Valborg

Then Valborg 2009 was off the checklist, haha. Valborg is April 30th every year and is celebrated to welcome the spring. Here in Uppsala it's one of the biggest "happenings" each year, because it is a studentstad (student town). Mostly, all of the young people (and often also the "wanna be young again") get drunk...However, there are also lots of other stuff happening. But they are not as important as to get drunk here, I guess. Hahaha...As you see, I am not as some wild and crazy after party, but it doesn't really bother me at all. I had a great day with some friends in town, and the sun was shining so brightly. The only downside with it all was, that the sun was shining so brightly. Because, now my face has started to become really brownish and since I am going to Asia this summer...it's not suppose to! Oh my goodness, I have become so typically Chinese!

Our first "business lunch"

After a lot of confusions and a lot of cancelled plans, the ladies and I finally got our "business lunch" that we have been talking about for ages. And I have to say, that I wouldn't have wished to spend my lunch in any other way than with my Oh-So-Lovely-Friends, close to the buffet table at Dragon Palace. I'm really considering to fulfill the pop-up idea that I just got now, of a buffet revolution in Uppsala! Hahaha...Goodness I'm crazy. Sandra come to common sense now and realize that if we would make a buffet revolution, and try out all the buffets here in Uppsala, we would probably roll down the hill instead of running down the hill when we graduate! Haha, and with that in mind...I think I'll pass -.-

Shill and I was terrified over the biology test this morning.

Don't we just love group pics? - Yes, we do.

So what girls do we have here? One sucking her spoon and another one marketing a bread crumb?

The real reason I went to the place! Hahahaha xD

What goes around comes around

Today I came to the point of really realizing that, what is out on the Internet - is out on the Internet! I had a big laugh with the girls after school when I told them about the shocking, but funny tête-à-tête I faced with my teacher Ric Sims, just minutes earlier. (However, I wonder who laughed the most...!)

So, what he told me was first of all "Hello Mei Mei!", and all I could think of at that approach was 'Sounds familiar...'. Then, he told me that he had read about my Romeo and Juliet that I wrote about earlier this year, and that he had a part in, here.When I first heard that, I was a bit shocked. But, when he continued by saying that he felt honoured, I became my usual humble-Dalai-Lama-character again...Hahaha! No, I'm not really as humble as Dalai Lama but on the other hand, I felt a bit honoured myself, for being the source of something that made him feel honoured.

Anyway, I think it was pretty cool of him to tell me that he had read my blog. - And, the fact that he felt honoured must have been good karma on my behalf, right?! =) (I really want to believe it was!)

Detestable day

What a horrible, horrible day. I could almost sense it from the moment I opened my eyes this morning. At first I tried to deny it, but seeing huge bags developing under your eyes is not really the best morning experience you can get, right...-Ok, never mind, as aunty Jessica says. But then I went to school, even though I had a sleep in, so that I could work on a French presentation with my friend. But guess what!? The damn lesson was cancelled!!! -Ok, never mind. Well, after that, I screwed up big time at a French conversation with some French guy, that is here for God knows what reason actually!? Listen to how my French SUCKS!!!??? -Ok, never mind. And last but not least, I am now completely sure of the fact that I have a virus infecting my usual superbody; leaving me snoring and tired. In short, I have bags under my eyes (which never happens to me!). I totally made a fool out of myself today in French, when the only thing I could say correctly was "Je m'appelle Alexsandra" (which is what what you learn in the first French course - I'm in the THIRD). Also, I've got a cold. And it's spring.

I'm depressed. -.- ---- I'm not sure if I should say Ok, never mind here...

The only thing good today

Material Girls

It's always funny when pretty and smart girls play stupidos

Yesterday, I watched this hilariously ridiculous movie - Material Girls, starring Hilary and Haylie Duff. Honestly, I have nothing against chick flicks - I mean, I've watched Mean Girls around 20 times by now, but this one...A serious disaster, hahaha...That's why it was so funny, because it was so "jj"!!!

