Today I will tell....

I've been itching to take a trip on the double-decker high-speed train ever since I spotted it when I arrived in Stockholm. We finally did it today.   They call it, the X2000 ....         It is touted as the most energy-efficient, most environmental-friendly train in Sweden. With a top-speed of 200 km/h, it can travel from Stockholm to Gothenburg, a distance of 525km, in less than 3 hours. JB - Ipoh under 3 hours. OK lah, not as fast as France's TGV or Japan's Shinkansen. That's the best Swedes can do for now, what to do. And for that distance, the X2000 gives off CO2 emissions equal to only 3ml of petrol. If I walk from Stockholm to Gothenburg, I think I alone would've fart out more CO2 than that! Actually, the train runs fully on electricity. Wife and I are still arguing about which part of the train, emits CO2. Or who.   We read that the Swedes are the most environmental-friendly people in the world. The highest number of hybrid cars...

I went skiing and rode snow mobile over the weekend. The company sponsored our accomodation, transportion (chartered a 14-carriage train for this trip), food and drinks. We decide what activities to take part in and pay for it ourselves. It was a 3-hour journey by train on Friday from Stockholm to a town called Ånge, up north. Followed by a 1-hour bus ride to the ski resort in Vemdalen. The whole journey takes around 5 hours, incuding transit and waiting time. I was sick, sorry, ill for the past one week and so had prepared myself mentally to miss this trip. My wife couldn't join me since it is a company trip. But she did encouraged and pushed me to go and see what is it like. So I changed my mind the night before the trip and went ahead after feeling much better. Poor lady has to stay home all alone while I go enjoy myself. Turned out to be a very enjoyable trip. To think I almost missed it because of my illness, I wanted to kick myself. The management tried to squeeze in some...