Sunday, August 12, 2007

Sweet Sweden..

What's more beautiful about it is the scenery it offers.. there's a giant lake right in front of jw's house in styrmangatan and we can catch the sunset from there.. also a huge rock where you can climb up for a more magnificent view.. the skies are pink during sunset, real pretty.. There are ducks and swans swimming on the lake.. we were lucky to actually see the parent swans and their 7 babies!! 7!! Usually they go into hiding and this was the first time jw saw them after so many months.. hee.. lucky shuang, for once on this trip! =p

Our days here were simple but happy. No rushing around like we did in all the other cities, esp Paris. Every afternoon, jw would come back to have lunch with me during his break since his base was less than 10mins away. Then at nite we cooked a simple dinner together. It just feels so simple but so blissful. You know what i mean? I do believe life needs to be simple, because the happiness of it lies in its simplicity.. The dinner was one of the best I ever had.. Real happiness boiling in me.. maybe that's why the theft had to happen to me.. to let me understand dat you don't need too much money, you dun need the magnificent eiffel tower or louvre, you dun need so many things, in order to feel truly happie.. because being loved, on its very own, is something to celebrate about.. yes, i love the 2000 pics we took.. but maybe, maybe, life is teaching me a lesson that the best things in life are not to be seen, but to be felt.. and now dat we've felt it, i guess we ought to be really contented.. right dear? =) reallie love learning to cook wif ya and waiting for ya to come back every day..



Jw also took me for a spin and small walks nearby his house.. wow the supermarket stuff are sure expensive, especially the vege! only the pig bones are cheap cos i tink only asians like to make soup using the bones but not the pple here.. we also went to this place up on a hill where we can catch a good view of the lake, the trees, the sun and all.. there were pple and kids bathing in the lake.. despite lotsa of insects flying around (jw said these are harmless, although scarily ALOT of them), and many shell-less black snails crawling around and makes me fearful of stepping on them and killing them, it was still a good walk for us.. jw even plucked two apples from the apple tree! Hee. We took some nice pics there, i guess, these are the nicest pics for the entire trip i have left to show anyone.. keke..

I love piggyback!! although i tink I'm getting heavier and soon I'll be too heavy for jw to lift me up.. woohoo.. he's not much heavier than moi worrr.. *faintz* I remember after our bag got stolen in barcelona, dear piggybacked me on our way back home.. it felt so warm and sweet.. although of coz out of the 1hr journey, i tink he hung in there for like 6mins? haha. better than nothing. =) thank you!! he always say that i laugh like a baby when i'm being piggybacked.. esp when he starts sprinting, i will laugh uncontrollably.. haha.. yup.. there's a touch button there.. but good wat.. at least it's for sure that something makes me laugh during the toughest of times..

I love using the self timer to take pics of both of us.. haha.. cos I sux at holding onto the camera and taking pic of us because I'm bound to cut off some part of us somewhere.. hor??? jw insist that men have more common sense and dat this is an example of his theory.. OKIE.. thanks.. haha.. but see, this pic that i took was the best one we had.. during sunset on top of the hill.. and after a few tries of the sepia mode and the positioning of the camera on the bench.. don't u tink it's nice? Hehe. I tink so!!!!!!! Woohoo.. dat's us.. just us..

On my last nite in sweden, jw took me to his CO's house for dinner.. these are his two adorable sons, Gerald and Gabriel.. Gerald is 3 years old and hates chinese.. so the teacher instinct in me arose and i ended up playing some chinese jigsaw games wif him, in the meantime teaching him some chinese words.. hee.. glad he din take long to open up to me.. and guess wad? when he wanted someone to read to him a bedtime story, out of so many of us, he chose moi.. keke.. jw say it's natural becos he is hum sup.. wah kaoz.. i tink it's because we had an affinity? Hmmm. It took long to read the story to him because he kept fidgeting or standing up when he was sitting on my lap, or he will utter some blabberish.. but haha, dat's why kids are so adorable.. so is Gabriel, who just learnt how to walk and keeps drooling and making a "eeeeee" shriek whenever he can.. =) It was good to see my kids in berries again yesterday.. luckily they haven forgotten wu lao shi although i was away for so long.. well well, almost come to the end of my sweden stay... had some unforgettable memories there too, and it will be etched in my heart for a longgg time to come..

