~Tink's Mysteries~

Hahha!!

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:47:31 GMT

I mean, how long since it's been? Half a year or so? :-P Time flies fast, I wonder where they are all gone. Much have happened since last time, but to avoid the possibility of going into a random babble, I'll just sum up the most important stuff:

After a month or so apart from my boyfriend, we got back together again. It's difficult to stay away from someone you love so much, and I, of all people I know, have never been able to that. We had a period where everything needed to be fixed, but things are finally improving. Lately we've had a great time together. I've come to the conclusion that because of our different backgrounds, there'll always be quarrels/arguments between us, but we know why now, at least :) And when you know why, it easier to find a solution, or a compromise.

We have also moved into a new apartment. For a while we discusse the possibility of buying, but the markets are just not suitable for first time buyers. Especially if you have zero funding and will have to take up a 100% loan. The new apartment is smaller than the house we lived in, but it's newer. A little more expensive too, it costs 5500 NOK, for for a apartment of this size (about 70-80m2), it's a okay price. The location is not as good as before, but the will not be a problem if I just get my driver's license.... It's only a 10 min drive to work and 5 min to the city. With a bus it takes me half an hour (waiting between the transfers not included) It a known phenomenon that the public transportation in Norway does not work anywhere except in Oslo.

Also, we are going to have a little cat :) He's coming to his new home this Sunday, actually. I think we're going to call him either Lucifer (from the Disney's version of Cinderella), or Rambo. The last one is a favorite of my boyfriend's, just don't ask :p

Hmm... what else... Oh yeah... I had this major computer crash a couple of months ago so I had to reinstall everything on my computer. Luckily I have several discs (a total amount of about 500 gig) so the loss was just minimal. Except that I lost all my photos, which I had stacked on the C: drive. I hadn't taken pictures for the past two-three years, but still there were hundreds (if not thousands) of them on the disc. I had two model colletions which were taken privately, and some stuff from China when I attended school there. I simply just panicked when I realized that. But a couple of weeks later, when we were unpacking the rest of our stuff, I just happened to recover a back up copy taken last year or so, and THAT made my day :D The morale of this story?? Take back ups of important stuff WHENEVER you have a chance and update the back up!! ;)

- Technlogy makes us less romantic, they say. Not surprisingly when writing KOTL, instead of Kiss On The Lips -

Whatever.

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:08:40 GMT

Oh well, so much for the drunken anxiety...

The guy I sort of hitted on, today he declared that he wasn't interested in me that way... I mean, wtf? He didn't seem to mind last night, to the intimacy, but now it's like: I ruined my chances because I tried too hard? heh?

What is it with guys?!

Trouble.

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:57:59 GMT

So, here I am again. I have a fucked up tendency to end up with un-mature men, who have no idea about life, love or relationship. They live inside their little world of geekness, and think that it can save everything. Whatever outside their world is just stupid and not even worth their time- or money. I'm a little resigned when it comes to my boyfriend (that is why I sit here seven o'clock in the morning)......

There's a major disagreement about the future of our relationship. I would like to know what he thinks about us in one year ahead of time, that's about the time when I finish my bachelor's degree. That means a huge possibility that I have to move back Oslo so I can get a job. Which again also means that he might have to follow me there, if we really have a great relationship at that time... The problem occurs when I can not get anything definite out of that guy!!! *sigh* He says that he is unsure, but he doesn't want to give up. He says we need to do something, but everything I suggest is wrong... He says that he can not give me any definite answer of the current problem, since he won't know until a year has passed by. WTF? Am I supposed to put my whole soul into a relationship, which currently is not working, and hope that it will turn out okay??? I want a guy who is willing to risk something too, thank you very much!

And now, there's the REAL problem. I moved out from our joint apartment about a month ago, and I've started to feel attraction to other people again. I know it's a signal. Usually, when I'm with a guy and things are fine; I don't see other guys. But now? I think I actually am fascinated by a friend of my new landlord. They are both master students in economics, and my landlords friend came here to help with math... Since then we've been to a couple of parties (one tonight, actually), and I have had sporadic contact with him over text messaging. Tonight was really WEIRD.

It all started good, we were downstairs at my landlords place, and since they were all boys, we had some playstation game and they all gave me alcohol (I got dizzy quite fast, since I hadn't eaten so well earlier this evening), and I just became flirty with my landlords friend. Yes, I know someone might characterize it as unfaithfulness, but hey... I haven't been able to talk to my boyfriend for the past couple of months! Me and him (my landlords friend) discussed stuff like Chinese foreign politics, music -we both like trance, it seems-. I mean, WTH, when he touched me, I shivered!!! I'm like, oh my god! I felt like a stupid stupid idiot... Like when we are back in comprehensive school or something... My landlord's brother played the role of a matchmaker the whole evening: in every occasion he had, he tried to get me and him (my landlords friend) together...

