fuiyo~ windchill 2 degrees~ no wonder i felt almost frozen...

some pics again~
de 7.5km forest-like track from Angered to Lärjeåns Dalgång



graveyard in autumn. pls dun ask y i keep going to graveyards...


my first ever womens football game :D thx to de free tickets from qinling again!
kopparbergs/göteborg FC vs. Hammarby

yean and the tiny red figure of de goalkeeper XD

naturally, i support kopparbergs since they are a göteborg team. was making these two my new idol since the 5th minute XD #9 och #10!!

miss #10 has a really funny name... Linnéa Liljegärd, de commentator had to repeat it 6 times coz she scored a hat-trick XD yean kept going "oh!! it's ur number 10 again!" XD 我的眼光好到让人不敢相信 *blush* de 1st goal was a header crossed in from the right flank. 2nd goal was an absolute stunner~~~ Linnea got the ball just outside de box, turned after the first touch and shot in a half volley XD de 3rd was a result of a fluid team move, sweet!

then, warming up on the touchline, i found a lanina... de female version of elnino torres XD tell me if u agree that they look alike ^^

de child who was making a lot of noise

there is Linnea after the match. i could absolutely go and giv her a pat on back! or maybe get an autograph... argh... why am i not in old trafford or anfield? XD

bla

good~ now i've written a lot of crap in de pass few days. we can let that continue~

ah, word by word should be "everything will be just as wonderful"... so much energy and believe~~ ^^

time flies when one is having a holiday, then it flies twice as fast when one is not... there goes another week, the 5th in the term. there goes another month, the 9th in de year. which means 3 more weeks to the end of my penultimate coursework term... counting days has really become a habit since last yr XD

they've really got some nice flowers at the florist :) got yean a plant with white flowers which i know de name not... coz it reminds me of that oboe no kuroki-kun:
出去散步偶然在花店里看到的
你知道吗 铃兰的花语 纯洁而清澈的爱
laugh die me XD which century is he from? 古早人一族~ ^^ can qualify to be an ice-ager already~

ak, ah boon says vineger's still ok, but she hates ginger XD

it will be just as wonderful again

ish... busy nian... 7am-8.30pm days are becoming a norm... that's y i din call, dun marah XD mind de time difference :)

but somehow Fredag (Friday) this week is empty on my kvartalsplan (quarterly plan, appointment calendar la...). better use tomorrow to catch up on studies >.< then "results are not important" keeps ringing at my ears... ah!... "ah" is kinda swedish, it means 'wotever, i dun care~'. i dun care if results are important and i'm gonna study anyway...

hm... should also go and pickup my visa, get some flowers for yean, withraw some money for the rental and finalize de tickets for the concert. and de final touch for de tube hydroforming report... shit, and de -ve refractive index report, havnt start this one... it can go to sunday...

why am i planning wot shall be done tmr as i write this post? that's de problem of having few free days... they become busy anyway... as one starts to fill them up with erands one doesnt get to do on occupied days... nooooo... just remember there's a letter from helsinki to reply also... this has nothing to do with my '8euro spent in helsinki' mystery tho XD

going to visit yean at her new place on saturday. it'll also be kanelbullens day on saturday. so i guess i shall go get some kanelbullars (swedish cinnamon bread) for us too... and bring them along with de flowers and de student diary i curi-ed for her XD sweden is still full of free gifts XD

anyway, there's an 8am lecture tmr still. i better put myself in bed soon.

btw, mid autumn is beautiful no matter in sun or rain; busy or not ^^

and none of the above's got anything to do with de title of de post XP

thesis thesis

ah boon's child brings luck ^^ she's just so sweet!
陳芷譞

So I really went to interviews with lisa. The first one was with General Motors or GM, nothing much to talk about, except “sorry lisa…” coz I absolutely blew it. It’s a problem going to interviews after insomnia and nightmare streaks =”= and de afternoon coffee wore out…

But then came the 2nd one, it was with Ericsson. The guy specifically asked for ppl with materials technology background during his presentation. Lisa and I raised our hands and he was happy. Then in the interview, he remembered us, which is always a good sign no? ^^

We didn’t understand why is Ericsson looking for materials ppl… but when they started to let us have a picture of the possible task, I found myself looking at a perfect thesis topic O_O
right after coming out from the interview room, lisa turned to me and said “materials selection! Isn’t that wot you wanted most?!! We are so lucky!” yes… materials selection for product development… that is indeed perfectly perfect! And she likes any project as long as it’s not related to polymers XD she also wanted a thesis in gothenburg so that we wouldn’t need to move to somewhere else.