For the people that thought that Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton already covered it all for the genre bimbo, think again! And the worst part is that, even though it's a story made up with exaggeration (???) and humour I believe that parts of it must be true. Recently, I read an interview with a Swedish comedian, Petra Mede and she said that, "behind every joke there's some truth". Because, otherwise we wouldn't think in those terms right? So, even though this movie was so ridiculous and as shallow as it could possible be, and even though I had some serious breathing difficulties from all the laughs last night, it's scary that what I see as an impossible joke of a girl may be a possible character in reality.

Aaaahhhh! xD

Today's Dress-for-success: pike shirt-Hush Puppies, jeans-Diesel, green bling bling watch-VOIR

Aaah! I am so happy! Yesterday, I got back my Swedish essay about the era of realism and naturalism, and...I got 4+ (out of 5)!!! The "jj" grin on my face has still not disappeared and I assume that it is going to last for a while to come. See, the new refridgerator arrived today; that means that it's hopefully going to be loaded with celebration ice-cream for this weekend! xD

Enjoying the day

When I woke up this morning I had a choice. I could either lay there and feel miserable the whole day or I could enjoy the hours I had left of freedom. I chose the last alternative and so far the day has been great. First, me and sis watched yesterday’s recorded One Three Hill and Gossip Girl (I love it when you can just skip the commercial breaks!) over breakfast. Then we went down town with the mission of eating Uppsala’s best mjukglass (soft ice-cream). We each bought the medium size and double the cost of it that was SEK 15 you will get the height of it in cm! It was so big that I had to sit down to eat it, because after a few seconds it started becoming the Leaning Tower of Pisa - and I am serious! I don’t really know what the kiosk is called but it is at Gågatan in town, just beside H&M. However, it is impossible to miss it during the spring/summer season because the length of the line…

Already being in town, we did some shopping too. I bought a gorgeous white and black dress from H&M that I didn’t snap on a picture. On the other hand I snapped one at a super-duper-cutie top in organic cotton that I found but decided not to buy, because of the price tag. I simply refused to pay SEK 200 for a H&M top that I can get half a pair of Levi’s jeans in Malaysia for! Hahaha, hilarious…I am so spoilt by the Asian prices these days…

Anyhow, dinner is calling my name. Baked potato with egg, Skageröra (Skagen mixture) and sallad…and for dessert STRAWBERRIES!!! Yummi yum yum!

Easter dinner

Stressed, stressed, stressed. Just got home from an Easter dinner at Trudel. Tired as hell, but still have at least 20 minutes of physics to do (my friend Sabina and I - yes, the one that backstabbed me with the Facebook deal - made a study deal about doing at least 20 minutes of physics every day during the Easter break. And, so far I've managed pretty well. Meaning that I haven't started on antidepressives yet -.-). However, I'm lucky that the place wasn't full of screaming children running around all over the place, like some earlier visits...This time it was only three!

Shoot, shoot, shoot. Got to hurry up solving those physics questions now, cause mum and sis are sitting and waiting for me to get ready for some Oprah...Nighty!!!

Hot pink

I’ve decided to put the record straight. People constantly ask me “Do you wear something pink every day?”, and I look at myself and realize that I actually do wear something pink every day. It is definitely not something I plan on daily basis. However, I won’t try to defend my favourite color. I mean after all it is my favourite color!

Every morning when I get up I make my choice of outfit (which is a really tough job sometimes! At several occasions I just want to be six years old again and have mum pick out white tights, a green dress with apples on it and matching socks…) and unconsciously I always manage to grab something pink. It’s like there is some kind of magic attraction that the color pink has on me, I suppose. Even some days when my friends are like “Hey, look at you. No pink today!”, and I look at myself and go like “Yeah!”. Awesome, I think until I do a double bubble check and realize that either my socks, my panties or some hair accessory is in pink…But on the other hand, I also feel relief. Because, I have come to understand that I’m a Pink Lady and that, that is who I am.

Pink things make me happy and it shows my personality. In addition, it has helped me a lot with the one question that I’ve never really been able to answer “What is your style?”. Now I can just say “Wear something with a pink touch to it, and you are ready to go!”

