dragon hoard

From Mary, a knitted beanie that alex says suits me XD can stuff all my hair into it if i wanna, and its nice and warm :)
then she actually made me a dress O_o Its a bit small ( in terms of the crocheted part's length) i think, or its meant to be that way, i dont know. But in any case, i might add a belt to this dress next time XD pouffy sleeves! also got an inner slip to wear with this, as well as a giant heart necklace to match the dress.

she also knitted me a cardigan i really really liked XD she showed it to me last xmas, a version she had knitted for herself. She bought me the yarn for it this summer, but i never got round to making it. i tried, but my knitting gauge was WAAAYYY too big =p i'll load up a pic later!

she gave everyone her own grown and dried teas, i got camille, and alex got peppermint :) seems like there's a trend for giving out handmade gifts this xmas, i gave out alot of hand made stuff myself XD.

best yet, was a gift from 'snill svigerfar' (nice father-in-law)...
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dark purple triumph bra and panty set.

XD it was hilarious to open it in front of everyone. Hilde got a set too (but she wasnt around to open hers in front of us, she and raymond came later).

anyway, mary was behind it, despite him having signed the card XD

From Beate, i got a cool cross pendant, a bunch of pocky (yumyum), a nail care set and a very pretty scarf which i like alot =)
the scarf is half cloth, half lace, so its really soft against the neck X)

from mary's mother, i got a set of candle holders, which i think looks really fancy =D i put it under the light to show off the autumn golden-brown colours of it ^^

this was the first gift of the xmas present opening session, which is mine! got it from Raymond, and i had to quickly shove it out of sight (thank goodness alex was talking to someone else at that moment, he usually gives attention to the people opening gifts XD) cuz alex didnt know he was gonna get a kinect!
and ta-daaaa! said kinect! cutely enough, alex had future plans to get this, and wanted to get me the game above XD

speaking of my babyboo, he bought me a prime nikon lens O_O. now when i opened this i felt sooo SO bad. why? cuz i bought him a mug that looks a hell lot like a real lens. and everyone was going "ohhhhh" at it until alex unscrewed the top to show its a mug XD.

that aside, this is a REALLY good quality lens, and it takes pretty sharp pictures! its meant for landscapes, so i suspect i'll use it more in summer? although tmr i plan to go out and take a walk while its bright, hopefully get a few nice winter mountain landscape and nice skies with my new lens! =) he also got me a UV filter for this lens, which is very useful since it'll let me take pics of nice bright skies and still be able to capture the clouds ^^
aaaaaand alex has to be fun, getting me my very own severus snape X) <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW12bQFOmjoBpPTUV2MLOb8WDMkXFgBzYmGiUq3ZdvVjOYdLfTU_n7_xp8ZfDsH9XPE5laW5hSZt9e2fTB3pQkXw1-2XP8G6CXTby5ZZV50TKFNPhO8jj4yPJ7yIF0OtfPhXRYla3LSNnf/s1600/xmas+043.JPG">thats the tree, before it got ravaged!

and thats the start of the unwrapping session, joined this time by Robert's sister, Mary-gunn. I should have taken a before and after comparison, because the floor was strewn with ribbons and wrappers and boxes after XD
random picture of the fire in the fireplace, thought it looked cool XD

this is a scarf i knitted for mary while in singapore, spreading the work out over the semester by watching big bang theory while knitting XD mary likes it alot. actually, it seems that people really liked the gifts from me this year X) makes me feel happy when people are happy hehe


last but not least, seasons greetings from the sofa-chopped-off-my-legs Lilo!! <3

and so far...

yesterday we went to watch Harry Potter ~! yay! finally! And to top it off, alex got us seats in the new luxury theatre they just built... changing a 120 seater cinema to a 36 seater, with free water and coffee and biscuits XD. very cosy chairs indeed, and little tables on each side. The seats were mostly in pairs.
another angle...
stopped by the coffee/tea store the previous day, to get alex's parents and grandparents some coffee powder ( which i still think is interesting, since in singapore you mostly get them from wet markets i think?) and a coffee press thing.

this store sells only coffee and tea related stuff, very nice collection of pots and cups XD
a random picture.. what happens when you ask your girlfriend to help you make some food.

and last but not least, took this picture of the sky two days ago.. ahh so pretty.

the end.

Lanterns!

What did i do today?

hmm...

go to a graveyard.

join two grown men smoking e-cigarettes.

and fly pink lanterns.

all at the same time ;D

Joco bought some of those chinese paper lanterns from deal extreme, about $4 for a pair... in pink XD. so we had four lanterns in total, and we went to the middle of the graveyard ( a place where we wouldnt get disturbed/stared at XD) and started lighting up.

we had to just attach a block of fuel to the bottom of the lantern and set it on fire.... and then hold it for a couple of minutes before the lantern was ready to be let free into the sky~!
so thats a pic to show how pink the lanterns were XD
aaannndd thats the pathway from the graveyard.

