Parliament, St Patricks Cathedral

So one thing about some people from Melbourne is to sound as neeegative as possible!
We went to the parliament, trying to get in but this woman at the door tells us that it's only open for public at fridays.. she also told us that we could go to the gallery, which we were interested in. But then she's like "but yeah, its just a very smaall room.. and very crowded.. you'll probably not see anything or hear anything so..." Amanda's like "oh, so youre basicly telling us it's not good or..?"
Woman says "ooooh no no no, it's not what im saying im just saying that it's very small..." Yeah righttt!
hahaha














weird thought

I realized something. I have only been in Sweden for 3 weeks since august last year, which is 11 months ago. If I come back to Sweden, let's say, march next year, I've been in Sweden for 3 weeks in 1,5 year. That's a weeeeird thought! And that also means that I haven't met my parents more than 3 weeks since and my sister and closest friends even less than that!


fogy melbs



 
I love how we can watch Melbournes weather forecast from our window all the time...
Yesterday was weird though... sooo fogy, but still no fog up here on the 32nd floor, it felt like
we were above the clouds or something.. so cool.


time to make up decisions in life


waaah.....

midsummer party!


Amanda and I


my blondie crew.. Sonch, Amanda, Maria, Jo, me


Sonja's acting like a maypole and Oscar's dancing around her.... me,tobias, robin and joshua
ready to jump in just a few seconds after...funniest thing ever..









gorgeous Maria! <3



Joshua and Sonch




A few pics from our midsummer celebration at our place last night! I made a proper midsummer buffet so everyone got to try swedish meatballs and pickeled herring among other things. We all were supposed to go to a place called La Di Da after but they refused to let us in since we had two guys with us..some places are so strict! So instead we went to CQ on queensstreet. CQ is actually massive! And it was fun, two dancefloors here as well!

Me, Sonch, Amanda and Adrian were walking over Southbank on our way back home in the middle of the night and suddenly we saw a huuuge fight going on. Like 20 people fighting, hitting eachother with beerbottles and stuff.. it was crazy and we just stood there on the side watching.. then the police came and peppersprayed the whole area and I got pepperspray in my eyes and in my mouth by accident...OH MY GOOD it hurt so bad, i was just screaming "my eyessss!!!" out loud and at the same time we were laughing so hard cause i was so miserable. The police didn't have time to help me either while i was panicing..even though it was like 20 of them..(freaking australians always to many at work and still they don't do anything...haha). Few minutes before that we all had to say goodbye to Ingo that left Australia this morning...wanted to cry my eyes out! So miserable.


midsummer celebration















Me and Oscar went to the Swedish church in Toorak for the ultimate midsummer feeling on sat!
So cozy, it actually felt like we were in Sweden for a while, except from the cold weather but anyway.. swedes all over the place, dancing around the maypole. Haha, was fun to watch! Must have been fun to watch for all the australians that were there too.. But seriously, how weird is our swedish tradition? for us swedes its so obvious but like if people asks us why we are dancing around a freaking thing called maypole... Well...the maypole is actually a symbol for a huge dick that is fertilizing the earth and then we dance around this thing like frogs. We also sing about a fox that runs across the ice.. and its also something about three musicians that are playing the violin... HAHA can't even explain it. I give up!


Kitten Club + Fashion Lounge



Friday night. Finally met up with Matt who I met in Byron Bay for a couple of months ago!
Went on an event at Kitten Club on Lt Collins with a bunch of people from his work, IBM! Sonja and Amanda came down and we all went to a place on Flinders lane called Fashion Lounge! Definetly a place to recomend,
soo gooooood! Two dancefloors, one with RnB and one with house!

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Met up with my Maria this morning for breakfast at Riva, planing our midsummer
celebration on saturday. After that we went around Bourkestreet/Swanstonstreet/Flinders for some shopping before she went to work! Found such a nice vintagestore I've never seen before at Flinders lane, called Retro star. Similar to Beyond retro in Stockholm. Fell in love with everything in there!


Met up with Adrian for lunch, and after a while Oscar and Sonja came down too! Great day!

Swedish Church


Oscar told us about this Swedish church in Melbourne that sells swedish food and stuff, so me and Sonja
felt that we had to check this place out! Funny thing too that we have a swedish church here! It was such a cozy place! Swedish people everywhere, swedish decoration, swedish foooood and the whole house smelled like cinnamon buns!! Felt like I was at home for a while, haha. Just sat around, eating buns and drinking coffee. It felt like I got my Swedish dose now though, and I also realized that I don't miss Sweden as much as a thought!


The swedish church in Melbourne is located on 21 St Georges Rd, Toorak.


De hade jordgubbskram, kan ni forsta!









