Noulakaz

The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.

F*** Me I’m Famous

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[Thanks to David Guetta for this great title]

Jérome Quelin, a good friend of mine from France, is getting married in a few months. We were at INSA Lyon together from 1995 to 1998.

We received an invitation for his wedding yesterday. Surprisingly, if you carefully look at the address:

Christina & Avinash Meetoo
Quatre Bornes
Mauritius / Ile Maurice

you’ll realize that it is considered to be “insufficient” by Mauritius Post but we still got it!

Great! We are not complete unknowns after all…

Congratulations to you Charlotte and Jérome if you read my blog :-)

Make Yourselves Heroes

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Tomorrow, my Liverpool FC will once more play against Milan AC in the Champions League final. Two years ago, we won in, arguably, the best ever final.

The Liverpool players have worked hard to get to the final and they are ready.

I know that Liverpool FC will win tomorrow. This is written in the stars.

I am proud to be a Liverpool FC fan. We are not going to war. We will respect Milan AC. Our players have a job to do. They are professionals. And so is our coach and mastermind, Rafael Benítez. Every true Liverpool FC fan knows that Rafa has a secret plan against the Milan AC players. With Rafa, we can win over any team. Barcelona and Chelsea can testify.

I predict that Liverpool FC will win by 1-0 tomorrow and the scorer will be… Captain Steven Gerrard!

An update at 02:05 on 24 May:

Liverpool has lost the game 1-2 with, believe it or not, two goals by Inzaghi. I watched it at home with three Liverpool fans and we mostly agreed that Liverpool (and especially Gerrard) did not play a great match. Liverpool was, during long stretches, better than Milan AC and Gerrard and Xabi Alonso should have scored.

Anyway, congratulations to Milan AC :-)

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes is dead

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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes died four days ago. He was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.

From Wikipedia,

His Nobel Prize was awarded for “discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymer”

When I was a student at the INSA de Lyon, he once came (I think it was in 1997) to explain precisely what this meant:

“Bubbles!”

Yes. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes spent his time trying to understand what bubbles really were and how they were formed. He told us that it was important to know this, for example, in order to build safe factories for chemical products.

What impressed me most on that day was how passionate he was for his bubbles. And I guess he had an influence on me and that’s why I am so passionate for the things I like…

(Photo by AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)