Wednesday 20 July 2016
Tuesday 19 July 2016
Fixed Doors
FINALLY!
You might, or more possibly not, remember the day when I published the post Broken Doors. It may sound like a movie title but no, it was for real. One door of our wardrobe fell from its hinges and has since been standing against the wall for two months!
Obviously we contacted our landlord many times but it was clear that they were not going to do anything since they had better things to do. We contacted our agent, who was the man trying to get in contact with the landlord, and he recommended two or three handymen that could come over and fix it. So we called. After two-three weeks he came over to have a look at it and said he would return once he had found some friends that could help him get it up.
We did not hear from him over a week. When John finally got a hold of him he said he could not help us.
Then it went back and forth for a while with the agent trying to get in contact with the landlord and John trying to get a handyman over. It appeared to be very difficult, which was something new for us who used to live in Sweden where handymen just came over to do their job instead of ditching in the middle of it (I am looking at you Handyman #1).
Today they came! John has been in contact with these two men for over a week and been trying to book a date and time. Strange thing is that when you call someone in this country they expect you to be available to receive you immediately. Not going to happen. John called this afternoon and managed to book seven o'clock tonight. He left work early to be able to finish dinner before they arrived.
And so, we have a functional wardrobe again. Problem was that one of the wheels was broken, low-quality stuff, and they fixed it. Now the other door makes a strange sound and the handyman said he believed it would stay put for a long while but eventually it would break to.
Now we will just wait for that to happen.
You might, or more possibly not, remember the day when I published the post Broken Doors. It may sound like a movie title but no, it was for real. One door of our wardrobe fell from its hinges and has since been standing against the wall for two months!
Obviously we contacted our landlord many times but it was clear that they were not going to do anything since they had better things to do. We contacted our agent, who was the man trying to get in contact with the landlord, and he recommended two or three handymen that could come over and fix it. So we called. After two-three weeks he came over to have a look at it and said he would return once he had found some friends that could help him get it up.
We did not hear from him over a week. When John finally got a hold of him he said he could not help us.
Then it went back and forth for a while with the agent trying to get in contact with the landlord and John trying to get a handyman over. It appeared to be very difficult, which was something new for us who used to live in Sweden where handymen just came over to do their job instead of ditching in the middle of it (I am looking at you Handyman #1).
Today they came! John has been in contact with these two men for over a week and been trying to book a date and time. Strange thing is that when you call someone in this country they expect you to be available to receive you immediately. Not going to happen. John called this afternoon and managed to book seven o'clock tonight. He left work early to be able to finish dinner before they arrived.
And so, we have a functional wardrobe again. Problem was that one of the wheels was broken, low-quality stuff, and they fixed it. Now the other door makes a strange sound and the handyman said he believed it would stay put for a long while but eventually it would break to.
Now we will just wait for that to happen.
Oh, but do you not miss seeing all those colourful clothes?
Sunday 17 July 2016
Anniversary with Tarzan
Good evening!
This weekend we almost and kind of smallish celebrated our three year anniversary. Saying that I also have to tell you there is no ring, so not the assumed anniversary. Just three years from the day we said I would like to call you my girlfriend/boyfriend.
On the day, which was the 14th, John called me from work and tried to surprise me with a diving license as a gift. Tried because he had already spoiled it a few days earlier. Never the less was I happy to receive this gift. Now we wait for John's certificate to arrive in the mail before booking a date.
I gave him a heart-shaped M&M, luckily the colour orange, his favourite.
Today we travelled to VivoCity and walked over to Sentosa Island. Having been to a very pleasant restaurant with Heidi once, Din Tai Fung, we wanted to go to the same franchise at a different location. Stepping onto Sentosa we immediately notice the touristy look of it all. Gleaming structures, big letters in your face so you know what you want, fountains and pretty trees. We came to the large square with the entrance to Universal Studios and found the restaurant on the opposite side. There was a line but since it was not too terrifyingly long we hoped for a quick table with fast delivered food... but not fast food. While I trailed of for some pictures John talked to the lady giving out table numbers. He came over to me and said that when we eventually would get a table it would be fifty minutes until the food arrived. So we left.
Walked back the same way we literally just went and slightly complained about wearing long trousers both of us. This was by choice of course since we were going to the movies in about two hours and it is always too cold in there. Before we went there we needed a new place to eat! The reason why we wanted to go back to the really good restaurant was because we both wanted those really good dumplings. John suggested a restaurant we have been to once before inside Vivo. Good price and gyoza (but not like the really good dumplings).
John ordered pork Ramen and even though he looked at the photo and hoped there was none - there were a lot of bean sprouts in there. While we waited for my terriyaki salmon he put them all in a pile on top of the egg in his soup. When my food arrived we put them on a little plate which a few seconds earlier had had three gyoza.
