30 enero 2007

You know that you've been in Sweden too long when....

1. You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you can keep to take to the shop and which ones can be sacrificed for rubbish.

2. The first thing you do upon entering a bank/post office/chemist etc. is to look for the queue number machine.

3. You accept that you will have to queue to take a queue number.<

4. When a stranger on the street smiles at you, you assume
a: he is drunk
b: he is insane

5. Silence is fun.

6. The reason you take the ferry to Finland is:
a: duty free vodka
b: duty free beer
c: to party hearty...no need to get off the boat in Helsinki, just turn around and do it again on the way back to Sweden.

7. A sharp intake of breath has become part of your vocabulary, as has the
sound ”Jah hahh”

8. Your idea of unforgivable behaviour now includes walking across the street when the light is red and there is no WALK symbol, even though there are no cars in sight.

9. Your bad mood becomes your good mood.

10. Sundays no longer seem dull with all the shops closed, and begin to feel restful instead.

11. "No comment" becomes a conversation strategy.

12. You have only two facial expressions – smiling or blank. Also your arms are just hanging down when you chat with other people.

13. Your old habit of being "fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.

14. Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay

15. You hear loud-talking passengers on the train. You immediately assume
a: they are drunk
b: they are Finnish
c: they are Spanish
d: all of the above

16. You no longer see any problem wearing white socks with sandals.

17. Indoors you wear sandals with socks, regardless of the season.

18. You accept that 80 degrees C in a sauna is chilly, but 20 degrees C outside is freaking hot.

19. An outside temperature of 5 degrees C is mild.

20. It no longer seems excessive to spend 1,000kr on alcohol in a single night

21. You think that riding a bicycle in the snow is a perfectly sensible thing to do.

22. You have conversations with people outside when it is –10C.

23. Someone calls you ”good moron” first thing in the morning and you smile acknowledgement.

24.It's acceptable to eat lunch at 11.00.

25. You associate Friday afternoon with a trip to systembolaget.

26. You think it's more fun to stay at home and drink then go out.

27. You get extremely annoyed when the bus is two minutes late.

28. When a stranger asks you a question in the streets, you think it's normal to just keep walking, saying nothing.

29. You lose any artistic talent whatsoever.

30. You think that if you smoke a joint you will wind up in an insane asylum.

32. You have an uncontrollable urge to mail this list and point out the numbering is incorrect!

33. You assume that anyone who apologises after bumping into you is a tourist.

34. Paying $6 for a cup of coffee seems reasonable.

35. You start to think that having a sauna in the nude with a bunch of strangers is a necessary part of daily life ... and a necessary part of business.

36. You start to differentiate between types of snow.

37. You get offended if, at a dinner party, someone fails to look you in the eyes after raising their glass for a toast

38. Seeing a young woman with lit candles stuck to her head no longer disturbs you.

39. "Candles" are a permanent fixture on your weekly shopping list.

40. You manage to convince yourself that you really enjoy eating potatoes, tuna, pasta and sausages and it's not just because that's all you can afford to eat here.

41. You accept you must walk 2 kilometres to collect your book/tape from the Post Office, because they don't deliver small packages (or large ones)

42. You accept that you will never again wear your beautiful stiletto heels because
a: there's snow everywhere and even if you did then,
b: you still have to take them off at the door which instantly ruins the hitherto glamorous line of whatever you were wearing as you drop, 10cm, onto your flat feet in your short and sexy little black dress. Not the same effect at all.

43. When offered a bottle of beer the first thing you look at is the alcoholic percentage.

44. You use the alcohol percentage-per-kroner standard for measuring the quality of beer and wine.

45. You think it is normal EVERYTHING is regulated and you obey the rules voluntarily.

46. When someone asks you for "sex" you assume they mean half-a-dozen.

47. You will squeeze past somebody rather than say excuse me.

48.Drinking spirits can only be accompanied by formal singing from song sheets and vice versa.

