the minus something degrees days..

the days have been really cold.. from -1 to -8 degrees here in Lund.. and possibly getting even colder in the next few days..

the snow collector...


snow rooted walls...


first comfort food.. pork and cabbage porridge.. if i can't make good rice, i can certainly still make some decent porridge!


second comfort food...stirfried mushrooms, tomatoes and zucchini tossed in olive oil with pasta.. oke but zucchini tastes kinda weird when cooked so better to just put it in in the end i think..


marta and the risotto.. there's story behind this: i was cycling home today after swedish language class and on the way home in the cold i was just planning out what to cook for dinner and feeling sickish and tired already.. i arrived back at Sparta, parked and locked my bike, and headed straight into my room but soon after Marta was at my door and told me that she had made dinner and i had a share!! wow what a blessing i thought, that was exactly what i needed at that moment. warm, yummy, risotto!! best comfort food ever... thank God for Marta and her wonderful risotto!


satisfaction... mrmm!

school begins..with a cold.

hej hej,

school has started proper for me here in Lund.. and it is certainly not going to be easy. i was feeling quite apprehensive about the workload (cos it was recommended that we follow the year three track) which means that i am going to be as busy as a full time 3rd year ID student in Lund...and that was probably the original idea of going on exchange so hey, why not? i will definitely be learning alot for sure, and as for losing out on all the weekend trips everyone else seems to be taking here, i will have plenty of time to travel in june and july so no loss in the end i think!

someone said to me before i came over that "the first things all asian students catch when on exchange is a cold" ... and just as i was feeling happy that i managed to stay healthy for about 2 weeks....wham! here i am with a pretty bad cold. but i'm sure i will survive! got all the medication with me and i've decided to use my ricecooker as a boiler for my room too, to help heat it up a little more and add more moisture in the air too.

and today i realised that even though i utterly fail at making rice in my ricecooker, i am still a fairly decent porridge-maker with the ricecooker.. but then again if i manage to burn porridge then i really really win liaos..

more about school, i'm taking 5 modules here..
1) industrial project II which translates into the main studio module, for me it's probably going to be an accessory design project with sony ericsson.
2) electronics: possibilities and limitations. this has been quite tough for me cos it is reminiscent of junior college physics and chemistry...which to put it mildly, didn't quite work out for me.. but i think it is useful knowledge that ties in with the sony ericsson project so shall try to persevere on with it! had to borrow a scientific calculator from my kind neighbour thomas to do the online quizzes...
3) 3D Modelling.. i think this will be a short Alias rendering course, pray that i can pick it up quite efficiently..
4) Design Management I .. it feels like us going to business to take marketing modules... not been thrillingly exciting so far but i think the project will be quite interesting too.
5) Svenska for utlandska studenter : swedish for foreign students.. it's tough stuff but fun too. first time i am learning a language that i don't already know from young.

oke i need to get back to work and then get some rest now.
hope all of you are well, especially those back home, those going abroad, those already abroad, and all reading this. oke so that's everyone..

take care lah! pray for me! talk to me soon.. : ]


lund fun facts: did you know that sony ericsson's headquarters are based here in Lund?

det snöar!! it's snowing!!

22nd january 2007

i woke up this morning feeling particularly cold in my overly big and underheated room and also with a funny feeling that i couldn't quite identify. and then i was a little late heading out to our swedish language class the the folk universitet but in my slowness i looked up at the sky when i was unlocking my bike and wow, snow siah!! happiness and joy. this is more like winter!! it was wonderful, couldn't stop staring at the falling snowflakes. kept looking out the window during swedish class as the snow started really falling.


first signs of snow...


and the bushes fluffed up with white..


my magical tree outside the AF building in a different light.. snow covered.


snowtracks..


more snowtracks..


my snowtrackmaker..


my bike *kenah frozen after i got out from IKDC (Ingvar Kamprad Design Centrum) today and i had to push, drag, carry it all the way back to Sparta. it was quite *jialats.. i hope it will work oke tomorrow..


*kenah - got (usually in a bad sense)
*jialats - describes a really bad situation, it's actually just [jialat] but we sometimes pluralify everything for fun.