Extra@Paris

Posted November 14th, 2009 by claudy. Comment (0).

An attractive Smart Cabrio parked in the street in front of the museum. Haven’t seen this model before. Found it quite cool.

During this trip, we traveled mostly with the metro. Here is one of the metro station, it was quite in chaos!! The cables just hanging around everywhere.

 

Just passed by a real estate agent and had a look at the house price in Paris. Prices were extremely high. The asking price for  a 88m2 flat is 840 000 euro.

 

Besides cleanness of my first impression in a metro, we also found how important mobile phones are for the French.

 

Our sweet memories of anniversary.

 

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Culinair@Paris

Posted September 15th, 2009 by claudy. Comment (1).

Just after arrival in the opera district, we quickly noticed a 24/7 restaurant. The food was unexpectedly good. The plateau fruits de mer was fresh. I loved my dessert "Crêpes flambées au grand Marnier", and the dessert Spawn ordered was also super delicious.

At a Vietnamese Restaurant in China Town. We got big portion of nice food for little money. 11 euro for a 3 course menu. That is super cheap. I have not seen these kind of prices in the Netherlands.

This time we did not go to my favorite macaron shop, we tried two other shops that are listed in the top 5 of macaron shops: Pierre Hermé and Lenôtre. We both liked the macarons from Pierre Hermé better then the ones from Lenôtre. The structure is slightly heavier but the taste is really nice.

Although the macarons from Pierre Hermé were nicer, the icecream and salmon mouse from Lenôtre were excellent.

We took a plateau the second evening as well, but this time it was not so good as last night. We just filled up our stomach and continued our journey.

Our set lunch


 

Our last dinner before we left. You could even order marrow at that restaurant ("os à moelle" in French).
 

There is really an incredible amount of good food in Paris. Too bad we just could try out a few restaurants. How can it be that those French girls remain so slim with so much nice food everywhere?!

To be continued…

Sights@Paris

Posted September 14th, 2009 by claudy. Comment (0).

First thing we saw exiting the metro station "OPERA", we saw this. So beautiful.

Standing at Montmartre with this nice weather, it is really relaxed. There you could come across with a lot of performing artists. Of course they are all performing to earn some money, but some of them are really good.

Montmartre, Sacre-Coeur

Metro: Anvers

 

Almost mid-night at Arc de Triomphe, everywhere we went there were a lot of people.

Metro: Charles des Gaulle Étoile – Av d’léna

Initially we planned to go upstairs by foot, but in the end, we did not even go up, because the long long queues… Btw, there was something that kept drawing my attention. And that were the "Gendameries", they are so muscular and strong. They are not at all like the Dutch policemen (with big bellies).

Metro: Champ de Mars

At a Sunday morning, there was nothing better than go to the open-market in Paris. Here we could find a lot of pre-process food like grilled chicken, paella,..etc. Besides that, there were sea food stalls all over the market.

Le Marché 11e du dimanche

Metro: Brequet Sabin – Bd Richard Lenoir

Where ever we went, we kept running into street artists and beggars. At a certain moment we felt a bit annoyed by some of the performing beggars. Especially in the metro playing very loud music with their instruments, mics, sound boxes…etc.

Pombidou

Metro: Randuteau

This time we have not been to any museums except for this one: "Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris". In the underground’s corridors to the metro, there are a lot of billboards, but especially one of those billboards drawed Spawn attention, because it mentioned a very famous name in the world of photography "Henri Cartier-Bresson"

One of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s notes displayed in the museum:

Le raportage est une opération progressive de la tête, de l’oeil et du coeur pour exprimer un problem, fixer un événement ou des expressions. Un événement est tellement riche qu’on tourne autour pendant qu’il se developpe. On en cherche la solution. On la trouve parfois en quelques secondes, parfois elle demande des heures ou des jours; il y a pas de solution standard; pas des recette, il faut être prêt comme au tennis.

Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris

Metro: Léna

To be continued…

 

Arrival@Paris

Posted September 8th, 2009 by claudy. Comment (0).

As 90% of our trips are booked last minute, this trip was no exception and we booked the trip and hotel in the morning and we had to depart in the afternoon. We didn’t plan any activities upfront for this trip since Spawn didn’t want to hurry around. So we agreed that the focus would be on eating and taking it easy.

This time the bus was the only option that we could book so last minute, since Spawn didn’t feel like driving to Paris. Although the bus stops about every 2 hours, so you can take a break and buy some food at the gas station, we bought a lot of snacks before boarding the bus in case I would get hungry, since I don’t like the food at gas stations.

Spawn was sitting in the bus and complaining about the seat. I didn’t have any problem at all, I even found it quite convenient.

After 6 hours + 1,5 hour delay, we finally arrived in Paris. It was almost mid night. My first impression of Paris this time was clean as you can see in the picture below, the cabin of metro was quite clean. It was probably just cleaned. But unfortunately the first impression is not always right.

After arrival, first thing we had to do is check-in in the hotel. The hotel we’d selected this time was suprisingly good. Quite comfortable, clean and is super close to the center of Paris. It took about 2 minutes to walk to Galeries Lafayette. Plus there were a lot of restaurants in the neighborhood, and some of them are open 24/7.