it’s not everyday your favourite job just jumps out infront of you… but ofcoz we havnt got de job yet XD there are our coursemates who are competing, and they said de topic is not even finalized yet XD

Pray pray pray… if i dun get this job you ppl must buy me ice-creams... double chocoloate ones... hopefully they will ring us tomorrow or Friday and we can have a more serious 2nd meeting talking about this project ;P but first… some sleep.

existance

i somehow exist in gothenburg... if you get wot i mean...

new friends, doesnt count much... my current situation makes me meet new ppl every other day ="= we can talk and laugh and have fun and then, borrow zyan's lyric: 才刚过一分钟，这些人来又走, til proven XD
there are already a few proven ones in this term tho! :) but it might as well be 才刚过一年，这些人来又走. so does it matter? yes ofcoz it does, they exist now! therefore i exist too ^^

lisa came to tell me that she wish to work with me for the master's thesis while i desparately need a partner... qinling always manage to find another free ticket somewhere... aikyean just brightened up when i said i might stay in sweden for another year or two if i get a decent enough job... anders called to make sure i wouldnt miss a lab... de beautiful egyptian lady maha always have that date cake ready for me when she awaits me to join her on the tram back home... and then there is a certain 85 yr old lady upstairs who, at times, treats me like her own granddaughter...

aikyean was just saying, suddenly, there's absolutely no one to go to again... it is a life of doing everything yourself. i guess many of you reading this have had that experience somewhere, sometime, in your different ways. it really ain't easy ^^ maybe that's why travelling ppl generally cherish friendships so much... and knows wot a floating log in the middle of de roaring sea means... i'm contented just to have my existance confirmed. de rest... we can handle ourselves :)

right, aik yean is back in town XD maybe should hav put this in de 1st paragraph, oh well...
met her while working on some study materials in de student union. she looked as if she would hav cried on de spot XD cursing about having to be back here again, and hoped that she's never gone home this summer (so that she wouldn't have to go thru the leaving part again). her self-acknowledged depression since coming back is bringing the depressing rain along too XD weather forecast says it's gonna rain at least til saturday~ how cool~~

ok, as my study materials amounts to 3 inches thick (i just took de trouble to put them into a pile and measure with a ruler, goodness, that's as good as an encyclopedia already...), it gets clearer and clearer that it would probably be wise to go thru them selectively~~

materials with -ve refractive index O_O discovered in year 2000. refractive index is that thing that makes a straw looks crooked in water, remember? negative means the straw crooks in another direction... god damned fascinating!! i know, maybe not for u :P but lisa and i had to snatch that topic from a bunch of others XD

the project topic for the other course is relatively boring. de only thing that had managed to draw a moment of interest from me about tube hydroforming is its abbreviation XD

3 more lectures in manufacturing processes and 4 more in imaging and we are done for this term. 7wks terms are really something one can never get used to.... go you chalmers!

cham lo... just realise the final scene of the last term will be played in depressing november rain T.T LL says she likes november, geez ofcoz, november is beautiful down under... though my fav month down under has always been september :) somehow de same with sweden... one is spring and another autumn, weird? i'm a poet XP AnO says october only reminds her of kimi... i wonder if every thing reminds her of kimi... October, seems to be a month of crossroads.

de weather somehow became super fine for the pass two weeks or so :) it rained this afternoon and i thought "here we go again" but the sun came out again in de evening~~ i dun really mind if it continues like that ^^ like a friend once said "well, we can still see de edges of the cloud, it's not desparate rain like we have in scandinavia" but in this case i'm in scandinavia... oh well ^^

hope the autumn sun continue to shine!

med vänlig hälsing och älska ^^

the rumour about introvert swedes

well, i'm not sure but at least part of it is true.
there are extroverts also ofcoz, and also those who know when to talk and when to hush, like björn (sometimes refered to as xabi alonso XD) and anders who make really comfortable presence. but as they say, the cold weather makes the ppl cold.

in 《行者无疆》余秋雨老师 noted that,
"the danes says they are less outgoing, not like other europeans..."
"the norwegians says they have colder weather, hence they are not as hospitable as the danes..."
"the swedes says they are more serious, not as light hearted as the norwegians..."
so there you go... swedes are 3 levels less hyper than average europeans.

