the eighth day - paris

today we will travel off to paris and then to geneva, brig, zermatt and zurich before coming back to dublin. took flight from dublin to CDG, paris..love the cdg name...hahaha...have light argument with bro in the flight. both of us have sour face thru out the day..reached cdg around 3 something..took subway to find our rented apartment... there're many africans in paris..well, based on our experiences in malaysia, we're quite worry and always be careful with our belongings.. managed to find our way to the apartment before evening arrives. our landlord is a south african white staying in paris. very friendly and always smile and crack jokes..

once we have settle down our belongings in the apartment, we went out again to go to eiffel tower using the subway again...sis informed us there will be special light performance at eiffel tower until end of the year..here are some of the light performance.

airin and i under the eiffel tower

our cosy little apartment

bro helping to set up mom's bed

my first day here was an eye opening to me. here are some of the things i found out about paris.

1. they have very effecient subways that link to all places. very convinient and cheap, just dirty and smelly.

2. they have alot of african descendents citizens..and all the while i thought paris have lots of whites.

3. you have to be careful not to step into the dog poo. yes, dog poos are everywhere in paris town..

seventh day - dun loughaire

merry christmas!!!albeit belated eight months...woke up early morning and watch movie on the laptop. everyone woke up late this morning so i have the entire kitchen to myself..by the way, the only place i can sit and read book or use laptop early in the morning without waking up anyone will be the kitchen. managed to watch the entire love happens movie by aniston. quite a nice movie..bro prepared a light breakfast for everyone..then, we just hang out around the house, watch some x'mas program and do some packing for our trip to paris and swiss the next day. by 12pm, bro and sis brought us over to dun loughaire for a walk..according to bro, x'mas dinner begins at 12 pm in dublin and continue until midnight. in between the feast, dubliners will come over to dun loughaire for a long walk to help digest their food before going home and continue eating again. along the way to dun loughaire, we didn't see many people around the city area, except tourists looking for place to have their meals. but when we reach dun loughaire, there were many people walking around, either bringing their pets or with friends and family. it was so cold and the wind were quite strong...dun loughaire is a pier with a long walkway, something about 2km going out to the sea..it's simply a nice place to hang out if it's in kl or pj...

airin with her brand new ear comforter

the walkway looks wet, but actually it's frost and we have to be careful or else we might slip and take a hard fall

it's 12 pm yet it looks gloomy

bro helping mom to adjust her hood

our family photo. blurred because the auto focus in the d400 have problem, therefore have to use manual focus. my camera girl being a newbie unable to use the manual focus.

photo taken by bro

and this is the pose that he strike in order to snap the photo above

airin being a good tourist, throwing rubbish into the bin

a colourful airin

the battle for silly pose award continues

trying to protect her ear from the wind

and the silly pose continues

at the end of the walkway. to me, we are somewhere middle of the sea dy

not silly enough, don't you think so?

even the birds keep themselves within themselves, showing how united they can be

by 2 something, we finished our walk. bro drove us around the city before going home.. once a home, we make ourselves comfortable and start to prepare our x'mas dinner. our main dish will be the roast turkey...

the turkey being put into the oven to be roast over 120 minutes

bro preparing himself to roast the turkey

bro and i looking for extra plates for our x'mas dinner

dividing other dishes, including this small cabbage that i found very cute that prompt my sis to buy and cook it for me to eat...will never eat that kind of baggage anymore!!!tasteless!!!!

our turkey all well and done and ready to be serve

bro trying to get the filing out from the turkey

mom cutting the turkey meat

this is the filing, very nice and tasty, suitable to eat with the tasteless turkey meat

finally, dinner ready and we have a wonderful x'mas dinner

well, it was a wonderful experience to have a x'mas dinner. in malaysia, we never have this enviroment, the surrounding, with the snow, the coldness and turkey..hahaha..i love it very much!!! the down side of this wonderful dinner was that i have some kind of elergy..keep sneezing none stop. finally, airin accompany me to go outside and have some fresh air. feel much better after walking around the compound for a while.

when we went back into bro's apartment, he served me with ice creams that he bought for months in anticipating our visit...all in all, he bought 5 boxes of ice cream..hahaha..so, all five of us have ice cream as our dessert..love you bro...