A wonderful ski tripWonderful moment

Wonderful moment always passes very fast. Our short ski trip has come to an end so quickly and suddenly. Kinda sad 2 say bye to Lik, Kaya and Daniel after this trip, 'cause dunno know when can we meet again and i gotta get back to work. The pleasure of meeting secondary schoolmate in France is really great. And guess what, we even met Julian, Benedict, Renhan and others on the 1st da in Paris, what a coincident isn't. Of course it's time to show off my French.

Day 1:
I took Lik and kaya around Paris since Daniel only arrived on the 2nd day, sorry for him 'cause he needed to skip class to join us. After checking in our hotel, it was already a bit late. We went to Arc de Triomphe and dat's where we met Benedict and others. We had dinner together and there we seperated since they were tired and wanted to go back to hotel instead of Eiffel Tower, our next destination. Eiffel was nice that night, blue in colour, of course, we took lotsa photos of it. But g up Eiffel with em wasn't romantic at all, LOL!
To save money, i've booked a hotel near Saint Denis, which is a bit far from the centre of Paris, 2nd last station by Metro line 13. Lol, my sense of direction isn't that good at night, so we kinda got lost in the way back to hotel after visiting Eiffel Tower. But luckily we reached the hotel safely at last.

Day 2:
We've got limited time in Paris 'cause we were going to set off to Bourg Saint Maurice that afternoon after Daniel's arrival. So we woke up early in the morning to get some time to visit the Basilique du Sacre-Coeur. Me myself i haven't visited the place b4, so i was a "discovering tour guide", lol. There was a gang of african guys in front of the Basilique, offering to tourists colour bands. If you go there next time, don't accept it, or else they'll ask you for money for the worthless bands. Of course we were smart enough to reject it, but i think if i were not there, Alik might get cheated, lol.The journey to Bourg Saint Maurice was kinda long, it took more than half a day. Poor Daniel gotta sit in the train for 1 whole day. Finally arrived in Bourg Saint Maurice, but a very funny incident happened.

The train stopped. (Alik sleeping)
Me : Daniel, what time the train arrives?
Dann : 8.20 gua...(A while later)How come the train is reversing?
Me : Changing direction? That's y it takes so long time.
A guy came. "Gentlemen, you have arrived."
Me : "What? arrived? But it's moving now, dont't tell me it' heading to the next destination!!!"
Luckily it was not, it's only heading to the train parking at the station. Fuf...Lucky...
I found a vrvr cheap hotel in Bourg Saint Maurice, of course, a bit far, around 1km from the train station. What to do? Walk lor. The others were complaining of course. Weren't you? Heh?

After settling down, super hungry, DINNER!!!
Have you tried sweating in -3°C? You will when you just have a snow war, haha.

Day 3:
Alik woke every1 up, 'cause he couldn't sleep. LOL...But suddenly,
Kaya : Soon Lee, you come and see if i got fever.
WTF, don't joke man, 1st day of ski n you got fever? But finally he managed to go ski with us, luckily. So the ski lessons started for Dann n Kaya. Unluckily, there was no green piste in Les ARC. So there were forced to practice in blue piste. For your info, the piste levels are green - blue - red - black.
At night, the other 3 felt pain all over the body, Kaya and Dann understandable lar, kept falling ma. Alik 你凑什么热闹?Scenery outside our hotel room.

Day 4:
Christmas day. It was snowing in the morning, and it was my 1st white Christmas. Me and lik decided to go to discover ARC 1800(1800 m). We found an ideal place for Dann and Kaya to practice. So here we go.
Cool!!!Alik said this photo got feeling??
Nice food after ski!!

Day 5:Wei, even if we're in France, don't do this in the puclic ler...

Last day of ski, Dann can already do "S" in the blue piste, but Kaya, u really need to Gambatte ler, haha, don't worry, next ski trip will be better. Me and Lik decided to challenge ARC 2000. The weather on top of the mountain was really extreme. The wind was strong and it was damned cold. We arrived at ARC 2000 but we didn't make up to the top 'cause the weather condition was really unbearable. I found great improvement in my skiing skill 'cause i didn't fall even once on the way down from ARC 2000. Tired, we stopped there ended this very fun ski trip.
We took night train to go back Paris. But before this, we had a buffet dinner. We have wanted to eat this since the 1st day but it was closed for Christmas. Luckily it was opened that day, or else we would break the its glasses.

Day 6:
Visited the damned cold Paris with our luggage and bags. Notre Dame - KFC - Louvre - Champs Elysées.Air SoonLee. Alik ur shooting skill not bad har.

And finally "Au revoir" to every1. 天下无不散之宴席, hope to see you guys again soon.

Holiday

Finally on holidays. Actually i can say that my holidays started on Wednesday because i didn't have class yesterday and i only had 1.5 hrs class this morning. Alik, kaya and Dann are coming next week, we're going to SKI!!! So i took some time to go Decathlon to buy things that I'd need for ski. I said some time, but it actually took me 2 hours. And of course my pocket has got a big whole now.

Christmas is around the corner, all towns in France are decorated with colourful light decoration and so is Laval, and the decoration in Laval is one of the most beautiful i have ever seen, although it's just a small town. I purposely brought my camera so that i can take some picture of the beautiful Christmas decoration.

I'm not sure but i guess this year's theme is pyramids since there are pyramids of different colours and sizes all over.
Sunset in the centre of Laval, with a lot of stars.

A big pyramid with a merry-go-round beside it.

Hanging pyramids which change colours on the bridge of Mayenne.

Floating pyramids on the Mayenne. Violet + Gree + Yellow.

Red + Green + Blue.

Purple. And can you see the water jet behind?

Too bad to see this alone, if i got a girl by my side then it'll be super duper romantic, lol...

Airbus Visit

Have been quite busy recently, so didn't update my blog for quite some time. Just visited the Airbus site in Saint Nazaire last Thurday, it was a one day trip organized by the Flying West association of ESTACA. This is my second visit to an Airbus site, last year i visited the one in Toulouse. But since each site is specialized in only certain parts of an Airbus plane, you can always see different things.

For your information, the largest passenger airliner in the world, A380 is an Airbus. 1 A380 has its different parts made in UK, Germany, Spain and France. All parts are then delivered to Toulouse to be assembled. A bit disappointed in my last visit to the site in Toulouse because we were only allowed to see the planes form far and were seperated by glasses. The visit to Saint Nazaire allowed me to approach and even touch a real A380, even though we only had a part of the A380 fuselage in this site. You really cant imagine how big the thing is and it's amazing that this thing can fly in the sky, i love aeronautics.

We were quite lucky that day because we have got the chance to see a real Beluga, which had just finished unloading parts to the site. The flight used by Airbus the deliver aircraft parts from site to site. Here is and image of it, its head let me think of the famous flower horn, lol...Why i said we were lucky? Because there are only 5 Belugas in the world, and you don't see them in normal airports.
What a pity, no photos are allowed in the site compound, if not i can share some of them with you. Nyway, i just simply took a few photos inside the bus, just not to waste my efford of bringing my camera, LOL...
Airbus photo took inside a "landbus".

And guess what, coincidently the son of the lady who showed us around is going to study in Kuala Lumpur for 6 months in 2 weeks time. She was so worry and she asked me a lot of questions like "What is the weather in Malaysia?", "Will we have any problem if we don't know Malay" etc...Haha, finally i gave her my email so that his son can contact me if he has any question.

This visit make me feel wanna do an internship in Airbus this summer, but the problem is that the places are limited and it's hard to get. Moreover, i haven't started to search for informations about the application. AIRBUS, open your door and wait for me!!!