Greetings from Paris

Chandran, Janine (poet and painter living in Paris), Sylvy (French-English translator),
Ivy, me and Cecile (also French-English translator who did a wonderful job
translating my pieces from English to French)

with Z and my writer friends in Paris

Printemps: syurga Paris for shoes and handbags

Laduree which makes double-decker macarons
Interesting background (the inventor was a writer activist)

The reason for me to migrate to Paris..

Yang ni kedai tepi jalan je

Parisians elegant habeh

Pakaian lelaki :D

Sempena nama suami saya. :)

Boiferen bought me.It's not French.Ferragamo OK?
I love Italian handbags,Ada gaya, practical and cantik.Yang ini new
season (takda zip kat tengahnya..boleh letak anak hanjing macam Paris Hilton atau payung atau buku)

Z and I are in Paris.Dah 2 malam.My friends in Paris Ivy and Chandran Nair take real good care of us.May God give them much happiness.Baik bebenor.The airport where budget airlines stop is a long way to Paris.We took the shuttle bus.Not free.Pi balik is 64 euro for 2.Ivy and Chandran picked us up at the bus terminal.Then we went to see Eiffel Tower.It's the first day of summer.Then they took us lunch at Mina Mahal, a halal Pakistani restaurant not far from UNESCO office where Chandran used to work.

We cabut before the traffic jam got worse.The Nairs live 30 mins away outa Paris in a nice suburb.Pics of Ivy's garden later.

On Saturday, we took the train to the city to meet up with another friend T.Wignesan of Bunga Mas fame.He took us around.Shopping, sightseeing and eating in Paris.Vig speaks 7 languages, an Asian Studies scholar, poet, critic.

We can live here.Very refined city but like NYC in the 1990s...some parts hancing bau kencing or anjing not properly groomed.The immigrants (not all) bring bad habits to a refined city.

Vig took us to lunch at Le Procope the oldest cafe (now fine dining) where Napoleon Bonaparte, Marat and Voltaire used to dine.

Then we walked and walked to shop, sightseeing.We covered and learned so much in half a day.We just got lucky with Vig.

Chandran picked us up at St Quentin station.Ivy cooked nice curry to eat with prata which Chandran made.They are good cooks! (and Ivy had kindly bought halal meat and chicken for us.Menantu dia Muslim from the UK so dia faham bebenor mana nak cari halal supply.In fact they found out daging halal lagi sedap dan lain rasanya and so, they have been buying halal meat/chicken)

Firemen mrk ganteng!