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Episode 2

1st June 2008

*the desire to write flew to nowhere kingdom few days back. so i was at home counting house mites, flee, etc to kill time*

paris: dawn. i woke up sluggishly. "o kamon jamiey, we are in paris, no time for extra sleep" i told myself. so i got myself ready and i put my red dress on. last night, i told everyone to wear something nice today  as we r goin to take lotsa pictures and i wanted everyone to look at her best :p

hafsah since last night was very curious with which one shud her put on. wada in the other hand, had her dresses for 4 days ready to be put on and so did hana. travelling during summer is an advantage because we girls can don colorful dresses without us need a chunky bulky, dull winter coat covering our inner beauty :p

after having a heavy bfast, we walked to the les gressilons train station. while walking in a line, with all of sudden...

"we looked like charlie's angels!" laughter burst in the fresh morning air.

yeah we have self-obsession syndrome n we knew it :p. and because of that, one of us was nearly stepped on faeces that according to hana: it looked like a "cake". 

that was the funniest thing i have ever heard since last few days! omg, i'll be extra careful when hana offers me a cake after this lol

we reached the station and once again, the same problem we faced last night: where do we get the ticket from?

long we stood in front of the ticketing machine. pressing all the buttons that are press-able. but yeah, to no avail. one lady from london was in d same situation so we put all 5 heads together to reach a solution. our mission impossible 2 was then joined by a local lady and her son. eventho she cnt converse in english, she tried her best to help us. so did her son. his green eyes blinked innocently while trying explaining to us how can we get to eiffel tower. merci~

after wasting about 15 mins just to get the tickets from the estupido machine ( and made us missed 2 trains) we decided to just get ourselves into the station since the gate is widely open (because it was sunday!). the local lady promised us to explain to the officer in case there is an inspection in the train later. so we agreed! so 7 of us were partners in crime lol ( did i mention that our horns grew longer in paris? )

before getting off the train, we thanked our partners in crime and made our way to the vending machine illegally tru the same gate that hana used last night. like we care about pple who were looking at us with weird expressions? nay, we were not goin to meet this pple again...so lets just do it! we bought mobilis ticket for zone 1 and 2 and we were free to hop on and off the train as we please for that day. so, this covered the fare this morning ok? basically, the crime did not happen :p

and our 1st destination was La defense, a modern area in paris:

kisah cinta "yg di kejar x dpt, yg di kendong keciciran" :p

me and my gurls~

click here for more photos in La Defense

then we went to sacre coeur, ( click to diverse ur general knowledge :p )

that evening, we took a train to arc de triomphe, another significant landmark of city of light, paris. here is the best shot of me :p

see how dull the building is?

but not when im in! :p

we rushed to the next destination later that evening to a-must-visit attraction in paris: eiffel tower ( aka tour eiffel in french). i remembered watching a documentary on this tower few months back at home and i was excitedly told my mom that i'll be going there one day...

and guess what my mom said?

"ko kan mmg suka kasi hbs duit..." no one knows me inside out but u maa :p

tbantut anganku2 tym tu haha. mom, i was there! see, i spent few hundred euro just to get there and the meaning of fulfilling dreams worth more than that maa. i wished i could share all this sweet moments with my loved ones...all of u! and to u-know-who-u-r, no eiffel tower, but i do have lotsa of eiffel tower pictures :p

since u were not there, look at this photos keh? taken just 4 u :p

* wishing u were here :p *

eiffel alone, we spent almost two hours taking pictures and embracing the beautiful evening in the park nearby. my friends could not stop complaining why she din feel romantic at all haha. 

"because we got stucked here, 4 heartless girls! all kayu " 

"plus, we are all exhausted after 7 hours of walking. non-stop lg tu!" 

haha i bet they were right! d definition of romanticism itself is very subjective. i mean, some cherish this besi buruk as romantic, so what? so girls, we are here not to complain, but to cherish every moment :). im afraid that we r not coming again to this place huhu

then, we headed to musee de lourve, where the well-known The Da Vinci Code film was shot. i attempted to watch the movie 3 times but every time i was "watching" d movie, i'll end up in the world of wonderland haha. but two thumbs up 4 d book! to share the feelings of being there, have a look on these pic :) 

in front of the smaller pyramid

7 pm, we decided to go to place de clichy, where according to kak idza, we can find KFC. and it's halal! omg, the last time i ate kfc was last summer when my uncle generously took me to the restaurant and he said i can eat all i can. muehehe siap tapau lg :p. 

as we climbed the stairs out of the train station, my olfactory receptors and amygdala were stimulated by the strong smell that i recognised as the irresistible smell of KFC cikens! and my parasympathetic system activated my salivary glands to secrete saliva. omg, the temptation of KFC was so strong and our eyes were avidly scanning around to find where did the smell come from.

scanning...20% complete....

50% complete...

100%!

found! KFC restaurant. mission accomplished! 

we felt enlivened! the sweat and exhaustion that withered us just now were blown away by the cold wind of paris. running excitedly towards the restaurant, we ordered ourselves one bucket of cikens..nah gurls, finish em all! haha. 

we were "melantaking", ignoring pple around us. except one of us...her eyes were caught by handsome pak A i heard? sorry but the cikens were more tempting than other hawt guys around that time :p

like starved people from africa who can barely find food to eat, we finished the ciken in no time :p

bukti kerakusan 4 manusia kerdil :p

"gendang gendut tali kecapi kenyang perut sng hati" as d saying goes. packing zinger burgers for lunch tomorrow, we took metro to go back to our hotel and on our way, our eyes once again captured beautiful scenery of this city: sunset! 

eventho my camera could not capture every beautiful moment as good as my eyes, i am grateful that this gadget so called camera was invented. 

and if the snatcher was to grab my belongings, please take my wallet or hp instead of my camera because it has all the sweet memory in it (or at least gimme the memory card before u take the cam from me :p)...and for the memory, we invested hundreds euro eventho it means having our monthly expense reduced...

that night we had good sleep and tomorrow will bring more joy because we r going to disneyland: the happiest place on earth! ( as what the disney characters campaigned )

see u in the next post: episode 3 :) 

tq 4 reading word by word. 

for now: free hugs from me! take care :-*