Hunnie in Stockholm

February 16, 2008

After celibating for more than 2 months, my wife arrives in Stockholm to bring me out of monkhood. Now she can starts to experience the things I described to her all this while. We can now explore Sweden together. I've not been going into museums, galleries, and other places that require entrance fee to avoid paying twice. Now that she's here, I can now finally pretend to appreciate art, see the much-talked about garments (or lack thereof) of viking women and other artefacts from centuries ago, and see the advancement of Volvo from producing ball-bearings in its beginning, to making one of the world's safest and toughest car today, or how Alfred Nobel goes from creating dynamite, to helping Sweden to be one of the world's major manufacturer of weapons used in conflicts all over the world while proclaiming to be neutral in every major world wars. He may be gone, but his companies are still producing armaments while his foundation continues to award Nobel Peace Prize every year.

My wife just arrived at Arlanda Airport from KL with her luggages.

She brought me Chinese New Year goodies! Apparently, my mum-in-law wanted her to bring more stuff for me, but my wife, as usual, refused. To her, the word "more" and "food" cannot be in the same sentence. So I will have to ration these. Nevetheless, thanks my dear :)

Now that she's finally travelled 10,000km to exotic Europe Scandinavia, what's the first thing she wants to do?..... See what they sell in supermarket here. Err...o..k...

Everywhere she goes, must have supply of chilly. So I showed her where we can get the biggest, meanest chillies.

Customary shot at Stockholm Central Station. Whoever comes visit us must leave with similar shots.

Come all the way here and I still cannot have her full attention. Still thinks about her dog. See how excited she is when she sees someone walking a dog.

We don't know where the local temple is. So this will do, for now. Praying for safety, prosperity, happiness, health, and fun living here.

Good friends hanging out.

Enjoying local "delicacies". Just a hotdog lah. You have no idea what it took me to persuade her to agree to let us eat something like this. Back home, it's an immediate and unhesitating "NO". I bullshit something about the shiokness of eating a hot hotdog in cold weather. Turns out, it really is shiok.

Admiring public art.

She's ermm.....very happy to be here, I guess.

My wife is amazed with something like this here. I told her, people here talk about "sex" all the time. Men, women, aunties, uncles, teenagers, toddlers, it's normal.