Posted By Marlene on February 5, 2010
Photo from Wikipedia
I happened to learn about this Groundhog Day when I watched the film with the same title a long time ago. The celebration is on the 2nd of February each year in US and Canada but the largest gathering of crowd is in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The film highlights the celebration in Punxsutawney with Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. It’s a romantic-comedy flick and Bill and Andie are just made for their roles. You’ve got to watch this film if you haven’t yet. We love to watch this over and over. In fact, we’ve just watched it again.
Groundhog Day is not celebrated here (Sweden) but the event was in the newspaper the other day, maybe because of the extreme cold of this winter that the sweet little animal’s weather prognose becomes interesting. When Groundhog Phil sees its shadow, winter will be six weeks more. But if he doesn’t see its shadow spring will come earlier. Unfortunately, the groundhog revealed this time that winter will be longer. I am not complaining as I am used to snowfall in March, too. But I must say that this is the hardest winter I’ve ever had since I came here in nineteen-ninety-nine. I’ve learnt that February is the coldest month of the winter season here and sure it is, but I don’t know how cold it is this time. Meanwhile, here’s some pics I took this week when I was on my way to work.
in our place
near the school
Taking pictures of snow is my only consolation to appreciate the season. It’s wonderful to see, though it’s heck of a struggle to bear with the cold at the same time.
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Posted By Marlene on February 3, 2010
Looking for signature accessories for your special love on Valentine’s Day? Try Louis Vuitton. A gift for her and a gift for him with embroidered LV will surely paint the world red with L-o-V-e. Or love with red. But you don’t need to fly to Louis Vuitton in Paris to find your gifts. LV is one of the most popular signatures for women’s and men’s accessories and the local malls in your place may have some Louis Vuitton products. But watch out for a copycat.
Heading towards Louis Vuitton
Look where the people were heading. Seemed like it was on a rush hour to shop at Louis Vuitton. But whether they just window shopped or checked on things, it was worth going inside LV’s homeland headquarter.
Louis Vuitton - Paris headquarter
I am pulling your leg again. The photos were taken over a year ago when we were in Paris. It was a (New Year’s Eve) holiday and we were one of those people who did not make it to enter the building. But even if we did, I wouldn’t be sure if I could buy even a purse knowing LV’s luxurious high price. I would go for something less than a hundred Euro only. Yayy, I’ll keep dreaming…
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Posted By Marlene on February 1, 2010
Red is absolutely not my favorite colour but when something looks good in red I definitely fall in love and behold it. Roses, for instance, pose a romantic gesture when they’re red. And no girl would despise a bunch of red roses. I am mumbling about red because we are approaching the month of February and everybody knows what we celebrate this month. I don’t mean the Chinese New Year, which will be celebrated this month, too, but you know that V-day. And when V-day is coming red is also everywhere. Incidentally, Chinese New Year falls on Valentine’s Day this year.
Although red is not my fave colour, there’s something about it that becomes attractive to me. I fancy a red colour on gadgets. There is this distinct shade of red that I like a lot and I hardly get my eyes off it. Most of my gadgets are actually red; I don’t have many, anyway. And my tech-geek hubby seems to have this colour on his mind for my sake. That’s why when he surprised me with an Ipod-Nano on my birthday, it was perfectly in the colour I liked. This shade of red was not among the ones on display at any store but it can be ordered. So he had it delivered from Holland but he made all possible way not to be discovered by me.
Ipod Nano (crimson red?)
And look what had gotten in his mind that he had my name and this site engraved on it, lol! He normally asks me what I want for a gift but this time he didn’t. I thought it was because I had decided a weekend get-away instead. If he’d asked me, I wouldn’t definitely want an Ipod as I don’t really fancy Apple stuffs. This kind of thing I can live without. But the color, oh my, I just can’t let it slip from my hand. Hubby made it sure I would love his surprise gift. I guess I wouldn’t be receiving anymore red gadget this month. But red roses or red chocolates will do me great. Hahaa!
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Posted By Marlene on January 29, 2010
I can’t believe I haven’t written a follow-up post since Tuesday. It has been a gruesome week with winter storm followed by hard snow and ice on the roads and grounds. I feel pain in my hips when I get home because of the effort I exert when walking on ice. A number of people were rushed to the hospital after falling, slipping or tripping on icy surface. I guess you know this kind of story so I will not tell more about it. Anyhow, I survived the week without bruises or fractured body, thank God. So with hubby. I just wish it would rain a little to get rid of the toublesome slippery surface.
It’s certainly soothing to see something colorful up in the sky when everything down here is a chill. Winter nights can be magical sometimes and when I see a night that seems to be magical, I want to capture it as it is, like the photo below. It was another full moon night but the sky was amazingly in clear blue spectacle.
Winter Full Moon
Full Moon - Blue Sky
The distance to the moon seems so near, yet so far. I zoomed in my image to get a clearer view of the moon and the red color around it becomes visible too. It can’t be hot in the moon, eh?
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Posted By Marlene on January 25, 2010
If you heard that Europe is suffering from intense cold this winter, it’s definitely true. The snow on the ground hasn’t melted yet since last month and it seems to be snowing some nights that when I go out in the morning snow is covering the ground anew. It could have been better if it rained sometimes to keep the snow from becoming ice, because it’s really hard to walk on icy ground. I remember hubby’s brother broke his ankle when he tripped over a slippery surface about five years ago. And I don’t want this to happen to me so I am being careful when I’m out, especially that the snow that’s been on the ground for days can be treacherous.
It’s not only the ground can be icy with this extreme cold but the waters in the lakes and canals. The intensity of cold can in fact seen on waters. Just like what I saw a week ago in Gothenburg’s harbour canal, its surface was covered with ice. Then someone might have wanted to know if the ice was compact and threw a shopping cart in the canal. I had no idea how someone did it cos the shopping cart stood as if it was placed purposely that way.
A shopping cart on icy canal?
The canal was quite full of rubbish that day and it was not a pretty sight. Anyhow, the one who threw that shopping cart wasn’t a fool to take a walk or jump on, or he or she must have been frozen to death, lol! The ice was not stable and it would break with heavier weight.
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