Snowboarding in Romme Alpine

Woke up at 5+ in the morning.. n off we go to our snowboarding trip in Romme Alpine..
Pic of the early morning sky.. haha with the moon..

We went to City Terminalen to take the bus to Romme Alpine.. it takes abt 3 hrs from Stockholm to there.. so thats the reason we woke up so early so that we can catch the earliest bus at 7am n reach there n have time to snowboard..
its written that there is a bus at 630am but the bus only came at 7am..

Ppl at the City Terminalen..

Picture at Romme Alpine.. Jenley (JL), LL, Dom n me went for this trip..


The place where we rent our snowboard equipment.. there r a lot of counters n everyone have to take a number n wait for their number to be shown on the board b4 they can get their stuff..

Our Snowboards..

There is a small building that everyone leaves their stuff there.. there is no locker for your bags n shoes (anyway for skiing or snowboarding, we all have to change to special shoes equipped for that purpose).. everyone just leaves their stuff on shelves in that building n snowboards n skis r not allowed in so everyone jsut leaves theirs outside..

Posing with my snowboard..




Ski lift.. the ski lift takes us up to a very high up place.. there seems to be no beginner slope.. the slopes r steep n gentle at times... LL mentioned that the slopes here r only abt 1/3 of the slopes she experienced in South Korea.. wah..

The pic on top is that of a ski lift at the destination.. so scary, ppl have to snowboard or ski down the slope immediately after they reach or risk being knocked by the lift..




Me after getting off from ski lift..

b4 going down a slope..



Signs pointing to a diff slope each direction..

I tink i have fallen a million times on this stupid snowboard.. its not the snowboard's fault.. its mine.. the slopes r super steep at times.. i always have a tendency to go into the woods by the side.. i tink i fell into it abt 3 times.. its a very msierable feeling.. crawling out.. a very painful experience..
LL here after falling..

A picture of one of the gentler slopes..

One more pic b4 i roll down this slope.. (my snowboard is in the foreground)..

Finally after struggling for abt an hour or 2.. i finally got down the slope with LL n JL.. Dom passed us by 3 times by the time we got down...



More of me.. ( i noe very ego.. haha but hey its my blog.. :p)



A very cool shot of me taken by Dom ( or at least thats wat i tink lah abt the cool part.. :p)

Some pics of the Romme Alpine (nice sky.. very bright sun as well.. tahts why i wore sunglasses.. they r really needed.. also when i snowboard, the cold n strong headwind will not feel good esp on the eyes n i cant close it.. so luckily i had this sunglasses)




Directions to various places in Romme Alpine.. (the restaurant, renting place etc.)


One of The slope.. (all slopes eventually end at the same place)



After our first round of snowboarding for LL, JL n me..n third round for dom, we decided to have lunch at one of the cafe.. the price was pretty reasonable considering the fact of free flow of drinks n salad n dry cookies.. haha or at least we assume its free.. we jsut took.. no one stop us.. it shld be ok then.. haha dont care liao.. too hungry to care abt our face..

After this lunch, we head off for our second round.. however the last bus is leaving at 4+.. we took to the slopes at 3+.. unfortunately for me, i sort of injured my foot after falling a few more million times.. n have to walk down the rest of the slopes.. cant snowboard w/o feeling the pain.. n its a very long walk.. as a result.. i tink we missed the last bus.. when i reached the bottom, the bus was still there but after changing out of all the snowboard equipment n we r ready to go, there r NO more buses.. sob sob.. :P LL, Dom, JL.. sorry for dragging all of u into this shitty situation..

However at the carpark, there r still a lot of cars getting ready to go home.. we found a Swedish kind enuff to allow us to drive us to the nearest town, Borlange.. (the town he is staying in) in the hopes of catching a bus or train back to STockholm.. n the next post i shall elaborate on our "dont noe whetehr to cry or laugh" evening in Borlange (a town i dont tink the 4 of us will ever forget in our life from that nite onwards..)

Busy with Project on Friday

Wasnt being able to update my blog for Friday and Saturday for 2 main reasons which will be explained in this n the next few posts..

On Friday, LL and I was trying to rush out a 1st draft of a report.. n luckily it was done.. n i stayed over at Dom's place.. since we have to leave for our snowboarding trip early in the morning at 5:45am from their place.. n by the time LL n i have finished our report, its already 1am plus.. :p ..

Some pics of our project.. hehe..

Here r pics of our test subject for our project.. (a bunch of motors mounted on a platform n we r supposed to detect n measure their frequencies using LabVIEW software)





ermm.. ok loh.. also dont noe wat to do.. n the project is due on Tuesday.. but i dont tink we r ready yet.. :P sigh.. see how lah..

Semla Snack & Visit to DS

well.. nothing much happened today.. as usual i went to do my project.. a bit panicky liao.. still not very much done liao.. then next Tuesday presentation.. stress stress.. nvm tomolo then continue n do up the report..

after which LL n I went back to Hemkop in T-centralen..

last nite, LL was disappointed that no more Semla liaoz.. (she felt that after Feb no more Semlas liaoz.. maybe its becos after Easter liao.. read my previous post here to find out more)-->

Semla

so today we go n try n see if there is anymore today.. n the always so clever LL so coincidentally forgot to bring her wallet today.. haha.. so i have to pay for the Semla loh.. ok loh..19.90kr for 2 Semlas.. its counted as 20kr becos in Sweden, they dont have 0.10kr or 10 ores.. so if its 19.60kr then it will also be 20kr (round up) and if its 19.40kr then it will be 19kr (round down)


Semla on the way to the cashier..

The 19.90kr Semlas that LL wanted to buy n eat but she forgot to bring her wallet.. :p

Advertising for the Semlas..


the last time when i tried this Semla, was in Uppsala.. when LL n JL bought n tried it out.. n i took a quick scoop from their Semla.. LL was saying the Semla at Uppsala then was 35kr n now its 20kr for 2 (1 for 10kr lah).. 3.5 times more..
it didnt taste that good last time.. i dont like the cinnamon taste in the bread.. but this time.. its GOOD!!.. very sinful n sweet.. haha.. :P

Now u see it, Now u dont!.. haha..


The box containing the Semlas..


The Semlas dont last long.. their shelf life is abt 2 days as shown below..


After which, LL went off for her lesson at Telefonplan.. while i walked around town for a while.. went to some souvenoir shops in the area n went to a CD store to check out their CDs.. there is a magazine store by the CD store.. n haha.. other than the comparatively mild FHM (For Him Magazine), they have Playboy magazine (the real one!! no censorship no nothing.. hehe pls forgive the pun)as well.. haha smt that Singapore dont have.. haha :P

I m supposed to meet up with the De Silvas (DS), a Swedish friend of mine.. got to noe him thru my mum.. aiyah long story.. i posted it somewhere b4 liao.. yah i took the train to Slussen where i took a 30 min bus to Skarpovagang where he stays.. had a good dinner over there.. soya pork, curry pork n chicken with mushroom n rice.. yummy.. haha YEH! then talk a bit abt Singapore n other stuff.. then i left for home.. Mr DS also prepared a pack of curry pork for me to take back to heat up to eat..haha.. :p one of my dinner settled!!.. but dont tink will get a chance to eat.. i tink i gonna camp in sch the next few days to finish up the project.. so dont tink will have chance to eat dinner at home.. haha.. so ke lian.. :( ... :p

Took some pics of the bus i took back to Slussen..