne cop’ n’aura plus besoin de visa pour passer en Pologne malgré son visa d’étudiante valide en Allemagne ^_^ ; sinon perso, … :sifflote:
Car visiter l’Estonie ou la Lituanie n’est pas vraiment à l’ordre du jour ; un jour peut être.
Ah si, y’a la Hongrie qui peut être sympa à faire un de ces 4.

Et accessoirement la … France à visiter :p
Parce qu’à part Paris (et encore) … … hmmmmmm :p

C’est dans mes plans. Un jour. Une découverte du pays à dos de mobylette d’un 2 roues avec reflex au tour du cou !

Au lendemain de la qualification des Bleus pour la phase finale de la coupe d’Europe l’année prochaine, il y a eu les tirages aux sorts pour former les groupes pour la prochaine coupe du monde en Afrique du Sud.
Il faut avouer que le groupe des Bleus est plutôt léger. Et de facto on pouvait lire dans la presse : “main heureuse” “pas de soucis” “ça aurait pu être pire”

Comme quoi, de là haut, le bon dieu voit et entend tout lol
En effet “ça aurait pu être pire”.
A quelques jours des fêtes, les Bleus se retrouvent dans une poule de p’tits joueurs malades !
Roumanie (le plus sérieux opposant pour les qualifs de la coupe du monde), les Pays Bas (du gros) et cerise sur le gateau de Materrazzi  l’Italie !   hahaha

Comme dirait l’autre, voeu exhaussé ^_^

Je pense que vous avez tous un peu entendu parlé de la situation actuelle en Belgique.
Vu de l’extérieur, c’est un truc de malade, non ?
Le genre de blague que seul les Belges savent si bien conter :p

En fait, que se passe t-il exactement ? Je n’arrive pas à saisir.

Comment est-ce que la Belgique en est arrivé là ?
Et le Roi, qu’en pense t-il ? Quel est son point de vu ? Déjà, à part le titre, a t-il une quelconque autorité quant au fonctionnement de son royaume du pays ?
La Belgique qui se “bouffe de l’intérieur” n’est autre que membre à part entière du Bénélux depuis sa création durant la deuxième guerre mondiale en 44, et père fondateur de la CEE avec la France, l’Allemagne et l’Italie en 1957.
Difficile à comprendre même en parcourant lesoir.be (dans une dépeche du 1er décembre à 17:11 intitulé : “Des traces du Yéti découvertes dans l’Himalaya” n’aide guère ; top moumoute pour la crédibilité )

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1 mois entier sans aucun post. De toute façon, quelqu’un a t-il vu une différence ? ^_^
Un de ces 4, faudrait que je pense à répandre ce lien une fois la phase “béta-max” terminée ; phase qui dure depuis une plombe déjà - et pour preuve, je viens de recevoir la 2ième facture (annuelle) de mon hébergeur huhu

Pour ce 1er décembre, j’ai le plaisir de partager avec vous une coutume ancestrale provenant du … … … Kirghizistan.

En fait, vous l’avez probablement vu. C’était un reportage dans Envoyé Spécial.

Si vous l’avez raté, que disait ce reportage.

En très gros, depuis l’indépendance du pays quelque part au début des années 90, une vieille coutume est de nouveau pratiquée.

Quelle est donc cette coutume ?

Le kidnapping de votre future femme ! Oui oui (si seulement cela se passait dans son merveilleux monde :p) vous avez bien lu. K-i-d-n-a-p-p-i-n-g !

Oh mais en quoi ça consiste ?

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!!!!!!!!

While typing my previous billet, i read that Colin McRae passed away in a helicopter crash on saturday afternoon ! His younger son, 5 (!!) years old, was also in !! (2 others were in)
Colin McRae was 39 years old.

The beginning of the weekend, on friday, Grönholm (champion twice in 2000 and 2002) announced his retirement at then end of the current season.
The day after, another champion quit 

For any video game players, many games were named after Colin’s named.
McRae was a WRC (Rally) pilot.
He won once the championship in 1995 in a Subaru Impreza 555 and retired from the competition in 2005.

After Richard Burns (England, champion in 2001 with a Subaru Impreza WRC) in 2005, now Colin McRae

Still hard to believe for the racing fan i am !
Safe after a long career, a “simple” helicopter trip was fatal to him.
He was the own pilot of his private helicopter.
It reminds me John John’s accident :/

(photo from rally-live.com ; damned Google image ; there is only video game screenshots !)

RIP Champion !