skipping all de previous introvert swedes i've known, i'll just demonstrate with ppl from my current project group. there's a guy, Emil, in de group that reminds me of a quote from Peter Sauber directed to Kimi,
"he was like a shy animal who doesnt want to be disturbed. and animals arent polite..."
sharks! XD this guy, when i said "hej" and waved at him on de way to a class, he frowned O_O well... so i guess i'll better stop saying hej to him... but i still cant resist at least a smile, out of civility... after about the 3rd time, he smiled back, awkwardly... XD this guy only talks when he dun like something. really is the kimi type... no i dun like the front wing setup, change it for me! how lame XD but we know they dont mean war ;)

and then there's another guy, another introvert, in this group, Johan (maybe the 5th Johan i've known...), who is a nice kind of introvert. always wears a smile, always agreeable, always does his job.

both of them always seem nervous when they actually talk... dunno where to put their hands, dunno where to rest their sights, serious huh? ^^ and de german exchange student Julius is getting fed up of Emil. doesn't Peter Sauber speak german too? XD

a country full of relatively quiet ppl. maybe that's why i'm enjoying sweden much more than australia :) ppl wont think you are unfriendly when you dont start conversations. and ppl wont come and disturb you when they think you might not like to be disturbed :) a pianissimo lifestyle ^^

free tickets again XD

sei lo... this sem my results will die like last yr's first sem XD
空气比天重要，哈~
my friend somehow conjured pairs of free tickets XD will be going to universeum for some tropical rainforest weather tmr! and i really miss their big aquarium with de Nemos~~~~ then concert hall on tuesday, will get de tickets for 24th october's beethoven's 7th then!

photos photos~ today is the 45mins Paddan boat ride along Göta Älv the Gothenburg canal, to the largest port in scandinavia and back. and then Liseberg the theme park.

Paddan boat

The lasts of flowers as winter approaches

city from the canal

de destroyer

with me holding de camera, u'll always get cranes XD

ooi ooi~ i kinda like this pic :)

i dun understand how did Liseberg de theme park convince the government to make it a rabbit crossing light XD so cute!! rabbit is Liseberg's mascot :)

de most wonderful part of a theme park is, you hear so many kids laughing and see them having fun, it is impossible not to be infected by their joy ^^






chinese touch~

my loot XD our reward from de game stalls of course~
name? name? Gul~ yes i'll call him Gul XD yellow in swedish~

just received photos from kawanku~ also post ba~

是我的海

睡觉大完
不过睡觉也只是地
考试才是天~

如果lepak是空气
加上人是海
那就没剩下其他什么重要的了呢^^

是我的海 要蓝啊~

just talked to mom for de first time in 3wks++ T.T ma i miss u oso la~ i lost appetite and lost 2kg already since coming back T.T
she said i sounded like a bird released from the cage, de way i wrote in this blog when just arrived in sweden 3wks ago... is that so? XD

only 3 more months to go... i'll miss de classes in chalmers definitely... and those boring (XD) and normal and party crazy (XD) classmates who somehow get along nicely T.T

yer... why can everything be so simply explained by a "that's life"?
拥有的时候就好好珍惜对吗？
是啦，我明白的 :)

p/s: with that carmen fantasy (卡门狂想曲, to listen, just click de play button on de player at the right hand column of this blog)... sarasate is convincing me to name sate's sister sara... wot a piece!! aaa~ addicted to classical music **dreamy~~** another one to go down on my long list of hobbies...

2 weeks into this term - a review

laugh die me.... hahaha...
in the modern manufacturing processes course, part design takes up a big portion in de course literature. and when they talk about CAD:

"it may be off by wotever weirdo scale you drew it in",
"if you have lines on top of lines, or other crap in your drawing, it will make it difficult...",
"if you draw a circle that is 5.3 inch, but then put a dimension on it that says it is 5.0 inch...",
i cannot tahan and thought i better dedicate a post to this ^^ thought those at the production floor might have saved a lot of frowns had i done this course earlier ^^ aw~ how many crapy parts had i designed~~~ XD without even knowing exactly how they bend de plates, which kind of welding they use, how they machine parts... XP de thing is, i'm really having some fun with this subject XD 只有变态的人才会喜欢工程~~~

the imaging course on de other hand is something new that i've never encounter before. equally interesting as i slowly find my way in the thick mist, just like the research project about the Nobel price winning "Giant Magneto Resistance" ^^ somehow neuroscience turns up in that course, i hav no intention of becoming Dr.程至美 wotsoever XD

it's a good blend of two very different paths to choose, lying ahead of me i guess :) seems like the trend will continue nxt term, with "materials in medicine" and "materials for light weight design" to go ^^

geez... overcast again tonight... been waiting to go to the observatory, activities are only held on monday and wednesday nights. doesnt matter, Plasma Cutting is waiting for me on de table XP leave you some nice pictures from "sunny!!" slöttskogen, taken during de weekedn ba :)

