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Menu for Thought

Came round a random menu. Food for thought.

STARTER – HUMAN GARBAGE

One of the words that will imprint into your brain after watching “Ransom”. A very clever plot. Not to say that the plot itself is totally unpredictable, but full of little humorous surprises. A very deep thought about Morlock and Eloi. Need to say more about Mel Gibson ?

MAIN COURSE – FRESH FROM PIGEONS

Every morning, I walked from my place of stay to my prison. I have to walk into a hollow cylindrical building (where I lunch every day, downstairs). 7 stories high with a very big transparent disc hanging on top by means of steal bars. Strange thing is there is a lot of bird shit right in the middle of the space. Hard to image ? I always think of Independent Day whenever I pass by. I am the building and the laser is right up there.

And I think of Pigeon Toilet. The local pigeons seem to fond of “sitting” right near the “laser” and do their business. We feed them shit with all the city rubbish, and they are clever enough to feed us shit. Don’t believe me ? Whoever curious enough will look up. Looking up results in stretching the skin around the throat. And you mouth will naturally be opened. WATCH OUT !!!

DESERT – AWESOME BOOMSOME

I walk into a shopping center, they search my bag. I walk into a train station, they search my bag. I walk into a record store, they also must search my bag. All rubbish bins are sealed. Those policemen who petrol around the station, they are heavily armored. With gun like things hanging from their shoulder.

Reminded me of one of the lecturer once told us about the IRA. He is an electrical engineer (I think) and he was telling us the fact that there are not many “Exchange Stations” (?) to bomb at the same time in order to shut down the entire electric supply of England. Truly awesome.

COFFEE – DOUBLE BLACK

“In my hour of darkness, no, you were not there ..”

– Megadeth. From the song “In My Darkness Hour”.

“Let’s have a black celebration. A black celebration .. tonight”

– Depeche Mode. From the song “Black Celebration”.

PRICE – EXPRESS 99.00 FF

I lost my appetite completely. Had my cup of coffee and left.

New Wilf 97.

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A Good Relationship is Give and Take

A very productive day.  5 SIR down the tube.

After lunch, while we walked back to the office, we saw a rabbit right hiding in the bush in from of the building.  And during the afternoon, the porter was trying to catch it (I saw it during the coffee break).   Later on, I had a chat with the porter and found that they believed that the rabbit is a domestic one and it will not be able to survive in the cold.  The funny thing is they are going to form a team and catch it during the weekend.  One of the secretary wanted to keep it.

Today, we have the King’s Pie again.  It was at the SocGen Tower (the main one) and the pie definitely tasted a lot better (as it was hot) than the last one.  The Tower is really fascinating.  There is a big, huge artistic thing hanging in the air and guess what underneath.  A “pool”.  Today, me and Wilfrid (Paris) while admiring the thing, actually stepped into the “pool” as it really look like mirror floor.

In the end, I decided to have dinner in the hotel and beside me sat an old couple from Ireland (but without Irish accent).  We talked and interesting enough, they have married for 31 year.  And the lady’s parent actually married for 60 years.  I asked what is the secret in keeping such a good relationship and they told me that it is give and take.  You can’t just win every battle.  I guess they are right.

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Choosing between Mylene Farmer and a Night Out with Friends

I woke up in the morning, on my TV and guess what?  I saw one Mylene Farmer’s music video one after the other.  It is a cable TV, MCM, and today was supposed to be Mylene Farmer Special Day (or something like that).  I watched until I have missed my breakfast and I was late for 15 minutes.

I was supposed to dine with Claude and Mohamed tonight and I was contemplating on whether I should stay at the hotel and watched the Mylene Farmer concert at 7:30 pm.  In the end, I chose to go out with them as very seldom I can dine with someone.

It was Arabic food.  A very small but popular restaurant.  Claude was treating and Mohamed insisted on giving him back FF100.  As for me, I “treated” them the desert at Haagen-Dazs. 

And I have spent most of night surfing the net.  It is very addictive.  And it wasn’t anything erotic at all.  It was Mylene Farmer’s Web Pages.

Thinking of getting a flat in year 2000 really excited me as I really sick of renting already.  I want a home of myself, in the very near future.  So far, I still believe in dream hard, hope hard and it may come true.

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Luxury in Paris

Same old story. I slept late last night and hence, I felt quite bad this morning.  Nevertheless, I had a great breakfast at 08:55.  Luxury can only be happened in Paris.

In terms of work, it is again the same old story.  Got a few bugs off the list.  Transfer knowledge to Wilfrid (Paris), whom called himself Willy.  They told me that they have requested a PC for me and will come maybe next week.

Tonight was quite a different night.  Couldn’t believe that I have spent more than one hour walking around in Paris looking for a restaurant and finally ended up where I started from and had American Food.  The food was no good and I didn’t enjoy.  I enjoyed the cocktail though, as I am quite sick of the French food.

Watched a movie, “The Portrait of a Lady” and didn’t understand a single.  But I love Nicole Kidman, so what the hell.  I watched a show that has my favorite star in it.

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Useful to Have a Wife and a Mistress

OK, so today was Sunday.  I have only discovered a bottle of Champagne in my the other room this morning and of course, I saved the bottle and the glass for later occasion.

