josh in sweden

Here we are again

2006-09-09T12:33:00.000+02:00

Well one month after my last post , now is as good as anytime to make another one.
Well alot has happened in the world of weath this last month. Well not really a lot but Sir Steve Irwin has passed away and although I didnt know him personally I will miss him. I guess at least he died doing what he loved, pissing off potentially deadly animals....

Also although he didnt die this month, actually he died in july, Syd Barrett left at the age of 60. Who is Syd? Well look him up on google, he was a fucking genius even if he was a little mad.

I just checked their website to see how the blues went this year and Carlton had an amazing season with 1 draw 3 wins out of a total of 22 matches!!!! Damn I love that team maybe it is time i switch and cheer for someone better........nah
The only thing that makes me feel good is seeing the Lions come 13th woohoo Die Lions Die
So work has started up again which is cool cause we are both busy trying to make money and then time goes quite fast... blah blah blah nah nah nah ne en enenepkkhsgälkkh s,......wow that was wierd...

Here is a picture of hannah and her Aunty Eva at Henrik's( Hannahs bro) birthday party

And here is the borthday boy looking a bit worried if you ask me...come on henke you only turn 21 once

And finally here is Hannahs mum Marie and henriks girl Jenny.
Theres none of me cause I was the drunk behind the camera the whole time.

summer is almost over

2006-08-09T14:01:00.000+02:00

well the summer is almost over ...damn.. where did it all go? and so fast.
it was good though lots of free time i went to skåne twice ,belgium and holland as well. but all good things must come to an end so next week work starts again and also school so we will see how it all goes.
last night i found a hedgehog in our garden so fucking cute it just froze and rolled upp so i couldnt exactly pat it see as it was basically just a ball of spikes but anyway im glad i saw one.

not much else to add at the moment to my glorious monument to me...

Have a look at this site if you want a laugh

2006-07-28T13:04:00.000+02:00

Hej everyone my friend stavros pointed this site out to me, worth looking at if you share my sense of humour...
www.realultimatepower.net
take it with a teaspoon of salt
josh

hej

2006-07-25T19:55:00.000+02:00

hej!
well the sun is burning here which is fucking great!! ive also noticed that there are berries appearing everywhere i tried one today but it didnt taste to nice.....i left that bush be.
i have just got back from Amsterdam having sppent five days there ad 3 in Brussels..was really nice. I think id like to live in amsterdam for a while the people there are so friendky (except for the drunk englishmen). My friend predicted it would be "cockhead chaos", as he gently put it, and im happy to say the cockheads must have been somewhere else because it was a beautiful town with beautiful people.
One has to be careful not to get trapped in coffee shops though.....
I didnt really get any good pictures but ill stick a couple up anyhow

Kim the smoking Dane on a canal in Amsterdam

Crazy violin we saw in an art museum....

we got to see some Rembrandts...unbelievably good. unfortunately I couldnt get any good pictures though