bambi's dad!! ^^

moose!! ^^

hidden path

unhidden path ^^

unbelievably rich colours and contrast ^^


illuminated leaves ^^ it's not until i cant find a single perfect leaf that i realized i'm looking for one... sigh... 缺陷者，美也~

moon over splintvedsgatan

gothenburg is not famed for clear skies... how wonderful we've had clear nights on mid-autumn for two years running ^^ still remember freezing myself looking at de moon last yr ^^ well, aint it comfortable to know the moon that watch upon us is always the very same one that watch upon ppl we miss no matter how far we are away from each other? 但愿人长久 :)

help me to eat mooncake~ with egg yolk de~

rachmanninof piano concerto 2

i guess it's de 4th time i've watched this series... in fact it's de only one i had watched in quite a while... been using it to burn my spirit since last yr. sweden is too cold. when one sees how hard chiaki-senpai studies, one will feel guilty not to bury oneself in books; when one sees how hard nodame tries to go to europe, one will feel guilty if one doesnt fully utilize one's time in europe; when they eat pasta, i cook pasta; when they eat canned food, i have my can opener ready.

there are something else to it, but too many i cant list them all out ^^ some real influences and some silly ones, like the canned food XD nah, not that i'm really that fanatic about it, it just once stimulated my appetite for canned corned beef.

this is my fav scene out of de series, piano concerto becomes piano duet that part :) totally unstealth the joy of jamming, of playing basketball, futsal, drums, wotever group assignment u like. de simple joy of playing a part in something with somebody... if you are not interested, then just watch lengzai lenglui also can~

ja, itsutemo douzo...

a bit about ramadan

totally ORZ to those fasting muslims in gothenburg... due to the geographic location of this city, i heard they had to fast 17hrs at the very beginning of bulan ramadan... some 3-5 minutes less everyday as winter draws closer. i wonder if they'll have to fast 24hrs a day thru the whole ramadan month if they live on the north/south pole when the sun doesnt set ="=

a beautiful egyptian lady offered me a kind of egyptian delicacy made out of dates. (i was with her when she buka puasa) it's kinda like our tam boon pia, only a bit harder and drier, and with date paste instead of bean paste in de middle. yummy :)

tht just reminds me that the middle east market is going to get into festive mood very soon ^^

pasar raya's must be mushrooming in msia now eh? missing those malay kuehs~

lepak continues...

now my footie's got a new friend ^^ still remember the middle east flea market from last yr? those stalls that sells absolute junks and absolutely everything? i went back to de same stall at the corner where i got the footie. the old man doesnt sell football anymore. and there was this orange thing lying on top of a pile of something else.

"hur mycket?" i asked.
"tjugo" he answered.
"tjugo?!" i was a bit shocked to hear de price.
he took a new ball out from underneath one of the boards where all his things lie, and nodded, "det nya, tjugo."
i nodded back, and paid 20kr for this ball. RM10?! goodness... do we still get RM10 basketballs in malaysia? should have expected that since de football was only 30kr as well ^^

well, everything sold here is at least half de price of things outside. in de case of this basketball, it's probably 1/10th... but still shoppers are 95% middle eastians. aik yean once told me tht place feels so dodgy she dare not go there by herself XD guess it's just perceptions, bet a chinese market will also give similar feelings to those non-chinese XP

thought i might as well go to Angered since it is in de same direction. wanted to go there since last academic yr but din hav enough drive to do it :P de attraction? chinese books in Angered Library ^^ Angered is a very diversed suburb with a mix of many nationalities.

turns out that the collection is not that huge after all. there's only one book that i'm interested in. took it ofcoz. but their english book collection is much more interesting than the city library's :D and no queue! da Vinci's code, to kill a mocking bird, bridget jones diary... they should be hotties in any library, but just lying lazily on de shelves in this one ^^ cool~ and so i took another book that i've been waiting for since last academic yr, happy~

right then, leave you with images from my mushroom hunt ^^

neighbour's cat, tht's de standard size of an avg swedish cat XD dun ask why din i gain weight :P


apples!!



是我的湖


here comes mushrooms ^^ wild, from the woods :)

smurf's playground ^^




sometimes, it's just unbelievable that, this life, actually belongs to me...

my little plants

i had 3 plants before going home in summer. i'm not sure if i did or did not care about them though XD despite that, and having to cope with this dark little room without much sun, they seemed happy enough :) then it came summer, and i threw them outdoor, 天生天养 for 3 months as i went disappearing. (told u i'm not sure if i care XD) i did leave them in good hands when i went to kiruna and denmark tho. but 3 months could really keep any hand busy...

when i came back, de baby xmas tree is gone... as in no where to be seen. funny... shame, as it was my favourite, and was growing quickly... and the bloke who gave it to me said it shall survive even if i just leave it in the garden...

one of the other two is dying. i wonder if it is already dead. but i'm still giving it water, since there's still some green. that's de least i could do, we shall observe later...

anyway, there's this last one that survived totally. and even gained some height :D tough little thing~ and it shall spend another misarable year in this room along with that new mozart-pink flower plant ^^ that plant is really blooming 妖艳ly now XD

i wonder wot would a primary teacher say if one would pass this up as a composition...