My food was really good. I am a sucker for terriyaki and I really like salmon. They make those really well together in this country. Of course it depends on where - the one I ate in a food court was less good than this tender fish. Apart from John's picking patience his food was good as well. We also ordered twelve gyoza apart from the three that 'disappeared'. Ate every single one of them... except for one.
Then we had half an hour until the movie started. We walked very slowly, not because of the time, but because of the overly full stomachs we carried. Got our tickets, walked upstairs, browsed movie posters and picked which ones to see and which to avoid. Ignored the spoiling trailers of Alice Through the Looking Glass and Star Trek Beyond. Entered the cinema and enjoyed the strange waiting music while loosing ourselves into our phones. (I was starting this post and John scrolled through reddit). Eventually the movie started.
Spoilers of The Legendary Tarzan!
Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård plays the more adapted and grown up Tarzan that has a lordship life in London with Jane. He then needs to go to Africa after receiving an invitation from a hat-wearing guy working for the Belgian king. He declines but a few seconds later decides to to because another man named George (Samuel L Jackson) tells him he needs to check up on a few things. The rudely dismissed man who sent the invitation finds out his guest (and the not so welcomed Jane and George) went to their old village to meet and greet some old friends instead of meeting him at his chosen location. He follows them to the village, shows his disappointment and wrecks it. Killing, capturing and then leaves.
Not to spoil the whole movie, but it follows this lead. We all know Tarzan and even though he is older, he is cleaner, he is Swedish - he is still the same old Tarzan with the gorilla-like hands, the swinging in the trees, the impressively echoing sort of war cry through the jungle and he even found his old loincloth in the end!
The idea of this movie was great, but it had too much story and very little focus. There is this tribe that wants to kill him, this man that wants to catch him, this gorilla that wants to fight him, the same gorilla that wants to defend him, these guys fighting those guys and a black sidekick that has no meaning to the adventure more than two lines that go with a close up on his serious eyes. Yes, that man really did a lot of great things, he told us so, but we never got to see any of it. Just got to believe what he tells us.
Suddenly another twist in the end. They mention a hint about it when they first arrive in Africa, but I never thought they were actually making a happy family ending to this rather tragic and victorious movie! It could have been done without it.
All in all I understand the 6.8 score on IMDb. Last word: Skarsgård, I think you need to spend some more time in your homeland, you are starting to pronounce you own last name wrong.
This weekend we almost and kind of smallish celebrated our three year anniversary. Saying that I also have to tell you there is no ring, so not the assumed anniversary. Just three years from the day we said I would like to call you my girlfriend/boyfriend.
On the day, which was the 14th, John called me from work and tried to surprise me with a diving license as a gift. Tried because he had already spoiled it a few days earlier. Never the less was I happy to receive this gift. Now we wait for John's certificate to arrive in the mail before booking a date.
I gave him a heart-shaped M&M, luckily the colour orange, his favourite.
Today we travelled to VivoCity and walked over to Sentosa Island. Having been to a very pleasant restaurant with Heidi once, Din Tai Fung, we wanted to go to the same franchise at a different location. Stepping onto Sentosa we immediately notice the touristy look of it all. Gleaming structures, big letters in your face so you know what you want, fountains and pretty trees. We came to the large square with the entrance to Universal Studios and found the restaurant on the opposite side. There was a line but since it was not too terrifyingly long we hoped for a quick table with fast delivered food... but not fast food. While I trailed of for some pictures John talked to the lady giving out table numbers. He came over to me and said that when we eventually would get a table it would be fifty minutes until the food arrived. So we left.
Walked back the same way we literally just went and slightly complained about wearing long trousers both of us. This was by choice of course since we were going to the movies in about two hours and it is always too cold in there. Before we went there we needed a new place to eat! The reason why we wanted to go back to the really good restaurant was because we both wanted those really good dumplings. John suggested a restaurant we have been to once before inside Vivo. Good price and gyoza (but not like the really good dumplings).
John ordered pork Ramen and even though he looked at the photo and hoped there was none - there were a lot of bean sprouts in there. While we waited for my terriyaki salmon he put them all in a pile on top of the egg in his soup. When my food arrived we put them on a little plate which a few seconds earlier had had three gyoza.
My food was really good. I am a sucker for terriyaki and I really like salmon. They make those really well together in this country. Of course it depends on where - the one I ate in a food court was less good than this tender fish. Apart from John's picking patience his food was good as well. We also ordered twelve gyoza apart from the three that 'disappeared'. Ate every single one of them... except for one.
Then we had half an hour until the movie started. We walked very slowly, not because of the time, but because of the overly full stomachs we carried. Got our tickets, walked upstairs, browsed movie posters and picked which ones to see and which to avoid. Ignored the spoiling trailers of Alice Through the Looking Glass and Star Trek Beyond. Entered the cinema and enjoyed the strange waiting music while loosing ourselves into our phones. (I was starting this post and John scrolled through reddit). Eventually the movie started.
