I had a weird dream last night - that I went for a trip to Paris, France and visited the Eiffel Tower. Oh I just wish the dream was real! A trip to Paris one day is on my wish list already. I might buy a nice jar to start saving for that trip - to one of the most romantic places on earth and yes and I mean Paris, the city of love. I guess this is the side effect of watching too much of 'Monte Carlo' - I love that movie so much that I watched not once but thrice. (the same effect got into me with movies like Clueless, French Kiss and Ever After - I know it's crazy that I'm a movie freak!)
I was helping my bestie, Melissa to do survey online for her future business on supplying wedding favors in Sabah or even getting ideas to do wedding favors for her own wedding (hopefully next year) and I came across this site and stumbled upon this pretty "Evening in Paris" Eiffel Tower place card holder by Kate Aspen. And the name on the card almost sounds like my name. How lovely is that.
And If I'm not married (I said IF ya)...I would like to date a French guy (hahaha)....ehem..particularly this French hottie - Pierre Boulanger who acted in Monte Carlo. This is what I defined as 'handsome'.
Okay..okay..wake up now Mama Rock - you are still up in the clouds...time to wake up. What a dream...Oh Paris!
My sister, Debbie just got back from her India Trip yesterday and I think she will brag about it very soon in her blog. She actually asked me to blog about her trip on her behalf while she was still in India and gave me permission to use her pictures from FB but I didn't have the time to post about it in here yet. But I liked the fact that she got the chance of lifetime to meet HH The Dalai Lama, who is living in exile in Dharamsala, India and is one of the world's most influential religious figure - and I'm a lil bit jeolous (hehe)! Deb is so kind to buy me a few souvenirs from India such as this pretty unique notebooks - thanks Deb! We both love to collect notebooks. By the way (just for your info) we are fraternal twins. I bought 2 pretty notebooks recently as well - will show those addition later in here.
Well, here's to share some of her photos from her trip.....just love those creative art & craft stuffs and the Himalayan mountain range (to Deb, thanks again for allowing me to use your lovely photos):
Last night I watched a very warm and sophisticated Vietnamese movie "The Story of Pao" at Astro's Kirana Channel, about a young ethnic Hmong woman named Pao who sets off to find her mother. The story develops the concept of love from different points of view, both traditional and modern, and seeks to share an intimate look at Vietnam and the Hmong people. The magnificent mountain ranges of Northwest Vietnam, engulfed year-round in an immense veil of fog, provide a rich cinematic setting for this vivid and moving film. This movie won a few film awards such as the Special Jury Award at the Asia Film Festival in 2006 and suppose to be nominated in the 2007 Annual Academy Awards (Oscars) in the Best Foreign Film category (if I'm not mistaken lah). The music in the film is uniquely great. Check out the trailer here:
What interest me most about this movie is that it shows the beautiful part of Vietnam - the highlands of Sapa and the culture of the Hmong Tribes...just fascinates me! I would really love to go there and live with the locals for a few days..I can already imagine the adventure...glad that my sister Deb might organise a trip to Sapa someday/sometime soon.
The magnificient scenery of Sapa
The Hmong people in their colorful costumes...I like...I want!
Anyways, I'm still recuperating from this irritating cough (it's been two weeks) but I still have the heart to eat ice-cream from Karamell Almondo, the newest soft ice cream concept bar in town. Strange that I'm recovering already after eating them...and then I'm off to buy Slumdog Millionaire's movie soundtrack and probably buy a Korean movie or drama to watch for the weekend.