I'm ready to light up dull Sweden in my new hot pink trenchcoat from VILA

Putting myself first

Today I am going to be a good girl. Meeting up my little sister (she is my Godsister) Josefine at 11.00 am. (yes, that early) for a swim at Centralbadet and then talk some unimportant shit as well as, important about Mission B...So excited! I haven't had a swim in a very long time, and I haven't met my little sis in a very long time, and I know that my excuse always is the same about my struggle against time...but today I don't care. It is Easter break, and I have to do something for myself. I owe to do something to myself.

However, I don't know how many lenghts I will manage with this bloated stomach, that the breakfast caused me (I knew I shouldn't had taken oatmeal -.-), and the terrible muscle pain I have in my upper arm from the yoga session I did yesterday morning...So I guess there might be some more talking than actually training...which I don't actually mind...:P

See you later alligator!

Spring time

I'm back! And with me I have a pounding headache caused by the extraordinary UV rays that the sun for once (in a very long time) shone over Uppsala. Usually, I would complain about every "crazy" Swede that walks around in a tank top and surfing shorts like it's 25°C and the middle of June. - Like my sis said "If they look like that now, what happens when it's summer for real? Are they going to walk around in their underwear?!" However, today...I didn't. Because I believe that the summer has arrived. --- Haha, just kidding. I don't believe that summer has actually arrived, but I definitely believe that spring is here. And, that it is here to stay.

Me, myself did not cross the line of wearing hotpants and a halterneck. On the other hand, I did use a pair of my oversized shades just like all the people passing by. I always get stunned by how many hot people there are actually out there when the shades season is here. :P I don't know if it's because they are naturally hot or if it's just the dark sexy sunglasses that make them hot - but honestly I DON'T CARE! :D

My feeling towards spring...and don't worry, it's all on me :P

A piece of cake

I don't even think I've finished digested yesterdays food, and just now I had a piece of cake. Regret it? - Yes, to some extent I do. Bad food choices from my side has been continuously repeated during these past few days, since mum came home from Malaysia with all of those kaya piahs and siew pows; it didn't get better when I ate a double lunch yesterday, when I followed sis to Pub Nitton for her lunch. I actually saw it as a oppurtunity to spend some time with my godmother (she's like the manager (?) there), but I ended up having lunch with them all - and the thing was that it wasn't even good that day! -.-

Tomorrow morning, I am going to get up early and do some yoga to clean my system from all of these toxic thoughts of being an unhealthy duck. And for your information - I have no idea where duck came from :P...Oooh and the big thing...HAPPY BIRTHDAY VICKI!!! The best sister ever has finally turned 19! xD

Yummi in the tummy xD

Unfortunately, I was to caught up in my har mee, kaya piah, and siew pow to post something on Thursday. Also, I was quite eager to catch up with my dearest. Because, being able to talk with my mother one metre away from me, is far much better than talking with her halfway round the world!

Other than that, life is pretty good at the moment besides the fact that we are switching to summer time; that means I will get to sleep one hour less from now on -.- (So if I walk around looking like *pip* in an uncertain amount of time, remember that I'm still Sandra, just that I didn't have time to fix my hair properly or do my weekly facial...). Anyhow, think I am going to crash in the couch soon and read CLEO - my favourite magazine, that my mum was loving enough to remember to buy for me, all the way from Malaysia...Ciao!

Soon no longer an orphan

Mum's flight should have landed now. I can sit here and wait while speculating life, or actually do something. (Even though life speculation is kind of fun and important, I have reasons for not doing it at this moment).

So, this was two weeks as an orphan then. This was how it felt and this was how it went. Yesterday before going to sleep, I thought about is I've actually learned something by not having mum present at all; it was really difficult to come up with something but then it struck me! I've been cooking on my own for the for the first time (since Vicki refused to make my dinner, when I have to hands and genes for making fabulous food -.-) and I must say that I did pretty awesome. Stuvade makaroner (stewed macaroni) and Maggi mee (instant noodles) with an egg in it, seems like pretty easy things to do but I am sooo proud of being able to now make them myself. However, I am not that confident to invite anyone over for a dinner party with Menu á la Sandra yet...

