Inger

Inger is my landlady's daughter, a 67 yrs old lady, little adina's grandma.
she's de one who once rocked me by saying "i love rocks. do you understand that? i love rocks just like you love cranes."
i wanted to tell her i din go and work in crane companies because i like cranes. it was just a coincidence. but she was staring and showing such passion towards her newly finished rock arrangement in the backyard, and i would rather let her believe that there's someone who shares equal passion towards things just beside her. she's been working with rocks her whole life.
that's inger i see with my own eyes.

she married an indian man who she met while she was in africa. and she's been walking in thick woods and doing things that even a person as wild and free as myself can only imagine. "i wouldn't want to do or ever dare to think wot she's been doing every now and then..." that was from her sister kristina, a 65 yrs old.
but she also happened to be the nicest caring and obeying little girl while she was young. hardly let her thoughts or emotions out. always doing things that will make sure ppl around her are happy.
that's inger i heard from her mom and her sister.

today i met her... well, we couldnt find an english word... her boyfriend who live together with her... not married but living together, do we still call that boyfriend when they are 60 odd years old? as he jokingly said "we are not married but i'm the boss" haha... from the 10mins conversation, a really nice and intelligent old man. he came down the stairs and we met while i wasnt dressing properly :P but he's somehow saved my blushes and i was able to talk comfortably. and then it came again "i heard that you are a crane specialist?"... i was trying to remember if i was too ecstatic while i talk about cranes the other day... anyway, it end up to be an enjoyable talk :)
that's inger from wot kind of person she loves.

she is inspirational ^^

swedes are truely incredible in the sense that they talk about things like divorce and death without any difficulty or hesitation as if it was just another day in life. is it because they believe that things done are done for the best? if two ppl are not happy together, then divorce = less suffering for everyone? and when you are so old you are prepared but not dread for your own death? if everyone thinks like that, the world would be a much happier place. i hope i'll be like that someday :)

and inger's boyfriend just came in and tought me how to fix the radiation heaters. hope he din see wot i'm typing :P

a bit of work while my camera-button-clicking finger got itchy in de exam period. like the first one^^


the sky was so blue and i was in a good studying mood :)
wished i was out there tho~


glorious sunshine reflecting on de glass~
it's nice to see a bright world from a dark room ^^

<<生于忧患,死于安乐>>续篇

又来了。。。
天将降大任于是人也,必先苦其心志,劳其筋骨,饿其体肤,空乏其身,行拂乱其所为,所以动心忍性,曾益其所不能。。。

。。。又让彩虹和微风沦为了奢侈品。。。我恨！
抡拳擦掌。。。孟子给我出来。。。

叹。。。他老人家这句话其实是在安慰那些被苦心志，被空乏身的世人吗？
该听他老人家的吗？
为什么世人不能自己选择要不要接受天降的大任？
更何况天苦了，劳了，饿了你之后还不一定会降大任给你。。。
为什么在彩虹和微风的安乐中就要死？
忧患一生那还活下去干嘛？

固执的不愿相信“生于忧患，死于安乐”，祈愿天不要再以“生”为借口，没完没了的胡乱苦人，劳人，饿人，空人。。。不要再来了。。。不要再来了。。。

KIMI IS WORLD CHAMPION!!!

how on earth, how on earth??
against all odds....
after 7 years....
it still havn't fully sink in....

he was smilling more today than all 7 years add together ^^

ah... getting emotional...

...thanks kimi...

(and i'm liking massa already ^^)

environmental conscience

obviously (for those who also read it) just visited june's travel blog... for those who dont read it, a little background: june my buddy is on a 6 months working holiday in NZ and recently being employed as a fund raiser for an organisation called GreenPeace. The name says it all, it's all environment.

from the blog's description beside kimi's handsome face up there ^ you might be able to tell (or not...) that i'm also an environmental freak :P

but...

wonder since when i started to use liquid paper without a second thought...
since when i started to print like papers are not from the trees...
since when i started to see ppl throwing non-biodegradable rubbish everywhere and thought "well, that's the norm of our society..."
since when i started to give in and start driving... (msia having one of de worst public transport system in the world is not a good enough excuse...)

when it comes to sustainable energy and environmental issues, sweden is leading the world! that's one of my many reasons behind "why sweden?" althought i'm never sure when i leave this country, will the technology and knowledge gained here have any use at all. if the society has no awareness of this issue, individual strength will be too insignificant. my ex-boss once went "it's not making any money, why would we care?" and others in de discussion just started to laugh. am i too naive? or it just doesnt work in our country?

