More about the german white lion cubs

Pictures and details about why they are being hand raised...

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Nemi always gets it right II

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prrffff

I am getting really tired of this bullshit...
Got another email from sspro saying:
"URGENT!!! NEED ROV PILOTS BADLY!!! We are in deep shit.. too many jobs not enough pilots!!! if you're available PLEASE say so quick!!!"

errr.... HELLO?! how about.... ME?!?!?!

I already emailed someone from there twice this week, with not much results... didn't get turned down, but got no interview requests either.

I know agencies only want pilots with experience, because the companies they supply people to want an efficient team and not random blokes (that'd be why they ask an agency instead of taking care of the hiring themselves), but this situation now is what my teacher said I should hope for.

He said that when there's too much work, not enough pilots, the companies will end up hiring a bunch of trainees because they can't find anyone else... and that's how you get your first job and go from pilot trainee to pilot tech II... so... WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?! I'M HERE AND WANT TO WORK AND I'M FUCKIN GOOD AT IT!!! :(

I'm in a bad mood and it's raining... right now, life sucks...

Send good vibes

I just applied for a short contract in the UAE... they ask for a pilot/tech with Seaeye Falcon experience... that's me alright...
Hopefully being a girl wont play against me like it did in Brazil (still waiting for them to fix the accommodations problem).

more white lions :)

A zoo in Germany has 6 new lil white cubs!!!

In a year or two it should be our turn!!! (and, hopefully, me holding the bottle!!!)

check it out here, the cute factor is through the roof... seriously...
*update, seems like the video wont play on all computers :S sorry bout that, hope you'll be lucky

Stolen from Mui

Wouhahahahahahahahaha!!! XD

From Mui's blog :

"The Marmoset Song, with the autor's apologies to the Shirelles... see how far misunderstanding lyrics can take you!"

A day at the Parc

Ho.. errr.. hi there! sorry, don't have any apple left... ho ho...

As we usually do every summer, Sonia, her kids and me went to Parc Safari today :D

We couldn't have asked for better weather!!! sunny, some clouds, just cool enough so the animals are active but we still want to go in the pools.

I never get tired of walking around this place. It keeps getting better every year, as the new projects take shape... and it's just so nice to be able to get really close to animals you'd only see on tv otherwise.

My buddy Limba is back from Bowmanville, so the contest with my sister is on again to see who she'll love more :P (I should specify that Limba is a lovely 35yo Asian elephant, born in Thailand, but who now resides in Ontario during the winter, and at PS in the summer.) It's easy to win her heart really... ice cream, jelly beans, watermelon, apples... and a bit of trunk patting.

Robert, her keeper, asked me to bring Balou (my big fluffy white dog) one evening. Limba likes other animals... so it could make for some pretty wild pics! I know my dog has no problem with animals (he wanted to play with the Arctic wolfs!) but he's never met anything so big... should be interesting. :)

I took a bunch of pics today, of course, ... see the album on the right,
and if you want to see my zoo, go here

lazy Sunday

aaah, this gray rainy weather is perfect timing! Now I can just watch movies all day without feeling that I'm neglecting my social (so-called) life.

No Tamjams, no piknik electronic, no coffee on a terrasse, just a pint of home-made iced coffee, a bowl of cherries and a bunch of Hollywood crappy action films, yay!

I've added pics from the weekend in the album Fest Smorgasbord too.

The rain sucks a bit for the Haitian music fest though... their last big show tonight will be in the mud...

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG

You'd think that after 20+ years of living 5 minutes away from LaRonde (host of L'international des Feux Loto-Quebec*) I would remember that the Jacques Cartier bridge closes at 8pm every Saturday of July and August... Seems that this fact hasn't penetrated my thick skull yet, and what was suppose to be a 15min drive to Mui's place turned into a 45min obstacle course, cause I didn't leave home early enough.
Victoria bridge was loaded with people like me trying to get on the island, and since half of downtown is closed to circulation because of one festival or another (plus a street sale and the whole "firework zone") it looked like a gigantic parking lot.

Add to that a freakin moron who started yelling at me because I looked pissed while he was crossing the street on a red light (i.e. his was red, mine was green and I was 2 inches from his shorts as in "move your fat ass you fuckin twat")... and I arrived at Mui's place begging for a Uzi.

St-Denis Street, aka center of my universe, has been taken hostage by the annual Just for Laugh Festival... the only fest I don't like. Mind you, the shows/galas are ok, it's all the street animation I can't take. I hate mimes! and I'm scared of clowns... and for some reason this festival attracts the worst kind of people... bunches of idiots from the suburbs, all excited to be in the big city to see the funnies. :S They just take too much space and act like drunken frat boys.

Passeport's entrance has been buried under a stage, where a dj was playing the Super Mario soundtrack without bothering to mix it... lovely... I have pics, I'll put them up tomorrow, now I'm going to BED!!!

Good news is, it only last a week so my universe should be back to normal next weekend :D


*For those of you, outsiders, who do not know, it's a massive fireworks competition that takes place on St-Helene island. A different country every weekend, 30 minutes of bangs that can be seen from the JC bridge, the Old Port, loads of parks on the south shore and the roof of my house :P

Hurricane

Holy shit I'm glad to have seen that!!! The show last night was insane! I hurt all over from dancing and jumping for 3 hours, and my voice has gone byebye, due to my screaming like an hysterical fan (no I am not a groupie... ok maybe just a little :P).