And well, I felt it "clicked", but I don't know what he feels, and there is a possibility that he didn't tell me the truth since I'm officially still with my boyfriend... This is going to kill me! Big time! I talked with him for many hours- I can't remember last time I actually just talked like that to somebody, especially guys. I mean, having an intelligent conversation without it being about computers, techno stuff in general or sex?!

Now I've ended up having this drunken anxiety (which Norwegians are very good at having after this kind of party), without even been drunk! -I've had four drinks in total this evening, and that's close to nothing. Oh my.. What have I done? What _should_ I do??

wishlist

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:00:10 GMT

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/8ed4/ me <3

Oh no!

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:44:50 GMT

Five extra exams plus the obligatory ones for this semester. I'm going to die...(!) Oh well, we'll see about how I do. Moved to my own apartment now, hopefully the reading will be easier then. Still together with my boyfriend, thou.. Don't even think about it you guys ;)

Just the other day I suddenly came to some sort of conclusion, that maybe all my relationships went bad because of cultural crashes. Even I'm considered as Norwegian by my friends, the employer's don't, and not the rest of the society either. And to be the truth, I don't either. I do have some Norwegian elements, yes. Like the desire for independence and the rights to control the outcome of my life myself. I definitely hate to be put under command by some grown-up who is not my employer, and I am very outgoing; which really is a European character for (at least) girls, since Asian girls are supposed to be quiet and good-natured. An average Chinese girl is traditional (except for the new generation thou), with the old family values banged into their heads. I do have some of the old ideas, but I simply hate being invisible just because I am a girl. I speak of whatever I want to whomever I want, and if you don't like what I say, well, screw you :P

I believe in equality between men and women, but I don't think quota is the way to go. Some types of companies might need it, but to change the assumption that women are beneath men can only be done by principle changes during the raise. Instead of calling tasks for women-tasks and men-tasks (i.e. cooking and repairing cars), why just not call it tasks??? I don't care who fixes the car, as long as it's fixed with competent hands.

There are other differences too, like for instance the smaller things in life as how to show someone that you appreciate them. You don't have to buy diamonds for that, all I wish is a huge amount of attention and caring, and a little help once in a while. I talked to a colleague of mine the other day, who is married to a lady from Philippines, about this. He told me, that he was lucky that way- since his wife is raised with traditional women values; and it's natural for her to do household work. He wasn't even allowed to help, so he went out for a walk and came back to her with a rose instead. And we talked about how many different ways there is to show someone that you appreciate them, i.e. give them a massage, or something like that. Why can't more Norwegian guys think this way???

It seems that most Norwegian relationships are very superficial. Heard stories from my roommate yesterday, she was exchange student for a couple of years until she moved back to Norway this semester, and all her friends who were with her in Sweden lost their relationships when they returned. One of her female friends who suffered this had a relationship of almost 5 years and they were supposed to get married(!). When I asked my roommate if there were any special reason , there were none except that people changed after a year abroad. I mean, so what??? If you've dated someone for 5 years, you don't break up just because one of you turned a little different. Of course it depends on what kind of differences, if the couple were agreed not to have children, but one of them suddenly just HAVE to have kids, that's a problem. But if just you become more outgoing, or something like that??? I mean, it's a good thing, isn't it?

You can't just break up with people just because they change! If you do that, no wonder there is less and less people living together as a family. Couples don't even get around to get married!!!

-I give up

Sun is back!

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:28:34 GMT

Yes, as impossible as it might have seen, the sun is actually back on this corner of the country :D
School is back on, I have five subjects this year which is a few less than the last semester, but I still have to retake the other exams I didn't pass.

I've made one single New Year's resolution this time, even though I'm not really a fan of that sort of stuff. But for a long time now, I've wanted to lose a little weight, so I've started a new routine and will go for a walk every other day and go to the gym a couple of times through the week. Also, I saw a diet drink thingy which I ought to try out as a part of this program. I'm not thinking about cutting any meals, but it might come handy when I have little time to eat breakfast. Instead of not eating anything at all until lunch, I can have the diet drink and get the calories I need. My mother says I've lost a little weight already, since she can see that my face is not as round as it was before :P but I'm loosing weight on the wrong places, and that's probably a result from the lack of physical training. The hope is to reduce about 5 kilos. I think a weight of 55 kilo is acceptable considering my height, which will give me a BMI of about 110. Yet I think I'll have a hard time reaching it, since my bone structure counts for the most of my weight and that's not reduce-able. Not that my breasts help either, but as they are the first to loose fat when girls go on a diet, I'm not that much worried about that.

