Hey guys!
So here I am finally picking up where I left off, and blogging about the Europe trip =D
So picking up from where I left off, we took a bullet train - Eurostar - from London to
Paris. The nerds in us were really excited to be in a high-speed train! And the even bigger nerds in koko, niko and myself kept thinking of Mr Ong and his Physics tuitions in secondary school xD
It's always one of the first tuition lessons in Form 4, when Mr Ong will teach about motion. In his very cute way, he'll do an action to illustrate "uniform velocity". He'll lift his left arm out horizontally, and he'll sort of fling/wave his right hand in front of his chest, like he's trying to springkle water off his hand. He'll keep doing that while walking sideways towards his left, like he's trying to walk like a crab. Then in a very Mr Ong-ly manner, he'll say something like,
"Wooooooo... Five metres per second, five metres per second. Woooooo... Five metres per second, five metres per second." Hahahahaha! And then his voice will get higher for "acceleration", and lower for "decceleration". I really don't know how to explain all these in words, but every student who has studied under Mr Ong for Physics would understand! hahaha
Anywayyyyyy, away from nerdology, and back to my holidayyyy! :) Since there were tables in the train, and koko brought decks of cards with him, we played gin rummy! =D
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| Train-glass-reflection family picture! :) |
It was actually quite interesting to see the contrast between London and Paris. Even from inside the train, we could see the differences, the main one being GRAFFITI! Paris was fully of graffiti and other drawings all over, some of which were quite interesting, like this one drawn on a "No entry" sign:
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| The man trying to lift the bar up! |
I thought that one was really cute and original, but then some time after that, we saw another one, even more hebat than that one! Or maybe it was the same one, upgraded xD
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| Wings! It grew wings! And there's a small dude on the back tyre of the bicycle xD |
While I didn't really appreciate how little French people smile, I have to admit that the buildings there were really really pretty :) We even got to see Notre Dame! We tried looking for Quasimodo, but nah-uh, no luck xP
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| Notre Dame lompat! |
I think maybe Quasimodo was a bit shy because there were so many people there. Hahaha trust us to find a fictional Disney character in a real place xD
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| Notre Dame family photo! :) |
Of course, we couldn't go all the way to Paris and not see the Eiffel Tower, so we did! And between the 3 of us, we tried to make 3 more shorter Eiffel Towers xD
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| The Eiffel Tower LOMPATTTTT!!!!!! :D |
The Eiffel Tower lompat is my personal favourite so far x)
Walking around that area, I was really surprised to see so many different couples and their photographers taking their wedding photos! There they were, posing in the cold weather, wearing whatever they were wearing! Some were even walking around in wedding dresses! I guess they think it's worth it, though, getting wedding pictures with some nice views. Every time I saw couples having their wedding photos taken, though, I had to resist the urge to run up to them while waving wildly, and applauding them. Ahh the random urges xD
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| Worth getting a cold over? Hmmm... |
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| Eiffel Tower family photo :) |
Oh, and we bought a box of macarons to try too! Final assessment: far too sweet to be eaten on a daily basis. Or anything close to a daily basis =.= They were quite nice to nibble on, though! :)
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| Macarons! Nom nom nom |
Also, as I mentioned at the end of my last post, DISNEYLAND!!!!! One can never ever be too old for Disneyland! :D The day we chose to go there, though, was a National public holiday there, so there were a lot of people there :S
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| Disneyland Paris |
Yayyyy!!! It was a fun place to visit, but it is definitely too big a place to finish in one day, especially with so many other people around!
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| Disneyland lompat! :D |
One thing that was really cute was seeing so many little girls wearing the costumes of all the different Disney princesses x)
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| Mommy! My prince is waiting for me! He's that way! |
Oh, we also saw a pink Disney palace! Did I mention that I live there? Yup, that's my house! I'm not one to brag, though, so I've been keeping it quite low profile :P (hahaha syiok sendiri xD)
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| Niko, dad, mum and koko with my palace in the background |
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| Tadaa! My palace x) |
Wait! Something's not right. It's pink! Oh no!!! The painter got the colours all wrong! I didn't ask my painter to repaint my castle pink! Pink is a terrible colour! I specifically told my painter FUCHSIA COLOUR!!! This is unacceptable! That's it! I'm going to demand a refund and I'm going to fire that painter of mine! Tsk tsk tsk such incompetence! (Still syiok sendiri, lol xD)
After Paris, we went back across the border, and we went to Cambridge. That was nice because we got to meet up with Joshua and Uncle Teik Choon's family :) Joshua showed us around his campus and places aroud there, as well as told us which grass we could step on and which we weren't supposed to. Apparently even grass is divided into first class and second class, and only fellows are allowed to step on the "respectable grass" xD hahahaha!
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| l-r: me, mum, dad, Josh, kor |
To my inexperienced eyes, the "respectable" grass and the grass that can be stepped on all looked exactly the same. I even wanted to try stepping on the grass not to be stepped on, just to see what would happen. But then I thought that I better not, or I might get Joshua kicked out of Cambridge xD
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| l-r: me, mum, niko, Josh, kor |
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| Cambridge put-camera-on-bridge-and-set-timer group photo! x)
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We also visited one of mummy's ex-students and his family :) They were really nice and even prepared us a whole big meal of Chinese food, anticipating that we would miss food we usually eat back home!
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| l-r: me, mummy, Aunty Mei, Uncle Teik Choon, dad, kor
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After Cambridge, we went to Leicester. I'm leaving that till the next post! :)
Okay, and just for fun, here are 2 photos. One has "respectable" grass, and one has "normal" grass. I THINK I remember which is which, but I'm not too sure xDDD
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| Mum and myself in front grass that can be stepped on (I think) xD |
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| Koko and "respectable" grass (I think) xD |
mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
Buh-bye, people!!!
