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4月20日 SkeikampenIt has been more than 1 month since I back from ski. Loaded up some pics in the weekend and try to type a few words now before I forget everything.
It was great fun and cheap, since almost everything was borrowed. The house we stayed in was borrowed, my ski equipments were borrowed, even my ski glasses were borrowed... The expenses were no more than fuel, lift card and food. Lift card was about 600 NOK per person per weekend. And the weekend card was actually cheaper than the 2 days card.
We drove up to Göterborg and then jumped into brother's car and drove up to Olso together. And stayed at sister's in Oslo for coffee and then drove up to Skeikampen together. It took 2 hours to Göteborg and then 4 hours to Oslo, and then continued 3 hours from Oslo to Skeikampen. I dont remember what the town is called...
The house we stayed in was also borrowed. It was allocated a few hundred meters from the ski mountain, had plenty of spaces and very cosy - 2 bathrooms, sauna, kitchen, living room, 4 bedrooms... I could live in a house like this all year round, but the owner of the house only use this house maybe 1 week a year (only for ski), and they have a similar house (if not bigger) in Spain for summer... I have to say rich people's life is really .... rich ....
I had never seen so much snow before in my life . It was evening when we drove up, after a couple of hours driving up and up and up along the narrow mountain roads, we couldn't see much more than the road in front of us and a snow ocean surrounding us. Snow was more than 1 meter higher than the road, the bottom part of christmas trees in the forest were melting in the snow, almost like a perfect disneyland, except that two of our cars couldn't drive up to the house because of the icey road. Here I have to admit that BMW has its strength - we were 3 cars, one old BMW and two newer Volvo. BMW drove up to the hill at the first try, a new Volvo V50 had to reverse and back up to the hill, and the other older Volvo S60 gave up after a few attempt and parked down the hill.
It was fun to ski, I played safe and only tried the green lines, the other accompanies were much more experienced than me and tried all the lines.The weather was perfect when we were there - sunny, only three four degrees below, plenty of snow and no ice at all.
When we drove back home, it was day time and sunny, we got the chance to see the beautiful Norweigen mountains, which we missed while we drove up in the dark. It was amazing to see the houses and farms built high up in the mountain, and admire those house owners who have mountain as their back yard garden and a calm wide river in front of them. 11月26日 Greatest hits - Guns N RosesWent for shopping last Sunday and tried to find an album of Roxette, instead I found a CD of Guns N Roses, "Greatest hits". I took a look at the song list at the back side and decided to buy it right a way - all my favorite songs of GNR are included in a CD: Sweet Child o' Mine, Patience, Paradise city, knockin on heaven's door, civil war, Don't cry, November rain, Live and let die. Even though Axl Rose rarely wear pants on stage and has temper problem, his voice has got wide range and can reach into your heart. Especially when he calms down and sings a soft song like Don't cry and November rain, you can feel your heart is turning water and feel like he is singing only for you.
People always get surprised when they get to know that I listen to rock, they think my image doesn't match hard rock. Not only angry teenagers and black dressed men listen to rock, OK? Rock is expressing human being's feelings openly and straight forward, it is using both electric and classic instruments and a lot of rock song writers are very talented, that is why a 20, 30 years old rock song can stay fresh and popular until today. Think of a pop song that is playing on the radio over and over again today, after 3 years, how many people will still remember it?
I recommended a few rock songs to friend Alex long time ago, he listened to them for a few days and came back to me said "November rain is quite good, but I don't like the last part." I said "the last part is the thing, the climax of the song!" He said "I didn't know you have such a heavy music taste!" The same thing happened last Sunday when I chose this CD, Peter said "Who are you? I didn't know you are a rockis!" SURPRISE~~~
I should admit that I am not a really heavy tasted rockis, if you listen to this CD, you'd found that my favorite songs are the relatively soft ones. The songs I often listen to are something like Smells like teen spirit, living on the preyer, iris, nothing else matters... no really hard rock.
11月3日 One day I will be an old ladyRead 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.
