Buying stuff for Sushi Nite

Blogged by Mathieu as Diary — Mathieu Fri 31 Dec 2004 17:12

We’re going to have a home-made sushi nite at Olivier’s on the 1st of Jan.

We went to the Galeries Lafayettes to buy what we needed, special rice, rice vinergar, mirin, soy sauce, nori, makisus. Had trouble finding Sake, and had to leave Olivier and Charles to find the fish in another place…

Now I have to go to Catherine’s place for NYZ.

Location : Paris, France

Got a firm salary offer from the US

Blogged by Mathieu as Diary — Mathieu Thu 30 Dec 2004 16:24

Much more than I expected, and almost the maximum I hoped for. Hell, if we get a bonus next year, I’ll even reach that!

In any case, it’s a major step forward as that was, to the best of my knowledge, the last impediment to our petitioning for the work visa.

Nice way to end the year D

Location : Beauvais, France

Found on Yahoo News :

Blogged by Mathieu as Diary — Mathieu Wed 29 Dec 2004 13:21

Where Are All the Dead Animals? Sri Lanka Asks
2 hours, 38 minutes ago

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned — the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast, but they can’t find any dead animals.

Giant waves washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka’s biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards.
“The strange thing is we haven’t recorded any dead animals,” H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of the national Wildlife Department, told Reuters Wednesday.
“No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit,” he added. “I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening.”
At least 40 tourists, including nine Japanese, were drowned.
The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean Sunday, which sent waves up to 15 feet high crashing onto Sri Lanka’s southern, eastern and northern seaboard, flooding whole towns and villages, destroying hotels and causing widespread destruction.

Location : Beauvais, France

A Thai Coast Guard boat dragged one kilometer inland…

Blogged by Mathieu as Diary — Mathieu Tue 28 Dec 2004 19:34

At Khoa Lak.

Hundreds still missing.

I was wrong.

Blogged by Mathieu as Diary — Mathieu Tue 28 Dec 2004 13:31

I said i wasn’t sure that it was as bad as they said, i.e. that hundreds of farangs were dead. I was wrong. The death toll for the whole area is 30k, expected to reach perhaps 55k, but for Thailand, it’s 1K to 1.5k, and perhaps 800 tourists dead. 22 dead frenchpeople officially, 30 missing, again officially, but no one has had any contacts with 280 people in a single hotel, the Sofitel at Kaoh Lak beach, of which at least a hundred tourists and perhaps 30 french.

Now they need to worry about epidemics, perhaps not in Thailand, but certainly in Sri Lanka. or India.

Talked live to Greg today on MSN. He seems ok. Not in shock or anything like that. But certainly affected.

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