ha det bra

igen

2006-06-29T18:41:00.000+02:00

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hej

2006-06-29T18:39:00.000+02:00

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det var länge länge sen

2006-05-23T14:14:00.000+02:00

Two Beautiful Grrls - Hannah and Meg my niece

ok its been a while yes, but to be honest nothing has really happened...yes thats right nothing and lots of it.
Things are a different colour now though, of course, as it is officially and undeniably spring...leaving everything coated dark green light green or just green green (my personal favourite).
but other then that everything is pretty humdrum.. im working most days and trying to go to school in the afternoons and hannah is studying and talking about buying summer clothes.
This is something im not quite used to yet. You see here in Sweden(probably the whole of Europe as well) you have to get different clothes for different seasons. For example spring clothes are not for summer only spring even if the temperature is roughly the same people will know!! and you may be stoned for mxing season fashion. I think this is mainly a girl thing.
Also you cant wear last summers clothes this summer or last springs this spring, yes thats right, just you try it and see what will happen. According to hannah this would lead to a national disaster and is to be avoided at all costs (keyword here being COST).
So i am the constant bad guy, always saying
"No, whats wrong with the shirt you had last year in summr have you grown?No of course not your 24 not 10" or
"New shoes? but we already have 15 pairs of the "but i really need these" ones already, wear them"
I however have failed to enlighten Hannah to the fact thats its absolutely nescessary to buy Smågodis at every given chance. Smågodis is of course loose candy/lollies and probbly the best thing about hannah except fr your girlfriend. Its quite cheap i guess and its available everywhere i look...i swear they set stores up jsut because they know I'll be coming past. This has taken the place of beer im afraid and I'm heading towards a Kilo a week habit if I'm not careful...
My drinking on the other hand is quite civilised and quite rare seeing as buying piss requires a pre-planned trip to Systembolaget to make sure they are open and willing to take twice as much money as they should from me. Systembolaget is the state owned bottle-o and is the only place you can get alchohol outside of a pub/bar, unless you want light light fake beer.The system shuts early on fridays and saturdays so you got to stock up and damn is it expensive.
This picture is of a loveley flower thts only here in uppsala beautifu but they smell like cat piss.

vad bra!!

2006-05-03T20:21:00.000+02:00

hey i forgot hannah and i gave me a haircut . shaved on one side and long on the other. my very own tribute to the eighties new wave scene. also i broke my eyes.......
and of course what post would be compete without a picture of missus doing the laundry....not sure if she fully appreciat's my photographical talent. Also tried to go fishing in a lake near by but as soon as the line hit the water my boss rang me to ask if i'd start work early. better luck next time i guess, money comes first.

2006-05-03T20:04:00.000+02:00

so, nothing has happened here except for dirty pubs and bonfire night.

Dawit Isaak has a new site. It has merchandise, including cheap as stickers you can plaster on public property if you are so inclined, heaps of info about his plight and also a space for to speak your ideas about how we (everyone) can help him. check it out...please...thanks to you who have signed his petition!!!! www.dawitisaak.com

Uppppsala Zoo Expo what a show....

2006-04-22T19:18:00.000+02:00

Greetings....
today was that specil time of year known as Uppsala Zoo Expo day. dont be fooled though there arent any zoos just animals. not bad id have to say p got too hold a big snake....hehehehe...and pat some cats, dogs etc etc. also bought some honey mustard made from a guys honey..suprise suprise. yum
not much else has happened here. lots of flowers which is nice i got a new bicycle well sort of new anyway and school is fun.

here comes the sun

2006-04-18T13:47:00.000+02:00

all hail el-presidento gomez
hmmmm at long last i think winter has finally gone. birds mice and little piles of dog poo that have been hidden under snow for 6 months are out and about. even the doggs are looking super happy that there isnt any snow. they walk around waggin the tail furiously and freaking out cause they dont know what to do first. well either way its a good thing they arent policemen in iraq or they would be gunned down in the street....or blown up in a cafe. absoluteley disgusting.
everyone blames muslims but i personally blame religion.
i hereby blame religion for all these fucking wars and killings and i think it should be outlawed. all these people running around killing and stealing in the name of god. i think god would puke if he could. just a fucking disgrace the way people have created crutches to help them through there lives and then use these "crutches" to justify murder. well i say we murder murder!! yes thats right
im starting my own terrorist-fanatic religion group to counter all the damage done by other religions - "W.M:M."
"We Murder Murder"
and as my first course of action as the now self elected el-presidento gomez im goin to go down to ICA and buy some candy and im going to make a point of not killing anyone on the way there either.
any one who wants to be in W.M:M you can but you cant kill anything anymore. and you have to be nice to everyone and we can think of other stuff later. oh another thing noone is in charge so whoever joins will have the title of "el-presidento" followed by whichever name they like. and our catch phrase will be "here comes the sun, so lets kill some guns"
peace out

Cyanide and Happiness

2006-04-17T10:54:00.000+02:00

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bladee blah blah

2006-04-14T14:06:00.000+02:00

GLAD PÅSK ALLA.......
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE......
hey stevo, im goin to wear that fucking jumper to my wedding and/or funeral
and to anonymous my email is theclash76@yahoo.com

