my balcony view

you can guess the weather im sure. well, if you're a visual person. if you're blind and reading this : it looks like rain.

american classics....

are loved to death by swedes. too bad i didn't know that before i moved here, otherwise i could have brought a clunker in my shipment and made a pretty ore (the penny in swedish terms).

when i miss southern california

i make guacamole with avocados from israel that cost $1. each. pretty much the same price in calif. even though they are friggin grown there. WTF?

anyway...gooooooooood guacamole.

life without avacados is no life of mine.

its always about me.

the current window display for 'Din Sko' the shoe store inside H & M.

autumn.2006

this is a typical scene in nykoping, sweden...or anykoping, sweden. apple and pear trees in cute little yards of cute little houses. cute, huh? anyway..the colors of nature are vibrant and breathtaking here and thankfully the air is crystal clean so when you're breath gets taken, you can rest assure that no pollutants enter.

these images were taken about 2 weeks ago, on my way home from school.

the weather has since changed drastically, the greens on the trees are turning yellow and red. the fruits are all being picked or left behind.

two years ago (2004) my first year here was when i experienced my first snowfall: oct.21, 2004.
doesn't look like there will be any snow this year, thanks global warming.

trees are cool

especially the way they grow 5 mins. drive from our place here in nykoping.

fika with agata

well, what the heck is fika, you ask. let me tell you, i write.

fika is the nice easy word used to describe catching a nice cup of coffee and pastry with a friend or anyone. swedes fika a lot! we have no starbucks (damn it) but have many bakeries and coffee shops that cater to this obsession. a good obsession to have , i might say, just allows one to take it easy and its ok.

so, last saturday, agata, my friend from swedish class (last term) asked me to fika! i said sure, as we are not in the same class this term, it would be good to catch up. agata podroska is from poland, has a swedish/polish fianceé and is about 25 years old. very sweet girl. and the best part of our friendship is that she doesn't speak english and i don't speak polish (or i think i don't) and so we MUST converse in swedish. and her swedish is waaaaaay better than mine, so im the winner in this gig. so, this in turn just helps us out to get better with this new language we must become better at, living here in sverige (sweden in swedish).

agata was too sweet and also gave me a present. what would a polish person give? polish chocolate , of course! i like chocolate, in any language...i think its the one thing i can safely eat without reading the ingredient label (being the vegetarian that i am). so, that was very kind of her to think of me on your travels back home, which she does often as her parents and brother are there and its such a close trip.

so, moral of the story. friends are good. friends bearing chocolate, better.

the end (for now)

i was gone...

but now im back.

if u can believe it...my hard drive crashed last month (hard to believe, as macs are rarely this high maintenance) and so thanks to having applecare, i was covered to have the hard drive replaced. luckily i found a local apple repair place that would accept the applecare deal. 2 weeks later, get the powerback, start loading everything again, lost all personal data, but hey, lifes tough sometimes.

then as i think im on easy street again, just before that week is over, the drive crashed yet again. after a half hour with apple tech on the phone, it was determined that the hard drive was toast or burnt, yes, yet again. who knew one could have such bad luck? well, id rather have bad luck with such menial things like this than with life. so again little miss powerbook got sent to the nice mac guy, named mattias (who speaks decent english! thank god-imagine me trying to understand technical swedish..ahh yeah) so now, 4 days later (oct.6) i got my powerbook back. and lets just say im not holding my breath....im happy but ive learnt that it can be fleeting.

if someone wants to present me a new powerbook for xmas, new years, hanaukkah, boxing day, eid, kwanzaa, halloween, thanksgiving, diwali (come on its hindu!)...i'd be really nice to you and call you on your birthday.