Leaving the ordered world to travel on the cheap for an extended period of time.

Visited a old friend

2012-02-17T06:05:00.005+11:00

I visited the graveyard to pay a visit to my best m8t's dad, which kinda was like a second dad for me in a way. It was harder then I thought. It's so unfair that he left us so early. And in just the last year when he was alive, he started to feel ALIVE. He had a dream! And he was dead set on achieving it. It was all he talked about, buying that sail boat when he retires, live on it and sail around in Scandinavia, and maybe further out to Spain.

Made me think a bit there. If you have a dream, follow it. Even if its crazy or if people around you think you will never achieve it, FUCK it and continue with it. And by god don't postpone it. Maybe one day it's to late...

Feels like I am going in the right direction now, It's all coming together... Today iv'e been throwing out stuff that I am not really using..

So true...

Spontaneous Cruise

2012-01-22T08:08:00.006+11:00

I love being spontaneous! Me and Simon was hanging out at his place on a Saturday night, the time was about 17.00pm, what to do we thought? Go out and get smashed in Stockholm? To

much money wasted then... And then I just said, "Lets go on a cruise!" not being that serious really.. But we checked the website, and we found a cheap ticket! the boat was leaving 20.00pm. GAME ON!

Hurry hurry, drive like a maniac! Make it just in time! Arrive in our "room", realised we picked the worst room in the boat.. no wc, no shower, no power outlet. Where the fuck can i plugg in my studio speakers??, Outside in the hallway!

Couple of drinks later this happens:

A night to remember indeed! I need go on more cruises like this, it's way cheaper then going out to a nightclub, and waaaay more fun... Here is some random pics during the night.

Random cruise 4tw!

New Years Eve 2012

2012-01-04T06:07:00.005+11:00

This year I had the mentality that I'm going to party like the world is going to end the next day. And what can I say! It was a Hell of a interesting night indeed, From a nightclub with 7 dance floors

To a smaller party, where they play this minimal techno music until 9 in the morning. Have to say tho this music gets a bit boring after a couple of hours, after a while you just stand there and think "Didn't I just hear this song?"

But all in all, great success! , "Mark Farina - Dream Machine" Will be the tune that will always remind me of this New Years Eve :)

Finally my bonsai tree has a new home..

2011-12-30T04:27:00.004+11:00

From a beer mug to a proper home! And some proper soil :) This spontaneous buy came after i watched this documentary called "HOME", which is basically about Earth, how we are killing it slowly by pollution, cutting down trees etc. And the first thing that i thought of then was my bonsai tree, she deserves something better then a beer mug ^^

Have to say that this day has been awesome so far, free from work! And then i skyped with Stefan (That lives in Australia now) got to see his kid, house etc. Missing the good times we had together :I But we will try to reunite one day!

Hopefully within a year :) AI TO PEDA!

It just hit me

2011-12-28T04:44:00.005+11:00

Why be awesome in a video-game when you can be awesome in real life? I can see more clearly now that i didn't feel very good this year.. Why the hell did i buy computer specially for video games?! Guess i just wanted to kill time. the funny thing is that i don't even like playing video games anymore??

Well now i don't really feel like killing time anymore, It's time to "carpe diem", ain't really gonna do that while playing battlefield hehe.

It's like i've forgotten who i am. Slowly getting back there tho..

everlasting race

2011-12-27T02:06:00.005+11:00

Work, hoard materials, buy buy buy, temporarily happiness , weekend, drink, forget, Sunday feel shit, back to Monday. Everlasting race. When does it stop?

Remember sitting on the beach in Fiji, and saw this funny looking boat, apparently two German backpackers build it themselves! And they just been cruising around these paradise islands. Talk about leaving their "comfort zone" hardcore.

Soon...

Things are looking brighter.

2011-12-14T04:35:00.005+11:00

Not talking about the weather tho, bloody hell i feel like i'm living in a vampire country, constant darkness. But thanks to my lovely Audio Engine speakers and my new Buddha m8 i got from grandma, i actually feel okey and not like constant, "ooh i don't dont know what life is about" state which i posted in my previous post.

Blasting out kind of cheesy music which i haven't listened for a while. I mean who can be sad when you listen to Happy hardcore, or Frank Sinatra - New York?

Tho it's going to take a long while until i'm fully recovered. But ill manage. And when i'm on the top of the mountain, ill be stronger then before.

confused state of mind

2011-12-05T02:23:00.003+11:00

Wish everything was crystal clear like before. But it's not. Im questioning everything right now. Am i afraid of love? Do i push people away? What's the meaning with life? Will i ever be truly happy?

It's all so confusing right now...

And its over

2011-11-28T01:27:00.006+11:00

And she is back in Australia. And now im starting to ask myself, do i push away people when they come to close to me? Why did i push her away? What will happen now? Everything seems so meaningless atm. But i guess its always like that in the beginning, I'm stuck in this black hole that i put myself in to. I need to get out...

I'll always treasure the good times we had. Especially the first 6 months, it was truly magic.. And i'm deeply sorry for all the pain i caused you.

PAUSE.

2011-09-16T02:18:00.002+10:00

It feels like everything is standing still, like someone hit the pause button. So I wont be blogging for awhile now. Who knows... someday i might find the control and press play! So i can start writing again.

2011-06-24T09:27:00.001+10:00

Not that so many people actually read this blog, eitherway, soon i'll start bloggin again, about my life etc...

Spiralen går runt.

2011-04-26T19:50:00.002+10:00

Aj aj kapten-ten-ten )
( Jag har fastnat i loopen, jag kommer inte ur den )

REF:
Ingenting har hänt idag
Har ingenting bestämt idag och dagens agenda är
( Spiralen den går runt )
Samma gamla center ja ja vinden måste vända snart och dagens stop våning är
( Spiralen den går runt )
En dag så kanske man har tur och tar sig ut sitt hamsterhjul med tillståndet för tillfället
( Spiralen den går runt )
Har gjort det nu i flera år och har aldrig velat leva så men
( Spiralen den går runt )

Varje vecka likadan ingenting som viker av
Kompisar försvinner vinkar av dom när dom flyr från stan
Vill inte stå här själv, Vill inte vara ensam kvar
När alla fönster släcks så är det mitt som lyser längst i stan

Och när inte ens mitt paraply kan stoppa regnet
Och när man knappt kan förlita sig på hoppet längre
Och ingen hör fast man skriker och ropar allting upprepar sig, repriser och loopar

REF:

Dagar går ihop jag måste hitta sidospår
Klockan stressar mig jag låter bara tiden gå
Ingenting bestämt idag det känns som jag faller sakta
En massa tomma sidor i min almanacka
Och inte ens när min natt blir en vilostund
Identiska dagar cirkulerar runt
Och ingen hör fast man skriker och ropar allting upprepar sig, repriser och loopar

REF:

En dag så ska jag ta mig ur bara gud vet hur men jag löser det på något sätt
Och ja med bara lite tur får jag vinden i ryggen med medvind så går det lätt
En dag så ska jag ta mig ur bara gud vet hur men jag löser det på något sätt
Och ja med bara lite tur får jag vinden i ryggen

( Aj aj kapten )
( Aj aj kapten )

A couple of weeks back home.

2011-04-20T03:10:00.006+10:00

So now ive been a couple of weeks in Sweden. I live at the same place where i lived before, I got my old job back. It kinda feels like i never left in the first place. It's a bit scary to be honest. Going back to all my old routines. I don't feel "alive" anymore... Oh well.. Summer is coming soon.

I need to get back on track...

What do people do when its cold outside?

2011-03-11T04:18:00.002+11:00

I'm sitting inside, freezing... And I seriously don't know what to do?! What do people do when its cold outside? tried going out to shovel some snow (the entrance is a bit blocked..) Gave up after a couple of minutes... Are you suppose to watch tv? Play videogames? Or maybe it's because Im not working. Last winter in Sweden just flew by cause I was standing like a robot in Scania, building gearboxes and engines. After work you go to the gym and after that its bedtime.

Maybe... just maybe... I'll start loosing my mind if I dont find something asap... Well from tomorrow I'll start my quest for money... Don't want to end up on the streets hehe..

495 days..

2011-03-08T16:40:00.008+11:00

1 year, 4 months, 10 days away from Sweden!? And today we are flying back to Stockholm. First Stop China, then Amsterdam. And then we land at Arlanda Airport 11.55pm on the 9th.

wow.. it's going to feel so strange going back home... BUT.. im looking forward to meeting up with special "friend" back in my hometown in Södertälje... Im going to enjoy her alot... yeah.. im talking about....

SWEDISH KEBABRULLE @ KEBABHOUSE!!

Dalai Lama Quote

2011-02-28T20:30:00.008+11:00

" I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness."

Sounds so easy.. Yet it is so hard at times . How many people do you know that are truly happy?

FINALLY!

2011-02-25T13:08:00.003+11:00

My tattoo is finally finished! Of course it needs some touch ups but at least I don't have an half done tattoo on back, Which feels awesome...

The colours will look a bit different in about 2-3 weeks, but this is how it looks like now:

The only shitty thing now is that I wont be able to train for at least 2-3 weeks.. I'll go... MAD!?

What other news.. I am apparently 25 years old now (3 days ago), think im hitting a mid-life crisis. Might need to buy a old sports car... If I only had the money :(

I want my own "white room"

2011-02-18T19:33:00.003+11:00

That's something I would kill for. Imagine having an emergency button. Press it and WHAM. You enter this white room like in the Matrix. With complete silence, and your completely alone. A place where you can just relax, lay down on the floor and do absolutely nothing.

Sometimes everything just goes to fast and at that time I need a break.

Maybe I should start learning how to meditate?

Went to see a orthopaedic doctor

2011-02-11T18:06:00.007+11:00

Took some new x-ray pictures the other day and then went to the hospital to visit an orthopaedic doctor, I was suppose to do this check up months ago, but due to New Zealand not having a reciprocal health care agreement a couldn't really afford it. Thank god Australia has this agreement!

Anyway, the time when I saw the doc in NZ (August 2010) she said, No running! No jogging! You can't carry heavy weights, you are NOT allowed to train your legs with weights etc.

And now when the ortho doc saw my new x-rays he said that it looks very good! I can start doing all those things now! But he said I should try to avoid lifting VERY heavy objects. It's about 80% healed. 3-4 more months and it should be 100%!

So now I can finally start weight lifting with my legs! Time to rebuild some strength :)

+40C during the day, and +30C during the night. And some thoughts.

2011-02-06T19:09:00.006+11:00

You know what means? No bloody sleep! Impossible... Yesterday Sydney was BOILING. It was impossible to sleep. So instead of laying in bed I was floating around in the swimming pool while listening to Ambient music, That was nice tho! About 6 in the morning I tried to get some sleep, think I drifted of about 8 in the morning. So I have to say... I miss Swedish winter...