A very gloomy day.  As always, the day passed by fairly fast.  The more I stayed in my new office, the most I missed the old one.  One day I may just tell Aurore that I want to move back to the big old one, with Mohamed, my buddy.

Today we had a meeting.  Indeed a very interest one.  I suppose I have done this against my profession. They were discussing the European Dollar.  During 1999 to 2004, customers can choose to have their transaction in ECC or FF.  Beyond 2004, FF will be replaced by ECC.  I think my company would like to charge them for my advice.  But I just want to learn more.

Today I went off with Mohamed, his friend Philip and Nicolas.  When four men together, what else will it be ? They were very interested in talking about women.  I guess everywhere is always the same.  Mohamed told me that it is very “useful” in France to have two women.  One is wife and the other is mistress.  I was kind of confused as I have never thought this is ever useful.  Maybe pleasurable.  In the end, he meant to say “usual”.

And before we boarded the train, Mohamed told me that VISION is his dream.  Then I replied, “I thought women is your dream.”  He then said, “No, it is VISION.”  And I said, “No, you should dream about women instead”.  In the end, Philip clarified that what Mohamed meant was “nightmare”.

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Ice Cream Saved My Weekend?

I hated this weekend.  Nothing worked out fine to me.  Phone call to JP yesterday was a disastrous when it came into money matter.  Today I could not find her.  Phone call to my Mum this afternoon was even worst.  I am fed up with all the family matter.

Yesterday I was “rejected” from a restaurant (Lunch) because I was a bit too late.  I swear the waitress said that the restaurant only served desert right now.  If only I knew French.  Today I went up earlier and they don’t open on Sunday.

Today’s lunch was different.  I went into this Cafeteria, self-serviced type.  So I just have to pick any food I like.  Happened to pick the steak and chips, one roll, a fresh Pineapple (Don’t understand why nowadays I love fresh fruit so much.), and a Pepsi Max.  The counter (French Lady) was very friendly as I asked for some butter.  Very abnormal but I guess some people will treat others better regardless of color.  And I sat inside for a few hours, reading a novel.  The steak was half cooked (French doesn’t like to cook things thoroughly) and I did not finish the food at all.

And I wanted to watch a movie.  As I could not pronounce the title, so I wrote it in a piece of paper.  But they all thought I wanted to watch the Night Club Show (LIDO).  Stupid French.  And then I moved onto the next one, and it was full.  Treated myself some good ice cream in Haagen-Dazs (Etoile) instead.

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A Lonely Day

What a lonely day.  Never felt that lonely before.  Must have been got sick with all the excitement already.

Got up very late, as intended.  My account is still unclear and unhealthy.  It really worries me.  Could have done a lot more before I left Singapore.

Today I wanted to do some shopping but not in the mood.  In the end, I wandered into Marks & Spencer and bought myself one set of underwear and one very cute shirt.  And then I saw some Modern Art (Jean Tinguely).  Still not convince and understand why they call it art.  I found all the art (old trash mechanical parts and motor and pulley and bell) very dark and if viewed alone, very scary.

French food and, too much wine again.

By the way, today I  spent quite sometime in FNAC.  I was watching a LD called Leon.  Got to say that show is still my favorite.  I really wanted to buy that LD.  Leon was so, cool and I loved the small girl, Mathilda.  She can really act.  Say to say that they only played one side.  I never got to see the ending.

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Bad Day at Work

Today was not my day.  First thing in the morning, my Jaz Drive went dead on me.  Late in the evening, my notebook’s floppy drive went dead on me.  But I have seen it all, been it all.  So no big deal.  Just have to accept that in life, things may not go as smooth as ever.

In terms of work, been a very productive day.  Good news is that I will have no SIR by the 7th August.  They will all belong to the Technical Team.  I really can see the day to get out of the prison. 

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Eating in Paris

It took 4 days for the French Technician to come and fix my network port.  I have been sharing the network port with Aurore.  In terms of work, there has not been anything being done at all.  But I am content.  At least I know that this trip is not chargeable, I do not feel the pressure at all.

Aurore has been quite cold to me nowadays.  I guess she is really busy and has to act like a boss.  Claude was right.  Aurore is young and she may scares that nobody will listen to her.  The office I am now working in is too small.  I do prefer the previous big room with all my good mates.

As for dinner, Claude has once again shown me a very nice restaurant.  I was the first customer and it was an Italian Restaurant.  As usual, my starter was rabbit and this time, as for main course, I tried something different.  Pasta with snails. Italian wine and fresh fruit salad as finale.  The atmosphere was very good. Light orange wall painting, my favorite.

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Long Legs Waitress at Planet Hollywood, Paris

Still very excited about the whole trip.  Must be the beginning.  In fact, as the hotel is very near to the office, I can actually leave the notebook at the hotel before going off for dinner.  And I can reach the restaurant say 6:30 pm and come back before 8 pm.  This gives me quite a lot of free time.

I love the hotel and I don’t want to go back.  Strange, isn’t it.

Tonight I went to Planet Hollywood and true enough, all the waitresses are as steaming, if not better, as before.  I reckon Planet Hollywood has the best waitresses.  I remember I have one souvenir from Hard Rock Café, so this time I wanted one from Planet Hollywood.  The drink was quite strong and I managed.  Actually promised myself not to give any tips this time, but hell, the long legs waitress was too pretty.