Christiania, Denmark

2006-04-10T13:59:00.000+02:00

Christiania in Copenhagen is a semi self governing neighborhood. The current right wing Danish government is doing their best to shut it down......the people of Christiania used to sell hash and magic mushrooms openly from stands on the main street (known as pusher street). this has now stopped although you can just walk into any cafe and get what you want.
They have certain rules like no hard drugs(heroin and coke etc), no guns, no stealing and no cars. From what i understand these rules are largely abided by. i did see quite a few drunks while we were there though, mabe they should ban alchohol too.
we walked around the lake and looked at all the sqauts and houses poeple had put up, they were pretty cool if a little slap-bang-thatll-do , sort of like this blog. so in the spirit of slap-bang-thatll-do here are some pics.
Here is the entrance and exit to christiania, well one of them any way there are two main entrances and the big stones you see are put there to stop cars coming in.
namely police cars......

probably the best piece of graff ive ever, seen this thing looks like a photo or poster on the wall but its au natural.

One thing Copenhagen has a reputation for is Pölser mmm mmmm and i have to say im in love with these. really its nothing more then a hotdog sausage, a piece of bread and a squirt of ketchup and/or mustard. but god damn give it a foreign name and a big reputation and im hooked. i ate three over the course of the day and ended up with stomach crampos on the train home. id definetley do it again......completely worth it. notice the large selection of pölser advertised on the poster behind me...ahh whats a man to do.

finally the "p" key on my keyboard has gone spazzo so if you notice any extra unexplanable ppp's in amongst my otherwise perfect spelling then this is why. i passed engish you now......and also mats.

i have some more pictures but lack the words to go along with them so ill stick them on the next post......

man for sale

2006-04-08T10:28:00.000+02:00

have you got a job??? cause i need one. please ill do anything for money.....anything

almost time to leave

2006-04-04T00:40:00.000+02:00

well its tuesday night now and we fly back home to uppsala tomorrow night....how freaking fast the last few days have gone....ate, drank and laughed so much.....spent the day in Copenhagen , Denmark today with some old friends we met last year in Asia, really nice....but now i will sleep and prepare for one last day of skane...photos and rambling to come on thursday after work......hej då

Cyanide and Happiness

2006-04-01T10:58:00.000+02:00

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Down in skane life is swell
eatin cake and sleepin late
and doin nuthin........

humdrum

2006-03-30T03:12:00.000+02:00

well we are off to Skåne today......will try and get some photos of the parties but will probly end up forgetting as soon as im there....have a nice weekend as i will be........maybe ill get some pictures of Skåne oooh yea i can finally take a picture from a plane...

Det var länge sen!!!!!

2006-03-26T21:46:00.000+02:00

"King Gustav I" - Meet Gus, he started (but not necessarily finished) contruction on Uppsala Castle.
oh, yeah.....just to avoid any confusion by "started contruction" I mean he told someone else to do it.
It was started mid 16th cent. and was finished in its presnt state by 1757.

--!!Hejsan!!--

Well, after neglecting my blogg for a week I've got some pictures and a couple of words to go along with them.........okay let me get started by saying I did bugger all over the last week which is why I haven't put anything on here.
I worked a little bit, spent an afternoon taking photos of slottet (trnsltn"the castle",a big castle in Uppsala central), got drunk and on Saturday we had our only two friends in upppsala over for dinner.....oh yeah and I found my bike was stolen on Wednesday night, although I wasnt really distressed as I was full of Guiness and thought nothing of walking home in the freezing snow.(about half way home I called Hannah to come and pick me up)

The Three Pics Above......two pics are of the castle itself and the one on the right is the view towards Uppsala Domkyrkan (biggest church in Scandinavia). Notice how Gustav and his cronies had the cannons facing the church, perhaps just to let the bishop know who was really in control.....

Unfortunately I haven't any photo's of my drunken escapades on wednesday night but we did get some from last night's dinner. mmmmm mmm and what a dinner it was.

