Saturday, September 23, 2006
death by kidney failure in Paris
Friday (2nd day)7:30 AM. Hotel's cold breakfast buffet. I take croissant, chocolate croissant, 2 other pains, muesli with fruits and yoghurt, hams, cheese and a big cup of chocolat. Jon has croissant and coffee and 2 pieces of ham. I am patay-gutom.
Me: Babe, we can make baon some croissant and cheese and have picnic later!!!
Jon: No.
8:30 AM. First view of Place de la Concorde. The Egyptian Obelisk, Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe looming before us.
Me: O diba, ang taray. Meron ba kayo niyan!!!
Jon: Pet-malu! (malupit)
Me: C'mon let's take picture of you with the obelisk!
Jon: No way. They stole that from Egypt.
Tuileries, Louvre, Everything is so big here. And full of Asians taking pictures. The caucasians are still sleeping or having their leisurely breakfasts.
We cross Pont Solferino to look at the Musee d'Orsay. Hovering by the Allegory of Continents -
Me: Bakit kita boobs ng Asia, Africa and Oceania.
Jon: Because we're savages until they came and made us civilized.
WTF.
It starts to rain so we take shelter at a nearby brasserie. They don't have cafe in the menu but we still order it. The bill comes and they are EUR4,60 each. RIP-OFF.
to be cont(TBA)
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Less than 5 hours in Paris and I've already had inappropriate body contact with a frenchman. I like it here. LOL. I'm so hungry. We will get some baguettes, red wine and inihaw na manok dyan sa baba ng hotel muna and will come back for some more stolen wifi connection. Au revoir, merci, s'il vous plait mademoiselle!!!!
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
I didn't know that KC (Concepcion) went to Oxford, did you? And now she's in Paris. So smart and posh. Kapag nakita ko talaga yun, papa-autograph ako.
Friday, September 08, 2006
I wonder why they have to lengthen their last syllable, like
Ohayo Gozaimaaaaaaaaaaaassss
Ii neeeeeeeeeeeeh
Irrashaimaseeeeeeehhh
For the life of me, I can't bring myself to adapt and just give a very brief "ohayo :) ".
Like a German only not nazi. Pero minsan talaga nabibigla ako, bigla na lang may sumisigaw sa harap ko. And I'm like ok, where's my earplugs. Maybe someday this will irk me more than Kris-boses-kiki-Aquino. Which is strange because my voice is as irritating, except when on the phone then it's kinda cute. Is it too late to take voice lessons?
*sigh*
I know I should start practicing some useful phrases or at least researching on how to get from the airport to our hotel. But here I am, wondering about who cares stuff about Japan while looking at some Ikea furniture which will never fit in our tiny apartment anyway. If worse comes to worst, there's always the cab and the reliable hand signals. And of course cramming on the plane. I hate deadlines thank God I'm a housewife.
Oh, can I share? When I'm breaking out, I use the aspirin mask for N consecutive days until it clears out and I start to peel. Then I'd feel normal again (pretty). It's great, feel free to try it. Cheap pa.
aspirin mask:
4 aspirin pills (mercury drug generic ones in bottle)
a tbsp water
Mix, zap for 40 secs until pills melt in water. Let cool. Apply to face (and neck)
This is from MUA by the way which I found when I was still working in ASG. Possibly WITH A DEADLINE.
Ok, ok! I'm off to finish my book! The Historian. It's very good...I'll stop na talaga.