The first swimming of the year in Gålö Sweden

Gålö is a nice beach with very long shallow water meters after meters away. Good for the small children to swim without guidance in the water. Especially Gabriel enjoyed rolling himself in the water and running forward and back to us alone.




He just love taking photos and posing lately. Created the laughing atmosphere to the family.



Gabriel came back after his first dip in the sea. Temperature 26 degree in the sun and probably 20 degree in the water.


He went swimming alone and came back to have a small bite of food.



The sisters just enjoying the sun including myself.



Dragging daddy to swim with him .

Death of the King Pop Star.

Michael Jackson 1958 - 2009

It was indeed a shocked for everyone to hear the sudden death of Michael Jackson. All those years of stardom and scandal has really kept him in the headline. The real truth of Michael death are yet to be found.

Somehow I have read that the real precise cause of his death will unlikely be detected even with an autopsy.

I remember seeing Michael Jackson first two concert performing in Singapore National Stadium in 29th August in 1993.

May his soul rest in peace.

Officially open again to public.

It has been a while since I kept my blog private until today when my sister in law wrote an email asking why she cannot even open up my blog even after signing in and my dad has been asking her to find out why he cannot read my blog. I know dad follows my blog as and when he has the time. Tried to make it easier for my parents to just be able to go in without signing in.

Here I finally made a simple refresh of the page and open them back to public.

Friends Visit from Egypt on Volvo Ocean Race.

This is Mahmoud's family, a friend of Elrener from Egypt. The family have been to Finland, Talinn and their final stop to Stockholm for 3 days before they fly back home to Egypt. Somehow Mahmoud is not with them in this trip.

Ellie came to me last night asking if Mahmoud could come here for a week to Stockholm before she started her summer work later. Need to have a discussion with Peter.



Ahmad carrying daughter Dijah, Najua and Elrener.

The Volvo Ocean Race coinside when they are here in Stockholm and we bought them there to see it. Thousands of people came to the port when the sailing boat arrived in Stockholm. 8 months in the sea and travelling to different countries in the world and finally they arrived Stockholm.




Ericsson 4 is on the top list of 110.5 points.


Closer look of Ericsson 4.



Telefonica is being lifted up for repair.



We stop for a drink as in one of the restaurant and bar. As usual Gabriel always needs his rest after long walk.


Dinner later that night at TGI Friday.


Gabriel posing with the mannequin sailor. There are plenty of activities for children and adult.



Peter and Ahmad compete in The Grinding Challenge for the fun of it. I can see them struggling after the colour level gets higher. This is how tough the sailor uses the grinding each time they changes their course accordingly to the wind direction and they do it so fast and quick with the challenge of strong waves.



Ahmed won!!



Gabriel wants me to take his photo with the Giant Ericsson Dummy Mobile.


Left: Veldiner, Elrener, Najua and little Dijah.



On the way to the old town beside the king castle after the Volvo Ocean Race.



Gabriel again posing with a hat.



Ahmad and daughter Dijah taking a photo with the troll of sweden in the old town wearing the viking hat.

Midsummer in Skansen, Stockholm

Midsummer eve on the June 19th were surrounded by thousands and thousands of people inside Skansen. Typical swedish celebration where the old or young would gather together and dance around the decorated flower pole as seen below.



Most people will decorate their head with flowers and greenery of the leaves. I found it is so beautiful. Everyone will hold each other hand whether in regards we know each other.There will several layers of big cirle around the flower pole where they go around singing.



The weather on midsummer was not that shinning and warm. We had couple of light rain, windy and dark clouds. Yet it does not stop anyone from enjoying the mid summer. I personally felt cold that day and my fingers was not only freezing but numb for a while.



Some would go around with the very old traditional swedish dresses of blue and yellow which symbolise the swedish flag.
Couldnt get very good shot of the her as I am being squeezed in between all those crowd.



Gabriel was not so keen of the dancing around the pole and asked to leave. We walk to the nearby carousel where he took some rides and played games instead.


He tried the fishing games where he caught 3 ducks of the same colours and won a second price which he chooses the toys below.




One of the toy is just a junk crap that last few mins and it broke.

Simple and easy

Wanted very simple neckless with few blue beads. Then i came out with this ones.

A little things.

Who ever that have invented that thing on Gabriel head must have thought that it would be easy to go around without having to hold your drink using your hand. Somehow let the head do the rest of the job.
It is not that easy to balance 2 heavy bottle on a head and drink at the same time. What kind of flexibility would you need to have as you are not able to bend or turn your head spontanously.