*too lazy to blog more*

g'night!

oh christmas tree ohhh christmas tree...

i bought us a christmas tree! XD i actually got it from Daiso (hence, it was just $2) and hauled it to norway. Decorated it with whatever i could find.. Alex was the one who put the coca cola polar bear i got from Long John Silvers' up on the top, and i quite like it there XD

found some stars we made a year ago or something... didnt have needle and thread, so i made do with a pin and fishing line! threaded the stars.. would have preferred something to put in between but couldnt find anything suitable XD. Then came some candycane i brought over from Singapore aagain, and a hello kitty phone strap that joco gave alex XD

so now the lovely tree is placed by the window, surrounded with an xmas card from alex's mum, and an xmas card from kai! yay! alex took some nicer pics now, but he's gonna have fun with them on photoshop first.

on to more pics i took with my phone!
a 2 week old face drawn on choco boco window....
right outside chocoboco, you can see where there's a nice cleaned/heated walk and where it stops XD
its also been snowing alot lately, everday since i came now. And quite heavily i too at times... so the snow's been piling up! its quite a laugh to see lilo bound through the snow (she hates getting it clumped under her) so i'll try video it tmr XDanother shot outside choco boco...
puss X)
and a random shot from the airplane window in amsterdam =)

Back once more!

Back once again in norway, and its snowing quite a lot.

flight was alright enough, had two seats to myself on both flights :D the first flight, my 'neighbour' was the english/lit teacher of hwa chong XD. got reminded abit of spencer (white, jc lit teacher).

i opted for low-fat meals this time, as a start to my wish to try out all their special meals on KLM XD. wish i started it sooner though, special meals= you get served first. so i got quite yummy yet healthy food, nice from the usual foods i ate on the plane trips before. Got served some nice fish with white sauce, and chicken breast meat with lots of vegetables. breakfast wasn't too special, just omelette but with more vegetables than others.

got stopped AGAIN by security, but this time in Trondheim. I was the first to get out of the luggage collection area because my bag came out 2nd, and i was all cheering inside....till i got greeted by 4 security guards, one of them blabbing a string of norwegian to me and i went 'huh?'

then he STILL continued in norwegian "snakke du norsk?" (do you speak norwegian?)

me: "nei?" (no?)

;D

anyway, he directed me to a room where they had many metal tables and an xray machine for bags and stuff inside. Luckily for me, he decided to scan through my belongings, unlike one lady who had most of her bag emptied out on the table, AND THEN scanned. He still opened my bag to check though, which i was abit annoyed at.

Then he also took my passport for checking, which again was annoying. Furthermore, he questioned why i was here etc, and i mentioned alex, and he asked for alex's full name -_- (in norway, you can google people and find out where they live and even their numbers). All in all, at least i wasn't delayed too long. Luckily, alex also brought a magazine to read. My flight was already half an hour later than it should have been due to de-icing of the wings.

i slept loads, hence my inactivity online XD

for those with whatsapp, i'm there! and for those with the iphone4, facetime me!! so far i've facetimed with my mom and my bro, which was pretty fun ( i think my mom was enjoying it quite alot, despite her frightened "AIYO" at first seeing my face -___-).

My cat was very misleading, happily meowing and came bounding over when i came home... bounding over towards me...then happily trotting past. >_> she was more eager to get upstairs apparently XD. But she slept on the bed at the foot end most of the night <3>

Alex is making me lovbiff now with bernaise sauce *drools* meantime, reformatted the com, so i gotta get to fixing it up!

i'll upload pics next time =)

Swirly Hat

made a beanie for alex back when we were in Hustad. Was surprisingly quick to do (as compared to the first beanie i ever tried to make and till date have only worn it twice perhaps XD). had to rip it all off when it was near completion the first time because i realised it was MUCH too tight due to the cabling pattern. Thankfully, the second attempt was a perfect fit :D

Decided on making this because i helped misplace/lose a beanie or two that belonged to alex. at least, i think it was me XD . In any case, always good to have a beanie for winter... i know i definately need those each time i go out since i tend to notice the cold biting my ears. Plus my head doesnt like being cold.

also made a beanie for myself in preparation for winter ( and weird weather in summer, like snow in Hustad a week ago XD). Took two days to make and looks hell messy inside . but its quite a cool beanie and i'll be making one more on my flight.



good incentive not to misplace these now!

Piccies

Taken by Alex, we were at the hotel grounds and this dog was tied to a table. It was very VERY nervous as two donkeys were around, so bad that its eyebrows kept twitching quite hilariously. So i went to sit with it and pet it abit.
There were many horses at that hotel, took a close up of this pretty one :)
Mother and child, i had to show the pic where her face was funnier.

ROFL? XD This one was rolling abit, managed to get it as it rolled XD
Now who said horses never laid down?
This donkey is pregnant :D
Aint this bird so sweet and cute?
Think again. You can probably see its face better if you click on the pic and zoom in. Priceless.
Swallow nest found under the roof of the hotel, with a few others nearby and marks that showed many nests had been built in the same areas before.
We stopped by this waterfall on our roadtrip :)
It continued to a powerful gushing river...
And that's an attempt to capture the power of the water,at least in my terms XD
This is Troll Mountain, something you'd think would fit the LOTR world quite nicely. Troll Wall (the part above) is the tallest vertical rock face in Europe, 1100 meters from the base to the summit at its tallest. Further research on this said that the series of spires and pinnacles formed along the summit rim of the mountain are what gave rise to it being called the Troll Mountain. "Legend varies, but possibly the trolls that once inhabited this coastal mountain region (and still part of area's lore), were petrified forever for their sins. Each of the dozen- or-so 300 foot spires has its own name". XD

Flower fly again
a very interesting flower.. A flower with flower prints inside XD.
This Alex had found in his parent's garden. Its a web full of new baby spiders!!

This is a very pretty coloured fly.
and that's all for today!