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Friday, September 08, 2006

Reporting (a)live from Paris

 

At last, I get to log into blogger!


My third day in Paris, and after much 'ordeal', I managed to get my internet connection up. Anyway, that's just a straw in the entire haystack.





Day 1 in Europe


A few minutes before touching down at Paris, I was sitting up in my seat looking at the dawning sky through the window of the plane, wondering if I would be able to catch a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower.

"See that tall structure over there?" The Australian lady beside me pointed, "That's the Eiffel Tower."

So it is.

I followed the stream of passengers out of the plane to collect my luggage. Not long after I've set foot on Charles de Gaulle Airport, I had a pretty good idea why Singapore managed to hold onto the honour of having the best internation airport for so many years. I least expect a city like Paris to have an airport wasn't beautified in any way, to say the least.

And not forgetting the complicated network of travellators within which reminded me of the moving stairways of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series.

There was someone waiting to pick us up and bring us to the office. Yes, you got it. We were going to work right away, and we had to find our own way back to our apartment afterwards.

The weather was excellent when we arrived at Paris - the sky was blue and cloudless, temperature was nice and cooling and extremely comfortable even though I wore my thicker-than-usual T-shirt. It was a good start.

I didn't want to whine like a spoilt brat (which is what I'm doing now) and thus told myself this is a good training to become more independent. However, lugging more than 20 kilograms of luggage and dashing 50 metres after a bus was more like training for a SAF Physical Training Instructor than a product design engineer. And there was still another kilometre or so to travel before we reached our apartment.

It was a good thing I downloaded Google Earth and studied the map of Paris before I went over. The extravagantly unique architecture of each building in Paris allowed me to recognise where I was rather easily. I could locate my apartment without any difficulty.

The apartment was pretty good, bigger than I had expected but it seemed that the place was just reworked - the smell of paint filled up the entire room and dust smothered the floors and shelves. It was so bad that even lazy me couldn't stand it and took one of the bath towels provided to wipe the place down.

And thus day 1 ended with me feeling tired, more from the work I did than the jet-lag.



Author's note:

I had initially wanted to blog about things of interest daily (including uploading photos which everyone has been requesting for), but I didn't have the time to do so (note that the blog for the day 1 came 3 days late), nor did I have the luxury of taking photos because I spent most of my evenings shopping for things to cook with my colleague.

Hope to catch up with the time lag as soon as possible. Photos are coming, please be patient.

 

 

Level of response: 2

Blogger Ms Chan started blabbering nonsensically:

Hi Melvin! (This is LIVE from S'pore too!)

Haa, I've just watched "The Devil wears Prada" and in the movie, Paris is sooo nice!!!

Hope you'd enjoy in the midst of all the work!!

Take carez!!!

7:56 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous started blabbering nonsensically:

Yo kid. Glad to see that you are doing well. Take care of yourself over there. Mom and I miss you very much!

9:24 pm  

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