We had "Citronkyckling med svart oliviar och persilia"(Lemon chicken with black olives and parsley") followed by "Banankakor"(I'm sure you can guess what this one is)...just wonderful and of course it was washed down with red wine, beer and a vodka drink Hannah came up with "Vodkawithapplesourzandsodawaterinagreenglass" served with just a little ice!!! All in all I think it was a success, lots of laughter and good conversation includung a bit on Steve"theCrocodileHunter" Irwin(I'm not even going to hyperlink this one, if you dont know who he is then you should crawl back under that rock......) all to a chilled King Tubby filled soundscape. In case you want to know who King Tubby is click on the H-Link to read about him otherwise, find some of his music and listenlistenlisten because he is fucking awesome. His tunes are readily available at any good record store and also for free on the net, if your that way inclined(God knows I am).

This is a picture of my friend Paul and I at our place on Saturdy night. Bit blurry I know but it could be said that it adds a little mystery to it....you now guessing what or who its a picture of and all.

This coming weekend Hannah and I are off to Hörby again for a two parties. Thats right, TWO!!!!! So I can't wait, I love it down there in Skåne, which is the most southern "state" or "county" in Sweden. They talk a lot differently to the rest of Sweden, similar too accent differences in America, so Scanians(dwellers of Skåne) cop a bit of shit over it. It is said they talk like they have a hot potato in their mouth...music to my ears anyway, I make an effort to copy Hannah's accent and that of her friends so hopefully I will one day sound like them.

what we got up too last week

2006-03-19T21:37:00.000+01:00

Last Fiday we went walking through the forest behind our house. It's really cool being so close to nature, you really don't have to walk far before you can almost forget you live in the 'burbs. Beautiful weather, sun was out again thankgod because we had to trek across a sinky snow field before we got into the forest and walking trails. Great fun.

Noticed on some of the trees that the new buds are coming up , they look like they are just waiting to pop open the minute it warms up a bit. I took some pic's but not sure if you can really see them, then again you might not want to either!!

The forest was full of these giant trees that just look ancient. Twisted branches as if they have arthritis, something out of a fairytale....can't wait till the animals and birds are more active. They dwarfed both Hannah and I when we stood near them. Hannah isn't tall at the best of times but this photo makes her look like a little kid.

We spent about 2 hours wandering around aimlessly, stopping now and again to look at crap or talk and throw snow (that's mainly me though hehehe).

The best thing we saw though in my opinion were these old graves(see pic below). There were some signs up describing wildlife and fauna and also a short text on the old gravestones your likely to come across in one section. This one dates back to the iron-age apparently(somwhere around 1000AD I think), then again I could have made a mistake and photographed some other rock.....There was also mention of Carl Linnaeus, the swedish professor who pionered modern day methods for naming and classifying living organisms. He studied here in Uppsala and eventually became a professor. He also brought back the first plant collections to Europe from Australia....cool...maybe he was the one who started the rumours about us riding kangaroos to school.

Well I think thats all for today, my eyes are sore. Sincerely.............................

sunday bloody sunday

2006-03-19T16:34:00.000+01:00

ahhhhh Sunday, here at last. Some people go to church....some go fishing.....some don't go anywhere apart from a deeper state of sleep.......and some, as I found out this morning, come to the town's irish pub to celebrate the Bandy grandfinal. But Josh, What is this bandy you speak of??? Bandy is like land-hockey(or just hockey to all the Aussies reading this) played on ice. It's that simple...well maybe not simple, it's a fucking fast game on ice skates and you know I can't even see the ball let alone hit it.

This is done with the aid of large amounts of Jagermeister and Pyttipanna ( which means "Little Fried Things"). Jagermeister is of course alchohol (no swedish celabration would be without it) and secondly Pyttipanna is a swedish dish. Containing chopped up potato, meat and onions that have been fried and served with fried egg and beetroot or pickles, it is also known as "Hänt i veckan" (Happened this week) because it is basically leftovers.

Anyway while half of Upppsala's population was downing shots and stuffing themselves this morning I was washing their dishes and glasses and peering out from the kitchen to see how it's done.
My hat goes off to the middle aged folk who were ripping into the shooters at eleven in the morning and singing songs between mouthfulls!!!
Hannah tells me peoplpe drink the Jagermeister in a vain attempt to stay warm while watching Bandy. Pretty good idea seeing as Bandy is played outdoors, although an indoor version is available without ice, and the weatherman forecast a high of 0 and a low of -8 here in Uppsala today, don't forget the wind as well.

