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		<title>Money new year of the dragon! / Coûteuse année du dragon!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of a business trip to Brussels, the timing was great, I could go back to France for the week-end to celebrate vietnamese new year with my family. Although we do not follow many vietnamese traditions anymore, the &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/money-new-year-of-the-dragon-couteuse-annee-du-dragon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1576&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the middle of a business trip to Brussels, the timing was great, I could go back to France for the week-end to celebrate vietnamese new year with my family. Although we do not follow many vietnamese traditions anymore, the <a title="Best of both worlds. / Le meilleur des deux mondes." href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/best-of-both-worlds-le-meilleur-des-deux-mondes/">Tết</a> is one that we still follow, and as much as possible the vietnamese side of my family tries to gather and meet for the day.</p>
<p><em>Au milieu d&#8217;un voyage d&#8217;affaire à Bruxelles, le timing était impeccable, j&#8217;ai pu retourner en France pour le week-end célébrer le nouvel an Vietnamien en famille. Bien que l&#8217;on ne respecte plus beaucoup de traditions Vietnamiennes, le <a title="Best of both worlds. / Le meilleur des deux mondes." href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/best-of-both-worlds-le-meilleur-des-deux-mondes/">Tết</a> est l&#8217;une de celles que l&#8217;on observe toujours, et autant que possible ma famille Vietnamienne tente de se réunir pour l&#8217;occasion.</em></p>
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<p>One of the traditions is that elders hand out to children red envelopes with some money in them, which usually causes shops anywhere near an Asian community to run out of banknotes of 5 and 10€ over the course of the week-end. And as my brother and I went to withdraw money to fill the red envelopes that we are now elderly enough to hand out, the guy in front of us left the bank with his card still in the ATM. Actually, he also left it in with his PIN code typed in already. We realized it by mistake after an accidental 10€ withdrawal, when the machine gave the money without asking for the card first&#8230; Alas, the owner was already gone, so we put back the card, the money, and the receipt in an envelope, that we left in the bank&#8217;s mailbox.</p>
<p><em>Une des traditions est que les aînés donnent aux enfants des étrennes dans des enveloppes rouges, ce qui entraîne en général une pénurie de billets de 5 et 10€ dans tous les magasins à proximité d&#8217;une communité asiatique pendant le week-end. Et alors que mon frère et moi-même sommes aller retirer de l&#8217;argent pour remplir les enveloppes rouges maintenant que nous sommes suffisamment aînés pour en donner, le monsieur devant nous est sorti de la banque avec sa carte encore dans le distributeur. En fait, il l&#8217;a aussi laissée avec son code déjà tapé dedans. On s&#8217;est rendu compte par erreur quand un billet de 10€ en est sorti, sans nous avoir demandé carte ni code&#8230; Hélas, le propriétaire avait déjà disparu, donc on a mis la carte, l&#8217;argent et le reçu dans une enveloppe, glissée dans la boîte aux lettres de la banque.</em></p>
<p>Now for the bad news: I got a text from AMEX during the night, asking to call back ASAP because they had detected a potential fraud on my card. I knew it was not a scam because the callback number was the official fraud service. Also, it already happened to me 6 months ago while on a business trip to Luxembourg (always happens at the best time&#8230;). Last time, somebody managed to generate valid card numbers, and one of which happened to be mine. It was then used to rent a car, a couple of nights in a motel, and some clothes, all in the US. It wouldn&#8217;t have bothered so much if I was not in the middle of a business trip, with a potentially pricey bill to pay at the end of the week&#8230; And now it happened again, a mere 6 months later. This time, $300 plane tickets with Azul Linhas Aéreas, and some medication alerted AMEX about the fraud. But that&#8217;s twice in half a year! When I called in to confirm the fraud, and complain, the operator was very polite, understanding, professional (as they were last time), said he would send me a temporary card at my hotel so that I can pay the bill at the end of the week, and only when I raised the point that twice in less than a year was a bit much did he mention that maybe they could &#8220;reset my number&#8221; and give me a completely different new card number. But shouldn&#8217;t they be doing that systematically in case of a fraud?</p>
<p><em>Et maintenant, la mauvaise nouvelle: AMEX m&#8217;a envoyé un SMS cette nuit, me demandant de les rappeler au plus vite parce qu&#8217;ils ont détecté une fraude potentielle avec ma carte. Je savais que ce n&#8217;était pas du bidon parce que le numéro à rappeler était bien celui du service fraude. Aussi, ça m&#8217;était déjà arrivé il y a 6 mois pendant un voyage d&#8217;affaires au Luxembourg (c&#8217;est toujours au mauvais moment que ça arrive&#8230;). La dernière fois, quelqu&#8217;un avait réussi à générer des numéros de cartes valides, dont l&#8217;un s&#8217;est trouvé être le mien. Le numéro a ensuite servi à louer une voiture, quelques nuits dans un motel, et des vêtements, le tout aux US. Ça ne m&#8217;aura pas tant incommodé si je n&#8217;étais pas au milieu d&#8217;un voyage d&#8217;affaires, avec une addition potentiellement salée à la fin de la semaine&#8230; Et rev&#8217;là t&#8217;y pas qu&#8217;on me r&#8217;fait la même, à peine 6 mois plus tard. Cette fois, c&#8217;est 300$ de billets d&#8217;avions avec Azul Linhas Aéreas, et des médicaments qui ont mis la puce à l&#8217;oreille d&#8217;AMEX. Mais ça fait deux fois en 6 mois! Quand j&#8217;ai appelé pour confirmer la fraude, et me plaindre, l&#8217;agent était très poli, compréhensif, professionnel (comme la dernière fois), m&#8217;a dit qu&#8217;il me ferait parvenir à l&#8217;hôtel une carte temporaire pour pouvoir payer ma facture à la fin de la semaine, et seulement après avoir fait remarquer que 2 fois en moins d&#8217;un an, ça commence à faire, m&#8217;a t&#8217;il dit que peut-être ils pourraient faire un &#8220;reset de mon numéro&#8221; et me donner un numéro de carte complètement différent. Mais ils devraient pas faire ça systématiquement en cas de fraude?</em></p>
<p>Anyways, with an end of the year like that, I really hope the firecrackers will properly do their job of chasing off evil spirits&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Enfin bon, avec une fin d&#8217;année comme celle-là, j&#8217;espère vraiment que les pétards vont bien faire leur boulot de chasser les mauvais esprits&#8230;</em></p>
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<p><a title="Chúc mừng năm mới!" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/chuc-m%e1%bb%abng-nam-m%e1%bb%9bi/">Chúc mừng năm mới</a> everyone!</p>
<p><em><a title="Chúc mừng năm mới!" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/chuc-m%e1%bb%abng-nam-m%e1%bb%9bi/">Chúc mừng năm mới</a> tout le monde!</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I caught the 6th mouse. La semaine dernière, j&#8217;ai attrapé la 6è souris. And a couple of days afterwards, that&#8217;s when we discovered&#8230; the damage. Apparently, the mice had a little party in the drawers under the bed. &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/declaration-of-war-declaration-de-guerre/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1569&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week, I caught the 6th mouse.</p>
<p><em>La semaine dernière, j&#8217;ai attrapé la 6è souris.</em></p>
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<p>And a couple of days afterwards, that&#8217;s when we discovered&#8230; the damage. Apparently, the mice had a little party in the drawers under the bed. Which we found covered in mouse poop, mouse pee, and nut shells. Furthermore, bed sheets had been nibbled pretty bad. This means war.</p>
<p><em>Et quelques jours plus tard, c&#8217;est là qu&#8217;on a découvert&#8230; les dégâts. Apparemment, les souris ont fait la fiesta dans les tiroirs sous le lit. Qu&#8217;on a trouvés couvert de crottes de souris, de pipi de souris, et de coquilles de noix. De plus, des draps ont été grignottés plutôt méchamment. C&#8217;est la guerre.</em></p>
<p>Obviously, the cat is pretty useless. I&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;s got Garfield genes and ignores them completely. That, or the family had time to settle before he could catch them. I look at the cat, and somehow, I&#8217;m not convinced&#8230;</p>
<p><em>De toute évidence, le chat est plutôt inutile. Je suis à peu près sûr qu&#8217;il a des gènes de Garfield et les ignore complètement. Ça, ou la famille a eu le temps de s&#8217;installer avant qu&#8217;il puisse les attraper. Je regarde le chat, et quelque part, je suis pas convaincu&#8230;</em></p>
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<p>They also seem to be pretty well organized. Never more than one is going out for food at a time. So I had to invest. Need to be able to capture them more efficiently. The next one will be taken to the interrogation room for questioning.</p>
<p><em>Elles ont aussi l&#8217;air plutôt bien organisées. Jamais plus d&#8217;une à la fois en sortie pour la nourriture. Donc j&#8217;ai dû investir. Il faut pouvoir les attraper de manière plus efficace. La prochaine sera donc emmenée en salle d&#8217;interrogatoire.</em></p>
