Back from vacation, which has been really nice. Mostly I’ve read books (Hyperion Omnibus, by Dan Simmons - I recommend it), listened to audio books (the last bunch of the Harry Potter books, thanks Christoffer), and been working on my own pet projects. It’s been nice to have time also to get acquainted with the neighbourhood and the rest of the city.

Now I need more audiobooks to have something to listen to while I’m working!

My woes right now:

..Any conversation, no matter how depressing or gloomy, can be lightened up by finding a food twist to it.

Excerption from conversation at our house warming party last night:
“Yeah, it can’t be easy living in Indonesia. There are always plane crashes, ships sinking, natural disasters in form of earthquakes, floods or forrest fires… But hey, they have Ayan Pen Yet*, so they can’t really complain!

*Indonesian style smashed chicken in a basket.

Seeing as it took me about 15 minutes to upload the pictures to my blog, i figured there might be a better way. Here’s an iPhoto plug-in that supposedly works with Wordpress (and a bunch of other blog softwares); Photon

And here’s another one for Facebook.

Maybe I should try and take some more photos from now on!

536 Bukit Batok Street 52 #05-647
650536 Singapore

Here are some pictures from our beautiful new flat in Bukit Batok (literally “Cough Hill”), and the mandatory Google Earth file. The flat is really nice, surprisingly so even, if you consider what the rest of the house looks like. Most of it is white or black, with, I would guess, 70% of the furniture originating from Ikea. Especially the living room and one of the bathrooms are nice, and we have a nice, big bed, but there is the random act of freakishness where the guestroom, which I will use as my studio, is painted orange with some hideous closet made of wood and metal mesh doors. It’s weird as hell. Maybe we can repaint it later, if we’re nice.

Pictures after the break.

is my new phone number, so yeah, we landed and we’re ok. Not sure if I’m gonna keep the number for ever, though. Pre-paid is not my cup of tea.

To do before the 24th (in no particular order)

• Get grades from Berghs, Forsbergs translated.
• Send off the Big Pile of Papers to the accountant
• Figure out what to do with my Swedish company in the mean time
• Solve the cat issue
• Solve the webserver issue
• Send papers to Skatteverket
• Decide about vacation before we go.
• Cancel lots of subscriptions (cabel tv, phone, internet)

To be continued…

“We are pleased to inform you that the proposed company name – Edlund Pte. Ltd. has been approved by ACRA.”

So there you have it, folks. Now I’m gonna get back to reading my book.

I blew it. This is what happened. I was going to head up on the highway, and as I turn on to the on-ramp, there’s a truck that has been standing on the side of the road with its warning lights on, that decides to go up on the highway before me. Problem is, trucks don’t accellerate very fast, and I end up coming on to the highway doing 55 instead of 110. I get into the right lane, look back briefly to see if there are cars behind me or if I can get into the left lane to pass the truck, when the truck suddenly comes into my lane without warning. I see it in the corner of my eye, but the examinator (curse that woman) doesn’t think I do, grabs the wheel and turns the car into the left lane. And since she intervenes I automatically fail. Fuck. Now the question is whether I’ll be able to get a license before I head off to Singapore, or if I have to redo the whole thing from scratch in a year. Fuck.

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