I look forward to fit into normal sized bras :P

Results

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:13:46 GMT

As known, I deducted from two exams but I completed the remaining six. I failed one, passed three, but the last 3 exams were the worst. *sigh*

Yeah!

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:25:56 GMT

Happy New Year, everybody! Seen any nice fireworks? We didn't have any, I spent this evening working on my homepage (jeje, I know!).

Anyhow, I've encountered a problem with my php script, it's rather complicated and I haven't managed to dig up anything on the web about it yet. Or it might not be complicated for those who actually know php. The thing is, I have a php file called meny.php, which I intended to include on all the pages on my site. On the meny.php file I've linked to my undermenues, tinknest.php and tinkwriting.php. These three files are in the main folder of the website directory, while some of my pages are under a folder called /poems. I have divided my poems into Norwegian poems and English poems, but I have placed them under the same folder called /poem. If I am at a page called calmbeforestorm.php (which is located under the /poem folder) it will automatically look for the meny.php file in the same folder, and not the meny.pp file in the main folder, when using the include() function.

I found a way to fix the problem, but that meant I had to have all the files needed for the include script located in each of the folders on my website, but that completely removes the benefit of using the script (at least in my opinion).

Christmas holidays, yeah!

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:31:46 GMT

Aaaah! The luxury of doing nothing! I don't think I'd bother to update anything here either :P But T, if you read this, please call me or something. I'm trying to figure out when you get back (I'll return to South the 6th of January). As usual, I've forgot it.....

Lustsign!

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:55:00 GMT

T., you know me :P

Wow!

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:09:17 GMT

It was about time to update something here :P Over a month without being online, some people might start to think that something is wrong with me .p Oh well, what's being going on, let's see...

I've had six exams the past three weeks- yes, and there are still two left. I dropped out of one exam, but I think the other five went ok. Expect the one yesterday, called financing and investment. That's a whole lot math, I have never been good with math, am not now and will never be. I'm wondering how the math exam on Monday will be. I'll probably sit there and feel stupid. All the other stuff you can sort of fake, like in Organizational theories. Learn some basic of the theories and you can still write a seven page paper on a exam. Some of it is due to the fact that you hear about it all the time in the news, companies dealing with organizational problems and methods as such. Etichs is also another easy subject. The theories are tough, yes, but when you get a grip of it, it is just all blah blah blah. I can't come up with any other exams where I've wrote so much crap. But subjects that is based on math, or on practical stuff is like hell. I should have studied law, as I first planned to.... That's the one subject I don't need to work so hard in. I have always got B in all the (law)classes I've taken since upper secondary school. I really look forward to next semester though, except for two math subjects, I'll have mostly law and maritime subjects. For a long time now, I haven't really actually studied something I enjoy, so it will be good to read things I am interested in!

On another note, I've started driving practice again, with the help of my boyfriend's father. In fact, I'll be out driving this afternoon :) Although the weather haven't been optimum for driving, I think we've had three sunny days since late October. We had a stroke of lightning last week- we lost our router, so now the modem has to handle the data transfer for our four computers and one IP phone. I don't think it's doing that well though, we have a 20mbit line, but I can't even surf normally at the same time as we download, although the dl has limited upload to 120 kb/s. And we have an upstream speed of 800 kb/s! It could possibly be that our router is not completely "well" after the lightning- among other things, the WAN-port is not working, so I'll wait to make any definite conclusions until we get a new one. But still, our ISP said that the modem they offer can be used as a router (which is what we have to right now) but how can you use a modem for router functions, when the modem doesn't even have static ip?! All kind of bittorrent requires static ip, and since this is not the case at the moment, we'll have to configure the modem each time the computer has been off. Hopefully these problems will be fixed right after new year, since it's Christmas now and everything, I guess people are not up for work, even though there still is a work week left and there are normal working hours between Christmas and the New Year's eve... *sigh*

