Thursday, February 24, 2005

Am dreaming of a white world...

Hafn't been able to update for a while. As usual been too busy at work. Just yesterday I sewed up the knees of 60 rats after my supervisor performed menisectomy on them. It was soooo tiring... cos' it was non-stop work at the surgical table (bwahaha... ^_^ sound so pro...) for a whole morning. But wat I did was nothing compared to wat my supervisor did cos' he had to do the actual operation. I was jus kinda like an assistant.

Ok, now back to the main point of today's entry: This morning when I woke up and looked outside, everything was coated white! It was BEAUtiful! The snow was heavier this time and it probably started in the night thus was able to accumulate on the ground, the trees, rooftops and the cars...

I remembered when I first came to Paris in Nov, my french colleagues told me, to my disappointment, that it seldom snows in Paris. So, I wasn't expecting to see a white white world today... It's amazing... and I feel lucky... :)

Just after lunch, as we were all going for coffee in the café, I picked up some snow just to feel it in my hands, when 'phush!' came a snowball flying at me. One of my bosses had thrown a snowball at me! I packed the snow in my hands and threw it at him. Back and forth went a couple of snowballs between us and I won!!! :) It was really fun! I've always thought he was a pretty serious and seldom person, never thought he'd play such pranks on people... :) Speaking of this boss... He has a very good sense of dressing for a guy his age (he's 37) and pretty cute (except for the thinning hair and the fact tat he's married. Haha.. dun be mistaken, I'm not interested in him, just tot of mentioning him cos he lost to me in a snowball fight. Bwahahaha!). And he speaks English pretty well... But then again, maybe it's cos' he's not French. He's Lebanese. He's a nice man. Am lucky he's one of my bosses here. But he's not my direct boss...

My direct supervisor is nothing like tat... Sighz... Gotta run... work's calling...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Yummy guys...

Once in a while in Paris, one gets to see an immaculately dressed (beautiful coat, expensive-looking suit), metropolitan, gorgeous guy (flawless skin, chiselled features, eye-lashes that could 'sweep' you off your feet, and styled-hair that looks like he just came from the salon) who looks like he just stepped off the big screen into the real world. In short, eye-candy... :) *Yummy! Good enuff to eat huh?* Haha... :p

A couple of weeks ago there was a section in the English newspaper here (English newspaper in Paris, isn't it amazing?) that talked about living in major cities around the world. Of cos' there was one about Paris on the front page. Some of the other cities featured were New York, Tokyo, Brussels, Hong Kong, San Paulo etc. The one about Paris was very interesting, to me at least. (Maybe it's because it's the only one I could relate to now since the other cities I've never lived in before.) In the Paris article, the author talks about how most people, before seeing Paris, has mental images of streets filled with glamorous, well-dressed Parisians and how disillusioned they become after they see Paris because most people, are, like everywhere else, dressed normally. I could totally relate to tat! Back before I ever came to Paris, I had this dreamy image of her. :)

She is still as beautiful and quite so magical as I thought she was, but with the addition of the imperfections I now see, not all glamour and glitter...
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Monday, February 14, 2005

Joyeux St. Valentin!

Happy Valentine's Day!!! To all my friends whom I miss dearly! (you know who you are!)
Wish I could write regularly. But haf been so super busy at work. My 'nice' @_@ supervisor has made sure that I haf no free time at all. Am not too sure tat I'm good for a research job after all... haha...
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