Modern Life is Rubbish

Poor chinese... Their everlasting huger for more money results in poisoning of the nations future.

The latest is that of my favourite chinese candy "White Rabbit" has been banned after findings of the cemical melamin.
A news link
I hope none of you who decided to try it here in Stavanger took any damage...



So far 6,244 children have become ill from the cemical melamin after drinking milk made of milk poweder. Four have died. The tainted milk powder has been isolated to the Sanlu Group, which is Chinas biggest maker of the product.

Today my girlfriend went offshore again... This might be for the last time as she is going back to a landbased project. Good :-)
When she comes home we will go to Japan on vacation!




Here in Stavanger it is getting colder.. even though there is very little rain compared to normal I can`t do anything like this anymore.



I must say that this summer has been excellent! Ive never swam as much as Ive done this summer. I love it.

But during winter I can stay inside and make excellent food.
Like Baozi, aka kung fu panda training meal:



Or sushi(sorry, cant wait until I go to Japan!)



But I long for coffee breaks in the mountain



and

Relaxing summers at the cabin...

Buhuu! For the second time in two years the peoples university, Folkeuniversitetet in norwegian, has robbed me from the chanse of learning mandarin...



Last year it was because I was the only one listed and they needed 5. Why don't they advertice?? It should be at least 5 people in the city who want to learn the language.

This year everything was going as planned until one day in advance. But then a email: Sorry, we are postponing it one week.

OK; fair enough cause I've heard through another guy that they had enough people this time.

Yesterday I got a phone; "Hi! I'm sorry but the Chinese teacher told us yesterday that he can only hold the course on mondays, not tuesdays as planned, hope it is ok with you :-D"

Finally half a year of planning to get that stupid tuesday free in order to attend a stupid language course, it is moved to the day I can't, the day I could have, but after rearranging my schedule can't anymore.

Thanks, Xie Xiè, from now on I'll do it myself.

Say, that sounds like a good movie!

My girlfriend went offshore for two weeks yesterday and I'm home alone. Buhuu!



She went to the oil platform Frigg to work as an HSE Inspector. Two weeks on, four weeks off.

They are deconstructing the platform so there is now very little left of it. They have to sleep in a floating hotel that is connected to the platform with a bridge. Two weeks ago it broke due to bad weather, people on "the wrong side" had to stay there for a very long time... no life boat, no bed, no survival suit.... had to suck...



Well, here in Stavanger I have lots to do. Our matial arts center is being re-newed and the Karate club and the Taekwondo club do all the work together. A lot of hard work, but alot of fun.

I really look forward to training facility with a ventilation system that work...

Happy birthday Ragge! Thanks! :-D

Went to The Sola Beach yesterday to celebrate my birthday. What is better than bbq'ing, swimming and getting a tan at the same time? Very very nice. 22 degrees in the water, can't get any higher because the north sea is washing in all the time.

Also I had to bake a cake for my colleagues. Should have done it yesterday, but I forgot. Anyway; those who wait for something good.... and so on.

Graduated for blue belt june 12th.
Had to perform board breaking for the first time.



Sad thing was that one of the guys I normally train with failed to graduate and has to stay one more semester in the advanced 1 class :-(



I'll start in the advanced 2 class; a bit tougher, but then I'll get in better shape :-)

Hi! I got lost, but now I'm back.

Lots of things have happened since I last posted something here.

You might now think "omg! what has happened? Tell me please!"

Sorry, nothing like that has happened.

Well, I'll start off easy.

Last weekend I was in Haugesund. My friend Thomboy and me got together saturday. Since the weather was so nice we decided to go down to the shore and drink beer.



Everybody else were busy, except Erik! Yey!



So three youg lads went down to the shore and found an island that had become accessable due to the low tide.

We stayed there for a while, but Erik and Thomas got too afraid of not reaching back to work on monday if the high tide came, so we went to the "safe side". Phu! That was close.



We got abit tired of all the beer, but Thomas said: tam tam TAM! Espresso here we come!



Nothing like beer, coffee and nature



Eventually there came to many sheep and we were forced to go home.



Very nice weekend!

Me and seven friends from Haugesund went for a five day vacation to London, GB, to relax and have fun. Here is a couple of pictures from the trip.


Inside the living room of the 100 m^2 apartment in Charles street. Everyone except me and Glenn.


Me, a fireplace and a bird


Thomas and Asbjørn on an escalator in a tube station.


A mummy statue at the British museum.


Chair Man Mao(1971) (hihi!) The window of a cartoon museum.


Cold and rainy in Bristol. Me and Thomas took the train for 2 hours to see a football match.


Me and Thomas finally find a place to rest and get dry. They had no food, but luckily they had beer and some pretzels :-P


Bristol City vs Norwich City!


Thomas under a very nice roof at the stadium


Thomas before we knew that we would have to run for 25 minutes to catch the train back to london by minus one minute. Haven`t been so tired in many years as we were when we finally got on the train without knowing if it was the right one...


Sunday morning, and it seems like I`m all alone:-) Nice and quiet.


Big ben and the houses of parliament!


..and me :-D


Tower Bridge


Beefeaters at the Tower of London


Lunch! Miso Ramen at a small resturant in Japan Town.


Mmmm!


Speakers Corner!


St. Pauls


Buckingham Palace


Green Park!


A squirrel eating in Green Park.



I got home that sunday at 23.45. Get a message from Thomas, who left London at 06.45, around 00.10, they've just landed. They had an ariport train break down and missed their plane and had to pay a lot of money to get home and it took as you can imagine 12 hours longer than expected... poor guys!!

Anyway it was an excellent trip and, I think everyone is looking forward to next years return.