Also being arguing with my bf a little lately. We've had some misunderstandings regarding commitment and responsibility issues, after all, we do come from two different cultures. Considering my childhood (which I really didn't have), I have none problems when it comes to take responsibility at home. Back then when I lived with my parents, I had the main responsibility for contact with i.e. our restaurant's suppliers, the costumers, the government, and my parents emoployers. But my boyfriend, on the other hand, had almost none responsibility through his years of growth. His parents didn't need his help since they could manage, and after their divorce, everything just became even worse. Yet, even though I told him, that if I had a childhood like his, I'm sure I would not be where I am now, he still has trouble taking it seriously. And don't even get me started about the commitment issues. What the **** is your problem? Every guy I've met/dated, have had commitment problems. What IS so bad about having a home or even a family? I mean, I can understand it if a guy is having trouble about the idea of marriage, but just to have a stable home where two people live together, like other people do? "Oh no, I can't, I'm gonna loose my freedom!" That's so much bull, and you know it. A normal, healthy relationship is based on both give and take, and one person can't "sacrifice" their own hobbies or themself to please the other one, but there IS something called compromise! For instance, if my bf drives me to school one day, 'll "pay" him back when I get my driver's license. It's not like I'm going to rely on him driving me around everywhereall the time! To be honest, I'd rather be the driver myself :P

Oh well, enough babble for now, I think. Still have exams in mathematics and marketing before I can go on with my Christmas holidays. Three weeks without doing anything except reading some books now and then, have tasteful dinners and relax! Oh yeah!!!

Edit: I've been working on my homepage again, new looks and all: http://home.hia.no/~lingl04

Morning bird.

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:05:45 GMT

I've started the countdown to exam now, probably gonna annoying the shit out of the people on my contact list :P I've chosen to stay home and read, hopefully I'm not missing out some important classes. Tho I can not remember any interesting classes since the semester began. Either the professors are such an a** that nobody dare to ask them questions, or they are just simply boring. Or the subject is boring. Try to write an 2-pages essay in etichs about why the Berlinwall were torn down. With an economics approach!

*banging my head*

Yay!

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:54:45 GMT

Journal title changed! :) Thanks to shy_dramaqueen :)

Changing the journal title.

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:13:23 GMT

Aargh.. Can't seem to find the option to change the title of my journal. It's a long time since I called myself Longdechuaren, and it's a nick I've never really used for the net. I have now also added a link to my journal on my website, and there I call it Tink's Mysteries. It's annoying not being able to change the title! Grrrr, livejournal people!!!

Rain....

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:25:45 GMT

Deadlines, deadlines, and even more deadlines.... Didn't think that taking 8 courses in one semester would be that hard! Three (or was it four?) hand-in's next week, and that's not the last of it...... I have two or three hand-in's left, before they are done and I can start the exam preparations. Which WILL be like a hell, since my first exam is at Nov 27th, and the last one is on Dec 20th. Try to put eight exams into that period of time.

Let's see... what else have been going on? We moved out from the expensive apartment and in to the inexpensive house.... Ironically, even though the house is bigger and has more room than the apartment, and it still costs less than the apartment.... Oh well...... I guess that the fact it was built in 1942 (and therefore not the most modern house) has something to do with the price :P But who cares, when we only pay about 2250 NOK e.a., and it has parking area for three cars and own garden! Although we WERE a bit worried about the electricity, considering old houses needed more power to warm it and the news lately stating a possible high cost electricity winter. But luckily for us, the panick about high electricity cost has being replaced by moderat optimism for a milder winter and more water in the reservoirs (been lots of rain lately). This causes the oil prices to drop, and so does the electricity prices. And better yet, we found out that one of the fire places here provides very good warmth. So hopefully we'll survive the winter without going through an economic crisis :P

Other than that, I am still working at the same telephone company... but reducing it to twice or once a week. It's okay to have a job so I can think about something else than just school once in a while, but three times a week was way too much. I need time for my hobbies too... Started drawing again, thou I'm lacking the ideas for things to draw. I'm still better at copying example pictures than drawing my own... *sigh* And I suck at quick sketching... I have never been, and will ever be, pleased with a five minutes drawing, and I just HAVE to make changes- ruining what might have been a completely ok drawing.

On another note, I have turned 23. For my birthday, my bf actually gave me gift cards from a driving school, for a amount worth 1500 NOK! I was so surprised... He even got me a diddl doll :D There comes the pizza... dinnertime!

Updates and stuff.

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:35:54 GMT

Haven't updated since mid-summer :P I know it's lame, but hey, don't blame me, I've had too much to do lately :P

I got 3k for that translation job in summer, nice :) Have now moved back to Kristiansand with Trond, and are working on my bachelor degree in economics and administration. I'm taking 8 subjects this semester, hopefully I'll pass them all. I also got myself a job at a internet company here, three days a week. Thinking about reducing it to 2 days a week tho, from October and onwards. My exams starts 29th November, so I need time to read. We are currently renting a three-room apartment in the city, but it turns out to be pretty expensive. Been looking for a cheaper place to live, and we landed on a house from 1942 for 4500 NOK ea. month. That's as cheap as you can get for anything with furnitures, so even if it's very old and probably has bad isolation, we decided to try it. My bf just got the keys today, and we are moving in on 1st of October, 2 days before my 23rd birthday. Oh dear, I'm getting old! :P Hopefully T will have time to visit me before the exam stress starts.