and freakin hell, it's all against my intuition again! a quote from june's post:
"Thursday was a bad turf, like really bad 'coz firstly, we were assigned to a rich area. I wouldn't say that rich people are downright rude, but they are most apathetic and very, very protective of their bank account details. And, they are downright rude."

and zero sign-up in the rich area... wot is 20bucks per month for these ppl?! and so it seems that the ppl who are always driving the world to become a better place is actually the same bunch since de renaissance era - 中产阶级知识分子... "Middle class intellectuals" if you dont read chinese or only see chinese characters as blocks on your computer.

another quote from june's post:
"Yesterday someone gave me a $40 signup and told me to migrate to New Zealand, as "the country needs more bright people like you, with your heart in the right place"."
as if msia dont... if nz NEEDS ppl like you, msia is DIEING FOR...

funny i heard this twice in de period of 24hrs from two ppl who are not very different ^^, tho talking about totally different things. i shall make it the 3rd time here:

"things can only get better when we've already seen the worst."

so lets be positive, and go on to believe, and continue to contribute :)

WDC decider!

1800 hr local time - gothenburg!
go kimi!!
finnish sisu, japanese zanshin, show them your fearless fight!!!

why was i not in de pictures?

bcoz i was holding de camera....

right, 168hrs per week is de same for everyone, lets see how i do for this semester ^^
study: 8x2(lectures for 2 subjects)+ 14x2(revisions&assignments)=44hrs
lepaking: 6x1(long lepak)+4x2(short lepaks)=14hrs
hmm... ~33%... slightly better than first thought...but still no wonder i cant be a professional lepaker...^^

i vow no more lepaking + photo shooting until next thursday! that's the end of exams~

so i decided to post some older pics from others' camera instead~ and therefore for those who are starting to miss my sunshine smiles, here's a dose of ME... wakaka
most are from the islands, a few from other places.





in case you are getting addicted, more supply is always attainable in Flickr (why am i talking like my thick-faced brother...?)

late comer, this came in today (19th Oct).
my groupmates for this term! from left, lisa, petri, me, martina and mahdi behind the camera :)

feeling the change of season

more greens are constantly turning into reds and yellows since last week's pictures were taken. and the icy crisp october mornings are the best forewarnings of the coming winter.

it's bloody colder than melbourne's coldest winter already!! combination of the uninviting weather and the up coming exams pretty much convinced me to shut myself indoor. fixing my eyes more on the texts and figures on the lecture notes and handbooks, than on the flying birds and flowing canals in various parts of gothenburg. good thing it cant take little 海燕 away from me~ ^^

so the believe is, most of the reds and yellows would have already left the bare trunk to withstand the menacing winter all alone when my (once dad's) nikon coolpix3700 will be in action again.

a two-year-course abroad is not so much different from a working holiday ^^ except you exchange the papers we call money with another paper we call certificate. two years, exactly as i like it~ i left malaysia a bit too soon T.T needed 6 more months to make two years... then it would've been great.

if you are wondering, nope, the "two-years" theory has no logic behind it at all :P it just sort of emerged when i started to hate australia after being there for two years. the 3rd and 4th years were dreadful... and in the case of malaysia, there are a few unfinished businesses that i would rather prefer to put right before saying byebye... borrow the wise words from LL and june, procrasinating and undecided, serves me right! and since i used to work on project basis, another half a year would meant a whole lot more experience and witnessing de delivery of perhaps another two of my babies (cranes ofcoz).

and this has nothing to do with the change of season, LOL...

cool girls~~

recently found another one (of high quality ^^) working in de cafe in our department building~
i hunt for them coz most of them are real eye candies!^^ when coolness is blended with the feminine features, it becomes irresistably yummy~

so now i can spend the whole afternoon break staring at her while eating my packed lunch ^^ good appetizer! wakaka... and i'm confident that she doesnt mind either. coz she saw me staring and just turned her head away and smiled, cute~~~ i wonder if cafes and bars hire these ppl just to stimulate the customers' appetite. coz there was also one in Plush Fish, the sushi bar in melbourne uni union house. she is from hongkong. i went to buy temaki in Plush Fish whenever i have the urge to see her, wahaha... she was so famous that when a lecturer made a joke on asking for her number, everyone in the class knew who exactly he was talking about ^^

then there was this girl who i saw while working as a counterhand in a chinese/indian food bar. i totally lost my breath with this one... almost imposible to find any that can surpassed her... she... walks with an air of confidence and... the way she dressed... the expressions on her face... woah... i just couldnt take my eyes off her! lucky it was not at peak period... else i'll definitely kena fried sotong...

