Yalla Dance 1

Currently listening to Yalla Dance "Arabia's hottest dance floor tunes". I got it in Doha airport on my way home from Thailand. Can´t really stand still while listening to it. I really must say I am quite fond of arab music and dance. I love the way they move and I love to imitate the movements, though it probably looks very silly. I On my way to Thailand I got Yalla Dance 3, but Kat loved it so much I had to leave it with her, that is a very good cd too, better than the one I have here. Fortunantly Kat is now back from Thailand WITH the cd, yeh!

Counting the small joys of every day life:) Today the small joys count, the cd, the after work Belgian West Malle I had earlier at my favorite pub, singing Taize with the ladies.

Nature

I have during this last month been privileged to spend some time close to nature. First in a vacation house on the island where I work. Just this past weekend in Sweden in a house in the forest. I must admit, I love it, the peace, the oh so quietness. Here is a few pictures.

Getting a car....

...is no easy business. I promise to go back to Thailand stories next blog post, but right now my whole life revolves around buying a CAR!!! It has been one stressful job. I decided this week that I definently want a car, the decision came along with swithcing to full-time with a colleage and the bus route stopping per august 1st.

So my criterias where enviroment friendly, low maintainess, enconomic...

Well, to make a long story short, I have surfed endlessly on the net and driven miles and miles on my bike to see and testdrive some cars...I did not see it coming but I fell hard and good for Italy. A Fiat Punto swept me off my feet and unless I have terrible nightmares tonight and unless my boss tells me not to, that´s what I will end up with.

Oh dear, it´s just not a good business to get a car, it´s just expences expences...

impressions of thailand, so far.

oh my, at an internet cafe on the other side of the river from katrine's room at the UCE place in BKK, by the on nut skytrain station.

first time online since i got here, i must say it's wonderful not to be online. outside the rain started pouring down ten minutes ago, a good moonsoon rain, loveit.

oh my, thailand got to me, i did not think it would. i guess i didn't even have expectations, just came to see my friend, excited to go to a country i haven't been to.

thai people are so terrible friendly and honest (at least the people i have met so far). katrine got under the skin of many of these people and it's amazing to see how they just love her; at work neighbourhood friends and family friends.

i am having the best sort of vacation where i just jump into katrine's dailylife and participate in it for the time i am here.

i have so many impressions and stories to tell of adventures and people, but for now i leave you with this, pictures will come later.

packing

who would have thought it would be so hard to pack for a trip to thailand? anyways, it´s taken me all day now...probably it´s because i am hardly bringing anything and i can´t believe it.

this week at work i have been running around as if i did not have a head, being a rollercoaster of OH MY GOD I WILL NEVER BE DONE FOR VACATION, to ok, i will never be done, final... so calm down and get the most important things done. and then after leaving work i have remembered things i forgot to do, so today i have been e-mailing reminders to different people in my office, asking them for favors.

oh dear, who would have thought that taking vacation time would be such a hard thing to do.

now, work is out of my head and packing will be done in lets say ten minutes from posting this:)

Amsterdam and back again

Oh Amsterdam! That city stole my heart many years ago and I keep coming back instead of exploring and visiting new places never seen before.

It´s home, the feeling, though it´s been years since it really was home, is still inside of me.

The occation for a visit this year was a wedding.

I had on a fabulous dress, wore red lip stick and smoked my favorite cigarrettes that can only be found in Holland.

This bride was stunningly beautiful, the groom hot, he had on some really cool blue shoes.

The flowers the bride carried turned out really well. I did have a smaller panic attack in the morning but with a little help of the bride´s islandic friend we pulled off a pretty darn good boquet for a first timer at that sort of creativity:)

The party was excellent. I enjoyed many dances on the dance floor with the groom´s aunt, it was a BLAST.

The 50+ guests at the party really got the dancing going it was most wonderful to see them dance to this music they would NEVER ever normally listen to let alone dance to, they had a great time and I just jumped right in with them and let go.

Many more things can be told of this weekend trip, like queen´s day, rainy sunday, hugs from people of the past. conversations with good looking guys and the cultural differences in european and indian culture on the train. But this will be it for now.

an education

I went to the movies tonight and watched "An Education". It finally made it to the Danish movie theaters, odd that it took so long since the instructor and producer is a dane.

Anyhow, I liked it, not so much for "the message", but for the music the good looking people, the lovely dresses and the red lipstick. AH, I just want to wear high heels, smoke cigarettes and be good looking all the time.

Fortunantly I am going to a wedding this weekend and I have a 60ies dress to wear and some red lip stick, it will be fabulous, I am even doing some of the music for the wedding so I will just make sure it works with my theme:)