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Thanks for visiting my blog, guys! And I thank my friend L for providing those previous photos that made the blog post possible at all!
This popular blog post wouldn't stay most-popular for much longer I predict, for the next Stockholm Pride is here! (I know I'm ending all my sentences with exclamation!)
The coming Pride Festival is in just a matter of days - Stockholm Pride 2009 starts July 27 to August 2. Check out http://www.stockholmpride.org/ for all the information!
Some people are not happy that the death of Michael Jackson garners so much attention. They say that Michael Jackson was an over-rated pop-star, an "OK" performer.
I just think that they do not get the concept of celebrity.
Love to Stockholm and dance group Bounce for making this flash mob happen!
A Richter scale 4.7 earthquake was felt in southern Sweden (Scania) at around 630am this morning. This was the "biggest" earthquake in Sweden in a hundred years.
I woke up thinking that the house was coming down. Dammit. If it was strong enough to wake ME up, it was strong, I had a guesstimate at 3.2 but I was wrong. (As you can tell I'm obviously shaken, I'm talking like I'm rapping. It f'kin rhymes.)
I have "experienced" 2 other earthquakes when I was in Asia in the last 8 years I think, but I slept through them hehehe. They were just tremors, like 2 on the Richter scale. But the one this morning scared me, it was major. I seriously thought the house was coming down, my bed was shaking and I heard my house cracking. Because neither me nor my husband had experienced an earthquake before, we were confused, my husband said "What the f--k" and I couldn't believe myself saying "Earthquake, it's an earthquake."
We have just discovered that we live just 10 km away from the epicenter which is in Blentarp so even though we felt only 20 seconds of it, we probably got the worst tremors. I have to check the house for (maybe minor) damages. Nothing inside my house looks obviously shaken though, maybe the Christmas tree got a bit tilted :-p.
Slight tremors during this earthquake could even be felt in some parts of Stockholm. No infrastructure damage has been reported so far.
In 1904 there was a recorded richter scale of 6 in Gothenburg where some chimneys fell off houses and stone walls crumbled.
Oooookay, that's all for now and I'm going back to my hybernation mode. I'll write again only if there's another earthquake LOL. Kidding.
Because I haven't had the time to blog these few weeks, this is probably old news to you. Nevertheless...
Here we go:
14 september 0800 - 1800: WALLANDERINSPELNING OCH MOTORCYKEL-RACE PÅ STURUP RACEWAY
Wonder if you've heard, they've been filming the series of detective Wallander movies these couple of months in Sweden. The scene they're shooting this Sunday (September 14) at Sturup Raceway is for the third installment of the series, titled Kuriren. If you're into movie-making, a fan of Wallander's or just a nosey parker, you could drop by the Sturup Raceway (near Malmö airport) to take part in the filming between 8 in the morning and 6 in the evening. Who knows, you could be discovered, just like my brother-in-law Niklas K, who got himself a speaking role as a photograher in the movie Hämnden (out in January 2009)!
(One of the many Wallander movie posters. Krister Henriksson is Kurt Wallander.)
Everybody is welcome at the motor-race, they want to make this scene as real as possible so they want as many people as they can find to appear at the racetrack, just email the movie production company YellowBird Produktion niklas.sjostrom(at)yellowbird.se to let them know how many of you are coming.
Things to note if you're going: You are requested to dress up like you would in November, they are shooting a scene which is supposed to take place in November, do you get me? Let's not make another boo-boo like our Swedish one-hit wonder Emilia of the song "Big Big World" fame. In the Big Big World MTV, they tried to make it look all grey and cold and wintery but people behind her were wearing short-sleeved shirts and shorts hahahahaa!
VAD HÄNDER? Filminspelning, racing och folkfest
PLATS? Sturup raceway
NÄR Söndagen den 14 september mellan 8 och 18
VILKA ÄR VÄLKOMNA?
Alla! Ta med vänner och släkt!
HUR ANMÄLER MAN SIG?
Man mailar till niklas.sjostrom@yellowbird.se och berättar att man vill vara med och berättar hur många man tar med sig
Many people (bloggers) have been writing about the Olympics 08 since the opening ceremony a week and a half ago. Of course hot topics have never failed to gather lots of readers to people's blogs and increase their traffic. But to me, I'm just indifferent - I did not plan to write about it at all. Not because I don't like sports but because of the reports I had read even before the Olympic games started. I felt that the host seemed overly excited about it, they appeared too eager to please and that is a major turn-off to me, not to mention their obsession with perfection for this event. No big reason, no analysis, my opinion is prejudiced and you may call me an asshole for not being impressed by their gigantic choreographed parades, processions and performances at the opening ceremony, yes, despite those flying men hanging from wires in the air and assloads of fireworks pip-pop pip-pop in the sky. AND the incident about that lipsynching little girl. AND the incident about them keeping one of their atheletes in the dark about her mother's death for two freaking months (for Engrish translation by Babel Fish: CLICK HERE).
I am just not impressed.
This whole Olympics event is a big disappointment for me. I am not sure if people in Sweden feel the same. I am really looking forward to this stupid Olympics 08's closing ceremony in 3 days.
I gave up completely yesterday when Stefan Holm** missed the gold. :( Sadness. He is one of the best high jumpers in the world! We had hopes of him getting us a gold. :((( So far we have only had 3 silvers :( [CRY] I hate the Olympics! [CRY] Sweden is at the very bottom on the list of Scandinavians in Olympics [BIG CRY].
For Stefan Holm, it was probably bad luck that he finished fourth place. For Ara Abrahamian, it was another story. It was total bullshit.