The room we had also includes a tiny balcony. And because of the balcony, it felt quite romantic.

Outside the hotel was quiet. We were satisfied about the overall environment of the hotel. It is often difficult to find a hotel in the center of the capital without too much noise nuisance.

To be continued…

 

Parodie de la chanson “Femme like U” de K-maro

Posted September 7th, 2009 by claudy. Comment (0).

J’ai trouvé quelque chose de drôle…Une parodie de la chanson "Femme like U" de K-maro.

Elle est trop bien faite!! Ça me fait rire!

Barbecue
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我的金錢樹復活喇!

Posted August 19th, 2009 by claudy. Comment (1).

2009-08-19
今天天氣熱,去看看我的植物順便淋水,一看之下…嘩!死淨種長葉呀!前幾天淋水還沒有看見呢!可能這兩天熱的關係吧!但沒想到它可以長得這樣快。我實在太興奮喇!好開心,沒有白費我的心機! Yeah…!

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2009-06-24
很久沒有更新我這個My Scribblings了,實情是之前比較忙,忙完後就懶起來了,直至現在覺得是時候更新一下,不然我會變得更懶更不想寫!

雖然沒有定期更新,可我時時刻刻也會想起My Scribblings呢!所以不時也有把些所碎事拍下來!現在我家腦裡的照片多的是,真不知從那裡入手呢!MG!還有德國的片段哦!管不了那麼多了,首先把想寫的先整理好,慢慢加上去吧!

先說說我的金錢樹葉!死淨種現有很多同伴哦!因為奶奶那邊的金錢樹的其中一樹枝開始腐壞,被我拿回來搶救!剛好天氣回溫,一種之下大部份葉子都長出了根來!可能會有點大驚小怪,但一想到葉子有機會變成一盆金錢樹,總覺神奇,真的好開心好期待哦!

施肥再加些新的泥土,醒醒定定不要令我失望啊!

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2009-04-25
上回講到眼見金錢樹枝的狀態一日比一日差,迫於無奈使出最後一招"扦插繁殖法",可惜大部份的葉子難逃厄運,現在淨下來的就只有這兩片二合為一的金錢樹葉。

除了這棵死淨種以外,所有葉子已經完完全全凋謝、枯死,奇怪的是棵死淨種還是綠色的!好奇心驅使下,我把它拔了出來看個究竟,一看原來它生根哦!

我開始有點後悔!後悔把它拔了出,不知道我這舉動會不會令死淨種的狀態變差!沒辦法,不該做的已做了,唯有幫它鬆一鬆泥土,再加一點點水,希望它大難不死!

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2009-03-04
使用這種扦插繁殖法希望可以把這金錢樹枝起死回生啦!

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2009-01-28
終於忍不住手給我剪掉金錢樹枝的根部,如再沒有起色我會用扦插繁殖法!就是將金錢樹的葉子剪出來,插在土裡種!

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2009-01-09
為何叫金錢樹枝呢?是因為我怎看也不覺得是樹!本來是有兩枝的,一枝比較大另一枝較小。起初大的那枝生命力很强,一直在長還生了根呢!可是小金錢樹枝的狀 態一日比一日差,直至救無可救,最終都是要把小的放棄!自小樹枝棄掉了,剩下來的這枝就每況愈下,葉子從深綠變青綠,根部有些少發毛!估計可能樓上不夠 暖,現在把金錢樹枝搬下來廳中,再看情況有否改善吧!

金錢樹枝長而不粗。

樹枝腳長了根不久就有發毛現象!

Spawn prefers Western food over Chinese foods. So as a compromise, I often prefer something fusion-like.

Choi Sum grown with heart. I was lucky to receive some.

My Troublesome Eyes

Posted August 18th, 2009 by claudy. Comment (0).

When I was little, I wanted to look mature, so I loved wearing glasses. Nowadays I hate wearing glasses, it is not just about the look, it is also not so convenient. Because of my fear for cataract surgery and lens implantation, the only option I have left is wearing contact lenses. These large quantity of contact lenses I just bought should be enough to cover the coming few months.

 

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Rest. Seoul Garden

Posted August 12th, 2009 by claudy. Comment (1).

Some days ago, we were complaining about the Korean food in Rotterdam. This lead to invitation to join our Korean friend J. to a tiny Korean restaurant (sort of Eethuis in Dutch).

As J. is the expert, she ordered for everybody. The dish below we liked the most.

The owner of the restaurant taught us how to grill the meat in such a way that it would remain juicy.

I love shrimps! However, I found these a bit too salty.

Some side dishes; which are important in the Korean cuisine.

J. said this is a famous restaurant visited by a lot of Koreans living in the Netherlands. I actually loved it and we also saw Korean fondue, that also seemed delicious to me. We might try it next time.

After that we went to have a drink on a terrace. The weather was nice just like the atmosphere. These kinds of opportunities, like going out with friends and have a chat for whole night long, do not come by often. It was really a wonderful day. G. was so high, however we had to leave earlier then we actually wanted. Hope to see you guys next time soon.