On top of this, I managed to catch a cold. Dunno how I did it, nobody I know is sick. And I had to work today! *hate boss* Although I got time off last night..... But oh well, I guess this is how things are at work, boss has the power. Gotta get back work, maybe I can sneak out earlier today..... *hoping for boss to leave early*

/hungry too...... :(

Only few days left!!!

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:52:24 GMT

Oh happy days! Only 3 days left until Trond gets here, 5 days left till my job ends, and 10 days until we move into our new apartment!!! *jump* :D And I got my first translation job last week, 6000 words for a IT-company in Oslo.... :D

Haven't seen Trond for nearly three weeks now. Although it hasn't been THAT bad, we've argued a lot. Everything functions differently when two people are apart, and differences are shown so much more clearly. I'm glad Trond is not of the coward type I'm used to. He has not run away yet, despite all the things I get mad at him for. And I've finally got him to talk about things as they are, not packing it into "hmm's" and "mhm's". I have to changed a bit too, I'm not bombarding him with text messages and calls all the time, so now he actually gets a chance to miss me, as he likes to put it :P Luckily, he's coming up here on Thursday!

The job has been ok, despite the fact that mostly of the people that call the office are foreigners who can't speak Norwegian properly. Especially one of the lawyers tends to create trouble to himself, when he is trying to handle all the costumers at the same time. So when the costumers get used to being prioritised, they get angry if they can't reach the lawyer right away. And some of them even got angry because their lawyer is on holiday and I can't run around to check what's happening in their case, since only the lawyers have control of it. The day before I had this costumer who got angry when I tried to explain to her that mail from the immigration dept. in Norway usually takes two weeks until they get in the mailbox. And yesterday a man called and got very angry because his lawyer was away on vacation and nobody could help him. He actually scolded at me since he had called the immigration dept. and was told that they had sent out his mail several days ago, and he was wondering why hasn't received any. I tried to explain to him that it usually takes two weeks, and that the letter will be sent in copy to him as soon as we get it. He flipped and wanted the lawyers mobile number, and I tried to explain that the lawyer is on vacation.

Needless to say, explaining all this stuff to them is just a waste of time, since they don't speak Norwegian good enough to understand what I tell them. Oh well, I was just doing this job for the CV anyway... I'll get rid of them in 5 days :D Hopefully I'll get a better office-job next year :)

Fucking rasists!

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:50:43 GMT

Me and my mother were on the tram today, on our way home. My mother put her feet on the seat in front of her, since we were tired from walking. Then a man turned his head, looked at everybody, and then faced my mother and told her to put her feet down. Fair enough, although my mother tried to explain that it was only her feet, not the shoes. And besides, there were other people in the same car who had their feet on the seat too. Suddenly the man turns angry and says something like: "Go back to China if you feel it's so much better there!".

I almost fell off my seat. My mother's reaction came quickly and she called him a rasist. I don't think he expected us to be fluent in Norwegian, so he was kind of caught off guard. He didn't dare to say another word on the next stations, but when he were about to leave, it was almost like he was preparing to throw some garbage at my mother. She gave him the finger. I think that did the trick. He left without causing anymore trouble.

Fucking idiot!

Ah yes.. Stole this from Chibikawaii...

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:21:50 GMT

Are you spoiled? Count off the things that apply to you. 40 or more = Yes!

Do you have:
(1) your own cell phone
(2) a television in your bedroom
(3) an iPod (although it's not an iPod, it's a Creative!)
(_) a photo printer
(4) your own phone line
(_) TiVo or a generic digital video recorder
(5) high-speed internet access
(_) a surround sound system in bedroom
(_) DVD player in bedroom
(_) at least a hundred DVDs
(6) a childfree bathroom
(7) your own in-house office
(_) a pool
(_) a guest house
(8) a game room (does a geekroom count?)
(_) a queen-size bed or larger
(_) a stocked bar
(_) a working dishwasher
(_) an icemaker
(9) a working washer and/or dryer
(_) more than 20 pairs of shoes (I don't have a shoe fetish, you know)
(_) at least ten things from a designer store
(_) expensive sunglasses
(_) framed original art, not lithographs or prints.
(_) Egyptian cotton sheets or towels
(10) a multi-speed bike
(_) a gym membership
(_) large exercise equipment at home
(_) your own set of golf clubs
(_) a pool table
(_) a tennis court
(_) local access to a lake, large pond, or the sea
(_) your own pair of skis
(_) enough camping gear for a weekend trip in an isolated area
(_) a boat
(_) a jet ski
(_) a neighborhood committee membership
(_) a beach house or a vacation house/cabin
(_) wealthy family members
(_) two or more family cars
(_) a walk-in closet or pantry
(11) a yard
(_) a hammock
(_) a personal trainer
(_) good credit
(12) expensive jewelry
(_) a designer bag that required being on a waiting list to get
(13) at least $100 cash in your possession right now
(14) more than two credit cards bearing your name
(15) a stock portfolio (which I am planning to expand)
(16) a passport
(_) a horse (not such a horse fan....)
(_) a trust fund
(_) private medical insurance
(_) a college degree, and no outstanding student loans