but then i wonder how many of these people are lesbians :P
i've been good friend to a couple of them at relatively tender age of 12-13... one was trying to smother me (and even de smothering action was kinda cool ^^) while i asked her if she is homo ^^ turned out that she is! and another one i never really know.
while in de pangkor graduation trip, we met a cool girl that's proven straight. simply by her partner being a guy ^^
i myself made a "damn good looking boy"! weird aunties and uncles were asking how many girl friends did i hav in school... =_= so there might be a few broken hearts of innocent lasses, by me being straight, wahaha...

chalmers i höstsolen

chalmers in the autumn sun
i = in
höst = autumn
sol = sun
en = the
dun ask me why it end up being höstsolen as one word...

pix pix... went back to school for discussion today.
chalmers on autumn sunday is so quiet.
again more on flickr... click de pics for enlarged ones.




and then i went to a game... gais vs. brammo...
it was raining and therefore.... coooolldd....
6deg. wind chill + rain = ...freeeeeezzze...
anyway, the fans were still singing and cheering hard~ de green and black banners of gais were being waved everywhere.
and since the game includes a first half goal, a second half red card, an injury time goal and another injury time penalty, it was quite entertaining~ tho the fans still entertained me more than the game itself ^^



woke up at 8am... no 7.50am, to witness kimi's 15th? victory! should be 15th...
kesian lewis... but he's again making more ppl his friend. if the same thing's happened to kimi, he'll probably escape straight away from the back of the motorhome... alonso will start sending mclaren's technical data to all de other teams... mika will cry on the track... but lewis opted to go back to de pit and shook everyone's hand... a really nice move... a really nice bloke...

final note, ruud, rooney and ronnie rulez~ and now everyone's talking about messi and ibrahimovic...

离家不远

这个月一直忘了电话的存在。。。
今天终于清醒了，打了两三通电话，讲自己的语言感觉很舒服啊~~ ^^

一直都很喜欢这首歌:)

有一个温暖的窝真好。。。
感觉就好像即使天塌下来了也可以回去避难
让什么都变得不可怕
勇往直前也没关系，
跌倒了也没关系，
迷路了也没关系。。。

歌手：南拳妈妈
作曲：张杰
填词：宋健彰
编曲：蔡科俊

随着成长　远离家乡
回头遥望　我满肩坚强
为了梦想　振翅飞翔
怎么遗忘　熟悉的家香
* * * * * *
When you feel the slip
When you start to crack
When it's all to hell
Know I have your back
Whether right or wrong
Is beside the point
'Cause we're more than blood
* * * * * *
当我张开翅膀　试图往梦里闯
时间却不经意　迷失家的方向
当我满载成就　回头向起点望
灰尘布满翅膀　飞不回那扇窗
* * * * * *
想像远方　绚烂星光
钟声敲醒　如茵的艳阳
为了梦想　我选择翱翔
怎么换回　淡淡的忧伤
张开翅膀却迷失方向
* * * * * *
如果你记得方向　家就在不远前方
只有家的灯光比夜空中的星星还亮
要是你迷失方向　想找个地方流浪
家永远在你的身旁
太阳才交替月亮　星星又笼罩了窗
爸妈斑驳的鬓角诉说了逝去的时光
就算没地方流浪　只要你记得方向
家永远在你的身旁

study study

after a few weeks of ben-kyo, finally i'm able to say
"i caught up with de lectures!!"
~genious~ ^^

but exams are coming, and all de reports are dueing soon....
so should continue to work hard~ 加油！

long time din 加油 so much already, feels awesome :)

my first video... on YouTube

ppl will start to get sensitive to a word when it's mentioned so many times in one night, wont they? for me, and i believe also for a few certain others, "YouTube" is definately one of those words....

it's 8:41min, featuring woods in gothenburg, 10mins walk away from my place. i was hoping to see a wild moose, but non appeared... the journey back home is also included, to let ppl hav a real feel of surburban gothenburg :)

apologize for the quality, it's compressed to 1/5 it's original size to be publish on YouTube. guess you just have to concentrate to get anything out of the commentary and the camera is shaking quite violently at de end :P

right, lets delay no more, my first ever YouTube video~ "woods in gothenburg"

21st to 3rd!!!

kimi! how did u do that?!!!
passing 18 cars in zero visibility???
and passed heikki on de final lap for 2nd... but went too fast on de exit, wakaka...
that's another suzuka 05!!!
WDC is still alive, go for it!!!

island delight & revealing my coursemates

as some of you might already know, i finally went island hopping! please visit my flickr page for de pix.
some of the pix are repetitions of those i sent to the favco folks, but de collection is actually bigger. a couple of previews


deja vu of june's black sheep


one of my chinese coursemate actually stays on one of the islands. we decided to go to his place to celebrate mid-autumn, and island hopping, and some futbol!


