Brazil Trip

Just reached SG in the evening time and now having a jet lag, still wide awake when it is near to one o'clock, I think I must had slept too much on the flight back. This is the furthest that I have travelled so far and the flight is really torturous, the total flight time from Rio de Janeiro to Paris and from Paris to SG is slightly more than 24 hours. The time on the 2nd lap of the journey seems to stand still while during the trip.

Brazil is a beautiful place whereby there are lotsa mountains and beaches, the pple there are very warm and kind which completes the beautiful picture painted inside my memory. 11 days went past very fast, the first day I arrived at Angra Dos Reis after I touched down at Rio to stay in a hotel near the BrasFELS yard, that hotel is the most beautiful among them all which is also a holiday resort for the tourists.

The first 4 days after I reached there is all work, except for the 1st nite whereby I went out with Bruno and Jennifer to drink at a pub in Angra. On Thursday nite we travelled down to Sao Paolo to visit Usiminas, the steel mill with 2 of my bosses. The journey there was enjoyable as it is located in a flat piece of land admist tall mountains with great scenery.

On the Saturday morning, we left for Rio de Janeiro to enjoy the weekend, and it marks the start of my holidays. THe first day that I reached there, i took a cab to Cocovado, however due to bad weather I was not given the opportunity to go up to see Cristo Redentor, Jesus Christ. I headed down to Pao de Acucar also named Sugar Loaf to spend my afternoon and evening time. I had some piece and quiet up on top of the mountain as I was traveling alone and waited for the sun to set before I went down by the tram.

Sunday was a beach day, Lei Hong, Bruno and Jennifer travelled down from Angra to meet me at Rio, we had a plan to travel down to some of the clearest beaches. We stopped by Ipanama market to shop abit and had lunch, which was a bad move. The car went missing after we went back to the parking lot, we went down to a police station to report the case after that and to find out that there are Municipal Police, Federal Police and Tourist Police in Brazil. We had to wait till 6pm before we will know whether it had being towed away by the Traffic Police or it was being stolen.

We went down to the nearest and most famous beach, Copacabana since there is nothing that we can do at that point of time. Spent some quality time nuaing at the beach and the final result is that the car was being towed away and we need to pay a heavy fine, phew... However, the earliest that we can collect the car is on Monday, zzz..

On Monday, I went to Cocovado on my own again and finally the skies were clear and I took nice photos of one of the 7 wonders of the world to end off my trip to Brazil. After which we took a plane and landed in Paris on Tuesday, the transit time was 12 hours which allowed me and my boss to visit Eiffel Tower, the 2nd 7 wonders of the world for the trip. We had Foie Gras and shopped at Louis Vuitton before going back to SG.

Now its the end of the trip and it's back to work again. I got to sleep and work hard tml, soo much things to catch up. But I will consider it a good trip as I have seen quite a fair bit during the short span of time. Contended.