Got up quite late and went to my favourite cinema and bought a ticket for the show “Hamlet”. Dashed to my favourite restaurant (Japanese) and they opened it earlier especially for me.
Arrived just on time for the show and got a really lousy seat. Anyway it wasn’t that bad. Knowing the show would last for four hours, I came well mentally prepared.
A very good show indeed. The third Shakespeare show. And why do they always want to produce a tragic piece? I have no idea. In the end, Hamlet died.
They are going to organize a farewell party for me. How nice! On Monday, Michel, Noubi and Laurent will leave for Cairo and will not be seeing them in the near future. From time to time, I do feel quite emotional towards it.
I hate parting.
And towards the end of the night, Michel has invited me to dine with him and his wife in the same Chinese restaurant again. As I have nothing planned, it was really very nice of them. We played “Black Maria “ till 2 am. I lost the first game. And made three continuous mistake in the second game, hence lost. But it was really funny. Something like this. Merela first wanted to “take all” but I stopped her with a big sacrifice. Subsequently, she wanted to “take all” again and I managed to stop her. But the sad thing was I took the spade of queen by mistake. In the third try, I did not stop her but I could have done so.
But as for the last game, I won by mile! And Michel lost.
Really sad that I have to part with Merela and God knows when I will be seeing her again. Really sad.
Spent more than half a day in drafting the final status report. Feel a bit of void right now. You see, really void. I will miss my clients and the project itself.
And of course, I will miss Paris.
The Spanish food tonight was alright. A bit far away (beyond Chatelet). Funny that tonight during dinner time, I thought of JP again. Thought of how nice it would have been if she was with me right now. That idea sprang up when I was thinking of whether I should order some dessert afterwards. I don’t like dessert but I know she loves it. She would have love to have some dessert.
Oh, dear old history and so much in pain.
Watched the movie “Beautiful Girls” on pay TV. Very lovely show and make sure I’ll buy the DVD version later on when DVD gets popular – just like CD. And I was thinking if in the future, I can “record” some of the best scene and put it into one DVD. Just like the old days when you record some of your favourite and place them into one tape. Would have been nice.
Claude has finally left for Cairo and I took over his desk. Just too relax nowadays.
My long awaiting Mylene Farmer Live album has finally arrived. Just tell you how much I obsess with it. Went to Rue Montmatre wanted to dine at TGIF. Instead, I walked into a record store, Extrapole, and discovered this beautiful album. As I always buy CD from FNAC (for tax return purposes), I travel all the way to Chatelet and found that I was five minutes late. Knowing that the FNAC in La Defense closed at eight, I rushed back to La Defense and walked into FNAC five minutes before it was closed.
Quite an exciting and interesting day for me.
Can’t believe that I have watched “The Fifth Element” again. This time was with Aurore. We went for diner (hippo) and throughout the night, I have thoroughly enjoyed it. She is a good company and has a lot of interesting stories regarding on all her missions.
Edwin really liked my message “One Simple Day” just like my last McDonald’s story long time ago. Great guy, he is.
Claude is going off tomorrow morning at 11 and most likely, will not be seeing him in the near future.
Just eight more man-days and one more weekend in Paris. When people asked me whether I got fed up with Paris or will I miss Paris and so on, I really don’t know. I have nothing to look forward to but on the other hand, I welcome some varieties in life. Therefore, I remain as neutral. As I have said before, each time I come to Paris, I carry back some different memories. This time will not be exceptional.
What do I always say about plan? Mohamed supposed to call me yesterday but he didn’t. I was supposed to go out with Claude and Lionel for a drink but it was cancelled. I was intended to watch the show “Hamlet” but I didn’t. So what have I done in this two days?
Well, wrote one broadcast email and found it really hard to cook up any nowadays. Where are all my ideas? Have I lost them all? I don’t know. Hope not. I really don’t know what happen to me. Been smoking really too much and I really want to quit.
Finished the book “The Lost World” in two days’ time and have started the next one on dragons. In the peace I am going, I may as well finish half of the book I bought over from US (which is not what I am intended to do).
Got an email from Sam that “Mission Unstoppable” has been accomplished (edit 2008.05.11: I think Sam was supposed to collect my stuffs from my ex-girlfriend’s place). Feel a bit empty as there will not be any connection between JP and I. Sad reality. Really sad.
Interested in watching people do roller skating nowadays. They have brought along a some kind of platform and placed it right in front of the “Grand Arche”. They are supposed to jump over a certain height. My favourite is one heroine, whom is the only girl there. She is not doing very good right now but she is the only lady there. A lot of pressure, must be.
Saturday, as usual woke up late. Called up Kah Lok and learnt that he has to return to KL for medical treatment. Too many fits I suppose. Sad that Rosana left him for it is too much stress. Where are they when we need their spiritual support the most?
Been reading “The Lost World” the whole day. Bought a CD – ERA and some souvenir
Seeing the BNP becomes a pain, don’t really know why but I found myself so difficult to fix it. Everybody is so engrossed with their work and there was hardly any conversation. For me, it is so hard to keep myself quite. When I returned to SocGen, I felt like I returned to the paradise.
Michel will not be going to Cairo because he is a political refugee. Aurore and Claude joked that I will have to go instead and I joked that I shall be having a holiday there instead.
At nine, I met up with Claude, Joe, Lionel, his girlfriend Mary and of course Claude’s sister who is from the south of France and currently having a holiday in Paris. We went to a restaurant pub (called Sans Sanz). Very trendy place and very cheap beer as well. Our waitress is so cool. I just love that type, slim and cool.
And Lionel’s girlfriend is so pretty, dressing in a Chinese costume. Slim and French. They have met each other in SocGen and love at first sight in one of the training. And they are even going to get married. So nice of them.
And the dinner was very good. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I shall always remember the good time I have (reward).
I was in a very happy mood today . At least I know Colin won’t mind of my invasion.
Heard of one nice joke. There was one businessman, one mechanic and one programmer on the road. The car broke down and the businessman proposed that they should call for help and got the car into garage. The mechanic suggested that he should open the bonnet and took a look at the engine. The programmer suggested that they should all exit the car and enter again and see if it worked.
Jackpot Machine can be thought as a happiness machine. Putting coins in the machine can be thought as all the pain and unhappiness. What happens is you keep on suffering hoping that some great rewards shall arrive. But how many of us can win in the end?
Spent the whole morning calling up people. Called up Jenny and got my date of arriving at Jakarta fixed. Called up Ginger and has my flight detail booked. Have to pay a lot more as there is no more seat available. Called up Mum and told her my schedule. Finally called up Toby and had a good chat.
In the afternoon, went over to BNP and had a training there. Version 5 seems more sophisticated then the SocGen version. Had a long coffee break with Alvin in one of the café nearby. The last time we did it was in Singapore.
I had this craving for Japanese food. Don’t know why.