barcelona

i was away in barcelona for the past 4days...went there with jx n wz... it was great! the city is vibrant n where we stayed, we were right smck in their orchard rd! there were nice quaint streets n unique shops which i sooo love...n guess whats the first word i learnt there... 'rebaixes'. that means... 'SALE'!i cleverly picked that up myself while walking along the streets n heck man, it didnt take me too long to figure it out..... the 2nd word i learnt was 'thank u' which was simialr to italain 'grazie' but a lil different with some 'th' sound replaceing the z...
so anyway we flew vueling, spanish budget... was a nice airline to fly, as in, their graphis design on their plane, int he plane like the emergency card n all, they were so pleasant to look at! ok so i dont have anythign to show u, heh. Oh! n on our flight, they had only male airstewards, it was quite funny to see men doing the 'in case of emergency' act.. hah.

then at the malpensa airport in mialn while waiting for our flight it was the italy-germany semis.. we only managed to catch abt 3-4 of the first half... then we had to board the flight...we found some big screen in the airport n parked ourselves there! together with all italian fans including italain policemen, italian airport staff, italians airport cleaners.. ok so u get the idea... okok, n some germans fans too.... well the best part was that the vueling captain actually gave us live updates ont he flight! that was really quite amusing, he wld annoucing in a rather non sided way like,' jsut for those who are following the world cup, italian fans u wld be gald to know that you are in the finals...' in a captain kinda monotone...ok, somehting like that... but yay! we were hoping so much tha he wld give up updates too... on our way thru customs n what not, we saw italian staff with their tv monitors not on xrayed bags etc but of the match! haha...

ok next up, spanish honey stars n kokocrunch...

the honey stars still look familiar, the kokokrunch, the dude is different isnt it? is ours some koala or something? i jsut know it looks wrong...

ok, next up is food... heh... haiya, i cldnt take any outdoor shots cos theres something wrong with my cam AGAIN! damn u olympus!! my outdoor shots r all over over OVER exposed! totally white! cldnt take pics of picasso hangout bar, or any of the gaudi stuff.... n what not... hai... im goona make sooo much noice when i get back to that service centre again i tell u!
ok so only indoor shots, n so that leaves me with food... heh... tapas! nice n beautiful once!

ok frist up is the squids, they were ok la, not bad, interesting, but not to die for....

thats my escargot, its strange but after eating so many times this is the first that i cld actually see their feelers! ok whatever u call them.... taste wise, i still prefer the french's, with herb butter n tonnes of garlic! yum!

ok, this si carpacio, which translate to raw beef slices... they served with parmesan cheese n rucola salad... for me, it was ok only la, didnt fancy the rather beefy taste of it... but jx liked it tho.. for me, i jsut had to try it, but now i know i can give it a miss.... maybe it jsut this one but oh well.. till the next carpacio....

this is foie with apple jam on crust pastry... this was the 2nd one that we had.. the first one was SOOOOOO GOOOOODD.... looked nicer too. it had thick balsamic vinegar n served with a leaf of green for looks i guess... but that was really amazing, when it came, we wacked so fast i totally forgot abt taking a pic! this 2nd one we had the next day, the foie was better, richer but there was too much apple stuff... overpowering a lil... n this was on a bagguet biscuit slice, which is obviosly not as 'pang' in terms of flavour...

this is some ommelette with potato n onion, they seem to eat quite a bit of potato here... its not bad la, its everywhere tho... basically, witht he onion in the egg, it cant go far wrong....

ok la, thats all i ahve, im getting seriosly lazy to blog these days..... heh... so appreciate this entry? i gonna shower n cont packing my stuff, leaving for london tmr! best bit, meeting a gd ol friend there, so i get free accomo n a planned trip! but of cos the company's the bestest bit la... so all good!

out.