10月11日 non-titledHave 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... 4月28日 Quotation "damned if we do, damned if we do not"When we were the sick man of Asia, we were called the yellow peril.
When we are billed to be the next superpower, we are called the threat. When we closed our doors, you smuggled drugs to open markets. When we embrace free trade, you blame us for taking away your jobs. When we were falling apart, you marched in your troops and wanted your fair share. When we tried to put the broken pieces back together again, Free Tibet you screamed, it was an invasion! When we tried communism, you hated us for being communist. When we embrace capitalism, you hate us for being capitalist. When we have a billion people, you said we were destroying the planet. When we tried limiting our numbers, you said we abused human rights. When we were poor, you thought we were dogs. When we loan you cash, you blame us for your national debts. When we build our industries, you call us polluters. When we sell you goods, you blame us for global warming. When we buy oil, you call it exploitation and genocide. When you go to war for oil, you call it liberation. When we were lost in chaos and rampage, you demanded rules of law. When we uphold law and order against violence, you call it violating human rights. When we were silent, you said you wanted us to have free speech. When we are silent no more, you say we are brainwashed xenophobics.
Cited from http://tianmi.info/blogge/posts/08/04/26/OS-demonstration/ ("OS-demonstration", cited on 2008-04-28) 4月25日 Nightwish Walking in the air - The lord of the ringsFound 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!
3月19日 Spring snowIt 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.
3月17日 Melodifestival 2008 winner - Maia Hirasawa with "The worrying kind "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".
3月10日 Smörgåstårta (sandwich cake)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.
2月18日 Winter without snowI thought it would be a winter without snow this year. But last Saturday when I was in the countryside, the temperature turned to minus 7 degrees, and around noon snow flakes finally flew down to the ground. However when we drove back to the city, it was another world - plus 4 degrees and no snow at all on the streets.
I took these pics in the forest.
2月6日 Only when I sleep-the CorrsHave been reviewing 600 pages' Business Blueprint and listening to this song for days. I prefer this live version to the music video, and this version on Youtube is the best one I've heard so far.
Only When I Sleep
Music by: the corrs, oliver leiber, paul peterson, john shanks lyrics by: andrea corr
Youre only just a dreamboat Sailing in my head You swim my secret oceans Of coral blue and red Your smell is incense burning Your touch is silken yet It reaches through my skin And moving from within It clutches at my breast But its only when I sleep See you in my dreams You got me spinning round and round Turning upside-down But I only hear you breathe Somewhere in my sleep Got me spinning round and round Turning upside-down But its only when I sleep And when I wake from slumber Your shadows disappear Your breath is just a sea mist Surrounding my body Im workin through the daytime But when its time to rest Im lying in my bed Listening to my breath Falling from the edge But its only when I sleep See you in my dreams You got me spinning round and round Turning upside-down But I only hear you breathe Somewhere in my sleep Got me spinning round and round Turning upside-down But its only when I sleep Its only when I sleep Sharon instrumental Up to the sky Where angels fly Ill never die Hawaiian high In bed I lie No need to cry My sleeping cry Hawaiian high Its reaching through my skin Movin from within Clutches at my breasts But its only when I sleep.... See you in my dreams You got me spinning round and round Turning upside-down But I only hear you breathe Somewhere in my sleep Got me spinning round and round Turning upside-down But its only when I sleep Up to the sky Where angels fly Ill never die Hawaiian high In bed I lie No need to cry My sleeping cry Hawaiian high 1月25日 TrivialTalked with a friend the other day, he is the kind of person that can easily engage himself to things that other people will not prioritize. He practises English loud reading a few hours a day after work, just because he wants to see how perfect his English reading can be in a Chinese speaking enviornment. He takes pictures of himself daily and compare them with each other just because he wants to see how alike his images are in photo and in mirror. He asks people to talk with him in English and in