[Self] Sweden 09!

Stockholm: Roasted Elk




Stockholm: IconMediaLab memories!









Stockholm: Pizza place - very good stuff. By 2nd Generation Italians staying in Sweden.











Stockholm: Girl making ... Viking Bread










Gothenburg: One of the streets near Central St.















Gothenburg: Fall and crunchy autumn leaves ... wonderful!

Gothenburg: I think this was some city hall place, I forgot. Too little time due to issues at work to really unwind there.

Stockholm: Love that ancient Nordic design feeling!








Stockholm: Met some famous Swedish actor dude .... Tomas Norstrom.

Stockholm: Yeah the Swedes used to fight in wars too! There goes that image of super peaceful and tolerant people!






























Stockholm: Ice hockey - physical and tough sport





Been talking about it forever, and finally a chance for me to go to Sweden came along.

Gothenburg was cool, but lots of work at night admist seminars at day. Nice city and very windy. Seminar was really worth it the horizons of telco was expanded, and howthe technology we have beyond telco was really interesting!

Gothenburg: Fish Church

Gothenburg: Dinner with the worldwide colleagues

Gothenburg: Very nice skies, very nice port area.

Then 3 days later, I took an overnight bus to Stockholm, and wow it is a very beautiful place with lots of history. I always thought of Sweden as a place of vikings, and then fast forward we have the people who created Volvo, Ikea, Electrolux and Ericsson [great place to work in BTW ;)] ... but in reality the history in Sweden is more complex and more tied to European history than I ever thought.

Stockholm: One of the King Gustavs, and his war horse

Stockholm: Random chat with a hot dog vendor, who came from Iraq just 17 months ago; and his brother did vetenarian studies in Malaysia and is now in Canada.

In Stockholm, bunked in with Mattias and family, and it was really good to catch up again. And also see the typical Swedish family lifestyle instead of being couped up in a hotel. Matty has the cutest kids.

Stockholm: Swedish hotdogs @ the ice hockey stadium, cool!

Stockholm: With Matty, post game (his team SKK lost though).

Cool stuff most definitely in Sweden, but had to skip Birka the Viking Village as they are closed in fall and winter; just like how my underground sewer trip in Gothenburg was canceled for the same reasons.

Ah well! It just means I have to come back to this cool place in summer!!!

[Self] Miami #3

Maybe it was Dwayne Wade's Miami Heat jersey my brother got for me (dumb kid still owes me a T300), or maybe my right knee tendon decided to behave a bit more today, but had flashes of dexterity and forced layups during the better (ahem ... younger) days. Felt good and the knee managed to last longer with less pain today.

Managed to win 4/7 games today - for the 3 games lost, two were close calls but the last game was quite disgraceful lost in clean sweep 7-0. Probably a bit of "old uncle" syndrom there....