<p>In the meantime, I keep trying  to talk to the cat and the dog into giving a hand. That&#8217;s their &#8220;what? us?&#8221; face:</p>
<p><em>Pendant ce temps, je continue d&#8217;essayer de persuader le chat et la chienne de filer un coup de main. Voici leur tête à la &#8220;quoi? nous?&#8221;</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Mourek? Vous vous souvenez de Mourek? Unfortunately, our Newfoundland, one day, managed to force her gate open and run after him while he was still too small to escape. We managed to wrestle him away from her, and worried, &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/promotion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1567&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember <a title="The Eye of the Tiger" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/the-eye-of-the-tiger-2/">Mourek</a>?</p>
<p><em>Vous vous souvenez de <a title="The Eye of the Tiger" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/the-eye-of-the-tiger-2/">Mourek</a>?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Mourek sitting on the piano by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6560055225/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6560055225_2182110a97_z.jpg" alt="Mourek sitting on the piano" width="427" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>Unfortunately, our Newfoundland, one day, managed to force her gate open and run after him while he was still too small to escape. We managed to wrestle him away from her, and worried, took him to the vet. He was luckily unhurt, but the vet recommended that we find a new home for him, since now that the dog managed to catch him once, she will always consider him as prey&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Malheureusement, notre Terre-Neuve, un jour, a réussi à forcer sa barrière et le courser alors qu&#8217;il était encore trop petit pour lui échapper. On a réussi à l&#8217;extirper, et inquiets, l&#8217;avons emmené voir le véto. Il était heureusement sain et sauf, mais le véto nous a recommandé de lui trouver un nouveau foyer, vu que maintenant que la chienne a réussi à l&#8217;attraper une fois, elle le verra toujours comme une proie&#8230;</em></p>
<p>So we tried looking for a new home, but couldn&#8217;t find any <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> . And animal shelters are so crowded that they won&#8217;t accept him, or we would have to anonymously abandon him at their doorstep, 18th century orphanage style&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Donc on a cherché à lui trouver une nouvelle maison, mais on n&#8217;a pas pu <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> . Et les assos sont tellement bondées qu&#8217;elles refusent les nouveaux arrivants, ou alors il faudrait l&#8217;abandonner sur le palier anonymement, façon orphelinat du XVIIIè&#8230;</em></p>
<p>So we kept him, at home, and for some time he was not allowed to go out much, at least not unless the dog is locked in the garage. Which is not a life for either a cat, or a dog. Then Mourek got promoted as chief of the henhouse!</p>
<p><em>Donc on l&#8217;a gardé, à la maison, et pour un temps il n&#8217;était pas autorisé de sortir, du moins pas tant que la chienne n&#8217;était pas enfermée au garage. Ce qui n&#8217;est une vie ni pour le chat, ni pour la chienne. Et puis Mourek s&#8217;est vu promu gardien chef du poulailler!</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Climbing the social ladder? by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6560059027/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6560059027_20dfe642cd_z.jpg" alt="Climbing the social ladder?" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
<p>For the first couple of weeks, we left his door locked, since there are several holes in the roof and carpentry that we wanted him to discover and get used to, and at the beginning he mainly explored the rooftops.</p>
<p><em>Les quelques premières semaines, on a laissé sa porte fermée, vu qu&#8217;il y a plusieurs trous dans la toiture et la charpente qu&#8217;on voulait qu&#8217;il découvre et s&#8217;approprie, et au début, il explorait principalement les toits.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Standing guard by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6560062155/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6560062155_0c63a538e6_z.jpg" alt="Standing guard" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
<p>And then, one evening, I saw him down in the garden, and the dog started to chase him, but he quickly evaded her, by going up a tree, getting down on the other side, and getting back to his rooftop. Phew. So I was reassured, looks like he was now big enough to evade the dog if necessary.</p>
<p><em>Puis un soir, je l&#8217;ai vu descendre dans le jardin, et la chienne commencer à le courser, mais il lui a rapidement échappée, en grimpant un arbre, descendant de l&#8217;autre côté, et remontant sur son toit. Ouf. Donc j&#8217;étais rassuré, on dirait qu&#8217;il est assez grand pour échapper à la chienne si besoin.</em></p>
<p>And a couple of months ago, Mourek figured out the dog. He approached her closely, and she didn&#8217;t react. As long as he doesn&#8217;t try to run away from her, she would not chase him. And now, they&#8217;re best friends, so whenever we get out in the garden, there&#8217;s the dog standing in the way to get biscuits, and the cat purring on our legs trying to find an opportunity to sneak in the house&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
<p><em>Et il y a quelques mois, Mourek a calculé la chienne. Il s&#8217;est approché tout près, elle n&#8217;a pas bougé. Tant qu&#8217;il ne cherche pas à détaler sous son nez, elle ne le prendra pas en chasse. Et maintenant, ils sont copains comme cochons, donc dès qu&#8217;on sort dans le jardin, la chienne bloque le passage pour des biscuits, et le chat nous ronronne dans les pattes en cherchant à trouver un moyen de se faufiler dans la maison&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> .</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="On the roof by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6560065297/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6560065297_de4a81c35c_z.jpg" alt="On the roof" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
<p>He&#8217;s also venturing out of the house, and even crossing the street to where his mother lives&#8230; I&#8217;m glad we didn&#8217;t find him a new home, and that the vet was wrong, in the end.</p>
<p><em>Il se promène aussi hors de la maison, et traverse même la rue là où sa mère habite&#8230; Je suis content qu&#8217;on ne lui ait pas trouvé un nouveau foyer, et que le véto ait eu tort, finalement.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Chat perché by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6560068075/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6560068075_77f1eea7f6_z.jpg" alt="Chat perché" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
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		<title>Gluten Free &#8220;Galette des rois&#8221; / Galette des rois sans gluten</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I already wrote about the French tradition of drawing the kings, on January 6th (or the first Sunday of January), I even wrote about my first attempt (which was more like a disaster, but eh, nobody&#8217;s perfect, and especially not &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/gluten-free-galette-des-rois-galette-des-rois-sans-gluten/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1565&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I already wrote about the French tradition of <a title="I am the King! / Je suis le Roi!" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/i-am-the-king-je-suis-le-roi/">drawing the kings</a>, on January 6th (or the first Sunday of January), I even wrote about <a title="J’aime la galette, savez-vous comment?" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/jaime-la-galette-savez-vous-comment/">my first attempt</a> (which was more like a disaster, but eh, nobody&#8217;s perfect, and especially not me). Now that I live in yet another country, it&#8217;s only fitting that I would attempt another one, isn&#8217;t it? In Canada, I suffered from lack of ready-made puff pastry, and inexperience (which caused the marzipan filling to make a run for it, Amoco Cadiz style).</p>
<p><em>J&#8217;ai déjà parlé de la tradition française de <a title="I am the King! / Je suis le Roi!" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/i-am-the-king-je-suis-le-roi/">tirer les rois</a>, le 6 janvier (ou le premier dimanche de janvier), j&#8217;ai même raconté <a title="J’aime la galette, savez-vous comment?" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/jaime-la-galette-savez-vous-comment/">ma première tentative</a> (qui était plutôt un désastre, mais bon, personne n&#8217;est parfait, et surtout pas moi). Maintenant que j&#8217;habite à nouveau dans un autre pays, il est donc normal que je retente le coup, non? Au Canada, j&#8217;ai souffert d&#8217;un manque de pâte feuilletée toute prête, et d&#8217;inexpérience (qui a causé à la franipane de se faire la malle, version Amoco Cadiz).</em></p>
<p>In here, although I might have learned from last time in terms of sealing the pie shut, I&#8217;m facing an even bigger challenge, as Czech Republic suffers from lack of ready-made gluten-free puff pastry (France as well, by the way, probably&#8230;). And I&#8217;ve never really made even regular puff-pastry myself&#8230; But I really wanted to try and spread the tradition (traditions that include cake should be internationally recognized, if you asked me).</p>
