Category: Sensible Rants

Advent Is Here Again

| 6 December 2012 | 3 Comments
Advent Is Here Again

Quite a late post about the start of Advent observation here but it has just started and just one of the four candles has been lighted. This is one event in this country that I don’t want to miss. Each year I spend time preparing my place for Advent. My kitchen window will always look [...]

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Welcomed With French Macarons

| 26 November 2012 | 2 Comments
Welcomed With French Macarons

To be honest, I hadn’t eaten these small, bite-sized dessert until a few months ago when we entered our room at Sheraton Hotel in Stockholm. I didn’t even know it was called French Macarons. I learned the name on Pinterest when I saw some pinned photos which I thought kind of well-known to me. I thought they’re just plain cookies but when I [...]

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Decorative Pumpkins for Halloween

| 29 October 2012 | 5 Comments
Decorative Pumpkins for Halloween

Halloween is just around the corner and some children can’t really wait to dress up scary. I always prepare goodies and candies just in case they come to ring the doorbell and rant “trick or treat?” in chorus. I’m not used to decorating my home for halloween but a tint of orange or yellow as a [...]

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Free Ticket to The Book Fair

| 1 October 2012 | 2 Comments
Free Ticket to The Book Fair

It wasn’t priceless to go to the book fair but my workplace shouldered the 220 SEK for a ticket. My colleague and I went to the annual Göteborg Book Fair at Svenska Mässan to use the free tickets provided us. It was my first time to see the fair though I know it takes place every year. We went around to find [...]

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Food and People at the Global Picnic

| 15 September 2012 | 2 Comments
Food and People at the Global Picnic

It’s my first time to join an event that was referred to me by a Facebook contact. I accepted the invitation and I asked my friends to come with me. It’s called Global Picnic and would take place in three Saturdays from today at the Kanaltorget in Gothenburg. We had the chance to see and eat some [...]

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When Summer Is Gone

| 14 August 2012 | 2 Comments
When Summer Is Gone

When summer starts my summer break starts but when summer ends and gone I’m back at work again. Though summer isn’t through yet I’m already busy working on my class schedule and all. Meetings here and there. Preparing this and that. Students will start filling the classrooms next week. It indicates the start of another [...]

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