Celtic Lounge

Arrived in Paris at Charles de Gaulle 1, 5.45am. MAS uses the old terminal which is very different compared to Charles de Gaulle 2. It a very long walk from the gate to arrival. Had to take a walkalator that goes into a long tunnel before getting to the main terminal. Above the long tunnel is actually the runway. At the main terminal building, I had to take a rather confusing escalator before getting to the immigration and customs.

I had to catch a bus to Dorint Novotel and had to wait outside the arrival hall in the cold morning wind of Paris. The bus came about 10 mins later and I was the only passenger on it. On arrival at the hotel, the check-in staff gave me a room without any problems unlike my last stay at Novotel Roissy.

I got a nice room. Very spacious for European standard. I took a shower and slept for a while. Woke up at 11am and got ready for shopping at Carrefour at Sevran Beaudottes. It’s the nearest hypermarket to the airport. It’s only 3 stops away but cost EUR8 roundtrip!

The Christmas decors at Carrefour brought out the child in me! I could not resist and bought a house with a figurine of two persons singing, one lamp post and one x’mas tree. I also managed to get 6 bars of my favourite Nestle Fruit and Nut Dark Chocolate. I spend about 5 hours at Carrefour as there were many other interesting things that I wanted but could not buy. Not enough money and could not carry.

Travelled on MH20 this evening from Kuala Lumpur to Paris. Not used to Economy Class as I’ve been spoiled in Business Class whenever I travel on KLM. Anyway, the Economy Class on MAS is not that bad. The food is more Asian and the inflight entertainment is quite good. I was quite tired and managed to sleep on the flight.

Took an early flight from KL to Penang. Arrive in Penang Cititel and immediately started to get ready for the seminar. The Sales Executive, Helena met up with us and treated us to lunch at the Cititel coffee house. I enjoyed the food and can say that it’s one of the better hotel food in Penang. The service rendered was good.

After the seminar, we had to rush over to Mayflower for an in-house briefing. We managed to squeeze a 4 hour seminar into a 1.5 hours seminar for them. We finished around 8.30pm and Madeline and Shanice picked us up and we went to dinner at “3 roads” street. We had the Penang Hokkien Mee and fried toufu. (The Penang Hokkien Mee is known as Prawn Mee in KL). From there, we proceeded to a stall in front of Traders Hotel (the former Shangri-la) for glutinous rice balls. It came in a big bowl and each had 15 small and 1 large ball. The large one contained peanuts. Yummy!

We were so full after dinner and tired after the long day that we headed back to the hotel to rest.