I woke up this morning at 5AM, took a taxi, then the train, to finally take the plane bound to Seoul at 9AM.
Exhausting day, especially cause I slept 1 hour only last night, time to clean up the mess, packing "everything". The question is: What did I forget again?
C'est marrant cette manie de laisser tout "trainer", cette mauvaise habitude ne cesse de s'empirer (ou du moins ne s'ameliore guere) depuis mon enfance.
Remember...remember... remember... Laisser, oublier ses affaires pourrait-il avoir un lien avec fait de se sentir delaisse? On se sent abandonne, alors on abandonne a son tour. C'est peut-etre un sentiment vecu lorsque j'etais encore petite. Je voyais peut souvent mon papa, il me manquait beaucoup et lorsque je partais chez lui occasionellement en week-end, j'y laissais systematiquement des objets ou vetements de maniere inconsciente, mais quelquepart en etant consciente de vouloir laisser "une partir de moi-meme" dans un lieu ou j'aimererais etre plus presente.
I think Im getting sick this way: "j'oublie tout n'importe ou" passeport et appareil photo a NY, chapeau a un shooting, veste en boite.. J'ai un grand interet pour mes affaires, je suis en "etat de crise" lorsque je me rends compte d'avoir perdu qqchse.
Paradoxalement, "j'eparpille mes affaires" et deteste ranger, je remets souvent a plus tard ce que je peux faire au moment meme. Je devrais "prendre des lessons" de ces nombreux oublis mais cela m'indiffere en meme temps...
Anyway, Today is my first day in Seoul. I met my agency, Jennifer, so as the girls living at the model's apartment. I had my first casting this afternoon mais I also cant wait to visit the city. Unfortunately I cant go away from the apartement til 6PM in the week days! :( at least Im going to work on my studies!
I got 100000 wons as the weekly pocketmoney and I already spent 20000 wons in a supermarket, dunno where it goes cause I amost didnt buy anything.
My roomates advised me to go out for luncher or dinner. Its realy cheaper than buying found in a market! So, I will. dunno how does Korean food taste like, so I just ask for having a shot at it :)
mardi 24 novembre 2009
lundi 23 novembre 2009
UCRAZY SAYS GOODBYE TO CHINA
AUREVOIR CHINE,
I had an unforgettable time with you, you made me discovered new places, people, culture, way of life I didn't know before.
I learnt a lot once again, and even if I was expectacting to make money (that's the reason why I came, and I didnt), your life lessons are "priceless".
I learnt how to face life problems.
Indeed, in Beijing Lu, people took my purse wich had an important amount of money, so as my credit card. I that moment I never felt so lost, nonody speaks english so I didnt how how to explain my problem. People started to care about it when they saw my anger turning into tears. The Police car finally took me to the Police station where I stayed hours filling numerous papers. At that time the priority was to ask for an emergency incashment but the Bank doesnt give it on the week-end.
When I went there on monday, they agreed to gimme cash but I had to pay $20 fee (everytime Im going to withdraw money without card) cause Im not a Premier client. So I called my Bank in France to get the Premier Status. Unfortunanlely, I need a certain amount of money on my account, and Im far from getting it!
My dear China, Ive never been so "watched" in a country :)
At least 5 times a day, people stop in the street to ask "Are you a model?"
YES I DO. YES I DO. YES I DO. YES I DO. YES I DO.
At least 5 times a day peope stop you in the street to tell you:
YOU ARE SO TALL AND BEAUTIFUL. YOU ARE SO TALL AND BEAUTIFUL. YOU ARE SO TALL AND BEAUTIFUL. YU ARE SO TALL AND BEAUTIFUL. YOU ARE SO TALL AND BEAUTIFUL.
At least 5 times a week people ask you to take pictures with you.
First time in my time I eat so healthy.
How comes? cause I eat everything (fruits, veggies, cereals, yogurts, sushis) but Chinese food :) Sure I tried it many times but dont crave for it.
I enjoy eating Durian: you know this big yellow fruit which smells very bad but with an amzing taste, I also get dragonfruits, bananas, Fuji apples, grappes, lots of differents nuts, wholebran biscuits, and and and... those uncommon Chinese yogurt, which can be compared to "yoghurts to drink" in France, I just love them so much!!!