Do you:
(17) shop for non-needed items for yourself (like clothes, jewelry, electronics) at least once a week
(_) do your regular grocery shopping at high-end or specialty stores
(_) pay someone else to clean your house, do dishes, or launder your clothes (not counting dry-cleaning)
(_) go on weekend mini-vacations
(_) send dinners back with every flaw
(18) wear perfume or cologne
(_) regularly get your hair styled or nails done in a salon
(_) have a job but don't need the money
(_) stay at home with little financial sacrifice
(_) pay someone else to cook your meals
(_) pay someone else to watch your children or walk your dogs
(_) regularly pay someone else to drive you
(_) expect a gift after you fight with your partner

Are you:
(19) an only child
(_) married/partnered to a wealthy person
(_) baffled/surprised when you don't get your way

Have you:
(_) been on a cruise
(20) traveled out of the country
(21) met a celebrity
(_) been to the Caribbean
(22) been to Europe
(_) been to Hawaii
(23) been to New York
(_) eaten at the space needle in Seattle
(_) been to the Mall of America
(24) been on the Eiffel tower in Paris
(25) been on the Statue of Liberty in New York
(_) moved more than three times because you wanted to
(26) dined with local political figures
(_) been to both the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast

Did you:
(_) go to another country for your honeymoon
(_) hire a professional photographer for your wedding or party
(27) take riding or swimming lessons as a child
(_) attend private school
(_) have a Sweet 16 birthday party thrown for you

TOTAL SCORE 27.

And yes... we are bored today... updating LJ two times in half an hour and I'm still thirsty...

Now what?

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:35:02 GMT

Everything is planned for summer, I got a job, and I even got myself assigned to a school for driver's lisence, which I will complete this summer... Finally! Ah yes, me and Trond also got ourselves another apartment, with very nice landlords it seems, unlike those ones we have now...

Man, I'm gonna be glad to get out of here! We've lived here for about five months now, and after three months (with no problem whatsoever) we had a whore-pimp comstume party, and obviously played music a little too loud, so the landlord came and complained about the sound. Unfortunately, by the time we were leaving, heading for the bars, people were so drunk (it was only 23 o'clock, but we started like seven-ish)so they were pretty brutal to the surroundings. My ex-fiance kicked over the garbage-storage-can-thingy outside the house, but me and Trond fixed them right away and there were no damages at all. Next morning the landlord talked to us and he was so angry, it was almost like: if you want to live here, you stop playing loud music, else.... And then, everything seemed to be wrong. Then there was a period of "silent-treatment" of some kind. Anyway, they didn't talk to us, and ignored -and are still ignoring- us when we told them about a problem in the bathroom (they were the ones who complained that the other renters didn't say anything when there were something wrong). So, after a couple of months, they suddenly began to be nice again, that is, until my friend Tone came over the day before yesterday. She was only here to pick me up, and I just had to finish some music transfer to my mp3 player. So she parked right in front of our door, and let the car stand there with the engine on. Suddenly the landlord comes out and screams to her that she has to move the car. My friend asked him if he needed to get out with his car; and he mumbled, yes but now I have to get my keys; as if the reason he forgot them, was because he had to tell Tone to move the car. Then, when he came back, Tone still had the engine on, and he shouted to her: "it's just stupid to leave the engine on, do I have to get in your car and turn it off for you?!" I mean, what the heck? I thought it's none of his business what Tone did with her car, it's HER car, for christ sake!!! But obviously, it was not... It seems like he thinks he's the boss around... To give you an idea of just how stupid this whole thing is, I can explain it with the parking.

