2008

Hello, friends, wish you all the best in 2008!

It should be almost a month I haven’t update the blog and there should be 2 main reasons:

1. I moved to the new apartment on 16 Dec and I can’t get the internet access until early of Jan because there should be certain delay of receiving the modem from the service provider.

2. Quite busy and a little bit lazy, hehe!

Anyway, let’s start to share what I have done recently.

- Permanent address (Judithsvej 19, 1.th, 2900 Hellerup)

Finally I moved to the new apartment which is quite nice and quiet as it’s not located in the main street, 5mins walk to the train station, 15mins for riding bicycle to my office, good garden view and 10mins walk for supermarket. Actually, the apartment is 70m2 and seems more than enough for one person only.

- Language

The life is good and it’s not as difficult as expectation except the only problem of the language. Although 99% of the Danish people can speak fluent English, all the newspaper, TV, magazine, store, supermarket are using Danish, that’s fine. But just like I want to apply the internet service, the website of the largest telecom company of the country does not even provide the English version. So, I have to search the information and make my application with the dictionary at hand, quite interesting. And I think I’ll attend the Danish lesson later.

- Finland

Right after I received the key of the new apartment on Sunday morning on 16 Dec, I put everything there and had taken the noon flight for Finland in the same day. This is the first time I flied with SAS airline and the feeling is not bad. It takes about 1hr & 45mins to arrive the capital – Helsinki. When I left the airport terminal and arrived the taxi station, I can really feel the temperature should be much lower than Copenhagen. After I got a taxi, the driver told me it’s -2c and started to tell me he have been lived in Qingdao for last 10 years, back to Denmark because he have to consider the education of the children………and so on. He can’t stop even the taxi arrived the hotel after 40mins, hahaha!


The sunset is much earlier in Finland which is around 3pm. After I settled down in the hotel and then I immediately walked for the city centre but all the shops were closed because it’s almost 8pm. I can only take the McDonald for my dinner and tried to take the tram for my hotel. After the next day meeting, one of the colleagues is so nice and drove me around in the city and then I flied back to Denmark in the evening. So, it’s just a 1 night trip, too short!

- Birthday Box

The day after i back from Finland, it’s really a big surprise for me when I saw a box sitting on my desk in early Tue morning. When I opened it, I can find so many many snacks inside, all are my favourite.

Unfortunately, the birthday box seems a little bit later a week after my birthday because it have been hold by the custom. And, most important is all the cup noodles had gone. I’m just wondering how danger of it against the country or maybe too attractive for the staffs working in the cold midnight. Anyway, I love the gift.



- Cherry

She arrived on 21 Jan. It’s so great that I can pick her up at the airport and then sent her to my apartment even during the office hour on Friday. Actually, the jet lag is quite serious and she started to feel sleepy at around 7-8pm everyday just like the 1st week I’m here. Anyway, I’m so happy she spent 10 days here but unfortunately everywhere is closed for the holiday and we can’t walk in the whole day because of the cold weather as well. We visited a huge park in the countryside and IKEA to buy something for the home, treasured much the time we can cook and talk in the apartment and she left on 31st. So upset for us at the airport because she back and I have to stay.


- 3 x 30kgs Boxes

Cherry just packed everything and sent me 3 boxes before she left HKG, but bad luck only 2 of them had arrived during Cherry stayed at my home before the X’mas holiday, the last box is the most important which included the cooker and food…..etc. The post office normally will send the parcel to the address once only, mostly in office hour. If nobody answered, they will left a note and let you know to pick up from the post office. So, it should be the headache for me how to pick up the 30kgs box from the post office after the holiday, it’s too heavy and not possible to manage with the bicycle. I just keep thinking the solution and luckily I fixed it by using the big trolley of the supermarket and delivered to my home, so heavy!


- Snow

No white X’mas but the snow is coming right after Cherry left. Those couple of days before a heavy snow the temperature have been dropped to -2c to -4c with strong wind like the signal 8 in HKG, it would be quite hard to manage especially the guy who have to spend 15-20mins to ride the bicycle between the office and home each way like me. So, believe my health condition must be much better than before as I can do the regular exercise everyday with my bike and low temperature. Quite interesting to ride the bike while it’s snowing, of course I have to pay more attention on the road.


- Visitors

Yesterday I just spent a whole day to wash the apartment because 2 visitors arrived at evening from Sweden. Actually, it’s not the new visitors but just back to my home to stay again. So, at least I could talk to someone and suspend for talking to the wall as usual for the next 10days