24 Juin - Fête nationale de la St-Jean-Baptiste à MTL

A special day for Quebec, they celebrate their OWN "national" day!

A march, concerts, fireworks here and there...

vive le Québec ;)
















I'd like to thank you guyz who let me comments and messages... Keep on dropping few lines from time to time. Write me emails to tell me your days, your work, your hobbies, anything especially events you live in France.

My "Tourism" journey continues

Yesterday was planned to visit and photograph the famous Botanic Garden but I left home quite late and the garden closes at 18:00 but I discovered another wonderful location/site where I assisted to the Invasion of "War of the Worlds"-like. Check these out and LMK your feelings & impressions.







Today is June 20th, 2005. I'm about to go out and see a new friend, new immigrant like me, from Maroc like lots of them at the sessions I've attended to far. I saw Kung-Fu Hustle yesterday, gosh it was good and too funny. Sin City few days before was not bad as well, but in original version w/o caption, was challenging to me at times in the movie, anyway...

Shows must go on!

19th day, Sunday June 19, 2005

Beginning of new events... especially the fireworks. FYI : http://www.internationaldesfeuxloto-quebec.com/fr/programmation/Default.asp

I took few photos last night with other viet friends I made lately.





Busy days with information sessions and job applying strategies...

to be continued.

Day 13

Monday 13, it was a busy day...

Got up early to go for a meeting of a half-day talking about "réalités socio-economiques" à Montreal and Quebec in general. Another group meeting where we were more than ten people to attend in a small "classroom". I arrived late for I missed my bus then train. Lucky somehow I arrive at the same time than a beautiful girl from Bulgaria who therefore sat beside me for the whole session ;) In the morning I gave her my business "photography" hopefully she'll contact me back.

The session ended and every one left away... but then I crossed on the way to take the train 2 of the immigrants like me from the session, 2 very kind moroccans (a man and a young woman) with whom I spent a good part of the afternoon walking and having lunch and talking about out own situations... making new friends.

I finished my day by attending to a big dojo to see how my future Aikido school is run. Looks different and some different "styles" from what I've learnt so far back to France. I'd assisted for almost 2 hours of training looking at people practising Iaido with what it looks real japanese swords to me and that for about half a hour and then 1 hour and a half of empty hand Aikido. I wish I could pratise right away with them.

Tonight back to home quite tired... continue backing up over more than 4000 photos I took the last few days on Festival of Fashion & Design and also the Grand Prix F1 exhibition on a street not far away where the models did their catwalks. Thinking the work ahead waiting for me: selecting n post-processing and publishing! Hell.

Got to sleep more tonight and go out again to the Botanic Garden tomorrow.

And you guys, what's up on your side?!? Tell me a little bit!

PS: photos will show up here again soon. Don't worry :o)

My second weekend in Montreal

Amazing how fast time can go by! Last Wed June 1st, I were near my family in Paris suburb and now, it's been 10 days I'm living in Montreal, Québec. Wonderful city I try to walk around and discover so far.

The last few days, I've been attending to an important event or I'd rather talk about events for we're in summertime and I learn that there're the most events in this period of time here. The reason is quite simple, winter is rough so people and the city take their revenge on long period of cold to reborn and live and go out. So I was talking about my absence, I attend to the Festival of Fashion & Design in downtown. FYI : http://sensationmode.com/site.html

3 days spent to "cover" the event with my quite heavy digital photography gear, results : more than 2 thousands of pictures and to be honest, lots of them will be forgotten ;) Some of the results out of the 1st day can be seen here : http://anhtuan.le.free.fr/festival_Mode_Design_MTL/
Drop me a line about them please!

One of my favourite to illustrate the event:


Hope you will enjoy them. More to come soon but don't know how soon actually :D

Yet Another Day in MTL

Back to the calm day that was yesterday, Monday June 6, 2005

It rained a while in the morning with strong winds but the sun came back in the end of the morning and the weather got hot again. Sunshine came along all the rest of the day. An evening quite noisy with strong winds again.

I got my micro Hi-Fi component system earlier and I'm enjoying it. Cannot live without music... It keeps me company anyway for I miss my family, friends, and few anotehr things.

I went in town in the middle of the afternoon to get my appointements for informations and helps to better understand local economico-social life here. Got an email of someone interested in my profile on monster.ca, sounds great and keeps me believe.

I took the bus from downtown to try to reach the old port when I missed the stop and had to get down, go back for miles on foot to the destination. I just scout the spots and have not my camera with me so cannot share any picture with you guys for now.

Today is Tueday June 7, 2005. Already 7th day in Montreal, time goes by so fast. The sky is always beautifully blue and the sun shining... I'm about to go out. But before this blog feeding and listening to some songs.

To you these lyrics of "Another Day" by Lene Marlin:

Lie to me, say that you need me
That's what I wanna hear
That is what, what makes me happy
Hoping you'll be near
All this time, how could I know
Within these walls, I can feel you

Another day goes by, will never know just wonder why
You made me feel good, made me smile
I see it now, and I, can say it's gone
That would be a lie
Cannot control this, this thing called love

You must think, how can this be
You don't really know me
I can't tell, this ain't the time
You'll never be mine
What can I say, something 'bout my life
I just lost again

Another day goes by, will never know just wonder why
You made me feel good, made me smile
I see it now, and I, can say it's gone
That would be a lie
Cannot control this, this thing called love

Always have to move on,
To leave it all behind
Go along with time

Another day goes by, will never know just wonder why
You made me feel good, made me smile
I see it now, and I, can say it's gone
That would be a lie
Cannot control this, this thing called love

Welcome to my New World!!!

This is my second try of blog for the previous one prevents public (not registered users) from commenting my blog :-(

So here I am to try new free weblog space...


a view of MTL downtown in face of Place PHILLIPS

The show must go on.

Today is June 5, 2005. I worked on my jobs searching and applications for lots of them, checking my salary I could possibly & hopefully earn... went out this afternoon again for few shoppings and get used to the city life