Spoilers of The Legendary Tarzan!
Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård plays the more adapted and grown up Tarzan that has a lordship life in London with Jane. He then needs to go to Africa after receiving an invitation from a hat-wearing guy working for the Belgian king. He declines but a few seconds later decides to to because another man named George (Samuel L Jackson) tells him he needs to check up on a few things. The rudely dismissed man who sent the invitation finds out his guest (and the not so welcomed Jane and George) went to their old village to meet and greet some old friends instead of meeting him at his chosen location. He follows them to the village, shows his disappointment and wrecks it. Killing, capturing and then leaves.
Not to spoil the whole movie, but it follows this lead. We all know Tarzan and even though he is older, he is cleaner, he is Swedish - he is still the same old Tarzan with the gorilla-like hands, the swinging in the trees, the impressively echoing sort of war cry through the jungle and he even found his old loincloth in the end!
The idea of this movie was great, but it had too much story and very little focus. There is this tribe that wants to kill him, this man that wants to catch him, this gorilla that wants to fight him, the same gorilla that wants to defend him, these guys fighting those guys and a black sidekick that has no meaning to the adventure more than two lines that go with a close up on his serious eyes. Yes, that man really did a lot of great things, he told us so, but we never got to see any of it. Just got to believe what he tells us.
Suddenly another twist in the end. They mention a hint about it when they first arrive in Africa, but I never thought they were actually making a happy family ending to this rather tragic and victorious movie! It could have been done without it.
All in all I understand the 6.8 score on IMDb. Last word: Skarsgård, I think you need to spend some more time in your homeland, you are starting to pronounce you own last name wrong.
Simple advertisement.
I think this is art, but not sure.
Halfway pile.
Sunday 10 July 2016
Booklovers Heaven
John sent me a link a few days ago to a site where I could find books. I had heard of it before, found links to it in the description under some Booktubers videos, but never actually clicked the link. Mostly I was annoyed since I used GoodReads and really just wanted them to link the book directly to there instead of this other website.
Friday 8 July 2016
The video is uploaded and ready for You
IT IS HERE!
Well, nothing as interesting as a new photo from space but something as interesting as a glimpse inside my mind and my thoughts. Here is a link to my video!
I was scrolling through YouTube, if you can scroll through it, and what I saw was all these videos about how to put up your long vs short hair. Now I did search for this a long time ago when I first cut my hair short, since obviously I needed some advice, but they keep popping up. Every single one of them had, in my eyes, the same insanely complicated ways of doing it or ridiculously easy as in not-worth-a-video.
The video I made, Things to do with Hair, is set out to mock these videos and how to take life not so seriously. I had thoughts of taking it further with make up and what not, but it felt off topic. I wanted to keep it short as it will not do well as a longer video. I hope you will understand my message and do not take offence if you are one of those I previously mentioned. Remember - I wanted to watch them.
Well, nothing as interesting as a new photo from space but something as interesting as a glimpse inside my mind and my thoughts. Here is a link to my video!
I was scrolling through YouTube, if you can scroll through it, and what I saw was all these videos about how to put up your long vs short hair. Now I did search for this a long time ago when I first cut my hair short, since obviously I needed some advice, but they keep popping up. Every single one of them had, in my eyes, the same insanely complicated ways of doing it or ridiculously easy as in not-worth-a-video.
The video I made, Things to do with Hair, is set out to mock these videos and how to take life not so seriously. I had thoughts of taking it further with make up and what not, but it felt off topic. I wanted to keep it short as it will not do well as a longer video. I hope you will understand my message and do not take offence if you are one of those I previously mentioned. Remember - I wanted to watch them.
Thursday 7 July 2016
A whole days Work and last task stops Everything
I made a video today!
I will call it Things to do with Hair. Almost forgot lunch because I was recording. In the middle of this Ymir the cat jumps up on my back; he was after my hair and I now have a long vertical bloody line on my shoulder. After recording everything I quickly walked outside to get some dumplings for lunch. Maybe not the most filling food but it was good and easy to eat by the computer. Yes, I ate while editing. Could not do anything else, could I?
Finished the editing part and got help from John - when he came home - with the colour correction and timing of things. The video is mostly short clips put together. It is slightly over one minute long which is my goal for my channel.
In the end, though, when it was done and ready to be uploaded I still did not have any music! If you have seen some of my other videos you will understand that I do not talk much. Not any more, I used to when I was a lot younger but I like the silent treatment nowadays. So I looked for free music online and also went through a lot of YouTube's own library. This is probably the worst part of completing a video. The music is never right. You really ought to make a video around a song, instead of looking for a song to match your video. It is IMPOSSIBLE. I have been searching for over an hour... maybe more. I lost track of time.