Chinese, because he wants to find out the personal character difference between when people talk in mother tongue and when people speak a foreign language. I think if someone introduce a religion to him, he can be very religious. One of a kind! The thing is, I always think people who like taking pictures for themselves are Narcissus, but after I've done it myself, taking snaps for myself is just entertaining. Maybe I am a Narcissus myself without knowing it I actually think when we say something is "strange" or "unusual" is only because our experience and knowlege is not broad enough. For a few years ago I thought people living abroad were extraordinary, but now I know we are as normal as people can be. People around me talk about other countries' "strange" culture, I would say there is nothing "strange" but something "different". There is an adage in China, it says there is a frog spending his whole life time in a deep well, all it can see is a round sky with the size of the well's radius, so it thinks the whole world is his well and the round little piece of sky above it. People that can not accept other country's culture difference and try to "upgrade" the others to fit into his own world is judgmental and frog in a well. Unfortunately, it is hard to make frog in well recognize that there are many different wells, lakes, rivers, and oceans existing in the world. 1月22日 super easy sweet sour ribsI had consulted my mum before I cooked this dish, and it turned to be quite OK! PP almost ate up his fingers
 Jenny's super easy sweet sour ribs recipe
Ingredience:
12 pieces ribs in finger length
a few pepper corns (not mandatory)
4 table spoon suger
2 tea spoon vinegar (can be more if you like it more sour)
A big onion
Salt, oil,
1 tea spoon dark soja sauce
Action:
1. Soak the ribs in a large amount of cold water in advance, in order to reduce blood in the meat.
2. Remove ribs from water and drain it.
3. Slice ginger and onion.
4. Heat some oil in wok pan, fry ribs together with salt, ginger and pepper corns in high temperature until ribs become golden brown.
5. Put HOT water into the wok pan, water should almost cover the ribs. Add the suger and soja sauce.
6. Cook ribs in weaker heat for about 10 minutes, until water becomes dark, thick sauce. Add vinegar.
7. Move ribs into a plate, and leave sauce in the wok pan.
8. Fry onion quickly in the same pan with the same sauce.
9. Put onion and the rest of the sauce on the ribs in the plate.
10. Match best with rice, good appetite!
Onion is not mandatory either, but I think a dish with only meat and suger is too.... en... heavy, some vegetable kind of thing like onion would make the food more...en... friendly. Do you get what I mean? I don't...
1月2日 For year 2008Back from holiday today and had a quick look at friends' blogs, lots of them wrote short summeries for year 2007 and had a plan for year 2008. I am a lazy kind of person trying to avoid thinking or planning too much in advance, coz my philosophy (if it can be called as philosophy) is "Everything is changing, even if I've been thinking and planning in advance, when I finally reach the very point, the situation will not fit perfectly my expectations, even worse the thinking and planning will make me less flexible. The important thing for me is to think and plan for now, and make effects for now."
Humen are different, some say a clear time schedule is good for them to fullfill a task, but for me a time schedule is something made to be broken. I remember when I was in school, teachers asked us to write "New year, new plan" every year, I wrote those essaies as a task and they had never had any affect on my semester years.
For year 2008 I do have a few plans, maybe I should call them wishes instead of plans. For me, wishes have bigger chance to come true than plans=) I will write my new year wishes down, it might be interesting to read next year.
New year New wishes
1. Fix driving license. (I've been thinking and planning about this for at least 2 years, shame on me....)
2. Spend more time with my parents this year, either they visit us here or we go back for a few weeks.
3. Support PP's plan. (PP's plan which starts this year will bring a great change to our lives in the nearest maybe 5 years.)
4. Get good feedbacks from work. (The project is really complicated, hopefully it will go well.)
12月19日 Superb Christmas cardEli made this Christmas card for us, super funny, especially for us who know and work with these people the whole time. If you see this post, do not miss it =).
The Christmas card link is: http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1573102850
Have fun, and Merry Christmas everybody, Merry Christmas!
