lawcm: London-Paris Study Trip (Jun 7 to Jun 13) Part 2

London-Paris Study Trip (Jun 7 to Jun 13) Part 2
Some of the texts are extracted from my trip report.. haha.. spend some time reading my trip details bah.. dun worry.. there are pictures uploaded..

"Let us flip through the book of memories and flashed back the past encounters and experiences of my stay in London and Paris. Below are some of my more memorable incidents and events of occurrences.

London (Day 1-4)

Our Tour Guide: Mr Gram!.. Who is Ms Kilogram?.. that's our first response.. but we didn't ask him lah.. lolz..:)

Our coach passed by this TESCO supermarket is like our NTUC in Singapore

The hotel that we live in.. Ashlee Hotel.. very cosy.. love their service and attitude of serving. hehez.. will go back to there to stay if i ever visit London again.. it's juz 5mins walk to their MRT (tube) --> Paddington Station!

One random Red building (bottom left)

london eye *(top right corner) and other siteseeing..

The Tube station and complex network

Paris (Day 5-6)

Effiel Tower in mid afternoon.. look carefully.. u saw a Indian/African carrying alot of stuffs at the right of the pics right?.. actually.. he is one of the buskers that goes round the compound to ask tourists and everyone.. to sell away his sourvenirs.. keychains.. watches.. lots lots lots.. and he is not that only one.. tha'ts more than 20 selling the same one.. they will keep pester you around to buy their stuffs.. that's y i keep avoiding them.. haha..

and it's not legal for them to sell in this way.. but it's not illegal to buy from them.. but overall.. we, tourists earned sometimes and they earned their profits though.. one thing i 1 to mention is that.. at our last day of trip.. a policeman came.. and every of this ppl run away.. escaping.. they didn't even care about the roads and the cars. .juz dashed across.. scared been caught by the policeman.. and that hide and seek plays on..

An unforgettable encounter
After the photo-shooting session with the Eiffel Tower in the afternoon on our first day of Paris, Jonathan, Guo Cheng and I decided to go buy some drinks since we were very thirsty. When it is about our turn to be served, the shop helper didn’t serve us, instead they serve others that are beside us. In the end, we underestimated the prices of coke to mineral water since all the names on the signboard are written in French, even the prices. hai paid for the same price drinking the "gold" made COKE EURO $2.50... means $5 per can.. FAINT!

Thomson Reuters
Straight away after we landed Paris through Eurostar.. we proceed to Thomson Reuters by our coach.. the speaker for one of the presentation is called Adrian -- i RMB his AH AH AH.. always!! From the way he speaks, we can know that he does not practice English often and when you heard him communicate French to his colleagues, he seems so comfortable and relax. During the presentation, he tried to speak in proper English but maybe due to lack of thoughts of what to show to us, he often runs speechlessly with the “ah~ah~ah” non-stop. I can see from his expression, he is trying to pronounce the English properly but really his accent was too heavy for us to catch what he is trying to imply. I guess I can understand him better since I have brother-in-law who also has a strong accent. I caught what he is trying to say faster than my other friends:)

Paris Metrolopis (MRT) and transport system and ticket entrance

Bank of England Museum
Punctuality does counts, and a lot in London. On the following day after lunch, due to the peak lunch hour, we were late at for our second itinerary of the day, the Bank of England Museum. If it was not that some of us want to go for a second helping, and the rest of us waiting for them laterally to finish their second meal and rushing them too, I do not think we will be late. To sum it up, we were late, by almost 20minutes.

In Singapore, this lateness can be tolerated, but in London, it’s an outright NO. Ms Lina’s scolding was really like a wake up call to most of us, telling us that, “In London, the people here are very punctual, you know what, the management here (Museum) has the rights to shut the door since we are late. Do you know that?”

I perfectly understand how she feels, we, as a traveling group, representing Temasek Polytechnic, if most of the students there were late. How will the people in London thought of us as Singaporeans Youths? Normal people will surely thinks that Singaporeans must be always late for meeting like this. This lateness did not just impact the whole flow of museum site seeing, but it has adversely and impacted the way people will think of us as a Singaporean. "

Paris Cruise around Central of Paris (night siteseeing)
That night was my happiest night.. i am so touched by what i see.. all those buildings and i teared becoz i finally let out of all the worries and sorrows out liao.. the wind was blowing on me.. seeing Paris wonderful scenery.. i sometimes wonder.. why i should i worried about all those.. isn't such simple thing like viewing a siteseeing better than anything?.. then i realise.. everything can be view in a very easy manner.. it's juz how you face it only.. !

when the cruise go through this underbridge.. some of the passengers including me will shout on top to the bridge.. it's like exhalting all your troubled out.. and no one cares at that point of the moments cause it's echos.. so u juz shout.. and you can get that sense of freedom there.. i really cherish the moments.. shouting with jonathan.. and.. have fun with the ladies.. haha.. wanying de "Cheng-ge" joke really funny.. at that point of time.. everyone was in very high spirit although all of us was very cold and tired.. coz long day mah.. but.. we survived though..

2ND OF Paris!... DISNEYLAND PARK!!.. woohoo.. i so so ENJOY it.. it's amazingly FUN.. i 1st time try out the ROLLAR COASTER... it's so SO.. shiok.. that's really my BREAKTHOUGH.. that sense of achievement is better than presentation that time.. i really tears after i survive for the ride.. love it!!