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My siss asked me about my accent, is it australian? No, I don't have the australian accent. For some reasons it's easier to pick up the canadian accent since I've been living together with Amanda for a couple of weeks...haha...and no, it's not the valley accent either (like how they are speaking in the hills, thanks god!) 
People always ask me where I'm from. Happens at least once a day, doesn't matter where I go.

"Where are you from?"
"Well.. guess!" (funnier to ask them to guess cause they are always wrong!)
"Hmm your accent sounds weird, like, Canada?"
"Well actually I'm from Sweden..but I have this weird canadian accent since I've been lving together with a canadian"
"WOOW, did NOT see that coming.. youre like.."
"well yeah, im half philippino as well..."
"that's the strangest mix I've ever heard of!"

Haha, seriously, everyone say the exact same thing.








The girls both have day off so we have a few plans for today! Going to a mall called Chadstone, supposed to be huge! Maybe visit Ingo at Riva for the last time too. And then me and Sonch probably are going to a swedish church in Toorak where you can get swedish food and stuff! It's for our midsummer celebration this weekend! Man, longing for that!


14.30






Spend whole morning cleaning the apartment and sorting stuff out! Stress relief! Sonch and Amanda will be back from work any second! Waaah I love my girls! I can not imagine myself living without them! And with Khine as well. Can't be much better at all! These girls are probably the strongest persons I know! Always there for eachother no matter what and were having so much fuuuun! Love life.

todays weather forecast in Melbs






5 minutes later it looks like this..



What. The. F***?

MAJA OCH EG

Feel kinda nostalgic at the moment. Maja texed me and reminded me of the fact that she's going back to Sweden in 10 days. Time flies like c r a z y. Everything we worked for, when we went to Bergen in Norway to work our asses off for mooonths. Planing the whole trip. Travel around Thailand and on the east coast of Australia and here we are, 6 months later. Happy we at least did like 2 months of traveling together, had a freaking great time! Will never ever forget!

I miss you babe! I truly do.



Ton Sai, Thailand


Going to Phi Phi Islands, Thailand



Ton Sai, Thailand

Ton Sai, Thailand

Bangkok


Four Wings, Bangkok


familyvisit + oscartime










south melbourne



heading to south melbourne for a while, visit amanda at work and stuff. South Melbourne is a pretty relaxed neighbourhood with lots of small stores, cafees... it's only 5 min walk from our house!
quite bored at the moment! feels like we are living in a non-excisting reality, just waiting for us to leave and go to Bali. All of us feel ready to leave. It's too cold here, and the work situation pisses us off as well! I peaced out of my job the other day, hospitality bitches is all I have to say!

western bulldogs vs adelaide















Melbourne won!

Queen Victoria Market

First brunch at Riva with Jo, Amanda and Sonja. Got some REALLY good news from Ingo, well, not good news for us...
anyway, he got a really good job back in Germany and is probably leaving next monday which feels fucked!
It's becoming real, people are actually leaving! Wah it hurts in my heart, but congratz to Ingo, i'm so so so happy for you!

Spend whole day at Queen Victoria Market buying loooots of food for tonight and tomorrow. Apperently we are having a girls night out tomorrow, dressy dinner and all of that. Looking forward to it!

Tonight me and a bunch of people are going to see a proper footy game! They say it's a must if you visit Melbourne, and I've been here for like 3,5 months now! It is time with other words! 







By the way, this is how my hair kinda looks like now days, not that dark anymore but not as light as at the pic either..





St Kilda

Million things on our mind at the moment! Gonna get some fresh air. Me and Sonja are heading out to St Kilda, the only place we know were we can breathe and get out of the city for a while.


Great Ocean Road!

 





















mon.13.06.11

Thank's Maria for another awesome weekend! Now I'm starting off my new week with lots of new energy! Went straight down to the gym, realized it was too long ago I spend time down there. Got to recover from my unhealthy life I've been living lately! I wanna feel like human again! Now days I feel like a freakin trashbag!! But last few weeks have been so much fun though. After we booked our tickets out of here I realized that I got to live here and now, and that's when I stopped worry to much about everything like health, money and future plans.

Day off since it's Queens birthday so gonna head down to town and see if I can get someone to cut and maybe colour my hair! Need something new.


BAG RAIDERS

Preedrinks @ Katies place in Fitzroy and then out to St Kilda with Maria, Katie, Tim and a bunch of guys from Geelong! Went on this event at Prince of WalesBAG RAIDERS, a house duo from Sydney that totally rocked the whole place! Such an epic night!! I don't remember last time i danced that much! Liked the place too, Prince of Wales. Such a good atmosphere! The girl at the door got confused too so she ended up giving me money to get in instead of me paying for it! Haha! Day after pretty damaged though, me and Maria spend whole day at the couch dieing. My body can't respond to anything today! Plus i'm getting more sick. Scooreee











GIRLS N BOOMBOXES

Girls n Boomboxes from S.F/Sweden are playing at SWEAT! in Linkoping 18th of june.
People going there better dance for me too!