<p><em>Ici, bien que j&#8217;aie retenu la leçon de la dernière fois en ce qui concerne la fermeture des bords de la galette, je me retrouve face à un problème encore plus épineux, à savoir que la République Tchèque manque cruellement de pâte feuilletée toute prête sans gluten (la France aussi, d&#8217;ailleurs, probablement&#8230;). Et je n&#8217;ai jamais vraiment tenté de faire de pâte feuilletée moi-même&#8230; mais je voulais vraiment essayer de faire découvrir la tradition (toute tradition qui implique gâteau devrait être mondialement connue, si vous voulez mon avis).</em></p>
<p>For the dough, I took <a href="http://onmange.canalblog.com/archives/2006/07/06/2247790.html">this recipe</a>. It was a pain to prepare, mostly because gluten-free flour behaves very differently from regular flour. But after two hours of stretching, folding, cooling down, stretching, folding, etc&#8230; I finally had the dough. The proportions are perfect for the two discs of puff pastry we will need. For the filling, I took my mother&#8217;s recipe:</p>
<p><em>Pour la pâte, j&#8217;ai pris <a href="http://onmange.canalblog.com/archives/2006/07/06/2247790.html">cette recette</a>. Assez difficile à préparer, principalement parce que la farine sans gluten se comporte très différemment de la farine normale. Mais après deux heures d&#8217;étirage, pliage, repose, étirage, pliage, etc&#8230; J&#8217;ai enfin fini ma pâte. Les proportions sont impeccables pour les deux disques de pâte feuilletée nécessaires. Pour la garniture, j&#8217;ai pris la recette de ma mère:</em></p>
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<li>100g crystal sugar</li>
<li>2 eggs + 1-2 extra yolks (for decoration)</li>
<li>125g of almond powder</li>
<li>125g butter (at room temperature)</li>
<li>1 bag of vanillated sugar</li>
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<li><em>100g de sucre en poudre</em></li>
<li><em>2 œufs + 1-2 jaunes supplémentaires (pour la déco)</em></li>
<li><em>125g de poudre d&#8217;amande</em></li>
<li><em>125g de beurre (à température ambiante)</em></li>
<li><em>1 sachet de sucre vanillé</em></li>
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<li>Combine the butter and sugar until you obtain a creamy mix</li>
<li>Add the almond powder</li>
<li>Add the 2 eggs</li>
<li>Add the vanillated sugar.</li>
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<li><em>Travailler le beurre et le sucre pour le rendre mousseux.</em></li>
<li><em>Ajouter la poudre d&#8217;amande</em></li>
<li><em>Ajouter les 2 œufs</em></li>
<li><em>Ajouter le sucre vanillé</em></li>
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<p>I already explained <a title="J’aime la galette, savez-vous comment?" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/jaime-la-galette-savez-vous-comment/">here</a> how to assemble and decorate.</p>
<p><em>J&#8217;ai déjà expliqué <a title="J’aime la galette, savez-vous comment?" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/jaime-la-galette-savez-vous-comment/">ici</a> comment monter la galette et la décorer.</em></p>
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<p>Result à-la-<a href="http://cestpasmoijeljure.wordpress.com/">Dr.-Caso</a>: 7/10. This time, no marzipan overflow. I am surprised at how I managed the puff pastry, actually. Unfortunately, the top layer was stretched too thin, and the decorations went in too deep, causing the crust to burst on top. Also, the almond powder I could find here was a bit grainier than the one I could find in France, causing the marzipan texture to not be as smooth as it should be. But the taste was there <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><em>Résultat à-la-<a href="http://cestpasmoijeljure.wordpress.com/">Dr.-Caso</a>: 7/10. Cette fois, pas de débordement de frangipane. Je suis surpris d&#8217;avoir plutôt réussi la pâte feuilletée, à vrai dire. Malheureusement, j&#8217;ai trop étiré le dessus, c&#8217;était trop fin et en décorant je suis allé trop loin, ce qui a valu à la croute de se fendre. Aussi, la poudre d&#8217;amande que j&#8217;ai trouvé était plus grossière que celle que je trouvais en France, ce qui à fait que la frangipane n&#8217;était pas aussi onctueuse qu&#8217;elle l&#8217;aurait dû. Mais le goût était là <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Czech Republic there&#8217;s a small rhyme about devil, &#8220;Bertík&#8221;,  who takes care of the naughty kids who don&#8217;t deserve presents for Christmas/Saint Nicolas. En République Tchèque, il y a une petite comptine à propos de &#8220;Bertík&#8221; le diablotin, qui &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/certiku-bertiku/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1561&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Czech Republic there&#8217;s a small rhyme about devil, &#8220;Bertík&#8221;,  who takes care of the naughty kids who don&#8217;t deserve presents for Christmas/Saint Nicolas.</p>
<p><em>En République Tchèque, il y a une petite comptine à propos de &#8220;Bertík&#8221; le diablotin, qui s&#8217;occupe des enfants qui n&#8217;ont pas été sages et ne méritent pas de cadeaux pour Noël/Saint Nicolas.</em></p>
<blockquote><p>- Čertíku Bertíku, co to neseš v pytlíku,<br />
Čertíku Bertíku, co to v pytli máš?<br />
- Je to myš, černá myš, snad se hochu nebojíš.<br />
- Čertíku Bertíku pojď jen ke mně blíž.</p>
<p><em>- Devil Bertie, what do you carry in your bag,</em><br />
<em>  Devil Bertie, what do you have in your bag?</em><br />
<em>- It&#8217;s a mouse, a black mouse, boy I hope you&#8217;re not scared.</em><br />
<em>- Devil Bertie come closer to me.</em></p>
<p>- Bébert le diablotin, que portes-tu dans ton sac,<br />
Bébert le diablotin, qu&#8217;as tu dans ton sac?<br />
- C&#8217;est une souris, une souris noire, petit j&#8217;espère que tu n&#8217;as pas peur.<br />
- Bébert le diablotin, viens plus près de moi.</p></blockquote>
<p>Speaking of mice, the house is looking more and more like a small zoo. There&#8217;s the cat, the dog, the hens and under the roof we also have ferrets (although maybe they have been chased off by the cat), who we didn&#8217;t try to chase ourselves because they&#8217;re not attacking the hens, so we might as well stick to the peaceful ferrets rather than getting rid of those and risking having worse ones settling in afterwards.</p>
<p><em>D&#8217;ailleurs, en parlant de souris, la maison commence à ressembler de plus en plus à une ménagerie. Il y a le chat, la chienne, les poules, et sous le toit on a des furets (quoique le chat les a peut-être fait fuir), que l&#8217;on n&#8217;a pas cherché à chasser nous-même parce qu&#8217;ils ne s&#8217;attaquent pas aux poules, donc autant garder des furets pacifiques plutôt que s&#8217;en débarrasser et risquer d&#8217;en avoir des pire qui s&#8217;installent à leur place.</em></p>
<p>And a couple of months ago, I started to hear some scraping and scratching under the floorboards. There are mice in the house. My sister used to have rats, so I&#8217;m not particularly scared of mice, I find them quite cute. But hard to catch. First one I got was rummaging in the kitchen trash can. I sealed off the trash can, went outside and released it in a field behind the factory a few hundred metres away from the house. Second one I got was rummaging in the kitchen trash can (another one). Same procedure. For the third one, I noticed it going behind the fridge. Using an old plastic container, and after cutting its &#8220;escape routes&#8221;, I managed to corner and catch it!</p>
<p><em>Et il y a quelques mois, j&#8217;ai commencé à entendre des grattements et des grignottis sous le parquet. Il y a des souris dans la maison. Ma sœur avait des rats quand j&#8217;étais plus jeune, donc je n&#8217;ai pas spécialement peur des souris, je les trouve même mimis. Mais difficiles à attraper. La première que j&#8217;ai eue fouillait dans la poubelle. On ferme bien fort la poubelle, on va dehors et on la relâche dans un champ derrière l&#8217;usine à quelques centaines de mètres de la maison. La deuxième que j&#8217;ai eue fouillait dans la poubelle (une autre). Même topo. Pour la troisième, je l&#8217;ai vue se faufiler derrière le frigo. Avec un vieux tupperware, et après avoir bloqué ses &#8220;issues de secours&#8221;, j&#8217;ai réussi à la coincer et l&#8217;attraper!</em></p>
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<p>This time, I went further, crossed the canal (still by foot, and still looking stupid holding a mouse in an old plastic container), to release it in the riverbanks. And I know those were not the same mouse always coming back, because the last one was smaller than the first two&#8230; But I have to go, I hear more scratching in the kitchen&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Cette fois, je suis allé plus loin, ai traversé le canal (toujours à pied, et toujours l&#8217;air idiot en tenant une souris dans un vieux tupperware), pour la relâcher sur l&#8217;autre rive. Et je sais que ce n&#8217;est pas la même qui revient, la dernière était plus petite que les deux premières&#8230; Mais je dois y aller, j&#8217;entends des grattements dans la cuisine&#8230;</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year everybody! I seldom talk about resolutions for the New Year. Mostly because I don&#8217;t want to embarrass people what theirs will be, and also because everybody knows they are seldom kept anyways. But I&#8217;ve got a list &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/stastny-novy-rok-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1555&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy New Year everybody! I seldom talk about resolutions for the New Year. Mostly because I don&#8217;t want to embarrass people what theirs will be, and also because everybody knows they are seldom kept anyways. But I&#8217;ve got a list of activities/habits that I&#8217;d like to be able to maintain. If I manage to keep them all throughout the year, then I&#8217;ll retro-call them resolutions, m&#8217;kay?</p>
