My Room

Hello,

Well, this is a post more personal and dedicated to my near & dear who wonders how my room looks like, instead of for the general masses. But still, if you for some reason read this blog, it might be nice to "know" the person writing it. And as such, these photos describe me in a way I guess.

First of all, four pics of the four corners of my room:

Then, for the really curoius party out there, some pictures of my bathroom. Two, to be precise.

Now for my pride & joy; my DVD collection. I am one of those few, odd people who actually buy movies, and my current collection is a modest 260 DVDs. I don´t count TV-series of course, they are located at the shelf furthest down.

There are some problems though; the space I have is already reaching its limit, so I have to rethink my layout at one time, but that´s a problem down the road. And as a student, I won´t be able to buy as many DVDs as I used to.

Well, anyway, the first picture is of my shelf containing comedy, asian, "artsy" movies and a few hard to place ones. Oh, and the TV-series mentioned earlier. The second pic is of my DVD-Tower containing action, thriller/horror, paranormal, drama and war-movies.

This, this is pure joy. The reclining chair I got as a moving-in present. It´s so comfortable it´s ridiculous.

The top-most shelf is the eye-cather of the room, I presume. It contains stuff from Japan, mostly won at the arcades of Tokyo and Kyoto. Awesome.

Well, that´s that as they say. Tomorrow school starts again, so that´s nice.
Have a good time, keep reading and I´ll keep writing (well, that´s a lie. I´ll still write even if no one reads this).

I´m out.

Hello Everybody

Hi,

Well, I´ve decided to start another blog, here in Uppsala, Sweden. It will surely not be nearly as interesting as my blog about Japan, but hopefully I will have something to write about. At least I´ll try and upload some photos.

As you might have noticed, I´ll be writing again in english. This is mainly because I find english a much more interesting language than swedish; it has a lot more depth and fluidity for example. But also because almost all the information I access is in english; in movies I use english subtitles (and Gods forbid synchronized dubbing. After the age of three, any non-english speaking individual should see the proper version of any movie, perhaps with subtitles), and almost everything I read is in english. So therefore it isn´t so odd that I´ve decided to write this way, and just so you all know, I would never even pretend my english to be perfect: I´m sure there´s a few gramatical errors here and there, but hey, it ain´t my maternal language.

Anyhoo, this first post hasn´t exactly been a joyous blast of interesting anecdotes and pictures, but I´ll get to that. I mean, I have to explain the reason for putting another blog on the ever expanding Internet. Well, a big reason is because I thought it was so fun to do in Japan, so that inspired me to continue. It´s also a way for my friends and family to keep up with my life.
Also because I think it´s good for me to practice a language I always hear, but seldom speak or write. So if this blog actually gets any readers, please correct me if I write something wrong (if it´s not an obvious typo).

Well, enough meaningless writing. I guess I should explain why I am here in Uppsala, if anyone reading does not know. I am here to acquire a Bachelor`s Degree in Mechanical Engineering; it´s a three-year program at the University of Uppsala. The first period is over, and it went all right I think; I had an exam in math the other day as an end to this first period, and it took 5 hours to do. Not the most pleasant 5 hours of my life, but it wasn´t so bad.
There are about 50 people in my class by the way, which is a lot. Quite impossible to learn the names of everyone actually. And the boy/girl ratio is kind of.. well, not too fun. Three girls in total, and something like 46-47 dudes. Well, at least there aren´t any idiotic people in my class (which is something of a miracle, really).

So, now you know the reasons for this little pile of zeros and ones. The forthcoming posts won´t contain as much "useless" jibber-jabber, because I´ve decided that this will definitely not be one of those blogs that describe every useless little aspect of someone´s boring life (i.e. "Got up at 9:30. Ate some breakfast. Let out the cat, followed by some TV for three hours. I watched, in order, ... etc.). Although, I must admit that Kevin Smith`s My Boring-Ass Life is precisely that, and it´s still hilarious. But that could have someting to do with his choice of career, of course.. When I have his life, I too, will write like that. Maybe.

Well, I think it´s time to wrap this baby up. I will save the pictures for next post, as I want to keep the first post separate from any "events". All I will say is that the picture on the top of the blog is the view from the roof of my building. The castle in the picture is, surprisingly enough, a castle. I don´t know if it has a more proper name than "Uppsala Castle", but that´s what it´s called by the locals at least.
Oh, and the picture might change in the future.. Pure Magic.

Enough from me, I hope you´ll read this, and find it interesting.
Peace be with you and praise the turtles.

/ Christoffer