In a week row :

Rugby - World Cup :
As being the country hosting the Rugby World Cup, we lost the first game of the competition a week ago.
France 12 - Argentina 17 (could be won though if :p we didn’t missed 2 shots)
You can imagine easily how the papers were the day after lol

Soccer - Eliminatory for the European Cup 2008:
The day after the rugby game, our national team played in Italy against the “same” we lost during the last world cup in Germany.
We did a quite good 0-0 and still remain the first of the pool.

But we lost against Scotland on wednesday 1-0 lol
The game was in Paris.
And from the 1st place, we are now 3rd with 3 games to go to get a ticket for the European Cup.

Voleyball - European Cup :
To be honest, i didn’t followed the competition ; all i know is that we … lost quite early in the competition.

Basketball - European Cup :
In spite of having T.Paker the Great, we couldn’t go further than the 1/4 against Russia.
Out of the competition but still in to try to get the “best” rank counting for the Olympic Games 2008.
But we lost again against Lituania.
Last chance for the OG 2008, to win the last ranking game against Slovenia to get a ticket for a “pre-olympic game tournament”.
My little fingers is telling me that we will loose :p the game and therefore won’t be in Beijing in 2008.
alalalalala when i’m thinking about a great OG game France - “Dream Team” (aka USA) in Sidney 2000 ! ^_^

Judo - World Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil :
COCORICO !!!!!
Teddy Riner, a 18 (!) years old from Guadeloupe, a french territory closed by South America, defeated all “monters” in his path in the heavy (+100kg) category.

Moral of all of this ? Because there is always a moral in any stories :

We suck when we are a band but doing great when we are alone !

Maybe we have to think a bit about INDIVIDUALISM !

After the hoax and the silly joke from the ex-prime minister of Belgium, here is another story from Belgium. This time, it is a serious one.

To be honest, i have never heard about it before until break news talked about it yesterday.

Back to 1995, august to be more accurate, i first spent time in the US of A.
That was also the year where the great last album of the “King of the Pop” aka Michael Jackson was out : History (Jackson was a visionary :p )
One of the summer hit was Jackon’s “You are not alone” ; remember the clip where his wife was half naked ? :p

Here you go for you … ears’ pleasure :p

The music is “from” R. Kelly ; in fact not really. At least that is what a court in Belgium thinks so.

Yesterday, after a 12 years trial, according to a court in Belgium, the music belongs to 2 sibblings from Belgium.
It seems like 75% of the music by R.Kelly was written by Van Passel bros, Danny and Eddy.

At first i didn’t wanted to believe it, i did some research and … bad bad R. Kelly ! Hard to believe but the evidence is against him.
If there is a thing i have learnt during my short stop at Uncc, is that american do not kid about plagiarism !

Now listen to the Van Passel version from 1993. It sounds more like a “maquette” (workin’ progress ?) though.

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In fact i wanted to title this billet : “A reason to not get an iPhone” but after reading a “great” article, it became so.

The story is : M. and Mrs. Levy and their daughter went crusing in the Mediteranean sea (it is in Europe for those who cannot locate the sea :p )
Each member of the family own an Apple iPhone.

Back home, despite of not using the phone during their trip, they got in their box mails their AT&T bill : 4800 usd !

I quote the article from here :

The iPhone regularly updates e-mail, even while it’s off, so that all the messages will be available when the user turns it on.

Data are unlimited in the US but charged internationaly.

Bad bad Apple and AT&T ; that must be the end of my “A reason to not get an iPhone” billet.

However browsing down in the article, here i quote again :

Levy said he didn’t expect data transfer charges internationally because he believed the data network in Europe wasn’t compatible with the iPhone

Pfffff
According to a great youtube video starring Miss South Carolina lately, it is said that 1/5 of americans cannot even located their own country in a world map O_o ; So it aslo seems like for some others, the US of A is the center of the World …

(and Bush the Kid first )

It reminds me when i went an overnight in Mexico with my cousin from CA a long time long time ago :pOnce we crossed the border, a friend of him said :

What a difference between a rich country (usa) and a poor country (mexico).

O_o

(link of the article found here on blogeek.ch)

Just to say that it begins tonight and it took place in France.

In fact, i don’t really care about Rugby but i saw this pretty neat commercial in tv, so …
It is after the well known and impressive Haka from All Blacks, New Zealand team.

Enjoy (and Yummy :p )

Girls, for once i have something for you here :
Les Dieux du Stade (Gods of Stadium) and i’m pretty sure you’re gonna enjoy :p

(And also the opportunity to say that the headquarter of our national team is about a mile from my place, but who really cares since i don’t ^_^)

Outch !
September 6th, 6h50 am, Pavarotti passed away.

R.I.P Maestro !

(photo from here)