thank God we have safely arrived and partly settled down in Lund, Sweden after quite a mad journey from preparing to packing to airporting to flying to training to cobblestone pavementing to *kunning to rinko kawauchi exhibition going to training to arriving to getting interviewed at the trainstation in Lund. it was really quite a journey!
it was a disastrous start in Copenhagen involving rain, pain and cobblestone pavements. with great pain, hardly any sun and some determination and God's blessing we finally made it to the absalon annex hostel in Copenhagen. but from there it got tonnes better! i wanted to go and see the rinko kawauchi show at the fotografisk centre at gammel strand. it's something i always have to do, visit a photography museum or at least catch a bit of a photo show when i'm in a new place. and then we wondered where the heck everyone was, as it was really quite deserted for a city.. and then towards evening we finally stumbled upon their stroget which is like orchard road in singapore where all the shops are in one long row and probably everyone in the city was there. it was nice talking and walking and exploring though. and at the end of it we found a public ice skating rink! goodstuff! if i hadn't been so tired i would definitely have given it a shot... skating outdoors is great stuff, did it once before in korea some years back and it just felt so surreal, completely different from skating indoors.
and finally we arrived in Lund! i dunno how on earth two girls like us managed to amass such a massive amount of luggage but well we did and we even managed to carry it safely from Singapore all the way across the globe to Lund.
we got interviewed at the train station by the Metro newspaper and haha how champion, the only thing everyone will read from that article would be ''barbequed pork'' cos we said we brought bak kwa (bbqed pork, a singaporean/chinese thing). you can see the paper online athttp://www.metro.se/se/misc/pdf/2007/01/11/SEMMA_2007_01_11.pdf it takes a while to load but i think we're on the 4th page.
oke all these entries are kind of written a while after they happened cos i haven't really felt settled enough to write until now. so well here goes. :]
random singlish word of the day:
*kunning - pronounced kooning, and it means sleeping in singlish.. maybe derived from hokkien?
*singlish - singaporean english. kind of our own special sort of english that's enriched with power words from malay, hokkien, tamil, mandarin etc.
