Somewhere Only We Know

Read an article on an old friend's msn space talking about stopping wasting time, it brought back me some old memories which I'd never even slitly thought about. Memories are always there in our back heads but need something to remind us to bring them back:

 

When I was little, I thought it must be a great change of life when people became 18 years old. I was nervous when my 18th birthday would come soon. This friend was a little bit older than me, I asked him when the whole university had a meeting in the university hall :"How does it feel to be 18?" He said :"Nothing special at all, you will feel the same when you become 18." He was right, nothing extraordinary happened on my 18th birthday, a normal day started my life as a legal adult.

 

When I was a bit over 20, I had a few close friends in Edinburgh. I enjoyed their accompany and thought life was wonderfully simple and full of joy. One day when a friend walked me to bus station, I said:" I don't understand why people want to find a girl/boyfriend when they have good friends as we do. Life is much simpler with friends. A relationship, a husband, those things are far way from my life." He said:" You will find somebody special just for you. You can do a lot of things with friends, but friends can't fullfil all your needs for a complete life." He was right again, I met my huby a few months after this conversation.

 

I found it was hard to imagine me being 18, 20, working as parents do and getting married as adults do, but time makes me accept these stages naturally. 时光飞逝, time flys, tiden flyr, it's waiting for nobody. Imagine me to be 30, how will my life look like when I am 40?

 

I will be 30 years old in 3 short years when I still remember me asking: "How does it feel to be 18?" Gosh! I am not ready - One day I will be an old lady.

Have been busy in I don't know what for a long time.

 

My parents were here with me for 3 months, it was nice to get to spend some time with them. They were worried about me being in a country they'd never been, and being with a guy they'd never got chance to really know. After 88 days and night spent together, they were more or less relieved, it is one of the main objectives to having them here with me for 3 months.

 

Got a present ticket and watched film "Mama Mia" on Wednesday, the film is kind of made by fitting in ABBA songs! This movie can definitely make people happy, of course the pre-condition is you like music. Peter thought it was a "chick movie", music and dance and love story and so, but he turned out like it and recommended it to his parents and brother. I also watched The Mummy 3: Tomb of the dragon Emperor. The only thing I remember about it now is the movie was full of advanced computer graphics...

 

I burned my hand by stream, it is painful...

 

Cited from http://tianmi.info/blogge/posts/08/04/26/OS-demonstration/ ("OS-demonstration", cited on 2008-04-28)

Found this music video on Youtube when I searched for Nightwish's "Walking in the air".

 

Nightwish is a Finnish band which was famous for its symphonic metal. But I personally don't think Nightwish is a symphonic metal band any longer since the band changed vocalist last year.

 

"Walking in the air" released in 1999, the first time I heard it was in year 2003. It used to be my favorite song. Today when I listened to the Swedish metal band HammerFall, I felt like to listen to another Scandinavia metal band Nightwish. By chance I clicked on this music video and impressed by this fine synchronized video. The music and "The lord of the rings" movie clips match perfectly. A very well done video!

 

    

It has been a mild winter and it was great weather last weekend, we went out with inlines and enjoyed the sun. Winter was finally over and spring had come.

 

The next day when I got up and opened the curtains on my bedroom window, I would hardly open my eyes because of the shiny golden sunshine reflected by the white snow. The weather changed over a night and surprised everybody - spring snow on March. Spring snow and spring rain are sisters, this snow is presenting the spring.

 

                           

 

The song that won the opportunity to participate the Eurovision song contest was "Hero", but for me the winner of last Saturday's Melodifestival 2008 was Maia Hirasaswa with her cover for last year's winning song "The worrying kind".  What wonderful voice she's got! What a breath taking moment"!

 

Here are The Ark and Maia Hirasawa's "The worrying kind".

        

 

 

 

Invited a few relatives to our flat this Saturday. I prepared a Smörgåstårta for lunch.

 

Smörgåstårta is a typical Swedish party food. It is a sandwich with 3 layers of bread filled with creamy filling, and on top it is often decorated by salad, egg, ham, caviar and so on. Smörgåstårta is often in big size and served in small pieces like a big cake, and from the appearance, smörgåstårta is more like a cake than a sandwich. I think it is why it is called "sandwich cake", not "big sandwich" or something like that.

 

It takes quite a long time to prepare a smörgåstårta, and smörgåstårta is extra tasty and creamy if it stands in fridge over a night, so I prepared it the night before the lunch, and the result turned to be quite good. 

 

Smörgåstårta can have various flavors depending on what filling and topping it has. What I made was shrimp flavour.