Paris on a Bicycle!

OMG I forgot how cool Paris was and if it's even possible, it's even cooler now with a little more money (last time I was there was '98 studying and broke).

So ended up staying at 9 hotel which is in the 9th Arondissement (Paris Zone), quite a central location and walking distance to Galleries Lafayette and the Shopping district of Boulevard Hausman and biking distance from The Louvre. Yes! I biked it! -Though not without hitting an old man before I was told where the bike lane was. Ok! So I'm mildly retarded.

There were no less than 3, Bike Stations within 5 blocks. They have an awesome self-serve take and return a bike system launched last year. You get a bike where from point-A and return it to a station at point-B at impressively many locations. 1st 30mins FREE!!! 1st additional half hour 1 €, 2nd additional half hour 2 € and 4€ per half hour (priced to discourage hogging) thereafter with a150€ refundable deposit ...

Environmental friendly Kudos to France, apparently Germany has it too... It's not without flaws though, there's like a thing where you charge your card and it spits out a ticket with a pin for a deposit and it took my money but didn't give me my thing. And no one picks up the helpline!!! I got an automated piece of shit!!! Stupid credit card couldn't cancel the transaction???!!! Also finding return bays near The Louvre was a pain in the butt so I chained my bike to my friend's (hahahaha) try stealing that!!! (Ooh! They come with locks) But otherwise trés cool! It ended up being the highlight of the trip... Damn handy also since the Taxis were on strike :(

Sigh! Will never get to Malaysia prolly cos all the bikes will be stolen la, rigged la, vandalised la and whatever else la. Shame-shame since the fuel prices are going up,up,up!!

Maybe the Political Leaders should start 1st. LoL

by Mob's Crib

How LOA Can You Go?

I learnt a new acronym; LOA for Lack of Attention. Commonly used to describe engaging in shameless, desperate and often unoriginal attention seeking behavior in hope of attracting some (cheap) attention... As in "She damn LOA"

Examples:

1. Chicks on facebook who post (& tag) pictures of themselves with the same poses, posing with the same friends, at the same club/trendy outlet week after week after week, in different slutty outfits. - Hope I never get tagged in any of those pictures
2. Couples who talk to each other in cooing baby
   
3. Oversized fake Boobs
4. Suicide
   
5. Nagging Moms
6. Kim Kardasian

Root of LOA behavior=insecurity - it's really unbecoming!

Trying to Book a Hotel in Paris in June *@*#$$!

Le 9 Hotel, Paris

When traveling, I pour a large portion of research time into finding a cool hotel because it can make or break a trip... an oldy moldy hotel with scary curly furniture and floral bedding will seriously send me screaming out of there split seconds!!!

Thankfully, of late boutique hotels are sprouting up everywhere, easy to book and quite affordable, although nowhere near cheap. New hotels are cool because they have less history... i.e.; stains and unwelcome room-mates (of the pest-y & astral kind). Or so I thought.

Trying to book a reasonably priced hotel in a central part of town in Paris at this time of the year seems to be damn near impossible. Apparently, to quote a french dude that turned my reservations down... "dat izz Paris in June..."

Besides stalking myboutiquehotel (best rates but only paris & london), tablethotels (coolest site but a little pricier) & splendia (almost the same as myboutique but in USD), which are really cool sites for boutique hotels, I've also been calling hotels who all seem to be booked (for my budget) or those that are were in my price range (150Euros thats x 5.2 Ringgits!!!) are now at least 30% more. Sigh! Let's not even get into the frantic calling to Morocco trying to book a Riad there -hardly any English spoken. (Did I mention I'm going to Morocco too?)

Anyway finally heard back from rep at myboutique hotels who should be able to hopefully book for me 9 hotel at 120-190 Euros.