New kid in town ^ ^

This post is copied from june, happy from deep down ^^

AH BOON'S KID IS BORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got via SMS from her this morning:

My baby girl born yesterday nite 11:06pm. 3.4kg! Healthy. They said very similar wif me.

OMG OMG OMG gan dong gan dong gan dong!!!!

I am so excited right now. I know lah not my baby but still our first baby in the group! Just now was jumping around my office like siao. I'm really really happy for her!

Oooh she replied my sms:

I m good. I stil do caesarian. Bcoz contraction start early i do early. Name havent decide...

I'm really proud of her... It is not easy to give birth, and it will be some very difficult but rewarding years ahead of her... hug hug hug hugs!!!

Also hugging everyone who's reading this post. Happiness spillover =D

become aunty already XD

elixir of life

refers to this

kafe from bulten in the mechanical building~ XD seriously... cant stay sane without it, brain just refuses to function... so nice to be supplied with it again~

really nice to see the mates! :D a lot of exciting first years too ^^ remember myself envying those 2nd yrs when i was fresh here last yr ^^ so i must be very enviable now, lol~

classes... modern manufacturing processes was ok. didnt i say "if i cant finish de compendium in 7 wks no one else can"? turns out that a lot of materials inside are non-examinable side studies XD

de course with de physics department, i understood nothing at all until de last 15mins, when de lecturer decided to talk about Gauss lense theory:
1/u + 1/v = 1/f...
2ndary school physics... ish... scary pun, kono subject wa... why am i speaking japanese... anyway, i'm still taking it. should this subject be my achiles heel, so be it. asa no ji shin desu ne~ XD

am having swedish language courses, given in SKF's building... i mean why there?... would really like to work for SKF for my thesis tho... anyway, there's currently a big language mix up in my head... cool tho, just like those ppl who take night language courses in hongkong soap operahs~ 17:30-20:00 classes? i'll die when winter comes...

yet another self-rojak receipe~ carrot rattatoulli XD and ma, u r right, yellow paprikas are de most expensive ones, green is de cheapest with half de price...

and finally found some effort to put this together, click for larger version ba.


yoshi! study study~

flying fish

the aim of this year is to fulfill unfinished business from de last academic year ^^
unfinished business list:
1. maritime museum
2. gothenburg city museum
3. star gazing at the observatory
4. gothenburg symphony orchestra performance
5. ice-hockey match
6. valborg
7. midsummer festival
8. .... to be explored and filled in

got de first one done today ^^ it is in Majorna, where june's Marten lives~ for those two museums listed up there, under 26 = free of charge ^^ aye aye, my life shall be over after 26 XD

there's an aquarium, not huge but depicts marine lifes from streams, lakes to baltic and north sea. science fact: baltic sea has half salty half fresh water coz it's fenced away from the atlantic by the scandinavia peninsular. hence, only very limited species of fishes can live there. and these fishes are extremely sensitive to polutions...

there's a section called "livet ombord" which i guess translates into "the live onboard". in a tiny space, a stuffed man with broad shoulders is supporting his head with his left hand, and writing a letter under a dim light with his right. beside him, lies a tiny wooden double decker. i wonder how he shall fit into his bed... ppl seeking the borderless sea by confining themselves with shackles in the shape of a boat... ooi ooi~ i'm really getting phylosophical... XD i feel coz i once dreamt, and still dream to work on a cruiser... they would need engineers wont they? XD but it's just another dream i wont make happen, like many other impractical dreams of mine XD

hmm... de atmosphere is getting incredibly suitable for this song~
《飞鱼》- 苏打绿
loving it like crazy :D



a full list of symphony orchestra performances are on sale 6th september :D 80kr for fulltime students. some full priced tickets goes up to 2600kr!!! simply cant miss this offer! and guess wot? beethoven's no 7 is going to be played on 23th and 24th October XD but it's by Northern Sinfonia instead of this city's own Goteborgs Symfoniker... ish... guess i'll go for this one, and see if there's appetite left for a GS one with piano concerto nxt spring :D