Arriving at Singapore!

On my journey to Australia we had to make a short one houre stop at Singapore airport. One houre in Singapore is not much. The time at the airport feels like a drop of water on a hot day - wasted. Wasted because I dont have the chance to see anything but the airport. Well, maybe next time I have time.

The airtrip from London - Singapore is about 12 hours, and went surprisingly well. The time litteraly flew away. It hit me how big the Earth really is... 12 hours may not seem much, depending on what you measure against, but when you travel with about 1000 km/hr its a lot. You get far, far away. Yet, the world gets smaller and smaller... The technology brings people together and the physical distances probably seemed a lot further 100 years ago.

Now I have a plane to catch!

Greetings from Singapore!

Home, sweet home!!

On the steps on a new journey (this time to Australia) the concept of traveling strikes me again. Traveling has always been something that excites me. Even today, I'am still choosing a window seat to have a look out when the plane takes off. It's like christmas again :) It's just as excitening as the first time. For a few years ago I realized something new. The place I grew up seemed boring and dull. I've been here all my life and there was nothing new here. After I came home from a vacation in south Russia, I realized that my place where I used to live has changed. There were no new buildings, no new neighbors. Even the same garbage outside my house were still here. But the place has changed!!!

I looked at my area with new eyes. I've been out for almost a month and has almost got used to the surroundings in Russia, and still, even with the same surroundings home I realized that I started to like my neighborhood. Today I enjoy living here, it might not be among the top 10 most beautifull places in the world, but that doesn't matter. Thats why we travel, right? To go out see these places. But I'am sure it's one of the best places to live :)

It's not many minutes left before I'am heading to Australia. I look forward to it, but I also look forward to come home and look at my neighborhood with new eyes again. Thats the best part of traveling :)

Connection the old fashion way...

I just made a t-shirt design for the Google t-shirt competition at Threadless T-shirts. I have to admit the t-shirt look very nice. Please take a look at it on the link at the top-right corner. If you like it why not vote for it or write to me?

A 'little' friend visited us...

I never actually been particularly interested in bees, wasps or bumblebees. Actually I hate all tiny insects with wings buzzing around me. I probably have some forgotten traumatic experience as a child about insects. The other day I was sitting in my office, I suddenly heard my wife scream out loud like it was a meteor coming down outside our own window. Like I always do I rushed out and there it was, this giant bumblebee.

Between me and my wife, I am not the one who are most scared... which suits me well! Somehow it calms me down when I see other more freaked out than myself. To me an insect is an insect and a bumblebee is a bumblebee, but I now I wanted to found out more about this little creature who visited us. On Wikipedia I counted over 30 different bumblebees. I also heard that a bumblebee actually weight too much compared to the size of its wings, so its kinda odd that it actually are able to fly at all.
Anyway, as my wife gently caught it and let it out again, I though: I still may not like insects, but at least I learned something about bumblebees today! They are far more interesting that I thought, and not so scary at all ;)

Have a nice day!

Who are you all...?

When I created this blog, I also implemented Google Analytics which show statistics of people visiting my blog, but off course I don't see who you actually are. Google Analytics tell me that there are visitors from different part of Europe, and some of you I am little curious on who you are. Thats why I put this tagboard in the right column where anyone can type a comment. So if you feel like, you may type a greetings to me and everyone else. It would make me very happy, because my curiousness are to explode soon.
By the way, this Google Analytics have some very cool features. You can get lots of interesting information about those who visit your site. If your afraid that you as a visitor will give away sensitive information to Google, it doesn't. It's simply registering useful information for web-developers and marketing departments, like what browser, OS, screen resolution, etc. you are using. The coolest feature would be that you may see where a visitor are located on a world map (by internet provider), and you may see which time on the day your page is visited and how many new visitor compared to those who are returns to your site. Cool huh?

Anyway, another work day is passed, and I need to get something to eat ;)
Have a nice day!

Is life a game?

My mother in law came to visit my wife and me for a couple of weeks. A few days before she was leaving, we talked about if she needed a ride to the airport or just going by train. My dad kept telling us that it was OK to take a few hours off work and drive her. We decided to use train instead because my wife was going to spend some time in Oslo, which is by the way. The day after my wife came to me and asked: "Are you sure it's OK for us to go by train. I mean, won't your dad get offended when we decided not to let him help us?".

I said: "No, it's simply a question of whether you would like to get a ride or not!" She still didn't quite believe me. I am sure things are a little different back in Russia (where my wife comes from by the way).

That's when it hit me. Why all this back and forth about offending each other. "What if I do this? What would he say?" or "What if I don't say that? What will she think?" and it keeps rolling on and on.

I never actually understood this. Why do people make up these "games" with each other? If life is a game, why didn't God give us the rules? I like games, but not these kind of games!



Please email me if you have an answer!



Have a nice day ;)

Friends will be friends...

You probably heard it many times that friends doesn't grow on trees. Sometimes I wish it did, because I am not the kind of guy who easily find new friends. I am not a small-talker, more like a "big"-talker. When a conversation turns into about weather, I know it's a dead end. The conversations simply stops. So I always try to avoid that topic.

Anyway, in spite of my small-talk problems, I somehow manage to find a beautyfull girl who became my wife. Time flies and I wish I could pay more attention to her that I have done lately. A good friend of mine I was chatting to while I was working late, simply reminded me that I should go out, wake up my wife and give her a big nice hug. I do that from time to time, but I could certainly do it more... She doesn't get the attention she deserves!

Sometimes we forget how important our friends are. They are the glue of life. They stick together no matter what happens. They still likes you when you did something foolish. They understand you when you need it most and they sometimes tell you what to do. So if you have a dear friend or someone close to you, give them a hug and tell them how much they mean to you.

Friends! You are the best in my life (next to my wife of course). You know who you are.

Have a nice day!