Wednesday, December 10, 2008



hahahahah!!!


..posted at 4:14 AM

Saturday, October 18, 2008

short update:

1. stocks is getting colder and colderrrrrrrrr.
2. i just bought my 100% leather 100% wool-lined gloves so my fingers will no longer be icy!
3. i am working as an english-chinese translator + contract drafter for a swedish company. i take like 2 hours to write one short chinese email. -_-
4. i just bought a damn cheap fleece jacket meant for 11-12 year old swedish kids. clearly i am only as tall as them.
5. kwek is here. haha.

oh, and this is super belated but glasgow and edinburgh were nice. =]

ok that's all for now till the next time i blog! which is likely to be a damn long time later hurhur.


..posted at 4:46 AM

Friday, September 19, 2008

omg jon and i just had a very nice dinner of rice (which i cooked!! and jon said it was DAMNNN GOOOOD yay!!!), omelette (which i cooked too and was damn good too!!), mushrooms+onions and stir-fried seafood and then we decided that we needed dessert to make it a fantastic meal, so we RAN out in the 8-DEGREE DRIZZLY WEATHER in our SHORTS (fbts for me omg) and TSHIRT and SLIPPERS to the convenience store (mamashop) outside the train station and bought magnums, and ran allllllllll the way back! and it was SUPER FREAKING COLDDDDDDD and everyone looked at us like we were crazy and the mamashop uncle laughed at us but the magnum was damn worth it la. hahahahaa.

and i know i'm damn damn damn behind on blogging for the past few weeks where we had gan, kenneth, yuqing and shunwei's visit, and the crayfish party and sushi party and korean thanksgiving dinner and whatnot, but i'm abit lazy esp since all the photos are on facebook anyway (if not on mine, then on jon's!), so i'll blog one day when i'm damn bored la. but it may take awhile cos we're going to glasgow on saturday!! =D


..posted at 3:39 AM

Monday, September 01, 2008

hej! an update since my last update! hur.
actually i cant really remember much of the first week la, just that we walked around and explored quite abit, but i have no photos because my camera was in spain with my parents. oh, we visited gamla stan, the old town! see the photos on jon's facebook. haha. and this is very important so i have to put up the photo -



we cooked hainanese chicken rice!!!! hahahaa. abit mushy the rice, but it was not bad la. first try ok. actually jon cooked la, i just sat there and watched tv. haha! other than that, so far we have also cooked rice with meatballs (i bought 1kg!! and i cooked it!! haha ok actually just microwaved for a few min hurhur) and jon panfried chicken. it was a good meal. but i think we're still much sadder than the other exchange people who can cook more advanced things. i have a huge loaf of bread now though, which can only last till 2 aug so i've been eating bread for many meals. and i bought this damn nice spread which is sth like nutella, it's called nusica. it's half the price of nutella here!! hazelnut and nougat. =DDD i suspect i am going to balloon soon though. argh.

on another day, we went for a looooooooooooooooong walk down the harbour behind our hostel. it is a damn nice place to walk, windy and nice scenery. got alot of emo-able places too, but I DONT EMO so it is useless to me. haha! and we realise we can actually continue walking and reach the city central! but then it takes one hour la so i think we'll stick to taking the train.




i will take more photos when i go and walk there again la, these are from jon's camera. again.

on monday, we had our first lesson. it was very slack. haha.
tues was dinner with a swedish girl..
on wed, we had class again, and in the evening there was this law students welcome thing at the law house where we made friends with french girls. haha. that night, there was also a start of the year party for everyone at the university pub, where we made even more friends! haha.




there, we met a korean girl - gangi. and a japanese guy - shuhei. shuhei is damn nice, he said he bought sushi ingredients to make for me, and now all he has to do is find the fish! YAYYY i got sushiiii!!!!! =D we also met this estonian guy who almost became an olympian for this yr!!! but he injured his knee... and he has cycled all over europe already. he cycles to school everyday now. quite impressive lor. and he drinks alotttt. he and jon best friends. hahaha. he's the dude in green above. got many other people we met too so it was quite fun!

