We watched the film The Freedom Writers Diary with Hilary Swank. Interesting. Based on a true story. About racial conflicts in an american high school. Recommendable.
We watched Triumph of the will, a a nazi propaganda film from the 1930`s. Such long sequences on soldiers marching, and how town avenues, roads and town squares were thick with crowds, watching the german soldiers and Hitler. The film was made before Germany plunged inte second world war. Interesting. But boring in the long run. But for the sake of knowledge, the film is rather recommendable - how propaganda was used to move a whole nation to hate the Jews and start the holocaust.
30 Nov 2009
Stop singing ma
Tuwa loves to sing. She adds melodies to words, melodies with simple lyrics, such as mamma, pappa, dede. If Marcus or I start singing, she can't resist following. Her favorite songs: Twinkle twinkle little star, Imbsy bimsy spindel, Mamma Mia, Lilla Snigel, Ooa hela natten, Små grodorna. Old favorites are Fly fly fly the butterfly and Tong tong pakitongkitong.
Princess Tuwa
Tuwa got a red bathrobe from Ate Be. It used to be her favorite. She would say "Jesus" when it was time to get up from her little bathtub and wrap herself with the bathrobe.
Now her favorite is the princess bathrobe we bought at City Gross in Bromma. We bought a knight version for her good old buddy Philip. Not that we would like to categorize them according girl/princess and boy/knight. It just so happened that my favorite color, purple, had a princess design.
Now here's princess Tuwa!
Now her favorite is the princess bathrobe we bought at City Gross in Bromma. We bought a knight version for her good old buddy Philip. Not that we would like to categorize them according girl/princess and boy/knight. It just so happened that my favorite color, purple, had a princess design.
Now here's princess Tuwa!
23 Nov 2009
Financial crisis hits favorite restaurants
We were at a japanese restaurant för dinner.
At japanese restaurants, Marcus always orders sushi, and I Yakiniku (bite-sized meat). I actually miss other japanese dishes like Sukiyaki (Japanese hot pot), Teppanyaki (grilled/fried on iron plate) and Tonkatsu (breaded, deep-fried pork cutlets with a thick brown sauce).
When I was pregnant, I was actually craving - among other things - these japanese dishes, but I never found good ones in Sweden. There's good Teppanyaki at a spa hotel called Yasuragi in Nacka, but it's a bit far. We were there a few years back, but can't go back yet, not while Tuwa is small. Small kids aren't allowed there.
I wonder when I will ever get to taste good japanese dishes. Where will I find such a place in Stockholm?
Since the financial crisis of 2007-2009, I also noticed that some restaurants are serving smaller portions on simpler plates. Many of my favorite dishes do not taste as good anymore. Somehow, the chefs are saving on spices.
I used to like Hong Thai, a thai restaurant in Solna, at the corner of Framnäsbacken, the street where I used to live in my studio apartment. Their Pad thai (or phat thai, stir-fried rice noodles) used to be fantastic! Now it's mediocre. I'm not eating there again.
Anyway...Tuwa is not into Japanese dish yet. She doesn't like yakiniku and sushi. (We didn't give her raw fish, by the way. Of course!)
At japanese restaurants, Marcus always orders sushi, and I Yakiniku (bite-sized meat). I actually miss other japanese dishes like Sukiyaki (Japanese hot pot), Teppanyaki (grilled/fried on iron plate) and Tonkatsu (breaded, deep-fried pork cutlets with a thick brown sauce).
When I was pregnant, I was actually craving - among other things - these japanese dishes, but I never found good ones in Sweden. There's good Teppanyaki at a spa hotel called Yasuragi in Nacka, but it's a bit far. We were there a few years back, but can't go back yet, not while Tuwa is small. Small kids aren't allowed there.
I wonder when I will ever get to taste good japanese dishes. Where will I find such a place in Stockholm?
Since the financial crisis of 2007-2009, I also noticed that some restaurants are serving smaller portions on simpler plates. Many of my favorite dishes do not taste as good anymore. Somehow, the chefs are saving on spices.
I used to like Hong Thai, a thai restaurant in Solna, at the corner of Framnäsbacken, the street where I used to live in my studio apartment. Their Pad thai (or phat thai, stir-fried rice noodles) used to be fantastic! Now it's mediocre. I'm not eating there again.
Anyway...Tuwa is not into Japanese dish yet. She doesn't like yakiniku and sushi. (We didn't give her raw fish, by the way. Of course!)
15 Nov 2009
Good morning
In the weekends, I wake up quite late, around 8 am. Little Tuwa wakes us up by calling out the roll call the minute she wakes up: - Mama? Papa?
We answer lazily.
Then she checks out Papa first by crawling to him. Then she brushes his hair gently with her hands.
- Thanks, Tuwa, papa usually says.
She smiles and crawls towards me. She touches me gently on the head, too, and then kisses me on the lips or the cheeks. She lingers on by hugging me or rolling on me.
I am blessed to have weekend mornings like this!
We answer lazily.
Then she checks out Papa first by crawling to him. Then she brushes his hair gently with her hands.
- Thanks, Tuwa, papa usually says.
She smiles and crawls towards me. She touches me gently on the head, too, and then kisses me on the lips or the cheeks. She lingers on by hugging me or rolling on me.
I am blessed to have weekend mornings like this!
14 Nov 2009
The first blog
The first blog ever was said to be written by Justin Hall in 1994. Three years later, the word weblog was coined, and which is now better known as a blog. Now, after 15 years, I am finally catching up with the trend. I am part of the 2009 blog-statistic: being one of the 190 000 people in the world who start a blog per day.
The first time I heard of the existence of blogs was way back in 2005 when I worked as a reporter for Sveriges Radio, the Swedish broadcasting company. The radio program was called P4 Extra whose host then was famous TV-personality Rickard Olsson. The topic was blogging and mobbing. Or was it mobbing through blogging? For it seemed that some bloggers mob through their blogs.
Well, this won't be such a nasty blog. It's an ordinary "diary" about an ordinary family who's having such a swell time! This blog is named after my 1,5 year old daughter's favorite French cartoon characters, Barbafamiljen.
The first time I heard of the existence of blogs was way back in 2005 when I worked as a reporter for Sveriges Radio, the Swedish broadcasting company. The radio program was called P4 Extra whose host then was famous TV-personality Rickard Olsson. The topic was blogging and mobbing. Or was it mobbing through blogging? For it seemed that some bloggers mob through their blogs.
Well, this won't be such a nasty blog. It's an ordinary "diary" about an ordinary family who's having such a swell time! This blog is named after my 1,5 year old daughter's favorite French cartoon characters, Barbafamiljen.
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