Archive for June, 2009

Moving to Sweden? Online Resources

29, Jun 2009

If you are new to Sweden or need some information about Sweden, here are some online resources and communities to check out: Bloggalicious: Welcome to Sweden. A personal blog run by the talented Hairy Swede. His blog will make you laugh, cry, and scream all at the same time about living in Sweden. Also check [...]

How to pick-up a drunk Swedish boy on Midsommar in 3 steps

27, Jun 2009

Okay we’re teasing the Swedes here but my French friend and I just couldn’t help but tease the strangest holiday of the year. In case you didn’t know, Midsummer occurs on Summer solstice, the longest day of the year as well as the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere. Midsommarafton, celebrated the day [...]

Milk and Cookies Boys … The Nice Guys

16, Jun 2009

Milk and cookies boys was a term coined up back in high school by my friend Miss Jade.  A milk and cookie guy is someone essentially who loves his mom, helps out in the housework, has female friends that are just friends, cleans up after himself, enjoys chatting and shopping with chicks, and respects women. [...]

A Night with Dagens Media… and the meaning of Gender Equality

13, Jun 2009

While on the way to a tweetmeetup at the Scandic Anglais Hotel, LBO and I stopped by to Vapiano for dinner. When we arrived at the hotel for the meetup, it was packed up people, for a media event. Like buffons we wandered around for 20min and never found the group, and of course had no contact numbers. Why would we do that!

Instead, we bought a glass of wine and headed over to an empty. At that point, a disheveled, yet handsome, blond haired swede ask LBO something. I couldn’t hear and she didn’t quite understand the Swedish. We sat down anyway and then heard our American accents.

Swedish Swedos and Stekare Stockholmers

5, Jun 2009

I have no idea why Stockholm men wear a ton of hair gel. The average Stockholm male uses 9 containers of gel and the average cost per bottle is 230SEK. That’s a lot of gel, enough to electrify an entire heard of horse I bet. Please men, I beg you to stop the madness. This [...]


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