paris

finally! having paid a hefty 12 euros for my precious 2 hours of internet connection, it seemed only fitting that i utilize every minute of it. no matter how tired i am! arggh!

paris was great fun - its spiderweb of a metro system allowed me to swing from sightseeing spot to sightseeing spot like a deranged tarzan. only 7 days into the trip and i can walk around the metro lines like a true parisien! haha. it only goes to show how user-friendly the system is, and not my sense of direction.

i must say that parisiens are a friendly lot, despite the bad reputation they have abroad! they were never the steely, cold human beings we often read about, but instead warm and helpful, and sometimes cheeky. begin every encounter with "bon jour / bon soir" and end with a "merci, au revoir" and you are guaranteed a smile back :)

shopping!!

something snapped in me this morning and i entered my deranged shopping mode. so after finishing up a game of table tennis with my dad (i'd say i've improved since the last time i played!), i got into my comfy flats and hit singapore right in the heart(lands).

i thought i'd give town a miss because i was due to meet serena in a few hours. but boy was i surprised to find so much in the new ang mo kio hub. also, i needed to buy a charger for my cellphone as my meecers destroyed the original one.

come to think of it, i should prolly post a picture of my new barang-barang. let me get back to you on that!

photo update

after retrieving visual evidence of what ive been up to for the past few months, i have finally decided to stop facebook surfing and attend to my poor neglected blog.

well, the first thing we did after year 3 finals was to lock ourselves in the anatomy lab and spend a very enriching 6 hours sewing up our cadaver. here's the happy group after completing the seemingly impossible task of rebuilding what we took apart.



and then there was that dark period of our lives in the combined logistics school, where a thorough ban of photos left us with only 2 pics of an in-camp birthday party - which is a pity really, because looking back, those were 4 rather entertaining weeks.


- the girls, celebrating a classmate's birthday, with me behind the camera.


- the cake. Harry birthday indeed!

then there was that memorable day when we took a break from the camp to get our visas done - not forgetting to sample some Coldstone Creamery icecream



without further ado, here's how the (measly) weekends were spent out of camp: