Breakfast But Not At Tiffany's!

With the ringing of the alarm at the strike of 730 from the mobile phone, i woke up unwillingly and with a look on my face that says "DO NOT EVEN THINK OF TALKING TO ME!". And then i wore my sweater and walked down the stairs to the kitchen, still grumbling. Yes, i am no a morning person!

What am i doing up so early in the morning? Well i was asked of a very sacred task, ie to prepare breakfast.

Yep, breakfast is very important. Everyone should have breakfast and it should be something healthy. I remember when i was younger, i woke up just like how i still am, prepared myself to dress in my school uniforms, hopped into the bus, then i will fall asleep until the bus halted in front of the school. There was no breakfast for me. Unless of course it was an exam day. Only then my mother will prepare me with fried bacon and eggs or sometimes, instant noodle one sausage and 2 eggs, to symbolize getting 100% in my exam. So i have never have the luxury of having healthy breakfast since young. When i started work, i still woke up grumbling from not enough of beauty sleep, and promising to myself that i will "definitely" sleep earlier the following night ( only to break the promise and have the cycle viciously repeating itself every single day), and oh ya no breakfast as well. My routine will be getting myself a hot cup of coffee to be sipped along while i busy trying to cut my way through in the early morning rush, or a cup of coffee with me sitting in front of the pc with a few biscuits to kick start my morning. That's all!

So now, given this new sacred task, i accepted it happily but only to grumble on it every single morning and thinking of how cruel my partner is to have me waking up so early! Why cant he prepares his own breakfast? Just a simple piece of bread spread with tuna or margarine! It is not like he used to have breakfast in Malaysia too! How cruel he is to have me wake up! What if i cant get back to sleep after he leaves the house? He is now turning into a BIG man...... these will be all the grumbles that will flash through my mind every single day, from the moment i stepped down from the bed, to the moment i enter the kitchen.

But then once i am in the kitchen and turn on the gas to heat up water for a warm cup of cuppa, all these grumbling will disappeared. And i will be there, cutting the edges of the breads, spreading margarine and tuna on breads, cooking noodles, not with a smile on my face though ( I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON STILL), but more willingly. And it is not what i prepared for breakfast that makes him happy, it is the mere act of me getting up to prepare even just a simple bread with butter that makes him having the sense of togetherness. And when KC leaves for the office with a contented smile on his face and a satisfied stomach, i know that it is this moment that will always beats the grumbling and makes all the early mornings well worth.

Of course, tomorrow morning if you see me again, i will still have the DO NOT EVEN THINK OF TALKING TO ME LOOK. Somehow, who am i to change this look that has been with me since my schooling day?

Go Away You Evil!

Before i came to Oran, i was constantly under gastric attacks when i was in Beirut. The worst attack was so severe that i was admitted to the emergency room of John Hopkins Hospital. Luckily when i came to Oran,  there was not a single case of gastric attack. I give all credos to changing eating habit to be healthier as well as the drop in my "constantly missing-someone" meter.

And i was wrong!

Out of nowhere and without any waring, i had a really bad gastric attack for the last 2 days. I woke up in the morning and was hit by gastric so hard that i could barely walk. So i spent the whole day in bed for the whole morning till noon and was swallowing lots of gastric medicines. The worst part was KC was asked to travel to Algers in last minutes and i was alone in the house, taking care of myself. Thank God that when i was awake in the afternoon, the gastric mellowed down but i still had constant stomach bloating as well as feeling nausea. So i spent the whole day taking in little food but constantly, and taking medicines after each meal. The medicines also made me feeling tired all the time. Ended up i slept by 9pm yesterday until about 3pm today.

Phew! No more gastric for now but am still making my best to eat the proper food. And KC will not be back until 10pm tonight. So i will still be alone in this house and have to think of what to eat for dinner. Sigh.... this makes me miss Cofi more. Ya of course i know she cant do anything to help me when gastric attacks me but hey it is always good to have someone around when you were sick. Even when that someone is a dog!

And this episode has sort of reduces my energy level as well as my positive mind too. I think i need to go back to reading my the little things in life entry. Am feeling a little depress.....

Blogging

One of my ex colleague from LG had recently launched her new blog, after being inspired and being told by friends that blogging is easy, and that blogging will bring a better life, she started hers. So when she had her blog up, she announced it happily to the world of FB and has gotten lots of comments and words of encouragements from them. This is her blog which titled "Blog with Miee". I personally thought the photos on the problem with merger was rather funny!

And for some reason, when i saw the words of encouragement written by Mike, i too left my comment to the treat telling her that my blog was inspired by Mike too. It was just an honest comment from me. Then today when i checked on FB again, i saw what Mike wrote. He said that he was really touched by what me and Seow had said and had decided to blog about us in his blog - "Mikemmery". Reading his blog put a smile on my face. It is strange that we could even becomes friends. When i briefly joined LG a couple of years back, Mike was gone after a few days i joined. My first memory of him is that he looked very serious and he has very strong principles and opinions on things and people, and he still is. Honestly i was a bit taken aback by him, or i was rather afraid of him. I tended to choose my words carefully when i speak to him because i was afraid of stepping on his toes. Then he was gone. Somehow i got to know that he has a blog and i began following on his blog. Day after day, without fail, i will check on his blog just to read things that are happening around him, even till today. In his blog, he wrote about all his happiness and despairs. I am not a person who will drop comments but whenever he blogged on his sadness and disappointments, i have the urge to just talk to him and listen to him. And vice versa, he will listen to me, consoled me, and once when i shared a great news with him, he even blogged about it. He never mentioned my name in that entry but i knew for sure it was for me. That is how sweet Mike is. We have never came out and chatted over a cup of tea. It is mostly via Internet. But the strange thing is, we connected through the Internet and we can just "talk" like old friends. Even till now. Somehow he is like a good friend to me and i missed not knowing him earlier! Now that he has decided to venture on his own business and getting someone new in life, i feel really excited for him and i am sure the girl whom he goes for will be the luckiest person in the world. I kid you not!

Ok back to his post. After reading his post on me and Miss Seow, there was a smile on me but little do i understand why he was so touched, until i read a comment Miss Seow wrote on my FB. The mere knowledge that she was inspired by my blog and had read through them till wee hours at night warmth my heart. And then suddenly i understood why Mike was so touched. I think it is not so much on how much we blogged or how interesting we show our life is via blogging. It is the instance of knowing that someone was inspired by me just by reading my stories has magically touches my heart. It is like how happy a writer will be just by knowing that there is someone out there who was touched by what was written, even when there is only one of them. And i am sure Mike was even more touched because he knows now that there will always be 2 blogs out there that were a result from reading his blog, and finally understanding the reasons to blog and had started to blog. And Mike, my blog is one of the many legacies you made in the blogging world.

No Longer At The Wrong Side Of My Bed...

Woke up in the afternoon today and was feeling great. All because i dreamt of my house in KL and in the dream, i saw myself playing with Cofi and sleeping in my very own sweet bed. It felt like i was in KL. The dream was so vivid! I opened my eyes and saw the Arabic deco in the ceiling of my Oran room and only then i realised i was still in Oran. But nonetheless, it was still a great dream and definitely an energy booster!

Waiting to go for a taste of Indian food later in the evening and might even have the chance to visit the ice cream house in oran city before the weather gets too cold for ice cream. I was told that the ice cream house is situated next to the beach and hence i am sure the scenery will be awesome.

After waking up from the wrong side of my bed yesterday and had a terrible day started off with an argument with my partner, today thankfully is a great one with lots of great news. Besides the awesome dream and also the anticipation to visit new places and taste new food later, i received good news on my year end travel plan as well. Will be spending Christmas outside the country and this time with my family as well. We are planning to visit more countries this time. Still in planning stage thought but i am all hyped up by it already. The best part is, will be doing a detour to Paris again this time! Yeppy! Another great news is a dear friend of mine has finally found the perfect one and they will be getting marry next year. How wonderful and sweet. Am really happy for him to finally, found the right one and a partner who loves him more than all his exes. And this has added more reasons for me to be merry today. Life is great at bringing us wonderful news all the time. hehe..

So much for now. Crossing my finger that tonight i will be having another great dream again.

The Western Chef

Since my life here in Oran is getting bored, i decided to venture myself into western cooking and be a Western Chef wanna-be for a day. I have no idea how to cook a decent beef meal. All i have is only vague pictures in my mind of how a western meal should look like, from all the dining experiences i have all these years. So i decided to just use whatever sauces i have for marinating and seasoning of the meal. And all i have were are these:

After marinating the beef with Lea and Perry sauce, a little salt and a lot of hearbs, i let the meat settle for a couple of hours. 

Sliced carrot to be steamed later with a little salt to season.

Sliced potatoes to be fried later.

A canned of mushrooms to be partly steamed together with the carrots, and the other half to be fried and add with sauces.

So after getting all the ingredients ready, i started cooking by 530 pm. Simultaneously i did the following alone! That was really a challenge!

Frying the beef in a pan....while watching the fire to make sure that i will not overcooked the meat..

Frying the potatoes in another pan and also steaming the vegetables in another pan...

And finally preparing the sauce by frying the mushrooms, then add some salt, lea and perry, herbs and corn flour to thicken the water..

And after 30 minutes of constant challenge and sweat, viola! The final product!

Placement of the food trying to imitate those from the restaurant. Haha

A very happy KC enjoying his meal.

The verdict? It was good for a first time trial! Even me, a non beef lover finished my portion. And because of this success, i am asked to cook grilled mutton tonight. We will see how it goes!

The Little Things in Life

After the exciting trip i had to France, life had gone back to its simple and plain style again. Nothing much for me to look forward to each day and each day will passed just like the day before. Sometimes i will be sitting in front of my Mac and wondering what to do next. Sometimes i will just sit and day dream and before i know it, a day has passed. Today as usual, i woke up to a plain day. I looked outside the window and saw how beautiful the day is. Today the weather is chilly, with light cold breeze blowing into the house occasionally and the sun was hiding shyly behind the clouds most of the time. It is a day like this that makes me realised how great life can be from all the little things in life, and i am grateful of these little things:

• Am grateful to be able to enjoy the aroma of my coffee, sipping the bitterness of it and warming my hands over the warmth of the cup,
• Am grateful how wonderful the weather can be,
• Am grateful how life is constantly bringing me surprises, even as small as a comment from my dear friend for the comment was so close to my heart
• Am grateful that my heart was touched by the comment and happy tears came flowing from my eyes,
• Am grateful that life is treating me well for i have loves in me,
• Am grateful that life also introduced me to a lot of great friends and they have taught me things that otherwise i would have just not realised,
• Am grateful that Cofi came into my life and lighted up my life,
• Am grateful that i have not been through really really unfortunate events in my life, and that my family members are still healthy and happy,
• Am grateful that life also introduced new family members to me and showed me that love is more than just blood-ties,
• Am grateful to learn that all human has flaws and it is up to us to choose only to see the strengths and lovely side of them,
• Am grateful that i am still not too old to learn that, 
• Am grateful that life has also given me a great partner whom has always been there for me, and every ready to give me everything he could,
• Am grateful that there is music in this world to make it a more beautiful place,
• Am grateful that life makes me realised all these today and given me the chance to write them down as a reminder whenever i doubt my life in the future,
• But most grateful of all, i am happy and know how lucky i am to still have many more years to come and still be grateful to all these little things,
• And i am grateful that i will able to still add more of these little things to my list.

All i have to remind myself is whenever i am in doubts or despairs, just come back here and re-read this entry again. And because if this, i will learn to appreciate my life more.

* I "stole" this from my friend's blog. I hope he doesnt mind. Wink!*

A Dedication to My Greatest Guru - Miss Lynn

I had my first job as a marketing executive in the year 2003 for a company that specialized in point-of-sales system, or in short cash registered machine but with higher technology. It was fun, mainly because i was young and everything in the marketing field is new to me. I was like a clean sponge ready to absorb as much as i could. The company was great as well, with great people who are always willing to teach and help and it was like a big family. I was lucky to be able to join this marvelous company and family.

But the person whom i think made the longest lasting impact on me was my then VP of Marketing and Communications. Her name is Lynette and somehow i am not sure why i always called her Miss Lynn when i could just called her Lynn. It had became a habit that i cant kick off. I still remember the first time i saw Lynn, she was smiling at me and her eyes were examining me from top to bottom then bottom top again. I was afraid! Plus with all the scary stories that i have heard of Lady Bosses, i was highly defensive and protective of myself. I thought Lynn will be one of those monster bosses in the movies.

But Lynn is the best boss to work with ever. After her, i could not have another better boss. Of course i have met some nice bosses along the way but each time i will compare them with Lynn, and somehow no one could outshine her. I still remember when she came to me with a report i gave her. In the report, she circled all the mistakes i have done. They were not big mistakes though. The mistakes were like a comma here, a full stop there, a big cap along the way or even the alignments of both sides. She was that critical and she told me that she is a perfectionist! I was totally caught off guard! Of course i changed the mistakes but i could not buy into her saying of being perfect when it comes to Marketing. Then years passed and i have left the company and it is during those time that i saw what she had been trying to teach me and instill in me. In the Marketing world, ever single mistake means a lot. And because of her, i have learnt to scrutinize those mistakes as well in my work and also in others. And because of her, i am a better Marketing person.

She was also the one who had given me the confidence to organize a small scale business convention. It was through her that i learned how to communicate with the various media owners, how to mail merged, how to work with the various suppliers for our marketing department, and also learned to take up responsibilities and admit my wrong doings when things gone wrong, and how to do the right things again.

Lynn is also more than a boss to me. She is more like my mentor. I remembered i went through a very rough patch of my life when i was still working with her. After telling her what happened, i thought she might just react like most people did, simply by asking if there is something she can help and then she will just disappeared on me. But she didint. She really did help a lot. She was the one who let me off the office when the urgency needed me and helped me explained to the management. She was the one who came to me constantly during that time just to check on me that everything is still fine. And even when i wanted to leave the company, she was the one who let me off for a couple of hours so that i could go for interviews. She was also the one who came out and sat down over a dinner with me and listened patiently when i whined about my life later on and when i doubted myself. She was the one who taught me how to see things in a positive note and how to be stronger when faced with problems. And the last day when i left the company, i was in tears to much that she thought something was very wrong in my life and tried so hard to console me but unavail. All because i just shook my head and told her nothing is wrong but i never told her the real reason for my crying so much was i felt as if i am leaving a great boss and mentor. I never have the gut to tell her that.

After i left the company, we didnt really keep in touch that much but deep down in my heart, i often miss her and remembers the things that she have taught me. The worst of me is that when i went India few years back, i bought her a very nice bracelet which is still with me even to now! I swear i must give it to her the next time i go back to Malaysia.

Miss Lynn, maybe i have not told you this before but i really want to thank you for everything that you have done for me and everything that you have taught me. It is you whom had help me through the rough patch and made me a better person now. Thank you very much.

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UPDATES:
When i posted this entry, all i wanted to do was to tell Miss Lynn how appreciative i am towards her and also tell her the little secret as to why i was crying so much when i left the company. I never expect any returns from her. I checked my email today and saw a wonderful and very very touching comment from her. I was moved to tears as well. And she as usual, was almost late for her appointment. *wink*. 
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Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Today is the 1st day of Hari Raya Aidilfitri for all the Muslim friends. As usual the very heartwarming Jawad and his family brought us some lovely pastries.

 

Thanks so much. Wishing everyone a very happy Hari Raya Aidilfitri and a lovely holidays too!

Last Day in Paris - American Breakfast, The Louvre, Moulin Rouge and Rainbows!

We woke up early in the morning and and prepared to spend our whole day in The Louvre. From the hotel, we took a 15 mins walk to The Louvre just to enjoy the nice morning weather. It was about 930am in the morning and nothing was open, not even any cafes of restaurants that we could grab a bite. Just when we were about to give up and thought we have to wait for lunch and eat inside The Louvre, we found one! Happily we went in and ordered American breakfast! It wasnt cheap though, total bill came up to about 50 USD but it was a lovely breakfast with eggs, ham, croissant, fruits, yogurt, salad, orange juice and tea or coffee. We then asked the waiter on the direction to walk to The Louvre. Since we did not pronounce it properly, we ended saying "The Love" instead and the waiter laughed so loud! He even taught us to pronounced it properly. So embarrassing!

5 more minutes walk from the restaurant and we were at the front of the Louvre! It was a palace turned museum hence it was really big! We were so excited and we could not wait to get into the museum. Of course we did what other tourists did by snapping pictures of ourself before we enter the museum. Must get some pictures of the ever so famous glass pyramid right?

       

The Louvre, not the love! hahaha

The entrance. Packed!

It is only once you get into the Louvre that you need to buy the tickets. If we were to follow a 2 hours guided trip, it would have cost us about USD 200 together. But now that we have chosen to walk on ourselves, together with the tickets and the audio guided aid, the total was only USD 60 for both and we could just take as long as we want! So we started off our first guided tour by choosing the "Master Piece" that has made The Louvre so famous! The good thing about the audio guided aid is that we could stop anytime we want, repeat anytime and as many times, we could even change the tours anytime we want. The best part is there is these 4 digit numbers on some really important pieces throughout the museum and if we are interested, we could just key in the numbers and then we could listen to the history of the piece, how it was found, what were the style or technique used and etc... Ok back to the "Master Piece" tour. We were guided to walk around starting from the Sillus Wing and the tour ended with Mona Lisa. Here are some photos of it. Apparently Mona Lisa was bought by Louise V from Da Vincci when he asked Da Vincci to come over to France to help do some portrait. It was not that well known initially but when it was stolen from the museum sometime ago, it was widely published and hence created the hype and the popularity of the painting. Well it is still very popular because the people who queued up just to see the painting was long and there were 2 guards there just to protect the painting. Another major attraction was the painting on the last wedding dinner for Jesus. It was huge! And accordingly the painting was to show the ancient strata hierarchy where the royalties were sitting on the right of Jesus and on the left were the commoners. Jesus attended this last wedding dinner together with Virgin Mary before he was crucified. How sad.

        

      Mona Lisa. Her eyes follows you everywhere you go!

The Wedding Feast At Cana.

The Winged Victory of Samothrace

                                   The Venus of Milo

   

After the 45 minutes Master Piece tour, we then took on the Ancient Ruins Tour where we were introduced histories on the Mesopotamia, The Myan, Ancient Greek, Rome and others. We were rather excited initially but then about 1/3 down the tour we were overwhelmed with information and our legs were aching again! So at the end we ended sitting on benches available in between rooms and listened to the audio and just watched the piece from far away. By the time we finished this tour, it was already 4pm. We have spent altogether 6 hours in the museum yet we have only managed to cover only 1/4 of everything. We ended our trip by entering into Napoleon's Chamber and went for some shopping spree at the souvenir shop. The best souvenir i bought was a box of dvds on The Louvre with 3D animated tours. So i got to continue my visit even in Oran. But the truth is if I have the chance to go back to Paris again, I will definitely spend at least 3 days just on The Louvre alone because there were so much to see. 

       

 The dining room.. Napoleon had so many guests??

       

All these once belonged to the famous Napoleon III. All the majestic decorations were intended to amazed the visitors!

The Louvre closed at 5pm and we left and went back to the hotel. We have another night trip around Paris by 9pm and then will end our tour by watching the ever famous show from Moulin Rouge. So we got prepared and went to the gathering point again but this time around we were not the last anymore. And we got some really good pics as well. Yeppy! Then we were ferried to the Moulin Rouge where we had to queue and waited for 30 minutes before we were allowed to get into the theatre. We were not allowed to snap pictures too and our cameras were safe kept the moment we enter the entrance. Basically the theatre is a not that big but with lots of tables that could accommodate 1000 people. Each table will be shared by either 4 or 6 people with a bottle of champagne. The performance of Mouline Rouge was interesting. We have very fit and sexy gals dancing naked (upper part) most of the time, we have a very funny puppet show, magic, ponies, Cancan dances and others. The whole show lasted 2 hours but there was never a moment of boredom.  By the time we finished, it was already 2am and the coach ferried us back to our hotel.

Candles are constantly burning at the bottom of the Arch to remember the victims of war.

Eiffel Tower with its normal lights.

Eiffel Tower with its light show. Too bad I cant capture the glittering.

The next day, we checked out by 10am to catch the shuttle bus. And from then on for the next 8 hours, we were checking in and out from Paris CDG airport to Lyon  airport to Algeria airport. By the time we reached Oran it was already 7pm and it was raining! Arggh!!! But then because of the rain, i saw the brightest and biggest 2 rainbows ever! Starting from the Mediterranean Sea. What a great way to end our trip!

These are really nice. Very famous dessert in France. Cost about USD 2 per piece! Yum yum! Crunchy when bit but melts in your mouth.

Paris Day 1 - One of those really bad days!

Paris! I am in Paris! Yeppy!!!

 

The chaotic airport train terminal.

The flight from Lyon to Paris was only a short one hour flight. After the expensive experience we had in Lyon, we decided to venture ourselves with Paris Metro to get to our hotel. It was cheap! Just a mere 8 Usd per pax but it was hell! From CGD airport, we went to information counters to ask how and where to board or un-board stations in order to get to our hotel but we were given different information at different counters! In the end, we had to take a map and call up the hotel to get the most accurate information and then we were set to go. It took us more than 1 hour to get to the hotel. It took us 2 different stops and different metro lines altogether. The worst part was we have to climb the flights of stairs whenever we changed lines with a heavy suitcase. Of course i cant complaint because i wasnt the one handling the suitcase but nonetheless, it was still a very tiring experience. Unlike Lyon where pubic transports are new and city is clean, Paris is the opposite entirely! The metro was dirty with gratifies, the tunnels were slightly dark and the city is filthy with litters too. It must have been one of those "bad days' that we both had because after which we reached our station, we called up the hotel again to ask the right direction to walk to. Somehow we went back and forth the same street for 30 minutes but could not find the right one to turn into. The maps and directions on the local shelters were as confusing as well! And by then both of us were stressed out. Fortunately, we managed to find the hotel at last. Can you believe it that if we have gotten the right way in the first place it would have only took us 3 mins walking time??? Even the hotel staff who answered the phone earlier asked us what happened. We were too tired to answer him.

By the time we put our bags down, it was already 2pm. We landed in the airport at 11am. There went our precious 3 hours for nothing. Since i have booked a local sight seeing tour at 3pm, we have to rush to the gathering point. Hungry and stressed, we rushed to the metro again but this time luckily, we got the right lines and we were at our meeting point by 240pm. The worst was we were so hungry! So we quickly went into the nearest cafe and ordered for food. I wonder if it was our luck or was it because we were in Paris. The service was really bad! We have to hail the waiter for at least 4 times before he came to give us the menu and another couple of times before he came to order. When the food arrived, we had less than 10 mins to swallow our food! Stress! At the end, we didnt finished our food but have to rush and pay the bill and rush to the bus to start our tour.

We were told that we were the last to get onboard. And because of that we have to sit separately since everyone else have already seated. Both of us got the aisle seat and hence it was really difficult for me to snap any good pictures. And since we were so tired from all the rushing, i fell asleep 10 mins after the tour started and so did KC. When i woke up again, it was almost to the end of the tour. Money wasted on sleeping! Argggh!

Please tuned into channel 5 for English translation.

A gift from the ancient Egypt to Louise XXI (i think)..

The Arch where all the victims of the world war will always be remembered.

Our final stop for the coach tour stopped at Eiffel Tower. It was an awesome view because the Eiffel Tower is really a gigantic metal and it was so tall! It is so difficult to snap the whole of Eiffel Tower with camera. And the queue to get in was really long as well! I was freezing because Eiffel Tower is situated next to the River and the wind was blowing heavily. Luckily for the tour, we managed to cut the queue and was in the base of the tower waiting to catch the next lift up to the 2nd level of the tower, which is about 80 sum stories high (i think, i cant remember). And this reminded me of the movie "Sleepless in Seattle" when Tom Hanks met Meg Ryan there at night in the last scene. If i were them, i would have been freeze to death! What doesnt make sense is because the queue to get into Eiffel Tower is always long, so what makes both of them being able to be there at the exact time? If so they must have gotten into the tower like 5 hours before? hahaha. There goes a romantic movie for me. Anyway were were so awed by the views. And we had ice creams too! Hahahh to add to the coldness in us but it was fun. At the end i was feeling a little shaky and had to go down. Once we were down, we just sat at the grass and did some people watching.

It says "Beware of pickpockets!"

Those selling illegal souvenirs. They ran away when the cops came in bikes.

Cofi will love France! Her kinds everywhere... Eiffel Tower, Train, Bus, Cruise, Toilet.....

After that we proceeded to the cruise tour (ya another cruise tour). Since Paris is a famous tourist attraction and i bet every month there must be thousands of visitors doing the same thing like us, the cruise company had came out with a very comprehensive translations guide. All we have to do is to pick up the handset at the side of our seat, which look like a huge sqare telephone handset, tune to whatever channel we want to listen in ( English is in channel 2) and just listen to the translated guide. It was awesome! Along the way we saw a lot of cruises, big and small, turned into restaurants. We even saw a few having wedding ceremony as well. Isnt that romantic? A great way to get married! The whole cruise will take us passing by the Louvre, Notre Dame and others significant places which i have long forgotten by now. And the best thing from the cruise was being able to snap the whole Eiffel Tower finally. The Eiffel Tower was glittering when i took the shot from the sunshine of the sun set....

What a great view to end the day.. glittering view of Eiffel Tower.