Wednesday, 9 March 2011

21st. Weekend in Paris: Day 2 [pm]

Paris: Day 2 [pm] Louis Vuitton Exhibition & Sushi

After the Eiffel Tower, I went on the Metro (love the live music ambience!) to go back to the Musée Carnavalet. I say 'go back' because I had already been the day before. However, I arrived 10mins after last admission (5:15) but I didn't realise as I checked the closing time online which was 6pm. Although it makes sense; last entry time never occured to me! Anyhow, I made it with plenty of time.
Voyage en Capitale – Louis Vuitton Exhibition.
Lucky as the last day of the exhibition was 27th February & I went on the 26th ^o^. All thanks to my girlfriend Chrissy who suggested this to me~ 
The exhibition, showed the very first trunks created by Louis Vuitton in the 1800s. The lady told me to
"mettre la caméra dans le sac"
 
which means put camera in your bag, so I did. But I made baby whip out his iPhone. horhor.
I couldn't resist the temptation after being told no. I wouldn't want to miss such beautiful items because I don't exactly have photographic memory...Besides, the flash wasn't on and another lady was blatantly taking a photo with her pink digicam! I also brought the Voyage en Capitale booklet but it's all in French, I struggled a little -_-"

Bottom right photo - scary video screen showing a real life situation of a semi-naked woman in one of the Louis Vuitton trunks struggling to find a comfortable position to sleep in.
Not sure what the story is behind this but seems like she was transported over seas in the trunk for weeks.
Gallery Valentino ~ sorry to say but the flooring was the most interesting part. 
End the evening with sushi @ a place called SUSHI in St. Pauls. yummiest sushi we've ever had! nom nom. The manager was soso cute and friendly too.

21st. Weekend in Paris: Day 2 [am]

Paris: Day 2, am. Eiffel Tower

En route to Eiffel Tower, I went past the French equivalent of Selfridges, Printemps.
It houses more prestigous designers and each 'campus' is seperated into Men's, Women's & Beauty.

Also, snapped a photo of a chinese guy and girl who looked like Printemps' regulars.
The girl was dressed in head to toe Chanel whereas the guy was wearing the Christian 'Louis' Loubitin leopard print studded sneakers!! ahhh I fell in love....



 
Attempted another styling shoot, but it was a wet, windy day in Paris.
My hat kept flying off and falling onto the floor - thankfully, Paris streets are jetwashed so it's fairly clean...
Tourists queueing up for the Eiffel Tower.
& little souvenirs available for sale from manipulative African/Asian salesmen.
I have the exact same orange doggy so it was like natsukashii ^o^ ! My grandma brought it me for my 6th Birthday in China.
Me on my 6th birthday with the orange doggy.

Went to the Troccadero, to meet with one of Ken's cwalk fans, who was 45mins late ¬_¬" (For those of you who do not know what cwalk is, 
click here for ken's London 5 Way video with an astoudingly huge achievement of 23million views since 2006, when he was a little boy of 16 years old) bless hehe.
Luckily me and Ken were still dawdling around, siteseeing otherwise they would have missed eachother as they hadn't exchanged phone numbers.

GoSu & Alexis made a 'Paris 2 way' - which will be uploaded to the GoSu Official facebook fan page soon. 
 

haha. a nice end to the morning in Paris......

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

21st. Weekend in Paris: Day 1


PARIS: Day 1
All the yummy & cute things.

Upon arrival, first thing Ken says is "Does tap water taste like Evian??"
Hahaha so cute. 

BB: outside Gare du Nord, Paris. 09:25am
Couldn't check into Hotel yet until noon so went to a nearby cafe for
Breakfast: OJ, hot chocolate, croissant with jam, sunny eggs & baguette.-
the yummiest croissant I've ever had. [doesn't look all that because it's a little burnt, but it was]

Cute Japanese gift shop where it sold the QP 'KEWPIE' doll which I had been looking for since forever! I only brought one doll....ken didn't want me to buy anymore but I regret it now!
baby QP was the only thing I brought home from Paris (seriously everything including LV/GUCCI/MiuMiu is overpriced in Paris, rather buy it in England!)
-following photos- cute floral/grassy moped, giant Babybel & macaroons. nom nom.

Cutest Crepe shop ever! Ken found it on the corner of an alley way~
Princess Crepe.
3, rue des Écouffes (4th)
Tél: 01 43 43 57 97
M: Saint-Paul or Hôtel de Ville