Firstly please take note that I am literally taking a break from all of my case studies and my lecture notes to spend time writing. PLEASEEEEEEE appreciate my efforts ;')

This post is inspired after completing 10 episodes of Emily in Paris (NETFLIX) in 2 days.  It brings back 2018's memories like a rush of adrenaline after an orgasm. Ok maybe thats too much. It brings back memories. Thats all.

Let's be real here, I'm 22 and approaching 23 in less than 5 months. I can say whatever I want to. 

I could relate to how unfriendly people in Paris could be and how the subway smelled like pee sometimes. It is true, Paris is soooooo beautiful especially at night. The lights, the aura itself, you just knew its a city of love. The architecture, omg, it was sooo mesmerizing. Both in London and Paris actually. Even an old building, you could see admire how nice the building was built. 

In one of the episodes, Emily got lost because she felt like Paris was such a big place but actually its a small town. It does have a lot of different streets but in the end you find yourself not far from the place before. 

Let's begin on day 1.

We took a train from London to Paris. The best thing about taking the train was not actually the train but going to platform 9 3/4. Of course it was full with other tourist (literally) but I knew we just had to go there. We checked out early to be there. 

After we finished taking pictures, we rushed back to the station to find the train. Long story short, we got into the train and arrived in Paris about 3 hours of journey (if I'm not mistaken).

We were unsure to either take the taxi or uber to the hotel (ubis). Some people approached (like ulat ulat lah in Malaysia) sudden offer 'prices' on finding taxi for us. My dad (excuse his attitude) entertained one of them. I was clueless about this situation because I had no say in this matter. Basically we could get a taxi EASILY from the train station at the taxi place but these people said they could offer us 'better' prices by finding for us. Konon nya if cari sendiri rm50 pegi hotel tapi dia boleh dapat rm30 but we had to pay them some money for their efforts. 

As I was saying, my dad entertained this lady and she got us a taxi. The taxi was not even hard to find because it was parked just nearby so she was not really 'looking' for us. We refused to pay her because it was not really an effort and we just arrived, we didn't have small changes. The thing about Europe, their paper money was 5,10,20,50 if I was not mistaken. We only have like 10 and 50 as we never used any money yet. SO she got mad and cursed us in France (obviously). The taxi driver gave her some chances and talked to her about it. Then as he drove, he told us next time just take a cab at the cab place. 

Imagine arrived and your first experience was being shouted by this lady because of taxi. I had a bad impression. For a minute it felt like a huge mistake to be here. 

Ok, we arrived and checked in. We booked 3 rooms, my parents, my sister and her husband, lastly my brother and me. It was a decent room. My sister said the price living in hotel and homestay was not much different. At least the hotel was nearer to the centre of city because homestay nearby was much expensive. 

The first day, we took the subway to our destinations. We just decided to walk around first. Saw some Malaysians but as usual, they just glared. Ate melayu kan selalu lupa kaum bila berpijak kat tanah orang. Tiber. 

The differences between subway in London and Paris, we bought subway pass in Uk and topup when necessary while in Paris, my sister said buying daily ticket save some dimes but the cheapest ticket has limit time means you can't go far with the cheapest one, maybe up to 30 mins destination. 

The hotel was not far from the Eiffel Tower so we went there and watched it light up. We sat across the tower, like place people hanging out, picnic, smoking weed (yupe I smelled some, my brother said it was weed, what do I know. I'm still virgin from any kind of illegal drugs tho). 

Second day, we took the subway to the Louve. It was huge! Like, HUGE. I'm not sure on how to describe the place. So, you saw the pyramid glass from outside but that's just like nothing you imagine it would be. You took the escalator into the place and lineup to enter. Obviously the first thing you want is to see MONA LISA. The effort to reach ML was A LOT. The thing is, when I arrived and SQUEEZED my tiny ASIAN body to reach the painting, my height was not helping. You see, I'm only 157cm which in EUROPE size, I'm tiny. Compare to others, I'm only their tummy height. I saw ML, one tick off the bucket list. 

I got tired of walking and even hours there I didn't go to every inch of the place. It was enough and I think I had enough naked statues and paintings for that day. I went to the gift shop (which I could barely afford anything) but I bought some postcards anyway. 

We walked around from the Louve to any tourist site nearby. Took some pictures. (I'm sorry but i don't remember the names of the places).

That night, we go to Eiffel Tower. The line omg, was so fuc* long. There was only 1 elevator up available because the other one was in maintenance. We lined up from 4 but only got there after 2 and half hours or longer. We needed to change the elevator at one level, smaller ones to go up to the top. You had a choice to take the stairs to the level where you changed the elevator. My brother went up by stairs, yupe he was a crazy guy. On top, the view was like a dream come true. It's never as you imagine, it was BETTER. It took your breath away. It was amazing to be on top. 

The next day we went for a trip. We went out from Paris to Royal Palace of Versailles. We took one day ticket.  It was very sunny that day. Thankfully we bought out tickets online so at least our line was moving. I guess the best things about visiting this palace, I learnt some of the histories of France's Royalty. They gave us the device like mp3 to listen whole having the tour. You can key in specific numbers that were provided under the paintings to know the story about it. Of course they have human tour where they bring groups into the chambers and explain the things like why it was on the bed instead of somewhere else. 

The palace had such a stunning garden. You guys should google it tho. 

I guess that evening we didn't do much. 

We did visit Montmartre. You could see the ET from there. Besides that, we went to Notre Dame but this one we didn't enter. It's a cathedral so nothing much to talk about. Of course, it was beautiful! Everything was beautiful, no doubt!

We took our flight from Paris to Abu Dhabi and back home..

Let me tell you the 'susah senang' living there.

1. My parents brought rice cooker and we did cook rice, sardin, eggs (took from breakfast buffet) in the toilet. Hahahahaha! I mean, my parents thought it was smart because no fire detector (they were paranoid) and put DO NOT DISTURB as long as we were staying.

2. We ate breakfast there because my sister took that package to ensure we eat dinner only but boy, we still need food for lunch :') Only 1 kebab store near the hotel. Tahan jela lapaq.

3. We visited Starbucks there after visiting Versailles. It was a bit cheaper than in London but nothing much different in taste. The coffee tasted COFFEE okay, not sweet like in Malaysia ^^

4. A lot of ulat, i mean, no offence but a lot of negros who would want to sell keychains, waters or anything that they could all around Paris. Literally. They even want our ticket after visiting the Louve I guess to sell it back in cheaper price. idk man but the police outside the Louve wore rollerskater to chase them. They would run if they saw any police. 

5. Halal food was not convenient in Paris. Oh, all channels even movies are in France. 

6. In the subway, you need to be careful with pickpockets even in London. They even warned people in the train. Some gypsy (lady lah) would sing in the train and asked for any change. 

Let me be totally honest, the view was amazing but the people was not so friendly especially if you don't know France in general. The guys there, not all of them was hot, if you're lucky you will see some of them. I was unfortunately not so lucky. Will I visit again? I will but maybe not Paris for 5 days, maybe some other place or in countryside. London? Yes, I don't mind spending a week there haha because the people was nice and everything was nice there even the weather.

My story was not very detailed because I don't know how to describe but trust me if I said it was amazing, it was!