i missed sunny singapore
first of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to both jack and xp! happy 26 to you two! best wishes in the coming year to two of my best fellow arians... we really need to meet up to celebrate all our birthdays, yay! and xp, you're right, we're on the wrong side of twenties now, gosh, how time flies.
anyway, i'm finally back... on monday evening actually. no jet-lag but very very very exhausted, mentally and physically. just pictures for now, the horrible part of the trip is obviously not being reflected below.
edited to add:
[1] my bed for seven nights.
[2] it was a simple room with a study table and shelves. i was trying to get hooked onto the internet, but sad to say, there was no active wireless network around. we were seriously internet-starved over there.
[3] our tv area, though there's hardly anything nice to watch, i think only 4-5 swedish channels, and an occasional english cartoon during dinner.
[4-5] the view outside, frost on the ground in the mornings.
[6] our cosy dining area, just nice for the six of us. the connecting kitchen was well-equipped with the necessary pots/pans/cultery, and i was pleasantly surprised by my team mates' culinary skills.
[7] our volvo v70! one of the most common cars you see around. we had a free upgrade from v50, shiok!
[8] the view from the car - the GPS was our life-saviour, from workshop to office, office to supermarket, basically everywhere we go.
[9] how i look the first morning i woke up. suffered from mild jet-lag, woke up at 4am to eat breakfast then took a walk around to the lake nearby.
[10] the two chefs wrapping wanton! even in this part of sweden, there is a small asian mart, and you should have seen his faces when he saw the wanton skin. crazy fellow.
[11] we made two plates of these.
[12] this was all the snow/frost we got. it started snowing that morning, and guess who woke me up to see falling snow at 530am.
[13] this dish is called bull's eye. you can't see it in the picture, but it was a piece of toast, with beef steak and topped with a runny sunny-side-up. this restaurant was probably the most decent one you can find, and they serve pretty good red wine.
[14] one of our home-cooked dinners - asparagus with pork slices, luncheon meat with baked beans and potato, fish fingers - eaten with porridge, teochew-styled.
[15] check out the size of my pizza! it costed 70 kronas (approximatley S$15).
[16-17] we took a short drive to orebro city one of the evenings. that's the orebro castle.
[18] we had a sudden craving for ice-cream (yes, even when the temperature was between 0-5 degrees). zoomed off to the supermarket after dinner, the wall's toblerone chocolate was really good, and sadly you can't find such flavours in singapore.
i'm so glad to be home.
scribbled at 12:58 am
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first of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to both jack and xp! happy 26 to you two! best wishes in the coming year to two of my best fellow arians... we really need to meet up to celebrate all our birthdays, yay! and xp, you're right, we're on the wrong side of twenties now, gosh, how time flies.
anyway, i'm finally back... on monday evening actually. no jet-lag but very very very exhausted, mentally and physically. just pictures for now, the horrible part of the trip is obviously not being reflected below.
edited to add:
[1] my bed for seven nights.
[2] it was a simple room with a study table and shelves. i was trying to get hooked onto the internet, but sad to say, there was no active wireless network around. we were seriously internet-starved over there.
[3] our tv area, though there's hardly anything nice to watch, i think only 4-5 swedish channels, and an occasional english cartoon during dinner.
[4-5] the view outside, frost on the ground in the mornings.
[6] our cosy dining area, just nice for the six of us. the connecting kitchen was well-equipped with the necessary pots/pans/cultery, and i was pleasantly surprised by my team mates' culinary skills.
[7] our volvo v70! one of the most common cars you see around. we had a free upgrade from v50, shiok!
[8] the view from the car - the GPS was our life-saviour, from workshop to office, office to supermarket, basically everywhere we go.
[9] how i look the first morning i woke up. suffered from mild jet-lag, woke up at 4am to eat breakfast then took a walk around to the lake nearby.
[10] the two chefs wrapping wanton! even in this part of sweden, there is a small asian mart, and you should have seen his faces when he saw the wanton skin. crazy fellow.
[11] we made two plates of these.
[12] this was all the snow/frost we got. it started snowing that morning, and guess who woke me up to see falling snow at 530am.
[13] this dish is called bull's eye. you can't see it in the picture, but it was a piece of toast, with beef steak and topped with a runny sunny-side-up. this restaurant was probably the most decent one you can find, and they serve pretty good red wine.
[14] one of our home-cooked dinners - asparagus with pork slices, luncheon meat with baked beans and potato, fish fingers - eaten with porridge, teochew-styled.
[15] check out the size of my pizza! it costed 70 kronas (approximatley S$15).
[16-17] we took a short drive to orebro city one of the evenings. that's the orebro castle.
[18] we had a sudden craving for ice-cream (yes, even when the temperature was between 0-5 degrees). zoomed off to the supermarket after dinner, the wall's toblerone chocolate was really good, and sadly you can't find such flavours in singapore.
i'm so glad to be home.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
weather forecast
boo hoo. seeya, folks!
scribbled at 10:32 am
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boo hoo. seeya, folks!