<p><em>Bonne année tout le monde! Je parle rarement des résolutions pour la nouvelle année. Principalement parce que je ne veux pas embarrasser les gens en leur demandant les leurs, et aussi parce que tout le monde sait qu&#8217;elles sont rarement tenues de toutes façons. Mais j&#8217;ai une liste d&#8217;activités/habitudes que j&#8217;aimerais bien réussir à maintenir. Si j&#8217;arrive à m&#8217;y tenir tout au long de l&#8217;année, je les renommerai en résolutions de manière rétroactive, oki?</em></p>
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<li>Properly learn Czech</li>
<li>Get back to a more regular blogging schedule (My backlog of travel pictures goes as far back as 2008). Once or twice a week would be a success from my point of view</li>
<li>Sleep more</li>
<li>Read more (my backlog of books is also increasing, and I don&#8217;t like that either&#8230;). The lack of commute kinda killed my reading habits</li>
<li>Do a &#8220;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/2012-p52/">Project 52</a>&#8221; (one photo per week) on flickr</li>
<li>Improve my photographic skills (more practice might help with the project 52 as well, two birds with one stone <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  ).</li>
<li>Exercise more (I miss climbing and swimming a bit)</li>
<li>Get back to the piano</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em>Me mettre au tchèque sérieusement</em><br />
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<li><em>Reprendre un rhytme de blogage plus régulier (j&#8217;ai des photos de voyage non triées qui remontent à 2008). Une ou deux fois par semaine serait un succès, de mon point de vue</em></li>
<li><em>Dormir plus</em></li>
<li><em>Lire plus (ma pile de lecture augmente aussi, et je n&#8217;aime pas ça non plus&#8230;). La fin de mes migrations pendulaires a un peu tué mes habitudes de lecture</em></li>
<li><em>Faire un &#8220;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/2012-p52/">Projet 52</a>&#8221; (une photo par semaine) sur flickr</em></li>
<li><em>M&#8217;améliorer en photo (plus d&#8217;entraînement pourrait aider pour le projet 52 aussi, une pierre deux coups <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  )</em></li>
<li><em>Faire de l&#8217;exercice (ça me manque un peu de ne plus faire d&#8217;escalade ni de natation)</em></li>
<li><em>Me remettre au piano</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Unfortunately, some of those items conflict with each other. See, to improve my photographic skills, I would need more practice, and also to spend more time studying the theory, through online tutorials, or via photography books. But that would cost me in terms of sleep time, and more books would definitely not help my reading backlog. Although more pictures would help with the project 52 and a better blogging schedule, maybe <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . Anyways, to start the year, here&#8217;s my first try at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh">bokeh</a> (it&#8217;s actually pretty easy to do, when you know the trick). Doesn&#8217;t look like a Christmas Tree anymore, does it?</p>
<p><em>Malheureusement, certains de ces éléments se contredisent. Tiens, pour m&#8217;améliorer en photo, il me faut plus de pratique, et aussi plus de temps passer à potasser la théorie, via des tutoriels en ligne, ou des livres sur la photographie. Mais ça me coûterait en termes de temps de sommeil, et plus de livres n&#8217;aideraient décidément pas ma pile de livres à lire. Bien que plus de photos aideraient pour le projet 52 et un rythme de blogage amélioré, peut-être <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . Enfin bon, pour commencer l&#8217;année, voici ma première tentative de <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh">bokeh</a> (c&#8217;est assez facile à faire, en fait, quand on a compris l&#8217;astuce). Ça ne ressemble plus trop à un arbre de Noël, si?</em></p>
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		<title>Twilight / Crépuscule</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elPadawan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not the books. Haven&#8217;t read those. Nor I have seen the movie. Although I couldn&#8217;t help but hear a lot about it, and enough to convince me not to read/watch it. The twilight I am referring to is the &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/twilight-crepuscule/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1552&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, not the books. Haven&#8217;t read those. Nor I have seen the movie. Although I couldn&#8217;t help but hear a lot about it, and enough to convince me not to read/watch it. The twilight I am referring to is the one in the evening, where the sky changes color. How can people complain about the sun setting so early when you get to see a sky like this in the middle of afternoon?</p>
<p><em>Non, pas les livres. Je ne les ai pas lus. J&#8217;ai pas non plus vu le film. Quoique je n&#8217;ai pas pu m&#8217;empêcher d&#8217;en entendre beaucoup parler, et assez pour me convaincre de ne pas les lire/regarder. Le crépuscule dont je parle est celui qu&#8217;on a le soir, où le ciel change de couleur. Comment les gens peuvent-ils se plaindre d&#8217;un soleil qui se couche si tôt alors que ça permet d&#8217;avoir un ciel pareil au milieu de l&#8217;après-midi?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Evening sky by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6555548003/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6555548003_21bde6a20c_z.jpg" alt="Evening sky" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
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		<title>Merry Christmas! / Joyeux Noël!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, for the sake of political correctness, I&#8217;ll also wish everybody a happy hanukkah, a joyous kwanzaa as well, a happy Hogswatch, and any other celebration you may be having at this time of the year . D&#8217;accord, par souci &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/merry-christmas-joyeux-noel-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1549&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, for the sake of political correctness, I&#8217;ll also wish everybody a happy hanukkah, a joyous kwanzaa as well, a happy Hogswatch, and any other celebration you may be having at this time of the year <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
<p><em>D&#8217;accord, par souci de correctitude politique, je vais aussi souhaiter à tout le monde un Joyeux Hanukkah, un joyeux kwanzaa aussi, un joyeux Hogswatch, et n&#8217;importe quelle autre fête de circonstance à cette époque de l&#8217;année <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</em></p>
<p>While in France, it&#8217;s Santa Claus who is bringing the presents, in Czech Republic, it is lil&#8217; baby Jesus who brings them. Apparently. Maybe because the &#8220;big bearded guy&#8221; role is already taken by St Nicholas on Dec 6th.</p>
<p><em>Tandis qu&#8217;en France, c&#8217;est le Père Noël qui amène les cadeaux, en République Tchèque, c&#8217;est le p&#8217;tit Jésus qui les apporte. Apparemment. Peut-être parce que le rôle du &#8220;grand gars barbu&#8221; est déjà pris par Saint Nicolas le 6 décembre.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Christmas Tree by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6565880521/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6565880521_b1b83fce9d_z.jpg" alt="Christmas Tree" width="427" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>On the menu, a feast of salads and řizky (breaded meat) is in order. On the table were pork, chicken, fish, rabbit, and some breaded sausages.</p>
<p><em>Au menu, salades et řizky (viandes panées) sont de rigueur. Sur la table, on avait du cochon, du poulet, du poisson, du lapin, et des saucisses panées.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Czech Christmas dinner by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6565876801/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6565876801_0454780c5f_z.jpg" alt="Czech Christmas dinner" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
<p>Once the bell rings, to signal the presents&#8217; delivery, everybody goes to the tree to light the small fireworks, before distributing the presents. Opening order should be from the oldest in the household, to the youngest (to teach them patience, maybe?).</p>
<p><em>Une fois que la cloche sonne, pour indiquer la livraison des cadeaux, tout le monde va allumer les petits feux d&#8217;artifice dans le sapin, avant de distribuer les cadeaux. L&#8217;ouverture doit se faire de la plus ancienne personne à la plus jeune (pour apprendre la patience aux gamins, peut-être?).</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Christmas tree fireworks by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6565882201/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6565882201_6744631b21_z.jpg" alt="Christmas tree fireworks" width="640" height="640" /></a><a title="Christmas tree fireworks by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6565883169/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6565883169_a253cbb4a2_z.jpg" alt="Christmas tree fireworks" width="640" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure there are many other traditions, but that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve seen here, so far. Are there any traditions or typical meals specific to your country of residence/origin? Hope you all enjoyed the day <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><em>Je suis sûr qu&#8217;il y a encore plein d&#8217;autres traditions, mais c&#8217;est tout ce que j&#8217;ai vu ici, pour le moment. Et vous, y&#8217;a t-il des traditions ou plats typiques uniques à votre pays d&#8217;origine/résidence? J&#8217;espère que vous profitez bien de la journée <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </em></p>