We passed by a shop called Teknik Magasinet where they sell all sorts of things and things that you can't find anywhere else easily. Gabriel saw this particular poster outside the door with the hat and the straws attached to it which he wanted it so much and daddy bought it for him and now as you can see it has ended up on his head and the drinks seems to be spilling all over his T-shirt. (More laundry for me)

Test trial the drinking hat the minute he came back home and he uses it only once and give it up as he said it is not easy to drink with the thing on the head.
What a waste. Now it ended up in the top kitchen cupboard.



Couple of nice sunny day here, we will always be able to see the hot air balloon passing by right in front of our house.

Thought it was beautiful that I took couple of snap of those balloon.
Again Gabriel told his dad that he would love to try to be in that balloon someday. Would I allow him? I dont know.

Personally I wouldn't dare myself as I am not so much of a height, speed landing, shaking, and openly on the air type of person.

I never fancy flying either. I just have to if I wanted to travel somewhere but I have never fond of being in the plane especially long flight.

Turbulence is another thing that is not considered friendly to me. Somehow I always end up travelling with the kids alone and when such situation occured, my daughter would be frighten and I normally acted calm and said it was nothing as I do not want to frighten them much more than they already did but the truth fact, ohhh S...t, I hated that moment as I swallowed my saliva.

Peter is a pilot himself and he always explain to the children and me the causes of turbulence and in fact the last couple of years, I was not as panic as I was before. If I have not met again with the bad turbulence which I face once when the plane drop few meters down that shrunk my heart immediately and many passenger were screaming at that time.
That is the reason if I do get the first class seat I would not feel much shacky as the back tail of the plane will be worst in theory or the wing is pretty good to seat if I do ended up in economy class.

Adventure Golf

We played Adventure golf in the very same place as we played Football Golf the other day.
Had our lunch in the restaurant there and we head for the Adventure golf. It was not that easy as it looks. There are plenty of obstacle but somehow interesting.


To get the ball to go through the small hole in the miniture building.




Under the giant tea cup there are two hole and it's a bigger hole on the green while and the red is pretty small.


Start from where Gabriel is now and the hole ending up in the boat.



This is one of the many adventure which Gabriel found interesting as he have to shoot with the obsticle of a bridge and a small miniture river.




Gabriel and mummy had a small break after the golfing.

Wii Sports

Friday 29th May, Peter came back from Norway with Wii for Gabriel. He has been waiting for Wii for a long time now. In fact we never bought it, Jonas bought Wii and have been using it only once and it has been laying in his storage since then. So he let Gabriel have it as he knows that Gabriel will have much more fun with it.

I think it is good for Gabriel to play Wii instead of his playstation as he move his body alot. And he played the sports games where he really moves his body when he play tennis, baseball, boxing etc.

Sunday 31st May 2009, Mother's day.

My Children presented me a white lovely summary dress on mother's day first thing in the morning. I have it on me the very same day when we were out.

Actually the kids wanted to surprises their mother with breakfast on bed but I got up while they were just about to start their preparing. I was still unaware that it was mother's day as we never usually practise it. I was wondering why are all the 3 kids up early over the weekend and all bed are clean and finally they gave me a nice dress which I realised it was mother's day.

We had a light breakfast at home and get ready to go out for a nice picnic. Met up with Peter's parents in Djurgården. Later we played a game called kubb where the boys verses the girls team. The girls team won.

My Sandles

Vel bought herself a pair of sandles for the summer and unfortunately it was slightly to big for her and I decided to take over and give a little touch of adding my little accessories to it. It may take some times to fix the details but it'd done in few hrs.

Football Golf with the family.

We saw a sign of Football golf couple of weeks ago while we were out walking and have been longing to try the game. Since Peter last hurt his foot while playing football with Gabriel, we have no chance to play it until he gets better someday. For a long 4 weeks of limping, finally it was over and we decided to give it a try.
It was a nice beautiful sunny weekend and since everyone agreed to get involved and kick some ball together, we decided to start getting ready and get going.

Somehow we had a few funny incident where my shoe flew off together with the ball and little Gabriel coincidently took a snap of it. It happened again not long after but this time it was Elrener's turn . It was indeed hilarious.

I found that football golf is a nice game for the family of all ages. It can also be healthy and fun sports as we run, walk and kick.