Today a storm is coming tho. 18+C outside, LOVELY. And this week Sydney is getting a cold front, which is awesome! I give the weather 5 out of 5 toasters! * * * * *

While I was floating around there looking at the stars my thoughts in my head started spinning around.

We come into this world alone with nothing. We leave this world alone with nothing. So why do we consume so much? Why not put that money into something that gives you wonderful memories and experiences that you can take with you to the last second that you breath? work to LIVE, don't live to work. If you ask yourself. Why do I work? If you answer is "So I can pay my rent, buy gadgets, pay of all my bills, car loan etc" and nothing more... What's the meaning with life then?

You are basically going in a loop. Consume, work, eat, sleep, consume etc. I guess that's what the world wants us to do. BUY more! so we richer folk gets richer. But what kind of life is that?

You will probably say, "But I want to get a good job so I get a awesome pension so I live my life when I retire" Do you think you can do all the things you wanted to do when you were young, when your 60+ ? And what if you died? All that hard work for nothing..

There is no "Game over" and then "try again", but wherever I look, I feel like people think there is another life... Cause they are not doing what they truly want to do. I guess we call this the "comfort zone" That they are currently in. And it's deadly...

So if you don't have a baby on the way. Like one of my m8t's said "The world is your playground, Have fun, explore etc, and when you hit your 30+. Then you have to start thinking about kids etc."

So break loose. You can do whatever you want. And let no one JUDGE you.

I end post with a Walt Whitman poem

"Allons! the road is before us!

It is safe--I have tried it--my own feet have tried it well--be not

detain'd!

Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the

shelf unopen'd!

Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn'd!

Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!

Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the

court, and the judge expound the law. "

one year anniversary

2011-01-16T08:13:00.012+11:00

o we decided to eat Sushi. At Sushi Train! Where it feels like your getting the same stuff as from a foodcourt, but in a fancier way :) After we stuffed us silly we headed over to Sydney central for some nightclubbing in Shark Hotel, The music? Hardstyle! Simon managed to join us, so all in all we had an amazing night! Nick Fish was playing the last set just after four! WOW last time i saw him was in Sublime a couple of years ago.

And of course i cut a small video...

So i can remember those nice lasers :)

All in all, five toasters!! * * * * *

Visited Stefan and Jacqueline in Canberra

2011-01-12T19:54:00.008+11:00

I haven't seen Stefan for over 7 months So we all thought it was time we paid him a visit! The ride over there was a bit long, maybe 3-4 hours. So by the time we came to Canberra it was already 7-8.00pm. Met up with Stefan and Jackie and then we went bowling! Shit, the last time i did that was when i was.. 18 years old i think. Needles to say, i kinda sucked. And after a glass of wine and Smirnoff Black i sucked even more... But it was good fun! I gonna definitely bowl some more, with alcohol of course! Makes things more interesting.

Next day we visited the War Memorial, Been there once before, but the place still fascinates me!

After that, Party at Stefan's house! which involved a swimming pool, pool table, Nintendo Wii, barbecue, music, good food (especially the potato salad) vodka, and one to many redbulls and Simon throwing up in the backyard (which is quite common for him lately)

And the next day we had to head back home. No major headache thanks to Berocca! The hangover cure for Australians.. (Free advertisement)

Christmas & New Years Eve

2011-01-12T19:42:00.008+11:00

So another Christmas and New Years eve in Sydney. I have to say that I am actually starting to miss the snow a bit. Especially during these two special days. It just feels strange lying in the pool on Christmas. Oh well, next Christmas will be in Sweden for sure!

That amount of food we accomplished to eat resulted in a Couch coma for a couple of hours!

On New Years Eve we went to the same place as last year, Not to crowded this time and we got a pretty good spot! Sean, Jessie, Sarah, Simon and Julia joined us this time. This year didn't really end up being as crazy as last year, didn't run around pretending to be Russian.. Wish i had tho..

Seriously, these fireworks are MASSIVE, never have i seen anything like this back in old country Sweden.

So thats an short update on that..

Nazdrovia!

Back in Sydney for the 5th time

2010-12-18T19:48:00.006+11:00

Totally forgot to update this blogg so time for me to do it. Like the subject says, I am back in Sydney. The weather is heaps better here then in New Zealand. And what can I say... Im Still in love with this City.

Haven't really done much since coming here, lost a lot of weight while working in the wineyard in NZ so I am hitting the weights again. Did the Bondi to Coogee beach walk with Simon, and I didn't break my femur! Hurt my ass tho, Tried standing on my hands and fell down (I was pretty drunk) And I scraped my foot but that's about it!

Soon New Years Eve is coming up, Were going to be a big gang, going to the same place we went

to last year, Hopefully it will be as awesome like the last new years eve. To bad I don't have that awesome Fiji rum with me ^^

My god everything is going so fast with my m8t's. People are getting kids here and there. And here I am with no kid. But im not in a hurry. Like I wise man said back in Sweden "The world is a playground, have fun. And when you hit 30 the real stuff begins. House, Kid etc" And iv'e told myself i ain't getting a kid until I know myself 110%. Still a lot to learn in this crazy world, So yeah... that's my thought on that.

Time flies so bloody fast! in a month me and Bec will hit the 1 year mark. Wawawewa!

I'll post an update soon on the last days in New Zealand.

i'll end this post with a awesome Arnold quote. "GET DOWN! GET DOWN AGAIN!"

BKH Working hostel - Blenheim

2010-10-31T14:06:00.005+11:00

Time for a small update again. Been so lazy lately with updating this blog. But i don't

have many readers so i don't think anyone is complaining. But still i want to keep this blog
alive, always fun to read about it later in life, see what iv'e been up to.

Still staying in the BKH working hostel! Been here over a month now! Can't complain. Were like

a small family here. Work has been a bit dry lately cause we are in between seasons. But i got
a bit work last week for a couple of days so Im happy. On Tuesday we start full time again in
the wine yards. Bud rubbing! Basically we go to each plant, kneel down to the trunk of the plant
and strip all the new buds. Think we are getting three cents a plant haha. In other words, im going to have to work VERY hard and fast do be able to get decent wage. We will see how it goes.

What other news? Im broke! i have like 50 dollars left on my account. We are trying to sell our van here in Blenheim with no luck. People that come here already have a van, or they are flat broke and are working their asses of in the wine yards. So we might have to drive down to Christchurch (Biggest city in the South Island) and sell it there.

That's about it folks!
PEACE

An update on what's happening atm.

2010-09-20T10:21:00.007+10:00

So we decided to head down from Auckland to the South Island in hope to find some wineyard work. We weren't really in a hurry and thought we might as well explore the north island a bit while heading down!

In short we visited a ski field cause Bec never seen snow before ^^ Did a short bush walk up to a nice spot where you could see the mountains. Stayed the night there at a motorcamp.

We found this beach that used to be a highway... I guess it was before they actually build a road. First time in my life im driving on a beach, liking it a lot! 4wd For the win!

We also walked the track that lead to the Putangirua Pinnacles, amazing scenery! Part of the Paths of the dead sequence in the film Lord of the rings, return of the king was filmed on location here ^^

And after that we hanged out with some seals ^^, visited a seal colony. Fun to be around these creatures out in the nature, and not in a zoo!

We did all this for a whole week. And at the end of the week we came to Wellington and took the ferry over to Picton on the South Island.

Blenheim was our next destination. Alot of vineyards are located there, we figured that we were bound to find some work there. Which we did! We worked there for about a week, The pay was SHIT. Didnt get payed by the hour, instead we got paid per plant, so every plants i stripped, or trimmed and tied got me about 20 cent. And one whole row took about 3-4 hours for me to complete. After a couple of hours your DEAD.

We had to stay at this hostel while working (The employer lived there) but we got a good deal, 60 dollars for parking in the hostel area, toilets, showers, kitchen and a livingroom was included in that price. The people here were very nice. Mostly Germans of course, They are everywhere haha.

We left this place for a drive up to the Tasman area and did the bush walk there, then after a couple of days, when we realised that we are seriously running low on cash, so we headed back to the hostel in hope for more work. And here we are! Back on the wineyard. Hoping that we at least get a weeks work.

So we bought a minivan :)

2010-08-19T18:14:00.009+10:00

Still no luck finding work here in Auckland, and staying here and not working just makes my wallet thinner and thinner. So might as well use the last money for a van, and go where the work is. Wineyards, Farms etc, where there is always work for backpackers.

So this is our new home! Toyota Lucida 1993, 2.4cc, 4wd for those rough terrains in NZ. Bought it from a backpacker couple from Germany. The minivan is converted to a backpacker van, in other words the back seats are gone, and instead we have a bed there. They left some stuff in the van for us to which is always good. Cutlery, Camping stove, Tennis gear (why not?) Fishing rods,

some guidebooks, and dvds..

"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines."
— Walt Whitman

I just want to get out of here.

2010-08-12T16:06:00.004+10:00

Out from the city and start living in a van or one of those soccer mom cars. Job hunting isn't

going that well. Sending out heaps of cv's on the Internet, and walking around the city asking for work, but no luck. Had my hopes up for a job interview I went to yesterday, looked very promising! They interviewed 7 people, and needed 3 of them to come in on Monday. Waited all day today to get this mail "All the candidates we interviewed were experienced and motivated individuals. We considered the merits of each person we spoke with, and have now made a decision on the successful applicant. Unfortunately, we will not be able to offer you this role."

Which kinda put me in a bad mood.. ahh well. Just have to keep on going I guess.

We did this mini-road trip a month ago, just looked at the pictures from that trip and the videos, and it just gives me more motivation to keep on looking for work, so we can leave this city, and just live in the bush, NOT CARING ABOUT MONEY. Just enjoying each day.

Changed Apartment

2010-08-03T15:53:00.007+10:00

Due to not having internet in the past month I haven't been updating my blog that regularly. Trying to do it in the library is a bitch, very very slow internet there.. But now we got a connection, not that I have really missed it, but it's convenient when you are looking for work, updating the blog etc...

So what's been happening lately? Well the big news is that we moved out from our apartment, without taking our bond money with us. (300$ down the drain) We just wanted to leave that place asap. The guy we were living with was Psycho. REALLY Psycho. I had a really bad gut feeling when we moved in there, why didn't I just listen to it and kept on searching ...

Anyway, it all seemed good in the beginning, we lived with this South African guy named Dev. His girlfriend didn't live with him, but came over occasionally. The first thing i started noticing about him was his temper, he had some serious anger management issues. He seemed to hate everyone on this earth, and he just kept having these fight with his girl about stuff that you are NOT suppose to be fighting about...

Typical day: Someone threw eggs on his window, a normal person would get pissed off and maybe go to the building manager? but he just got completely crazy, took a metal pole and ran out and started threatening neighbours.. Eggs m8!? It looked like he was ready to kill someone...

