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Paris (Day 2)

We originally planned to go up Eiffel tower in the morning. Which means we might need to go queue at 7am cuz it's a sunday. But due to the extreme tiredness from the previous day, not mentioning spending the night in the bus, we decided to postpone it to the third day.

We started our second day to Musee du Louvre. Everyone knows what it is and everyone knows what's inside. There were too many state-of-the-art sculptures and exquisite paintings it was impossible to appreciate all of them. We managed to see a lot of them though. And yes, Mona Lisa has never failed to gather the most crowd. But well, Nike of Samothrace and Michelangelo's Rebellious Slave and Dying Slave have their own fans as well.

A pic with Pyramid Inversee before we entered the museum.. Tat guy behind very 'cho teng' la..hehe..

Louvre. Very sunny day..*happie*

Our next stop was Notre Dame. It was a sunday when we went, so there were many people in the church. I wondered if the visitors were a distraction for them.

Notre Dame

A miniature of Notre Dame

Based on my map reading skills..ehem ehem..we managed to walk to the Pantheon. However we didn't enter cuz the entry was 7 euros and we thought that we would probably leave that place after 15 minutes..hehe..

We then went to Jardin du Luxermbourg. It's apparently a very famous park. I was pretty amazed actually. I mean the park has museums, palace, water fountain and sculptures everywhere. We had our moments there, and then proceeded to St-Sulpice. I imagined it to be small. But it turned out really big..hehe.. Anyway, we had the chance to see the original zero-longitude line, the Rose Line.

The Rose Line

We had dinner at Chartier. Well, the decoration was plausible. But we had a rather unpleasant experience there. N the food wasn't exactly good as recommended in the survival book we had. In short, highly not recommended..hehe..

The deco in Chartier..

We then went to Eiffel Tower to catch the night view. But we soon realise that the night view was way nicer than the day view!hehe.. N considering the queue wasn't long, partially thanks to a concert held near eiffel tower, we decided to go up eiffel tower during the night. N the view really didn't disappoint us! It was..ooo...romantic..hehe..

Taken by my digital camera from the top of eiffel tower. Not bad eh?

Thanks to some tricks using my sony camera, it looks like sunset eh?hehe..it's actually already dark.


This was the actual lighting.

N finally, to sum up our moments on Eiffel Tower.
A picture is worth a thousand words.

Here In My Home

Hey peeps, I happen to come across this video on the Internet. Thought that I might share it with you. In my initial hearing of the song, it isn’t very ’smooth’, I must say. But on my second hearing, I found it very likable.

There are many artists that came together to produce this song for free. Their aim is to promote unity and everything is explained in their site at http://www.malaysianartistesforunity.info/. Somehow, I think the lyrics in the song reflects the political atmosphere in our country at the moment. I think I shall refrain from commenting anything political; I don’t wanna sit in jail under ISA.

When I heard of this song, I suddenly had a homesick feeling….. Guess it is only natural, cause I do love Malaysia a lot.

“Nobody Listens To Techno”

that’s a quote from Eminem’s earlier song….”without me”….I generally don’t like techno too…i think sometimes techno music is abit tardish…so imma show u guys the finest example of techno-tardish…

PS….i don’t mean to offend techno / electronic music lovers out there…but how can one ‘rave’ to this kinda music??

T.G.I. Friday’s Get Together

last sunday, a few of us made the effort to gather together to celebrate mark’s birthday. the 10 of us met up at adelynn’s place before departin to the curve.

bein the indecisive kind, i leave the dinin venue decision to the rest, and we ended up in tgi friday’s.

the same bunch of us as always, my mind was already on the indiana jones movie which we are to watch later. i wasn’t very hungry at that moment, so the food decision lies on yijun (sittin opposite of me).

decisions, decisions, decisions…

after placin our orders, came the birthday session (the singin, wishin, blowin candles kinda thing). the waiters and waitresses came to our table with birthday cakes, and adelynn suddenly announced mark’s name… plus mine and alwin’s!

o… m… g… this ain’t part of the plan yo >.<”

we were asked to stand on chairs. “what? what about the other customers? aren’t they gonna be lookin at us? do we really need to stand on chairs? i didn’t sign up for this!”

too late. before i knew it, i was on the chair, holdin somethin resemblin a mic, and was asked to sing or give a speech.

owh man, it was an embarrassin moment =(

and it didn’t just end there. after singin and blowin the candles, they started singin/chantin some unknown song which kept us standin on the chairs for a very long time. alwin later asked me if the duration of their song has got anythin to do with the number of people celebratin their birthday (in this case, 3).

when it was finally over, our food was served. some decided to do funny things to it (hopin the portion gets bigger),

get a bite off it,

there are some who just sat still,

while some decided to just pose.

all in all, we had our fun, and before we knew it, it is time for our movie. hey, wait a minute. it’s hard to get me on photos, so here’s one more =P

*indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull spoiler*

by the way, the latest indiana jones movie is really a letdown. i was wonderin, if the crystal skull is magnetic, it should give off a magnetic field. coverin the skull with a cloth would not prevent the magnetic field from occurrin and objects would still be drawn to it even with the cloth over the skull, like it did when it was in the wooden box at the beginnin of the movie.

Careless Chapter 2

Chapter 2

So all 4 inner selves and Mother Goose enter this cave like opening , dark and hollow, and proceeded in quite a merry looking fashion when all of a sudden, they sunk, well more like dropped, into the ground. And if you were to look into what they dropped into, it would be like looking down from the top of a tunneling water slide that goes around. Except that it wasn't water that was causing the flow.
It was more of a stream-like looking bright turquoise flow of something not quite liquid or gas. And this flowed with much grace and gentleness , it actually looked like soft after-feathers constantly growing from the rachis, in an underwater-y way.

So this ride went on for a few minutes, quite comfortably as you may imagine. You could sit down and extend your elbows backwards into a lean while looking up into something shining but dark at the same time, and if I could ever put this shining object into simple words, it would be called, 'the dark side of the sun'.

Mother Goose was sitting down on her sideway-folded legs in a lady-on-a-Sunday-picnic-like way while Naught had her head on her lap chatting about something a mother and daughter might chat about on a Sunday picnic. Work was studying the substance they were riding on and wondered how this could contribute into forming ideas. Conscience was stroking the feathers and humming a praise and worship song while appreciating and being grateful for the comfortable ride. Ego was standing up and looking forward, hands folded, into the distance, looking rather moody and thoughtful.

Then, they all plopped into a standing position and proceeded walking without interruption, as if they weren't aware the ride had ended.

"Well, here we are."said Ego

There was a huge box looking building, having the same measuring characteristics as a standing closed book. Tall and slender on one side and wider on the other.

"So that's the ab then, is it? It doesn't look like a place where you inner selves might bee happy living in, if i say so myself!" said Mother Goose

"We have roomates." conscience innocently mentions. "Well sometimes, at least.

"That's...very nice, conscience darling." coos Mother Goose. "Right then, perhaps we should go in and say hi. It's getting a bit cold out here"

Ego lead the way.

To be continued....