See the pretty flowers that I took pics of in Sweden.. so many different flowers, but this is fav pic.. Keke.. Looks so much like computer graphic rite.. hehe.. Canon cameras are good.. You shd see the pics of the Versailles garden that we took in paris.. Fwah.. breathtaking.. =)

My journey back home was one filled with hiccups.. firstly i had to fly from denmark to amsterdam alone, with an emergency travel doc that doesn't state amsterdam as part of the route.. so obviously i was questioned and interrogated several times by the immigration officers.. secondly i had to wait for the flight to s'pore alone at amster.. it was gg to be a long 5-hour wait.. and when i went to check the timing, i realised the flight was delayed by another 2 hours!! well then, time to munch on some lunch and read my book bahz.. by the time it was 8pm (flight at 11.45pm) after 4 hours of waiting, i went to check the timing again and guess wad.. my flight was cancelled!!! Wahhhh.. thanks ley.. the only flight dat's cancelled this entire nite was my flight, i tink i can buy 4D when I'm back.. i had no phone to call anyone, except for a compensatory 5-min call card from KLM.. besides, I had already exhausted the majority of my coins and had not much money left in my pockets.. Worse still, there was no one wif mi.. for the first time, i had the feeling of yi wu suo you.. (aka, having NOTHING at all)

After much effort finding the right desk because everyone gave me different directions, i queued up for long before finding out the details of the hotel that KLM has arranged.. at Hotel Ibis, a 15min drive from the airport.. oh well.. luckily i asked for some clothes to change into, dat's when KLM gave me a care kit wif a giant t-shirt and stuff like toothbrush n toothpaste.. it was strange being alone in the hotel.. most pple had company, except for a few loners like me.. good thing is dat i had a bathtub and i had a good time taking a long bath and soaking myself in the hot water.. wish jw was here though.. ain't nice being alone.. i tink i was quite brave to venture out of the hotel to take a few pictures, although i din go very far lar.. kekeke..

also had to find more coins because i needed to use the internet and informed my colleagues dat i can't make it back to office in time.. OMG.. their internet is sha ren fang huo.. a mere ten mins of use cost me S$6.. fwahhh.. woke up earlie the next day.. or rather, i couldn't get to sleep and onli slept from 4.30 to 6am.. wif no phone, was so afraid the wake up call was not enuff to wake mi up and i will miss the bus to the airport.. haha.. oh, did i mention my menses came when i was alone in the hotel.. wif nothing to change into? at dat point, i really sincerely believed watever can go wrong in my life WILL go wrong.. i was proven quite right, because my luggage was spoilt in the process, and on board the plane, firstly, my TV screen was spoilt and i had to change seat and my second seat was spoilt because it can't be pushed back and i was too lazy to ask for a change again.. wats more i sat right in front of the loo and every 3mins someone walks in or out.. wahahah.. it's just so farnie.. but well, i survived didn't i? & whatever doesn't kill you just makes you stronger..

Woooo look at jw's new haircut.. hee.. nice???? guess who was the barber.. YEAPPIE!!! ME!! keke. Did my best using the lousy scissors he had, and spent bout one hour cutting his hair and thinning it for him.. Keke.. Caused me a backache, but it's well worth it because he was so touched.. Hee.. Hope his CO doesn't scold him now for the 'pigtail' he had originally.. Fwah, cutting hair is really a form of art ley.. Challenging and also demands focused attention, and creativity!! Keke.. wonder how mummy survived as hairdresser in her younger days.. hmmm..

Rightey.. time for me to go...

good to be back here safe and sound.. wooo.. shall write up about the rest of my experiences here soon.. =) nitey!!!