Some might say that every 6 months or so, I create a new website/blog, and I have to admit it, it’s true.
But today is no normal day. In a few hours from now, I’ll finally be leaving Paris, flying across the Atlantic all the way to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I’ve been dreaming about this moment since my last year at EPITECH, when I was looking for an internship in the video game industry.
After spending two years (including my internship) working at the Ubisoft HQ in Montreuil near Paris, I’m now leaving to join Ubisoft Montreal, the biggest Ubisoft studio and apparently the second biggest video game studio in the world (1700 employees at the moment).
This is a new life starting for me, on every level. I’ve already been twice to Montreal during my (short) career but these were only short missions (3 weeks working on Far Cry Vengeance, 2.5 months on Assassin’s Creed). This time I’m going away with an undetermined-length contract (CDI in french), and I will join the Shaun White Snowboard team till the release date (can’t say much right now as it’s still pretty secret).
I have to say I’m totally scared as it’s going to be my first time living all alone, with my own place and stuff. It will also feel very weird and sad to leave friends and family behind but well, I guess life goes on…
That’s why I created this blog. It’s hosted on wordpress.com as it’s simple and cheap, and it’s offering some nice features too (thank god it allows comment posting without registration). You can of course subscribe to the RSS feed if you want (I know I would :p)
I’d like to thank my friend and colleague Romz for allowing me to use his beautiful photo for the header of the site. You can find more of his work on his Flickr page.
And to inaugurate this blog the same way I did with my previous blog on virb.com, let’s create a new tradition and say that every new post will be concluded by a nice/stupid/funny internet video. So I hope we’ll keep in touch and that I will have enough motivation to update this blog on a somewhat regular basis. See you soon and enjoy the crazy japanese TV shows :
Sweet ! A new Sharkouf blog ! I guess I envy you a bit .. because Montreal seems to be a really great city from what I’ve seen :) I won’t even talk about the girls over there … :p
No more Sputnik/Romz’s/GuitarHero drunk parties with you :( But next time I go to Ubi Montreal, let’s celebrate !
it looks like a nice site, thanks..