One day he came bursting out his room while I was in the toilet and started screaming at my girl "WHY THE FUCK CAN'T YOU GUYS BE QUIET, WHY ARE YOU SLAMMING THE FRIDGE AND THE MICROWAVE DOOR ALL THE TIME, I AM TRYING TO SLEEP, IVE BEEN WAITING FOR A WHOLE WEEK TO SEE IF YOU GUYS WOULD BE QUIET WHILE I SLEEP, BUT NOOOO" So why didn't he just come up to me from day one and just say "hey m8, can you be a bit more quiet during the mornings while i sleep?" I didn't realize he was home in the mornings so i thought i was home alone, apparently not...So after that day it felt like we were walking on egg shells. Not wanting to wake the psycho guy in the other room, or he might wake up and bash the shit out of us with a metal pole.

We also noticed that he was obsessed with cleaning. It seemed like he was vacuuming every day, not a big deal I thought, I myself am a clean person, try to keep everything in order, do the dishes asap so it doesn't pile up, take out the garbage etc. But apparently I am not.

What made us move was the shit we heard him talk about us one Sunday morning. He thought we were out, so he started fighting with his girl, and just started screaming out how disgusting we are, that we are filthy creatures that don't clean up after ourself, this went on for about an hour, I NEVER in my life heard a person talk so much shit about me. So we basically went out and said "We just heard everything you said, we are moving out", and he continued bitching about how filthy we were...

We moved out, left our bond money with him, cause we didn't want to spend another day in that hell-hole. We left our Queen size bed there (60 Dollars) and some BACON in the fridge!? I wish I took the bacon back after what happened next..

Two days later Bec sent him a message asking him if he could see if we got any mail that belonged to us. And we get this fucked up message back "First of all, u don't say please, don't apologise for the mess u made, now u are giving me orders, fuck you missy!...watch urself, change ur fucking address im not ur slave, ur a dirty inconsiderate spoilt little brat and you destroyed my home and behaved like a fucking child. U and ur little fagot boyfriend are seriously pissing me off". So let me get this right... By not vacuuming (cause he was bloody doing it everyday) WE destroyed HIS house!? What would happened if I accidently broke something... Execution?

We moved into X-base (Hostel) for a couple of days, and the funny thing is that we felt more home there, then back at Dev's place. four dorm room with no sunlight, and i am more happy there..

And now we are living with a very friendly Korean couple (You can't go wrong with Koreans! They are awesome.) We feel like we actually have a home now! And the good part about this apartment is, It's in the central city! And we are paying less rent then before! Pool, sauna, gym at the bottom floor, Korean supermarket and a liquor shop, sushi takeaway just around the corner! And we got internet. 110% Better then our old apartment.

Now im gonna sound a bit racist, but never EVER move in with an South African dude!!

I can't wait to start...

2010-07-09T09:17:00.003+10:00

Running, climbing, exploring working?, clubbing, etc...

The Apartment

2010-06-28T13:55:00.007+10:00

Location wise this place is the shit! 15 min walk to the central area is not bad. Especially if your paying 130NZD per week. We have our own room with a Queen size bed that we bought ourselfs , 60 bucks! Cheap cheap.

The bathroom is good, nothing really to complain about, only thing would be that the door doesn't have a lock on it.

Then we have the livingroom and the kitchen, which is in the same room. The kitchen is very small, but it doesn't really matter cause we only three people live in this apartment.

The only thing that sucks, is the railway thats just outside our apartment. Dont really care about it during the day. But a couple of times during the night those bloody long freight trains comes swooshing by, and they sound SO MUCH LOUDER then the normal passenger trains.

Ahh well, nothing can be perfect. Then we got the gym, pool and Sauna. The gym is very good, considering it's free. The pool is big enough for doing laps, and the sauna is.. broke i think :( Tried it once and it didn't work. Might try it again later.

And this is the building we live in in (to the left)

Good neighbourhood!

Uncle Richard

2010-06-27T14:52:00.002+10:00

This Saturday we got picked up outside our house by Bec's uncle Richard. He is an Electrical Engineer and runs two companies. It seems to be going quite good for him. Otherwise he wouldn't be able to buy a Porsche GT3 that i fell in love with (Bec your still number one, don't worry)

Unfortunately the battery was flat so we didn't go for a spin with it. Tho it might be a problem sitting three people in a Porsche that has two seats...

We got pretty spoiled that night, he shouted us dinner at this very nice restaurang. Nice for a change. Otherwise we would had noodles, or chicken with rice for dinner.

First nights in New Zealand

2010-06-23T10:44:00.003+10:00

Have to say that the people are so friendly here! Airport customs are usually dull, get to the point people. Here they were friendly, they even talked with us! We managed to get a free ride into the city by this nice lady i sat next to in the plane, we just talked a bit and then mentioned that we were backpackers, and she was like -I have a car! i can give u guys a ride! This would probably never occur in Sweden.

So what my first Impression of Auckland a Saturday night? A smaller Sydney! And lots of skanky girls! The streets felt empty somehow, they are more people out a Tuesday night in Sydney then what it is in Auckland on a Saturday.

And lots of fully sick gangsta kids driving around in their pimped out cars, playing very loud rap, or electronical music. Funny guys.

The hostel we stayed in the first 3 nights was in X-base, 20NZ dollars per night in a 4 bunkbed room, with no window! Maybe that's why its so bloody cheap. Feels like ur sleeping in a cryo-chamber tho.. You loose time perspective cause you don't see any sunlight coming in. So it can be 2.00pm and it feels like its 8 in the morning.. But its cheap! And WE LOVE CHEAP.

We live with a girl from Irland, most of the time i have no idea what shes talking about
due to the accent, but i smile and nod :) nice gall tho!, then we have this French dude,
that we didn't really talk so much with.

We just found an apartment that we moved into today, very nice one for 260NZ per week, for
both of us. We have our own room (Unfurnished tho), Lies very central, walking distance to
the central station, At the first floor the building has a Pool, Sauna and a gym, which i
really like :) the apartment doest have internet atm but we are getting it later hopefully!

We are sharing the apartment with a South African English dude named Devon, seems nice :)
So that's what's happening!

My last night in Sydney

2010-06-19T16:46:00.001+10:00

My last night in Sydney i spent at Simon and Stefans crib. Mostly hanging out on the balcony dancing to Turkish music and just having a good time.

Gonna miss all my m8ts that im leaving. They all are going on their own adventures, cant wait to meet up with them later on, hopefully during new years eve!

Didn't really do much more due to my leg, came home about five in the morning with Bec. Slept for 2 hours, (Thank you Redbull) Woke up feeling like a zombie, packed and then of to New Zealand, to begin my new life there :)

New Xray pictures!

2010-06-10T17:45:00.011+10:00

Visited my doctor today at the hospital, did some X ray pictures to check out how the bone healing is going, she said it looked good! and that i should continue walking, and maybe start some training, power walking, bicycling, and even light weightlifting.

Interesting how they do this operation, they use a drill which they drill into the bone, all the way down where it ends, they suck the bone marrow out, and then hammers in a spike thru the bone. Fun hey?

After about 6-8 weeks i need another X ray in New Zeeland. Really hope my insurance company covers this..

Last weekend Simon came over to Castle hill for a visit, was really nice seeing him again! Started drinking red bull vodka early at the park, just reminiscing and talking about memories, and what the future holds us. Tried jumpstyling with one leg as well, didn't go so well..

Next day me and Bec thought we might show Simon something outside Sydney, so we went for a small road trip up to Blue Mountains, Didn't go for a bushwalk due to my leg, but we went to an amazing lookout point where you could see the three sisters.

To bad we didn't have the weather on our side.

Oh and btw, i have like the sickest girlfriend ever, one day she buys me a awesome trimmer for my beard, and the other day i find 3 new pair of underwear (Cause i am to bloody cheap to buy new ones lol)

KAPOW!!

Recovery Day 34

2010-06-03T15:37:00.004+10:00

Major progress! Today i've walked around the football field without any crutches! and on the way there and back only with one crutch. Tried going u the stairs without them as well and i managed to do it. Great Success like Borat says!

I am hoping on being able to walk without the crutches before the 19th of June when me and Bec flies to New Zealand, only 16 days left now, so heal leg.. HEAL!!! We don't have so much time on us...

Recovery day 24

2010-05-24T20:21:00.006+10:00

Its getting better. More movement in the leg, Still on one crutch tho. I might try to walk without the crutches soon, but i think ill wait until i get the next X-ray done. This weekend my friend Jessie had a barbecue. Drank a bit of Vodka and had an pleasant night! Was so nice seeing my m8t's again. Also managed to hijack the Stereo and pumped Gypsy music, house, trance and Hardstyle :) Great Success!!

Talk about having a classy girl, running around in the house with a steak in on hand, and a wine bottle in another hand ^^

Wish i could jump around too. Ah well.. Soon soon..

Recovery day 19

2010-05-19T21:42:00.006+10:00

You probably have seen "The shining" before? With Jack Nicholson getting all crazy, chasing his family in this big hotel up in the mountains.

I kinda feel like him atm. Crazy... It's been 19 days and i haven't really been doing much. All i want to do is sleep, sleep and .. Guess what? SLEEP.

Some good news tho. I am slowly regaining some strength in my leg. I can bend it more, can walk more then before, and iv'e even started walking on one crutch (Only in the house tho)

I never thought this would be so depressing. Knowing my m8t's are having a blast in Sydney, and i can't do shit. And this month i was suppose to hang out with Simon cause he just came here and i am leaving soon for New Zealand. But with my handicapped leg i am not going nowhere..

Shit talk about being negative, usually im the positive guy, but recently i just have been having a hard time thinking positive.

So what have i been doing these last 9 days? Just been home sitting in front of the tv and playing Fallout 3 on the Playstation. (Good time-killer there) And then time to time me and Bec goes on a car ride to the video store and rent some movies. That's about it!

Ohh.. And i saw Iron Man II ! Which i can highly recommend. One thing i love about Australia, you guys have awesome cinemas! Especially the "Gold class" onces. Perfect for people like me (with a fucked leg) This Cinema cost a bit more but its so worth it! Your seat is kickass awesome! You can adjust it so your sitting very comfy. Then they have this button next to you, just press it and a servant comes in, you can order food, alcohol, popcorn, coke etc.

See how happy i am!!

Recovery day 11

2010-05-11T11:22:00.003+10:00

It's been rather good these last days, except at night when i am sleeping, hardly ever get any good sleep. And without those painkillers that knocks me out cold i would hardly get any sleep at all.

Trying to move around as much as possible, cause just sitting makes me crazy. Yeah sure it was fun to call in sick when you were a kid, stay home and play video games. But now ive been home for over 11 days... And it's not fun.

Finished cutting my "Australia" clip. One of my passions here in life is cutting movies. Been doing it for a long time. It's just so fun to see those clips when your older and think back "That was good times..."

So here is random video clips that ive recorded with my camera during my stay here in Australia. Why am i talking with a Russian accent you may ask? Cause i am Highly intoxicated with Russian Vodka.

