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25 juin 2007

My birthday

Today I turned 25 years old. I went to bed late last night, it was past 11pm when I went to bed and close to midnight when I turned off the light. At that time it was already nearly 7.00am in Europe and I can tell you it was hard not to phone my Dad (the...

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18 août 2007

Soon going to Arequipa

We've been invited to the wedding of my good friend Holmi and her soon-to-be husband Juan Carlos. It's an honour to have the opportunity to attend a peruvian wedding ceremony and reception, even if it is not happening in a church (that will be next year)....

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19 décembre 2007

Lima blue Lima

Last week, we had the bluest sunniest morning we had ever had in Lima. The skies were bright blue and the sun was shining strongly already at 8am. This is the view from our balcony... Can you see the Pacific Ocean? The church to the left of the conifer...

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26 mai 2007

London fog in Lima

That's what happens (left) when you take a very hot shower for too long, window open... It looks just like London fog, doesn't it? Oh, and for comparison purposes, this (on the right) is what it looks like without fog. En Français: Voici ce qui arrive...

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26 mai 2007

High Security

There are parts of Miraflores that are under what seems to be, high security, with electric wires above high walls or metal gates. The latter often display threatening spikes directed towards potential aggressor routes. The alternate form of this, for...

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13 mai 2007

Excited

Hello! I wanted to say how excited I am that we are soon moving in. I have taken some photos of our new building and the neighbourhood, as well as the ocean-view parc, Parque Domodossola, that is 4 blocks from our soon-to-be home. Go see them in the Miraflores...

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6 juillet 2007

Monica the House Fairy

Well, we now have a maid one day a week. I hear you "Ooooh those show-offs, living the royal lives in style....". Well none of that, she only does the cleaning of our (seriously large) place, because I won't let her wash the clothes (someone else handling...

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24 juin 2007

Paragliding - the return

So we're back on the paragliding front, we had a one-day lesson yesterday with Perufly, just outside of Lima in sand dunes. It's not the same teaching method or the same standard of equipment as in France (where we did our last course) but nonetheless...

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10 mai 2007

1st floor, please

Or, in spanish: "Primer piso, por favor". Just so you know, floor numbers in Peru seem to start from 1, where 1 = ground floor = street level. I know a lot of countries have variations on that. I think I remember something about Japan or China "skipping"...

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8 mai 2007

Temperature

OK, I think I exagerated the temperature. It is now (following an indicator on the web) 22°C outside, which makes it more than 10°C difference with the equivalent time of the year in Belgium... En Français: Ok, je pense que j'ai exagéré en parlant de...

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7 octobre 2008

Second time in Cusco

Now that I look at it, I tend to publish stuff here by waves. Something around every three weeks, I'm taking some time to write about the stuff I do. That's pretty much all the time I can get. So let's get going... Two weeks ago, I went to Cusco and Machu...

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14 décembre 2007

How to green your Christmas and your gifts

Yannick and Celine, Celine and Yannick, him and I in a sense, are both hardcore environmentally-friendly ecologists. Or at least we try our very hardest. Here are a couple of tips to make your Christmas (only 12 days to go!!!) and your christmas gifts...

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2 février 2009

Surfing the (rocky) wave again

A little 5.8 earthquake shaked Lima again today (and again, the epicenter was around Ica, poor guys). Surprisingly, I didn't feel it. At the time, I was out getting the keys to my new offices, but my employees were quite scared (very few of them ever...

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7 octobre 2008

Japanese fading away

As Chikako reminded me not too long ago, I need to practice Japanese in order not to loose it. Obviously, I'm already starting to loose it (I was trying to think of how one write an "o" in hiragana and didn't remember it, a week ago - that goes without...

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7 octobre 2008

Business news

To keep up-to-date with my business reports, I now have 7 people working for me (5 developers, 1 software tester and 1 administrative staff) and will be hiring an 8th (and maybe a 9th - but that's still a logistical problem in terms of space right now)...

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27 mai 2008

A little mandoline practice

I finally got bored of having a mandoline and not playing just because I want to learn to do it right so... just before splitting two strings in half (it's ok, my mandoline has too many strings anyway) trying to tune it, I finally decided that... damnit......

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30 mai 2007

The web developers, the company and the server

This article is a business-only article, so feel free to *skip* it if you only like the tourist stories :-) There are three things I need to start selling services here: web developers, a local company and a server. Even though this is in the correct...

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18 juin 2007

Panamericana

Last week was my first experience outside of Lima. Being an engineering geologist, I get to go on site for various reasons and last Thursday I went to the site of Pampa Melchorita, at kilometre 170 of the Panamericana, near the town of Chincha. A Toyota...

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27 juin 2007

Social Security - Pension Funds

Yep, I wrote the french version first..... Sorry, no translation. En Français: Le Pérou reconnaît le droit humain aux soins de santé et a pour cela un système de sécurité sociale de santé garantissant l'accès libre à des fournisseurs de soins publics,...

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27 juillet 2007

It's a culture thing...

There are three things that are very typical of peruvian people towards strangers: 1) they will always ask if you like the peruvian food 2) they will always tell you not to trust any Peruvian (I've always wondered if they realised that somehow it included...

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18 août 2007

Back from Cañete-Melcho

I have been to the site of Pampa Melchorita to monitor inclinometers this Monday for 3 days and had returned just before the earthquake. I was filling in for a colleague who was on holiday and decided to return to Lima on the Wednesday because we were...

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20 août 2007

Software business development in Peru... not easy

This week-end I made the decision to fire my three employees (yes, the three of them, all at once). Two of them were clearly under the level I needed (under is a light way of putting it). The last one was capable of doing a great job but seemed to love...

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22 février 2009

Circumvening employment rules in Peru?

Yesterday, while discussing with a bunch of peruvian friends about the problem of ensuring an employee doesn't run away after a 3 months training period (which just happened for the company I'm helping set up), I realized the possibility probably existed...

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16 janvier 2009

The Huachiman

The "Huachiman"... how many times have I heard this expression now? No idea, but it still makes me smile every time. First, I thought it was some kind of savvy old man, but in fact it's only a localisation of the term "watch man". There are plenty of...

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2 janvier 2009

Peruvian's New Year celebrations

This year was my first New Year in Peru. Sadly I haven't been able to enjoy the opportunity so much as I was stuck home for health reasons. Anyway, I got a few elements of the things local do to celebrate... First of all, generic stuff: they go out, dance...

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