49. You don't get disgusted by the little balls of discarded snus (chewing tobacco) at your feet at every bus stop.

50. You don't even get disgusted by seeing people spit, constantly.

51. You start talking to yourself in Swedish.

52. You take your shoes off when entering a house while visiting your family back home.

53. You can't throw a plastic bottle away with out having a guilty conscience.

54. You find yourself wobbling home from the pub on your bicycle.

55. You hide 5 or 6 bottles of spirits in your suitcase, one or two in your backpack, and put just one in the duty free shopping bag.

56. Trousers/pants tucked into all shoes, including low-top sneakers, seem like reasonable fashion sense.

57. You don’t think twice about calling someone in the next room using your mobile phone.

58. It's normal for a post office to be located inside the local ICA store, where no one can help you.

59 A 25 % sales tax on just about everything is no big deal.

60. You refer to weeks by their number.

61. If you meet someone you haven't seen in ages you just stay right where you are chatting away even if that happens to be in the doorway of a very busy department store.

62. You think the songs played at "The Eurovision song contest" are instant hits.

63. You don't find it strange that they add tax on top of the taxes.

64. You are concerned when the picture on the front page of the paper is not of some completely random person watering their garden or of a child holding an animal.

65. You stop thinking you're being yelled at every time you hear "Hey!"

66. You no longer look for toilets marked specifically male or female.

67. You accept that fruit juice is always made from concentrate.

68. The most interesting report on the news is the weather.

69. You find yourself eating bay-con for breakfast and talking about Bill Clin-ton and taking a trip to Lon-don.

70. Swedes saying Va' to you is still annoying (even after ten years), not to mention that there is no real word for please, or?

71. You think that reading this list is one of the most exciting things you have done for ages.

72. You only leave the country to stockpile cheap alcohol.

73. All of your conversations resemble a chess game, with each participant quietly and patiently awaiting the other to finish their turn.<

74 Even the 140kg amateur body-builder uses the handicapped door-opener instead of "straining" himself and you think nothing of it. In fact, you do it yourself.

75. A seven-year-old with his own mobile phone seems perfectly sensible.

76. You no longer eat yoghurt, you drink it.

77. Three for the price of two is the deal of a lifetime, regardless of what it is. Even 3 for the price of 2 1/2 surprises you.

78. You use a coupon to save 5 kronor on something that costs over 100 kronor.

79. Your wallet contains more plastic than a Hollywood superstar.

80. At Easter, pre-adolescent boys dressing up as old women isn't a sign of a developing psychosis, it's just part of the festivities (although it may explain a few things down the line)

81. Drinking is the fundamental pillar of your social network, be it coffee or alcohol.

82. You aimlessly chat using SMS.

83. A “big strong one” is a beer.

84. When someone says "Cheers" you look at everyone in turn before drinking.

85. You stop converting Swedish crowns into your native currency.

86. It seems sensible that you need to be at least 25 to buy a bottle of red wine.

87. The only thing in your quick memory is “Hej” and “Hej Hej”

88. You think Sweden is big (because you always compare it to Finland, Norway or Iceland)

89. You think is perfectly normal that nobody talks on the bus, train or tunnelbana (or even in the lifter)

90. You accept that people talk to you only when they are really drunk.

91. You accept that the best answer for a question is always "Jag vet inte" meaning "I don't know".

92. Pronouncing Euro as “Evro” makes sense.

93. You think it's acceptable that builders start banging and hammering at 5.30am

94. You are horrified if you see anyone drinking wine with their lunch.

95. You haven't been to the pub on a Monday for five years.

96. You start thinking about the weekend on Wednesday morning.

97. Bouncing without any rythm is what you call to dance.

98.YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LIVE ANYWHERE BUT IN SWEDEN

Sorry, Swedes!!! No offense, but it's fucking true!!!

Extracted (and resumed) from
http://www.coolabah.com/sweden/youknow.html
(this Australian guys are pretty weird also)

23 enero 2007

Snow!!