on thurs, we went for an 18 yr old swedish guy's birthday party, which was quite boring. and i stupidly wore a dress which means i nearly froze to death =[ and when the birthday boy saw us, he just yelled KONICHIWAAA!!!! sheesh. -_-

on fri, we were invited for a picnic with the french girls, lucie and claire! but it was raining so we ended up having the 'picnic' in their kitchen. they stay at the hostel across the forest trail from us, so we just walk through the forest. very near. then at night, we invited them over to our place for a corridor party which some people staying at jon's block organized! notices about the party were pasted in every lift. and it was SO SUPER CROWDED!! can you imagine, the whole 5 blocks x 9 floors worth of people squashed into one corridor. even more people cos pple brought their other friends, like how we brought claire and lucie and gangi and shuhei. but it was quite fun, we just anyhow talked to random people. there are people from greece, holland, japan, china, sweden, france, spain, italy, america, poland, pakistan, everywhere! and i saw my next-door neighbour there too, the polish girl. she said she thought i moved out cos my fridge was empty. haha. but actually the fridge is just damn disgusting and the whole kitchen is quite yucky so i dont want to go there anymore. i keep my food on my foodshelves!! and i dont buy food that needs to be chilled because i dont cook hurhur. good ah. at most just buy and share with jon then put in his fridge since i go to his kitchen to eat anyway. =D

at the corridor party!




seems to be the same people right. but it's damn hard to take photos with the other people cos when you're talking then abit weird to suddenly whip out your camera. and most of the time we stayed in the kitchen cos we value oxygen and the ability to breathe. outside in the corridor it's damn packed la cannot move at all!! super alot of people.

then yesterday and today, i met up with my parents and brother who are back from spain. they're leaving for sg tmr. also met up with their swedish friends again, who brought me a plant for my room and a full length mirror! haha. and apple sauce from my swedish grandmother! damn good la, i just bought quaker oats so that i can eat it. she also bought me a swedish book for 5 yr olds!



it's damn fantastic la, got stickers inside and colouring pages hahhaa. they brought us to haga, some park with butterfly houses and copper tents! we just went there for a small bite at the cafe though, cos had another dinner appointment. will go into the butterfly house another time!





the rest of the photos on facebook!

going to sleep soon. night!


..posted at 5:25 AM

Saturday, August 23, 2008

hello from stockholm!!
think i'm quite laggy cos i've been here a week already but there's just so much to do that it's impossible to find time to blog! in fact it is quite late now and i am damn tired. and also, we dont really have internet yet, though we just anyhow plugged in the lan cable and somehow it works even though we havent activated them. so yay! haha. if this whole week no internet i think we will just die.
ANYWAY, i shall start from the start! my flight got delayed for 7 hours at bangkok, so my journey to stockholm was a damn super long one. damn sian la, but luckily they gave us a nice hotel room to stay in, so just slept there then went to the airport again to take the flight to stockholm. and oh, thanks to everyone who came to send me off!! so sweet i am very touched. haha.











you all are much loved!! =D

yup so when i finally arrived in stockholm, we headed to the university to get my keys for the hostel. i was the last to check in! and when we came to my room, it was totally yucky! alot of dust and the lights were super dim, esp in the toilet omg. it was so freaking dark that once you close the door you can't see a thing! my parents and brother helped me to clean up the whole place and now it finally looks like a place fit for living. and jon helped me change all my lightbulbs!! so now it is damn freaking bright and the past occupant left behind 3 lamps so when i switch on everything it is really damn bright. yayy! haha.




