Foreigners?

Lunch outdoors on the grass during our Tomelilla site vist...studios should be outdoors=]



phenomena: foreign student gathering together eating, chit-chatting and basically occupying our space, breathing our air and contributing to the sound pollution.

response A(locals): stares and grumblings amongst themselves.
response B(Foreign students): carrying on occupying space and making noise

realise some time ago while having dinners with the NUS Business peops, that we were doing exactly like what 'Ah Tiong' do in singapore, gathering amongst ourselves and partying in a foreign territory...hahaha!!! and we think that the local sweds might actually be feeling like how we feel when we see a bunch of 'Ah Tiong' doing that. But well, there was one thing different, we invited a complete swedish stranger who just happened to wonder into the kitchen to have a pitiful bread and jam dinners...compared to our MEATBALL Fiesta, think it not just that we over-estimated our belly-capacity, but also out of courtesy i guess=] bet he was pretty happy...haha!!

anyway, first week of sch, and we have a 3 week project to convert a SLUGHUS(ie. slaughter house(ie. where piggys become porkies)) into a community center. in my entire 2 yrs of archi, i had the longs site visit ever...2 full 8am to 5pm days. and it was not the best experience since its an ex-piggy-massacre site...those who watch SAW, imagine the toilet where the 2 victims were trapped in, after the guys sawed of his leg.....freaky right...
this little piggy when to to the market, this little piggy wen to town, and this little piggys...became BACON

where piggys rode the freezing carousel.

todays blogs shall be about FOOOODDDD.........ahhhhh........
Day one, kena con to buy a 10 bucks pie, didn't even noe wats it it.....had half for lunch, and half for dinner.....sigh

dinner gathering with the NUS business students........5 sausages and a bowl of LEAVES, shared amounts 8 people....
just joking.....that was also e attempt to make swedish BALLS and fries...hahaha!!! thought the sauce was very very salt....BeT our BALLS could give IKEA's a run for their money...hahah!!
Tao Gei......the day we attempted Kinesiska(ie chinese) cooking
the day at Kaseberge...authentic grilled herrings and mash potatoes.....we were all HAPPY!!!...
packed lunch for our first site visit.....sausages, fries(leftover from dinner), home cook salsa/bolognese and 2 sour plums.....looks better then it taste though...
and finally, my dinner for e past 3 days and hopefully 3 more to come....penne with mexican bolognese(ie same salsa/bolognese as above....cook a whole big pot on sunday so i can skip cooking for the week......I AM SO SMART!!!!)

kebabs....falafels....and pita....my Staple over here during those first few days...hahahaha!!!!! and they're the cheapest and most delicious take outs....

Sugar carrots....according to my over-enthu, hyperactive German friend Martin=]

Glimmingehus, Kåseberga and Ales Stenar

Yesterday was the orientation field trip to 2 'touristy' sites in the Skåne(pronounced 'Sko-ne') which is like the southern most region of sweden...

first site was the Glimmingehus, a medieval castle build by some vice-king who was also a pirate. to me it was more like a large cottage then a castle, but i guess if there's a moat, its a CASTLE....haha!!

nope this is not the castle..haha..its like a barn beside the moatthis is the so call CASTLE!!!...big huh??..hahaha!! well done Adam van Düren(ie the ar-chiii-tek)

the second site was a fishing village of Kåseberga('ko-ze-ber-ger')...this place was breath taking, but it was so DARN windy......plus they have authentic SWEDISH FOOOODDDDD!!!!! yumyumyum.....mind u, not the meatball u find in IKEA,but seafood...like Sill Och Mos-grilled herring and mash potato....best meal i've had since arrival.
view of the fishing village...haha!!! why am i climbing a hill?? well apparently there's like a Swedish Stonehenge on top of the hill....
TADAAAA......the puny swedish stonehenge....hahahaha!!!!=] known as the Ales Stenar
check out how strong the wind was....lucky i have short hair...=]

Hello from Sweden

Hello from the land where every house have an apple TREE(who needs NTUC fo apples when they could just pluck it out of the tree in their garden...haha), the land of Absolut, Volvo and Ericsson, and i must add...the land of beautiful cemetries(they are like gardens, non of those freaky chinese ones...)hahaha!!!!!
here's the central cemetry park path....above is a beautiful tombstone with birdies...haha!!

Anyway, everything more or less fine here, and things are actually getting better as the week progress...the weathers pretty windy here, but if it doesn't rain, its a hell of an AWESOME weather(imagine a bright and sunny aircon room....haha

I'm finally here....

Arrival day in Lund