Trond is not allowed to park on the small parking lot outside our apartment, because there obviously were no room for his car, so they make him park like about twenty metres away. That's not so bad, but one weekened when the landlord were away we went back and forth to Kristiansand, to get some off Trond's stuff. The stuff were quite heavy and to avoid running up and down the hill from the car to his parkingspot, so he just parked right outside our door. Next morning, the landlord wakes us up early in the morning, because there were no room for HIS car, so Trond had to remove his, right away!!! Oh well, they were the landlords, and we couldn't force them to let us park there... so we let them get away with it, even though he really didn't need to be THAT rude when asking somebody to move their car. But now, since the weather has cleared up and is nice and warm, there were suddenly a car parked right outside our living room window, which is faced directly to the parking lot. OH!!! So, there were room for another car?! And the landlord could obviously not use the huge garage that they had, no! Why? Because it was a MUST for the landlord's hobby that he could use the garage! I mean, what the heck?! Anyway, I'm gonna leave here in less than one week.... and then I'll only be back to clean out the apartment and hand back the keys...

Oh, about the new apartment... It's a two-bedroom flat on 1st floor (yay, no more basement apartments!) right in the centre of Kristiansand city. The outside of the building is old, but inside the apartment is brand new. It's about 60m2, and is fully furnitured. The price is about 7500 NOK, which means it's a little expensive for students, but it is worth it and Trond will hopefully be working at a 100 per cent job. Me and Trond had mostly the same ideas about how the apartment should be, both agreed that we needed a dish washer (we both hate to do the dishwash), and that we also need an extra bedroom to use as an office. And it's in the middle of the centre.. Anything, anywhere is within the walking range. And it's brand new! We wrote rent contract with the new landlords last week, so I'm really happy for that.

Hmm... what else is going on? Ah yes. Trond is working on his bachelor project these days, which is to be handed in tomorrow by two o'clock, and they are still having some minor trouble with the device they are making. The idea was to make an alarmsystem which would automatically send a text message to your mobile if the house alarm goes off. They also planned to make a system that made it possible to control the alarmsystem via your mobile. It seemed like a quite interesting idea and briliant, if it works. Think about it, you could set the alarm to go on almost anytime you want using your mobile, without even being close to your house. You could switch it off via your mobile, if somebody needs to get into your house but don't have the security code. By this hour, the device is completed, and fully functional. There were only a few minor problems, as the device would only send one message and then you needed to reset it before it would send out more. Hopefully Trond will get that fixed, he's planning to stay up whole night at school to finish it off. Then there is the report. I think they have like 80 per cent of it? Anyway, I had agreed to help them proofread it. Nearly 20 000 words. About technical stuff that I have no idea about..... Oh well... I get to learn some more geeky stuff :D

Anyway, plans for summer: Get home next Thursday. Driver's lesson on Friday morning. Then work Monday after the weekend. Ice driving practice for the driver's lisence on the 21st of June. Then more work, visit Trond and clean out the apartment. Trond visits me to help me with the basics before I get to use the car. When work is done by the mid July, I'm going to take the other two obligatory hours at the driver lisence school before having the exam and HOPEFULLY get the driver's lisence before the end of summer. 1st of August or something like that, I will return to Kristiansand to do a course in mathematics before the regular semester starts. And in August, me and Trond will have our half year annual, which of course WILL be celebrated with an all-time party in our new apartment... Or maybe we'll just have some friends over for a nice dinner... Or maybe just the two of us.... Hmm... Actually, come to think of it, he is still a virgin -and we have been dating for three months (!) and already share bedroom. And even so, I think I will probably "leave him alone" until our half year annual. For those of you who know me well, you will probably get into shock by now but NO, I am not crazy; at least no more than what I usually am) But I think it seems like a good oppourtunity to surprise him with something..... ;-)

Hmm... I think I've rambled enough here for now, my fingres are numb and I need something to drink :P

My Life ATM.

Thu, 25 May 2006 18:24:31 GMT

Well, just a short update during my exam preparations...

My father died 6th of May, after fighting cancer for nearly two years. The death didn't exactly come as a surprise, since he was pretty weak at the end and mostly stayed home where he was taken care of by my mother 24/7. We tried several types of treatment, but results were not good. He responded negatively to chemoteraphy both from Norwegian hospitals and from German hospitals. Response on treatment in Danemark based on natural medicine were also negative. Sinse he hadn't told anybody where to be buried or whatever, my mother and I had to take a decision based on his faith in Christianity and what he earlier had expressed. We decided to bury him in Norway, since he earlier said that he liked it here best, and also, we though it wa better for him that the service was carried out by a priest he knew well.

