Monday, January 21, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Seconds before dead ...
Good to be alive!
Friday, January 4, 2008
Happy New Year
New Year Dinner
May they'll be another awesome year ahead...! Though i'm not a candidate for Mr Universe, but i do wish for world peace and global warming can bring to an end ( If not the coolest hotel- ice hotel will be gone soon...! ). This video, The Mask is a good start for world peace.
Celebration..!
London Eye - cost me 15 pound for just 30 minutes, manage to take picture and video for 29.5 minutes up there, every 1 was like taking the big ben for N times, dunno for what , and that including me....lolz
Inside london eye, notice the big ben behind, this is a HOT SPOT....!
The big ben is even nicer when it's this near
A street singer dressed like santa performing in the tube station...
"cha xiu" and roast duck rice, delicacy can be this simple.... This is what we are craving for and we eat it almost everyday during the london trip....
St. Paul Cathedral with a bunch of gangster who claimed themself as super model... Nice picture with the Christmas tree behind....
Camden market- Gone to this big version "flea" market when my other friends gone to madame tussaud's where i've been there with my mom... really alot to see and me myself doesn't even sure wethere i had already gone through every shops cause it's so big that you might get "lost" in it.... This picture shows one of the corridor selling variety of foods. If anyone wanted to get cheap food here, come near closing time when all the food vendors will start to give half prize.... Getta eat a box of sushi and a mineral water for just 3 pounds... !
Cheapest hostel that we manage to find which is near the sub... but something interesting about this hostel is it's actuarlly located infront of a cemetery. Imagine if this is a hostel at a chinese place, i think it'll close down in a few months time.... Didn't take any picture of the cemetery, am not sure what my camera capable of "taking".... And supprisingly, this is where we spend our christmas playing cards, "mafia" and instant noodles. (because there all the transportation was closed on Christmas day... ) Luckily the hostel did provide us some food which include turkey, which makes it more like a christmas...
The kitchen is so small and it's not even enough to fit just us, this is where my 1st microwave instant noodle was created (due to not enough stove for me to even prepare my instant noodle)... i'm the one back facing the camera looking at what can we do with the food that we had, notice my friend on the right who had already start eating his rice, he is the Mr "look at my face"......! Play mafia with him and he will ask you to look at his face....
That's our christmas dinner: Pizza, fish finger, instant noodle, pringles, vegetables and fanta.... Not forgetting that the hostel also provide us with some turkey.
Changing of guards, at last i getta see it , miss it during the trip to london with mom. It's boxing day morning , thought the crowd wont be that much as most of them must have be wandering around shopping mall, but it isn't as expected. Cant really get a good view of how the changing of guards is done due to the crowd but there is a series of christmas songs being played by the band after that.....
Boxing day - This is how crowded it is.
So this is how the locals here celebrate their Christmas, it seems that a multirace country like Malaysia had it own advantage as well. At least there will still be transportation and shops open during major festival, because we cover up each other's holiday....haha!
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
kiruna 4
It's time for us to leave Kiruna, won't forget the whole new experience here. Flying Nordic air from Kiruna to Arlanda airport.....
Last sight of Kiruna- snow over the forest....
Something welcoming us at Arlanda airport... The cheapest yet filling food you can found at Sweden, 10 Sek for a burger.
12:32
The street behind is full of shops selling all sort of souvenir, just the right place for souvenir hunter like us.
There will be always a guard standing in front of "some" building....
A shop selling full of Christmas stuff
Stockholm night skyline
Here goes the end of my Sweden journey, and it inspired me alot and it's really a whole new experience that i had never dream of, it's the COOLEST place i had ever been to and it deserve a rating of 11 /10.... the maths are wrong but it's right in the sense of description.
Kiruna 3
Breakfast - butter, marmalade, honung (honey), cheese and bread
Snow, ice, river, snow mountain......
This is how far we get, a wierd shape ice cube sitting there, seems like a place naturally build for resting.
"PatternING" what's the big deal with -6 celcius..
14:25
Time to leave, taking pictures of the lapp's place before we leave, nice place , nice experience. The way back is dark, cold, and wet, though it's only early evening, the place is dark and it's snowing, but smart husky dogs never let us down and we manage to reach to our destiny in one piece.
Traditional Lappish hut, too bad we don't have the chance to stay in
Another hut..... everything is worth taking with snow
See the "P" sign, this desingnate that it's a place for us to pee. Not bad huh, a good view a head, it gets better when it is at night when the wind blow... pee in the cold..! too bad the girls don't have the chance to try this, for those with "stick" only..
PatternING... ice hockey
18:06
At kiruna city, the reason is because the lame tourguide who promise to send us to the hut we will be staying for the night wanted to buy a christmas gift for his kid before sending us there... Though lame, seems to be a good dad to me. Anyway we are given 30 minutes to tour around, and it's a small city full of chrismas atmosphere i must say.
The hut that we are staying, it's a 9 person banglo i should say and it is build of wood by the owner, and the owner is actually Life - the tourguide for the northern light trip.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
kiruna 2
Small but strong
All excited with the snow
Time out after a snow ball fight....
1:21
We found our self at the river bank and the lapps' hut is just across the river up the small hill. The view is really magic, snow, partially frozen river, snowy mountain, and the moon (hanging up high even it is in the evening). Natural can be this nice, how can human stupid enough to let money and global warming to destroy this scene, but parodoxically, only money can get me here.. Can't there be a balance?
Man , this is owesome....!
Crossing the river with 16 of us in the wee boat, and that tour guide really "qian bian" ask us to pull him up the shore while he sits in the boat....
Tour guide explaing the place and we found out that he tell the same lame joke to every batch of visitor he brought.... Lame...!
Modern lappish hut that we stays in, all furnish with wood, making it warm and cosy.
Wood sawing and choppind area forthe BBQ and Sauna
Kitchen
Reindeer meat with pasta
BBQ Dinner
our source of water is this river that we cross over, the moon is shinning instead of the sun that evening
Collecting water from the hole at the frozen part of the river.