So after all is said and done I think it's a great way to celebrate a sporting event, a big group breakfast, plenty of alchohol and intelligible yelling. Not sure what this week has in store for me but we will see. On Tuesday we make a new work roster so hopefully I can get lots of hours and in turn lots of money!!! Oh yeah going back to hörby in couple of weeks for another party and hannah''s grandparents gold anniversary. woohoo!

2006-03-15T13:12:00.000+01:00

2006-03-14T00:35:00.000+01:00

Ok..........here's a little something from the life Josh. Friday I took a lovely walk through Uppsala cemetery, it's really wonderful to go out walking at the moment. The sun is out grinning down at us, the snow is everywhere but not falling, it's not too cold and everything just seems so fresh. There aren't really any birds yet but I can use my imagination.

One thing that suprised me about the swedish cemetery is the fact that many graves are marked by slabs of rock/stone which are far taller then my six feet.(okay maybe I'm not quite six but I'm closer to six then five!). I found one that had a carved bird of prey perched on top, to ward off any prospective necropheliacs is my guess.

Well I made my debut this past weekend as a cleaner...well sort of anyway. Saturday and Sunday consisted of cleaning the pub and restaurant, including the toilets. Never again will I miss the bowl no matter how drunk I am because let me tell you it sucks cleaning up all that stinky processed body fluid after twelve long fermenting hours. *just talked to my mum and she reminded me my older brother used to clean the public toilets for a while for the council , now I remember and I also remember the state of those things, I'm frigging lucky*

I also cracked open our litre bottle of Absolut vodka a spanish friend brought back to me when I was in London after he took a trip home. It only cost me five pounds! yum yum yum.

Ever wondered how to clean O'Connors???? well here's the step by step!

Unlock fire escape doors and turn on all the lights. Don't forget any doors because when the place is burning and people are wondering why they can't get out the doors marked fire exit while slowly roasting, it's too late to go back and unlock 'em.
Make strong black coffee.
Sweep the floors, stairs and toilets.
Drink strong black coffee that's probably cold because you've forgotten it.
Clean toilets, basins etc inside and out. Mop toilet floors.
Change mop water and and mop the pub, stairs and restaurant.
Check floor for bubble-gum and any beer spots you've missed. Make S.B.C.
Vacuum carpets and mats.
Take the chairs down from bar and tables. Polish tables and bar. Drink S.B.C.
Set up special table for football viewers. Bloody yobbos.....
Fill up toilet paper and hand drying paper. Change all bin bags...don't forget the sanitary bins!!yippee
Take all garbage, empty kegs and bottles down and put in their respective bins/storage places.
Check you haven't forgotten anything, eat free meal, drink a discounted pint and then go home to your sambo and have a shower.

I also introduced Hannah to a little Austalian culture............Chopper!!!!!
Thats right! Everyone's favouite toe-cutter. We got the movie over the weekend and needless to say she loved it although I had to translate a lot of the Aussie slang for her. I didn't realise how different Australian english is from the english that Europeans are taught in school. Unfortunately I think some of the humour was lost on her swedish ears, of course I have no clue what so ever as to when Swede's are joking with me or just asking me what my name is so I just laugh whenever I'm adressed just to be safe.......

Speaking of Sweden, if you've ever wondered what houses here look like, here is a picture of what I think to be a typical Swedish abode. Observe the flag, not at all uncommon, goddamn how I want to hoist a flag out the front of our place but Hannah won't have a bar of it. Other items of interest are popssibly the windows and notice the door is blue...yes that's right blue!!!crazy huh.

who the hell was slobodan??

2006-03-13T03:37:00.000+01:00

ok so he's dead but why does anyone care?? Well muslims care cause he tried to eliminate them from his countries population, serbs care cause he put their countries on the map (although he also destroyed their countries in most cases) and I care cause it gives me something to fill my blog up with.

