Hot

Cool

The Party Has Begun

The Sony Ericsson Summer Party has just begun. White men playing Massive Attack's Inertia Creep.

A Wet Dog

Wet, tired and breathing heavily.

Lucky's First Swim Of 2008

Studenten

Waiting for the twins to get out.

Singstar

Injury

Well. What can I say? Luge riding can be dangerous if you don't pay attention to the bending of the track.

Luge Riding

The Blue Team getting ready for some luge riding.

Irish Christmas Eve

Jessica running into a wall.

I 'Sony Ericsson' Colors

How pretty we look in our team shirts in different colors.

The Theme

The theme of today's activities.

Breakfast

Having breakfast at our destination - Semmeslövs herrgårdshärbärge in Båstad.

Department Outing

In Full Bloom

The apple tree at home is in full bloom. Beautiful...

Sunset

Sunset at Sankt Hans backar.

Still Going Strong

Happy Party-goers

Party At Patrik's

Patrik had his birthday party today with a couple of his closest friends.

Work, Work, Work

Haven't been able to blog for a while now. Simply
because nothing special has happened lately. Work
is taking a lot of time right now. I joined another
team a few weeks ago and right now it feels like
I'm a newbie once again.

Trying to study Mandarin in a distance course at
Lund University. To be honest, I don't feel
motivated at all. It's not like I need to do it.
It's just for fun. And the thing with having to
sit by the computer after I have done that for
a whole day at work doesn't make it more fun
neither.

I hope to be able to pick up guitar playing and
song writing soon. It really has been a while.
Last month I wrote a whole new song, complete with
lyrics and melody. This has not happened since
May last year. The whole time in between I have
only managed to come up with a handful of lyrics.


This guy Alejandro Manzano is really good and
he makes good covers. Check out all his clips
at YouTube. Here are some of them.

Cover of OneRepublic's Apologize


Cover of Rihanna's Umbrella


Cover of Sean Kingston's Beautiful Girls

Spring Is In The Air

Time for a looong walk.

Amazing Covers

John Mayer - sometimes you rock!




Jamie Scott's cover of Lily Allen's "Smile":




Jamie Scott & The Town's cover of Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love":




A fan made cover of Justin Timberlake's "I Think That She Knows":

Break

A little break in the afternoon at job. The question is where all the beers came from.

Thank God I Survived

Went downtown for some shopping earlier today and was surprised by how slippery the road was. The bus I took slided on the road quite a lot all the way. All pedestrians took 10 cm step to avoid falling.

It has been raining last night and the whole day. The temperature was around 0 degrees C I guess and it was quite windy so all the rain that fell became a layer of slippery ice on the streets instantly.

Later on all the buses were taken out of traffic and they just lined themselves up on the streets. It was simply too dangerous to drive. It was dangerous to walk too. I fell once and I saw a man crawling on his feet and hands to get up after his fall.

My shopping was abruptly ended by a blackout. The buses were still not allowed to move at that time so I had to walk all the way home in the freezing rainy weather!

Dumplings

I made them! And they were yummy!

Lost And Found

Found this bunch of paper some day ago.

Songs/poems/ideas/thoughts I started to write down, drafts, lyrics with or without melody. All written between 1995--2000, during my most creative years. I don't even remember how the melodies go for most of the songs.

Here is enough material for at least an album. ;-) I guess I have to dive into these someday and see what I can use and reuse.

This Year's Last CD Purchase

Had no idea who this guy is, but after a few seconds listen at the first songs I decided to buy the album. Style and genre? Singer-songwriter, a little-little bit soul. What else could get me hooked in a few seconds?! The song ' When Will I See Your Face Again' has been frequently used by 3 for one of their commercials in Sweden. Scott's voice reminds of Adam Levin from Maroon 5. This album will close my 2007 year of shopping.

Other great artists and their albums I bought/discovered this year:

* A Fine Frenzy - One Cell In The Sea
* Brandi Carlile - The Story
* Justin Hines - Sides
* Vienna Teng - Dreaming Through The Noise
* KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic
* Newton Faulkner - Hand Built By Robots
* Pat Monahan - Last Of Seven
* Ross Copperman - Welcome To Reality
* The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
* Amy MacDonald - This Is The Life
* Paolo Nutini - These Streets
* Tristan Prettyman - Twentythree
* And more...

Well, have a happy new music year!!

TP

Some Trivial Pursuit after Christmas dinner.

Playing Wii

Playing tennis on my new-bought Wii.

Another Creation

Hm... No comments.

T28 Foreva

Department party with ginger bread house building. This our T28.

Sony Ericsson Winter Party

Boney M performing.

Magic Eight Ball?

Patrik In Action

Billiard playing with Patrik, Håkan, and Johan.

Gustav & Tor

Still at the party.

K550 Release Party

Today we were invited to the release party for the Sony Ericsson K550 phone at AF-borgen in Lund.

Forum

Shopping at Forum, Copenhagen. It's crowded here!

Go Get Your Leash

Lucky getting his leash that hangs on a tree.

Christmas Soon

Maxi is selling Christmas stuff already!