First the pot, than the flowers...

Ok, seriously, Bell Center, you HAVE to get organized and deal with the whole waiting in line without moving for 2 hours!!! For fuck sake! it makes no sense that people end up shoving and destroying the fences to finally get in, 30 minutes AFTER the show is suppose to start, creating complete anarchy outside. I've heard that it's always like that... it makes NO SENSE!!! especially when there was no security control whatsoever! (which is my other subject of frustration! Tabarnak, I could have sneaked in my camera so easily.. but I didn't bring it cause I thought they would strip search everybody like they usually do in big venues... live and learn they say)

So I took a couple of crapy pics with my cellphone. Some turned out ok, but considering that I was on the floor, 5 feet from Wyclef and Akon for half of the show, I can't imagine how many great poster quality pics I would have got with my real camera! grrr :S

The show opened with Sean Paul, who admitted having enjoyed the girls and clubs of Montreal the previous night... it became obvious quickly that he wasn't lying. The guy was hangover and.. well... sucked. He kept changing songs halfway through, couldn't remember the words... Yelling "yay Montreal" is fun to hear, but it's not enough to carry a crowd into hysterics. Too bad, I like his songs, but that was crap. It didn't help that the sound was awful too, all blurred and badly mixed.

Wyclef took over, he was his usual self, i.e. A FREAKIN GOD!!!! He arrived on stage with a Montreal Canadiens' shirt and a hockey stick :) Which he later give to a 7 yo boy he saw in the seats not far from the stage... he saw the kid, went in the bleachers, took him back on stage and traded shirts with him!

His show lasted about 5 seconds! (or it seemed to... my cell said an hour but I think it's lying). He climbed on his bodyguard's shoulders and went through the crowd for half of it. Confettis fell all over for Carnival and the whole Bell Center was dancing, jumping and going nuts!
He revisited the Fugees, and all in all did about two and a half songs from his albums, the rest was free style (even in Spanish! :P) and a big party that charmed everybody.
I heard girls in the bathroom afterward saying "That was incredible, Akon is gonna have a hard time keeping up... who was that Wyclef guy?!"

So way too quickly it was Akon's turn... it began with a movie about him being turned down at the border and then highjacking the plane to come back. He dropped on stage from the ceiling with a parachute :P

The show was good, a balanced mix of old and new songs, but all the tech stuff was a bit of a rhythm breaker. He flew over the crowd in a harness, to go from platform to platform (one was right beside me, which he flew onto for Mama Africa yay!) and a stripper pole, stripper included, came down from the ceiling for "I wanna love you" (yes, I wanna LOVE you... the censored version!!! wtf?!?! who cares if the show is not 18+, you're in Canada man, people don't care about the word fuck!!!) Must admire the double message here... singing "love you" instead of "fuck you" not to shock anybody, while an almost naked woman is shaking her ass on a pole in front of him... what-ever.

Over all it was great, and what a piece of eye candy that guy is!!! He got seriously molested by a crowd of girls every time he got close to them (on the platforms, flying over us and on his bodyguard's shoulders). He can sing and entertain too :P but he has obviously realized that the money is with hysterical girls and he's milking it for all its worth.

Wyclef joined him for the end of show party (to performed "Sweetest girl" the way it was meant to be) and brought back some of that Carnival spirit with him. That turned the floor into a huge dancefloor, arms in the air, screaming and jumping (and some cat fighting to get closer to the guys :P).

All in all a very good show, worth more than the price of the ticket!

South Africa comes to Hemmingford

My new pet :P

Today was the official ceremony to present our new white lions to the medias and public. Even with the rain, more than 1000 people came to see it, plus 6 tv stations, from Quebec and the USA!

It was nice, everybody was happy and there should be a good amount of Parc Safari in the news this week :P

Linda Tucker talked about her organization in South Africa that protects the white lions (see here for the web site) and how great it is to have Parc Safari as a partner in the breeding program. In the next few years, our lions should have cubs, and some of them will be sent to the Timbavati Game Reserve, to live in a wild, but protected, environment. (Which might mean a trip to SA for me!!! woohoo!)

Those lions are so magnificent! There is all sort of stories and legends about them. You can found the most common ones on the net, but also in Linda's book Mystery of the White Lions.

Never mind retail therapy!

I'M GOING TO SEE SEAN PAUL, AKON AND WYCLEF TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE BELL CENTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOOHOOHOO!!!!!!!! *happy dance, back flip and mad laugh*

When they announced the show I so wanted to go, but none of my friends wanted to follow so I didn't buy a ticket, cause going alone would suck (and I was half hoping that in July I'd be on a rig somewhere in the middle of the ocean too :S) .

Then today I saw on Facebook (yay FB!!!) that my cousin had an extra ticket. I called him right there and put my name on it! :P The tickets are on the floor!!! general admission!!! Everywhere else in the Center is assigned places, but they keep the floor general, cause there's no point in putting chairs, people go nuts and scrap them :P

Hoooooooooo I can't wait!!!!!! (the tricky question now is how do I smuggle my camera in there with all the mad security there's gonna be?)