04
Jul
Arrival in Paris
Air France is a really cool airline - the airline stewardess are friendly and nice; but there’s only one short-coming: their economy seats are too darn small! I barely had room to move, and the seat had very little travel, so I was sitting almost erect for 13 whole hours.
When we landed at Charles de Gaulle airport (pronounced “Shoal-the-Goo-ul”) we met some very sour faces behind immigration counters. Not a bad start in the country known for their snobbishness. Thankfully, the reception we got once we met up with the guys from Microsoft France was way better.
Team Mamagaia from TP with Leon, our DMIT lecturer in the background. The picture wasn’t sharp because my hands were shaky. They’re competing in the Software Design category.
Team TrailBlazers from NYP. They’re competing in the Embedded Design category.
So all of us got picked up at the airport, and we went around cam-whoring with DSLRs.
Boarding the bus that’ll take us to the hotel
The airport control tower. The moment we stepped out onto the streets, the huge natural air-conditioning outside hit us. It’s like you’ve turned on a perpetual air-con outside in the room, but shoved the sun into all the rooms.
For some unknown reason, in Paris, it is a social norm to park your European car on the pavement. And your car had better be European, cos there’s absolutely no Toyota, or Nissan everywhere I looked. It’s the land of Skoda, Citrogën, Peugeot and Mercedes here, and the French are proud of it.
We saw an Air France Concorde about to take off…
… or so we thought
Rabbit in the clouds!
French tunnel
An Air France flight getting towed to somewhere. Paris is the hub city for the national carrier.
The competition starts today, so for 36 hours we’ll be working our butts off in the air-conditioned environment outside. I’ve got more pictures, but I don’t have the time to post them up yet, but I’ll try.
on July 4th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Paris! How lucky are you? Want. More. Pictures. Now.
I’m only half kidding. Take care of yourself, work hard and play hard!
on July 5th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Looks like someone’s having fun.
Hope you enjoy the cheese there, while the rest of us will have to make do with nasi lemak.
on July 7th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Soon Bing! You’re behind on pictures compared to XJ!
Go take more
on July 8th, 2008 at 4:07 am
We apologise for the wait. The blog owner is busy getting wasted at the Eiffel Tower
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Just joking, I took lots of pictures; it’s just that I’m a way slower processor than I take pictures. Rest assured that Flickr will regret the day they accepted my $25 subscription. Mwahahahahahahahahaha!