Nice Dinner at Irene n JiaKai place..

hmm.. been rather busy procrastinating n at times updating my blog of my Euro trip the past Easter holiday.. did some grocery shopping some days back.. bought quite a lot of stuff..

2 onions.. (the rest r all rotten or dont noe wat lah.. these 2 looked the best..)
3 Multi vitamin juice.. (ITS 3 for 10 kroners!! thats abt 2.50 Sing dollars.. Cheap!!)
a very big slab of butter!.. can last til august.. good enuff for me.. but its whute butter.. shld be the same lah hor..
big slab of cheese.. i tried this b4 n it was good n the cheapest..
n finally 20 eggs that will last til 14th April.. haha n that means i have to finsih them asap.. maybe 1 per day.. (omelette uses 2 eggs.. )quite cheap as well.. 1 egg for 1 kroners (0.40 Sing cents) not very cheap compared to Singapore but this is the cheapest here liao..
n all these just for 71 kroners.. (less than 20 Sing bucks..) i tink thats all the groceries i need for the period til i leave for Singapore.. except the eggs lah..
Meat i bought a lot in London.. 1kg of bacon n 2.5kg of chicken..(total of abt 15 Sing bucks) very cheap compared to meat here in Sweden..
Nice.. my fridge is fully stocked now.. good..



The sun is setting at a much later time compared to when i first arrived..

the picture above shows the amt of sunlight we get at 7pm.. previously when i just arrived, it sets at abt 3pm.. haha n according to locals.. the sun is gonna set at 10pm n gets up at 1am in summer.. cool..

anyway now Singapore time is just 6 hours away from Stockholm time instead of 7 previously.. thks to Daylight Savings Time (DST)..

Some reasons why we have DST:
One of the biggest reasons we change our clocks to Daylight Saving Time (DST) is that it saves energy. Energy use and the demand for electricity for lighting our homes is directly connected to when we go to bed and when we get up. Bedtime for most of us is late evening through the year. When we go to bed, we turn off the lights and TV.
In the average home, 25 percent of all the electricity we use is for lighting and small appliances, such as TVs, VCRs and stereos. A good percentage of energy consumed by lighting and appliances occurs in the evening when families are home. By moving the clock ahead one hour, we can cut the amount of electricity we consume each day.

Daylight Saving Time "makes" the sun "set" one hour later and therefore reduces the period between sunset and bedtime by one hour. This means that less electricity would be used for lighting and appliances late in the day.

We also use less electricity because we are home fewer hours during the "longer" days of spring and summer. Most people plan outdoor activities in the extra daylight hours. When we are not at home, we don't turn on the appliances and lights.

In the winter, the afternoon Daylight Saving Time advantage is offset by the morning's need for more lighting. In spring and fall, the advantage is less than one hour. So, Daylight Saving Time saves energy for lighting in all seasons of the year except for the four darkest months of the year (November, December, January and February) when the afternoon advantage is offset by the need for lighting because of late sunrise.

In most of the countries of western Europe, including the countries that are members of the EU, Daylight Saving Time:

begins at 1 a.m. GMT on the last Sunday of March and
ends at 1 a.m. GMT on the last Sunday of October

Spring is coming or rather its spring now.. daytime temperature is around a comfortable 14 degree celsius compared to the crazy -5 or -8 degree celsius that we had in winter.. but the nights r still rather cold.. haha ..
Today for the first time since i m in Europe, i didnt wear my thermal pants (just my pair of jeans) when i went to Vastra Skogen where Irene n Jiakai(JK) were having a gathering.. it felt cold but it was alrite..

We had dinner with Angie (Irene's friend) who came all the way up here from Lund in South Sweden.. we had a nice meal of curry chicken n some veggie n there r even desserts.. nice..

well. this picture SC is supposed to take of me with the dessert n the gers around me but aiyah he missed that.. but its still fine.. haha

haha Mean Gers!!.. trying to punch me!!


Had a very full n good dinner at DS's place yesterday nite.. tabao some back for dinner as well.. maybe will heat them up for tomolo's dinner.. haha

so many things to say abt my Europe trip during Easter but rather lazy to update.. now just done abt 10% of my trip.. 2 out of 21 days done.. 90% more to go..

Starting sch again tomolo.. a new period.. classes start at 10am for Image Processing.. ok hopefully this period.. i learn more things from sch (too slack; learnt a lot but thru my travelling around).. but also travel around at the same time
Dom went back n calculated the number of days we travelled around last period.. My touring days for the last 3 months are a whopping 33 DAYS!!