Saturday, April 28, 2007

tAïkaaaaaaaa...

in English...

tAikaaa... in Cantonese means " you can do it ! ". And this sentence was said by my dragon boat trainer. Yep, you read it right !... Dragon boat training for me. It is extremely intensive. I don't know how long I will be able to practice it... Hopefully up to the dragon boat race included... on the 19 of June. It will be a total of 12 lessons, usually held on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Today was the first one.. And I am already dead ! Anyway, seems that someone took a video so I should be able to post it soon...
And maybe we will have a chance to win... after all, my trainer's name is Rocky...Yep, it is his true name !

en français,

tAïkaaa... en cantonais, ça veut dire "tu peux le faire ! ". Et cette phrase a été dite par notre entraineur pour la course de bateaux-dragon. Oui, vous avez bien lu ! ... entrainement de bateau-dragon pour moi. C'est vraiment très intensif. Je sais pas combien de temps je pourrais m'entrainer... Avec de la chance, jusqu'à la course incluse... le 19 Juin. On aura un total de 12 leçons, les mercredis et samedis. Aujourd'hui , c'était la première... et je suis déjà mort !Enfin, il semble que quelqu'un a pris une vidéo avec son portable, donc je serai capable de la poster ici bientôt...
Et peut-être que nous aurons une petite chance de gagner... après tout, notre entraineur s'appelle Rocky... Ouep, c'est vraiment son nom !

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Test...

en français...

la précédente vidéo vient d'un site Web. C'était un test. La vidéo ci-dessous, c'est moi, moi, moi ! Et je mange une barre de chocolat... ça fait aussi parti du test vidéo... si si... mais enfin, puisque je vous le dis !

in English...

the previous video came from somewhere on the web. It was a test. But the one below is all about me, me, me ! And I am eating a chocolat bar... That was also part of the video test... yep... trust me... come on... I say so !

Comics News...

in English:

press the start button and enjoy the video. Cool part is at the end, where Stan Lee speaks about his upcoming Fantastic Four movie cameo.

en français:

Désolé, c'est tout en anglais... Le truc important, c'est vers la fin quand Stan Lee parle de son apparition dans le prochain film des Fantastic 4.

How to say...Comment lui dire ?

in English...

Following the previous post, my little girl asked me why the Superdaddy ( Hehehe ! ) has his panty over the trousers... I am unable to give her a logic answer... If you have any...Please...

en français...

Suite à mon précédent bulletin, ma petite fille m'a demamdé pourquoi le Superpapa ( héhéhéhé ! ) avait sa culotte par-dessus le pantalon... J'ai pas de réponse logique qui me vient en tête... Si vous en avez une... S'il vous plait...

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Calling the league...

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Si vous voulez comprendre un peu... http://20six.fr/turalo2

In English...

The caption says : " to become a member of the Justice League of Blogsphere, you need to fill in the electronique form nº 381274 A ... ". This is me, trying to contact a friend in France to participate to the fun...
At the following link...in French... http://20six.fr/turalo2

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Aurora

in English...

my take on a character created by John Byrne in the eighties, as part of the Alpha Flight team, a Canadian team of super-heroes.

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And yes, it is a total swipe of one drawing from Bruce Timm. I consider this to be an exercice and an homage... So I don't care what you think.

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En français...

Voilà ma version du personnage Aurora, un des membres de l'équipe de super-héros appellé Division Alpha, crée par John Byrne dans les années 80.
Et oui, c'est une copie totale d'une illustration faite par Bruce Timm. Je considère mon dessin comme un exercise et un hommage... Donc, je me moque de ce que vous pensez...

Monday, April 23, 2007

Pixar ...

In English...

Last February, I went to Pixar. It was one of my dream becoming true. I went there for work ( which includes a screening of the new movie, Ratatouille ). It was fun,it was impressive, and even if I injured my elbow, it was a blast to be there. I hope to have the opportunity to go their again. This morning in my e-mail, there was an invitation to go and see the next one currently in developpement. Unfortunately, my team is not handling the project based on it...

So just enjoy this photo from the last time !

En français...

En février dernier, j'ai eu la chance de visiter Pixar près de San Francisco. C'est un de ces rêves qui deviennent réalité. J'y suis aller pour le travail ( qui a inclus une présentation de leur nouveau film, Ratatouille ). C'était génial, c'était impressionnant, et même si je me suis bousillé le coude droit, ça vallait vraiment trop le coup. J'espère avoir l'opportunité d'y retourner.
Ce matin, dans ma boite aux lettres électronique, il y avait une invitation pour aller voir une présentation/projection de leur prochain film en développement. Malheureusement, mon équipe ne s'occupe pas du projet basé sur ce nouveau dessin animé.


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And the link to the official website / et le lien vers le site officiel du film...

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Vive la France !

In French...

ça y est... on a voté ! Les résultats sont apparus. Rien de spécial. Mais je ne sais pas vraiment, depuis Hong Kong, y avait pas trop de rafus. En fait, si, c'était le première fois que Eling votait. On a reçu les programmes pour les élections le vendredi. Et je les ai étalé par terre dans le salon, pour expliquer à Eling qui est qui et pour qui ils sont. Donc Dimanche matin, on s'est pointé avec les enfants à 11h40. Et il a fallu faire 45 minutes à quasiment une heure d'attende. Mais on a fait notre boulot de citoyen. On remettra ça dans 2 semaines.

In English...

that's it... we voted! The results have been released. Nothing special. But I am not really sure, from Hong Kong, there was not too much noise about it. In fact, yes, it was the first time that Eling voted. We received the candidates's programs on Friday. I spread them on the floor in the living room, to explain to Eling who was who and for whome they go. So, on Sunday morning, we came with the kids and arrived at 11:40 AM. We needed to wait for 45 to one hour. And we made our work as citizens. We will do it again... in 2 weeks.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

In the Mountain chalet of... Mong Kok !

I am happy ! Yesterday, we went to a nice French restaurant with very affordable price and authentic cuisine in the area I go the more often in Hong Kong... Mong Kok. That area is over crowded, some streets stink big time because of the horrible smell of the stinky tofu sold over there but, hey, this is the closest place where I can buy my comics... ( By the way, my issues of "The Spirit " are late ! AAAAAAAAAAargh ! ).

Anyway, that restaurant is just one more reason for me to go there! Their specialities are the mountain style food, like tartiflette, raclette and cheese fondue. I tried the tartiflette. It is not as good as the one made by a friend of mine back in France, Stéphane Servais ( http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-348-BD-Servain.html ) or my wife, but who am I to complain to have such delicaties in Hong Kong. It has a side dish, a nice mache salad and for dessert, I took a crème brûlée.

The whole thing could feels like I have really nothing to say, but hey, this is the opposite: the new place is really a place to help me feels more at home, here in HK.

And here is a drawing I made some times ago for the Ben Caldwell website. It is my own version of Puss in boots.

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Voilà, that's it for this post... More soon.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Si-Fi Scene and more...

OK, here we go, first post with some content.

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This drawing was made some times ago for a weekly drawing challenge on Ben Cadwell's Website, http://www.daredetectives.com.

Also, those are 2 sketches I made for the Sketchcrawl.com website, for the 13th edition.

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OK, I will post more soon...

Entering the place...

It is dark in here. But with some hope, I will succeed to make this place comfy for you to come over and over again. Please, come again soon !