Chinese steroid-laced chicken

With China's phenomenal growth arise many important issues that will need to be addressed in the incoming years. I encountered a revealing
article from the NY Times this morning.

“We had it tested and it was so full of steroids that we never could have given it to athletes. They all would have tested positive.”

Austria: Ramsau or St-Anton?

In a few days I'll be flying to Munich to meet up with my Buddy Ben from Canada. We'l l crash at his place the first night and then we'll be heading towards Austria for a few days of riding powder, looking at the forecasts, with 50 cm of fresh powder on a 4 meter base, we are looking at a fantastic experience. Anyone has an opinion on witch mountain is better, I know the resort and nightlife is better in St-Anton but I'm looking riding wise, were are the best lines?

8 days Snowboarding the Alpes

Max was defending his PHD thesis in Antibes on Feb 5th and then we organized a little celebration week, 8 days riding the Alpes.

Sylvain has a house in Uriage, 30 minutes from Grenoble and 1 hour away from half a dozain world known resorts in the Rhone-Alpes region.

So me and Ben left Paris by car to join the crew, making a few stops along the way. We first stopped in Dijon to buy mustard and eat fresh oysters with a good bottle of white Burgundy wine. We then followed our path driving 'la route des vins de Bourgogne". We did a little detour to Switzerland to visit Geneva for a few hours before driving back to France. We spent the night in Lyon at Ben's cousins. Next morning we picked up Brezina who was bringing me my new macbook pro from Montreal @ the airport in St-Exupery. We came back to Lyon to spend the afternoon and eat "un ptit bouchon Lyonais" before heading towards Grenoble. We finally got to destination, the weeks headquarters, a sweet little house in Uriage-les-Bains. During the week we rode 5 mountains, les Septs Laux, Les 2 Alpes, l'Alpe d'Huez, l'Alpe du Grand Cerf and Chamrousse.
All mountains were impressive, but the backountry riding on the glacier aux 2 Alpes and on the South face of l'Alpe du Grand Cerf were the best. Great sunny chilling week, with some adrenalizing moments, not even shadowed by a stomach flu epidemic, an electric box fire, electricity shortcut ... and much more. Next riding destination, Austria in 2 weeks.

PHD celebration riding the french alpes

Sabourin with another win in Montreal tonight?

Lets go big!

When a player is the Game: MJ

UFC 83 Montreal : RUSH

An historical night in Canadian Ultimate Fighting history will occur in my hometown Montreal on April 19th. Our boy Georges St-Pierre GSP will fight to get back his UFC welterweight title.

Back in September when I was in Montreal, he was sitting next to me @ the Habs game at Bell Centre, on April 19th he'll be fighting in front of 21,000 home fans for the world title in that same building. Gives me Goosebumps just thinking about the fight ... I so want to be there, but I'll already be in Montreal @ the end of March, can't pull 2 roundtrips in less than a month.

"Tickets for UFC 83: Serra vs. St. Pierre 2 are sold out the promotion today announced. UFC 83, which will be Canada’s first-ever UFC event, now ranks as the fastest sellout in UFC history.
More than 21,000 fans will pack The Bell Centre on April 19th for the event which is headlined by a welterweight title clash between Canadian Georges St. Pierre and welterweight title-holder Matt Serra."

Asian stock markets are closed today, its fireworks war in China

Beijing 2008 New Year Fireworks

A fond les ballons. Happy New Year.

Rage Against the Machine a Bercy le 4 juin

J'achete les billets demain, si qquns en veut lemme know.

blackle

"If Google had a black screen, taking into account the huge number of times this search engine is used, 750 megawatts/hour of energy per year would be saved. In recognition of this fact, Google has created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with lower energy consumption. Forward and make it your homepage rather than Google."

Google is letting these guys live with that? Scam or not? Whatever, Ill be using it.

blackle

Unbeatable Patriots XLII

How sweet was it Thursday night to come home in Paris from a tough squash league match, cook streak and noodle, sit in front of TV at 1am and screen "Sur la route du Super Bowl" on TV5. Especially having heard almost nothing about the season. Not being in America, you don't really give a fuck about American Football, in Europe it's all about the other Football(soccer).

