Hotorget Market Place

Went past this square at Hotorget, with vendors selling fruits n flowers.. the bananas, apples r at 9.90kr per kg.. quite cheap considering that super markets sell bananas at abt 19.90 kr.. but when i touch the apples.. they r like very soft.. like rotten..


Fruits.. can hear teh vendors shouting in Swedish smt like cheap fruit n flowers n stuff like that . just like a market..




FLowers..

Change of Guard Ceremony..

Went walking abt this weekend.. went to Kungliga Slott.. (King's Castle) to see the change of guard ceremony at 12 noon..

b4 that.. saw this half naked guy.. haha .. doesnt he feel cold?!?!


The guards that r supposed to take over the duties..


The accompanying marching band





Here at the parade square..
they do the handing over ceremony.. a lot of shouting commands then the band start to play music..

then suddenly at one part the band started to sing instead of playing with their instruments..




The outgoing guards..






looks like someone is being scolded


haha book out liao loh!!!

Visit to the De Silvas

Went to visit the De Silvas.. since i m pretty much free today.. also can get a good meal.. haha

Took some pictures of the place they r living in.. they r staying in a suburb off Stockholm in Skarpovagang.. a 20 min bus trip from Slussen..






Gong back liao.. waiting at the bus stop..

Jehovah's Witness n Falunggong

No no this post is not abt religion or politics.. just an interesting experience i had while in Stockholm.. while waiting for the Tunnelbana to go for my Swedish class.. yah anyway the damn train was super delayed.. i reached Central Station to change to the train taking me to my sch at abt 445pm.. still can make it in time for 5pm lesson loh.. but it got super delayed.. so i just stood down there n stone until...

one old Swedish guy approached me n say "ni shi chong guo ren mah" (r u China man).. he has to repeat himself abt 3 times b4 i get it.. no no i m not deaf.. not for 2 reasons.. never did i expect an ang moh to tok to me in Mandarin and his Mandarin is heavily ang moh accented... yah n anyway i said no n i from SIngaporean.. then he started taking out some small magazines to pass to me to read n i guessed then its some Chiristian thingy again.. (we had these in SIngapore, christians missionaries going abt preaching) then he tok briefly to me while we waited for train.. i figured since i have nothig to do might as well tok to her..

then after a while, the damn train is still not here yet.. 5:15pm liao.. waited for abt half an hour liao.. a Chinese woman (really from China) approached us, apparently she knew that guy.. (he must have preached to her b4) then we started toking (me n the CHinese woman). she mentioned that she fled to Sweden becos of persecution of Falunggong praticees in China.. erm ok .. haha then we tok more until the damn train finally arrived at 5:30pm.. she passed me a booklet as well abt Falunggong in Mandarin..

haha finally arrived in class at 5:45pm.. luckily LL said that the teacher jsut started 15 min ago becos she was spending half an hour looking for her missing purse.. haha diaozn..

after class, while on the train back home, i read the Christian magazine.. turns out they r Jehovah's Witness.. heard abt them b4.. they dont sear allegiance to country or flag or serve military service.. they r anti-politics..
n r banned in Singapore.. ppl who declare themself that r sent to the Detention Barracks for 2 years for their NS since they dont wanna hold a gun or salute or sing National Song.. interesting read though w/o all those Bible says that n this..

Falunggong is also banned in SIngapore.. i tink..

wow .. encounters with 2 members of 2 diff banned religions.. thats an experience i dont tink i will get in Singapore...

End of the Trip liao..

Pretty sian when Henrik say we cant get back to the Kiruna City in time to go to Ice Hotel.. the dogs need to rest n blah blah.. we need to catch the train at 630pm later.. aiyah so sian.. come all the way up then didnt see ICe Hotel..

Us with the buay song look.. (another colorful combi)


nvm we go play with the slope with our orange pans.. it was very fun haha.. i broke abt 2 of those pans i tink.. oops. just dont tell Henrik..

On top of the slope..


Me down the slope..!!


A group photo again..


haha it was damn fun.. we took some videos of us coming down aswell.. cool...

after this we had our lucnh again.. reindeer meat.. nice n tasty..
then we went to get our dogs.. n off again for the 2 hr journey back.. by dog sled..


haha almost forgot .. here a photo with a snowman.. (not made by us..)


yah then off we go back to Stockholm.. reaching Stockholm at abt 11am on Feb 1st..

Nature Trail & Ice Fishing

After breakfast..


We went on a long nature trail.. very nice landscape.. wow..





haha enuff of myself.. one group photo of us in teh deep snow.. check out how deep it is..


me again



us lying in the snow AGAIN!!


My blog profile pic.. ncie rite?.. haha.. i jumped into the snow.. as a result my hair is so full of white white snow..


The long walk back..



After this walk, off we r to Ice Fishing.. haha
we went to the middle of the snow covered frozen lake again..
me with the sled carrying all the ice fishing equipment


drilling the hole using an electric driller..


the hole to fish in..


haha various fishing poses.. actually dont intend to catch a fish,, its not the season yet so its near impossible to catch one anyway.. so use this as a photographic opportunity agaain..




Fishing in the middle of nowhere


Fishing together.. unity is strength!!!.. haha