on my way up the eiffel tower... =p

july 14th. fireworks under? behind? around? the eiffel tower. haha.

lavender!!!! absolutely delicious smell...hee.

a girl from Qatar did this for us (me and Anne-Marie)... =p

géants!!!! =p

an owl in the little zoo at Lille... =p

[Lille] lovely flowers.... everywhere!

my room in Paris... =p

a rose nods welcome...

tralalala....
 
i'm having a crazy week. (ah but lessons start next week).. i have 4 band pracs and 1 concert and 1 audition and 1 lab test this week!! and the latter 3 are on saturday. clash crash bang. argh. can die. and because of this i can't go for homecoming carnival at HC. meaning i won't get to see my classmates. meaning..... waah. cry. argh. what a mess. and i still dunno what to do about the lab test cos it's at the same time as the audition. darnnnnnn.....zzz.
 
i wonder what's wrong with my stomach. i've been paying the toilet too many visits. sighh... why is everything so horrible.
 
never mind, shall go enjoy the before-it-rains cool.

tralalala....
 
i am having a crazy week. technically school has started but bioscience starts lessons next week. BUT i have 4 band pracs and one concert and one audition and one lab test this week!!!! argh. and the latter three are all on saturday. meaning i can't go for the homecoming carnival at HC. meaning i won't get to see my classmates. meaning... darnnnnn... waah..... cry. terrible. clashes clashes clashes... frustrating. =[
 
sitting at home now. a brief respite from the torrent of band pracs...
will upload some pics here later...
my stomach has been horrible these few days (ie i've been going to toilet like anything)... ugh. can die. i didn't eat anything weird what. hmph. why is everything so horrible?!
 
yesterday i almost cried during band prac. out of frustration i guess. cos i can't seem to be in tune with people. lionel later told me it wasn't me but them who weren't in tune... bleurgh.
 
shall go enjoy the before-rain cool. ciao.

okok... for those of you worried about my silence, i'm back. it's official. :p
bleah. unfortch i can't put any photos up yet cos i'm still mad at my laptop. (cold war) and band prac 2 days in a row (with 2 more to come) is killing me... too tired to think of anything interesting to say right now. the (delayed) commentary for the france trip will come a beet later. after i've gotten enough sleep. yup. zzzzz...

yet another mass of rubbish from me...
 
tomorrow begins the last day and a half in france.
we have the day free tomorrow, will probably try to buy all the things i need to buy then. i haven't spent much money yet, mostly because the days are  so packed with tiring activities that we can't do much after that. plus most shops here close at 8. unless in the city centre. i'll try to go visit a museum tomorrow. (Orsay!) coming home without having been in a museum seems a little sad doesn't it? hmmm.
 
well, i can't wait to get home so i can blog about everything before my brain explodes... sigh... well yesterday was interesting enough, in an unimaginable kind of way. sort of. had reception with the minister of foreign affairs in the garden of the ministry. heh. exciting, i tell you. then we discovered that the singpore ambassador was there too! what a shock. yeah, so we had a nice talk in singaporean english, a talk which included chicken rice and roti prata (he's indian) and passports and how to become an ambassador. he was a bit excited to hear i'm studying life sciences. hmmm. :p so exciting. wow.
 
hmmm i shall catch up on my writing later. since i have an evening free. heh. i'm days and days behind... have been too tired and sleepy to write. so before my brain forgets..... or maybe i'll go hug the eiffel tower. all on my own. hmmmm solitude is tempting. since sunset is at 10:30 pm..
 
japanese ppl are nice and cute.. haha.
many people are having affairs, though. but not me. bleh. i suppose it's good cos it's a no strings attached thing. after 10 days it'll all be over. unless there's an accident. haha. ah well... it's foreign and it's simple and it's not emotionally taxing and it's paris and.... mwahaha.... shall figure it out. food for thought. but i'm not surprised at all. blaah.
 
lynette: i bot you your eiffel tower.... dun nag.
 
zilthe: you have really scary dreams. dun worry i won't snatch jh away from you. =p
 
see you in singapore! =p
 

PARIS!!!!!

i'm sitting in a little poste d'internet now struggling with the typing cos the keyboard is soooo different. it's phonetic, meaning it's easy to type funny characters but totally imposs for me to get used to in a short time. many letters are in different places as compared to the conventional keyboard. heh.

went to versailles today... it's a huge chateau with immense grounds. there are so many buildings and the garden is so bloody big that it's impossible to finish walking all of the paths in a day. Louis XIV had to draw up an itinerary to visit his garden bit by bit. so drama. but it's so cool! am in shock now... ahhhh... going Bastilles later (21h30) for a dance thingy. like a little party i suppose. just go looksee. blah..

will get to see la tour eiffel tmr!!!!! along with the other great monuments in Paris... like the arc de triomphe, la louvre, blah blah.... and tmr's 14 july!!!!! my group very lucky huh.... (cos we're split up into 4 groups taking turns to do each activity....) and there's gonna be a military parade tmr morning at the champs elysees!!!! so exciting. lalalalala take another 300 pictures... hahaha

woohoo! haha just felt like doing that. during the first few days here i hardly said anything cos everybody's french was so damn good and i really suck lah. so sad right. hmph. but it gets better i suppose. must practise practise practise!!! hmmm. sigh. i'm so demoralised now. hmmm. have resolved to speak french to myself everyday when i get home... i'm coming home on sunday! hmmm. dun miss me too much people. =p

*a bit hyper*

after days of struggling with the stupid comp and the stupid connection, here i am again.. and just in time too; i'm leaving for France soon!!! hahah. as in real soon, like in a few hours. bleh. sooo exciting. waah. i feel so unprepared. dunno what to expect. wat if i can't understand anyone there? hmmm. so scary. for a person who's as "shy" as me, that is. (i don't care if you disagree, i'm a introvert) lalala. not sure whether i packed adequately... sighz.. hmm i'll try to get my hands on some comp while i'm there. if not then too bad loh. but that will be very sad. hmmm. hope the weather'll be fine! so i can take loads and loads of photos.... mwahahahahaa. i'm so excited now. erm. yeah. haha. hope i don't get so nervous i have to keep going toilet later. =p don't miss me peeps! seeya when i get back! bleh.
must remember to get eiffel tower (replica) for lynette, pics of cute (?) guys for aminah.....

*hums [the seventh night of july]*

boinggggg.

lalala...

birthdays are just normal days aren't they? hmmm... there's nothing extra special about birthday except that one has the excuse to have fun fun fun that day. and fun i had. =p went cycling (again... but i don't seem to get tired of it ever) watched Spidey 2 (exciting movie ah.. not bad lah) fed mosquitoes (forgot the repellent) ... had lots of fun. yay. now i have achy calf muscles cos of the headwind encountered while cycling. madness. headwind! ridiculous. =p a bout of westerlie mischief. haha. and it rained for a bit too. was quite heavy for a while, but soon let up. so i didn't get very wet. the dumb dumb weather ruined my plan of getting wet playing in seawater though. so sad. hmph. but still, it was a nice nice day. heh. please go watch Spidey 2. (maybe if i say that enough times i'll get paid or the publicity) =p

went out with Amy (Ahmeeee!!) today.. we had lunch then walked around a bit. Orchard is such a boring place, but where else? hmmm. for convenience's sakes. heh. Amy gave me a nice box of nice chocs! so exciting. thanks dear. i'll never lose any weight at this rate. sigh... but who cares. yummy yummy chocs... yummy mango citrus frapp too... *slurp*

shall go recuperate from my insect bites. sigh...