Iranian Party

نوروز (Noruz) means Iranian New Year and it also represents the first of spring.

Here in Linköping, the Iranians had a big party on the last Tuesday night (17.03.09) of Iranian year.

Though we're not Iranian, Ali still invited us to this party. It was totally a different culture that I've never seen before.

e.x. we did a special "fire crossing" action:
Once you jump above the fire, you get purified. Every bad thing left all behind burned up by the fire!! So if you've farted and didn't admit that it was you, and even pointed somebody else the "farter", please go jump the fire.












And for Iranian New Year, they have lots of things symboling, just like the Chinese people: we'd like to say that everything has a good meaning of it.

These plants mean "reborn" in Iranian. I hope when spring comes, here in Sweden will be sunny days for BBQ and beach volleyball!

yet it snows today! I believe I'm in Sweden :)

ESN Train

ESN train is a super fun train that goes around Europe for 3 weeks
I plan to get on the train next week......EXCITED!

Here's my plan:














28.03.09 Sat. Departure in Vienna
Get to Europe's highest IC train station, Mallnitz
Go through Austria till Switzerland!
29.03.09 Sun. Visit Zurich
ond the day after the train will go through one of the most beautiful rails from Lausanne to Kandersteg
31.03.09 Tue. Finally it goes to Italy, and I will stop in Pisa and try to catch the flight back to Sweden soon after a photo with Torre di Pisa.



Only in 4 days, I travel 3 countries and "pass by" so many cities (that's a pity), but it could be fun with lots of Erasmus students and parties!!

Let's go! Sure be back with hundreds' pictures (hehe...)

Save Tonight / Eagle-Eye Cherry

Save Tonight

Eagle-Eye Cherry

go on and close the curtains
'cause all we need is candlelight
you and me ... and the bottle of wine
and hold you tonight [ ohh ]

well we know i'm going away
and how i wish - i wish it weren't so
so take this wine and drink with me
let's delay our misery

save tonight and fight the break of dawn
come tomorrow - tomorrow i'll be gone
save tonight and fight the break of dawn
come tomorrow - tomorrow i'll be gone

there's a log on the fire
and it burns like me for you
tomorrow comes with one desire
to take me away [ ohh it's true ]

it ain't easy to say good bye
darling please - don't start to cry
'cause girl you know i've got to go [ohh ]
and Lord i wish it wasn't so

save tonight and fight the break of dawn
come tomorrow - tomorrow i'll be gone
save tonight and fight the break of dawn
come tomorrow - tomorrow i'll be gone

tomorrow comes to take me away
i wish that i - that i could stay
but girl you know i've got to go [ohh ]
and Lord i wish wasn't so

save tonight and fight the break of dawn
come tomorrow - tomorrow i'll be gone [ 4x ]

tomorrow i'll be gone [ 4x ]

save tonight [ 4x ]
oh thats right
save tonight - save tonight

>>This song was introdced by my French coridormate, Cyril, and I didn't know it's so popular in Sweden. This song came out in 1997 by a American-Swedish "Eagle-Eye". Last time in Platå I was even wondering how come so many people can sing with this song?! Haha, however a good song, "save tonight".

more info, see wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle-Eye_Cherry

VAKNA!

Imorgen har jag en tenta. Jag hoppas att jag inte blir sent den här gången......
1-Så igen öl idag!
2-Ställ väckarklockan och stiga upp vid 6 am!

och efter kan jag åka på resa till ESN-train. hehehe

Lucka till alla som har tentor :D

Way to Shooting Master

HoHoHo
If you feel so bored in the weekends, try this!
Laserdome in Linköping
90kr / 30 mins play (30 mins are really enough)
Be prepared...and SHOOT!

Here're my results from last year till this year

Fisrt Chapter: Novice Shooter

9th of 13, hm...not bad for a beginner
of coursem, it's not good either.

This time JP got the first place.
I think it's because he's mastered in CS.











Second Chapter: Advanced Archer

Now I got some techniques to play.
Somtimes it's good to ambush in the tower, but watch out the mine explosion every 2 min!!

Ali (also good at CS, but sometimes has some excuse of his failure) killed so many times then. He's always hiding and waiting for somebody coming, such an assassin!!









Third Chapter: Master Hunter

HeHeHe
3rd of 16!!
Wanna kill me? You'd better try!
We played with some Swedish this time. Though there're 3 teams in the field, it came out to be international students v.s. Swedish.

And we got the final champion XD








advice: Why not go to Mc'donalds or BurgerKing to have a good meal and talk about your game!!

Fettisdagen

Get you a fat semla today :)

Name:Semla
Contents:Bun, Mashed Sötmandel (Apricots), Whipped Cream

Opinion:
One bite fills up your mouth with all the cream. Suggest that to eat semla with some hot milk. It'll be perfect! But remember don't treat yourself too much. King Adolf Frederick (A Swedish king) died for eating too much semlas.


For more information about Swedish Fat Tuesday,
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semla
How to do yourself a homemade semla?
http://www.recepten.se/recept/semlor.html

Spring Course

One course just canceled...let me so free on Monday and Friday!!

I'm now a incredibly free student in Sweden, and that's not so good. If you're ever free at daytime, you'd find it out so boring here. Ryds? Downtown? Gamla Linköping? or Campus?(NO~) They are all and only the places I can go to. So......

But better not complaining on it, I still can find lots of jobs to do here. Japanese and Swedish study, Guitar, that can fill up my empty life, instead of the confusing lectures and lab that makes me helpless every time.

Set up new goal (s, kanske:) and I will get all of them!!

For this period, I started Swedish Level Four, yet still suck in Swedish...... This is my last time to learn it in Sweden! Seize the change, George!

I'm expecting "Nordic Culture" in vt2. It must be cool.