first lets introduce you my chinese coursemates~ coz as much as i'd like to show you my other coursemates, i couldn't just go taking their pix without a reason, can i?? and there's a guy who really looks and speaks like kimi... nO, i'll get his pix for you some day...

well well, first on, eric@qin ling, 真的就是秦岭, no kidding... nxt time if i marry a guy 姓朱，i'll call my kid 木狼马蜂... hehe, my geography geniusness is so helpful~ this guy sentiasa learning not 3 not 4 english from me... you know how chinese struggle with their english sometimes ^^ another football crazy, and de water was freezing...


tobey@wang xiao@王潇, he has 3 yrs working experience, and that's in china, so you can imagine how adulterated he can be :P but still quite a nice person in general... most chinese are quite career oriented anyway... and their networking skills... always like to belanja makan... which i'm still not used to... kinda reminds me of a particular melbourne uni ancestor...


and here comes my favourite little boy~ yeah, little boy, he's still a 3rd year bachelor student, younger than my brother ^^ du hong tao, 杜洪涛, a person who i can talk very comfortably to, like one that's tuned to the "chonghwa frequency", waka~ hard to express, not exactly chonghwa frequency, most joyful backpackers hav it also. it basically makes sharing a chair or a drink with these ppl or even hugging them natural, as in not awkward :) too bad he's only here for one sem.


there are quite a few more interesting characters in my class whom i'm getting acquainted with.

marco, a hyperactive guy from milan who speaks english like italian "i'er support'er milano, no inter!" and lisa a swedish girl who were already trying to sabotage another group's project with me de very first hour we met. another swedish girl martina went backpacking in oceania and south east asia for 6 months, and hated KL, haha... and this shy lyon guy, dennis, who also speaks english like french... this one i dunno how to immitate...

and a bunch of iranian metallurgists who are so brilliant... one might think they are princes from iranian colonies :P amin wears ties to uni... then this guy who i always talk crap to but cant remember his name, owns a horse... and mahdi and alburs are just a couple of super metallurgists who can make the whole class feel stupid. and there's this swedish guy fredrik who nv show up before 9am, "aaah... i'm not a morning person..."

wot great energy, wot great chemistry~ i'm again in good company :)
but talking about company, you ppl had set a standard too high...
miss you like crazy...

universeum + mid-autumn effect

de 345kr entrance science centre, we international students were welcomed there by gothenburg city council for free. more pix in flickr






and happy mid-autumn festival!
wherever you are,
let us share de same moonlight tonight ^^

fotboll

poor derby county, they are better off in division 1...
after 6:0 by liverpool with torres and alonso both scoring twice, they are trashed again by arsenal... this time 5:0, adebayor's hat trick and cesc scoring and assisting again! he is getting crazier than last year's ronnie...
where are tv's when i need them?? i want to watch him play!

and when is MU going to score freely again?

~~pasta~~

it's all chiaki's fault... waka~


pizza hut sells de worst ones in de world...
yj might recommend u somewhere nice but expensive :P

so home cooked pasta's are always de choice when it comes to guaranteed quality and low cost ^^
that one up there (including my favourite tuna in olive oil) costs around 5kr (~RM2.50) in total, lol~
and preparation + cooking time? ~20min
italians are genius...

kimi's spa hat trick! + de middle east market

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~~~
once again de finnish national antumn echoes thru the Ardennes hills, concluding SpaFrancorchamps GP 2007!
hat trick~ hat trick~ hat trick~ hat trick~
chant de kimi die-hards!!

and kimi did a doughnut with his F2007!!!(err, which means spins his car with high rev and brakes on and making a lot of smoke out of his tyres) THAT IS A FIRST!!! he wouldnt do that with macca would he? ron would hav killed him, like how he wants to kill lolonso now, wakaka...

ok, a bit on him >>
fernando torres + xabi alonso - xabi torres = fernando alonso
haha, he's got real guts this guy... how can u blackmail ur boss and then push ur teammate onto de grass and can still face de press like nothing had happened? pls send me further news on this if there's any ^^ it got me interested.

anyway, special thanks to choy who recommended tvants! :)

now de 2nd part of this post...
de market was so easy to find coz there's a swamp of ppl flooding there and i just followed~ de indoor part is under 3 of the block in de pic below, and de outdoor market is between de blocks.


it turns out to be a bloody awesome flea market ^^ as suggested by de first store indoor.

ok, remember it's a middle east market, jawi has to be everywhere, and take a look around, u are surrounded by middle east ppl.

