Mikael's 30th

Last night we went on a cruise on a private yacht to celebrate Mikael now being old. Or should I say slightly more mature? (Certainly not the latter I hope!) Any reason for celebration is a good reason to celebrate so 12 of us headed out in this from Keppel Marina at sunset to enjoy the clear waters and brisk winds of the Singapore Ocean (anything from "clear" was a lie").

Michael's 30th

I can only say the night was a complete success, apart from the slight sidestep of the mains being left on land... After returning to the marina, thirsty as we were, we quickly found our way to Privé, 30sec walk, for champagne and more good chats under the palms.

the worst thing that could happen?

Really worthwhile watching:

a great

This is the most important thing of today: Story of Stuff

Now, when that stuff is done, I had such a great Saturday! Waking up, going to the pool with my breakfast (mmm, blueberry milkshake!) heading down to town, shopping for climbing pants. Now that my knee is almost healed I thought I needed new pants since the old ones actually gives me trouble moving sometimes. Continued some shopping (boring) then headed off to my old place at to pick up some mail that still comes there. Managed to see a bike accident :( but the guy was ok. Looked scary tho.
Stopped at Suntec City and took some photos of "the Gateway"

From Singapore mix

and one of Suntec's towers

From Singapore mix

That killer sky was really not something you play with! doomsday dark...
Continued to an exhibition at SAM , 8Q. After that time for dinner with a Couchsurfer then home for a quiet night. Needed after Friday night's bash at Swisshotel Merchant Court, Hooters and China1.

Time for hiking now.

Some pictures from my recent Dubai trip are found below. These are only from the CouchSurf meeting, and I may upload some more if I deem them to be of public interest. (Mostly lit arches in sand colours...)

Dubai CS

Work in Dubai was a real drag, incredibly boring and non-constructive. It also costed our client shitloads of money, cash that I'd much rather have kept for myself! Anyway, we got out and about a bit and saw some nice parts of Dubai which is a very strange fairy land city. Everything is just surface, but still nice in some odd way. One night we saw U2 playing live at the Irish Village for example! Ok ok, it was a cover band named U-zoo or something, but pretty nice anyway :) And the irish village is basically some Irish shop front panels pasted on the side of a Tennis stadium. But it works, people are happy and we had a good time. (Oh, those pics I should really try to upload! Later maybe)

Back in Singapore I saw my doctor today about the knee. Good news is that I don't have to see him again, bad news is only that I can't do any "vigorous activities" for a few weeks. Guess those include climbing and dancing, among others...

Having a french CouchSurfer coming tomorrow, so off to bed now to be at least partly presentable tomorrow.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Today. At 11.23. MRI - Magnetic Resonce Imaging. On Monday night I started feeling something was wrong in my right knee, pain got worse on Tuesday and really bad on Tuesday night. So I visited a doctor today who sent me straight to an orthopaedic specialist at a private hospital. He was suspecting a crunched meniscal :(
Luckily, that was not the case, but a ligament is partly torn off and I can't walk properly. No need for operation, but need for ridiculously expensive drugs. How about $2.95 for one pill of a special anti inflammatory medicine (2 a day, one week...)? Plus $85 for pro-cartilage sachets (one month)... Plus the $500+ for MRI and xray :(
Thanks for insurance I say!

Now for something nicer:

Kroppsvärme räcker i nya energisnåla hus

There cannot be enough voices calling to end the insanity going on in the world, from now on I'll try to build up a list of interesting architecture, construction, methods of saving energy, sustainable living and all that comes with it. Lighting included.

Kroppsvärme räcker i nya energisnåla hus

First out, "Body heat enough in new energy efficient houses", as stated by one of Sweden's leading news papers.

the idea book and other things

The last six weeks I've been visited four countries, flown through seven airports, worked, laughed, relaxed, shooting photos, and met loads of people. Perhaps a bit too much done actually, I got sick half way... Now I'm back on track though and have started going through the photos. First out is part one of the Kuching photos:

Kuching, part 1

Now, last weekend was spent in Koh Samui and Koh Tao off Thailands south eastern coast, very nice indeed. Some photos from that trip will come too. Before that Kuching with Micke (I'll link to his photos later), Mumbai for work (ouch, hard one...) and Sweden for Grandma's funeral.

One interesting thing that happened on Friday is that Fredrik Härén released his book The Idea Book. He's a great speaker and source of inspiration, but the best part is he just moved to Singapore so now we can catch up with him as often as we want, kinda.. ! Think I'll study this one a bit and try to carry it around a bit. Perhaps I should even dig up that MoD file I have somewhere back in Sweden for interesting exercises...

Himami Fast Relief

I noticed an article on this ad last week when I was in Mumbai, think it's pretty cool. It works on me, I'd by their ointment!



On the way to Mumbai we were lucky enough to try SQ's new business class, I never thought I would think an airplane seat is too big, but this is close to... Dagens I-landsproblem as we say in swedish :P

musicotherapie

This is by far the funniest thing i have seen this week!
Big creds to the makers

Reasons to be a kid again

-so you can be stuffed into i giant balloony ball and rumble around on a pond!! :D
Looks absolutely hilariously funny.... I wish i... ;-)