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What started as a hostage situation with an elderly man armed with a machete, has ended in massive car fires and destruction of property by protesters in Husby and its neighboring suburbs.
It is uncertain whether the unnamed man shot by the police was a direct threat to them when they entered the apartment. He was shot by police after refusing to drop his weapon and was declared dead upon arrival at the hospital. However, Megafonen, a youth community group only saw a hearse and never an ambulance.
They believe the shooting was part of an increasing presence [...] Continue Reading…
Le Douze Points of Eurovision 2013 Fashion Fail
22 May2013
It’s over. The greatest hangover of the year that lasts a week.
Eurovision.
2013.
A reprise to 2014. Thank god, I need 200 days to recouperate before Sweden’s Melodiefestivalen attacks my eyes and ears like the zombie virus of bad singing and fashion.
For now, let’s visit the worst of Eurovision fashion from last week. Please be ready to be offended.
Un Point – Israel – Poorly Fitted Mermaid Dress. Honestly, the fashion designer and seamstress(es) should be fired for this outfit. It was poorly shaped, poorly stitched, and lumpy. Just because Moran is a luscious sized woman, [...] Continue Reading…
Something Hot, Something Sweet, Something Salty, Something Black – Lakritsfestivalen 2013
17 Apr2013
This year’s Lakritsfestivalen is right around the corner. After stuffing myself sill last year, I wanted to pass the torch on to someone who loves licorice but hates to admit it. Let me introduce you to Maja, a veritable Swedish girl, who is a fantastic cook and licorice expert. She will be blogging about the festival before and after. Yea, I gave her the dirty work of eating candy and talking to strangers.
It’s this time of year again, Swedish licorice time! The licorice festival is around the corner and what’s a better way to [...] Continue Reading…
The Blogroll is Broken — Add Your Blog Below
8 Apr2013
Well, I decided to do a little housekeeping on the site. Besides fixing a lot of minor issues (indexing attachment pages and page# urls), I noticed my blogroll page is dead.
That is because Feevy, the site I used to aggregate all the blogroll links and sort them by latest post, is dead. Completely dead. Googled for Feevy and nothing comes up.
It means my blogroll list of 30+ blogs over the past five years are gone. Boo!
I need your help then. If you would like to have your blog included in my blogroll, please drop [...] Continue Reading…
- In: news
Språkrådet, the Swedish Language Council, issues a list of new words every year that officially enter the Swedish language. Some of them make sense, some are just silly, but most are related to pop culture.
When I was reading the list over the weekend, my husband and I were laughing over the word ogooglebar. It means, to be “ungoogleable.” And then we thought, I wonder if Google knows about it…
Yea, well, Google did send Språkrådet nasty grams to change the definition of the word and let everyone know that “google” is protected under copyright. And that [...] Continue Reading…
Swedish Department Store Opens Pandora’s Box with “Normal Sized” Mannequins – We Think It’s Awesome
19 Mar2013
This past week you all have probably heard about the normal size models Åhléns department store put up. First, it is in Åhléns Malmö and not in H&M like many news channels are saying. Second, everyone in the world has made it a huge deal except Sweden. And third, this is real and not a hoax.
Glad we got that out of the way!
From reader, Sabina, who captured the photos below, said “I liked that the store itself didn’t make a big deal about it. These models were just like every other model.”
The lingerie “normal” [...] Continue Reading…
- In: news
Like anyone living in a foreign country, you eventually get used to things. Some things just remain a nuisance while others are accepted as cultural idiosyncrasies.
Now that I have been here for a few years, I have come to terms with a lot of things. Some aspects drive me crazy (more on that later) but overall, I am doing my best to take a laissez-faire approach to serious issues. If the people aren’t forcing and clamoring for change, why I should be the outspoken one to hate on things? And if people don’t hate [...] Continue Reading…
That’s because precious little HRH Princess Estelle turned one yesterday!
Doesn’t it feel like yesterday when she was born? Gosh time flies.
To celebrate her first birthday as the future queen of Sweden, the princess wore her mom’s one year birthday dress. And ate cake.
I think that is a pretty awesome way to celebrate a birthday.
with mom and dad: H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria, H.R.H. Prince Daniel
And a look back at her dop {baptism}! Her dress was first worn by Gustaf Adolf at his baptism in 1906. Pretty neat to wear a dress 106 years old.
Photographs [...] Continue Reading…
- In: royal family
The Nordic Region – The Happiest Place on Earth
19 Feb2013
For all that Swedes complain about the winter, weather, and rain, Sweden is one of the happiest places on Earth.
And so is Finland, Norway, and Denmark. Our saddest little neighbor, Iceland, is only the 15th happiest place on Earth.
Overall, the Nordic region is one happy family and Scandinavia is Disneyland in real life.
The 2012 Legatum Prosperity Index, produced by a British non-partisan public policy organisation, identifies the world’s happiest and saddest countries. They used several sources of data (objective and subjective) from Gallup, World Development Indices, and self researched. The 2012 LPI is similar to the [...] Continue Reading…
Close Encounters of a Semlor Dough
13 Feb2013
Yesterday, being fettisdagen, I decided to make my own semlor. They were quite successful last year and I was thinking this time I could perfect them.
I didn’t really perfect them as much as gave the dough {deg} CPR and life support. It was near total disaster.
I’m pretty scared of yeast based recipes and semlor are no different. Many Swedish recipes call for fresh yeast while in the US, many recipes call for active dry yeast. And many recipes don’t even specify if fresh yeast or dry yeast should be used.
The many options from Kronjäst
There is [...] Continue Reading…
- In: food
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