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		<title>Decorating the tree / Décorer le sapin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Czech Republic, you usually wait until the last minute to decorate the Christmas tree. In my family, though, decorating the tree was an early Advent activity. And only involved non-edible decorations. So in here, I had to follow the &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/decorating-the-tree-decorer-le-sapin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1546&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Czech Republic, you usually wait until the last minute to decorate the Christmas tree. In my family, though, decorating the tree was an early Advent activity. And only involved non-edible decorations. So in here, I had to follow the local rules and traditions, right? The tree arrived the week before Christmas</p>
<p><em>En République Tchèque, d&#8217;habitude, on attend le dernier moment pour décorer le sapin de Noël. Dans ma famille, par contre, décorer le sapin était une activité du début de l&#8217;Avent. Et n&#8217;impliquait que des décorations non-comestibles. Donc ici, il faut suivre les us et coutumes locaux, non? L&#8217;arbre est arrivé la semaine avant Noël</em></p>
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<p>and here, you put the lights, and usual tinsel and balls, of course. But you also put sweets. Supermarkets will be stuffed with &#8220;Christmas Tree chocolates&#8221;, designed with strings and hooks, to decorate the tree. I don&#8217;t recall seeing any candy cane, though. Just chocolate <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
<p><em>et ici, on mes les lumières, les guirlandes et les boules comme partout. Mais on met aussi des sucreries. Les supermarchés regorgent de &#8220;chocolats pour le sapin&#8221;, avec ficelle intégrée, avec un sachet de crochets inclus, pour décorer. Je ne souviens pas d&#8217;avoir vu de sucres d&#8217;orge, par contre. Juste du chocolat <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</em></p>
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<p>Also, you put some fireworks in it, that you light on Christmas day before presents distribution. And here goes, our tree ready for the big day.</p>
<p><em>Ah, et on met aussi des petits feux d&#8217;artifice dedans, qu&#8217;on allume le jour de Noël avant la distribution de cadeaux. Et voilà, notre sapin prêt pour le grand jour.</em></p>
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<p>Hope you&#8217;re having a good one <img src='http://s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><em>J&#8217;espère que vous passez un bon moment, où que vous soyez <img src='http://s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </em></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jarmark in Czech means &#8220;fair&#8221;. In the village, the fair was set at the end of November. Usually it is handled by the school, but this time the city hall wanted to take care of it. But while the city &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/jarmark/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1543&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jarmark in Czech means &#8220;fair&#8221;. In the village, the fair was set at the end of November. Usually it is handled by the school, but this time the city hall wanted to take care of it. But while the city hall took care of it, when it came down to the animations and stands, it was still mostly the school who was doing it. They just had to come and keep the stands, though, no bothersome organisation details.</p>
<p><em>Jarmark, en tchèque, veut dire &#8220;foire&#8221;. Au village, la foire était planifiée fin novembre. D&#8217;habitude, c&#8217;est l&#8217;école qui s&#8217;en occupe, mais cette fois la mairie voulait s&#8217;en occuper. Mais tandis que la mairie s&#8217;en occupait, quand il s&#8217;est agi des animations et des stands, c&#8217;est quand même principalement l&#8217;école qui les faisait. Ils étaient juste venu tenir les stands, par contre, pas de détails ennuyeux de gestion.</em></p>
<p>And since it is the season, the &#8220;Jarmark&#8221; turned a bit into a Christmas Market. I arrived at the time where the school kids were singing carols. Unfortunately for you, there already was a little crowd, and I may have a nice camera, that doesn&#8217;t solve the fact I&#8217;m vertically challenged :p. But I spotted some light in the school, and was kindly allowed to get up there to snap a pic of the fair. Too bad that by the time I went there, the choir was done.</p>
<p><em>Et vu que c&#8217;est la saison, le &#8220;Jarmark&#8221; avait des airs de marché de Noël. Je suis arrivé à l&#8217;heure où les élèves chantaient des chants de Noël. Malheureusement pour vous, il y avait déjà un petit attroupement, et j&#8217;ai beau avoir un chouette appareil, ça ne change rien à mes problèmes de verticalité limité :p. Mais j&#8217;ai remarqué de la lumière à l&#8217;école, et on m&#8217;a gentiment autorisé à aller à l&#8217;étage prendre quelques photos. Dommage que le temps d&#8217;y monter, la chorale était finie.</em></p>
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<p>A couple of food stands where having grilled meat, grilled fish, and grilled sausages, as well as the usual winter beverages: hot mead, and mulled wine.</p>
<p><em>Quelques stands avaient des grillades, poisson, saucisses, et les breuvages habituels hivernaux: hydromel chaud, et vin chaud aux épices.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Food stands by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6555010933/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6555010933_7bde03e8c8_z.jpg" alt="Food stands" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
<p>Some of the school kids were handling a &#8220;perniková chaloupka&#8221; (gingerbread house). No witch in there, but under each of the tile, there is a small picture. You draw a tile, and then get the small gift that has the same picture on it.</p>
<p><em>Certains élèves s&#8217;occupaient d&#8217;une &#8220;perniková chaloupka&#8221; (maison en pain d&#8217;épices). Pas de sorcière, mais sous chaque tuile, il y a une petite image. On tire une tuile, et on obtient le cadeau sur lequel se trouve la même image.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Perniková Chaloupka by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6555030039/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6555030039_47f7a52548_z.jpg" alt="Perniková Chaloupka" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
<p>And around the Christmas tree, a brasero has been set to keep people warm. And also to let me play with the camera while the flames are dancing :p</p>
<p><em>Et aux alentours du sapin de Noël, un brasero a été posé pour garder les gens au chaud. Et aussi pour me permettre de jouer avec l&#8217;appareil pendant que les flammes dansent :p</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Brasero by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6555019603/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6555019603_9171cc59d3_z.jpg" alt="Brasero" width="427" height="640" /></a><a title="Brasero by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6555021453/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6555021453_f4e320a737_z.jpg" alt="Brasero" width="427" height="640" /></a><a title="Brasero by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6555023833/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6555023833_285b284ed2_z.jpg" alt="Brasero" width="427" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>Small fair, but a fun start of the Advent season.</p>
<p><em>Une petite foire, mais un chouette démarrage de l&#8217;Avent.</em></p>
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		<title>First snow! / Première neige!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK. Not exactly the first snow of the season. We had flurries a couple of weeks ago, but it didn&#8217;t stick, so it doesn&#8217;t count. For the winter solstice, a very thin layer of snow covered&#8230; well&#8230; pretty much anything &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/first-snow-premiere-neige/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1539&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK. Not exactly the first snow of the season. We had flurries a couple of weeks ago, but it didn&#8217;t stick, so it doesn&#8217;t count. For the winter solstice, a very thin layer of snow covered&#8230; well&#8230; pretty much anything that wasn&#8217;t vegetation.</p>
<p><em>Bon, pas exactement la toute première neige de l&#8217;année. On a eu des flocons il y a quelques semaines, mais ça n&#8217;a pas tenu, donc ça ne compte pas. Pour le solstice d&#8217;hiver, une toute petite couche de neige a recouvert&#8230; ben&#8230; à peu près tout ce qui n&#8217;était pas de la végétation.</em></p>
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<p>Unfortunately, the morning sun finished melting it before noon. Looks like there won&#8217;t be a white Christmas around here this year.</p>
<p><em>Malheureusement, le soleil matinal a fini de tout faire fondre avant midi. On dirait qu&#8217;il n&#8217;y aura pas de neige à Noël par ici cette année.</em></p>
