ゆりの世界

Tomorrow is a special day. It's a great opportunity to spend money.

1. It's chinese new year and on chinese new year the older (read wealthier) members of the family gives the younger members money in a red envelope.

2. It's valentine's day, need I say more?

3. It's mother's day, in norway anyway not sure if it's in sweden also. Anyhow I've done my share ;-P

I've been thinking and re-thinking and thinking some more. The milion dollars question is how long will I stay in Norway? There's a few alternatives depending on some activities and results. I've done some serious thinking (yeah it's dangerous I know). Anyway it could be in May, August, some time next year or even further away.
Nothing wrong with this country really. It's more about what I feel like and what I prioritize. Most importantly it's about where I can enjoy my everyday life.

I should mention at some point that I got myself a Wii when I went to China. It was mainly meant for karaoke and DDR but I'm just halfway there. The DDR part is working while the karaoke part refuse to. Should I mention that my Wii is softmod?
Anyway, I'm also halfway through the process of acceptance that I never will get my Wii to recognize any mic. On the bright side, I can easily and free get almost any games I want. That does spoil the fun of enjoying the game a bit coz I they seems to bored me out too fast.



This month is my sixth in Norway. Wow half a year soon gone! Maybe I should do some ranting. I'm in the mood to rant today. Um um the mango I bought yesterday taste bad. Why do they serve hamburger at the cantine every bloody wednesday? If I see one more burger I'll puke! Seriously. Digging out my car twice a day is NOT fun!
Actually I haven't been totally honest here. What I really want to rant about....well I can't.
Would you excuse me for a sec, I just need to go and bank my head on something hard. No, not really but I'm nearly there.

And it's sunday again. Days are passing by so quickly.
This weekend we went skiing again and I think I hurt my shoulder, well I feel kind of stift and it hurts.
This time we went to the top, it was sunny and perfect weather. The only thing I can complain about is WTH did they put a steap part in a green slope for??? Hope the blue one on the other side is better.

BTW I was supose to post this up a while ago but somehow just forgot.
My wall stickers. Well they didn't stick in place for very long time. Next time I'll make sure to buy bigger stickers.

I'm still amazed that my internet connection fail me only when I need it the most....like updating this blog for example =P
I was going to rant about work but I better not. I mean I quite like my job....most of the time. I've been so focusing on work these two weeks so it felt great to get away for some skiing. I would be so depressed if I had to stay in and watch the winter wonderland outside my balcony and not be able to play in it.

The holiday schedule for 2010 is out today and I can't believe that we have so many holidays in April and May! I mean the Norwegians are clever, more day off when it's light and sunny and more work when it's dark and dull.
I can feel that the daylight stays longer. With the snowy (and a bit icy) road, driving to and back from work becomes quite exciting. =) Kind of Need for Speed winter version. (>_<)

You probably know that blogging is the our times' diary, except the fact that you're sharing your diary with millions of others for centuries to come.
Your can read about ppl who doesn't feel well for the moment, ppl who something great had happened to them and ppl who's just very bored.
I'm trying to sort out my situation. Am I sad? angry? bored? frustruated? Or am I just insouciant?
Looking at the door and expect something exciting to turn up?
According to my personality I'd walk through that door and go for what I'm looking for.....it's just that my mind is blank.
Shopping will brighten up a bit. For the moment, I feel like watching war movies - watching ppl conquer the world...and then what?

The plan was to update with China Trip part 2 but since I still haven't got the pics from Sweetie and my time miraculously disapeared this week.....let's just say que sera sera.
First working week after a big vacation is always tought but I've survived =)
Still not done with the unpacking of stuff I brought from China. The first thing that get arranged was my studio pictures from Beijing. Somehow they got the highest priority =P
Here's one.

They are quite good with the styling and camera lights coz there's no photshoping done on this one.

Just came home yesterday - well depending on the definition of 'home'. Got back to Norway from Sweden yesterday anyway. Flew there from Beijing 2 days before. Strangely, I'm still jetlagging....or just tired - from the travelling and weaked by the cold I catched a few days ago.
NEway first part is Beijing. We stayed there for 5 days and the main topic is: Food and Beauty.
We left on christmas eve and kind of celebrated at Shiphold airport by posing next to a christmas tree.

We was quite hungry when we landed in Beijing in the afternoon of christmas day and decided that our first meal in China should be Dim Sum - a famous 24 hours open Dim Sum place in Chaoyang.
In Beijing I encountered my first love - the sweet potato! Like an oasis in the middle of the frozen sea, sold by mummies.
Also found a new love - Ajisen Ramen
A hot pot heaven where you can get your nails done for free while waiting
On the day of photo shooting, I found a satifying breakfast for 10 yuan
There's no way you can leave Beijing without trying it's famous duck
Ticking the duck off the list we turned to the taiwanese kitchen represented by Bellagio
While we were in the neighbourhood, why not have a taste of the cantonese cuisine besides Dim Sum.
Before leaving for Xian we gave the chinese impression of japanese meal. It was quite ok but not as good as the genuine ones I had in Japan.