So I give up Chinese meals (lots of rice, meat is still with skin and bones, you can eat snake, chicken feet ot neck, very oily noodels (cant digest that), solid blood from the pork prepared in a soup, dry fish (I like it actually :)
I learnt lots about Chinese people behaviour.
Right, they are always pushing each other in the crowded metro station or even in a supermarket (shopping has never been so frustrating to me).
Right, they are always spitting in the street (One time, a Chinese man didnt see me and spit on my foot but whatever..)
They are not that "delicate", or even "quiet", they speak loud (its like if they argue sometimes but they dont), when I took the train Guangzhou-Shenzhen, the person on my right was like screaming to his phone, behind my seat a person was vomitting in a tiny-tiny plastic bag, on my left another one was listening to music that we all also were listening to , haha.
They drive also very fast and I saw many car crash accident.
Clients can appear cold, we dont really know what they think... First thing they do when I arrive is to show me the clock. time is time. BUSINESS IS BUSINESS. At least its clear. They know what they want. They will finish to work when they'll get everything they want, paying extra working hours.
Anyway, I JUST LOVE THIS COUNTRY, the first impression I had was a mess, no organization, rude people but if only you could know how good I feel here, how much I'll miss China.
They are also very helpful, and there are more people speaking english than we think. Most of them are just very shy to speak it.
My Chinese friend Wendy told me more about it..they are happy to help foreigners. They are in a good mood, loving to make jokes.
Chine, tu me manques deja! Demain matin je dois deja te quitter. Ne sois pas triste, mes souvenirs avec toi feront toujours partis de moi.
I had an unforgettable time with you, you made me discovered new places, people, culture, way of life I didn't know before.
I learnt a lot once again, and even if I was expectacting to make money (that's the reason why I came, and I didnt), your life lessons are "priceless".
I learnt how to face life problems.
Indeed, in Beijing Lu, people took my purse wich had an important amount of money, so as my credit card. I that moment I never felt so lost, nonody speaks english so I didnt how how to explain my problem. People started to care about it when they saw my anger turning into tears. The Police car finally took me to the Police station where I stayed hours filling numerous papers. At that time the priority was to ask for an emergency incashment but the Bank doesnt give it on the week-end.
When I went there on monday, they agreed to gimme cash but I had to pay $20 fee (everytime Im going to withdraw money without card) cause Im not a Premier client. So I called my Bank in France to get the Premier Status. Unfortunanlely, I need a certain amount of money on my account, and Im far from getting it!
My dear China, Ive never been so "watched" in a country :)
At least 5 times a day, people stop in the street to ask "Are you a model?"
YES I DO. YES I DO. YES I DO. YES I DO. YES I DO.
At least 5 times a day peope stop you in the street to tell you:
YOU ARE SO TALL AND BEAUTIFUL. YOU ARE SO TALL AND BEAUTIFUL. YOU ARE SO TALL AND BEAUTIFUL. YU ARE SO TALL AND BEAUTIFUL. YOU ARE SO TALL AND BEAUTIFUL.
At least 5 times a week people ask you to take pictures with you.
First time in my time I eat so healthy.
How comes? cause I eat everything (fruits, veggies, cereals, yogurts, sushis) but Chinese food :) Sure I tried it many times but dont crave for it.
I enjoy eating Durian: you know this big yellow fruit which smells very bad but with an amzing taste, I also get dragonfruits, bananas, Fuji apples, grappes, lots of differents nuts, wholebran biscuits, and and and... those uncommon Chinese yogurt, which can be compared to "yoghurts to drink" in France, I just love them so much!!!
So I give up Chinese meals (lots of rice, meat is still with skin and bones, you can eat snake, chicken feet ot neck, very oily noodels (cant digest that), solid blood from the pork prepared in a soup, dry fish (I like it actually :)
I learnt lots about Chinese people behaviour.
Right, they are always pushing each other in the crowded metro station or even in a supermarket (shopping has never been so frustrating to me).