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		<title>Angry Birds, Czech Mall Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost nobody celebrates Halloween in here. End of september, stacks of Advent calendars were already piling up on supermarket shelves. As simple as that. Remove the &#8220;back to school&#8221; piles, and replace it with a shelf of -19°C windshield cleaner, &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/angry-birds-czech-mall-edition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1535&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Almost nobody celebrates Halloween in here. End of september, stacks of Advent calendars were already piling up on supermarket shelves. As simple as that. Remove the &#8220;back to school&#8221; piles, and replace it with a shelf of -19°C windshield cleaner, and a shelf of Advent calendars.</p>
<p><em>Presque personne ne fête Halloween par ici. Fin septembre, des tas de calendriers de l&#8217;Avent étaient déjà empilés dans les rayons du supermarché. Aussi simple que ça. On enlève les tas &#8220;spécial rentrée&#8221;, et on remplace par une étagère de liquide lave-glace -19°C, et une étagère de calendriers de l&#8217;Avent.</em></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t have a TV, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that if I had, I&#8217;d been bathing in Christmas toys commercials for several months now. And, at some point, it becomes pretty inevitable to get to the mall or to the big city for Christmas shopping. Or even just for regular shopping. And the closest mall around here didn&#8217;t have something like the <a title="Merry Christmas? / Joyeux Noël?" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/merry-christmas-joyeux-noel-2/">Swarovski tree in the Eaton Centre</a>, but still put up lots of decorations in there.</p>
<p><em>Je n&#8217;ai pas de télé, mais je suis à peu près sûr que si j&#8217;en avais une, je baignerais dans les pubs pour jouets de Noël depuis des mois. Et, à un moment, il devient inévitable de se retrouver au centre commercial ou à la capitale pour les courses de Noël. Ou bien juste pour du shopping ordinaire. Et le centre commercial le plus proche ici n&#8217;a pas d&#8217;arbre comme l&#8217;<a title="Merry Christmas? / Joyeux Noël?" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/merry-christmas-joyeux-noel-2/">arbre Swarovski du Centre Eaton</a>, mais décorent quand même pas mal.</em></p>
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<p>Some of the decorations don&#8217;t change over the years. Like those &#8220;bears at a ski resort&#8221;.</p>
<p><em>Certaines décorations ne changent pas d&#8217;une année sur l&#8217;autre. Du genre &#8220;les ours à la station de ski&#8221;.</em></p>
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<p>And then, there&#8217;s other&#8230; things. I don&#8217;t remember seeing those golden pigs before. And I&#8217;m not even sure pig is supposed to be a typical Christmas food in here. Christmas carp? sure. Christmas pig? Not so much&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Et après, il y a d&#8217;autres&#8230; trucs. Je ne me souviens pas avoir vu les cochons dorés avant. Et je ne suis même pas sûr que le cochon est censé être un plat typique à Noël ici. Carpe de Noël? ouaip. Cochon de Noël? pas vraiment&#8230;</em></p>
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<p>And then, you know you&#8217;ve had a smartphone for too long when you start thinking: &#8220;why has nobody tried to throw a plush angry bird at those yet?&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Et là, vous savez que vous avez un smartphone depuis trop longtemps quand vous commencez à vous demander: &#8220;pourquoi est-ce que personne n&#8217;a encore tenté de leur lancer un Angry Bird en peluche?&#8221;</em></p>
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		<title>The Good King Wenceslas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 18th in the morning, Václav Havel, first president of the Czech Republic, passed away. I already talked about him a bit before. And I have to admit I don&#8217;t know about him as much as I would like. &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/the-good-king-wenceslas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1532&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On December 18th in the morning, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel">Václav Havel</a>, first president of the Czech Republic, passed away. I already talked about him a bit before. And I have to admit I don&#8217;t know about him as much as I would like. He ended the communist regime through peaceful protest, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution">Velvet Revolution</a>. As an intellectual, he differed greatly from the usual politicians you can have. And from the little I know about him, I&#8217;d trade my president anytime for anyone even half as good as Havel seems to have been.</p>
<p><em>Le 18 décembre au matin, <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel">Václav Havel</a>, premier président de la République Tchèque, est décédé. J&#8217;ai déjà parlé un peu de lui auparavant. Et je dois admettre que je ne connais pas son histoire autant que je le voudrais. Il a mis fin au régime communiste à travers des manifestations pacifiques, la <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9volution_de_velours">Révolution de Velours</a>. Intellectuel, il différait grandement des politiciens habituel. Et du peu que je connais de lui, j&#8217;échange mon président n&#8217;importe quand contre quelqu&#8217;un ne serait-ce qu&#8217;à moitié aussi bon qu&#8217;Havel semble avoir été.</em></p>
<p>A crowd have gathered on Wenceslas Square to pay their respects (<a href="http://www.novinky.cz/domaci/253897-tisice-lidi-v-cesku-uctily-pamatku-vaclava-havla.html">link in Czech</a>, but the pictures are eloquent), and it is obviously making all the headlines here. I never liked History classes in school, and always forgot pretty fast whatever the teachers attempted to put into my brain. Sometimes, I regret forgetting. Maybe this time I&#8217;ll remember, it&#8217;s the last Sunday of Advent after all, should be easy to remember&#8230;</p>
<p><em>La foule s&#8217;est rassemblée sur la Place St Wenceslas pour lui rendre hommage (<a href="http://www.novinky.cz/domaci/253897-tisice-lidi-v-cesku-uctily-pamatku-vaclava-havla.html">lien en tchèque</a>, mais les images parlent d&#8217;elles-même), et ça fait bien évidemment toutes les unes ici. Je n&#8217;ai jamais aimé les cours d&#8217;histoire, et ai toujours oublié assez vite ce que les profs tentaient de me faire ingurgiter. Parfois, je regrette d&#8217;avoir oublié. Peut-être que cette fois-ci je me souviendrai, c&#8217;est le dernier Dimanche de l&#8217;Avent, ça devrait être facile à retenir&#8230;</em></p>
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<p>R.I.P pan Havel</p>
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		<title>Freeze! / Gèle!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked how December looked like in here. December is&#8230; mild. Still waiting for snow that lasts. There was snowfall. Once. But it didn&#8217;t stick. It&#8217;s getting colder, definitely. There was the fog already. And below zero temperatures. Fun &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/freeze/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1528&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Changing weather / Temps changeant" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/changing-weather-temps-changeant/">I was asked</a> how December looked like in here. December is&#8230; mild. Still waiting for snow that lasts. There was snowfall. Once. But it didn&#8217;t stick. It&#8217;s getting colder, definitely. There was the fog already. And below zero temperatures. Fun times starting the car in the morning and the dashboard showing -7°C or something. Time for scarves, and gloves. Meaning you&#8217;d be crazy to want to take a walk in the morning, right? But that&#8217;s the thing. Temperature goes above zero during the day.</p>
<p><em><a title="Changing weather / Temps changeant" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/changing-weather-temps-changeant/">On m&#8217;a demandé</a> de quoi avait l&#8217;air décembre par ici. Décembre est&#8230; doux. On attend toujours de la neige qui tienne. Il y a eu de la neige. Une fois. Mais qui n&#8217;a pas tenu. Ça se refroidit, pour sûr. Il y a le brouillard matinal. Les températures négatives. De bons moments passés à démarrer la voiture et voir le tableau de bord indiquer -7°C ou un truc du genre. L&#8217;époque des écharpes et des gants. Ce qui veut dire que vous seriez toqué d&#8217;aller vous promener le matin, pas vrai? Mais c&#8217;est ça le truc. Les températures passent au dessus de zéro en journée.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Frost covered tree by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6507693491/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6507693491_884b26bc37_z.jpg" alt="Frost covered tree" width="427" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>Sometimes we get a nice layer of frost covering everything in the morning. But in the afternoon, it&#8217;s already all gone.</p>
<p><em>Parfois on a une belle couche de givre qui recouvre tout le matin. Mais l&#8217;après-midi, plus rien.</em></p>
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<p>So the only way to enjoy it is to do so in the morning, before the fog disappears and the sun melts everything.</p>
