2 Days in Paris

paris was nice today although i was very very tired.
drank loads of coffee and treated myself to a good lunch at the museum. walked the whooooole day and saw loads and lods of stuff... good thing tml i have a relatively late wakeup call so i can sleep in for ONCE!!!

but im annoyed at this stupid chinese lady who i tried to help. cos she wanted to buy a phone card to call god knows who, then i offered to take her and go look. then i helped her buy summore... but they way she act like she was doing me a huge favour lidat. what the helll... sometimes its not nice being nice.

ate so much munchies today. hehe. good bakery right next to my hostel; had a yummy flaky buttery pain au chocolat today. i plan to extensively try their offerings over the next few days!! haha... wish my waist line luck.

yesterday i slept in and had long leisurely brekkies and lunch (more abt that later!). went to the picasso museum where they had a massive exhibition on one of his MANY girlfriends. his work is so passionate and powerful and so... different from traditional; art (hey look at the lifelike cow in the lifelike pasture etc). it was a little difficult to understand. so walked around after the museum and found like a massively long street filled with mens clothes. like beauitufl tailored suits with superfine wool 100-300 (? jason!!) for like 100 euros and shirts for like 20. tons of ties, those little vest thingies (waistcoats?), cravats etc. it was like dress up party town. and marais (the suburb i was in) is just so pretty! Tons of little cafes and boutiques with expensive clothes. (sigh) walked around a bit more and found their accessroies quarter with wholesale outlets for every possible type of accessory a gilr could ever want. walked around a bit more and found the kookai factory outlet. yes ladies and gentlemen in the know (aka jason) they have a kookai outlet. but im like so tired of shopping, nothing seemed nice at all!!

so i went for lunch.

found a nice sunny cafe/brasserie (what is the difference man!) and got a starter and a dessert. mmmmmhhhmmm... foie gras with tomato confit and toast... so good! i dont care abt the whole high fat cholesteral crap as long as idont eat ot everyday. but SO GOOD. it was very rich, but only mildly liver tasting. the tomato confit reminded me of fatty crab though. didnt put too much on my foie cos it sort of masked the rich yummy taste. im just drooling thinking of it... pavlovian response. and for dessert had a very rich and very cloying molten chocolate cake which was good, but not as excellent as the vanilla ice cream served with it. now that was good vanilla. u could even see the specks of vanilla bean which they used to make it. i think it was berthillion ice cream. oh and did i mention earlier in the day i had a scoop of berthillion ice cream (btw its a really famous ice cream or as they call it glace, shop in the latin quarter), pistachio of course (love love pistachio. my new fvaroite flavor), and it was great! smooth, creamy not too sweet. it was perfect! oh and the wine i ahd with lunch was very sweet but very drinkable. france seems to have loads of affordable wines (3 euros least i tink) which are pretty good. definitely grab a couple bottles on the way home. spain too. although amsterdam had crappy wines.

so went shopping after lunch, or as they say, leche le fenetre (lick the windows). it was really awesome. the french call their dept stores grand magasins and believe me,. it was huge. they gave u road maps. so expensive though. contemplated getting a pair of jeans which would have cost me 215 euros, but OUCH.