It's been a while since I did not post anything to feed my Tortue's Garage posts. I first wanted to make a 100% Zouk (very nice music from French Caribean Islands) Garage, but I had very few time to think about who's gonna be in there. Therefore today I'm only proposing to you the two (very nice) following electronic sets :

Daisy Daisy - Michelle Plays Ping Pong (Vicarious Bliss Match Point Remix) by Vicarious Bliss  

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2-01 Daisy Daisy - Michelle plays ping pong (Vicarious Bliss match point remix).mp3 (7650 KB)

The Cult Of Romance (Alan Braxe Remix) by Fenech - Soler  

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The Cult Of Romance (Alan Braxe Remix).mp3 (12134 KB)

I remind you that all the music I post here are not intended to spoil the artists but rather to incitate people to buy the music I talk about.

It was a very few days before I left France for good in 2007, I received an email (all written in CAPITAL) from a friend telling me that Justice is going to give a free live show...in the empty factory 50 meter from where we used to live. Quite a surprising news indeed, my hood (poetically called "Belle de Mai" (May's Beauty)) is located in one of the poorest part of northern Marseille and usually, only some unknown ragga or rap singers come to sing over there (it has changed a little bit since a really famous serial drama called "Plus Belle La vie" is being shot in that factory and that numerous successful technology startup set up their office in the area)).

The only thing required to attend the show was to have a Myspace account (which I didn't, even though I'm a music+ social stuff junkie, I don't like Myspace's user experience) and we spent the whole afternoon to create dozen and dozen new account for all our friends interested to attend a huge party, where they finally won't be bounced at the entry (if you are black or Arabic in France, bouncers aren't your best friends). The funny stuff here is that tons of regular Myspace users came from all the cities circa (Montpellier, Nice, Monaco, Lyon) but couldn't enter just because we were already ALL inside, hours before the show actually starts.

If you read my blog or my tweet you already know that I LOVE electronic music, you can guess how thrilled I was to be able to hear (and watch!) an almost two hours live performed by Justice. If you want to know how the atmosphere was, just check that video :

             

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Justice_and_I.zip (359 KB)

Those of you who saw my name easily guessed where I'm from (France, even though my family name is not French) but as you can't hear you can't guess from which city I'm. Indeed, just like you can easily recognize a person from Beijing (兒兒兒), Texas or New York (which is not far from from Beijing tone actually) you just need to hear me few second to know that I'm from Marseille..."It's damn' obvious" I have been told.

Yes Marseille, the sunny (300+ sunny days per year) southern French city, biggest mediterranean harbour, the door (ok, the gate) to Africa, home of the French Connection and the OM football team. It's a city I don't stop to criticize (dirty, dangerous, not convenient) but while remaining the only French city that I'm willing to live in.

About that, the official website propose since a few days a stunning (especially in full screen mode) 360° bird's-eye view of Marseille! Strongly suggest you to take a look at it, if you click on "Map" you will find different point of view (with my High School beside the Train station)

EDIT : Sorry no credits, I don't know where this very funny draw comes from

Envoyé de mon iPhone

I was so busy this week that I forgot to mention that my computer has been returned (repaired) this Monday, only three days (or one working day actually) after I brought it. When I first received the mail I was quite worried because I played bluff with them:

According to your colleague at the telephone, it's the TS2377 problem and he said that I don't have to pay for the repairs neither the inspection fees (680$!!!)

The truth is that I called no one, I've made my own inspection and eventually reached that conclusion, the "neither the inspection fees (680$!!!)" was just a small application of "nothing ventured, nothing gained". Finally, it turned out that I was right, it indeed was NVIDIA's fault and the LogicBoard has been replaced free of charge.

But I'm still amazed by the speed with which their fix the Mac, if you have any problems with your Apple product in HK I strongly suggest that you contact CASE (Official Apple Service Provider at Quarry Bay MTR Station).

This is a short video shot few weeks ago around the Hong Kong Central area, where I work. It was the occasion to try the Kodak ZI6 "pocket" video recorder in HD (720P) mode (don't forget to watch it in full screen mode). 

It's the first time I try an HD camera, so far I think quality is fair enough.

EDIT : The quality in the embedded video seems to have been switched into SD mode, for the HD one you can go directly to this Facebook page

Tuesday night we start a new course called "eFinance". Unlike people here in Hong Kong, who are totally fascinated by this topic (the classroom is full...) and even though I passed through BBA, Ma, MBA and Msc courses, I always tried to "mentally" skip this kind of class (i.e. I physically attended, managed to pass, but my mind was somewhere else).

This time it's quite different, the teacher has quite a novative way to teach (experience+humor based) and it's still an eCommerce focused class, no meaningless suite of figures and theorems. During the 1st class he asked us all to answer some questions that would help him to customize the course's content, according to our expectation and to know us better (personally). Questions were "What does "eFinance" means to you" or "What are you expecting to learn in this course ?", but also "what are your current hobbies?".

At the last question I answered :

• Hang on Internet (Geek4Life heh)
• Hang around and discover some unknown Hong Kong places
• Being a start-up team member (I'll talk about that in a few weeks by the way, Interesting project is in progress)
• 學習中文 (Learn Chinese, I'm a Mandarin (please don't use "Putonghua" it's an ugly word) addict)

I saw that you are eager to learn even more Chinese every day? I thus offer you my latest book (18股市板塊) in which you will learn some Chinese financial terms and during the class I'll use both Chinese and English, I'll write Chinese term on the whiteboard.