The Apple of my eye has arrived!

I am so happy. I have longed for a week. That's when it was decided that my boss would buy me a new cool lap top. And today, finally, it arrived. It is white, it is pretty, it is cool, it is MacBook, and it even came with a remote. Now how cool is that? I am already in love with it.

Wouldn't you?

Birthday girl!

Having been pretending for several days to be extremely occupied and busy, I have totally missed to blog the events of the weekend, like the previous seen "waffle day"-post for instance. But also, not to forget, Sofie had her birthday on monday, and being a very popular person to various crowds, she had two birthday parties in my flat. First with all her cool friends on saturday. Eight people in total, two of whom were none-but-german-speaking. It was interesting, and my high school german was dusted off, a bit at least. Then on monday her family came over, and had a lovely dinner. So much partying, so much fun! Happy 26th!

Cheeze Doodle-style

I often hint to Joding that he should straighen up his back, and not having his valuable spinal cord in a non-ergonomical 'cheeze doodle'-style bend. Having come a bit on the way with Joding, I see I have missed one important member of our family, Cute Cat. He is taking the 'cheeze doodle'-style a whole new dimension.

The day of the Waffles

"and in the morning, I'm making waffles!" Anyone recognize the quote? Well of course, it was said by 'Donkey' in Shrek when he thought that he'd be allowed to move in with Shrek.

Waffels are a delight. They are 5 hearts of batter connected in a lovely thin cake. On it I put luxury vanilla ice-cream, and strawberry jam. It was lovely. I hope you all remembered to celebrate this joyous, and tasty event - The Waffle Day, 25 of March. I know I did. But it is all gone, I burned every single calorie in advance by running to the gym, taking a one-hour spinning-class, and running home again. And if that wasn't enough. I sweated my ass off yesterday while getting humiliated one hour on the Badminton court, by my beloved austrian colleague. Next week I'll kick her ass, next week...

Quote of the day

"Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist"

- Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)

Spring in Lund!

If ignoring the stormish winds, it is a beautiful spring out there for you. Find a sheltered spot, where the wind can't reach you. Face the sun, and sit back and enjoy it. It's 10 degrees Celsius and blue skies and a brighter sun than ever before this year. The weekend of daylight saving time is inching its way closer to us. Soon it will be light an hour longer in the afternoon, I guess all the way into making the evening a little brighter.



The buds are out, and some have already turned into small leaves or flowers. I guess the buds have been around since the very very warm January, when the cherry trees started blossoming, and the spring flowers came out a first round. But now, now its spring for real. Because the cold, and the snow has been here, so we can be over with that now. And just look forward to the lovely spring.



Spring is an amazing time. People are coming out of their hibernation, the ice-cream places open again, and serve lovely "Glasskulturen"-made ice-cream to enthusiastic people in winter coats, hats, and scarves. Forcing them to remove at least one mitten, in order to hold the ice-cream cone properly. The pigeons flock to the squares, looking for cone and ice-cream leftovers.



And you can't but smile. The force darkness, cold and wind have on people, making them dissapear to who knows where. But once that all slowly retract, the people come tip-toeing out of their hiding-places, carefully making sure the sun will warm them enough, not to kill them if they leave the warm safety of their homes.



Springtime. And on my way back home from work, I saw it. The first Tussilago!



I jerked him out if his moist and and cold soil, and brought him back home with me to eternalize him with my brilliant macro-objective. Now he will spend his continued days in a shot-glass on the table. For me to enjoy live, for the rest of you to just dream about. I bet you haven't found one yet!

Fish arrival

We got 10 royal tetra, and three (one male, two females) orange platys. The weird words in that sentence are all types of fish. We also got a plant, and a cool piece of wood for the fish to hide under and play around. If fish do that. I think they seem happy, but that's kind of hard to tell when it comes to fish. At least they're not belly-up, that's a good sign of their happiness right? Who am I kidding, I know all about fish behaviour. I took a 5 week course in Scotland called Animal behaviour, but more importantly I've seen "Finding Nemo". What else do you need?

Cute Cat's been kind to the fish, just glanced at them a bit, and walked away. At least that's what he's done while I've been around. God knows what he's doing while we're asleep. But the lid was on the tank when we got up this morning, and the fish-count is still 13.

Cat exploratory behaviour

What might he be up to, little cute cat. Is he perhaps sitting by an ice-laden puddle?

No, he is sneaking up on the newly water-filled aquarium.

Checking out what's going on inside, if he can catch the bubbles coming out of the pump, and if his paw gets wet when dipping it in the water.

If he pays this much interest in the aquarium now, what will happen when the fish arrive?

Cute cat

I have missed him so much while in Australia. He stayed 4 weeks with my mum and dad. And this weeked he went back to my parent's again. Me and Joding went to Joding's parents in Kalmar to be spoiled a bit, show our vacation pictures, show what's left of our tan, and hang out with the cute dog Hugo. He was lots of fun, and lots bigger than when we saw him last (2 months ago, he's 6 months now). So me and Joding are back at home now, but Cute Cat is still with my parents. My mum will bring him tomorrow afternoon. But I miss him lots, and saw these lovely pictures of him (and some pretty roses I gave Joding last week - because he is a wonderful boyfriend). So enjoy, Cute Cat!