Watching on the resume of the NFL season, I realized how much I miss the sport, the Passion about it. This season looked particularly interesting:
-Brady, Moss and the mystical touchdown setting the 2 passing and reception records + the perfect season on the last game against the team they will later meet at SuperBowl XLII.
- Favre touchdown record passing Marino
- Packers/Seahawks in the sick snow at lambo field for conference.
- Packers/Giants at lambo field in the freaking cold! Sick field goal misted from 37 yards in NFC championship, everything was in place for history, for a Favre against Brady for Z match before Webster intercepted the ball in overtime to send the giants to the big game.
- Maroney winning the game for the Pats on conference day against the chargers puts everything in place for the big game tomorrow.

I predict a big game for Moss who has been silent lately. My 2 favorite players of the last decade reunited, Brady and Moss can only lead to a Championship. I am calling my bookie and putting all my money on this team.

Ireland

I hadn't posted in a long time before this week so I'll try to catch up a bit.

My last trip of 2007 was spent between Dublin and Galway Ireland. We stayed @ Chamy's an old friend of my buddy JR. JR got to Dublin before I did so I picked up the car @ the airport when I got there and crossed the city to meet them @ the house. It was quite an experience to drive on the left side and find my way in a city with no street signs. Amazing times, great Guinness, Irish people are simply just too cheerful and welcoming.

Ireland Roadtrip

Marie-Eve A.K.A Sauce la MC

Entrevue à musique plus d'une de mes copines d'enfance qui roule avec chafiik ces jours-ci, elle a son style unique qui réussira certainment a vous faire rigoler. Vous pouvez aussi voir ses trucs sur My Space. Lâche pas chica!

My new baby toy

Goddam it hurts your wallet to make yourself happy. Hope my car in Quebec will sell soon enough. I cant wait in 2 weeks to pick up Mr. Brezina in Lyon who will bring me my new baby toy.

Tsonga explose Nadal

Christmas in the snow

December 21st was the date where I flew back to Montreal for the third time in 7 months.
Had a great night out @ Rouge with the boys and girls from Montreal, Mazathlan, Gatineau, Sherby, Paris and Vienna. Sweet night to get back in town. Then it was chillin time in VD wiht the familly, skidoo @ Lac Sabourin with perfect weather and quickly chillin with Mc in Montreal before heading back to Paris for New Years Eve.
Good times, that post was for U Gabou!

Shutout #2 in Montreal

There are times I would want a private jet and cross the ocean to get back in Montreal for the night. Saturday was one of those, I would of been @ the habs game to see Sabou put a little 1st star on the board. Good job big boy.

Quote of the day

I was watching Full Metal Jacket once more last night. Kubrick and his twisted movies always leaves you out of breath...

"I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I'm in a world of shit... yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid." - Joker, Full Metal Jacket

Y2K motorcycle

The sound of this thing is nuts. You must feel like a freeking astronaut on that bike.

"Powered by a Rolls Royce Allison gas turbine engine, the SUPERBIKE has demonstrated over 300 hp and 425 ft/lbs of torque on the Dyno Jet 200", may I get one for Xmas?

Man with vision ...

Many individuals have been very powerful in leading the technological advancements of the past decades but no one got close to have the vision and to innovate like Steve Jobs.Fortune as ranked him at the top spot of the 25 most powerful people in business.
When you think that the man lead the way to the PC, the graphical user interface, founded Apple, Next, Pixar and is now the biggest shareholder of Disney, you could just be happy to realise a minimal percentage of all his business accomplishment and call it a career. Bow down to M. Jobs!

Emeutes dans le 95 en banlieu de Paris

C'est chaud ces jours-ci en banlieu après le décès de 2 ados mort dans un accident de moto avec une voiture de police. Voir article Le Monde. Je devais jouer au squash dans le 95 ce Jeudi avec mon équipe de squash, faut croire que j'aurais une soirée de congé pour aller au pot Québécois.

Une centaine de jeunes cagoulés
envoyé par davidgolani