City of Old

Was walkin along river Seine on Xmas day and was awed by the innumberable old and gorgeous buildings there are in Paris. So much so that everywhere I go, I see buildings and places I want a photograph of. So different from Singapore, where everything is quite new and modern. I guess if one looks hard enuff, there are some places in Singapore that are old and pretty. Guess it's just cos' it's the country I spent twenty odd years in so things just don't appeal to me tat much.

Talkin about takin pictures, I went to Versailles (a town in the suburbs of Paris) with 2 of my colleagues on Xmas Eve and it was a quaint (in a nice way) place. We visited an old palace, now a museum and I took so many pictures until the batteries in my camera went flat. I was quite sad cos' there were still quite a lot of things I wanted capture (almost wrote 'on film' but realised it doesn't apply to my camera). I'll probably go back there again sometime. Saw a nice painting of the crowning of Josephine by Napoleon. And many many other nice paintings whose names I'm not sure of.

Well, so Xmas Eve was kinda nice. I say kinda even though I liked Versailles quite a bit cos' the company I had weren't exactly great. They were colleagues (FULLSTOP). Not really people I click with. Sometimes when I'm at certain places, I'd wish my frens were with me to admire and do the 'ooh-aah...' together. Frens who enjoy the same things as I do. Arghhhh!!! Seems like in every entry I'm talkin abt missing my frens... Guess I can't haf the best of both worlds- be in a fasinating city like Paris and haf my frens with me too. I noe, I noe, I shouldn't be greedy... but surely one can grumble??? keke...

I do haf a couple of colleagues who's ok with me here. But they haf toured many places in Europe already (since they haf been here 8 months before me). As I'm writin, one of them is touring Rome... *envious* O_o

Gotta go back to my Scan-Co... (X-ray machine for scanning bones) Later!