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…

Spent the weekend at the summerhouse. Now counting 16 mosquito bites. On the right foot only. Also to blame is Holland.

Ave has more pictures

“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.