seeing as i've still got an hour plus plus before my flight home i'll tell ya another story.

when you're still young (make sure it's comfortably below 25) go to paris in the summer. especially make sure you're there on the 21st of June
the official first day of summer... don't ask me how they calculate it, it just is.
it was last saturday, and every single available space that could accomodate a band had one... ranging from people acapella to full-scale bands with 10-drum sets and electric guitars. it was incroyable mais vrai.... imagine 10 million people milling about on the streets....battle of the bands!
the silliest thing was, there were NO BARRICADES on any of the streets. if you were lucky it'd be a solitary traffic warden or a few gendarmes jazzily swayin
so there'd be circles of youths sitting smack in the middle of the road (like those groups in taka square, just put them in orchard road and you'll get the idea), and cars driving around them! and in the crowded small alleyways i nearly got me toes run over by 3 cars.... it was THAT close.

the highlight of the night was the Eiffel.... they'd lit it up with 20,000 strobe lights... glittering bleu and blanc, the prettiest sight imaginable.
i only had the LCA with me at the time... i really hope it managed to capture that annual sight
unfortunately i only got a 5 minute glimpse of it before joining the latest sport that night.... catching the last metro back home
it was horrible. you know how singaporeans love the mrt cos' there's aircon? well most of the time anyway. in paris it's different, there's absolutely NO aircon in the subway AND in all stores... so you walk in from a refreshing breezy street into a crowded sweaty store.... uh-uh aint gonna shop for more than 10 minutes.
so there we were.... squashed into the last car of the metro... when suddenly the train stops at this station
and no one can get on, see? duh cos it's so crowded.
in the middle of the station there was this huge chaos and some rioting gang screamed and shouted... heard glass breaking
people outside looked real scared and some people in my carriage raised the windows... it was an OVEN.
i couldn't see what was happening but apparently that gang threw tear gas or something? whatever it was, after what seemed like eternity the gang went away
and the train could pull outta the station. man.

oh well. made it back by 3 that night at least. and now i'm off to run to my gate. have an hour left but better be safe. see ya'll soon!