Semla... some random postings for the day...

Semla is a traditional Swedish pastry. Its basically a bun filled with almond paste and whipped cream and a lid of the bun covered with icing sugar.

It is traditional that the pastry is consumed on Shrove Tuesday, which in Sweden is known as Fettisdagen or "Fat Tuesday", but it is seasonally available from New Year's until the start of Lent. Shrove Tuesday falls on February 8 this year. Each Swede consumes on average five pieces of the pastry each year, not including the ones that are home made.

King Adolf Frederick of Sweden died of digestion problems on February 12, 1771 after consuming a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sour cabbage, smoked herring and champagne that was topped off by 14 servings of his favourite dessert hetvägg, which is a semla served in a bowl of hot milk.

7-Elevens in Stockholm currently r having a promotion for Semlas..
Semlas in bakeries in Stockholm normally costs abt 25kr (around S$6+) each..
Personally i dont really like the taste of the bun.. the cream though of course is nice...

Sometimes the Tunnelbana service in Stockholm could be extremly frustrating.. I was going to sch from my home here yesterday.. then the sign showed 7 minutes b4 the next train comes.. ok loh.. i wait.. then after abt 6 minutes.. i was reading the Stockholm City tabloid to pass time, some annoucements in Swedish were made then the sign reverted back to 7 minutes.. Arrrghhh.. in the end have to wait for like 15 min for my train.. STUPID!!..

On my way back from school after the tiring Swedish class, there are a couple of musicians busking on the platform where i was waiting for the trainIt was good that they r there.. the wait was long but listening to their violin music soothe me a little..

Haizz.. today need not go to sch.. no lessons.. later at 6pm there is a City Hall Dinner for international students in Stockholm.. cool.. :p