Right, they are always spitting in the street (One time, a Chinese man didnt see me and spit on my foot but whatever..)
They are not that "delicate", or even "quiet", they speak loud (its like if they argue sometimes but they dont), when I took the train Guangzhou-Shenzhen, the person on my right was like screaming to his phone, behind my seat a person was vomitting in a tiny-tiny plastic bag, on my left another one was listening to music that we all also were listening to , haha.
They drive also very fast and I saw many car crash accident.
Clients can appear cold, we dont really know what they think... First thing they do when I arrive is to show me the clock. time is time. BUSINESS IS BUSINESS. At least its clear. They know what they want. They will finish to work when they'll get everything they want, paying extra working hours.
Anyway, I JUST LOVE THIS COUNTRY, the first impression I had was a mess, no organization, rude people but if only you could know how good I feel here, how much I'll miss China.
They are also very helpful, and there are more people speaking english than we think. Most of them are just very shy to speak it.
My Chinese friend Wendy told me more about it..they are happy to help foreigners. They are in a good mood, loving to make jokes.
Chine, tu me manques deja! Demain matin je dois deja te quitter. Ne sois pas triste, mes souvenirs avec toi feront toujours partis de moi.
dimanche 22 novembre 2009
UCRAZY MEETS MAHER
Right, today the French model met the Arabic businessman :)
We met on facebook a few weeks before when I joined a group to know more about Guangzhou. He told me he'll arrive to the city soon and proposed me his help.
YES MUM AND DAD, I'M AWARE I SHOULDN'T ACCEPT TO MEET SOMEONE I DON'T KNOW :)
Like in Business, everyone knows life is made of risks, which are often essential get to know great people or opportunities.
So, I just had to catch a taxi and to go to the Garden hotel to meet him at the end of the afternoon. Didn't really know how he looked like,(he knew more about my appearance than knew about its :) I was looking for Maher in this luxury hotel, where a waterfall stands out behind the lobby.
We met at the second flor where he recognized me at the first glance.
We stopped at the hotel's bar and drunk some coffee. He offered me a christmas starbuck cup so as a Carolina Herrera perfume: great smell!
Then we went shopping at the Teemall cause I had (I still have) to find a coat before going to Seoul after tomorrow, it's SUPERCOLD there!
As you know my difficulties to find cothes at my taste and also which can fit me, I still didnt find anything!
Tirred after walking around the mall without getting anything we went to a Turkish restaurant. I was "sceptique" about this kind of food. I still remebered one of my last "Turkish food try", that was in Istanbul a few years ago. I and Daddy stopped to grab a "traditional kebab": the taste was a desaster! I mean the mutton seemed so old, you know this smell de vieux bouc.. haha
Anyway, we went to this famous restaurant where I felt like if I would be in Turkey!
Where is the Chinese community? Would the door (separating the street and the restaurant) be the frontier btw China and Turkey? It could be, at least the time of a (delicious) dinner. We ordered almost all the menu, tried so many varietes of Turkish pizzas, bread, hummus, the desserts were like a "little taste of paradise". Ce riz au lait si onctueux, parfume au caramel dont mes papilles se delectent encore.
Still those "wordless" Turkish pastries (no loukum or Alva this time) simplement de formidables "etouffe-chretiens" comme des cornes de gazelle... MIAM MIAM MIAM le tout accompagne d'un caffe turque tres.. serre!
We talked a lot, speaking about politic, religion, cultural differences, the importance of the nationality in business relationships, my job compared to its.. We had a nice talk!
Then I asked him to bring me home (YES MUM HE DID :)
UCRAZY IN CHINA
Ive been in Guangzhou for 24 days.
I went castings, got some jobs and had lots of free time to find the city out.
We went to the zoo (or should I say the Animal's Jail!) where I took some pics to show people the miserable animal's way of life! such a shame to "make them trapped" this way! Every creature should be free on earth, there's no priority to freedom, Humans or not! So, of course I didnt pay to enter the Zoo :P
I also went to the famous streets for shopping or for having a local lunch. I always try to share as much as I can with local people. Its difficult to communicate with them, I dont speak one Chinese word, they dont speak one English word either.