<p><em>Donc le seul moyen d&#8217;en profiter c&#8217;est de le faire le matin, avant que le brouillard ne se dissipe et que le soleil fonde tout.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Morning frost by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6507703559/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6507703559_d1a35be79c_z.jpg" alt="Morning frost" width="427" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>I like how the village&#8217;s kindergarten&#8217;s playground seems so quiet, at this time of the day. Even in the harshest part of Winter, you will see kids going out for recess, and having tons of fun. Who can say no to snowmen, snowfights, snow angels?</p>
<p><em>J&#8217;aime comme la cour de la maternelle du village a l&#8217;air si calme, à cette heure-ci. Même au plus dur de l&#8217;hiver, on voit les enfants qui sortent pour la récré, s&#8217;éclatent comme des fous. Qui peut dire non à des bonshommes de neige, des batailles de boules de neige, ou des anges de neige?<br />
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="kindergarten playground before hours by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6507689021/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6507689021_8609eda1c4_z.jpg" alt="kindergarten playground before hours" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
<p>On a garden fence, a small windmill is &#8220;frozen in time&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Pour ce petit moulin à vent sur une barrière de jardin, le temps s&#8217;est arrêté</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Frozen in time by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6507707881/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6507707881_1e220565f1_z.jpg" alt="Frozen in time" width="427" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>While the bushes around have are covered by a thin mantle of ice crystals.</p>
<p><em>Alors que les buissons alentours sont couvert d&#8217;un fin manteau de cristaux de glace.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Frozen bush by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6507696891/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6507696891_d84351215f_z.jpg" alt="Frozen bush" width="640" height="427" /></a><a title="Morning frost by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6507700375/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6507700375_6372aaefd9_z.jpg" alt="Morning frost" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
<p>Even the spiderwebs are covered in frost.</p>
<p><em>Même les toiles d&#8217;araignée sont recouvertes de givre.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Frozen spiderwebs by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6507705221/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6507705221_3111ddbc59_z.jpg" alt="Frozen spiderwebs" width="640" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>In the garden, icicles grew overnight on the henhouse&#8217;s roof</p>
<p><em>Dans le jardin, des stalactites de glace on poussé sur le toit du poulailler</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Icicles by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6507709083/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6507709083_2203df6dfa_z.jpg" alt="Icicles" width="640" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>while the last leaves of the apple trees are putting on a little show&#8230;</p>
<p><em>tandis que les dernières feuilles des pommiers se mettent sur leur 31&#8230;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Frozen apple tree leaves by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6507715797/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6507715797_d946322847_z.jpg" alt="Frozen apple tree leaves" width="427" height="640" /></a><a title="Frozen apple tree leaf by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6507718387/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6507718387_a495177504_z.jpg" alt="Frozen apple tree leaf" width="427" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>Now hurry up and get back inside, get some hot tea/coffee/chocolate, and maybe some buiscuits?</p>
<p><em>Maintenant dépêchez-vous de rentrer, prendre un bon thé/café/chocolat bien chaud, et peut-être quelques biscuits?</em></p>
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		<title>Closed for the season / Fermé pour la saison</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new playground opened in September in the village&#8230; Less than three months later, playtime season was already over. Wonder what it&#8217;ll look like after winter Une nouvelle aire de jeux à ouvert en septembre au village&#8230; Moins de trois &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/closed-for-the-season-ferme-pour-la-saison/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1524&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new playground opened in September in the village&#8230; Less than three months later, playtime season was already over. Wonder what it&#8217;ll look like after winter <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><em>Une nouvelle aire de jeux à ouvert en septembre au village&#8230; Moins de trois mois plus tard, la saison des aire de jeux était déjà terminée. Je me demande de quoi ça aura l&#8217;air après l&#8217;hiver <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </em></p>
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		<title>Getting further from the moon / S&#8217;éloigner de la Lune</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elPadawan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure when I started to get interested in the moon. I mean, photography-wise. My first camera was a film point and shoot. Pretty basic. Trying to take a picture of the moon wouldn&#8217;t even occur to me with &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/getting-further-from-the-moon-seloigner-de-la-lune/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1521&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not sure when I started to get interested in the moon. I mean, photography-wise. My first camera was a film point and shoot. Pretty basic. Trying to take a picture of the moon wouldn&#8217;t even occur to me with it.</p>
<p><em>Je ne suis plus très sûr de quand j&#8217;ai commencé à m&#8217;intéresser à la lune. Je parle du point de vue photographique. Mon premier appareil était un argentique compact. Plutôt basique. Tenter de prendre la lune en photo ne me serait même pas venu à l&#8217;esprit.</em></p>
<p>My first digital camera was a point and shoot, zoom going up to 15x, and I lived on the 36th floor of a condo, on the Lakeshore in Toronto. So it was actually possible to sometimes see the moon at night. And then there was a <a title="Total Eclipse of the Moon / Éclipse de Lune totale." href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/total-eclipse-of-the-moon-eclipse-de-lune-totale/">lunar eclipse</a>. And I tried to take pictures of it. The view was fantastic, but the result was obviously frustrating. But hey, that&#8217;s a start.</p>
<p><em>Mon premier appareil numérique était un compact, avec un zoom pouvant aller jusqu&#8217;à 15x, et j&#8217;habitais au 36è d&#8217;un grand immeuble, au bord du lac à Toronto. Donc on pouvait parfois y voir la lune la nuit. Et puis il y a eu <a title="Total Eclipse of the Moon / Éclipse de Lune totale." href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/total-eclipse-of-the-moon-eclipse-de-lune-totale/">l&#8217;éclipse de lune</a>. Et j&#8217;ai tenté de la photographier. La vue était superbe, mais le résultat était de toute évidence frustrant. Enfin bon, c&#8217;est un début.</em></p>
<p>And then, there was the supermoon this year. When I tried to take it in picture, my second camera would let me go up to 20x. But still being a point and shoot, no way of playing with the settings really. <a title="Supermoon, bad camera / Super lune, mauvaise caméra" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/supermoon-bad-camera-super-lune-mauvaise-camera/">Big white disk</a>. Not much details.</p>
<p><em>Puis il y a eu la superlune cette année. Quand j&#8217;ai tenté de la photographier, mon deuxième appareil me laissait pousser jusqu&#8217;à 20x. Mais étant toujours un compact, pas moyen de jouer sur les réglages, vraiment. <a title="Supermoon, bad camera / Super lune, mauvaise caméra" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/supermoon-bad-camera-super-lune-mauvaise-camera/">Gros disque blanc</a>. Pas beaucoup de détails.</em></p>
<p>Then I got my new camera <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> . And I said <a title="New Toy / Nouveau Jouet" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/new-toy-nouveau-jouet/">I needed a bigger zoom for the moon</a>. Living in a village, it&#8217;s easier to see the moon and the stars at night. But at least, I would now be able to play with the settings as much as I want :p. And at the end of summer, I got myself a second-hand 55-250mm <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> . That could have been called the &#8220;moon lens&#8221;, the &#8220;zoo lens&#8221;, but that I decided to call the &#8220;cat lens&#8221;, following a suggestion from <a href="http://dieudeschats.wordpress.com/">dieudeschats</a>, saying a big zoom would be beneficial for my cat allergies <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . In terms of zoom, that&#8217;s&#8230; like&#8230; 11x approximately.</p>
