Category "Diary"
- 27 July 2010 at 17:27
- Diary
The prices of accomodation in Paris REALLY skyrocketed! 5 years ago, I lived in a furnished studio flat at Opera for 380 euros a month. Now, the same thing costs double! And I don't wanna go back to a studio flat on the 6th floor without lift and I don't wanna put more than a third of my salary in the rent either!
SO! If you hear about a little place, nice and cheap, let me know!
PLEASE!!!
PS: my budget is higher than 380 euros!
- 24 July 2010 at 13:55
- Diary
Coming back to Paris feels very strange. It looks nice, it's picturesque, but after living 4 years in London, I'm kind of disappointed.
- The most frustrating is when you speak to strangers, they think you want to ask them for money, or sleep with them, or that you're a lunatic. In London, it's regarded as normal.
- People don't know how to party. And they can't drink either!
- The gay scene sucks.
- The prices have skyrocketed.
- The metro really does smell. The other day, I was in it and I grabbed a bar. It was all sticky and that's the very moment I realised how I idealised Paris.
London is a tough city. But I really had idealised Paris too much in comparison.
- 24 July 2010 at 13:13
- Diary
Molluscum contagiosum. I didn't know what it was, until the dermatologist had a look at the two or three spots on my butt... Thankfully it's very very easy to cure.
It's quite odd though that it should happen when I haven't had sex for one year. The same thing happened to me with body louse. And regarding scabies, it is very likely that I didn't get it through sexual contact either. And I AM A CLEAN PERSON, I wash with soap and everything!!! (The doctors all insisted that you don't get this stuff because you're dirty, but because you get in contact with people who are infected.)
I am cursed. Or indeed, I can tell myself that it's not because I don't fuck that I won't get anything weird. (The skin doctor also suggested I may have selective immunity, that is, my body doesn't fight skin infections so well but is more efficient regarding other stuff. Well, well...)
- 14 June 2010 at 20:29
- Diary
I'm so fed up with the FIFA World Cup! And it has only just started! The news, the adverts, the neighbours, Twitter, everything is saturated with football. We need a radical solution to this problem.
Thnking about it, all the greatest football players, and the world's most powerful federations are currently in South Africa. It's the perfect moment! Let's hurry up and throw an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs on the towns where the games are playing! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! And after that, we would never hear of football ever again, ha ha ha! We will get back to real news, talking about dead, blood and tears, and not happy crowds of bastards, ha ha ha!
- 22 May 2010 at 19:38
- Diary
Today my twinsister came back from holidays and came home to pick up her dog.
She had brough a present for everyone, including a bottle of Coucougnettes for my father. "Coucougnettes" is a funny name for testicles in french. Still, it was very good!
In the kitchen, my sister noticed my mother had exposed the mug Ada got me from Amsterdam. My mother didn't realise it showed a prostitute with very big breasts. We laughed when we thought of all the guests who saw it but didn't make any comment about it.
My mother wanted to take a picture of us so we made stupid faces, but my mother took the picture when my twin stopped wincing, leaving me alone with a stupid look on the picture.
Ah, family life...
En taille réelle.
Des remarques? Des suggestions?
It's difficult to make an assessment of 6 months' travelling! I have done so many things and discovered a lot, I will just be, as usual, expeditive and evasive.
When I look at the pictures we took when we arrived in Latin America, I have the feeling that it is so far and yet, so close. If some moments in my trip have been downers, I didn't expect jumping from a bridge, being stunned by the beauty of the Salar de Uyuni or hanging around the amazonian jungle for a week... I'm not gonna mention everything, that would be way too long!
I knew I wouldn't get any existential revelation like in the movies, however, I changed. But not because of the destinations I have been to, but because of the conditions of the trip: when you happen to walk for six hours in the Colca Canyon, far away from daily concerns and Internet, you have a lot of time to think. I had some ideas, set some priorities, started some projects... Just for that, I would recommend everybody to go travelling for at least 6 months!
I also want to travel more. There's still SO MUCH to see! So, this wasn't "The Trip", but it was a training for the next trips!
- 08 May 2010 at 23:54
- Diary
I didn't want to make it that short but I lost the stuff, I don't know how you call it, the stuff to choose the size of the hair.
Last Saturday, I got pierced.
I went with Ada and Peter to the piercing shop, I chose the ring, then I met the piercer.
He checked my ear...
Then he inserted me...
...a big needle. Actually it doesn't hurt.
...there you go! This way I perpetuate the tradition of the gay guy with an earing on the right-hand ear. (Hee hee!)
I just need an anchor tattoo and I'll look like a true old sailor.
I had the idea of getting tattooed in Peru, more precisely in Cusco, because they seemed to have good tattoo artists here. I went to Mistical Tattoo, and I met Christian, a peruvian tattoo artist, married to a Canadian lady. Children of the Globalisation...
I asked him for a design, inspired from Chavin culture (yeah, those who do San Pedro!!), because this is what I preferred in all I've seen. He did a drawing very quickly and a few days later, he tattooed me.
I tried to stay cool for the 3 hours of work...
In two hours, the lines were done.
The Chavin adored, among others, the snake, the jaguar and the hawk. This drawing represents a chimera made out of these different animals.
Then, Christian added shadows. It doesn't look great on the picture but in reality, it looks good!
And in the context of the Andes, it looks like this!
I'm gonna keep doing tattoos on my back, I think I'm gonna do one for each inhabited continent I will have explored.
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