and i am really quite happy with the room now, it is quite big! although i find the floor still quite dusty so now i am wearing bedroom slippers all around and i am going to mop my floor again!!!! but not yet because i have to wait until the landlord comes to repair my sink. my sink is damn nonsense la, it leaks!!!!! and what's worse is that it is corroded and fungus-y and mouldy and rusty!!!!!!! so i am very very very disgusted and i went to complain but he says he can only come and repair on tuesday. and he doesnt take off his shoes when he comes in so i have decided to only mop my floor after tuesday. i have a damn nice new mop! hahaha. oh and speaking of shoes, all of you who are planning to visit me, there is a special corner for shoes near the door where you have to put your shoes if not you cannot come in k!!!! i am very ngiao sorry. hahaha. in fact, i have decided that sunday will be my cleaning day! i will clean my room and do my laundry (can use the washing machines for freeeeeeee!!) and i will also run errands and buy groceries etc. good plan hor. haha.
oh and because my sink is so disgusting, i refuse to use it and i've been doing everything in the shower. like i have to brush my teeth in the shower and when i rinse my mouth i have to look up and open my mouth. -_- i hope the landlord repairs it properly!
but otherwise, my room is not bad! and i have plenty of food and drinks! my top shelf and abit of my second shelf contains my food and drinks! although my sauces may be quite extra since i dont foresee myself cooking much. jon's shelf is damn bare and sparse like old mother hubbard's cupboard compared to mine la... see, his is the 2nd picture! hahaha. but i think he has more stuff now cos we have 3 supermarkets downstairs! damn good everything also have. even maggimee and asian stuff! and got mailbox and it sells phone cards and alot of random stuff la.




yup, and here's a picture of my hostel...



quite nice la, although the corridors inside are long and narrow and abit scary. i'm staying in house 1 and jon stays in house 3, but it's linked via the laundry corridor and it's quite near. anyway, my corridor has 8 rooms, and there are 4 china pple (and there's a kid staying with one (or two?? a couple??) of them, so weird!!!!) and there's a polish girl, a swedish guy and a norwegian guy. although i dont really know them yet, only bump into them in the kitchen here and there and we introduced ourselves. the kitchen is damn good, it's right next to my room! the living room too, with a tv. damn convenient, and every morning i just go into the kitchen to have my breakfast so i wont dirty my room hahahaha. we have two fridges and many cupboards, and there's a shelf in the fridge labelled with your room number so that's yours. each cupboard too. quite good la.

so anyway, on the second day that i'm here, i went for orientation! damn boring, got alot of random talks. then after that i went for dinner with my parents, brother and some swedish family friends. they are damn nice and the kids are super cute!! i kept playing with them, especially the baby who's only 1.5 yrs old. she's damn funny and independent and not at all like the sg kids her age. she seems smarter and bigger and understands more things.




third day, went for more orientation, then came back to explore our neighbourhood! there's a gym near our hostel, and a kindergarten and another school. and there's this huge neverending forest that goes on and on and on and on forever! i dont think i will venture there myself because my direction sense is not that fantastic (but still quite, hurhurhur) and the forest looks like it's from the village so quite scary. at night, we went for the party organized for exchange students at the university pub, where jon had his first beer in a week and he was a very happy boy. hahaha. and we just stood around and tried to look for more good looking people. oh! forgot to mention, over the orientation days, we have spotted a jake gyllenhaal, a keira knightley, a johnny depp (who reminds us of mok!!!), a ken (as in barbie and ken), a cristiano ronaldo (and he's also from portugal!), a scarlett johanssen and a matt damon. hahaha. jon thinks he has found himself an angmoh ayumi hamasaki too but that one not as fantastic as the keira. keira really damn super chio. anyway some of the angmohs are really quite friendly, they just come up to you and introduce themselves. which is how we met alvaro, a spanish guy who we found out was from law too! and a korean girl kangyi (dunno if spell correctly) who intro-ed herself to us cos she said she saw us in emmylundsvagen where she's staying too. damn good, now we can go to her kitchen and eat bibimbak. haha! we damn sad everyday, must eat expensive angmoh food which is fast getting sian. so that night, we decided to cook for the first time all week! jon brought over his magic pot and we cooked maggimee!! hurhur.