Australian dress

I bought a particularly pretty dress while in Australia. I can't believe I haven't blogged it yet, but here it is, finally! =)

I have already found an opportunity to wear it. I had it on last weekend when me, my friend, and a bunch of her german friends went out to a gay-club in Malmö for drinks and some dancing. Lots of fun, of course!

The hazards of technological progress

My blog has for a little while now been somewhat of a photo blog. No harm in that, but the reason for me starting the blog was that I love to write. I very much enjoy to put my thoughts and doings into words, to pick up and learn new phrases and words, and use them to make my language more colourful.

Now, I'll tell you a story. It happened to me not so long ago. I wish I could say it happened to a friend, but it would be all to clear throughout the story that I am talking about myself, so I won't lie. And it's a funny story, so I don't mind so much that I was the center of all happenings. Center, and cause =).

It was the final day of our trip to Australia, and we were - very much delayed - slowly heading back to Sweden. I have a pre-paid top-up card for my mobile phone, and it would be rediculously expensive to use it from abroad, so I chose to leave it at home. Joding, who has a cheaper deal for his phone, brought his in case we needed it in some sort of emergency. It was, however rather cheap to send text messages, so I did this once in a while to people back home. People to whom I knew the phone numbers by heart, that is. My dear friend Sofie's phone number, is one of the few I keep in stored in my head. So she got a few 144-character-reports of our adventures Down Under.

Upon returning to Sweden she had sent me a text message when I started Joding's phone after landing in London. She asked where we were, and that she had heard from my mum that we were delayed, and when we were expected to arrive (we had made previous plans to meet up the evening of our return). I wrote back something like (but in Swedish) "we are in London, expect to leave around 2.15 pm, and return to our apartment around 7.30. call you later. miss you. hugs.", found "Sofie" in the phone book, and sent the message.

Now, to the story goes that Sofie can sometimes (in a cute way) be a bit absent-minded.

I got a reply to my text a few minutes later: "I think you sent this message to the wrong person. All well? /Sofie".

I shook my head, and sent back: "NO, I sent it to the right person. You asked how we were doing, and I replied in a detailed fashion. Will call you later. Hugs.".

She again replied: "What? I don't understand. We haven't spoken for quite some time now. /Sofie"

I shook my head, and thought "some time", it was like 24 hours since we spoke last, what's up with her, did she perhaps forget that she sent me that text asking how we were doing. Perhaps she had sent that just as we were leaving Singapore, and that were quite a few hours ago. That could be time enough to forget she wrote the message. I decided that the matter could not be solved over text-messaging. There is only so much you can explain in 144 characters, right?

When we had landed in Copenhagen, and had crossed the bridge back to Sweden, I called Sofie to make plans for the evening. After a few customary lines, like asking how she was doing etc., I confronted her on the text confusion. She still seemed confused, denying the messaging having taken place, and I decided to drop it until we met in person. Later that evening she came over. Me and Joding were unpacking a bit, and fixing some food, and I again asked her about the messaging, trying to explain that she had asked me how we were doing, and that I then had replied to that, and she had just seemed so confused about it, and I couldn't understand why.

She kept on saying "but I haven't texted you today".

Then it all came to place.

How I had been on Joding's phone while texting, and sent my descriptive text-messages about our travel progress to Sofie. To Sofie in Joding's phone book. Which isn't the number to my friend Sofie, but to Joding's ex-girlfriend Sofie.

All came back to me, how I had insisted that she was the right person receiving my message, all the hugs and "I'll call you later"-s. This I realised with Joding and Sofie (my friend Sofie, that is) present. They laughed quite a bit at me. And so did I.

In my defence I was jet-lagged and tired. But one would still think I would have caught on when some of the messages from Sofie in the list was from "Sofie" (i.e. Joding's Sofie) and some from Sofie's (i.e. my Sofie's) phone number. Ah well, one can't be perfect always.

Carving

Names, carved into limestone forever. Or for a couple of hours at least.

Art...

...-y farty in Sydney.

Kangaroo-cat

The cutest cat ever surely knows how to jump. If I say "jump", he says "how high"...if I hold out a cat-treat for him.

Snorkeling

Looks rarely comes first. No priorites for looks can be made when snorkeling, you're bound to look like...

Safety comes first

Good and informative text at Sydney Aquarium: "Do not enter. If the fall does not kill you, the crocodile will".

Understandable, no smelling durian-fruit on the metro in Singapore. But why is the fine not stated for the fruit, the fines for random offenses it is stated everywhere all over the city.

Hmm, I don't understand. Am I not allowed to bring my gremlin on board the flight?

Me

In my double eyewear, enjoying the vacation. Best picture - all categories!

Smoking kills

Now if they had these morbid pictures on the cigarette packs all over the world, not only in Singapore, would not at least a few more smokers get a grip and stop their madness?

Public outing

At a restroom in the Halls Gap nature reserve.

A good point

Glued to the underside of the top bunk at the Warrnambool Beach Backpackers hostel.

Contains pork...

...or is pork?

And the "carbo loading"-is also interesting. I assume with "carbo" they mean carbohydrates, and if you want to stock up on that, bacon is not the way to go.