Every time i see this clip i just want to get my leg fixed asap so i can start enjoying all the things life has to offer.

Recovery day 9

2010-05-09T13:32:00.004+10:00

These first couple of days ive been very down due to not being able to move around so much cause of the pain. And the thoughts running thru your head "Shit, 3-6 months before i am up and running etc"

Yesterday was better tho cause i got some company, Simon and Stefan came over to Bec's house. We had a barbecue, talked shit etc. Needed that badly! Later that night we watched Godfather part one. This movie was awesome! Just can't understand Stefan cause he didn't like it.. HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE GODFATHER!?

And the next day was even better! (Today) I managed to sleep the night without taking any painkillers. And when i woke up and started walking witch crutches, i just had this energy! wanted to walk more. So ive been moving around a lot in the house. I even came with Bec for a car ride to get the Godfather part two and three. It feels so good leaving the house, Just sitting in the car pumping loud house music. After getting the movies we just drove into fancy suburbs pointing at houses "I want that one", "No i like that one", "That's a ugly house" etc. House watching 4tw!

This Colombian Drug lord style house is still my favorite.

In other words, today ROCKED. Hope i'll have better days in front of me.

So i broke my femur..

2010-05-06T12:51:00.005+10:00

Which was the most painful thing iv'e ever experienced in my life... Especially when they needed to straighten my food and then stretch it before surgery..

Everything was going so good here, got my tattoo. Felt strong cause i started weightlifting. Simon came over to Sydney. Everything was perfect. And then this happened.. I can't believe it. The first days i didn't actually realized what this actually means, i was so high on morphine after the surgery (Had to operate in a titanium rod in my bone) , sleeping almost 24/7, Just took one day at a time. And 5 days later they sent me home on crutches.

It hurts like hell walking around, can't sleep during night so i drug my self down with strong painkillers that makes me fell sleepy and careless. My leg feels like it's dead, u know the feeling when your arm och leg falls asleep and u can't move it? Feels like something like that, so just getting out of bed is a pain in the ass. And it's now i start to think about what actually is happening.

That i am in Australia, my money is running out. And i can't work for at least 3-6 months. The only person that gives me hope now is my girlfriend. That has been helping me so much. Coming into the hospital everyday, staying with me over 13 hours per day. Only going home when she needs to sleep. Buying me food so i don't have to eat the crappy hospital food. And now when i am at home, she took a week of from work just to stay with me, so she could cooks me dinner and help me around the house.

Without her i would crack it, But she gives me hope to get strong quickly, get back on track. I love her so much.. she's the best thing that ever happened to me.

So how did it happen?

Well Simon flew over to Sydney from Sweden (One of my best m8t's) Haven't seen him for over 6 months, so it was so fun seeing him again! Me, Stefan and Simon decided to do the "Bondi to Coogee beach walk" So we buy some vodka, take the bus over to Bondi and start walking.

Everything is perfect, nice weather, we are talking about the good times we are gonna have here etc. Then about 2 hours later when we are sitting on some rocks, i wanted to take a picture, so i run over to fetch my camera from the bag, while im running i jump over an obstacle, and somehow i put my foot on a weird position, slip over land with my whole body weight on my right leg and SNAP. I see that i can move my whole thigh. Which freaks me out.

I scream at first and then try to stay calm, zone out and just look at the ocean, and tell Stefan to call the ambulance. The medics comes over after 15minutes, gives me morphine and it feels alot better. At first they thought they needed a shopper to get me out, but when the police came and helped them to carry me thru the fence etc. and into the ambulance.

That's it.. time to heal and hopefully ill be recovered and active within 3-6 months..

One month Sober! & Stefan got his Tattoo!

2010-04-25T10:33:00.005+10:00

Yes! I haven't touched a single drop of alcohol for a whole bloody month! Which is a big achievement for me, i used to go out every weekend partying but now i am getting a bit tired with it. The hangovers, the money you loose. And the more money i save, the cooler van me and Bec can buy in NZ :)

So what more is happening? Stefan started on his tattoo!! A bit smaller then mine, different text, and two dices added under the cards, It's not finished yet cause he started bleeding so he couldn't continue, but hopefully both of our tattoos will be ready within a month (Including touch-ups)

Only Simon left now :)

If you get homesick, visit IKEA!

2010-04-23T18:39:00.007+10:00

But only if your Swedish i guess :P This store has everything you miss back home! Kalles Kavjar! Swedish Meatballs! Herring (Sill i burk) Crisp bread (Knäckebröd). What more do you need? Me and Bec decided to head over there just for the awesome lunch they sell there, Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and gravy. It's tha shiet!

So if you ever get homesick, just visit IKEA, walk around and check out the awesome flat packed product and then when your done with your "window shopping", buy some Swedish food and you will feel a lot better... trust me!

Look at all the Swedish food!! *Brain activity OVERLOAD*

7 More days!

2010-04-22T11:01:00.002+10:00

Only Seven more days til one of my best m8'ts, Simon will arrive to Sydney! I even bought the Vodka im gonna drink that day when he arrives. Russian quality vodka ofcourse! And iv'e started compiling a playlist for my ipod for the walk we are gonna do from Bondi to Coogee. In other words i am REALLY looking forward to the 29th!

Lets just pray to God that the bloody volcano in Island doesn't stop his flight from departing from Arlanda. "Air China", please don't let me down!!

My second sitting.

2010-04-18T17:45:00.002+10:00

Some ink dropped out from the earth, but that will be fixed of course, So only the compass left! And then the touch up, So hopefully everything will be done just before i leave Australia, Cant wait!! And next Saturday Stefan is booked in as well! Same tattoo but instead of "Carpe diem" he will have "Ai To Peda", and then two dices under his cards.

3 months

2010-04-15T10:00:00.002+10:00

Ive been together with this lovely lady for three months now.

And every day that goes my love for her grows stronger. I didn't believe in soulm8ts before i met her, but now i do. She's just so perfect in all ways. I love her with all my heart and soul...

I am addicted to training

2010-04-14T13:45:00.000+10:00

But it's not a bad addiction. I don't put training before other important stuff. I rather see it as a good addiction, i don't drink so much more (weightlifting + drinking = bad combo) I eat my multivitamins, drink lot's of water, try to eat as healthy as possible, try to avoid KFC, McDonald's and other fast food restaurants. And try to get at least 8 hours of sleep.

Why is it so addicting?. If i don't train i feel sluggish & tired, but if i train in the morning i have this energy thru the whole day, I kinda feel like a duracell bunny ^^Maybe you release something during training that makes you feel good during the rest of the day? endorphins? I don't really know. But i just feel awesome after a training.

And when you add more weights and be able to do more reps then the last time you trained the same muscle group it just feels AWESOME. It's like u won, u made it. Now you just need to focus on lifting even more weight next time.

As soon as i settle down and get a job, i'll get a gym card asap, God i miss a well equipped gym.. right now i need to improvise with my training, don't have enough weights on my barbel so i put stuff in my backpack + the weights haha..

Looks a bit funny hey?

New Zealand visa got approved! And i got my UKE!

2010-04-13T12:20:00.000+10:00

I been so worried these last days, what would happen if i wouldn't get the visa? I would need to fly back to Sweden cause i need to earn some cash so i can keep on traveling. But now i have a working holiday visa in NZ! I'll be able to work and live there for a whole year! Auckland is the first destination, Surrounded by active volcanoes, amazing nature. The people there are suppose to be very friendly and easy going. And generally Kiwis seem to be happy, no wonder why, "The 2009 Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked Auckland 4th place in the world on its list" This city seems perfect for me!

And i am going here with the love of my life! CAN'T WAIT! The first thing me and Bec will do, is start working, save up some money and then when we can afford it we will buy something that looks like this:

Drive around in New Zealand living like gypsies, working a bit in farms, driving around and enjoying life. and.. sit at some random beach and play with my Ukulele :D

Isn't she a beauty? Sounds so much better then the last Ukulele i bought back home in Sweden, which was the kid's version lol, cheap and sounded like crap. But this one sounds perfect, and the quality is really good. Ive got no musical talent at all, but i reckon if i play with it everyday for a couple of years ill eventually be able to play some nice tunes, or at least some nice strums haha.

That's whats happening atm! And and.. Simon is coming in 16 days!!

Australian War Memorial

2010-04-10T09:14:00.000+10:00

This last weekend me and Bec decided to go for a mini road trip to Canberra, to visit the world famous Australian War Memorial. Very interesting day indeed! And now i know why they call it a "world class museum", it was HUGE! They covered the whole Australian war history, from the first world war, second world war, And all conflict from 1945 (Korea, Somalia, Vietnam) to current. Heres some pictures from that day:

Very touching to see that wall with all the people that died during these wars..

Second Weekend Sober

2010-04-03T21:08:00.000+11:00

Me and bec just finished training in the garage and it just hit me. It's a Saturday night and we are sober, training!? And this is my second week that i haven't been drinking anything. Last time i had two sober weekends was.. 1 year ago i think. I kinda like this healthy lifestyle! Instead of spending heaps of cash on booze, getting smashed and then don't remember a thing the day after, i train instead.

This is where i been working out the last 2-3 months. I wish i had more free weights.. but hey! i shouldn't complain. If i would stay in a hostel i wouldn't have any weights at all.

Just bought a ticket for New Zealand

2010-03-30T19:04:00.000+11:00

Feels great to have a set date. And when you bought a non refundable ticket there is no turning back :) I am flying of from Sydney to Auckland the 1th June 2010. So i have about two months left in Sydney. Rebecca is joining me the 13th of June. This is going to kick ass!!

Blue Mountains bushwalk

2010-03-28T23:37:00.000+11:00

We found this really cool site that lists heaps of walks, with all the info you need! how long the walk would take you, how hard it is, pictures, map etc. So we looked thru a couple of walks in Blue Mountains and found the perfect one :)

God i love nature. Why didn't i do more hikes before? Ah well.. I have all the time in the world now. First weekend sober as well! haven't had that for a long time... Feels really good! Really nice waking up on a Saturday not feeling hangover, instead i have this slight workout pain in my legs from walking so much haha.. i like it!

I have to much free time so i just had to cut together a small movie from the Blue Mountains. I have a feeling i am gonna do this walk a couple of more times, i mean.. it's so freaking amazing!!

Drunken Walkabout

2010-03-26T13:09:00.000+11:00

I know i said in my last post that i am cutting down on the drinking, and then after two days i get smashed with Stefan, You see, we have these "walks" where we have a tradition to drink and eat a subway sandwich, So during those days i have to bend the rules.

We tried something different this day, instead of going from Bondi to Coogee we went from Coogee to... i have know idea actually, we just turned right when we were standing on the beach and then we just followed a track, Very nice walk indeed! Came to a couple of new beaches we never been to before, and some more nice cliffs. Music + Spirits + Subway sandwiches = <3 Here's some pictures and a wacky video:

And tomorrow a small gang of us are heading up to Blue Mountains for some hiking :)

Just read my m8t's diary

2010-03-22T13:24:00.000+11:00

Hes just climbed Africa's biggest mountain Kilimanjaro, good on him! I just can't wait to do that kind of stuff in New Zealand. Been checking out different mountains and found a perfect one that doesn't require any climbing experience.

