Finally, I can wake up in some undefined time. Did my laundry by hand and left the house by 1 pm. The amazing thing is, after losing ways and got to the wrong place here and there, it took me 4 hours to get to see my Kah Lok friend. Amazing, huh?
Begin to feel like the good old days in UK. Except that no one is beside me while I drive.
Watch the show, “Good Will Hunting”, alone.
Last night was bad, I slept at six in the morning. Force myself to get up at midday but I failed (once again). Lucky the room service called at three and I managed to get out the room at four. Did some shopping and headed off to Paris centre immediately.
Knowing that the show “Cinquième Element” or in English, “Fifth Element”, is so popular, I bought the ticket in advance. Once again, thanks to Aurore’s Card, I bought the ticket in special rate.
Just before I left the room, I have noticed a magazine at my study room. It tells me all the good restaurants around Paris. I took a look and selected some of them near Chatelet. It was an Italian restaurant and the food was fine.
That show “Cinquième Element” was really good. Especially, I love the part about the fifth element, which was a heroine. I just love heroine. A lot of special effects with great sound quality. What more do I want? I still contemplating whether to watch “Romeo and Juliet” again or this one as I still have one credit left.
Ridicules as it seems, I called up JP at three last night. She sound very cheerful and oh, how much I miss her sweet voice. Been talking about work here and there and her ex-ex, J, called just before we broke up and returned all her photo albums to her. Also, she got herself a mobile phone. So, life seems to work out really good for her. As for mine, it is just a mess. God, how can I ever get out of this?
I ended up not being able to sleep for the whole night and went to sleep at 7 am. Obviously, I couldn’t get up. Eventually, I walked into the office at 10:30 am. Sophie was “concerned” and I quickly went up and apologised.
The office was very empty today. Guess a lot of them took Friday off and have 4 consecutive days of holiday. Other than Aurore and Claude, all of us were in the office.
At five, everybody started to leave and I left at 5:30 pm. Usually early.
Laurent has invited me for a party tonight and therefore, he picked me up from my hotel. More and more people joined in and in the end, I have lost count of the total number of people. I guess that was around fifteen.
We went to this Chinese restaurant with Karaoke. Started from 7:30 pm and we all stayed up to 2 am. Kind of crazy but I was having a great time. Laurent’s girlfriend is a Vietnamese and is actually very pretty. The songs varied from Cantonese to Mandarin to English to French to even Vietnamese.
It was a great party and when Laurant drove me back to the hotel, we shared a lot of our personal life. He is a great guy.
Totally ridicules! If not for Francis’s phone call and the room service phone call, I would have slept until God knows when. Finally I woke up at seven pm. Had a long hot shower and rushed off to my favourite Japanese restaurant. One thing good about going to the same restaurant all the time is that they treat you really good. Extra sushi and free cup of tea.
And the next thing was rush to watch a movie. Wanted to watch the “5th Element” by Bruce Willis but it was full. So I watched “Shine”. Very touching movie. With the ticket voucher given (lent) by Aurore, I’ve got a really cheap bargain.
Annie’s email is always so practical and always reminds me of the cruel reality. She even suggested that I shall stay in YMCA instead. Alright, this is when the reality bites. I shall survive. I will survive.
Grand Canyon. That was today’s plan. Well, I woke up half an hour later and Colin was very impatient. Seriously, I need at least seven hours’ of sleep in order to be able to drive such a long distance. And last night, we slept late. As I have said before, if I have to get up early the next day, we better sleep early the night before. Also, I do need to wash my hair and so on in the morning and as for him, just wash up, dress up and go.
That goes back to the first agreement that we have – a relaxing holiday. I think, in the end, our definition of relax is different. For him, it is less of travel and for me, it is more of sleep.
That also make me realised that the way I treated JP was not quite right. Last time, I always didn’t understand why she needs to sleep for ten hours and I always waited at the door impatiently for her. That is good that I feel that way now. At least I can truly put myself into her shoes. After all, people are different from each other and there is no way to change. But to understand and accommodate. Am I right? Pity that it is a bit too late to realise this.
Therefore, I don’t blame Colin for feeling that way. In fact, he was quiet the whole morning.
OK. Back to the trip. Took an hour drive to reach the Hoover Dam which is in Arizona. The reason of building such a dam is because of the flooding of the Colorado River. It is the largest dam in America and it is quite spectacular. And after visiting the dam, we rush off to Grand Canyon which took us another four hours to reach. As pressurised by Colin, I was driving at 90 mph. Kind of quite exciting.
Basically, the national park has a few views for us to stop. It is the most breathtaking scene I have ever seen. It is somewhat like a very long stretch of “cliffs” and the formation of such a wonder is still a mystery to me. Whether it is worth of driving ten hours today is still in doubt.
The West Rim can only reach by the shuttle bus. And we managed to catch the last bus and managed to see the sunset. While we were in the bus, waiting to return to the part centre, there was one very old couple and one young couple. As the conversation exchanged, we learnt that the old man has been through the World War II while the younger one has been through the Golf War. We joked that Colin should tell them that he is from the Singapore Army and get ready to start the World War III.