see, i'm clearly the domestic goddess! except our cooking is not as extensive as ruizi's fishballs and veg. then we looked quite sad in the kitchen cos the chinese people came in and started cooking damn yummy smelling things on the stove, and they had rice and i even saw one guy slicing raw salmon!! SASHIMI!!!!!!!!! wahlau i think i need to make friends with them soon and hope they invite me to share their food. =[

yesterday, our last day of orientation, we finally found a THAI RESTAURANT on campus!!!!!! damn happy la we almost died. i think we're gonna be going there everyday esp since the menu changes everyday! got green curry!! satay! red curry! yellow curry! manymany curry!! hahahaa. and there was rice!!!!! =DDD
after orientation, i went to meet my parents again and another set of swedish friends for dinner at some atas swedish restaurant. the food was quite nice and super filling. then we went back to their house to take a look. the swedish pple really like to show pple their houses lor, we keep going to different ones. and usually they're the ones who built it! or refurbished it or something. they make their own gardens, build their own kitchens and stairs and everything. and it's always damn nice! oh and they have apple trees! and trampolines! hahahaa.



yes i know i look quite retarded haha. but it was damn fun! and super tiring la i think i'm getting damn old. joanna was just jumping forever while i collapsed halfway and rolled off the trampoline. -_-



the kids have two pet guinea pigs too. they're very cute and quite stupid, like if you set them on the floor they just sit there and cower in fear. haha. but better than hamsters cos at least they're big and you can play with them.

ok this post has been quite long so i will stop here. some photos are taken from jon cos his camera is superior. =[
we are going to walk around the city central today, so will update later!

OH and before i forget, i need help!!!! i'm using the apple mail application for my nusmail and somehow i can't send out mail from here even though last time in sg i could, and i didnt change any settings! if you know how to fix it, tell me k! thanks!


..posted at 3:38 PM

Sunday, August 17, 2008

i'm leaving tmr!!!!!
how exciting. and a little bit sad. hur.
so anyway, today, i had to pack! and it was a very harrowing experience, especially since for a moment there i couldnt find my golden utensils (hurhurhur my mother bought for me). other than my golden utensils, there were manymany other essential things that a sweden-bound exchange student should bring in order to survive! these include:

1. a mini vacuum cleaner so that your table will always be free from crumbs! =D



2. a magical microwavable rice cooker where you can dump meat and veg inside too;



3. a large container of fried onions and various sauces, so that any inedible thing you cook can still taste good!



4. a friend in case you get lonely, =[ ;



5. a vacuumable ziplock bag to stuff your down blanket, bedsheets (which sadly, are pink and ugly) and all those thick winter clothes. VERY IMPORTANT if you want to fit everything into your luggage bag.



6. a mini iron so that you'll never have to start your day in wrinkly clothes;



7. a cup-warmer so that you'll always have a nice hot drink even in the winter!



8. pillow and bolster, which are extremely important for getting a good night's sleep in a strange bed in a strange land. no pic though, because they were already bundled up somewhere and currently stuffed into my megahuge backpack!

9. clothes!! warm clothes, light clothes, longjohns, coats, jackets, scarves, gloves, socks, shoes, bedroom slippers blahblah;



10. stationery! foolscap, postits, SPOTLITERS with at least 12 refills for each colour, 8 x g2-refills cos g2s cost sth like $9sgd in sweden, scissors, glue, scotchtape, maskingtape, stapler and bullets, bluetack etc;



11. and jon! hahaha.



in order to achieve the amazing feat of stuffing everything neatly, it is advisable to employ the help of a highly organized person -



and within a mere 3 hours, all 60kg worth of things are packed nicely into the bags, and i'm all set to go! =D



(josh, i hope this entry helps in telling you what to pack. hahaha)


..posted at 11:26 PM

Sunday, August 10, 2008

random photos from the past week!

met up with jc classmates. was the only girl cos the rest were either overseas or they were heyyas. haha.





dinner with joshieeeee anna and christopherpoo. =]




and we brought ian's niece out to run the last few of my errands before swedennnn!!



went to play beach vball too but no photos. now i am tanned again! i am also a noob who no longer knows how to serve and whose blood capillaries on forearms all burst after hitting the ball. =[[[[

and here's the failed surprise farewell present i made. =D
(i think it's damn nice thats why i'm putting the pic up hurhur.)



..posted at 12:50 PM