Anyway, because of this, I was a lot away at the end of this semester, so my chances to pass all the exams are not exactly good, except in one subject, which is law. Anyway, I had exam in accounting last Monday which I didn't attend, I'll have a exam in business management (Not quite sure of the English word for BEDRIFTSØKONOMI) tomorrow, law next Monday, and I also have to hand in an essay on the subject of ethics; all of this to be done before 9th of June... Which means that I have a lot to do this weekend, and then the whole next week to work on the essay- which I actually should have handed in 8th of May, but since my father died on 6th, the teacher extended my deadline. And I have finallly decided to go to a driving school, so that I can get my driver's license. Next week I will attend a course on traffic theory, and when I get back to Oslo, I have a deal with a school there, where I can take driver's license within two weeks... If I manage that, my boyfriend and I are planning to go on a car vacation (bilferie?) and maybe drive through southern Norway, or something like that :)

On another note, I'm moving back to Kristiansand next year, and therefore my boyfriend and I are looking for a apartment in the Kristiansand-area. I've found a apartment which is quite interesting, so hopefully we can get to look at it on Saturday. If it seems okay I think we'll write a contract. Thinking of the fact that I'm leaving next week or so, I really would like to finish this before I go back to Oslo and start my summerjob. Speaking of summerjob, I'm working at that lawyer office again, the one I worked at when I was a little girl, but I think this time my tasks will be a little more different, since I now am 6-7 years older than last time I worked there :P But for once, I can say I look forward to my summerjob; I don't have to pile boxes at the local grocery store anymore :D

Alright, see you guys later on next update, and hopefully I didn't die from the amount of work load I have this weekend :P

New poem.

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:14:23 GMT

I saw the movie (or half of the movie anyway) House of the Flying Daggers today.... It's about a war society in ancient China, and a "cop" going undercover trying to break loose the society (since they are criminals). To do this, he needs to get under the skin of the leader's daughter, and a investigation that starts as a play, turns out to be a bloody battle and also a painfull search for the cop, to know who he is, what he believes in and what he is ready to sacrify for the true love; a love that started out as a lie....

The music is very beautiful, and I wrote this poem here:

A MAN IS LIKE THE WIND.

I set out to conquer the world,
but somewhere down the path I lost myself.
To think of it now,
was it worth it all?

Starting by a small shed of feelings
Turning into a love that was never meant to be
Made me doing things I should never have
Still, would I be the same, without it?

A man’s will is like the wind
Flying wherever it wants
Thinking whatever it will
Never stops to pause
Not even to deal with the most important thing in life

Their thoughts is a secrecy you’ll never get to know
Even if you try
What they think is somehow always different
And they are always afraid

Why?
Why are they so afraid?
To love somebody is not a sacrifice
It is a gift you give of yourself
To the person that is meant to be

Always running.
From what?
A fear of something.
Yet they don’t know what
When will they stop?

When you finally found somebody
who is not afraid anymore,
giving you faith to believe
but somehow, it all turns into a lie….

Crushing all your dreams, all your hope,
still, as the fool we are, we go on and believe
again and again
hoping that this time, this time, it is really true

I’m still hanging on there
thinking this time, it might be true,
thinking this time, we all might be grown ups
hoping, that this time,
we won’t be afraid anymore.

Aaaargh...... Coding hell....

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:06:07 GMT

I'm working on my homepage again.... http://home.hia.no/~lingl04

This time, I'm making another try on learning php coding, and it's giving me a hard time.... Since everybody I know have recommended me not to use frames, I've decided to try the include command, but I don't know if the servers at our school supports it so even though I tried to test it, I don't know if it works.... As it seem now, it is not working :( I'm not sure what's wrong though... I have to talk to more people later and see. In meantime, I think I'll work on the pages underneath the website... Hopefully it'll work for me to code it in html, and that I won't have to change the whole thing into .php extension when I need to link the site all together.

The design is also giving me headache, I think I've decided on the colors, but then I looked at an old page I've made, and the colors there was also quite nice, so now I'm not sure. And then there is the coding. I think I'll use the .css programming, because it gives me opportunity to have a own file where all the style/color/size/font/whatever is defined, and when I need to change something, I will only need to change the definition file... But that includes learning another coding language.......... Help......

Oh well.. I've asked for it myself, so I guess I'll have to cope with it too :P I'll be damn proud of myself if I get this thingy to work :D

Hahaha!

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:07:11 GMT

Here's the proof why EVERYBODY should have sex! (Too bad it's in Norwegian, I will try to translate it when I get back :)

http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/side2/sexogsamliv/article599523.ece

Black Anne Cash

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:42:56 GMT

Er Piratkro på studentpuben her, så tok en sånn pirattest..... kan ikke akkurat si at piratnavnet mitt høres no'særlig skummel ut, men, så er jeg ikke så veldig skummel heller.... For most of the people, that is :P hi hi hi hi hi hi hi....... :P

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