Arun Stephens

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: Casting Marseille – Candidat 7458 – nouvellestar Casting Marseille – Candidat 7458 – nouvellestar Casting Marseille – candidat 7458Mots-clés : nouvelle star casting marseille 7458Video de castingmarseilleSo vote for me and maybe I’ll get to the top of the home page. Read post »

Gad Elmaleh, a French stand-up comic and movie star, did a show in Lyon that’s on DVD now, called L’autre, c’est moi. All the kids have seen it here. Well, most of them. In it, he recounts how at school one of the first sentences he learnt was “Where is Brian?” He and his classmates respond “Brian is in the kitchen.” Brian also has a sister. “Jenny is the sister of the Brian. Jenny is in the Read post »

So, I am finally getting around to posting stories about my trip to the other side of the world and my time in France. I tried writing my own blog engine to go with my photos on my web site at http://www.arunstephens.com/ but really, why reinvent the wheel? So here I am on the apparently new Blogger. Like I promised on the old blog (which had two posts – http://www.arunstephens.com/blog.aspx) I am going Read post »

This is the view from the top of l’Aiguille du Midi above Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. Somewhere in that photo is Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe. It looks like a painting. Everything was so white. And the air (at 3800m) was so thin I was having trouble catching my breath. Even walking one set of stairs became difficult. Read post »

(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 Read post »