Isn't she a beauty? Thank god i have a Hippie girl that loves nature, cause i am gonna drag her along with me on these climbs haha. it's 2518 meters High, and they recommend that u climb this mountain during summer. Can't wait!!

So what's more happening.. I am starting cut back on Alcohol more and more. Only drinking on special occasions. Had my first sober weekend (2 weeks ago) And im planning on on having more sober weekends from now on. And weightlifting + drinking just doesn't go hand in hand.
So instead of drinking during weekends, me and Bec are planning on doing road trips, to Blue Mountains, The War Museum in Canberra etc. Looking forward to it cause i haven't actually been outside Sydney yet hehe...

And in 38 days Simon will be here in Sydney!! Can't wait for him to come over here! We been talking about this for years!! that someday me, Simon and Stefan will be here in Australia. Going on mad road trips etc. Soon it's happening!

A couple of years ago...

2010-03-16T18:37:00.001+11:00

Me, Stefan and Simon started talking about getting a tattoo together, something to do with traveling. We knew that we would always stick together and be best m8t's until we are old men, and one by one kick the bucket.

So i started playing around with something and came up with this (i know i suck at drawing). Our world, representing the traveling, and then three cards. The first one would represent me, the second and third, Stefan and Simon. They could pick whatever playing cards they wanted.

This tattoo idea kinda faded away after awhile cause we didn't have a good design. Then a couple of months ago i met this awesome girl that im now together with, and she is training to be an tattoo artist. She hasn't tattooed anyone yet but she is awesome when it comes to drawing. She came up with some ideas and started drawing. She thought it might be a cool idea to put something behind the earth, and maybe some text that means something for me.

Didn't even need to think twice of what kind of text i wanted, "Carpe Diem" It means Seize the day in Latin. I know its common but its my bloody tattoo and i just love the meaning behind it. And then we put a compass behind the world, which is affiliated to traveling. This was the result:

I knew i wanted the Joker card, Cause i always seen myself as a.. joker, well atleast i feel like one here in Aus. Stefan and Simon had a bloody hard time deciding on which cards they wanted, but in the end they decided they wanted to be jokers aswell. We both three think the same, have the same philosophical view on life, and we are nutcases. So Jokers fits us perfect.

I don't know shit about tattoos and i thought i would be able to do the whole thing in one sitting.. woahh.. it bloody hurt!? after about 2 and a half hours i gave up. So i think i need 2 more sittings for the color and then im done :D So this is the result after the first sitting:

Now im just waiting for Stefan and Simon to start on their tattoos ^^

Walt Whitman

2010-03-15T10:33:00.000+11:00

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains."
Walt Whitman

Two and a half months left to New Zealand. Can't wait!!

Thought about death a couple of days ago.

2010-03-14T23:54:00.000+11:00

Sometime it just pops into my head. Usually i get a bit depressed, maybe cause i weren't following my dreams then? I thought i would be stuck working @ Scania for the rest of my life? But now i just saw it as a reminder. That Life is short. I need to Capture each day (Carpe diem) Do new stuff, explore, LIVE. Cause u never know what could happen tomorrow.

Maybe that's why i spontaneously bought a ukulele? And decided not long time ago to travel to New Zealand instead of going back home to my old country Sweden, where i would probably end up working @ Scania (possible one of my biggest nightmares) End up getting that golden watch you get after u been working there for 25 years. Whoopee!

"You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to."
Love that quote. And it's so true.

So what are you waiting for? Jump of the track. Start drawing outside the paper. You might find something new exiting, or learn something new about yourself.

I found the love of my life :) And i learned Heaps of stuff about myself.. like ... i stopped looking for the" rainbow with the golden pot". It bloody doesn't exists! I was so busy focusing on stupid stuff that i forgot that it's all about the Journey, not the final destination.

I so feel like a hippie right now haha...
Peace and love! Nazdrovia!

Second Ukulele..

2010-03-12T10:50:00.000+11:00

I have no musical talant at all, but ive always wanted to learn to play an instrument. After doing lots of research back home in Sweden i ended up buying one of those 30$ cheap pink Ukuleles that were probably made for kids. It was just so crappy so i gave up after awhile. But now i bought one again, higher price again, imported from US. at 140$. Oscar Schmidt OU5 Concert Koa Ukulele.

Hopefully it will arrive here in a couple of days. Why Ukulele you might ask? Well about a year ago me and my m8t's were watching this really strange movie called "Waking Life" Watch it! It's about Lucid dreaming. Anyways while watching this movie very drunken i saw this guy sitting on the floor playing the ukulele, he was playing a simple melody while talking about life.

I don't know why, but that tune he was playing just got stuck in my head, and i said to myself "Richard, ur gonna buy a bloody ukulele and learn that tune before you die" So now this is my second attempt.

And im trying to convice my girl to buy a violin. And learn to play some gypsy songs. This would suit our lifestyle in New Zealand perfectly. HippieVan, i'll wont shave my beard so finally ill look like a bushman, with a ukulele. And then i have my crazy Gypsy, Russian, Australian half Singaporian woman by my side.

New plans again!?

2010-03-04T09:43:00.000+11:00

It just struck me. Why the bloody hell are we flying back to Sweden in June when my visa expires instead of flying to New Zealand!? I can get a working Visa there and stay there for up to a year! Backpacking, working on farms, buy a Hippie Van and drive around and view this freaking AMAZING scenery:

Instead of hanging in Sweden in my bumtown Södertälje. And another thing just struck me, my girl, and probably even i would have problems finding work back home, but apperantly it's easier to find work in New Zealand, and Bec doesnt even have to get a Visa cause she's Australian.

In other words i wont be coming home in June, instead me and Bec are gonna backpack in New Zealand for a year? or so. Nom Nom Nom.

New plans btw.

2010-03-01T02:13:00.000+11:00

I love how my plans change all the time :) My visa expires in June. Me and my girl have been talking about what to do, and it just hit us... lets both go to Sweden for awhile! Swedish summer kicks ass, and she has always wanted to travel there. So the plan is to stay in Sweden for awhile, work a bit, then travel around Europe if we have enough cash, and finally head back to Australia? Or Russia? Maybe China!? who knows!?

My Karma has been kicking in so bloody hard these last 2 months, it's crazy haha. Im enjoying this so much. And im actually looking forward coming back to Sweden for awhile, just cause i get to show her around Sweden, Stockholm Archipelago, my fathers old summerplace, my old Bumtown Södertälje etc. Introduce her to my parents, grandma, friends etc..

Nazdrovia!

My girl took me to Hooters :O

2010-03-01T01:18:00.000+11:00

The first couple of days when i first met Bec i mentioned to her that i never been to Hooters before (Don't actually know how we came in on that subject) Anyways, she was surpised and said "I'll take you to Hooters on your birtday"

And as it was my birthday last week (Monday) she took me to Hooters! Now this is something i never thought a girl would do for his boyfriend haha. Antti, Kye, Jennie and Sarah joined us, Played Pool, had heaps of redbull vodka and eat nachos. It was tha shiet!

Antti and Kye having a moment there ;)

Afterwards we dropped of Kye and Antti and continued driving over to Sarah's place.
Continued drinking heaps of vodka and redbull, swimming in the pool, watching Bec dance to heavy metal ^^ etc. Very fun night indeed, until something unexpected happened. One of Sarahs dogs, Rufus had a heartproblem, hes apperantly been acting very strange the last two weeks, and while we all were sitting in the livingroom he just collapsed, couldn't move and his heartrate increased we had to take him to the emergancy vet klinic, and then put him down...
R.I.P Rufus :(

Kinda miss my crazy dog back in Sweden now, even if shes a pain in the ass sometimes.

Just turned 24

2010-02-23T17:05:00.000+11:00

And i don't need to buy a porche yet, cause i aint having a midlife chrisis!! If i were back in Sweden i would probably have one, but i feel like im on a roll now. stuff is happening, we are going to places, Sweden, Russia, Poland, the world is at our fingetips. But for now we are staying in Aus until my visa expires in June.

So what did i do on my birthday? Well first of all i got this wicked armani watch from my crazy Russian girl. Awesome clock, love it!!

Then we headed out and had sushi ofcourse (ive seriously been eating sushi almost everyday now) But this time we tried sushi train, which was AWESOME! i got an sushi overdose, and this Friday my girl is taking me to HOOTERS! Never been there before, and apperantly they have really good steak there!

Changing subject. Heaven exists. And it's actually located in a nightclub. God i love this place.

Can't wait to go out clubbin there with the whole gang :)

Update.

2010-02-15T20:15:00.000+11:00

Today we been together for one month, me and Bec aka Olga. Yesterday we celebrated valentines day which was to be honest like the best valentines ever. I got this awesome bracelet with my name on it, plus a text on the back from our song.

Me Antti, Jessie bo, and my girle hit up Sublime this weekend aswell which was uber awesome. God i never get sick of this club, one dancefloor they played Happy hardcore, other one Euforical trance, and the last one Hardstyle, i was in heaven.

Have you ever felt like this aint real? that ur dreaming or something? I am in that situation right now. Bec that ive known for a month, it feels like ive known her for a year, we practically gone thru everything a normal relationship goes thru in a year it feels like, (except the fighting) which is good ^^, but even that seems impossible, we are both so layed back. And what truly amazes me, is ive been hanging out with this crazy Russian girl for a whole month, almost everyday, and not even once ive had this feeling "I need a break from her" not even a fight. I didn't know that was possible. But it is!

Im gonna kidnap this girl back to Sweden. But just for awhile, then im going back to home country Australia Sydney.

Beutiful days

2010-02-11T16:40:00.000+11:00

So what's crackin here then? Antti just came to Sydney! took him on the bondi to coogee beach walk and he loved it! Think ive done this walk over 10 times now haha, still i'll never get bored walking there. And it feels awesome to have yet another m8 in Sydney. Now im just waiting for my other m8ts to come down and then im all set :)

So now it's the second time i end up in Sydney. This truly feels like my home. Now when i think about it, i dont miss anything about Sweden anymore. Australia has everything i want. The people, the weather, the scenery, and on top of that i have this amazing girl that im crazy about.
The only thing i miss back in Sweden would be my parents, grandma and my m8t's, that's about it!

Btw, this is where im living now! Kinda reminds me of the trailer park houses in "Trailer park boys" To bad i don't have Bubbles, Ricky and Julian running here haha. But this is a awesome place , pay only 65 dollars per week, sharing a room with Jessie (Becs friend)

Gonna start bloggin more often now.
Nazdrovia!

Im sitting here.

