Sep
2
nOt Being BiTter!
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To the cunning reply, I chose to play it cool and I tried to outsmart the person I talked to in a gentle manner:
Me: Dear Mr. XXX, Your reply was one of the most elegant ones I received even though it contained a trace of controlled anger. However, I do insist on having an precise date by Friday (September 4) of the next meeting IN MY PRESENCE.
REPLY: Can I have your phone number?
I think he understood that I would never let it go until I get satisfaction. I wonder what kind of bird name I got from him :).
Sep
1
fUnny ReplY!
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Since I became the “person” in charge of the building. Companies that work for us and that are under a contract of maintenance with us hate me. They rarely missed an opportunity to tell me their feelings one way or another to my direct reminders (emails). However, I probably received today the most elegant reply and it made me smile. I could feel the anger of the reply but it was contained smartly.
exchange of emails:
Me: Mr. XXX has promised to fix the detector on the 5th floor of our building in September 2015. Could you please call me and make arrangements for an intervention in my presence as soon as possible?
Reply: Dear Mr. YYY, today is the 1st day of September !!! We will get back to you and set up a meeting as soon as possible.
Aug
22
If people in my building would give up 5 things, they would save few bucks per year:
1. Smoking (5 cigarettes / day = 557 Euros / year)
2. Animals (cats: 600 Euros / year or dogs 800 Euros / year)
3. Expensive internet deals just for emails, facebook and TV (360 Euros / year)
4. Expensive phone deals (120 Euros / year)
5. Credit card (42 Euros / year)
Total: 1679 Euros / year
The poorest people in the building have all the above and they don’t want to think about the cost. When I told them that I only paid 2 Euros per year for my internet and phone (same as theirs)… Some people just would not believe it or they thought that I was just …”lucky”.
Aug
21
mY vIsion of tHe FutuRe!
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My goal for the future is simple: optimize my time and my resources to enjoy life and not waste any minute for things that I do not need.
1. Become a teacher (Sept 10-Oct 15: enrolment to the exam)
2. Sell my current studio and find a cosy house far away from Paris in a nicer and less stressful environment. I am currently looking at the french most dynamic region: “La Vendée”.
Normally, I have to stay in France the next 2 years and 3 months to see how this trial will end and also to be protected financially by the french social security system.
I do not mind moving abroad if there is an opportunity but I prefer to be realistic.
Aug
20
So if you take all the precautions to be anonymous and unreachable… How the hell do you want to spread quickly your message? I guess everything has a purpose and luck is part of life. I shall be patient and see how things go since I went through all the trouble to be really “untraceable” even by governments!
Aug
19
Finally, I am done with a “special postcard” I’ve prepared. It consists of “cutting the head” of 2 Snakes: screening of 5000 emails; 14 days of reflection and protection. The attack will be launched next Monday.
I am physically exhausted because I ran too much. I am also mentally exhausted. It took a lot of energy and I had to try so many technical things I have never done before. The documentation part was really painful. At least, it is part of my personal skills.
Aug
18
sTrange ThOUghts!
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I went to the store and this idea of “paying” for a baby kept turning inside my head. One idea leading to another since I was choosing things to buy, I was like which one of these little monsters would I buy:
The answer was obvious: none because they were not mine!
Some of the kids even looked like little “Gremlins” and a scary thought popped up in my head: What if the one, I would pay 80 k for, was a “Gremlin”? … I spent the rest of the shopping counting the number of “Gremlins” and having fun with myself!
Aug
18
I am determined to pay 80 k if I can see another part of me look like this picture once again. We shall see how determined I am :).
Aug
18
6.33 mIles!
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I will check again with my bike and my GPS this evening but it seems that I ran 17 miles this morning (27 km). I wanted to see if I still got the stamina to run half a marathon. It did hurt in the end! It was worth to see if I could still make such kind of exercise.
Well after checking it was only 6,33 miles = 10.20 kms 🙁
It was really long and I thought I made the 20 kms but not quite!
Aug
16
sAd sToRy!
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A resident from Senegal would like to get his diseased son to France on a tourist visa. He came and he asked for some administrative help. The dad is 62 years old and he left his wife back in Senegal to take care of his family. He is just on a working Visa so his request was denied.
I told him 2 simple facts:
1. He will never get the tourist Visa for his sick son because he does not hold the french nationality.
2. If he wants to beat the legal system, he needs to pay a lawyer and it’s 150 euros per hour and it will cost him 4000 Euros. It will also take at least over 4 years with no chance of success.
I looked at his eyes and his body expression. I understood quickly that he already knew that. All this game was just a sham to make him feel better. He had no intention of paying the lawyer. His eyes started to drift away from my direct gaze. His hands and his body already turned to another direction.
3. My only last advice was to forget about the legal administrative business. He has no time nor money for it. If he really wants to save his son’s life, he should find an illegal way to make his son cross the french borders and put his son in a hospital under intense care and fight the french legal system from the inside while the french hospital can take care of his son.
I looked one last time at his eyes and his body language and I knew the sad but realistic truth: he will let his 9 years old son die!
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