they sell absolutely everything that a flea market might or might not sell... dried, fresh and prepared food (this is a big category already)...


electrical appliances, mostly 2nd hand, iron, sewing machine, remote controllers, mobile phones, computers... it's crazy, u name it, they have it...


i had an impression that middle east is famous for their carpet... izzit correct or i was misleaded by de flying carpet in aladin?


they even hav a hair saloon in there... =.= i'm overwhelmed...


but most of other stuffs they sell are old and 2nd hand... some are absolute crap... things that really make u feel, hey, common, who on earth will buy this piece of junk???? 50 yr old type writer, 60 yr old telephone, 70 yr old watch, walao.... more like antique shops... in contrast, there are very nice and classy clothes stores too... made me down right confused... i saw an old football at an outdoor stall (last pic below) that i thought of buying. but de young middle east boy who was looking after de stall saw my camera and was so shy and ran away and hide... @.@





ah~ now i hav my place to get some fresh fruits and 2nd hand stuffs ^^ happy

10th post from de north =)

就用华语吧～
先从恭喜kimi的第n个spa pole开始～spa真的是芬兰人的游乐场啊～那个00' mika用zonta来割ms的画面挥之不去～实在是胜之不武～～让我趋之若鹜～～～哈，我最喜欢的赛道啊！要用tvant看比赛了！

心情沉淀下来了，比想象中的还快呢:)但是这样的话又会变得懒洋洋的，不想动了～那就决定明天去找一下那个传说中的中东人市场，开一开眼界吧．气象预测明天会下一天的雨呢，那就更有趣了，嘿嘿～我是optimism的吉祥物^^

还没有走就开始乱乱想念人的均仪，拜托，有人怀孕了还会穿泳衣去海边的吗？呵呵，我们一年一度的PD之旅乘几何时不再主办了？还有那时候的照片，重温一下全世界挤一间房的日子

哈哈，大家的样子都好原始．．．是第一届拍的吗？因为好像有人不在里面啊．．．不过今年也去了PD，感受阳光，沙滩，海洋和朋友环抱的滋味果然是永远都不会够的:)

课程很繁忙，噢．．．windows media player这时候竟然响起～～死了都要爱～不哭到微笑不痛快～～哈哈，这首歌和我有multiple情节啊～～～我喜欢！anO,谢谢vwen介绍你然后介绍我听这首歌～最近听歌就会想念人，很惨．．．你们的脸和这些歌黏在一起了．．．不过也很好，证明我是人类吗～也是心情沉淀的证明，从痛苦的想念变成开心的想念，几好^^不要又变回痛苦的想念就好了，不然会有striations/beach marks的，然后就会fatigue failure～课程繁忙的material engineer看到一块块石头地板上的一片片落叶竟然会联想到是cast iron ferrite matrix里面的graphite particles．．．没药救了．．．

哦对，lee L jordan，HP7看完了～你竟然真的变成commentator了，饺子仔竟然没有耳朵了，我竟然死了．．．过分啊～～～饺子要boycott这本书了，哈～

under de same constellation

i had been highly tempted to go out and hav a look at gothenburg at night. and with soccernet reporting that Sweden v. Denmark euro qualifyer was being played at de stadium 5km away from where i stay, plus a little bit of encouragement ^^, i was gazing at the stars of de northen hemisphere.

星星就是穷人的珍珠 ^^

but... the star arrangement is strangely unfamiliar. no orion, no southern cross. tho expected, it still makes me want to cry T.T... i guess i should start to learn how to recognize ursa major, since it's there all year long on de northen sky.

will see orion again in winter tho :) can almost remember everytime when "can u see the 3 brighter stars that runs in-line?" rings in de ears. many years ago, on de back street of home when mom first taught me to recognize it; again quite ancient, under swaying coconut trees when we also first learned how to sing 熬夜; and probably de last time, on de unbelievable sydney trip with LL, that was our first real taste of low cost backpacking no?

hope i'll start to develop a bond with and to like de swedish twi-light like de malaysian and aussie ones before it :)

oh, right. it was going to be a trip to de stadium... nej, it wasn't.
coz while i was fixing my eyes on de night sky at de bus stop, a bloke came and we started to talk. and on de bus he confirmed that the game is played in stockholm >.< my fellow IT friends, how can i hack soccernet?

doesnt matter really, coz gothenburg at night is fascinating enough by itself. no heavy curtains like melbourne. so, warm, cosy lights are spilling out from de household windows, which make things a whole lot merrier ^^ i nv understand why melbournians like to draw thick and heavy curtains at night... it make the city feels like a crime and conspiracy movie shooting place. good for star gazing tho, less light pollution ^^