PHP knowledge needed!

Okiiiiiiiiiiii!!!! Well... when I got out of the school I learned only javascript. css and html. Well now that I have a blog since close to 1 year, I wish to understand and modify it more and more. I need PHP for that. Asfter ASP was out of the way PHP took a big place. I though it would be replaced already some years ago but looks like it won't happen. I decided to learn it.

My blog is hosted by myself. I have Apache/My SQL program called WAMP. It was easy to set up and understand. I also use a free web host to reroot my IP witch is NO-IP. This way I can put anything I want on my blog without ads or banner or plugin restrictions. I change the theme often because I'm never really happy with the one I apply.

I will take my time to learn it. Some code I already understand cause it's same as C++ I learned 10 years ago.
FOR
IF/IFELSE/ELSE
SWITCH/CASE/BREAK
WHILE

It's not like I'm brand new in learning this but I gave up on web pages 1 years after school.
Now I have time to give it a try again. I like web page but I also really love blogs cause it's easier to write on it everyday and everywhere, even on my Android cell. People usually like to use facebook or twitter for that but... I can't get use to those. I get tired of things really quikly. That's why I need to know PHP to change my page at will. There is many sites to learn and also some online test page when I am not home. Those sites read the php code like Apache do at home.

You always need a PHP decoder on your server to read the code. IE or Chrome won't be able to decode by themself. If you just write a php code in Note Pad and save it as toto.php you won't be able to make it works as long as Apache is not installed on your computer. It's same as Visual Basic that need some DLL to work. Any  language need that. Let's see if I can still learn stuff... even if I'm old hahahaha!

Yoshihiko Noda replace Kan in Japan!

Yoshihiko Noda, the ex-minister of finance replace Kan now as prime minister of Japan. Kan, After many promesses to quit, finaly did. Will it be better with Yoshihiko??? Something is sure.. I will have more trouble remember his name than Kan. The yen is high those days. Yoshi think that it's bad for economy. It's not always true. In Québec, even if the dollars is higher than US for now, Canada and Québec go quite well. The more you panic about it, the more investors from other country will stop investing. Panic is more dangerous in stock market than true economical state. Everything works by speculation. If you keep calm everything goes well.

Kan was not really popular (maybe also because of his fashion disorder). He ended up to be the worst in history, as my husband says. In Québec I don't remember who was the worst. The politic in Québec is not really something we care about. We just laugh of them and wait for the next. Last year I voted for NPD Jack Layton. This man had a friendly face of a good man. Sadly he died last week.
At least he had time to change things a bit. Let's wait to see if it's gonna change something. Japanese think the same about Yoshi, but like us, they don't expect much.

Rhinos massacre!

Today I was reading news on my favorite web site 'canoe' and one got my attention. It says that 'mostly' chinese get, by any possible way, rhino's horn to sell it like 'traditional medecine'. One thing they don't seems to understand about killing everything that lives for money (in the name of traditions) is that time change. A population of 2 millions of chinese traditionaly use rhinos  horn in the past and a population of now more than 1,339,724,852 of them it's quite different. I am sure they don't even care about that at all. Not even 1 min. For many countries : free animals = free money. Animals you have to bred it's too long and too much effort. Bunch of lasy ass!

When I was young, I though that killing animals was just something native american do. When I got 12 years old (before that I was too young to remember well), I realised that hunters dropped animals part all over along the road close to my home. I can still remember the smell of corps under the sun. Every year they did. Sometimes just the head or intern parts. It was horrible. I realised quite fast that humans was the worst creatures on earth.  With time passing, I though that most people will understand that we don't need to kill wild animals and just bred them ourself for food. Even fish can be bred now.

But even in 2012, humans are as stupid as ever!!! I was happy to read in that same article that some illegal hunters were killed.

If things going on like this for next 200 years.. only rats, cats and dogs will live on earth. Even those...I'm not sure....

Charisma Carpenter on Supernatural season 7!

Charisma Carpenter will be in one (or maybe more) episode of Supernatural. I also got rumors about James Marsters also guest staring. I am happy to be able to see 'Cordelia' again in the world of demon. While Buffy was always crying on her rough life, Cordelia was tough and funny. I don't think Buffy or Angel would have been the same if she wasn't there. I don't like sensitive heroes. Sadly, most of the time it's the case. Buffy, Angelus, Sam, Clark Ken, Phoebe and Pipper... Those kinda of characters sometimes drives me mad! we need more : Cordelia, Wesley, Dean, Lex and Prue. I like characters that kick ass without questions.

That is the proof!

@AllCharismacharisma carpenter

Can't go thru all the tweets. So lil time today. But I get u r happy 4 me to b on the show #Supernatural. -Me too. TY 4 all ur support

Baseball!!

Last weekend I went to a baseball game with my husband. I love baseball!!!! When I was young I was often watching games on TV and sometimes just listening to one on my AM radio. I was really sad when my team was sold. After that I completely gave up on baseball.
Since my husband is Japanese and that baseball is the national sports in Japan, He wanted to watch a game in his new country of adoption. I made some research and found 'Les Capitales' from Québec city. It's a CANAM professional team but not major league. It's better than nothing so we went on a trip to Québec (3 hours by car).

