I want to eat a cinnamon roll

I just read the papers. Or sort of read the papers (theStar online mah!)

Someone was killed today. Stabbed to death just for a handbag. In the sleepy, stinky little town i spent 4 years in at USM. Thirty minutes away across the bridge from my home.

Its just a small town, more village like than a city. Its quiet, shops close early and theres no entertainement. I thought crime only happens in big cities, i guess i was wrong.

Now Penang's CM is urging the Federal Government to speed up the installations of CCTV in Penang. Speed up wor. I think they've been trying to install em for at least a year . . .

Welcome to Malaysia.

Why is it that something has to happen first before action is taken? The bus crashes, the mat rempit cases, the snatch theft, break ins, rape cases, abuse cases . . .

Only when a major catastrophe occurs and it ends up in the papers does big shot up there decide to step in, offer condolence and come up with some kind of ops but always tak jadi.

Cis.

Bah. Whatever. Todays pretty picture:

Along the Seine, walking towards Notre Dame on Saturday night.

Week 3

Crap. I just lost one whole page.

Now im too lazy to repost the pics. SOrry !

Got a call from Yu Ming today (thanks ! ! ) Really, really miss you girls !

She said i sound sad. Do I sound sad? Am I sad? I dont know .. Its been a busy busy few weeks, and not know when i get to go home is kind of hard to deal with . . cos theres no specific date I can look forward to.

BUT despite that Im gradually losing my voice and its freakin cold, I think Im doing okay

Missing.

Have you seen my dog?

I lost him somewhere between transit of hotels. I cant find him anywhere and the hotel doesnt have him.

I am so upset.

Rex has been my buddy and constant companion for the past 20+ years. Ever since I before I can remember, and I cant find him. I know its dumb to be so attached to a ratty stuffed animal but I cant help it. Im a nester, I nest. I put down roots, and he was my anchor. And now I cant find him its all crumbling apart, Im starting to miss everything.

Dont tell me its time to grow up or to just buy something new; it doesnt work like that. And if you know me well enough you'd KNOW how much that stinky dog means to me.

Call me childish, I dont care. I lost my comfort item. I lost my anchor, I lost my constant. A stuffed animal has been keeping me sane through my journies across Malaysia, Europe, Doha, Sydney, Thailand . . I am so weak.

What do I hold on to now?

Psycho

Its all quiet here in the classroom

We've got a break, and all is silent except for the tap tap tapping of fingers flying across the keyboard. Everyone is either on MSN, YM or something else.

So quiet! It unnerves me. Im not used to it. Even my old Motorola office was never this quiet. Or the sound of typing was just never this obvious.

Oh man, i hate having nothing to do.

The idleness stresses me out.

I checked the weather today, its 10degrees this morning! Freezing! I really wish I had bought those boots at Zara in Doha.

Todays pic:

Notre Dame church at night.

I need to go in and ask for blessings.

Grrr

I am annoyed.

I am actually very annoyed.

I've got a withdrawal and expenditure limit set on my Maybank account. And I'm stuck here spending in Euros and Riyals and I cant get money out of my account cos I've gone over my 1k limit.

Crap.

I've been trying to get Maybank to increase my account limit but they wont. Cos in order to increase my limit i have to personally go to a Maybank ATM branch in MALAYSIA.

How the hell am I going to do that?

I couldnt change my cash into Euros before coming ( i came with only 145 Euros in my pocket) and I cant take out any extra cash. I should have just gone for HSBC.

Anyway, a couple of pics from France:

Too lazy too upload and resize anymore, i'll do it another time :)

I cant speak French

Its been a while. . .

Im trying to keep to updating this at least once a week. So many things to say, but not so much I want to share. Hmmm..

Call me if you want to know :)

Anyway, I had a jammed packed weekend (weekend being Thursday-Friday in Doha) before packing and jumping onto a flight and here I am in France!

Details of the weekend may or may not be posted just cos im lazy, but I had a good time

Its my 2nd day here now, I love it! Its fresh and green and cold but not to the point where im freezing yet. Good change from hot and dusty Qatar. It was 46degrees the afternoon i left.

Food is good (so far) but expensive (sadly) mainly cos of the shitty exchange rate we get. Havent gone out much except to the shopping area around Val d'Europe (is this how you spell it?) cos well . . . Im here for work/study.. so i hop on the bus in the morning at 7 . . . it takes an hour to get to the elc .. then we leave at 6 so im back at the hotel at 7. Twelve full hours!

Im hoping to get out a little more today.

Anyway, yesterday we went grocery shopping. . . And then I realised how freaking hard it is to be in a country where ALL the signs and ALL the labels are in a foreign language. I couldnt find the milk or the yoghurt or the biscuits. . had to randomly wander around all the aisles.

Im really glad im not here alone. Pics coming soon!