Today something just for fun, let's have a good laugh :D
곰세마리가 한집에있어
아빠곰 엄마곰 애기곰
아빠곰은 뚱뚱해
엄마곰은 날씬해
애기곰은 너무귀여워
히쭉히쭉 잘한다
곰세마리가 한집에있어
아빠곰 엄마곰 애기곰
아빠곰은 뚱뚱해
엄마곰은 날씬해
애기곰은 너무귀여워
히쭉히쭉 잘한다
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Peru : Machu Pichu
En français
We got up at 4am again. We really wanted to arrive at the Machu Pichu as soon as it got open to be able to have the ticket they give only to 400 persons a day to go to the Huayna Pichu. We had to climb for two hours to get there and without breakfast I was getting already really tired. We queued to get in and managed to get the ticket.
Inside the view was absolutely amazing. This is not like the usual ruins that you usually see in Europe. The Machu Pichu is a really city. It's absolutely huge. We started to walk around and decided to go to the Inca bridge. That's a little further behind the city. From there we could see the Urubamba river. We were started to lack water so we bought some. It was really expensive. I was getting sick again, no breakfast with anti-malaria medicine didn't match. You need to eat with those things. We were sitting there and waiting to get better and thinking of getting back down. But not going to the Huayna Pichu when we had the tickets was really killing me more than the rest. So we finally decided to go there. That was deadly that was climbing a lot of stairs, hot like hell, with no water, I even had to beg for some when we got down.
But the view there worth it all, but next time I'll go I'll take sandwiches and water.
And we walk back down, that shows how crazy we are. Everytime we are going on holiday we have a day of craziness that pushes the limits of our bodies but that was a must.
I waited for Sebastien while he went to the city to buy some drinks and food. After eating we were feeling a lit better and decided to go all the way back to Hidroelectrica. Then we took a taxi to Santa Teresa where we wanted to get the bus to Ollantaytambo but the bus didn't stop and we arrived in Cuzco at 4am. We went back to the hotel and awake the guy at the entrance . We slept a great deal the next day.
Travel table of content
We got up at 4am again. We really wanted to arrive at the Machu Pichu as soon as it got open to be able to have the ticket they give only to 400 persons a day to go to the Huayna Pichu. We had to climb for two hours to get there and without breakfast I was getting already really tired. We queued to get in and managed to get the ticket.
Inside the view was absolutely amazing. This is not like the usual ruins that you usually see in Europe. The Machu Pichu is a really city. It's absolutely huge. We started to walk around and decided to go to the Inca bridge. That's a little further behind the city. From there we could see the Urubamba river. We were started to lack water so we bought some. It was really expensive. I was getting sick again, no breakfast with anti-malaria medicine didn't match. You need to eat with those things. We were sitting there and waiting to get better and thinking of getting back down. But not going to the Huayna Pichu when we had the tickets was really killing me more than the rest. So we finally decided to go there. That was deadly that was climbing a lot of stairs, hot like hell, with no water, I even had to beg for some when we got down.
But the view there worth it all, but next time I'll go I'll take sandwiches and water.
And we walk back down, that shows how crazy we are. Everytime we are going on holiday we have a day of craziness that pushes the limits of our bodies but that was a must.
I waited for Sebastien while he went to the city to buy some drinks and food. After eating we were feeling a lit better and decided to go all the way back to Hidroelectrica. Then we took a taxi to Santa Teresa where we wanted to get the bus to Ollantaytambo but the bus didn't stop and we arrived in Cuzco at 4am. We went back to the hotel and awake the guy at the entrance . We slept a great deal the next day.
Travel table of content
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Peru : Road to Machu Pichu
En français
We got up to take the taxi at 4am. It took us to Paradero de paso santiago, where we took our bus. You can take a small van, they are a bit faster but they are more expensive. When we are traveling we tend to try to save money and the travel in the big bus wasn't bad. It took us in the mountain roads to Santa Teresa and they served us some mate de Coca again for the altitude. When we arrived in Santa Teresa we had to wait the van to be full before going, that was the most annoying part as there were two vans half full and we wanted to arrive before the night. We finally left for Hidroelectrica through more mountain roads.
In Hidroelectrica we could have taken the train to Aguas Calientes but we decided to walk along the railway instead. Lots of tourists do that and we were not the only ones. It's a nice walk of 18 kilometers. We also met Peruvian coming back from Aguas Calientes. We arrive in Aguas Calientes by night, people were waiting for tourists along the way to take them to their hotels and once again we find a cheap hotel for the night after buying our tickets for going to visit the Machu Pichu the next day. I was lucky to have the student price, my student card was two days away from expiring.
Travel table of content
We got up to take the taxi at 4am. It took us to Paradero de paso santiago, where we took our bus. You can take a small van, they are a bit faster but they are more expensive. When we are traveling we tend to try to save money and the travel in the big bus wasn't bad. It took us in the mountain roads to Santa Teresa and they served us some mate de Coca again for the altitude. When we arrived in Santa Teresa we had to wait the van to be full before going, that was the most annoying part as there were two vans half full and we wanted to arrive before the night. We finally left for Hidroelectrica through more mountain roads.