Friday, March 16, 2007
the past week
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
it's the weekend again!
well, time seems to move faster over the weekend. it seems to me that many of the people around me are going abroad during this period - xp's probably basking under the sun at patong beach, lion's leaving for her regional conference and i'll be away for official business next weekend. i'm not expecting falling snow, but rather, the place is going to be lined with piles of dirty snow - wet, slippery and dreary weather, really really bad timing. i finally bought my ankle boots (not the pointy-toed types, too bimbo), and the bf also bought formal leather shoes, all within like ten minutes of entering the shop. oh yes, notice my new short china doll-like fringe? i wanted to trim my fringe a little, but my hairstylist just merrily snipped it off till this short... well, thankfully it turned out ain't so bad, and my hair grows relatively fast anyway.
we walked over to suntec city for dinner, the whole mall was packed with people there for the IT fair, so we ended up at olio. i wanted to have a peaceful good meal, somewhere quieter with good ambience, and it seemed most appropriate at that time. we shared the garden salad, hawaiian pork chops (his choice) and pasta marinara (this is one of my standard dishes, boring...). i never had high expectations of olio's food, especially since i've heard of bad reviews of this outlet, but the food was nevertheless quite good, and i enjoyed the generous serving of seafood in my pasta and the time spent with the dearest. :-)
this was what we did today!!! we went for this "fun on foot" jogathon (our first!) with lynn & alvin, this was organised by the kidney dialysis foundation in conjunction with world kidney day, which falls on the 8th of march. it was a 4-km jog along the singapore river and around city hall/clarke quay area, and before that, they made us do this kebaya aerobics which the bf obviously had alot of problem coordinating, haa! thankfully i've got some aerobics/boxercise experience to fall back on. :P well, for the run, i struggled a little since i haven't been exercising that regularly nowadays, and i'm always more comfortable on a threadmill... so giving myself a pat on my back for completing the jog. why the colourful hats!?! the organisers were also trying to enter into world's guinness book of records for the most number of people wearing balloon hats at the same time. i have no idea how they're going to account for the numbers... anyway, i'm happy with my mc donald's hotcakes breakfast (so hungry!), and the free nestle fitness cereals in the goodie bag! we should really do this more often.
scribbled at 4:56 pm
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well, time seems to move faster over the weekend. it seems to me that many of the people around me are going abroad during this period - xp's probably basking under the sun at patong beach, lion's leaving for her regional conference and i'll be away for official business next weekend. i'm not expecting falling snow, but rather, the place is going to be lined with piles of dirty snow - wet, slippery and dreary weather, really really bad timing. i finally bought my ankle boots (not the pointy-toed types, too bimbo), and the bf also bought formal leather shoes, all within like ten minutes of entering the shop. oh yes, notice my new short china doll-like fringe? i wanted to trim my fringe a little, but my hairstylist just merrily snipped it off till this short... well, thankfully it turned out ain't so bad, and my hair grows relatively fast anyway.
we walked over to suntec city for dinner, the whole mall was packed with people there for the IT fair, so we ended up at olio. i wanted to have a peaceful good meal, somewhere quieter with good ambience, and it seemed most appropriate at that time. we shared the garden salad, hawaiian pork chops (his choice) and pasta marinara (this is one of my standard dishes, boring...). i never had high expectations of olio's food, especially since i've heard of bad reviews of this outlet, but the food was nevertheless quite good, and i enjoyed the generous serving of seafood in my pasta and the time spent with the dearest. :-)
this was what we did today!!! we went for this "fun on foot" jogathon (our first!) with lynn & alvin, this was organised by the kidney dialysis foundation in conjunction with world kidney day, which falls on the 8th of march. it was a 4-km jog along the singapore river and around city hall/clarke quay area, and before that, they made us do this kebaya aerobics which the bf obviously had alot of problem coordinating, haa! thankfully i've got some aerobics/boxercise experience to fall back on. :P well, for the run, i struggled a little since i haven't been exercising that regularly nowadays, and i'm always more comfortable on a threadmill... so giving myself a pat on my back for completing the jog. why the colourful hats!?! the organisers were also trying to enter into world's guinness book of records for the most number of people wearing balloon hats at the same time. i have no idea how they're going to account for the numbers... anyway, i'm happy with my mc donald's hotcakes breakfast (so hungry!), and the free nestle fitness cereals in the goodie bag! we should really do this more often.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
surprise birthday for mark ge!
happy birthday, mark! :-)
scribbled at 8:33 pm
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happy birthday, mark! :-)
Monday, March 05, 2007
sick & bored
i'm on MC today... and based on my medical claims history, the last time i did a claim was in february last year. this means that i've been generally healthy (at least well enough to avoid the doc) the past year. this also supports my claim that i need to fall sick on an average of once a year, to build up my body's immunity against the deadly viruses. it's nearly impossible to get through the cny season without at least one miserable bout of sore throat... mine was going on and off for the past two weeks, and it finally developed into a terrible cough. it gets much worse in the night, and it's as if i'm coughing my lungs out. the antibiotics and cough syrup seem to be working fine, the phlegm is very much gone, and hopefully i'll be well again by the time i wake up tomorrow. being sick is really no fun.
scribbled at 6:51 pm
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i'm on MC today... and based on my medical claims history, the last time i did a claim was in february last year. this means that i've been generally healthy (at least well enough to avoid the doc) the past year. this also supports my claim that i need to fall sick on an average of once a year, to build up my body's immunity against the deadly viruses. it's nearly impossible to get through the cny season without at least one miserable bout of sore throat... mine was going on and off for the past two weeks, and it finally developed into a terrible cough. it gets much worse in the night, and it's as if i'm coughing my lungs out. the antibiotics and cough syrup seem to be working fine, the phlegm is very much gone, and hopefully i'll be well again by the time i wake up tomorrow. being sick is really no fun.