Johan On The Train

Met Johan on the way home.

Japanese Rice Dessert

Yummy! Here I am, having Japanese rice dessert at Itoko's farwell fika.

At Grands

Glädje

Present

Hm... One word is enough to describe it - 'Glädje'.

A Late Birthday Party

A late birthday party with the boys at Wasabi.

Afterwork

Afterwork a Wednesday at Mods. It's unplugged day today with live band.

Tired, Bored And Freezing

Trying to sleep at Suvarnabhumi International Airport @ Bangkok. Five hours left until next flight.

Disneyland

Tired of malls and shopping we had three options today - stay at the hostel, go to Ocean Park, or go to Disneyland. To stay at the hostel was not really an option. Ocean Park might have some new rides but we've been there before. Disneyland is smaller than Ocean Park and doesn't have many thrilling rides but since we've never been there before we decided to go there.

Disneyland is located on Lantau Island so we had to take a 40 minutes MTR ride to get there.

Disneyland is quite small and is divided into four parts - Main Street USA, Adventureland, Fantasyland, and Tomorrowland. Each with its own theme. It's worth a visit.

We will be heading back to Sweden tomorrow so we have to plan how to pack our suitcases the best ways tonight. Maybe there will be some time left for me to buy a karaoke machine. ;)

Po Lin Buddha

Today we went to Lantau Island to see the majestic Po Lin Buddha, who's sitting on top of a hill (more than 250 steps up) facing south. Inside the Buddha is a white (aka bone) relic. We learned that there are three kinds of relics - white (bone), black (hair), and red (flesh).

Anita Mui (may she rest in peace) rests inside the Buddha statue.

We had vegetarian food at the monastery. We got a lot of food and it tastes good.

Lantau Island offers a scenic nature and is a beautiful contrast to the noisy and smelly concrete inner city of Hong Kong.

Heavy?!

OK, the suitcase feels a little heavy, but I swear, there is almost nothing in it. I can't understand they put the heavy tag with written "30 kg" on it. That means 6 days in Hong Kong with no shopping for me!!

Anyway, we have just landed in Hong Kong. We and Stefan went separate ways this morning without a chance to say good-bye to each other. We went to the airport together but we had to take different immigrations due to different gates. Our immigration was slow and overloaded so we had to run to get our VAT refund immediately after the immigration. And then we ran to our gate only to find out that they had to change both gate and aircraft. 50 minutes delayed and then we were finally up in the sky.

Temple Hopping

On our last day in Bangkok we went temple hopping. We went to Wat Pra Kaew (Emerald Buddha), Grand Palace, and Wat Po (Reclining Buddha). Visitors were asked to pay respect to Buddha by wearing garments that cover the body, i.e., no mini skirts, no see-through, no shorts. T-shirts and sandals were allowed though. In Wat Pra Kaew and Grand Palace we had to borrow long pants and sarongs respectively.

Hungry Ngo Family Is Invading Bangkok

Stefan, aka "I'm always in Bangkok", has joined us now. Here we are eating at Big-C.

Tomorrow will be our last day in Thailand. Early morning the day after tomorrow we will leave Bangkok for Hong Kong.

Ancient City

We're back in Bangkok now. We landed late last night.

We went to Ancient City earlier today. It's located a little bit outside Bangkok and considered Bangkok's cultural heritage park. The park is quite big and it has the shape of Thailand. It is full of reconstructions of old palaces, historic buildings, statues and more. We borrowed a bike to get around in the park.

I'm quite red in my arms now after a day in the sun and I was stupid not to wear sunblock.

Singapore

We've been in Singapore a couple of days now. We are staying at a hotel in Little India.

So far we have been to Orchard Road twice. It rained heavily yesterday when we went to the Esplanade and Merlion Park. Some of us got all wet so they had to buy new clothes ASAP.

We're at Sentosa now. It rained a little during the morning and on our way to Sentosa but luckily it stopped raining when we came to the island and now it's full sunshine.

In general it is quite cheap to eat in Singapore. You get bigger servings in Singapore compared to Thailand. Shopping is expensive here. Even crap European and American brands like Top Shop and The Gap are treated like high-class brands.

We are heading back to Bangkok tomorrow. Stefan will be joining us one day this Saturday on his way to The Philippines on a business trip.

Good Boys Go To Heaven, Bad Boys Go To Pattaya

We've been to Pattaya yesterday. We took a bus from
Bangkok to Pattaya. It was actually the same bus line
we took to Sriracha the day before yesterday. We stayed
at a quite nice hotel with two swimming pools.

We hired a private guy who took us from Pattaya beach to
Ko Larn beach. He stayed with us all the time and waited
for us while we tried the different beach activities - jetski,
swimming etc. He even let us drive his boat. Cool! I must
get myself a boat when I'm home. ;)

We didn't like Pattaya at all. At the beach walk, you can see
a lot of Thai women waiting for some western guy to pick them up
and indeed there are a lot of western men walking around with
a Thai woman. Disgusting we think. "Good boys go to heaven. Bad
boys go to Pattaya" they say. It is 100 % true!

Anyways, we are back in Bangkok now...