Trip planning - Paris, seems like the trip is too short!!

原来巴黎有个很大很大的皇宫eh
我上次去不知道, 这次去可能不够时间... 因为要安排大半天给罗浮宫...后悔啊

如果你有计划到巴黎的话, 建议至少 3 天, 是 full 3 days
1 天罗浮宫
1 天皇宫, 就是这二中选一: Palace of Versailles, Château de Fontainebleau
1 天其它市里的景点
而且有些景点是白天要去一次, 天黑在去一次的, 呵呵

看来这巴黎还真不小啊, 我低估了它... -_- !!

Dinner DIY - 薯泥

雨天, 出不了市里逛逛, post个关于做薯泥的’经验’.

话说有天我在公司cafeteria吃了一餐配薯泥的午餐, 发现很好吃, 是我很喜欢的味道, 就是奶味和牛油味的东西.
回来Google搜了搜，就开始实验了.

Mashed potato

第一次, 太多奶了, 很湿
第二次, 非常有专业水准了. 我为我自己自豪啊，哈哈哈!

过程很简单：
1. 把薯仔切成颗粒，放进水里煮至软软, 大概20 - 30分钟能好
2. 取出薯仔，加入鲜奶，用力压扁那一颗颗的薯仔, 觉得太干的话, 就加多些鲜奶. 所以呢，这步骤是边压边加奶, 而且挺费劲的一个步骤
3. 差不多了，就加入牛油

然后，就可上菜啦!

我觉得主要‘功夫’是是要趁着热度把 2 和 3 搞定, 其它的没啥技巧可言

还有, 其实超市有卖那些薯泥粉, 应该会更简单.
但是我这人有点死脑筋, 我觉得那些东西太化学化了, 不够纯正, 我不喜欢 :)

Cabut gigi again....

Finally I extracted the other teeth, it was cracked very serious, until pain like hell when I touch it with my tongue.

The dentist is very very nice & professional.
Dr. Joanna Vorhauser as well: http://praxis-vorhauser.de/

She is friendly, very patient to explain the problem, and I think the charges is reasonable and acceptable. It cost Euro 55 for the x-ray & extraction. One thing impress me is that she try to help my teeth, at first she take out the cracked part to check if it is possible to made a filling instead of remove the teeth. Just too bad my teeth was cracked till very deep level already, until the root.

There is another choice other than extraction, 挑牙根
But this need to be done in 2 session, and it cost about 800 Euro.
I think it would be cheaper to implant a teeth later in MY.

So, I loose my 2nd teeth in this year. Sad... but I am happy that I can chew and eat without any worry now :)

2nd cracked teeth in year 2010!!

Trip planning - part 1

For past 1 week, my after work task is about the trip planning.

Thanks for Catherine Lo Lily, AuYong, Joey and a China colleagu's suggestion, they points me to a lot of useful link.

I was 'dive' into these sites, to compare the price, to checks the reviews, and finally to makes booking.

So these are the websites I visited for different purpose:
1. FB pages 背包客栈 for recommendation
2. Tripadvisor for review
3. Hostelworld.com to lookup accommodation
4. Booking.com to lookup accommodation (the listing here may be a little bit expensive as compare to #3)
5. the 穷游 (www.go2eu.com) (This is a forum for China people, so... I am not too much into this, but there is some good recommendation for the guest house)
6. bahn.de for train ticket booking, I used it for depart from Germany, and back to Germany
7. Italy's train website, for train tickets within Italy. This website is good, but I faced problem when I made payment by credit card. I am a little bit worry on it, because I tried 2 times, one of it, the browser crashed; the later one, it show the payment rejected. I am not too sure should I try again or not.... I am thinking to wait for few days, call back to Citibank to see if any transaction being done on this or not before made further booking with this website..

Up till now, I had books most of the hotel & tickets already, can say is 70% completed. Next week will be still busy with this, really a big project! :p