Slobodan Milosevic, aka 'Butcher of the Balkans', was in power for 13 years. Ruling with an iron hand over Yugoslavia and later the republic of, he ran a campaign of"ethnic cleansing" not unlike Hitler's own third reich. He had the morbid idea of driving out all the muslims and ethnic Albanians from what he viewed as his peoples (the Serbians) land, taking back and making pure what was allegedley rightfully their own.He dreamt of a "Greater Serbia".

Along the way he made over a million people homeless, created rape camps in which non-serbian women were placed to be used at the Serbian military's pleasure, bombed the shit out of Sarajevo and destroyed the identity papers and official records of all those forceably deported.

After unsuccessfully leading his countrymen into four conflicts known as the "Balkan Wars" his own people finally had enough of him and voted his ass out of power replacing him with another absurdly named man who promptly had Slobodan arrested and eventually handed over to a UN war crimes tribunal in Amsterdam to be charged with genocide to the tune 250,000. Interestingly he used that old chestnut of a reason for killing people.....apparently he was "defending the Serbian people against terror" hmmmm sound familiar?.

And of course now he's dead and hopefully not coming back......It is unlikely he got to visit any coffe shops during his stay in the 'dam.

Cyanide and Happiness

2006-03-10T01:52:00.000+01:00

This lovely little tidbit comes courtesy of Cyanide and Happiness. By courtesy I mean someone emailed it to me along with quite a few others recently and I love them so I hope you will too.
The people who created these run a website, it is www.explosm.net I dont think the cartoons are up at the moment but they have some other stuff worth checking out, especially in the writings section there are some great instant message stories...sounds crap but trust me they are just grand. I will prob stick one on here every now and again.
Probably not everyones humour but I think probably they are most aussies' cup of tea errr latte.......

I told you not to crap on my car!!!!!!

2006-03-09T22:59:00.000+01:00

Okay folks, million dollar question time!!! Is this trigger happy little chappy :

A. a very pissed off parking attendant seeking his own twisted form of revenge on tweety for shitting on his good customers cars, his own car and also his good reputation as "Brian, the attendant who cares about your car".

or

B. an overprotective father who caught this little black duck eyeing his daughter up and down one to many times.

or

C. your local skyddsjägare (in this case that would be Stig Holmberg) fullfilling his civic duty by culling suspected avian-flu victims swimming in the town lake in Karlskrona, Sweden.

Well the answer is C, Yes I bet you chose A and I sure would of had I not passed this advert for Dagens Nyheter (The Days News) in the window of one of the many tobacco and candy stores that seem to be placed near every bus stop I need to wait at and goddamn! do they make a killing out of me. Of course I only buy the candy
Just in case your interested, a Skyddsjägare (directly translated Protective Hunter) is the person you call if you hit for example: a giant elk with your car god-forbid and dont quite kill it. Alot easier to do then you would think seeing as they are somewhat taller then your average automobile and can weigh up to about half a ton.
Apart from putting wounded animals out of their suffering and curing bird flu the old fashioned way, they could also protect you and your dog if there were say a wild bear running around town stealing all the pic-a-nic baskets.
A true asset to any community.

I have been told that sweden is one of if not the only remaining wildernesses in Europe, cant wait to check this out when the plants and animals comeback.

Yesterday I started my new job in O'Connors, an irish pub in the heart of Upppsala, washing dishes and glasses. Perhaps not the most glamorous job but money is money is money. Everyone is really nice there and I look forward to working there for a while, hopefully I will be able to get some shifts in the bar as well.
I got a free pint after work and was accosted by an Indian fellow asking where I was from. After enlightening the good man he found it imperitive, as everyone bloody well does once finding out your Australian, to batter my ears with the foul language I know as Cricketspeak. As usual I nodded along and added the token "yeah" and "mmhhmmm" acting like I know something about the sport...one of these days I will get the guts to tell people straight up "Look I'm sorry but I dont like cricket! Thats all, its not you, it's me...we can still be friends."
I wish I could get into it but I just can't. It doesnt matter how much beer I drink the game doesnt get any shorter, any more interesting and any less sleep inducing. Sorry Robby

