Aihh.. dah 2 minggu tak update blog. Busy busy busy. Sangatlah busy
12 Juin (dimanche)Went cycling in the foret communale de Neuland with Fifi, Irfan and Toh. Saw Toh riding a bike for the first time. We followed a normal route at first but then we took a wrong turn and somewhat got lost. We traced back our tracks and got back to Colmar using the backdoor route, and we saw a living llama sitting peacefully in top of a small hill behind Super U.
13 Juin (lundi)Voltolini memang dengki dengan aku. We did a test last two weeks and today we got the results. I got only 13/20. I admit that i didn't actually answer the third question, the way he wanted it to be answered, but for the other questions, i think i had everything that he wanted, but just because i wrote something extra, that to him 'is not necessary' he didn't give me full mark for those questions. Oh well....
Lucky enough for me.I'll be skipping his afternoon class. Me and Fadhil will be following Bleis and his wife to Paris, to welcome the new PEKOM group tomorrow.
We took the bus to Paris from the IUT at around 2. It took us around 6 hours to reach Paris. We only stopped once at some station out of no where. Sommesous or Soussommes or something like that. I wondered why they didn't take the Autoroute from Strasbourg. But my question was answered a few hours later when Bleis was talking to the driver. He said that even if it's faster, it's longer, so higher fuel consommation (how to spell that again in English?). And also, we have to pay for the Autoroute. He said from Paris to Strasbourg is around 50 euros.I don't understand why to they complain. I mean it's the same amount we pay back in Malaysia from KL to JB. In ringgit of course.
The next sentence can only be said in BM; Kitorang duduk dekat Hyatt.
Yeah we did. Dekat Hyatt. And furthermore it's Premiere Classe. The name says it all. Rather Premier Prix to me (those who live in France should know what does it mean). After a short dissappointment after seeing my room, we went to dinner at the hotel's restaurant. Madame Bleis recommended me to take the Hoki Fish. Which is not bad at all if you neglige the size of the portion. Only a cat can be satisfied with that portion. And the waitress forced me to take a cocktail (non-alcool, bien sur), which was a combinaison of orange, pineapple and grapefruit juice. It was the horriblest drink i've ever tasted. Luckily it was served with ice. At least it could neutralise the taste.
14 Juin (Mardi)Went to the airport at 6.20, they came out at 7 something. Sylvie was there as well. Then we went visiting Paris on bus, we stopped at Trocadero to take pictures of Eiffel, then we went up Eiffel (that makes my third time), We took some pictures and we went to our hotel, or hostel near Saint-Anne Hospital for the Mentally Distirbed people. On the way we saw some hospital personels striking. What an impression for the newcomers eh?
We were joined by Pierron at lunch. Then we went up to our rooms. It was either a room for 4 or a room for 6, of course i took the room for 4. At 3 we went out again to le Musee de Grevin, some sort of Madame Tussaud's in Paris. Some statues were surprisingly well done, some are not even worth looking at. Bleis asked me to take the new group to visit anywhere in Paris, but he and his wife wouldn't be following. So i borught them to the Louvre, but it was closed because some company called AXA (hehe) is having some sort of a party
in the Louvre. So we walked from the Louvre to la Place de la Concorde instead. Then we took the Metro back to our hotel/hostel.
15 Juin (mercredi)Yayy, got back to Colmar. Oh how i missed Colmar already.
19 Juin (dimanche)We went hiking with our french professors today. Now i understand what Stephen Clark meant in his book 'A year in the Merde'. The French are so obsessed with their health. There as this one prof who applied sun block, anti-mosquito cream, moisturizing cream, and a water-based freshening spray (or however you call it). Another prof told her "You're going to drown in all those products"
We walked and walked. But with us around, you can never enjoy the calmness of nature. It's impossible. We sang, made animal noises, talked loudly... i pity the other hikers. They came all the way to get away from the noises in a city, but they were unfortunate enough to hike at the same time with us.
We stopped and had our lunch by a lake. I don't know how it happened, but Dinie accidentally (a word that's synonymous with Dinie) sat on a torny plant and Taufiq sat on a piece of shit. Ahaha. Kesian. We split after lunch. Those who wanted a more hardcore hike, took a route that looked very steep from the spot where we had lunch, others took the route that we used to climb up. Bien sur, I stayed with Giovanna, Nicole and Sylvianne, and we took the 'cool' route.
We arrived at the check point 30 minutes before the other group. Luckily Sylvianne brought a mat. We just sat there, relaxed and had a small chat (aka mengumpat).
Then we went to Patricia's house to have a drink and to eat ice cream. I was so exhausted that i slept like a baby that night.