2010-01-27T17:49:00.000+11:00

Im sitting here writing in my blog while my girlfriend is cutting bacon! Yes, we are makin bacon, pasta carbonara. Yes! i have a girlfriend. Her name Bec, but i call her kitty, cause she scratches, and makes funny noises! Either way right now im in Sydney, Castle hill.

Most of friends are heading over here. I really can't complain! Ill update soon with a bigass post with heaps of pics and videos and such, right now i can't cause im making pasta carbonara with ze girl. Arent we a cute couple?

Yes we have a donkey by the name of Igor, hes real and he has a facebook page, "Igor Kazakova" add him, he likes girls.

Castle hill

2010-01-07T21:15:00.000+11:00

Could never imagine that i would have so much fun in Sydney after Fiji. The last days in Fiji i started to panic cause i didn't have a place to stay at, the hostels were crowded, and overpriced due to the Christmas/New years eve holidays. So i tried finding me a place thru couchsurfining.com and other sites. And then i got lucky! Found a person that i could sleep at :D

I got picked up at the airport in Sydney by her, drove over to her place in Castlehill. And when i got in there i was thinking, " This can't be real" Im actually getting a real Christmas dinner! The whole family was sitting there.

To cut the long story short, i stayed from the 25th December, to the 5th January.

While i was staying there with her, and her parents, some other travelers was staying
there as well, two German girls, and then Becs friend Jessie. The house felt like a youth Hostel!

So, Partying, talking with an Russian dialect almost everyday (Don't ask me why), cinemas, movienights, roadtrips etc, Hangover days at KFC etc. Surgery in becs kitchen. Who thought i would have so much fun out in the Suburbs, Loved it!

And to top that, i had the most wicked new years eve ever, We found a REALLY good spot to watch the fireworks from, drinking heaps of Fiji Bounty and Russian vodka, which ended up with me and Bec fooling everyone that we were from "old Country Russia"

Five Stars ******, "HALLO HALLO HALLO, WAWAWEEWWAAA" with a Russian dialect...

Headed out to the islands, got a nice suprise

2009-12-18T06:04:00.003+11:00

Our plan was going out to the islands again...But we got a BIG suprise?! That kinda forced us back to the main island a bit earlier then expected..

Located in the Wasaya islands, Waya is the island called where the resort is located. We decided to pamper ourselfs for 10 days, going to different islands and chill HARDCORE! So Octopus was our first choice. We have our own Bure next to the beach, our own hammock and sunschairs,
It was truly paradise. The staff was so kind, the scenery was amazing, The food was AWESOME. Nothing to complain about, ***** Five stars.

what have we been doing? Mostly taking it easy (Big suprise there?). The second day i decided to outside the resort and do some trecking by myself, followed a path thru the jungle and then found a private property, so i headed back and on the way home i just stopped and said to myself, " by god RICHARD YOU ARE GONNA GET A COCONUT FROM THAT PALMTREE" (Try it yourself, its actually hard) Tried to climb it, Didnt go so good.. So i took another old coconut and started throwing it up trying to hit the other coconuts.. didnt go so well

either. Then after awhile some locals came and just looked at me and laughed a bit and asked "Do you need some help?" So they helped me, got them down, prepared them so i could drink from them. Great success! Time to mix the coconut with my precious rum! :D

Later me and Miranda started trecking, climbing up the mountain a bit and then we stumbled upon a villager, 25 year old guy that called himself "Ben" We talked a bit and i said to him that i want to climb up the mountain to the highest point. He said that the octopus resort arranges hicking trips. But i wanted to do it alone with M. So he said, "Come down to my village tomorrow, and ask for my name, and i will take u up to the mountain" So we got our own private tourguide! Kickass! So we thought we would have a awesome day tomorrow, but we got something else
in store for us...

Day three at Octopus resort.
We were hoping for good weather so we could climb the mountain, but instead it started to get VERY windy, We climbed up a bit and checked it out and it was blowing like hell! never had experienced this strong wind in Sweden.. (And this was just the beginning..) We took some pictures and then went down to the resort.

Later that night the manager of the resort gaves us the news that an Cyclone is coming this way, they call it "Cyclone Mic", and when they give a Cyclone a name i guess its a huge thing... But he also said that we shouldnt be worried cause it would just be a small one, (Category 1?)

Day four at Octopus resort.
We wake up several times during the night cause the wind is hitting our bure so hard, even sand comes thru the wall. We go outside and see that its getting worse. We go quickly and eat some breakfast, and then go back to our bure and chill there. After about 1 hour someone nocks on the door " Hey! You guys need to move to to the restaurang, it's not safe to be here!!" So we quickly packed our stuff and put it in the closet just in case. And i took with me my laptop and diary, Im not about to loose all my pictures on the laptop and my diary. We quickly run to the restaurang and i see all the people there. The wind just keeps on getting stronger and stronger, and its raining like CRAZY. People start to get a bit more worried. Suddently Trees starts to fall down
and time to time the wind just gets so strong that.. Shit i can't even explain. It was just unreal.

Recorded as much as possible. And then my camera died, When i recorded the wind wasnt even at its highest strenght... Some people started crying, You saw Branches, other stuff flying pass you. And then the manager says "It's not safe here, we need to go to a safer location, the dorm room" So people started panicing a bit more. As soon as we were there the hurricane was peaking, it just smashed the roof of outside the dorm, so we heard a big bang. So the manager said "Might be a shance that the roof of this building might fly of so we need to go to a even more secure location, the toilets and showers, small concrete building" So when the wind didnt blow so hard we all ran quickly to the other building. and then stood there for a couple of hours Almost no space at all, Talked with the manager and he said, "If we are unlucky the storm can continue like this for 12 hours) If we would get in the middle of the storm it would get all blue sky, and the wind would drop down to zero. And then after 30 min it would hit again, as hard as before. Then after awhile we decided to all run back to the dorm house cause it was just to crowded and apperantly the dorm was still intact. So we came in there, put up the beds against the windows, and locked us in there for awhile.

After about one hour it started to blow less. People started going out, and we found out that the worst part was over. Apperantly we got lucky and didnt get hit directly, and the mountain above us gave us some shelter. We all started helping out, carrying all the palmtrees, branches that was laying EVERYWHERE. The whole place was destroyed, some buildings got also destroyed, This resort that was an paradise wasn't looking so very attractive now...

Apperantly the hurricane that struck ut was a "Stage 2" hurricane, it blow at most 175km/hour here at our place. We had the most luck at our resort, some other resorts on the other island got completely smashed, and on the main island some people died. And today the weather was perfect, clearblue sky. But the resort is shutting down for 1-2 weeks we all had to take the boat back to the mainland. Didn't really work out as planned. But now i got to experiance a hurricane in the pacific! Cool in twisted kind of way i guess!

Random day at Smugglers Hotel

2009-12-10T16:28:00.000+11:00

This is how a normal day could look like at Smugglers Cove, Yet to be the best hostel

ive stayed at during my first month traveling.

"have u ever been to fiji islands, where the girls are hot and the boys are hard to get" haha

I really need to start learning how to playan instrument and learn tunes like this!

Thoughts

2009-12-09T17:11:00.003+11:00

Just some thoughts running thru my mind.

It's been over a month now, exacly 1 month and 5 days. And it's just the beginning of my trip. Atleast 11 months to go. Feels a bit wacko. Im use to having a vacation for a month, thats it.

I thought i would feel lonely traveling alone. But i noticed that you are hardly never alone. Everywhere you go you bump into another person that is also traveling solo. You find each other so easily.

Tho i have to admit that i miss my m8t's, especially when im having a really good time, it just hits me, "shit.. would be so fun to experiance this with my friends" But that time will come i guess!

Christmas is coming up soon and i guess this is the only day i will really feel homesick. Cause im spending Christmas alone on Fiji. Christmas for me is about beeing with my family, and it's kinda
hard to be with em when they are on the other side of the globe. Hopefully ill find some other homesick people at this hostel that night and get drunken, and celebrate together :)

One other thing i noticed. I have this "10 year diary" that i brought with me, been writing in it for 1 year now. And everyday i put a "+" or "-" + stands for an awesome day ofcourse, and - for a terrible day.

From Jan up until October before flying to Sydney i had HEAPS of "-" Questions that popped up in my head so often, "i hate my job", " what should i do with my life"."What's life about!?" etc. I think i was lost. And i just felt like something was missing in my life.

And now when i look at my book i only have +++++++++, (One - for a REALLY bad hangover) This kind of traveling makes me feel alive and happy to the fullest, not having a destination, not having a "travelplan", not having a fly ticket booked back home. Knowing that u could continue traveling for as long as possible. knowing that you could be in Asia, America, or Africa, or even back in Europe the next day if i desire so. Im not stressed, i can take it easy a whole day and not feel bad about it. If i didn't do anything productive after work back home i would feel like the day was a waste. Now that feeling is gone. I feel free as a bird!

So right now my Euforical state is peaking at it's highest. Lets see how long this lasts!?

Fiji Time!

2009-12-02T16:45:00.004+11:00

"Fiji Time". I love this meaning. This country is the most relaxed country i ever been to before! Ive forgotten what day it is, never look at the time. The people here are so relaxed aswell, The thing u will hear most from the Fijian people is this "Relax, it's Fiji Time", they don't stress AT ALL. So ive been slowely coming in to this lifestyle.. and i feel so... good.

My biggest worries during the day has been...

* Trying to find the perfect spot for the sunbench im laying on so i dont get any sun on me?

(Julian, this place would suit you perfect ^^ )

So whats been happening? This last Thursday Nathan (the Aussie m8) left the hostel (Smuggles cove) To bad he left cause he was one really cool dude, Me, Adam and him getting coconuts all the time, mixing it with Fiji Rum. Good memories. But before he left i got a nice suprise! Miranda suddently showed up! The girl i met back in Sydney in the hostel. I never actually met a person that i have SO much in common with. So we had dinner and a really nice time. And the next i went to Mana island and she came along :)

Mana Island then!

What a wonderful place. Not the smallest islands. But still so amazing. Mixed with hostels and locals. This island has also very fancy resorts (Tom Hanks stayed there while casting Castaway) It has a airstrip for small planes and helicopters. The water is crystalblue which for me was amazing (Never seen it before) just standing there in the water looking at all the fishes approaching me.. wow.

The accomodation there was good enough. Did only pay 50FJ dollars per nights. 3 meals per day were also included. This was the cheapest island for a backpacker to hang out in. So might actually return there before i go back to Sydney. And always when a group arrives they all stand there,both the travelers and the people who work there, singing a welcome song in Fiji. Very nice :)

I love "chillin" But when i was in that island, i chilled hardcore. Really doing nothing. Waking up early to have breakfast. Then walking away from the hostel to a nice beach with a sunbench and hammocks. Laying there, falling asleep, jumping into the water, and then reading "the alchemist" which i really like! Then walking back, having dinner. Very relaxing!