Other then violating copyright laws, today was rather uneventful on the whole. I started reading Ernest Hemmingway's "The old man and the sea". It's a nice easy read, Hannah is a big fan and has been telling me for ages what a good author he is and I should read one of his books. So I am and it's good.
I went into town with the intention of posting two postcards to my nana but only after I had bought them and attached the aforementioned stamps, did I notice I'd forgotten to address the bastard things so back in my bag they went. Hopefully they'll start their journey across the continents tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow its only a day away and my bed is only a few feet away so in I go......god natt

2006-03-07T16:28:00.000+01:00

What a beautiful day it is here in Uppsala today although it is bloody bright. The sun is shining but its still cold enough to keep the snow from melting so everything with any surface facing towards the sky has a pleasent white blanket a few inches thick! maybe not so pleasent if your a little critter and happen to enjoy resting on tree branches but to us land-lovers its just heaven.

Well this past weekend Hannah and I went down to Hörby for a combined birthday party for 3 of her goodfriends, it was fucking great, I got to try Smörgåstårta (literally Sandwichcake) oh and what a delight it was. Although seeing as I had a stomach full of meatballs and vegetables already, I was a little let down I couldnt gorge my self! The party itself was quite a step up from the turn up get drunk and pass out affairs I have become accustomed to in my own country.
This one had wonderfully welcoming people, dinner, coffee and cakes, loads of laughter and most of all no fighting, no puking and no crying! I was also introduced to kaffe-gorg (at least i think that is how you spell it) which is black coffee with a dash of vodka in it.
Now i am told that this is really a good drink but i have to say i couldnt finish mine . A lovely guy called magnus decided i was drinking maybe a little too slow and thought he would help along with his own variation i like to call "Vodkawithadashofkaffe-gorg"
Needless to say half way thrru the aformentioned drink my head was swimming and i was having big problems following the english conversations let alone trying to decipher the skånska sounds that surrounded me.
The evening ended with some of us going to a nightclub literally in the middle of nowhere. But even in the middle of nowhere they serve beer and play hilariously wierd music that should be on eurovision song contests. I got so so so drunk and i think embarrassed my girlfriend by running around and trying to make friends with people on the basis that -

"you glanced at me so you must want to be my friend, oh and by the way i'm australian just in case you wanted to know"

It actually turned out people did like knowing this and enjoyed talking english with me in most cases so maybe the stereotype of swedes not being so willing to make new friends isnt true or maybe its just that a drunk is funny in any country....

We also caught up with Hannahs family which was great, they are so nice, and her grandpa gave me a bag full of xmas-brew beer woohooooooo always apppreciated in this country of near prohibiton prices.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST.......

Who is Dawit Isaak you ask? ...................other than Hannahs (my girlfriend) bestfriend's boyfriend's brother..............................................

"Dawit is a journalist and a Swedish citizen. In September 2001 he and several other journalists were arrested by the Eritrean government for writing about a group of government politicians who had demanded democratic reforms in Eritrea."

Basically this guys been held in prison for a frigging long time with NO CHARGES, NO TRIAL and if it wasnt for the fact he was a dual citizen in Sweden as well as Eritrea (where he was born)we probably wouldn't even be aware of the fact he and his workmates are being treated so shit!! If you would be so kind as to sign the petition for his release it wont take more then a minute and you could be saving some lives as well as giving a family back a husband and father.

So, here is my stamp on the net

2006-03-06T14:25:00.000+01:00

Välkommennnnnnnnn!!!!
This is my blogspot, yes I know "It sure doesnt seem like much of blogspot!" you are thinking and granted its nothing to write home about.......but!!!!
You know if television has taught me anything it has taught me this :
"Rome wasn't built in a day" ........well could have been a book that taught me that, but
if you continue to visit, read and click upon all the hyperlinks that may or may not appear here, one day maybe just maybe you'll see this humbe little blogspot become an e-empire worthy of taking on the likes Bill Gates and all those other super-geeks who rule this fictional space with an iron hand!!!!!...........it seems everyone else is having one so why the hell not me too.