In Hidroelectrica we could have taken the train to Aguas Calientes but we decided to walk along the railway instead. Lots of tourists do that and we were not the only ones. It's a nice walk of 18 kilometers. We also met Peruvian coming back from Aguas Calientes. We arrive in Aguas Calientes by night, people were waiting for tourists along the way to take them to their hotels and once again we find a cheap hotel for the night after buying our tickets for going to visit the Machu Pichu the next day. I was lucky to have the student price, my student card was two days away from expiring.
Travel table of content
Monday, March 15, 2010
Peru : Cuzco
En français
We arrived in Cuzco in the morning. In the bus station, people were trying to get the tourists to go to their hotel. As we were talking between us and as they didn't understand us, they kept on decreasing the price without need to argue for it. That was nice and we find a good hotel for cheap. I think that being during the low touristic season was a good help to have cheap prices.After a little nap, we spend the day visiting the city and even got interviewed by a group of students in Economy.
We also figured out a way to go to the Machu Pichu the next day.
Travel table of content
We arrived in Cuzco in the morning. In the bus station, people were trying to get the tourists to go to their hotel. As we were talking between us and as they didn't understand us, they kept on decreasing the price without need to argue for it. That was nice and we find a good hotel for cheap. I think that being during the low touristic season was a good help to have cheap prices.After a little nap, we spend the day visiting the city and even got interviewed by a group of students in Economy.
We also figured out a way to go to the Machu Pichu the next day.
Travel table of content
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Step 4 : Read
En français
I'm writing this especially the show to necessity and power of reading. I recently discovered, when I was writing "Demon Soul" actually that it was difficult for some people to read even five pages a day. For me that was unthinkable, at first it made me laugh because that meant I was able to write faster than people can read. But the more I think about it the more it seems like a scary idea.
Reading those 2500 words would take me less than 3 minutes, I'm a fast reader.
The reading average is 400 words a minute, so that means a bit less than 7 minutes and some people were telling me that they couldn't find time to read that. So I became suspicious and I want to tell you, the first thing to learn anything is to read. So you need to read, anything related to what you are studying and all the time.
Read while watching TV, read while eating, read before going to bed, read in the toilets (more about multitasking and TV later on)
The necessity of reading (a lot) and power of reading
Reading is going to make you happy. It makes some parts of your brain work that nothing else does (not too sure about that) anyway, it will make you smarter. Of course you won't remember everything you read but you will still have an idea about it. Read everything you can either you are learning something specific (languages, history...) or nothing in particular. The whole thing about reading is that it also builds up your mind. It teaches you different pattern and way of thinking, because not two persons write the same way, because not two persons can come up with exactly the same point of view on the same topic. That teaches you to see the world through someone else eyes. It will also show you more about the world and help you to understand other people better. An other good point is that if you really want to remember something you read you can always put it in a SRS and do repetition to remember it (shook head I should have done that while reading Dune)
One of my friend started to go back to read books after stopping for doing his PhD and told me that is was one of the best thing ever. He even started to read more than he planed.
Reading for language learner.
I'm learning Japanese hardcore at the moment, because I can't read the things around me and that's really killing me. I'm reading a bit of Harry Potter everyday, that's extremely slow. I told my friend I can read a sentence, and he laughed at me, not even a page. I feel a bit like a snail already, sometimes I want to throw the book by the window and to stop because it's highly frustrating, I would have finish the book in English by now right. I know but I also know that you can't get faster at reading if you don't practice and that I'll never be able to read a mix of kanji, hiragana and katakana if I don't read. So I need to and I started to read the products' etiquette during breakfast.
It's really important to start reading early, because reading will build up your vocabulary. It will help your pronunciation if you read aloud. You don't need to understand everything and to look for everything in the dictionary, that would be highly time consuming and you would loose patience by loosing the fun part of the story in too much grammar, you just need a global meaning out of it. Of course if a word keep on coming up I will go look for it.
I will go for anything you can find a thing is interesting. I don't really like magazines about people, who cares about their life anyway. I love fiction, whatever fiction it is. There are those books called "Classic", I heard somewhere or read somewhere that they were called that because everybody wanted to read them but nobody actually did. I read some of those in French and English and pretty enjoyed them. I like to read any novel or short stories my friends give me. I'm also a big fan of wikipedia and will read several pages a day on different topic that comes to my mind. Recently it was music as my friend asked me why there was no black fret between Mi and Fa. I knew it was because of the tons and half-tons but I still don't know why they don't call Fa#, Fa and so on to have black fret everywhere. That's the mystery of the moment.
So I'm telling you read everything you can that is useful to you and that you enjoy. But don't forget enjoying it is the first condition, fun always comes first.
You can also read all this blog and the one linked on the right, they contain interesting information.
