Paris! Paris!

I sorta think Paris is over rated but then again, that could be coz I have no clue how to get around or where to go. It's not as easy as London as you can go to Soho for night life and all the laces of attaraction are so close together. Here, I can't read the maps and the signages and the people are not very friendly. Most say they don'tunderstand you...

I liked walking the Paris streets at night. Less people and the weather was cooler. Saw the lourve and the Arc in twilight and shud be going inside to marvel at the masterpieces either today or tomolo before I head back to London on the 11pm bus which will take about 8 hrs. The trip here was not too bad. Passed real fast and only cost me GBP 52 return.

I hope the weather holds as it is as I didn't bring enough clothes to sweat in : )

I think spending so many days here is making ma lazy as I seem to be getting up later and later. Usually I am up and about by 9am taking in the sights. Irina! Buck UP!!!

It's been boiling and reaching its peak!

Excited!!! That's what my soul has been drumming steadily since I started planning the trip to London first to watch the U2 concert in Wembley and then my own holiday extension. And now, it's reaching boiling point and can hardly keep it in.

But I haven't had the time to even plan my trip so at this current point of time, I have no itinerary from 17 till 24th Aug. Need some ideas...

And to make matters worse, I just remembered I am supposed to be planning Suzen's hen's night for the weekend I get back to KL!! Aarghhh!!! Can I do it all in 1 day??

Paramore's Decode rocks!!

Misc happenings...

It was a long week last week with Flora out of town. A meeting was scheduled with Visit Britain in Singapore on Friday and that saw we getting up at 5am and driving in the dark to the airport as the flight departs 7.50am. Thank god for the radio keeping me awake : )

It was a good meeting with the VB team. At the airport while waiting for Emilia to make the purchases, guess who I saw? Denise Keller, the VJ from Channel V. The first thing that struck me was that she had sooo much make up on. Next we how much of a prima dona she was. She kep compliaining about the duty free bag her purchase was being sealed into and went on and on about the environment. Hello.. You are talking to the wrong people. You shud just write a complaint letter to the airport authorities to get them to reduce or do away with plastic instead of making the sales attendants life hell... Flight was delay 20 mins and arrived in KL at 6pm.

Meet Li Yen and Flora for drinks at Laundry, Curve at 10pm. Bumped into Kok Hoe and his frens as I was leaving at 12am. What a day... Couldn't wait to go home and sleep.

On came Saturday and it was housework and chill time. Did the laundry and basically chilled out at home in front of the telly. Had dinner with sis at Bukit Jalil but had to pick the kids up first from the club. The monsters are so adorable : )

Woke up early Sunday morning to bring Lilo for her refresher classes in Central Park BU at 9.30am. Lilo was not in the mood to pay attention. I was glad when class finally ended. Kumar wants me to be a trainer! I might be able to train my dog but are my methods the ones which I can pass on? Am I good at instructing people? No answers to those questions yet.
As we were running to the car (I had an itchy backside and wanted to let Lilo run yet scared to let her off leash) and I fell... Yup, I fell. My legs had the scrapping of their life and the grass and stones took a good sized chunk of flesh. I had this image of my butt bouncing up and down as the forward momentum kept me sliding forward on the ground.

The damage

So here I am today with a pain in my left leg with scraps and bruises to show when I am in UK. Who would have tot this would happen to me at this date? But I shud have known better. The klut, that's me : ) It was pure luck I managed to avoid much damage in the last 10 yrs...

Adrenaline Gold Coast - Day 3

It's already Thursday 23 July 09!! Wow, does time pass when you are having fun. I was so reluctant to wake up as the gigantic bed I was on kept calling me back to sleep. "Irina... Go back to sleep and snuggle under the fluffy duvet amongst 4 pillows... Sleep..." I was very tempted but I was also looking forward to breakfast at Sage Cafe where we are to meet with racing legend Sir Jack Brabham and his son.The restaurant was very near 1Two3 where we had dinner that first night.

Interior

I ordered the traditional eggs and bacon with a strawberry milk shake. When the bacon and eggs arrived, I was mesmerised. Tne bacon was sooo thick! And it was swimming in oil. *Shudder* The eggs were a little wet and creamy as if they added cheese to it. I didn't really enjoy breakfast too much as the bacon was too salty and oily. It was very difficult to swallow the stuff but Donald tot it was fine and wolfed it all down. A great way to start the day - A cup of creamy strawberry milk shakeMy bacon, eggs and toast

Some other options

Half way thru my food, I suddenly noticed this very cute guy sitting outside being spoon fed by a girl. He was so cute I couldn't resist taking a picture. Actually through out the entire trip, I took so many pictures of cute guys that passed me by. Everytime I whipped out the camera, the guys would all groan as they knew what I was about to do ;Þ

Cute ain't he ;)

Ah, here I am talking about this guys I don't even know, I totally placed Sir Jack on the back burner... He's about 80+ now and hard of hearing but still quick on his toes when it comes to answering questions.

Sir Jack

It was quite cold that morning and after breakfast, we made our way to Southport Surf Club on Suirfer's Paradise for the official launch of the Nitro Super GP by BAM Media.

The V8 HoldenThe V8 Ford

I got bored so went walkabout the area takings random pictures.

Lifeguards

Aborigine troup preforming at the event
They really got people's attention when they came out shaking their booty...
Ms Super GP. She was HOT and tall!

The sun suddenly came out and the temperature went sky high. Luckily it was not humid as I would have been sweating like a BBQ pig. The media were ushered to the beach front as they would be using sky divers to launch the event. They made us stand in the sun for 30 mins before we saw the first bodies falling out of the plane. Quite exciting when I first saw them ; )

It was a proud moment when I made out the Malaysian flag.
Safe landing on the beach front.

The team leader was an old man and he was carrying the biggests flag and executed the best landing. One of them actually landed in the water on his face. I had a good silent laugh the bad girl I am ;Þ

Once that wrapped, everyone adjourned upstairs to the mian area for the speeches, food and drinks. I took more photo's of the cutie hunky drivers as the place were crawling with them.

The Premier of Gold Coast Anna Bligh
was also there to support the event.
The Malaysian A1 car was also on display
which gave us free publicity

But the weird thing was, it was the only car available as the rest was dismantled being cleaned and under maintenance for the upcoming race while the Malaysian can was just sitting there.

The guys interviewed Alan Jones (in the sun mind you) and once the event was done, we were off to Harbour Town for a few hours of shopping bliss. And when that was not enough, John brought us to the Robina Shopping Centre which was huge! I had my worst meal there of fish and chips.

Robina Shopping Centre -
there was too much to see, too little time

We were lucky as today was late night shopping and the shops were open till 9pm. But the guys were tired and all spent out, so we headed back to the hotel about 8.30pm. Daniel was considering a trip to Hooters again but settled for directions there : )

After a blissful bath, I slipped under the covers, turned out the lights and meet slumber for a dreamy romp. Tomorrow's another exciting day - guns....