All I know is that I do not want to listen to any more music tonight!
Good night.
Wednesday 6 July 2016
A supposedly Short but not so Short trip to a Mall
Ugh, hello. We are tired and over-socialised from being with each other for too long.
Today I woke up with a headache but after having a McDonalds home delivered lunch I felt much better and we decided to continue with the plan of going to VivoCity. Around three we left home and took the twenty minutes or so ride via MRT to HarbourFront. There were a lot of people in the mall and of course I had not considered this but should have known since Singaporeans really like shopping (mostly because of the AC).
First thing we did was to go to Team Salon and asked if they had any time soon to cut two persons. Immediately we got to take our seats. A girl not understanding much English showed me to the washing area; a relaxing room with small blue lights. They had the best chairs I have ever seen in a hair salon! Laying down comfortably, feet on a small stool and head resting easily on a small cushion inside the basin. Two times shampoo and then some hot towels under the neck and on top of the head. Then a guy started cutting my hair while John was half-way through. I showed pictures of the last time I had it cut and he was really good at making it look the same.
It was much better than I have ever had my hair cut in Sweden. At first I was a bit scared since they have other styles here in Singapore, but I am totally pleased. John had some problems and adjustments until he asked for my opinion and when I said it looked good he was happy too.
We walked around browsing stores looking for colourful shorts for us both, sunglasses and hats for me. Found none. The fashion here is not what we usually like and we can not find the right colours for us. But then again, we had the same problem in Sweden. Which countries have colourful clothes?
We passed through Best Denki and came out with a straightener for me and speakers for John. Slowly filling our home with all the technological products that one may think that they need. Although, John wants to hear what is happening on his computer and I really want my hair straight some times (and help the curls get into shape).
Giving up on shopping we went to eat at the food court. Bought some unknowingly (but later understandable) expensive food; I had sweet chicken leg and rice, John had two types of meat and rice. I really wanted dumplings but we both got pretty full from those meals and so that was not an option anymore. We then proceeded to Giant and bought some stuff that has been on our list for quite some time now.
Came home to our cat Ymir greeting us by the door. Relaxed a bit in the sofa and then heard heavy rain and thunder. That means we got lucky, since you really never know when it is going to start and you might just as well get soaked after just a few steps in the rain.
Oh, and perhaps I should tell you that it is a public holiday today called Hari Raya Puasa which is the end of Ramadan, therefor John had a day of work.
Happy Wednesday!
Today I woke up with a headache but after having a McDonalds home delivered lunch I felt much better and we decided to continue with the plan of going to VivoCity. Around three we left home and took the twenty minutes or so ride via MRT to HarbourFront. There were a lot of people in the mall and of course I had not considered this but should have known since Singaporeans really like shopping (mostly because of the AC).
First thing we did was to go to Team Salon and asked if they had any time soon to cut two persons. Immediately we got to take our seats. A girl not understanding much English showed me to the washing area; a relaxing room with small blue lights. They had the best chairs I have ever seen in a hair salon! Laying down comfortably, feet on a small stool and head resting easily on a small cushion inside the basin. Two times shampoo and then some hot towels under the neck and on top of the head. Then a guy started cutting my hair while John was half-way through. I showed pictures of the last time I had it cut and he was really good at making it look the same.
It was much better than I have ever had my hair cut in Sweden. At first I was a bit scared since they have other styles here in Singapore, but I am totally pleased. John had some problems and adjustments until he asked for my opinion and when I said it looked good he was happy too.
We walked around browsing stores looking for colourful shorts for us both, sunglasses and hats for me. Found none. The fashion here is not what we usually like and we can not find the right colours for us. But then again, we had the same problem in Sweden. Which countries have colourful clothes?
We passed through Best Denki and came out with a straightener for me and speakers for John. Slowly filling our home with all the technological products that one may think that they need. Although, John wants to hear what is happening on his computer and I really want my hair straight some times (and help the curls get into shape).
Giving up on shopping we went to eat at the food court. Bought some unknowingly (but later understandable) expensive food; I had sweet chicken leg and rice, John had two types of meat and rice. I really wanted dumplings but we both got pretty full from those meals and so that was not an option anymore. We then proceeded to Giant and bought some stuff that has been on our list for quite some time now.
Came home to our cat Ymir greeting us by the door. Relaxed a bit in the sofa and then heard heavy rain and thunder. That means we got lucky, since you really never know when it is going to start and you might just as well get soaked after just a few steps in the rain.
Oh, and perhaps I should tell you that it is a public holiday today called Hari Raya Puasa which is the end of Ramadan, therefor John had a day of work.
Happy Wednesday!
The FoodJunction food court at VivoCity is designed to look like it is outside.