site analysis + floor plan
12:57 PM
we spent last night watching "swimming pool" an RA film in french and english... on the nice blue couch.. not bad eh... we've got a DVD player... and next monday the cable TV will come too! which means i can watch EPL live! woohoo...

most importantly is the 24h natural airconditioning! so shiok lor.
had a really good sleep last night and woke at 1pm today... shiok! although still not enough to cover for the lack of sleep the whole week due to 9am classes.

anyway we're all really happy that all the appliances have finally arrived.. and the house feels so nice right now! with the warm orangey light in the living room and all... the washing machine and dryer have been working round the clock cos of all the overdue laundry haha! just glad i've got fresh undies to wear now. (i was down to my last one yesterday... -it was yellow in colour, just for the record)

anyway, in the afternoon we did some grocery shopping and then jiaxin cooked some nice pork with onions and some spaghetti... ahh really reminds me of singaporean food! and my gf still rubs it in, sharing with me her chomp chomp experience last night! ah... FUG! just glad that jiaxin is quite a chef here... if not.. haha...

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thats the floor plan of our apartment... i think its large enough for us to live comfortably here... about 64m2 i think... since its pretty much a 8m x 8m floor area... kinda nice tho, i like the idea that we have a walk in wardrobe, and that we can walk through it to the showers and then the bedroom and then the living room.. the only fatal flaw is the kitchen - the door which swings inwards and blocks the way. thats a huge no-no for us architects cos its just plain impractical!

oh and in case u're wondering, the french dont shit and shower in the same toilet! so we have the WC on one corner, and the shower on the other! there's this thing that looks like the toilet bowl in the shower but it isnt! its a bidet.. for cleaning your dirty stinky arses... but since we have none of those, we dont actually use it.

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and here's the site analysis of where we live! haha check out the urban layout here in paris man... kinda chaotic huh.. but its cool, cos at the end of every major road, if you dont see the eiffel, you'll see the arc de triomphe, if not, you've prolly gotten yourself lost somewhere outside of paris...

so our address is 181 avenue victor hugo.. nice up-class district with expensive boutiques lining the street below... the most sickening bit is that there are all those posh restaurants serving oysters and foie-gras and what not... and yea we hafta walk past them everytime.. haha.. but nevertheless.. its a really nice place to live in.. it feels safe here... this district is called trocadero if im not mistaken... the actual metro stop trocadero is nearby.. its where u get one of the best views of eiffel.. as it is from higher ground... so if you're coming to paris, remember to get off at trocadero to experience that best view!

and as u can see, we're on the road that leads straight to arc du triomphe! and the eiffel is pretty nearby too... abt 10mins by blades..

ah and yes that blue line is the metro route that we take to school everyday... well u see the part where it crosses the river seine? thats where the metro track is above ground and we actually get a really good view of the river and the eiffel tower while traversing it. so yup, my dream come true! getting to see the eiffel on the metro on the way to school everyday... haha... and those tiny lil human figures atop the tower every single day... its really one heck of a tourist-dollar machine!

posted by zy- on 12:57 PM