The game was great!! The Pitsfield visitors was no match to the Capitals. We kicked their asses 7-2. I had a good time eating hot dogs and drinking beer! After the game we also had small fireworks show.

The day was long so we booked an hotel in St-Foy. It was a good one and really cheap. The next morning was bad weather. Along the way back home it was showering like hell!!!



My husband was about to begin his first day of work in his new job in Montréal on Monday. He was a bit nervous I'm sure. He will work at 'Volt'. It's a game testing company. I feel my life is just going around and around sometimes lol!! Anyway... at least I made sure he won't go to Enzyme Labs. He his working evening shift. I won't see him often but it will gave me more time to play games, watch Supernatural or listen to some music loud in the house! I like to have some times with myself everyday so it's perfect with me. That way I miss more my husband when he comes back!

Castiel death rumours!

On some sites now there is a petition to save Castiel character in Supernatural. Many thinks that he won't survive to the power he got from purgatory's souls. Castiel like Bobby are now part of the team. I don't think they can just die in a blink of an eye! If they kill him.... witch I dought, it will be at the last episode. Marketing wise, it would be a great mistake to kill Castiel. This series can last more than 7 season. If they start killing the best characters they have ... well.

Let's pray for Castiel!!!

亀梨和也 New drama in October "Yōkai Ningen Bem" (「妖怪人間ベム」)!

Well it was about time after more than 1 year.



The good part is to see Kamenashi acting again, the bad part is that this drama look really similar to 'Kaibutsu-Kun'. Demons who wants to becomes human.... Kamenashi for 'Full Metal' would have been a better idea. It really feels like they just wanna give KAT-TUN a pale copy of what 'Arashi' get before them. It's sad. Let's hope for the best!

ITHQ Montreal!

Last thursday, I reserved for the ITHQ (Institut de tourisme et d'hotellerie du Québec).  Since I watched the last 'Les Chefs' episode I was curious about native american food. I was lucky to see that the same guy was also supervising a native american week at ITHQ. I took a chance and tryed. It was a 5 service.



All the meals countained this extremely dry kinda od bread. We got a little 'amuse bouche' before this meal but it was sooooo smal that I forgot to take a picture.  A little bit of wapiti meat in this appetizer. The wapiti mix was really tasteless. I could not even say what was the difference from porc or beaf. It could have been anything.

 

The cold appitizer was really nice. I don't really like seafood that much but a little bit with good sauce was great change after meat.

 

The main dish was a lot of wapiti. This time I could tell the difference between this meat and the one I usually know. This one is more bloody. It taste a mix between beaf and flange. It's curious taste but not bad. The fish was well smoked. The main dish was really good.

 

That was my dessert. Again this bread with only blueberries jam and rasberries. It was really cheap.

After this experience I must say that.... if you have a lot of money to spend on a diner maybe native american food is a bit too much rustic for that.
I think it's better to eat with an Indian right in the wood around a good fire!

The Chief!

Last years I started to watch this cooking competition. I learned a lot watching that. There is so many things you have to care about when you present a meal to a client.

Balancing taste exp: salty/sweet
Texture contrast.
Colors and presentation
knowing all the possible meat or sea food perfect cooking method.
Knowledge of pasta and elementary dessert.
the use of various fresh herb mix.
And more.....

Cooking is really complicated. Last week, a native american chief asked them to make a native style dish with forest herb. This chief is from the restaurant: 'La Traite'. It's a 6 service restaurant offering high quality native american style food.   This is not that expensive but it's really far from where I live.

I'm happy to be born in Québec so I am used to all food from various countries around the world. I'm a taste maniac! After more than 5 years trying restaurant with my brother and friends: French, Arabic, Mexican, German, Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese ...etc.  I can tell that I almost love them all. I want  to try more countries. My brother is also a big fan of trying restaurant but he feel unsafe to try some new stuff sometimes. We visited more than 100 approximately.  Not only for the taste but also many other criteria are checked.

I don't like to cook but I really like to eat!!!!

Dunn's!

Dunn's Laval on Curé-Labelle street. 3 stars /5

Yesterday I tried the new Dunn's in Laval close to my home. It was typical place. When you love smoke meat It's a good place to go. It's not expensive and you get a big plate. It's common food but I like the fries style and taste.  I'm not a fan of smoke meat but once in a while it's good to have some. Even when you push the door open you can smell the fresh some meat!

The globe!

I think it's about time for me to judge and class restaurant I try in Laval and Montréal. I will give them a note on 5 stars and also comment and details of my experience.

The Globe restaurant in Montréal. 1 stars

The food was really common for high price. The poor girls who serve food have really high heels, witch is crazy when we know that they spend more than 4 hours walking around. A Thursday, pay day... at 7pm... and 3 person other client than us in the restaurant. The music was so loud that we had to scream to each other. I asked them to lower it a bit but they refused telling me that it was for the ambiance. When I go to a restaurant I want to relax and talk and eat. If I want to scream I will go to a bar.

After eating a cheap lamb burger I decided to flee this place. When it was time to pay ...guess what!! No interac!!! It's a really a disease in Montreal. It's 2011... come on!!! Usually when you pay 60$ for your diner (1 person) you imagine that you will be able to pay the way you want. With the price they charge for that crap they must at least be practical.

The restaurant just before the Globe was full. I was wandering why at first but now I know. It was my first and last time at this restaurant.