Back to step 3
Forward to step5
I'm writing this especially the show to necessity and power of reading. I recently discovered, when I was writing "Demon Soul" actually that it was difficult for some people to read even five pages a day. For me that was unthinkable, at first it made me laugh because that meant I was able to write faster than people can read. But the more I think about it the more it seems like a scary idea.
Reading those 2500 words would take me less than 3 minutes, I'm a fast reader.
The reading average is 400 words a minute, so that means a bit less than 7 minutes and some people were telling me that they couldn't find time to read that. So I became suspicious and I want to tell you, the first thing to learn anything is to read. So you need to read, anything related to what you are studying and all the time.
Read while watching TV, read while eating, read before going to bed, read in the toilets (more about multitasking and TV later on)
Reading is going to make you happy. It makes some parts of your brain work that nothing else does (not too sure about that) anyway, it will make you smarter. Of course you won't remember everything you read but you will still have an idea about it. Read everything you can either you are learning something specific (languages, history...) or nothing in particular. The whole thing about reading is that it also builds up your mind. It teaches you different pattern and way of thinking, because not two persons write the same way, because not two persons can come up with exactly the same point of view on the same topic. That teaches you to see the world through someone else eyes. It will also show you more about the world and help you to understand other people better. An other good point is that if you really want to remember something you read you can always put it in a SRS and do repetition to remember it (shook head I should have done that while reading Dune)
One of my friend started to go back to read books after stopping for doing his PhD and told me that is was one of the best thing ever. He even started to read more than he planed.
I'm learning Japanese hardcore at the moment, because I can't read the things around me and that's really killing me. I'm reading a bit of Harry Potter everyday, that's extremely slow. I told my friend I can read a sentence, and he laughed at me, not even a page. I feel a bit like a snail already, sometimes I want to throw the book by the window and to stop because it's highly frustrating, I would have finish the book in English by now right. I know but I also know that you can't get faster at reading if you don't practice and that I'll never be able to read a mix of kanji, hiragana and katakana if I don't read. So I need to and I started to read the products' etiquette during breakfast.
It's really important to start reading early, because reading will build up your vocabulary. It will help your pronunciation if you read aloud. You don't need to understand everything and to look for everything in the dictionary, that would be highly time consuming and you would loose patience by loosing the fun part of the story in too much grammar, you just need a global meaning out of it. Of course if a word keep on coming up I will go look for it.
What to read ?
I will go for anything you can find a thing is interesting. I don't really like magazines about people, who cares about their life anyway. I love fiction, whatever fiction it is. There are those books called "Classic", I heard somewhere or read somewhere that they were called that because everybody wanted to read them but nobody actually did. I read some of those in French and English and pretty enjoyed them. I like to read any novel or short stories my friends give me. I'm also a big fan of wikipedia and will read several pages a day on different topic that comes to my mind. Recently it was music as my friend asked me why there was no black fret between Mi and Fa. I knew it was because of the tons and half-tons but I still don't know why they don't call Fa#, Fa and so on to have black fret everywhere. That's the mystery of the moment.
So I'm telling you read everything you can that is useful to you and that you enjoy. But don't forget enjoying it is the first condition, fun always comes first.
You can also read all this blog and the one linked on the right, they contain interesting information.
Back to step 3
Forward to step5
Saturday, March 13, 2010
"Attic Mirror", part 9
I'm trying to finish this first draft this month for several reasons.
The first is that I started to work on it in January, it has been a long time and I don't want to see the evolution in ideas come to add problems to the story. In other words it's a long enough time and it's time to reach the ending.
The second is that next month starts Script frenzy and I'm seriously thinking about giving it a try, that would be a different sort of writing to master so that will give me new skills and that can be an interesting new experience.
The third point is that I really want to start working more deeply on other novels and especially on the sequel of Demon Soul. Well I'm not really sure it's a sequel as it's going to have different main characters but that will be about Demons again.
I also want to give a better change to the other manuscript I already started.
Anyway here is what you have been waiting for, the following part of the story.
All Novels Draft
Back to part 8
Forward to part 10
Back to part 1 (beginning)
Peru : Puno
En français
The next day, we got up early again to go to Puno.
This is a city on the shore of the Titicaca lake. I got sick in the morning due to the anti malaria medicines. Those things were really killing me. But we still decided to go on the lake to see the island Uros, the floating island.
We took a boat and got there on one of them where they were showing us and explaining how the island are constructed and how they live there.
That was really interesting and different.
When we got back to Puno, it started to hail, very big pieces of ice. We got back to the bus station and took the next bus for Cusco, the old Inka main city.
Travel table of content
The next day, we got up early again to go to Puno.
This is a city on the shore of the Titicaca lake. I got sick in the morning due to the anti malaria medicines. Those things were really killing me. But we still decided to go on the lake to see the island Uros, the floating island.
We took a boat and got there on one of them where they were showing us and explaining how the island are constructed and how they live there.
That was really interesting and different.
When we got back to Puno, it started to hail, very big pieces of ice. We got back to the bus station and took the next bus for Cusco, the old Inka main city.
Travel table of content
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