(english translation below)

l 'année 2006 a été abondante de défis, de récompenses et de vie sous la bénédiction de Dieu, au-delà de ce que nous avions connu auparavant. je veux remercier mes potes, au moins ceux qui m'importent, et suis confiant que vous aviez passé un joyeux et relaxant noël en famille et avec des amis.

par impulsion, j'ai décidé de blogger en français. ce sera une des fois rares que je le fais. mais bon, je vais le traduire par le biais de babel fish. c'est pas la peine de le faire moi-même. au fait, je blog car je viens de prendre ma douche et je suis pas encore prêt à me coucher (encore!). je voulais poster les photos que j'ai prises depuis longtemps, mais cette putaine de serveur chez moi est tellement bête que ça va me rendre fou. et bon voilà, pas de photos.tant pis. bah, ma télé est allumée maintenant après deux mois de repos, et il y a justin timberlake à la télé, et franchement ça me fait chier, mais bon, jai pas de choix. il est déjà 3 heures du matin et il ny a pas grande chose à régarder. je viens de passer une très bonne journée aujourd'hui, la veille de noël. jsuis allé à deux églises, la première étant celle à laquelle je vais comme d'hab, et l'autre est celle de mon ami. il m'a invité à dîner chez une famille de cette église qui a très gentiment ouvert sa maison aux personnes comme moi qui nont pas nos familles ici pour fêter le noel ensemble, alors cétait vachement sympa. ils étaient très accueillants, il y avait de la bonne chère, et la compagnie des enfants des hôtes était juste nickel. cest pas souvent que je me sens à l'aise chez des étrangers, mais cette fois-ci, tout était parfait. et alors, c'est vraiment grâce à l'invitation de mon ami que je puisse passer une soirée aussi marrante. et je suis reconnaissant à Dieu pour cet ami, car je pense que c'est un des ceux ici qui a la fréquence à peu près similaire à la mienne. les autres personnes sont dispensables haha.

or, ce qui m'enerve c'est le fait que demain je sais pas quoi faire! et la pire des choses c'est que c'est le noël-même! ça craint d'avoir passé un bon reveillon et n'avoir rien à faire le jour-J! certains de mes amis sont déjà partis en vacances, et pour ceux qui restent, soit ils ont des activités que je peux pas rejoindre, soit je suis pas intéressé à sortir avec eux. bah, tant pis pour moi alors. c'est ça le problème auquel je fais face très souvent, le manque de compagnie fiable. si cetait comme à singapour où on a plusieurs groupes d'amis et on peut les alterner quand on sort.. ici, cest guere pareil... que c'est triste. mais bon, de toute façon, il faut que je m'avance dans mon travail. il y a un gros tas à terminer avant que je parte.. quelle horreur. et à propos de ça, je vais juste dire la suite en anglais.

its just so much easier to rant and rave in english. i really have to pull up my socks for the next 2 trimesters. have been resting on my laurels, which, upon second thought, hardly exist. i totally detest math and french/philo/lit. i must really try a different study approach this time round. and psych myself up to have the determination, perseverance, industry, unwavering concentration, and the willpower to succeed. and i realised that having the embryonic concepts and being able to expound on them isnt sufficient. it takes so much more than that, haiz.. and talking cock in molière's language is just impossible. i cant even think of any crap to write. those pathetic notes that i laboriously took, only to find that they are horrendously elliptical when i come home.. simply a waste of time.

anw, here's un petit apéritif for you guys back home to vomit blood over, loosely translated of coz:

<<"Imagination is no longer just participation in the world. Its the haunting of its own image under the infinitely variable appearances that it can take on. The imaginative faculty is intricately linked with the myth to Narcissus."

Compare these definitions of jean starobinski ( the living eye, critical relation, tome II Paris, Gallimard edition 1970) with relation to the 3 books in the syllabus. >>

when i woke up from my dead faint, i know that im gonna ACE this dissertation. AGAIN. its so freaking abstract. what on earth has narcissus got to do with imagination??? i only know that hes a blardy vainpot, that ive a 3rd guards fren called SWH who cld jolly well be him in modern times, and that its a brand of canned buttom mushrooms found in NTUC. thats it. no more. zilch. and the only haunting done here wld be on poor me. im so gonna lose sleep over this. and whats worse is that all e french are gonna merrily step on me as a launching pad to stellar grades when this is concerned. grrhh. its amazing how they can think so much more out-ofta-box than sporeans in math, and then excel in such weird philo crap like this. wish me luck in creating some fluff that could hopefully pass off as credible analyses, even tho i have this sinking suspicion that with a swift glance at my dissertation, my prof wld prob part the smoke immediately and realise that theres nothing behind it...

ok i have to go sleep now. theres still research to be done tmr on spain and portugal (yippee i cant wait to leave for my tapas and my eggtarts!!), as well as actual hmwk.. boohoo.

Bises,
Jevon
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and now, for the fantastic translation by babel fish:

the year 2006 was abundant challenges, rewards and of life under the blessing of God, beyond what we had known before. I want to thank my pals, at least those which are essential me, and am trustful that you had passed merry and releasing Christmas in family and with friends. by impulse, I decided French blogger. it will be one of the rare times that I do it but good, I will translate it by the means of Babel fish. it is not the sorrow to do it myself. to the fact, I blog because I come to take my shower and I am not yet ready to lay down me (still!). I wanted poster the photographs that I took for a long time, but this putaine of waiter at home is so stupid that that will return to me insane and good here, not of photos.tant bah worse, my tele is lit now after two months of rest, and there is Justin timberlake with tele, and frankly that makes me shit, but good, jai not choice they is already 3 hours of the morning and it ny does not have large thing with régarder. I have just spent a very good day today, the day before of Christmas jsuis gone to two churches, the first being that to which I go like hab, and the other is that of my friend he invited me to dine at a family on this church which very nicely opened its house with the people like me which nont not our families to celebrate Christmas here together, then cétait bloody sympathetic they were very accessible, there was the good expensive one, and the company of the children of the hosts was right nickel cest not often that I feel at ease among foreigners, but this time, and then, it is really thanks to the invitation of my friend that I can pass one evening so funny. and I am grateful to God for this friend, because I think that it is here one as of those which has the about similar frequency with the mienne. the others are dispensable haha. however, which menerve it is the fact that tomorrow I cannot what make! and the worst of the things it is than it is Christmas-even! that fears to have passed a good reveillon and not to have anything to make the day-J! some of my friends already left on holiday, and for those which remain, is they have activities which I cannot join, that is to say I am not interested to leave with them bah, so much worse for me then it is that the problem to which I very often face, lack of reliable company. if as in Singapore where one cetait has several groups of friends and one can hardly alternate them when one leaves. here, cest similar... that it is sad but good, in any event, it is necessary that I advance in my work. there is a large heap to finish before I leave. which horror. and in connection with that, I go right statement the English continuation.

"insert parts in english here"

kisses,
jevon