Apart from the 3 silver medals, Sweden could have had one more bronze medal from the men's wrestling category which Ara Abrahamian competed in. But who wants that bronze medal anyway! Abrahamian did not want it, I would not want it either. I fully understand Abrahamian's reaction. He left the bronze medal at the presentation ceremony and walked away. I would have done the same if I were him. The bronze medal that Abrahamian left right on the center of the competition mat has now been revoked. Or I prefer to say that Abrahamian renounced his bronze medal.
I believe he would have had a very good chance at winning the GOLD medal if the controversy during the semi-final round had not happened. He had met his semi-final opponent Andrea Minguzzi many times prior to this match and had beaten him several times. During this highly controversial match, Abrahamian was seen defeating his opponent Minguzzi (hehehe cute name, like a ming vase jacuzzi? A Ming Dynasty jacuzzi? Hahaha... Ahem.) but surprisingly the judges ruled Minguzzi as the winner instead. It was really strange. So after that of course our wrestler and his coach went into a room to have a discussion with the judges, they played the video of the match and examined it together. When asked, the judges were not able to explain why they had to make the call that they did, they (the judges) got angry and left the room. Don't you smell something fishy there?! We deserve an explanation.
Ara Abrahamian, together with the National Olympic Committee of Sweden, has since filed an official complaint with the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the International Wrestling Federation (FILA - Fédération Internationale des Luttes Associées). This complaint is a request for inquiry into the judges' call and Abrahamian has expressed on Swedish National TV that he is not seeking to retain his bronze medal or to affect the rankings of the competition.
**Stefan, I was the little woman at Illum Copenhagen on March 10 blocking your way because I was taking a picture of a sign by the escalator LOL. I should have taken a pic with you and asked for an autograph!
Wrote this a few hours ago but only posting it now. This post may not be suitable for minors. Like, I wouldn't let my second-grader son read this, but... there really aren't any inappropriate photos. Well, I don't know, ok, I can't decide for you, go ask your mommy.
I just got home from mom and dad's crayfish party! Goddamn it's 1:30am and guess what, my neighbors and a bunch of their friends are still playing kicky ball in their garden!! Gahhhddd!! They have no respect I tell you!! No respect!! Kids these days have no respect!!! But since this is Sweden I shall just keep my opinion to myself, shut up and not create any trouble. This is Sweden, people, you gotta be niiiiiice. Keep quiet and conform!! That's what we do best in Sweden!! :-D
I'm such a hypocrite, oh, I love it!!!
Tomorrow I'm gonna bake some blueberry muffins for them for breakfast and ask them if they'd had a good night's sleep and if their legs are tired and sore from playing so much kicky ball. I would also offer them some massage, free-of-charge. I'm such a nice neighbor :-D
Grrrrrr... It's 2am now! Disrespectful kids playing kicky ball right next to my garden! Grrrrr... All I wanna do right now is to call up Sweden's most famous spanky old man and ask him to come here and spank my neighbors! SPANK THEM ALL!!!! GRRRRR!!!
Spank them on the butt, Hans Scheike!! Spank them gooooood! Do what you do best!! ROAR!!
LOL!
Since most of you (my readers) are from the United States, I'm not sure if you have heard of this (in)famous old man Hans Scheike. This dude's kinda well-known in Germany and Finland as well. Though this dude is old, like ANCIENT! He is yo' grampa, he is my grampa, he is a freakin grampa at EIGHTY-FOUR! And he loves to S.P.A.N.K! Woohoo!
Yup, he is biiiiiiiiiiiiiig on spankin! So big, it's sooooo big! I mean, it is so big it is huge! LOL! No I am not drunk. Spanky Old Man's gonna get you!! LOL!
I mean, he is so big on spankin he even has a website. Lulz, dude, lulz! Sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful like my neighbors but I just find it fucking lulz! An 84-year-old grampa has a website about spanking! Lulz...!
I am sure the website is created and maintained by a couple of his women. I saw that on TV just a couple of months ago. They were on a show like a documentary.
Like the cuuuurious little bastards that my readers are, they would click [WARNING: ADULT PICS NOT FOR KIDS] to enter into Spanky Old Fart's online world only to wonder if the dude and his old gals are serious. And I'm here to tell you, oh yeah this grampa is for real.
Listen up, internets, grampa's a pro at this! Quote from Spanky's website: "Surprise spanking, intense spanking,playful spanking, dynamic spanking.Yes, spanking has many nuances and meanings."
Nuff said!
But of course, a serious website like that would never look credible without a very serious and gorgeous pic of the master Hans Scheike with a pose ala Leonardo Da Vinci or Plato or Socrates or [insert your favorite ancient times thinker here].
Hey, after reading so much about him and his great philosophy, I'm sure you all are intrigued and dying to "Facebook friend" him, right?? Right?? Yes yes, calm down, you! Yes, of course he is on Facebook too!
You would have to find out which one is the real him. Haha or maybe they all are ;-)
Never mind that he was jailed once in 1998 for luring underaged girls to join his summer camp and spanking their butts, I know you all are just foaming at the mouth and rolling around twitching on the floor dyyyying to be the next star in his spanky video production. Yes yes, calm down you all. He has openly invited like-minded people to part-take in his next spanky video, I read that this morning in the newspaper Kvällposten. If I remember it right, he needs like 2 girls and 1 guy. I'm not sure about the age requirement, LOL, don't ask me.
I'm busy now, I gotta go. I gotta write in with my neighbors' names and address and at the end of the letter, I will P.S.: Spank them HARD. Spank them VERY HARD. As per your ala carte menu 1 and 2, Surprise Spanking and Intense Spanking. *heartz*
I know! Meow!
(One of the many Wallander movie posters. Krister Henriksson is Kurt Wallander.)