12月17日 Gibberish after calling homeAfter 2 years' struggle for deciding to leave or to stay, to continue or to give up, I've decided to stay and to continue in Sweden for at least the nearest future. My whole body feels lighter when the decision's taken. However, one thing is fixed, a few more things are coming for me to consider and to decide.... It is tiring to keep experiencing difficulty and to make a great effort in order to do every small little thing, but it is life I suppose, especially for the first migration generation individual like me. It is also why life is so wonderful and full of surprises. The small fruit after the great efforts is so sweet; and I am always curious, but never know what is going to happen to me next.
I've learnt to take care of myself, and take it easy: keep making effort but don't expect too much from these efforts, whatever result comes out, just accept it and move on, as life always does.
10月31日 imagineImagine there's no Heaven.
It's easy if you try. No hell below us. Above us only sky. Imagine all the people. Living for today. Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion too. Imagine all the people. Living life in peace. You may say that I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will be as one. Imagine no possessions. I wonder if you can. No need for greed or hunger. A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people. Sharing all the world. You may say that I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one. Haven't heard this song for a long time. Swedish Idol song contest brought up this song last Friday. I do like Daniel Karlsson's performance. It said that it was his worst performance in Idol 2007, but I do feel his feeling when I listen to him. He sang this song at his father's funeral, which makes the song special for him. John Lennon is a legend, Daniel Karlsson has performed this song well enough for me.
10月2日 Av längtan till dig ( because of the longing for you )En vacker låt. Till dig som har hittat den personen, och till dig som fortfarande letar.
A beautiful song. For you who has found the one, and for you who is still looking for the one.
Love playing it loudly and listening to it quitely. Today, tried to translate the text into English:
Av längtan till dig
(because of the longing for you)
CajsaStina Åkerström / Åsa Jinder
Musik: Jan Krantz I en evighet levde jag som om du inte fanns. (In eternity, I lived as if you didn't exist.)
I alla drömmar var du ändå nära, så underbart nära. (In all my dreams, you were still close, so wonderfully close.)
Och jag trodde jag fann dig, men du va nån annanstans. (And I thougth I found you, but you were in somewhere else.)
Och varje gång jag funnit nån så såg jag att drömmen inte va sann. (And everytime I found someone, I could see that my dream was not like that.)
Tänk alla famnar jag lämnat av längtan till dig, (Think about all the arms I've left because of the longing for you,)
för jag trodde att du fanns och väntade mig. (because I thought that you existed and waited for me.)
Ja, alla dagar jag vandrat så sorgsen och trött, (Yes, all the days I've walked so sadly and tiredly,)
för att möta den vackraste mänska jag nånsin mött. (just for meeting the most beautiful person I've even met.)
Det var enkelt och vackert, du sa att du väntat mig. (It was simple and beautiful, you said that you'd been waiting for me)
Jag kunde ana att det fanns en himmel på jorden, jag såg den. (I could imagine there was a heaven on earth, I saw it.)
Och du bad mig att leva mitt liv alltid nära dig. (And you asked me to live all my life close to you.)
Jag följde dina steg och allt jag någonsin drömt om fanns där för mig. (I followed your steps, and everything I'd ever dreamed about was there for me.)
Det finns ingen som lockat mitt hjärta så underbart: (There is no one who has attracted my heart so wonderfully:)
Med all din ömhet får du sorg och smärta att sakta försvinna. (with all your tenderness, sadness and pain slowly disappear.)
Alla skuggor, allt mörker som förr var så uppenbart (All the shadows, all the darkness that was so obvious before)
det skingras och tillsammans ser vi ljuset som stiger med solens fart (they disperse, and together we see the light that raises up in the sun's peace. )
9月24日 heheSurprisingly and reasonably nothing much to do today. After the boiling week, Sweden site's pending tasks were settled by last Friday. The Spanish are traveling to Stockholm for the meeting and northern people are preparing for tomorrow's meeting, nobody's bothered to mail me or call me. I just made my documents in order and reported what I've done last week. I've planned for my Stockholm trip luggage item by item at least twice, still there are a few hours left before I can call it a day.
It's nice weather outside. Maybe should go for a walk after dinner... What should I cook for dinner? |
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