A Cornell Abroad Blog
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24th, 2010
This is not so much a new post as it is a followup to the earlier one – after having been to the Musée de l’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and not having seen a single thing, I went back on Wednesday to actually look at the art instead of merely stalk poor [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2010
I often joke that Hong Kong, the city I live in and come from, is a giant shopping mall unto inself, where people are constantly descending and ascending escalators in search of things to buy. Paris, I feel, is an enormous museum, composed of many little exhibition halls and everyone is either cursing over an abominable [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19th, 2010
I hate flying, and above all, I hate airports. I think I have couple of very bad memories associated with leaving loved ones at airports, so nothing gets me down more than going through security or see the long row of gate numbers. It doesn’t help that airports nowadays are getting so obscenely large too- [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2010
I think the greatest extravagance of my life, or life on earth in general, is bubbly water. It is most certainly not fashion, good food or perfume – if nothing else, Paris has taught me that looking chic is ‘impératif’, eating well is ‘essentiel’ and smelling nice is ‘obligatoire’. Make no mistake though – I [...]