Next destination... BALI!

11th of july! And Amanda decided to fuck it and come too. Good stuff!
Who wanna come with?











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turf bar

I swore to god ages ago not to go back to this bar, but last night we ended up there anyway for some reasons.
but hey, they have a realllyyy good dancefloor on wednesdays!


congratz ingo to youknow my dear friend!!


7.6.11

Went to see Hangover 2 tnite! Wah, just wanna go back to BKK after we watched it!
Anddddd by we I mean Sonja and I, cause Ingo got freakin lost somewhere else! hahaha.
He went to Melbourne central instead of Crown so he had to watch the movie by himself hahahha..
so funny.

Another funny fact: today was the coldest day of the YEAR in Melbourne. Can u guys imagine that?
ITS SUMMER IN SWEDEN RIGHT NOW and we have the coldest day of the year over here.
oh my. But soon me and Sonja will be at a beach somewhere having drinks, enjoying sunlight
and getting tanned, no work no worries no nothing. Sooon....


MELBOURNE

I've a shitload of music that reminds me about all those things I've experienced the last few months here in Melbourne.


VERONICA MAGGIO - JAG KOMMER
Me and Sonja in Airlie Beach getting excited cause we just decided to move to Melbourne together.



EMINEM - IM NOT AFRAID
Started at Riva and Ingo played this song all the time. Running around like crazy bitches, dancing and singing along
outside Riva. Haha! Good times.



THE NAKED AND FAMOUS - YOUNG BLOOD
1 month became 4 months. Reminds me of hostel times, walking around in CBD with this song
at my ipod feeling happier then ever.


REBECCA & FIONA - BULLETS
Hosteltimes. Played this song loudly in our small hostel room every day. Partying at all those backpacker
places, Turfbar and Jointbar.


DEN SVENSKA BJORNSTAMMEN - DANSMUSIK
We moved in on Southbank into this perfect apartment. Maja and Anton came over a few weeks after.
Swedish summermusic !



CREAMFIELDS FESTIVAL!


AFROJACK - BANGDUCK and MATLOCK - NEW NIKES
Party with Maria and then extreme hangover at her couch.


MORE MUSIC - SPOTIFY PLAYLISTS
NEW ENERGY
Melbourne we love you!
CREAMFIELDS!!!
HUR MOR DOS?
IM IN... MELBOURNE?

6.6.11







Went to Riva with my favourite girls again this morning. Haha, love the fact that we're hanging around
there like every single day..

Been "working" today again. My boss is sooo chilled out. Friday night she was like, yeeah, you can just relax tonight! eat something, read the newspaper, call all of your friends.. and don't forget to prec 0 before dialing the number... and hey, don't forget to bring aaaall of those donuts and other pasteries berfore you leave! ok honey, have fun tonight!" Love work sometimes.


sunday hangover

Great hangover day. Woke up after 4,5 hours of sleep at Marias after a rough night and went straaaaight for breakfast. Eating hangover brekkie at Riva. Ingo, our dearest, treated us like queens. Best waitor in the world!
We went there probably looking like trashbags with same clothes and same makeup as yesterday. I believe we all need those days sometimes, when you just relax on the couch, eating and watching TV and order homedelivery pizza. Ultimate day, ultimate day.











Good weekend






















Public Bar, St Kilda
161, Chapel Street
Eve, Southbank/South Melbourne

Awesome weekend with Maria and the guys.


this is what happens when u get stuck somewhere while traveling





Spend last night at One Fitzroy Street keeping Dardan company while he was working.
Enjoy watching other people work, hahaha, especially when it comes to this guy. Didn't know what else to do with myself either, couldn't stay at home since I was too excited! Me and Sonja bought tickets out of Melbourne last night, but I can't tell u guys where and when yet.
(Waiting for Sonja to feel ready to tell ppl about her plans). It hurt a little bit buying a ticket out of here though,
like i've said before, it's hard to realize that we are gonna leave all of this. Especially for Sonja.
For me, I may be coming back to Australia again.. Earn some more money and save up to New Zealand
whenever I'm going there. It's a kinda complicated situation right now, all these tickets and shit. Just forget everything I've ever said about my travel plans, cause I keep on changing my mind! So  here is the situation:

Right now Im in Melbourne aaaaaand I will be leaving soon. Where and when this is and where Im going next ill keep a mystery for now til I actually know, which I probably never will...

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN U GET STUCK SOMEWHERE WHILE TRAVELING.

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