my camera is spoilt :(
my lappie's touchpad and windows is screwed up :( :(
me no money :( :( :(

whee! back from the UTC gala '06 and with photos aplenty!

it ain't very much like prom in singapore. no 10-course dinner. no round tables. no beauty pageants. but you'd realise that gala just means a HUGE ball, no....party! that's what the french do best. and organization for it was pretty well done eg transport to and from compiegne and chantilly, decorations, event line-ups.

c'était là! la chateau où zidane (oops j'ai tort, c'est RONALDO..merci thiago) s'est marié! haha i wish. it wasn't at the castle, but at the chantilly hippodrome, a horse-riding clubhouse. sighhh.

bad thing was the food, too little, and the queue, so inefficient. furthermore, the weather has turned for the worse..raining so much, so windy then next moment so sunny. and it was rainy that night..how bad can that get.

there were 3 dance halls, 1 for hip hop, 1 for retro/disco and 1 for trance/house. i can't dance anymore :( urgh. i need zouk! i need my hiphop clubbing training! haha. and then there was the fireworks but i was too preoccupied to enjoy it :( and after, i still became too preoccupied to take photos! so i'm not in many of them.

until now.....

BUT it was a wonderful night, cold but full of warmth, high but in good hands, hungry but satisfied.

more photos!!

€6. i'll stick to the book. as is for all movie adaptations. the thrill of reading da vinci code was way more exhilarating..surprising considering one wld expect moving pictures to be more action-packed than words. the beginning went by in such a blur, not leaving any impressions at all, the middle didn't follow closely and the whole story just undermined the whole hooha of the controversy..what a waste. i was looking for jesus and mary magdalene and the dead sea scrolls and the da vinci inventions and the notion of the sacred Feminine.

but the company made up for everything. this evening was a first :P met the americans there as well..blissful blissful blissful heehee. then the next day was followed thru with a nice lunch out, tho it's becoming cold in compiegne again..WHY WHY WHY!

and tonight is the UTC gala! i knew i brought this dress and my heels for a reason haha..hopefully it goes well :) wait up for the photos!

happy mother's day mom, mah-mah & casih :) and hopefully diana soon haha.

visité l'eglise Elim à Paris aujourd'hui! felt so much more at home..the style of worship, the alter call, the songs, the familiar faces, the singaporean accents in the heart of France, the "oh you've grown up christine!" :P feels sooo good..it's actually in chinatown where we go shop for groceries chinoise all the time. what a waste that i didn't go there earlier.

after that went catacombs with lydia. it was during a disease outbreak..dunno what..that they moved the skeletons from the cemeteries ard paris to this quarry-like thing underground.

helloooooo!!!!!! i missed you my dear blog!
c'est dur, les cours. mais maintenant je me repose pour un moment.........un longueeeeeeee moment heheeeee.

je suis allée à budapest avec kaiqi. c'était beau, très beau, non, trop beau!!! i never knew it was part of unesco's world heritage area, says smth bout the place huh. it's cheap in comparison to western europe (peter loke, you're such a cheapskate!)..the opera shows' cheapest tics are bout €1!! you'll nv get that in france. dommage tho, the tics were all sold out when we got to the booth..and we didn't getta see the museum of the roman ruins of Acquincum and we didn't getta go caving under the castle. haha so WHAT did we do?? just see see look look lor and eat like kings. did 2 museum tours of the opera house and heritage museum and went for a thermal bath. shiok bohh.

(1st) fisherman's bastion (2nd) view of parliament house from across the danube (3rd) view of parliament house from fisherman's bastion. sad that my cam can't take night photos well.

the castle district where fisherman's bastion is, is in the old Buda region, on top of that hill thing in (4rd) i'm pouting, yes, cos of smth that idiot said, i can't remember. (5th) history of budapest.

budapest's full of statues too. remnants of narcissistic communist leaders (in statue park) and the like. (1st) st gellert (who the hell is that?) (2nd) statue of anonymus! supposedly a member of the royal court. (3rd) cool statue of a hooded skeleton carrying a head..grinz.

oh yeah, we didn't getta go into the parliament house as well! cos they were filming a movie bout the WW I there, so suay arhh...must be kaiqi lah. see that fake gun smoke and all the extras running away?