Now im back here in the main island, Smugglers Cove, which kinda feels like my home now. What's my plan for the last 23 days. Nothing! It's Fiji time. No worries, etc. :)

Fiji!

2009-11-26T02:58:00.001+11:00

So... Wow! Im on the island. And what ive heard from other people before coming here, the big island sucks. If you want to the the true beauty of Fiji u have to go out to the islands. Still im having a laugh! And im not use to this kind of enviorment, so i think its really cool! anyways, met a real cool Aussie guy, Nathan. Been having heaps of fun these three nights. And the locals here are... So Friendly! We got a really cool guy thats lives here, Adam, some kind of entertainer, works and just chills here. Plays the guitar all day, singing relaxing tunes, i love this atmosphere!

The first day i arrived at the hostel a bit late, met Nathan in the bus on the way to the hostel, we decided to chill on the beach that night, some beers and rum. Stayed up a bit and then hit the sack.

Next day we just chilled on the beach, basically doing nothing. Later on that night the Fiji (Adam Guitar dude) arranged a Kava ceremoni night. Kava is something that the locals drink (Taste like ....., and your tongue goes numb) So all the travelers sit in a circle, and we all introduce ourselfs, and then we pass the kava along to everyone. And then after 2 hours of drinking kava and talking shit he brings up the guitarr and starts playing some nice chill tunes, + my favorite tune which i just had to record ^^

After that we all went down to the beach, put on a fire and i took out my speakers and blasted out Tiesto music, which everyone seemed to like *Great success*

Third day! Chillin all day, visiting an temple (got ripped of there, Not much to see really) went back home, had some pizza, made myself a coconut ring, Adam The Philippine guy got some coconuts for us, mixed it with rum and vodka, worked good! later that night they had a show for the people in the hostel, fireshow etc, And after that we got some more coconuts! very nice ! then we just sat on the beach, Talked with Bruno (Brazilian guy) for a long time, and i LOVE HIM! cause im getting free accomodation when i get back to Sydney! he has an apartment, so im staying there for the week!

JOE! we have this funny guy that practically lives on selling coconuts on the beach, hes 55 years old and he calls himself Joe! He sits just next to the hostel, waits for people to come near him and then he screams

"HEY! U THERE! WHERE U FROM? COME SIT DOWN AND HAVA COCONUT, ITS GOOD FOR U IF U DRANK YESTERDAY, DETOX FOR UR BODY!!"

And then u sit down, he takes a big knife and opens it, gives u a straw, and he explains that he lives on this, u have a nice conversation with him and then when u drinked everything up, he kindly asks u for some money. Not much tho. Funny dude!

I love this area, but i would like to see the true paradise places, So i decided to book a package! Im going to Mana island, Small party island with crystal clear water, perfect beach, nice accomodation. This is suppose to be a REALLY good party islands during the weekends. So im taking a boat on Friday, staying there til Monday. CAN'T WAIT!!

What more to tell... Not much actually, i have this mountain near my hostel, which im thinking about climing myself, the locals said that its a bit dangerous, no tracks there so would need to go thru the forest.. But! ive heard that they dont have any poisones snakes etc here so i should be okey. So im actually thinking about climbing that mountain alone, or with someone, that is if anyone wants to join me. God i wish Simon or Stefan was here now, would be so much fun climbing with u guys. But yeah yeah.. i got my Ipod ! Wish me luck.

Flight to Fiji Islands

2009-11-24T01:24:00.001+11:00

Sitting on the plane bloggin, just looked out from the window and saw the first island appear in the big occean. Never seen anything like it! It feels unreal that im actually doing this, and coming here alone! Sure it would be fun to be with someone and share the joy. But on the other hand... i don't think ill have a problem finding new friends. We will see! Eitherway i have a feeling that this is gonna be an wicked month!

To sum up Sydney then. Superhappyfuntime! I thought i would get bored with the city cause ive been there before, but... meeting new people did the trick. After awhile living in the hostel
u started really connecting with some of the people! Became really good friend with a English dude named Kye. It's not often u meet a person that is so likeminded like urself, has the same view on things, life etc. And this other guy named Stefan, from Germany. Hes like Stefan from Sweden!?, but just the German version haha. Very cool guy indeed. And i can't forget the French Guy Antoune! That is currently on a roadtrip with three other people, driving around Aus for 6 months, really jelous there :O

Been talking with so many people that have traveled around Asia and im really considering changing my travelplans and hang out in Asia for awhile. I mean... I eat SUSHI everyday in Aus. Japan should be
my next stop ^^ ...

Another interesting day worth mentioning was with Stefan somewhere between bondi beach and coogee beach. Won't go in on details, but that night was WACKO. From drinking heaps of wine, to almost killing ourselfs by sitting on the rocks while BIG waves hitting us hard (Lesson learned indeed) joining up with totally random Hippies, watching them putting on a show for us, making sandcircles on the beach with em, coming back to Sydney hostel, drinking even more. Climing on the hostel roofs and sitting there enjoying the sun, Playing soccer, Taking a swim in darling harbour, Harbour and then get a warning by the parkranger (Since when is it illegal to swim in Darling harbour!?) and then finally go to sleep 11.00 in the morning.

Just some random pics:Lots of crazy nights indeed. But 23 days in the city is enough. Time to enjoy the tropical islands for awhile! Fiji Here i come :D

Soon leaving Sydney

2009-11-20T20:36:00.000+11:00

Not many more days now until i fly over to the Fiji Islands. Can't wait to leave the citylife for awhile and just relax on the beach, eat some good food and read a nice book. The Achemist atm! Feels strange saying this, but im actually looking forward reading that book. (I hardly never read books)

Stefan moved out from the hostel and moved into an apartment, happy for him that he finally found a place! I decided to stay in the same hostel until i fly of to Fiji. Im starting to love this hostel more and more! Ive just have been having so much fun these last days, making new friends, sitting in the kitchen, blasting out crappy happy hardcore music with Kye and Stefan and just having a good time talking shit, drinking vodka and playing cardgames or just chillin in the room, talking with new room8ts.

Gonna actually miss this hostel when i leave it. But then again, some of the things i wont miss at all! Like ..

* Beeing waken up by the noisy English girls nine in the morning.

hhmm that's about it, They drive me crazy!? This morning when i came in like 7 in the morning i wanted so badly to just turn on the lights, run over to them and scream, " WAKE UP GODAMMIT, LALALALALALALALALA" But I didn't do it. Wasn't drunk enough ...

A thing thats been on my mind lately is that i havent been able to find accomodation in Sydney when i get back from Fiji the 25th December. If i get lucky and find i place i would have to pay HEAPS more cause all the hostels rent out their rooms for a much higher price between christmas and new years eve. We are talking about 100 dollars per night, instead of 20dollars per night. Which is CRAZY. So my options are as following:

* Come back to Sydney the 25th December and try to find somewhere to stay, if i find a hostel ill be spending over 1000 dollars for a week, which is fucked up, and if i dont find a hostel i don't really know where to stay.

* Or extend my stay on the Fiji islands and celebrate new years eve there. The hostel ive been checking out there doesn't charge extra just because its christmas etc, So it would cost me 11 Aus dollars to live in a Hostel next to the beach, very nice indeed...

Will be kinda sad tho not spending new years eve with my best m8 in Sydney if i now decide to stay there longer. But then again... spending new years eve on the Fiji islands might not be so bad? I'll just see how it feels when i get to Fiji.

Thats whats been happening i guess!
Peace out.

2009-11-12T16:12:00.000+11:00

Living with 18 other people in one big room is actually fun! except for when im actually trying to sleep a bit earler, then it's kinda hard, cause there is always someone in the room drinking, or doing something else. But its a fun place. LOTS of germans, and french. Some brits, but where are all the Swedes? hardly see them. It's like they are a rare species here. Fuck it, makes me feel special haha.

Short summary on whats been happening here. Heaps of alcohol consumption, Got badly burned when i visited bondi beach (Note to self, put on sunscreen on ur back and legs), Did the "bondi to coogee walk" with Stefan, Drunken style! What a great night that was! And that's about it!

Ive already lived in this City before, 3 years ago for 7 months so i feel like ive done everything, this city ROCKS when it comes to it's nightlife. You can basically go out every night and meet heaps of backpackers, or locals. (Depends on which club u pic) But! it feels like i need to do something new.

So i have the money, and the time. Was thinking about Melbourne but then it hit me, Fiji Islands! Dream destination for me, always wanted to visit that place, so i went to the nearest flight company, and booked my flight! So... the 23th November im flying of to Fiji alone :D Staying there for a month and a couple of days.

Whats been happening this week..

2009-11-05T17:57:00.000+11:00

Mostly sightseeing. The first day when we arrived in Sydney we had perfect weather so we strolled around town, Checked out Darling Harbour, Opera House, Botanical Garden. Then later during that night we partied at Scubar (Nightclub next to the hostel) This place was packed with backpackers!

Second Day (Tuesday) was Melbourne cup day?, Everyone dresses up, watchs the horserace, and then parties all day, joined Jani and her friends at this nightclub where i at first couldn't come in. Apperantly i had wrong shoes on me :O Never happened to me before, but somehow Jani managed to convince them to let me in. Very fun night! WAS SO HAPPY when they played a remix on Empire of the sun - we are the people!

Next day was party day again... it actually feels like its Saturday everyday here.. Need to slow
down a bit. Stefan didn't feel so good, and i had a hangover, fell asleep during the day. Woke up about 19.00 and started drinking my cheap wine and went out from my room by myself and just started talking to people. Started hanging with some Swedish dudes, and then later i met up with Antoane (French m8) And we both went to Scubar & Scruffy Murphys.

I love this lifestyle. Meeting new people at hostels, Its just been a couple of days and i already talked with so many likeminded people from all over the world! So fun hearing their stories. Its so easy making friends here! And everyone is so super friendly!? Just a few hours ago we got a new guy from US. 31 years old in our room, talked for an hour with him about life in general, the "rat race", traveling and such, conversations that i usually don't have at home.

On to something else then, we have been living in this rather fancy hostel (compared to other hostels in Sydney) Cost 40 dollars per night (6 beds in the room) and we decided to move out tomorrow and move into a cheaper one. Cost 19 dollars per night.. and the room we are staying in has 19 beds!? Crazy!

What's happening this weekend? Dunno actually!

Flight over to Aus.

2009-11-03T23:17:00.000+11:00

I forgot how tiresome it actually is to fly this far away. When we got to Sydney we felt like zombies. First stop was London Heathrow. Plane lifted in Arlanda 11.00, and it took about 2 hours to get to Heathrow. There we met up with Simon, Sussie and Linnea, which was verii niiice. Had a burger and beer, talked some shit and then we split up. Kinda hit me then that i wont be Seeing Simon for a long time now... Not cool... :I

Then we waited for about .. 6 more hours until we could jump on the next plane. This flight was.. VERY tiresome. We decided to stay up all night so we could sleep on the last route from Dubai -> Sydney. 7 hellish hours ride from Heathrow to Dubai. Drinking HEAPS of coffee, alcohol (i know, bad idea.. got a bit more tired after wine)

We spent 2 hours at the Dubai Airport. Just wandering around like zombies, trying to focus on NOT falling asleep. During the actually flight (14 hours!?) we fell asleep a couple of times. And the rest of the time we watched movies.