Actually, who said we need languages to communicate? Of course we do, but despite one of our 5 senses is missing, we still can decide the way to behave. Just listen to people, smile to them, try their food, look around you... Whatever the way you express yourself, they will give it you back :)
So I went to Beijing Lu: both fashionable and traditional street, in the center of Guangzhou City. I went to Zhuangyuan Fang and Renmin Nan Lu, where the "most fashionable clothes" are supposed to be: GROSSE DECEPTION concerning fashion in this city, its "cheap" in every way: prices so as the quality and style!
Plus even if I'd love it, I'd not be able to wear it cause everything is tooooooooo short!
In order to find more "wearable" clothes I went to Plazas, those big shopping malls.
Actually, Its better to go shopping on the street: they sell the same items with higher prices in malls! So whaterver the Plaza's name: CITIC Plaza, China Plaza, Teemall, or the Mayflower one, just forget it...
Alright, its OK. Guangzhou isnt a shopping city and its not that important, except when the weather starts to be very cold (like what happened those last days). Getting warm clothes appears like an emergency case so I tried my best to get dressed but there's nothing to do with the local fashion industry to me I guess...
I wish I could wear those old (non fake!!!) vintage Dr Martens + flowers leggings+ used leather jacket + grey wool shirt + classic back hat :) MISS LONDON
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What did I start a blog today only?
Is my life more interesting that it used to be before? certainly not.
Life is made of events; sometimes those events make you deeply question yourself.
This is important for me to "build" something from my crazy life. I dont mean my life is crazier than another one. Many people think they are so special, unique by themselves. I think we have never been so similar and so different at the same time.
We are all "very very very" good at something, I believe everybody was made for something on earth. Some people spent most of their time looking for it. I also think lots of people know what they are very good at, they just dont know the way to "exercise", how to "practice"their particular skill(s). Lots of them match their lifes very well :)
I still cant make up my mind about what kind of information Im going to write on this blog, I mean I dont wanna write about "my life", "my passions", "my projects", or writing about a person Im crazy about (even I I do).
So, Im going to write what I wanna write at the moment. Im kinda messy person, founding difficulties to organize my time, my thinks, even myself.
I often start something I really believe in but give it up for something else. I want to "specialize", I also want to stop doing many things at the same time cause it's such a stress and it's also useless; if I dont do every single thing well, it's better to do 1 or 2 things very well.
I (try to) follow this advice every day: Don't spend to much time deciding on something, its better to make a faster choice than keeping to think which choice would be the best one. Even if I'd make the wrong choice (but fast) it would still be more efficient than making the good one after taking a long time thinking about it.
So, let's go! I made the choice to write on my blog regulary aout some "pieces of my mind".
Is my life more interesting that it used to be before? certainly not.
Life is made of events; sometimes those events make you deeply question yourself.
This is important for me to "build" something from my crazy life. I dont mean my life is crazier than another one. Many people think they are so special, unique by themselves. I think we have never been so similar and so different at the same time.
We are all "very very very" good at something, I believe everybody was made for something on earth. Some people spent most of their time looking for it. I also think lots of people know what they are very good at, they just dont know the way to "exercise", how to "practice"their particular skill(s). Lots of them match their lifes very well :)
I still cant make up my mind about what kind of information Im going to write on this blog, I mean I dont wanna write about "my life", "my passions", "my projects", or writing about a person Im crazy about (even I I do).
So, Im going to write what I wanna write at the moment. Im kinda messy person, founding difficulties to organize my time, my thinks, even myself.
I often start something I really believe in but give it up for something else. I want to "specialize", I also want to stop doing many things at the same time cause it's such a stress and it's also useless; if I dont do every single thing well, it's better to do 1 or 2 things very well.
I (try to) follow this advice every day: Don't spend to much time deciding on something, its better to make a faster choice than keeping to think which choice would be the best one. Even if I'd make the wrong choice (but fast) it would still be more efficient than making the good one after taking a long time thinking about it.
So, let's go! I made the choice to write on my blog regulary aout some "pieces of my mind".
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