Today has been snowing all day long, and thus when I've finished my lectures I've been to the forest behind my place, to take a few pictures. Some observations and conclusions:
-My boots are waterproof. That's good to know.
-To walk in virgin snow is cool,... until you step in virgin snow over a block of ice. That's not cool.
-I love my camera. I don't know how I've survived all this time without it. My parents are great.
-Autoshooter should be in the list of Men Best Inventions, with the wheel and the beer.
-Sunsets here last a lot.
-I saw a girl with a coat longer than his skirt. And the coat was no long at all. Wasn't she cold?
-If any other joins me, and thursday we have still snow, it would be a good idea to go to do some jackass with a slide.










Hoy ha estado nevando todo el día, y cuando he acabado las clases me he ido a hacer unas fotillos al bosque que hay detrás de mi casa. Algunas observaciones y conclusiones:
-Mis botas son impermeables. Es bueno saberlo.
-Mola andar sobre la nieve virgen,... hasta que pisas nieve virgen formada sobre una placa de hielo. Eso ya no mola.
-Me encanta mi camara. No sé como he sobrevivido todo este tiempo sin ella. Mis padres son geniales.
-El disparador automático debería estar en la lista de los Mejores Inventos de la Humanidad, junto con la rueda y la cerveza.
-Las puestas de sol aquí son larguísimas.
-He visto a una chica con el abrigo más largo que la falda. Y el abrigo no era largo. No tienen frío o que?
-Si alguien más se apunta, y el jueves aún hay nueve, estaría bien hacer un poco el jackass con un trineo.

21 enero 2007

Back in Göteborg

I'm finally back in Göteborg... Do you wonder what I have been doing these days back home? Well, as they say, an image is better than 1000 words...

Ya estoy de vuelta en Göteborg... Os preguntáis qué he hecho estos días en casa? Bueno, como dicen, una imagen vale más que mil palabras...



Enjoying nature / Disfrutando de la naturaleza




Learning capoeira / Aprendiendo capoeira




Sunbathing / Tomando el sol




Doing paintball / Haciendo paintball



Partying with my brothers and my friends / Saliendo de fiesta con mis hermanos y mis amigos



And... well I still heterosexual, believe it or no / I... bueno, a pesar de todo, sigo siendo heterosexual.

08 enero 2007

World Tour

There are some moments when you feel that you are not where you were supposed to be. Sometimes you feel like you haven't been succesful, that you haven't achieved all that you were supposed. In that kind of moments, it is good to look back and see what you have done, what you have really achieved.
With this idea in mind I started the album 'World Tour'. The point was to build an album with a picture in each place I have been... well the first problem is that I have no pictures in all the places I have been, but... the other problem is that sometimes there are many pictures representatives of one single place, and is difficult to choose.



Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy watching my album as much as I did making it. Perhaps I haven't finish my degree and I still live with my parents, but... Goddammit, I have live a lot and I have been in quite a lot of places!!ç
And for 2007?? Well, for sure Kiruna (Lapland) and Stokholm. Then I have plans to go to Malta, Poland, Romania, Norway, Germany... but all depend on the fucking money... we'll see...

You can click here or in the image in the sidebar to go to my album.


Hay momentos en tu vida cuando siente que no estás donde deberías estar. Veces que sientes que no has sido suficientemente exitoso, que no has conseguido todo lo que deberías. En esos momentos, es bueno mirar atrás y ver lo que has hecho, lo que de verdad has conseguido.
Con esa idea en mente empecé el álbum 'World Tour'. El objetivo era hacer un álbum con una foto en casa sitio que he estado... el primer problema es que no tengo fotos en todos los sitios en los que he estado, y el otro problema es que a veces hay muchas imágenes representativas de un sólo sitio, y es difícil elegir.



De todas formas, espero que disfruteis tanto viendo mi álbum como he disfrutado yo haciéndolo. Cagüento, puede que no haya acabado la carrera y siga viviendo con mis padres, pero he vivido un huevo y he estado en muchos sitios!!!
Para 2007?? Seguro, a Kiruna (Laponia) y Estocolmo. También tengo planes para Malta, Polonia, Rumania, Noruega, Alemania,... pero todo depende del puto dinero... ya veremos...

Podeis hacer clic aqui o en la imagen de la barra lateral para ir a mi album.