I finally moved to Göteborg

Its been awhile since i was here. So much has happened, i finally moved to Göteborg. Its a beautiful city, even though finding an apartment can take ages, i am starting to like the atmosphere around. There is much more one can do here, and the list is never ending. This town has totally changed my perception of Sweden as a dull country. There is alot that goes around here than one could imagine, i haven't had time to tour the entire city but will definitely do that once am settled and so forth. I have done the basic site seeing, i.e. museums, art galleries and ofcourse the mutiple shopping malls. The rest are yet to come:)

Have you guys seen the new e-reader kindle? I have been wishing for one for a long time, and now i finally ordered one from amazon, cant wait to get a hold of it. I hope the bulkiness of traditional novels is out of my life now for good. I think my reading capacity will increase to over 100% once my order arrives. Its amazing how disruptive technology makes things easy nowadays. Although, i aint a total gadget freak i am starting to like the immerse growth of innovation and how first it is to get whatever you want just in a second. This is my latest accessories and i am starting to love it.

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I will come back soon , with updates of what has happened so far. Its like 22:31, and you all dont want to know where i am now:) So have a fabulous evening:)

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Thats the Götekanal a.k.a The Göteborg Channel

Friendship and Friends!!

Do you remember this?

True friends are like diamonds precious but rare.

False friends are like common stones found everywhere!

Friends and friendship are not to be taken for granted. But how do you define one as a friend? What actions or expectations make you absolutely certain that so and so are friends and not acquaintances?

Are friends confined to family? Will family accept it when friends mean more than them? Is your partner your best friend? I believe that the reasons for failed relationships, is because they are based on the physical, emotional and financial and not friendship.

One needs to have a balance in what they bring into and what they take out of a friendship? Can a rich person have a friend on the other side of the divide? Ouch Ouch impossible? Never! It’s difficult? Who is your friend? Look at Oprah and Gayle? Get It!

So who are your friends? Have you really thought about it? What do your friends mean to you and you to them?

We start off with friends in the neighborhood, then in primary, then high school, friends at church, friends at college and friends at the work place or the club?

But somewhere along the line one takes a deep breath and wonders who really are my true friends? I have decided to embark on this journey today as it’s an important one to make. I am talking about the friend who will step in when you die, take charge and comfort the children? The friend who needs to talk to you almost every day and or see you? I have so many pop in friends I am looking for more as I get older.

So far I find seasonal friends hard to accept and even worse is the realization that the friend doesn’t really know me or share my pains. That has been hard to bear. Friend, friend who art thou, come through for me, not for the short haul but for my daily life. Do you know that I had a sleepless night yesterday? That I cried my head off and ran out of tissues? That you were not there for me and that hurt?

A girlfriend who has the potential to be a friend even though we don’t interact as much said to me of friendship recently, if you have one friend you are lucky, two you are blessed and three you a liar. Ouch ….

Let’s search for and treasure that meaningful friend with time, goals, and daily reflection if we are indeed to say we are friends?

We Are The World 25 For Haiti - Official Video

新年快樂我的所有中國朋友....!!

Happy Chinese New Year 2010

I havent been able to blog since the year begun. It feels bad when there is so much to write, well i have been pretty busy since the new year working and school and doing some local trips. I had exams just days after new year and they went pretty well, well some of them. So much has happened now i have two friends around and we went to the World Cultural Centre in Göteborg. Pretty interesting stuff down there.


Everytime am in Göteborg it brings back so many memories, see that was the first town i visited, just a day after arriving in Sweden. I love it so much:) Well on our recent visit we managed to attend a couple of activities, one of my majour interest was the Haitian Vodou... My prayers go out to all the haitians ofcourse especially those who lost there families, properties can always be recovered but not a loved one. I totally support the cause of helping Haiti and hope that they can recover from all the calamities.

What did i learn from the festival ? Well lets talk about the artefacts changed with power; Vodou has its origins in the traditions of Haitian slaves. Vodou has always been the religion of the poor and the vulnerable. Slave owners had whips and instruments of torture, the colonial power had armies and cannons. The leaders of military dictatorships had soldiers and guns. I'll share afew pics from the exhibition abit scary but never mind.. i hope you enjoy.



The vulnerable have had a magic as their weapon. They have relied on poison from plants and the help of spirits to defend themselves and to conduct their battle. Artefacts can be charged with power, the souls of opponents (zombies) can be directed and harmed with the aid of poisons and black magic. Well, i was surprised when i learnt that most catholics actually believe in Vodou. More than 50% of Vodou practioners are catholics, and some african countries especially in the west practise the same.



Thats me trying to be a witch but it didnt work, i was trying to make a scary pose... thats the best i could come up with:) ha.. How many believe in Vodou? I would love to know.... i would definately reserve my views about it.
Its valentines people and Chineese New Year... so to my Chinese friends congratulations and to you all Happy Vals.:)

Winter Blues

Its cold in Västerås, and the darkness is getting better since the last time i talked about the Sunday blues. Well, we've got snow and the days are brighter but then i still got the winter blues in me. Winter begins with the mood swings, the hibernationation effect and the lack of everything. I try really hard to be upbeat and positive but i slowly fall into the abyss...

Well Christmas is gone and the seasonal fever seems to be fading away, I havent been able to do anything since the semester break... well i worked last week.. which really felt good.. I mean meeting my old clients not working on christmas eve and the d-day.. that really sucked... I missed my people at work... everytime i seem to learn something new from them..

It wasnt bad at all to get back.... my job humbles me and helps me appreciate the good things i have in life... Now am home and i wish i was in some warm country maybe somewhere in El Nido palawan or so... am stuck here in the winter... havent studied at all... been on the net doing just anything but nothing... Well, my friend J' just called and am heading down to them for lunch atleast i got something going on... New years is here and i cant help but be glad that 2009 is gone... and am definately starting a new day today cant wait to 2010.. sounds just too far to wait.

To many, darkness either of day or the mind is frightening. We are enculturated to seek light, to shed light, to have a bright idea. An abyss, an unknown dark place of great depth, would seem a frightening prospect. But what if you did look there, in the place of lacking, what would you see or feel? What would it be like to sit with it, even for a few minutes a day, to wait for an image – anything that you could hold in your mind or write on paper? What would you find there? The name of a friend you would like to contact? An unresolved question? Or the stifling presence of the understanding that there are more desirable paths that you would like to take in life?

Well, my winter blues wont bring me down, am gonna get out there and just meet some incredible people... Have a good time and come back to my sound home.... i just love it here.. I hope the season is getting on well for everyone.. for those with more light than us in the north pole, enjoy it... it feels like i have to run to the apotek and get me some vitamin D's i surely need them.
A Prosperous new year 2010 to everyone and Adio^s 2009 and all the troubles it came with.

Wowowee!!!!

Its a new day again:) Cant get some sleep... been up watching Paradise Hotel, wow people can be "örmar" as they say in swedish for snakes. Do anyone ever wonder if a friend is a true friend or just one of those people we call friends with benefits? Well, Looking at PH i doubt you can trust anyone in the western world... everyone seem to be so fake... People like you for the outer you rather than who you trully are... inside:) Am pretty sure most of us have been in those situations when we wonder how much our friends value us... One thing for sure is that we love or rather like people on different levels... and never will we ever find a friend that loves us the same way we do to them and vice versa...

Well, its time to make me some te' before i head to slumberland... read afew lines for my next exam before i doze off my books... Its weird that when am supposed to be up, am so dead asleep.. now its 1.00am and it feels like i just woke up.... i still got the energy and can still go on another 3 hours.... Well i will live you with one word magandang gabi! Tagalog for Good night mi gente