Turisme

Noen som blir med paa ferie?

OK after Manila blast

Just wanted to say that if you see this, I am OK... Very sad with the innocent people dead and wounded and we're hoping it's "just" an accident and not a bomb.

The reasons blog posts decrease

Facebook - the curse of bloggers (and pretty much everyone else...).

Happiness II

Finally!

Happiness

is when you finally get that ticket. Norway, here I come!!

Freedom

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

- George Carlin

Ny jobb?

Stilling ledig

Senior citizen in the making

This morning I dipped a sugarcube in my coffee, put it in my mouth and sucked on it
I also really like orange marmelade

I'm getting old...

Check it out!

My friend Jamie Brooks has just released his debut album! It is really great music and you really should check it out! The music is available on I-tunes and you can get more info here:

http://www.jamie-brooke.com

http://www.myspace.com/jamiebrookerocks

Relief

The weather gods have been very nice to me and I have been enjoying the "coolness" of only 38 degrees over the past week. Thank you weather gods, keep up the good work!

Hell

= my trip to Southeast Pakistan next week: 49 degrees celsius in the weather forecast.

New hobby?

This weekend I tried golf for the first time. Or, well, the driving range at least. Kind of liked it actually, I think wacking balls can be a good way to get out some frustrations. Maybe I won't do it in the sun with 37c next time though...

Gratulerer med dagen!!

Det er paa dager som denne man merker at hjemlengselen gnager litt...

Home alone

So great when you were a teenager and your parents went away
So boring when you're "grown up" and your boyfriend goes abroad for work

Alternative means of transportation

Alternative means of transportation
Originally uploaded by cholmemo.

Yeah, that's me - crossing a river in northern Afghanistan on a donkey. Notice the "bodyguard" with the AK-47 walking next to me

A Easter Holiday highlight

Pagudpud Bikini Open
Originally uploaded by cholmemo.

Pagudpud Bikini Open! We were able to see first hand how much Filipinos love beauty pageants. Interesting experience...

Filipino time

Cultural differences

Yesterday our household help came home with 3 four day old chickens.
They are now living in our laundry room waiting to become her dinner...

Wedding fever!

Congratulations!!!!

Halvor and Anne - February 3
Marie and Ronny - March 3
Mimi and Ned - March 3

Unfortunately I am only able to go to one of them, since Manila is not exactly very close to Norway or the US... But I really look forward to celebrating with Mimi and Ned in DC on March 3, can't wait!! And my thoughts will of course be with Marie and Ronny and all my friends in Norway celebrating their big day as well. I'm so sorry I'll miss it but please make sure to have at least one toast from me (and one FOR me as well? why not...)

Am in the Hong Kong airport right now, waiting for my flight to Chicago - NOT looking forward to that 15 hour flight. Especially since I came back from Pakistan to Manila yesterday afternoon, repacked, ate and slept a few hours before heading back to the airport at 4 this morning... Funny how I'm OK with it since it's a trip I look forward to! It's all about the attitude...

On that note I wish myself a nice flight and head for the boarding gate.

Manila traffic

We've had our car for a month now and the average speed recorded on our speedometer is 16.9 kilometers per hour...

Kanskje litt dyrt, men jeg har jo hatt lyst til aa kjoepe mitt eget en stund naa...

Istedenfor leilighet?

Happy New Year!!

I hope 2007 will treat all of you wonderfully! I look forward to a new year that will not mean moving and changing jobs four times... Though I hope to continue traveling, both with work and even more by vacationing - trips to both Norway and the US guaranteed.

Other than that I'd like to: read more books, see more movies, train the dog to become more obedient, do some painting, get a tan, work out a little more (my goal was every day but after 3 days my poor body was in shock so I had to give it some time off..), learn more Russian, start writing a book, organize my pictures on the computer and perhaps even print some and frame them, update the music on my Ipod, stop smoking (again..), learn how to cook at least one dish other than omelette, drink more wine (you can never drink too much wine), maybe learn how to like olives because it looks like a really nice thing to like, start throwing away ugly things instead of saving them for stupid occasions that never happen, organize my office, and update the blog a little more often.

That's it. I guess I have enough things to do in 2007 too then. Wish me luck!