Shit, I should really do something now. Maybe those chemistry equations that will be on the chemistry test on Monday (haven't started to study yet, hehe -.-) or maybe do some workout. Anyway, if I got some time tonight I will be back...Mohahahahahahha!

It said "SWOOOSH"!

My mother is coming home in 3 days xD. I've missed her a lot - but for goodness sake, HAS THERE ALMOST BEEN TWO WEEKS?! I have no more comments for tonight. -.-

Melon-Peach was born

I forgot to tell you about the egg-baby, Melon-Peach Abdullahizad (surname from the father if you are wondering) that my freind and I made during the biology lab earlier this week. Just by flipping a coin several times, we received almost all the characteristics of an egg-Angelina-Jolie. Brown wavy hair, square-like jaw, dark blue eyes, long eyelashes, a thick and big mouth...So, besides the bushy eyebrows, freckles, dimples and hairy ears - a TOTAL COPY! =)

See the similarities?

Today I am Superwoman

Some days are just unbelievable. After 5 phone calls, 4 text messages, a fight that got solved after I cleared my inner demons (hahaha...), a lot of history writing, a workout I can proudly say that I managed to actually do a lot of stuff on a study day --- and the day is not over yet!!! :P

Dream déjà vu

The dream hunted me again the other night. It was not exactly the same dream but I know that I deamt it for the same reason as the first one.

Mr. Cute and I are talking, while standing under a door-frame. All the sudden, we stop and just have this intense moment of exchanging looks before leaning forward for a quick and unharmful kiss. Then we look at each other and I remember feeling nothing. I shake my head and he says "no". I say that it was a mistake and after that we slowly disappear in a slowmotion scene.

All I keep telling myself is that this is the second sign to stop imaginating! It was doomed from the beginning and teh first dream indicated that pretty clearly, but obviously I'm not good at listening to things I don't want to hear. So now, I receive this second sign telling me that I have to get real. We don't suit each other at all. Looks is not what makes things work. So, I will get real...but it's just so damn hard when he's so freaking gorgeous! :P

Miss my M.

I feel so empty - already. It's like something is missing, and that is my mother. The thought of not seeing her for two weeks is just so...I don't know. Sad? I really cannot put any words on it. I have a friend that kept telling me that I will for sure manage, it's just the first couple of days that are tough (her mother has been gone 6 months so 2 weeks, what the *pip* is that!?) before giving me a big hug. Of course, I believe that I will survive without my mum for 2 weeks. I mean, gosh I am 16 going on 17 and if I can't survive without my mother I must have some kind of coco-coco thing going on in my brain! Survive is something anyone can do. It's more about feeling really safe, and have someone I can really, really trust and tell anything to.

I am so custom to having her around day in and day out, so everything she does I take for granted. So, now when she is not here my brain gets so messed up and my mood upside down. Today is Friday the 13th again, and for the first time bad luck arrived on this very day - my mum sitting on an airplane to my favourite country in the world and I am not there.

You never see what you have until it is gone.

Goodbye mum

It's so surreal that mum is leaving tomorrow. It is not only surreal, it is also unfair. I am constantly trying to be a better and humble person by not complaining so much, but the the fact that I will be stuck here in Sweden while my mum is in Malaysia eating great wood, attending Chinese weddings and enormous shopping malls is not really helping me. (And I am serious with the wedding part. Dress up and meet everyone I really don't know the names of is so much fun! :P)

I keep on thinking about all the food she gets to eat that is off limit for me; all the shoes she is going to pass by that is off limit for me; all the great movies on the flight she will be able to watch; all those mini size croissants that are handed out on the flight that taste like heaven...Yeah, everything I can't have at this moment - which sucks. What I have though is 10 packets of instant noodles (for emergencies), a parentless home (wiiihh!!! bring the party to mama :P) and...a pile of school assignments -.-

Two weeks is teh time my dear mother is going to be away from her two gorgeous daughters. Such a shame, such a bless (?). Hope she doesn't read this, hahaha...Anyhow, what the future lies before us is impossible to see so, I will just wait and see what will happen during these 2 weeks ahead of me.

rusty, rusty picture from my oldest cousin's wedding fall 2005