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continue with my summer vacation, after spain it was Paris ... it was a nite train to Paris so me n stella were looking forward to the first class cabin ... but alas when one is so hopeful abt tings, one is always in for a disappointment ... we were disappointed tt our cabin was realli small n narrow ... rather pathetic, but there is a bed, except tt it realli so cramped out ... n i'm living on the "third" floor, so it realli hard task to carry all my 5 piece luggage onto the top floor ... mine I donno how it started, by the end of the trip, I ended with 5 pieces of luggage which wasn't fun carrying ard ... guess I bought quite a couple of souvenirs for all my frenzs + relatives, cousins but I cld have bought more if i got more $$$, so it was blessing in disguise tt I din hav more $$$ to spend ... in fact I ran out of $$$ later along the trip n hav to borrow frm stella + rachel ... aniwae I was looking forward to Paris ... for 2 reasons ... Pere Lachiase in Paris lies the tomb of Oscar Wilde n Vincent Van Gogh spent a considerable period of his life in Paris... was looking forward to seeing VVG's painting again ... his painting has an effect on many others including me ... it's realli touching ... guess he's one of the painter that paints with such passion that it was impossible to feel it in his works ... I was gg to spend 4 gd days in Paris ... n it was Paris that we pple, me, stella, jayce n pple were gg to meet up with Rachel + yanyi again ... Paris was more than eiffel tower ... but eiffel tower was realli majestic n the view out there were MARvellous .... it was realli windi, so everyone hair were kinda messed up, mine too n my hair has realli grew long ... has been 6 mths since I cut my hair ... my hairdresser told me nt to my cut hair ... n I promised him ... n since tt it has been NO to all kinda of "invitation" to cut my hair ... mb I view promises too seriously ... it's sth tt shd nvr b broken ... the first day in Paris were basically just gg to the eiffel tower + Arc de triomphe ... we have pizza realli late at nite ard 12 am, oso met Vincent n his frenz who juz arrived in Paris... realli glad to meet another frenz frm Singapore ... the nxt day I started my tour with vincent + frenz ... went Louvre Museum, there were too much pple snapping the Mona Lisa fotos ... I donno the fuss abt the painting but it doesn't matter ... Museum de Orsay is realli the BEST museum in Paris ... they have a GD Collection of Impressionists painting including my favourite VVG, so me, Rachel + yanyi spent a couple of hours there ... luckily Rachel oso liked to see painting, if nt it cld b boring gg to the exhibition myself ... always dreamt of doing a lot tings as a kid ... a pilot, lawyer, scientist, artist ... was always inspired by artists in Singapore making landscape painting as a child ... but I just desperately can't draw, guess my right brain is too domineering n I just can't draw ... seriously in my family ... I'm the oni one who hopelessly can't draw ... donno how I get passed my arts lesson ... but I remembered I got top grade for my technical folio becuz I used all sorts of technique to trace the drawing I wanna made, the same for art, the magic of my drawing was in the CARBON PAPER n the copier which enlarged the things I wanted to copy ... seriously my RIGHT BRAIN was doing all the drawing ... so it was pretty hopeless... but I still admired artists ... becuz they could bring beauty our life and delivers special moment to us ... it is memorable and I couldn't describe how touched I was when I finally saw Vincent's 'Starry Night'. Aniwae the third day we went Notre Dame ... another cathedral ... travelling ard Europe ... the first ting abt surviving it is tt u GONNA face each cathedral with a renewed enthusiasm ... n the most difficult ting is tt there r SO MANY CATHEDRAL in the whole of Europe ... everyone was bored ... anyway by Evening time, I finally reached the tomb of Oscar Wilde ... finally after years of reading his works... I finally saw his tomb ... it was a hard time finding the tomb, but it was all worth the hard work, anyway his tomb was realli a work of art... pretty impressive ... aniwae tt nite France lost to Greece in the quarter final ... I was sad ... so were all the French watching at the Hotel de vile ... when Arsenal lost to Chelsea juz mths ago in the UEFA cup quarter final, I was a wretched man ... Rachel + Jane has to console me ... I have to reminding myself the bez team doesn't necessary win ... mb it was easier to get thru all disappointments with this philosophy ... no one liked to lose ... I don like to either ... but it's part n parcel of life. Paris ended with the tour of Versailles ... Stella realli liked it so much ... tt she told me she wld like to visit the plc for her honeymoon ... hoped she cld find her dream guy ... after Paris nxt stop Belgium ... more in the nxt journal...

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