<p><em>Puis j&#8217;ai eu mon nouvel appareil <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> . Et j&#8217;ai dit que <a title="New Toy / Nouveau Jouet" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/new-toy-nouveau-jouet/">j&#8217;avais besoin d&#8217;un plus gros zoom pour la lune</a>. Habitant au village, c&#8217;est facile de voir la lune et les étoiles la nuit. Mais au moins, j&#8217;allais pouvoir jouer avec les réglages autant que je le voudrais :p. Et à la fin de l&#8217;été, j&#8217;ai mis la main sur un 55-250mm d&#8217;occasion <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> . Que j&#8217;aurais pu appeler le &#8220;zoom pour lune&#8221;, le &#8220;zoom pour le zoo&#8221;, mais que j&#8217;ai baptisé &#8220;zoom à chats&#8221;, suite à une suggestion de <a href="http://dieudeschats.wordpress.com/">dieudeschats</a> me recommandant un gros zoom pour prévenir mes allergies aux chats <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . Niveau grossissement, ça fait&#8230; genre&#8230; 11x environ.</em></p>
<p>So I got further from the moon. With my previous camera, the best I could manage, it was almost a full moon, and although I could see some details, there was still a big halo around&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Donc je me suis éloigné de la lune. Avec mon appareil précédent, le mieux que j&#8217;aie pu faire, c&#8217;était presque la pleine lune, et bien qu&#8217;on arrive à distinguer un peu de détails, il restait un gros halo tout autour&#8230;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Almost full moon by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6289736376/"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6213/6289736376_fb1a4c2de0_z.jpg" alt="Almost full moon" width="640" height="480" /></a></p>
<p>And now, almost full moon again, zooming at the max, it is now twice as small as before, but the halo is gone. And you can see much more details.</p>
<p><em>Et maintenant, encore une presque pleine lune, zoom à fond, la lune est deux fois plus petite, mais le halo a disparu. Et on voit largement mieux les détails.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a title="Almost full moon by elPadawan, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpadawan/6289742000/"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6044/6289742000_d1901981cb_z.jpg" alt="Almost full moon" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>
<p>OK. I think I&#8217;m ready for the next lunar eclipse (if it&#8217;s not in winter&#8230; you don&#8217;t want to wait outside for hours in winter here&#8230;)</p>
<p><em>Bon. Je crois que je suis prêt pour la prochaine éclipse de lune (si c&#8217;est pas en hiver&#8230; faut pas rester dehors des heures en hiver ici&#8230;)</em></p>
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		<title>It gets better / Ça va s&#8217;arranger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read this, and it made me think. And brought back some memories. Memories of bullying. I already wrote my personal experience with regards to that particular topic, I&#8217;m not going to explain again. Je viens de lire ça, &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/it-gets-better-ca-va-sarranger/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1518&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just read <a href="http://voldemots.blogspot.com/2011/11/au-sujet-de-lintimidation.html">this</a>, and it made me think. And brought back some memories. Memories of bullying. I already wrote <a title="Ghosts from the past / Fantômes du passé" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/ghosts-from-the-past-fantomes-du-passe/">my personal experience</a> with regards to that particular topic, I&#8217;m not going to explain again.</p>
<p><em>Je viens de lire <a href="http://voldemots.blogspot.com/2011/11/au-sujet-de-lintimidation.html">ça</a>, et ça m&#8217;a fait réfléchir. Et ravivé des souvenirs. Souvenirs de brimades. J&#8217;ai déjà raconté <a title="Ghosts from the past / Fantômes du passé" href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/ghosts-from-the-past-fantomes-du-passe/">mon expérience personnelle</a> à ce sujet, je ne vais pas me répéter.</em></p>
<p>I always considered that surviving bullying changed me in a rather positive way. Even when I was not bullied anymore, I never was &#8220;one of the cool guys&#8221;. A hipster would say &#8220;I was a nerd before it was popular&#8221;. Only thing, before they were popular, it was quite the opposite&#8230; Luckily for me, Internet was not so developed before I graduate from High School. I avoided any possibility of cyber-bullying.</p>
<p><em>J&#8217;ai toujours considéré que survivre les brimade m&#8217;a changé pour le mieux. Même quand ça s&#8217;est arrêté, je n&#8217;ai jamais fait partie du groupe des &#8220;mecs cools&#8221;. Un hipster dirait &#8220;J&#8217;étais un intello avant que ça soit populair&#8221;. Le truc, c&#8217;est qu&#8217;avant d&#8217;être populaire, c&#8217;était vraiment l&#8217;opposé&#8230; Heureusement pour moi, l&#8217;Internet n&#8217;était pas aussi développé avant que je finisse le lycée. J&#8217;ai échappé à la cyber-intimidation.</em></p>
<p>Fast-forward a decade and a half or so, and here we are. I am now part of the supposedly wise and aging &#8220;grown ups&#8221;. I should be able to help, if I were to witness close members of my family being involved in bullying, right? Right&#8230; But that&#8217;s the thing. I&#8217;m not sure how I could help.</p>
<p><em>On saute une décennie et demie grosso-modo, et nous voilà. Je fais dorénavant du groupe sage et vieillissant des &#8220;adultes&#8221;. Je devrais pouvoir aider, si autour de moi des proches étaient impliquées dans des affaires de brimade, pas vrai? Mouais&#8230; Mais c&#8217;est ça le problème. Je ne crois pas que je pourrais aider.</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to think. What causes bullying to happen? What&#8217;s the parents&#8217; role in it, or lack thereof? And I can&#8217;t find a reason. Maybe because they can be multiple. I&#8217;ve been trying to convince myself that it should be the bullies&#8217; parents&#8217; fault for not being able to educate their children properly, and/or the victims&#8217; parents&#8217; fault for not being there for their child, not supporting them. But I can&#8217;t. Education is not an easy thing. No matter how good the parent is, if they can&#8217;t reach through to their kid, it&#8217;s for nothing. No matter how good the parent is, if their kid has shut him/herself off from them for any reason, it&#8217;s for nothing.</p>
<p><em>J&#8217;ai essayé de réfléchir. Qu&#8217;est ce qui est à l&#8217;origine des brimades? Quel est le rôle des parents, ou leur absence de rôle? Et je ne trouve pas de raison. Peut-être parce qu&#8217;elles peuvent-être multiple. J&#8217;ai tenté de me convaincre que c&#8217;est la faute des parents qui éduquent mal leurs enfants, et/ou la faute des parents des victimes de ne pas être là pour leurs enfants, de ne pas les soutenir. Mais j&#8217;y arrive pas. L&#8217;éducation c&#8217;est pas trivial. Et on peut être le meilleur parent du monde, si le gamin a décidé de pas écouter, ça ne donnera rien. Et on peut être le meilleur parent du monde, si le gamin s&#8217;est renfermé sur lui-même pour une raison ou une autre, ça ne donnera rien.</em></p>
<p>Yes, parents can be powerless. I know mine were. And it was not their fault, but mine. Parents are parents. Not necessarily confidents. I keep thinking. And I still don&#8217;t find any solution to the problem. The more I think, the more I am convinced that there is none. There will always be bullies. But that doesn&#8217;t mean there is no hope. Bullies are people. No matter who they are, everybody can be influenced. For each bully out there, there has to be one person that could reach through to them. As for the victims, there&#8217;s no advice I can give. The way out is different for everyone. But there&#8217;s always someone/something they can talk to. For me, for example, it was a piano.</p>
<p><em>Oui, les parents peuvent être impuissants. Je sais que les miens le furent. Et ce n&#8217;est pas leur faute, mais la mienne. Les parents c&#8217;est les parents. Pas forcément des confidents. Je continue de réfléchir. Et je ne trouve toujours pas de solution problème. Plus j&#8217;y réfléchis, plus je suis persuadé qu&#8217;il n&#8217;y en a pas. Il y aura toujours des brimades. Mais ça ne veut pas dire qu&#8217;il n&#8217;y a pas d&#8217;espoirs. Les harceleurs sont des gens. Quelle que soit la personne, elle peut toujours être influencée. Pour chaque harceleur(e), il y a forcément quelqu&#8217;un qui peut avoir une influence sur lui/elle. Et pour les victime, je n&#8217;ai aucun conseil à donner. La sortie est différente pour tout le monde. Mais il y a toujours quelque chose ou quelqu&#8217;un à qui l&#8217;on peut parler. Pour moi, par exemple, c&#8217;était un piano.</em></p>
<p>So I don&#8217;t have any advice, I&#8217;m sorry. But I have a message:</p>
<p><em>Donc je n&#8217;ai aucun conseil, désolé. Mais j&#8217;ai un message:</em></p>
<p>You&#8217;re never alone. It gets better.</p>
<p><em>Vous n&#8217;êtes jamais seul(e). Ça va s&#8217;arranger.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning of July: Début Juillet: End of august: Fin août: Filed under: ramblings / divagations, Summer / Été, Česká republika Tagged: Été, Czech Republic, Feuilles, Leaves, Les niouzes dont tout le monde se fout, News nobody cares about, Photography, République &#8230; <a href="http://elpadawan.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/changing-weather-temps-changeant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elpadawan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4933318&amp;post=1516&amp;subd=elpadawan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beginning of July:</p>
<p><em>Début Juillet:</em></p>
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<p>End of august:</p>
<p><em>Fin août:</em></p>
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