Yeenli Lau

Memoirs of the Perpetually Inebriated 2 Yeenli Lau

Musings about the French as funny people, as well as some valiant efforts to squeeze in a few wine anecdotes. Funny... ? - you might ask. 'The French complain of everything, and always.' - Napoleon Bonaparte. 'What's a Frenchman? An Italian in a bad mood.' - Jean Cocteau, French poet. 'The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty.' - Louis XVI. 'Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.' - John Berger, English novelist. But this book is not merely a collection of quotes, hilariously apt though they may be. Thrown in there are cultural differences between France and the rest of the world. Food. Wine, lots of it. Travels. Meeting people (and sometimes their pets). Some geeky wine stuff. And some contrasting moments of life in Singapore and Malaysia from which the author stems.