And after 14 very boring hours we arrived in Sydney! 7 in the morning. Stefan got picked by work and travel, and i got picked up by Monika & Jani, So fun seeing them again!!
And now we are here. Sydney. God ive missed this City.

1 days

2009-10-29T01:40:00.000+11:00

And im publishing this blog now for the public. So for those that dont read the older posts, this is a blog about me and my m8 basically following our dreams, Long term traveling around in Australia, New Zeeland, and then who knows? We both left our apartments, work, possesions, Downsized a lot in other words. Feels like its much easier to travel for a longer period of time then, not have to worry about our stuff at home.. cause now we dont actually have a home. Our road is our home for the next 1-2 years :) So ill be updating this blog as much as i can about our wacky adventures.
Hope u follow :)

4 Days left

2009-10-28T09:02:00.000+11:00

And ive got a cold! hopefully nothing more... Other then that everything is running smothly. Just got my international driver License, so now ill be able to drive in most countries. One of my dreams is driving in the Australian outback, on a open road.. blasting out some nice music. And now ill actually might do it! ... f*ck im getting goosebumps now haha.

The cruise i went on with my m8t's was.. wicked! A perfect ending. To bad we didn't go on more cruises like this. We all got way to drunken! blasting music in our rooms, just having a REALLY good time. Ill let the video tell the rest of the story. (We aren't usually this ghetto... ^^)

What a wacko trip indeed!

8 days left

2009-10-23T09:21:00.000+11:00

And my karma is kicking in! Where have you been? ive missed you...

Today was my last day at work. Mixed feelings here, but mostly im happy cause im absolutely free now. Nothing is holding me back. Im both homeless and dont have a job.. Perfect! Was abit sad tho saying goodbye to my workm8ts. Got a funny suprise from one of them (Lorans) even tho i live like 10min from the factory he insisted picking me up outside the factory with his car. So i got a ride back home, and some wine! Talk about ending the day perfectly. (Mucho thanks there m8!)

Said goodbye to my best friend Simon. He flew of to London to visit Tim. Felt strange to know that i might not see him for a long time. He's like a brother to me. And i really hope he will join soon! And if i know him right, he will eventually come.

To drunk to function on that pic btw. (i mean check out my eyes haha)

Time to hit the sack now. Tomorrow im going on a cruise with 8 of my best m8ts (goodbye party). So two nights partying. And then its just smooth sailing until i leave.

16 Days left.

2009-10-15T23:48:00.000+11:00

Dancing around in Simons apartment atm, listening to "Beautiful life" by Gui Boratto. Love the lyric, cause its so true!

Ive been having this.. really AWESOME feeling the last couple of days, wake up happy as f*ck. Hit the gym, still happy. Going to work, literally dancing on the way thru the forest listening to my favorite tunes. And when my work is finished im still happy, singing while im walking home. And then i fall asleep.

I think i never been as happy in my life as i am now! This feeling is almost.. unreal.

21 days left.

2009-10-11T03:49:00.000+11:00

And my insurance just got granted! That means everything is fixed now. I have nothing more i have to do except for work a bit more (8 working days left before i quit) Hang with my m8ts, and.. thats it!

Bondi to Coogee beach walk. CAN'T WAIT!

Nature kicks ass.

2009-09-18T21:29:00.000+10:00

It's to bad most of us don't give a shit about it, and never actually try it. To just go out and camp some where in the forest. I did that last weekend with Simon, Stefan and his father. And it was.. fun as hell! Simon said to me the last day when we were on our way home that " Shit dude, i never actually seen you so happy as you are right now".

That was one of my best weekends in a long time. Felt so good leaving the city for awhile. And just sit there in our wind shelter, trying to keep the fire alive. Drinking cheap red wine while doing it.

And just singing, laughing, screaming ur lungs out until some other campers further away starts to scream back " shut the fuck up we are trying to sleep", haha that actually happened. Apperently we werent alone there.

They got a bit to drunk and fell asleep, i was still up trying to keep the fire alive so we wouldn't freeze. And just before i went to sleep i climbed up on the shelter roof, and just watched the stars for awhile. That moment i realized something

What the future will bring. If im having the time of my life doing this.. How will i feel when i.. Lay down on Ayers rock in the middle of the night, just watching the pitch black sky with all the stars

I won't probably do it, but just the thought.. that i can! if i want to.. makes me shiver.

I finally feel like im on the right track now.
And im happy.

Cleaning the house and leaving it.

2009-09-02T21:51:00.001+10:00

We came back from my parents place and started cleaning the house. Some of my m8ts came over and helped me. And we hardcore cleaned all day. At the end of the day when they went home and i was alone. I realized that.. it was still heaps of stuff i needed to fix in the apartment. Mental breakdown there. But i called in sick next day and continued cleaning with Antti.

And on Tuesday everything was ready. The feeling i had that moment, before i had to leave the keys, when i was walking around in my empty home which ive been living in for 12 years

It was... really strange. Then it finally hit me. I dont have a place i can call "home" anymore. I started walking around, taking pictures in all the rooms, thinking about all the good/bad moments ive had there.

So many things im gonna miss from that place. My garden, the parties i had, my room, the kitchen, bathroom, my balcony. Everything.

But in the same time i have this other feeling, freedom? No fixed home means no bills. And i was spending 800Euro per month living there. Crazy...

Gypsy movers.

2009-09-02T19:52:00.000+10:00

I never actually thought moving out would be so fun. Nothing went as planned, but in the end it worked out. We started Friday morning. I rented a big truck, and picked up Antti and Jakob. And we did the whole move gypsy style! i'll just let the pictures tell the story.

We threw away HEAPS of junk, which felt awesome, can't believe i saved so much stuff all this time. And the rest i wanted to save i left at my parents place.

Mucho thanks to Antti and Jakob!

So much cleaning...

2009-08-21T03:52:00.001+10:00

I thought it would be a peace of cake to clean the apartment before moving out... i was wrong :I im done with one room, and im exausted! So much junk laying around, what should i do with everything!? The days are ticking down. Next Saturday ive rented a big truck which i will drive down to my parents place and dump all my stuff that i want to save, the rest ill throw away i guess :I

I came to realize how much junk i actually have, that im not using... Why do i collect all this kind of shit? :O

Stockholms archipelago

2009-08-13T04:35:00.000+10:00

I was on a very nice trip with Stefan and Simon last weekend. We rented two kayaks (one had two seats) and went kayaking around Stockholm archipelago. My essential goal was to camp at this island called "vita sten" While Simon and Stefan was saying, " lets flip a coin and let it decide where we go", or something like that.

Everything went well the first day, we stayed at my fathers old summer place, i got a good night sleep while Stefan and Simon got drunken and wandered of into the forest.

Next day we headed out very early and then it started, my m8ts didn't get any sleep at all, and they were still drunk when we started kayaking in the morning, they seemed to have a good time while i was pissed of ass hell cause i wanted to reach that island so badly, we would never make it over there cause they were to tired.

We stopped briefly at some island and had us some food, they both fell asleep, so after awhile i took out the vagabonding book and started reading, and i got stuck o this quote:

"The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances." - Aristotle, Ethics.

So i forgot about my goal, and actually started to enjoy myself. We found this awesome island a few hours later, made a fire on the beach, chilling, watching the stars. It was perfect!

Lesson learned indeed...

"You forget, because your're so busy going from a to z, that there's 24 letters in between...."

22th October. No more Scania then!

2009-08-13T02:43:00.000+10:00

Ive decided to keep on working until the 22th October, i thought about quiting a week earlier same day as Stefan, but i realized that i need the cash, cause i only have a "holiday visa" when i enter Australia, that means i can't work.

So... 43 working days left. That's the only thing that keeps me going, counting down the days till i walk out from that factory i so much dislike...

Other news then. My old school burned down to the ground! Welcome to my neighborhood! :)

Thoughts, and i packed my bag!

2009-07-30T23:24:00.000+10:00

Been really down the last couple of days. I'm constantly asking myself. What am i doing? Is this the right thing to do. Listening to sad tunes, thinking about what im about to leave etc.. which of course puts me in a really sad mood. But today when i woke up and talked with my m8 Stefan. He somehow always makes me see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Of course its gonna be hard to leave the life of security, conformity, the daily routines i have. And as soon as im standing there on the open road, with only my trustworthy back which i got my whole life in. I will truly enjoy life.

So today ive backed my bag with some random cloths, i needed that boost, was fun to see if i would actually fit everything i want to bring along. And it did! And my bag weighed 12,5kg! just 0,5 kg more than Stefans bag!

This is what i put in my bag:

7 t-shirts, 10 year Diary, mini-laptop, 7 boxers, 7 socks, warm hoodie, 2 phones, some bathroom stuff, shoes, jacket, my bible "Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel" Portable harddrive, bag, jeans, shorts.

So 12,5 kilos. That's VERY good for me. Last time i went to Australia i had a bag with me that would fit 90Liters. (this one only fits 60) And it was so heavy.. i could barely go around with it!? A five minute walk with it and i was seriously dead. So it was a nightmare for me to change hostels...

Haha i know i look gay on this pic, so don't say anything. Anyway, it feels good having a smaller bag this time that doesnt weigh that much. Now ill be able to move around much easier ^^ ...

So why?

2009-07-28T21:59:00.000+10:00

To be honest, im not getting any younger these days! im 23 right now, and before you know it you will have a big family car, nice wife, two kids and a big house. But before i go down that alley i would like to explore the world as much as possible.

I want to see new places, meet new people, get lost in big cities, or in the deepest jungles, get lost in a big desert, find me a nice island and live there for awhile, Play poker with some Asians in a basement in hong kong, get in a fight with ninja midgets in Cambodia. Basically i want TO LIVE.

And doing this while you are having kids would be a bit difficult. So right now i will follow my dreams, do all the things i ever wanted to do. Im about to embark on my biggest journey of my life. And the feeling i have is indescribable!

My first post.

2009-07-28T05:32:00.001+10:00

so this this is my new blog. Thought i might as well start a new one now when im gonna start traveling. Almost three months left now. My one way ticket to Sydney (Australia) is booked awhile ago. Leaving my apartment soon, Selling almost all my possessions, and then im gonna live the last two months at my m8ts place so i can save up some more cash.

So three months and four days left now... Me and my m8 Stefan which im traveling with tried to pack his backpack at his place today.

We manage to fit everything into his backpack! Just under 12kg! not bad huh? That's an awesome feeling, have your whole life in one bag. What a freedom!

I bought the same backpack as him. Have to say that it rocks. Lightweight + good quality. Cost a bit tho, but it's so worth it.