Off to Sweden on day 56!

And.. on the 23rd of march, day 55:
I had been trying to work on my 0P410 essay but it didn't really progress far. As of now, I had pretty much fixed the 2 papers that I am going to work with. And.. I'm done with the intro and about the first paragraph. I'm not really sure about the rest. I guess i'll need to read the papers in detail. Anyway, I'd already printed out the 1ZM40 readings for the train rides in sweden and back, so that I would be prepared for the test a day after I come back :) And.. This day 55 was pretty warm. I was to go to Azri's house to cook curry for them to say thank you to pau for helping me with the passport. I also had too much veges left over to finish before going to sweden. I asked azri to help me bring over some of the ingredients to their house. But after i reached his place, i found out tt i had forgotten to bring the veges! hahah! since it was a warm day, i made my way back in a tee-shirt! Everyone on the street was looking at me as if i'm some alien! c'mon! it's 18 degrees! And.. Aysun and Flo helped me cut up the veges. Aysun made potatos in cream! It was wonderful! Flo brought out the table and chairs from the garage and we ate outside! It was pretty cold, but just nice for the dinner :D The setting was a bit too romantic though :P My roommates back at home were going to some Irish pub St Patrick's day. I went back home just after the dinner to get some sleep for the sweden trip. I had a fever yesterday too. No pics for today :(

And.. on 24th march, day 56. This day was the departure to sweden. I woke up in the morning with terrible muscle aches and tiredness. I went back to sleep for abt 1 hr more. Then I panicked and woke up to start my day! hahah! I washed up and started packing frantically. Later on, I went down to get shampoo, toothpaste and skin moisturizer. It was quite late ald! I msg-ed Azri to ask him to wait a bit longer. It was quite difficult to pack all my stuff into that Man U bag, although it was big. I was also wondering if it would be allowed as cabin baggage by ryan air. It exceeds the dimensions by abt 10 cm in length, but i was planning to fold it. By that time, It was getting super late ald. I was initially supposed to get to sch early to print our tics and stuff, but I forwarded them to azri to print.

Finally, I made my way down to sch. And this was the time tt i figured that i had forgot my EUrail pass! hahah.. Walked back abt 3 mins to get it. I decided to cycle to sch and park my bike there. It'ld be safer than placing it in my house. Thinking back, I should have been done with the shopping and packing the day before. This morning would have been just enough for me to wash up, do some final packing and set off to sch to print and have packed lunch :) Anyway, after reaching sch, I thought i had forgotten my camera! I decided to go back and take it as Azri walked to the train station. Luckily, on the way back, i found tt it was on my belt! hahah! I parked my bike in Piazza and went over to the station. We had missed a bus and so had a bit more time. I went to buy water from AHtogo and strippenkaart for the bus ride to the airport. We were abt an hour early (i think) for our Ryanair flight. Luckily, the lady at the counter didn't check my bag's dimensions or weight, while Azri's much smaller bag got checked! hahah! Everything went smoothly except that they threw away my water bottle. I should have drunk up before they threw it away, cos I had lots of time... I ended up buying a bottle from the store instead. 3.40 SGD for 500ml :(
And i dozed off after taking the take-off video. My body felt weird with the fever. I was hoping tt it wouldn't spread to Azri.

And it was great to see snow again as we landed in Stockholm skavasta airport. There were lots of snow! yea! And since the airport was way off from the city centre, we had booked a bus to drive us there. 100km journey! And there were just HUGE fields of snow! It was just snow everywhere on the floor!

And this was the wonderful bus that i was in:

The other pics i took are all blur :( Anyway, after reaching the city centre, and finding the train station, we went to have our dinner at Macdonalds. We were planning to get sth from 7-11 later, but didn't have enough time. Here's my dinner: yes, it's muffin and fries :P

I found free internet though! The macdonalds there was cool! Don't even need to reg to use their free internet! hahah.. I managed to check my mail and do some messaging. And people in stockholm were really friendly to us. As I were holding a map on the street, I saw this handicapped man and smiled. He immediately came up to me to ask if I needed help! oh boy! but anyway, there was this guy at the macdonald's counter who looked super weak. I think he was drunk or drugged or sth. He'd somehow managed to get hot water to drink from the counter but he could barely hold it and drink it. He couldn't even stand straight. I nearly wanted to buy him a muffin. The people in the counter seemed to be nice to him though.

After dinner, we rushed down to the train station to find our night train to Boden. The train was supposed to start at 8:42! We got in at abt 8:30. But for some reason the train didn't leave the station till abt 10pm!! There were at least 3 trains that came to the platform next our ours and left! anyway, here is the kind of seat on which Azri and i spent that night:

The train had a pantry and it was in our compartment. Here's the menu. You have to divide by 5 to get SGD. e.g., the Yoghurt (20Kr) is 4 SGD. Sorry if you have to tilt your heads :x

quite ex when you think of it in s'porean terms. But i think it is okay for a Scandinavian country

And look at the tracks, all covered in snow!

yup! that's all for today, folks!