So I have had AdSense running on this site for a few days. Whenever I look at it, the ad is usually India-related. Which is quite strange because my Indian name is only mentioned on there once.
The Zooomr guys rolled back to the version that was up last week (before I had heard of it). It just looks like a busier version of Flickr. I think I made the right decision. I got a Pro account at Flickr today. I haven’t really done much with it but now I can upload to my heart’s content. And create more than just three “sets”.
And in the Nouvelle Star front, it turns out you can get the video of my on your cellphone somehow. One of my students today showed me his phone, with me on it singing. Wonder if he can use it as his ringtone?! They have all been voting for me and writing comments, some of which I can’t understand because they use a lot of slang and abbreviations that I have no idea about.
So, a couple of weeks ago Nouvelle Star, the French version of Pop Idol, started on M6 with the auditions in Marseille, which I attended. Unfortunately I wasn’t good enough or bad enough to make it to TV but I am available online:
So vote for me and maybe I’ll get to the top of the home page. But probably not. And don’t be so mean as the person who wrote the first comment “fallait apprendre la chansson un peu mieux que ca hihi” (“You should learn the song a bit better than that“). Well, I say you should learn to spell “chanson” properly!
(I wrote this in my hotel room on Word. It hasn’t been published before 14/03/07.)
Right, I’ve got all that I needed to get done. In only 40 minutes too, that’s pretty good. Actually I didn’t have much to do, just get that photo printed (they have kiosks everywhere that do that – it took a while to find though) and I found a photocopier. So 0,40€ later, I have everything done. It was actually 0,50€ because the photo machine didn’t give change. I already had some ID photos so that was lucky. Otherwise the total would have been a whopping 4,50€!
I’m not sure whether I should order breakfast here in the morning. I guess I kind of have to. No other choice. Plus it comes with a paper. I can get it for 6:30 and then head downstairs. How exciting.
Right, now I’m going to try and find me some dinner. I do hope that I’ll be able to see a bit of Marseille tomorrow but I’m not counting on it. I don’t even know what time I’ll be able to get home. We’ll see.
(I wrote this in my hotel room on Word. It hasn’t been published before 14/03/07.)
Hello. I have chosen something pretty big to open my blog with. I am sitting in a hotel room in Marseille. At the moment, hundreds of wannabe French popstars are downstairs. It’s 5:22pm by the way. Quite late in the day. Why am I here in Marseille? Because it’s the auditions for Nouvelle Star! And what is Nouvelle Star, I hear many of you ask? It’s French Idol. I wanted to make an impact on French culture, and this is the way I’m going to do it.
Tomorrow morning, at 8:00am, I am supposed to turn up downstairs and sing my heart out. I’m supposed to bring ID and a photocopy and an ID photo and a normal photo. Of course I am stupid and forgot to bring any of those. Well, I do have ID. But no copy. And no photo. So I am going to go out in a few minutes and find a photocopier and a photo printing place. It’s 5:24. I’m not hopeful. Actually the hotel probably has a photocopier come to think of it. And possibly a business centre for printing. Anyway I am off to do that.
hihi” (“You should learn the song a bit better than that“). Well, I say you should learn to spell “chanson” properly!