Enter the frenchman

Just came back home...was suppose to have my Martial Art training (Wing-Chun Kung-Fu) at Serangoon Swimming Complex area at 8pm (7 Feb 2005 Monday)but it was cancelled at the last minute. Great..bored stiff at home so decided to do some catching up with frnds who happen to be free..How lucky I was..managed to got hold of Carene who happened to be at Bugis Junction with Jieling so I decided to pop by and hang out with them.I arrived at Bugis Junction at about 9:20pm..Jieling wanted to show us a nearby wonderful place- Parkview Square(http://www.parkviewsquare.com). And there we were eventually at this grand marvelous building (which I had always admired ever since it was built but never bothered enough to know the name of the building;the most solid-looking and beautiful structure in Singapore) which has wonderful statues and arty decos/murals. Jieling informed that the offices here were only leased out to those top companies(Fortune 500 or something like that?)and this building has this wonderful lobby-bar that serves a variety of wine with a hi-balcony-stage holding a jazzy singer who performs live with live cello and piano accompaniment. Very grand indeed and they have these pixie-looking waitresses(complete with wings) that will "fly" up this 2-3 storey-high wine storage cupboard(i suppose there's a term to it?) to pick out the wine selected by the customers..very very interesting!! @@ haha..Sharon subsequently popped by after her work, exhausted, after failed attempts to locate this particular building..by the time she arrived, it's about 11pm..Carene then informed that she's expecting one male friend to pop by as he just finished work near Bugis area. She informed that he will most probably turn up in slacks and flip-flops..expecting this fella to be a skinny Chinese young punk/beng, I reminded Carene to finish up or drinks fast so his friend would not be need to enter this place and save much embarrassment as the dress code here is smart casual. Haha..never did I expect her friend to be a Frenchman..tall,well-build and smart-looking even in slacks and slippers..We left the place very soon after his arrival and went for some supper opposite Bugis Junction. Carene was busy chatting with Jieling and Sharon in a language foreign to her french friend(who had moved here just a few months ago) so I decided to chat up with this fella..Interesting fella he was..he came from the France Alps and currently working here as a nutritionist. We talked about bikes, compared bike prices/taxes, traffic law and abit of our countries before all of us left for home.Hmmm..now I'm counting the number of foreign friends(excluding Malaysians whom I had quite a number) I had..Primary School- 2 Taiwanese, 1 Indonesian ChinesePolytechnic- 1 Korean, 1 Myanmar Chinese, 1 Sri Lankan, 1 PRCAfter studies- 1 Danish (the one who sold me my current motorbike)Hmm..makes me wanna go for one of my company's foreign exchange programmes one of these days..