...you can stand under my umbrella ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh eh...ehe...that was to annoy Nene...hehe. :D




I have been bowling. A lot! Yay. I bowl a lot. Yupp. So fun. I'm crazy about it.


And I am going to be serious about it. And I will be training with Cik Nani aka Uncle Cat!


And I will be learning all sorts of things. Like maybe the 312 system or 369 system. And my clocking. And i'll be learning it from 2 different people. Cik Nani and Coach James. Yup.


And I went for training at The Chevrons. That will also be my competition venue. It is on the 4th of July. I want to win something.


I also have been playing with my curler and straightener set. here are the results......

Ok then...that is probably it. And sorry for not blogging in a long time. The keyboard is spoilt so I have been using the on-screen keyboard. ok then. bye

arneebarney umbrella...

Baby boom!

Baby boom!

On Monday I finally had time to visit one of my closest friends here, Kristine. She lives nearby so we really should be meeting more often than we do but when I'm free, she isn't and vice versa. So when I first saw her, I got the biggest shock ever cause she had a huge tummy! I wasn't sure if she'd just gotten extra fat or was pregnant and it turns out she's 7 months pregnant! I can't believe it! 7 whole months and I had no idea. Well I'm happy for them. She would make a great mom and I can't wait to see the baby. I tried to take pics when I was there but there was something wrong with the camera or the batteries. So I digged around for some old pics and found some.

This pic and all the other pics were taken ages ago, when I first moved here. Back then, we had lots of time to do things together.

This was right before Christmas a few years ago, at Kristine's house.

There's actually 3 of us who were really close to each other. We used to share recipes and cook dinner/lunch together. The third girl's Maryam. Maryam used to teach us bellydance. She's also pregnant and the baby's due in just a few weeks! Congrats Maryam! I can't wait to see her baby too!

Here's Maryam and me. We're at Kristine's house here.

Having Christmas cookies in Kristine's kitchen.

Having a party at Maryam's house. This was also taken ages ago.

Maryam cooked up a whole storm for us. It was really yummy!

Congratulations Maryam and Kristine! I can't wait to see your babies! Oh no all my friends are having babies.............

My Birthday Cake.

We made a belated birthday cake for me yesterday...well not we....Schatje made the cake. I just stood around and didn't actually do anything. :p Anyway it was a Sacher Torte...which was a rich chocolate cake with apricot jam and chocolate glaze...mmm. :)

Step one: Ingredients for the cake

Step two: Put the stuff in a bowl

Step 3: Mix.

Step 4: Bake and leave the cake to cool once its done.

Step 5: Slice the cake in half and spread the apricot jam.

Step 6: Decorate with chocolate glaze and stuff.

Step 7: Cut and eat. :D

And here's another pic of me cutting the cake. It was really yummy. I absolutely loved it. Dankje wel schatje!

- A r L i N -

Bloemen!

I got some flowers for MYSELF the other day..roses to be exact..hehe...yeah macam birthday pressie..kesian eh? :D
They're really pretty though ...pink too! I think there are 20 stalks altogether...I love looking at them...too bad you can't really smell them though. They always remind me of Ma..hehe so Mommy...these pics are for you :)

- A r L i N -

50 Cent - In Da Club MUSIC VIDEO

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARLIN!!!

Happy Birthday Arlin!!!

Happy Birthday Arlin!!!



Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to Arlin!
Happy Birthday to you!

Allah selamatkan kamu!
Allah selamatkan kamu!
Allah selamatkan Arlin Soraya!
Allah selamatkan kamu!

Okay, I'll spare the birthday songs in other languages but Happy 24th Birthday girl! Hope you have a wonderful birthday and may all your dreams come true. We wish you the very best and doa for good things for you!

Lovies,
Arnee, Mama & Baba
Nene, Nonas & Aslan

Henrik Larsson!!!!

Henrik Larsson!!!!

Yes this blog entry's gonna be about football and Henrik Larsson. Before you start going "Henrik who?", here's some information on this Swedish legend (more info at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Larsson). Firstly, he's one of Sweden's biggest/best players, having played for several years with Celtic and then later on with Barcelona. He also played for Manchester United where he was on loan until quite recently. Man U was going to extend his loan but he turned em down to play for his hometown club. Phew, lucky for us.

Yes we know this isn't the real Henrik :)

Jonas had this great idea of an early birthday treat for Arlin and he went and got us tickets to watch a football match. So yesterday, we went to an Allsvenskan (Swedish Premiere League) match at Helsingborg's Olympia stadium to watch Helsingborg IF play against Örebro SK. And although Arlin's not a huge soccer fan, we were all really excited and we're still excited cause we got to see HENRIK LARSSON live in action!!!

Our entry tickets.

Olympia stadium

The starting line-up.

It was such a great experience! There was cheering all the time, like you see on TV. Haha half the time Arlin forgot there was a match going on cause she was so fascinated by the supporters who were singing their hearts out the whole time.

The home team's supporters

The away team's supporters - all 5 of them!

Henrik Larsson in action!

And more Henrik Larsson (or Henke as he's known here)

Our team has just scored a goal here. The spectators are jubilating and that guy in the corner's dancing

Henrik and team-mates

The boys celebrating after a goal

Boy in front of us throwing streamers to celebrate Helsingborgs victory

And we were the lucky ones who got to watch it all!

And here's a video Arlin took. It's thrilling to watch and hear all the Swedish vikings cheering and singing!

And the best thing was that Helsingborg won 4-1 so we were jumping up and down a whole lot. Henrik Larsson scored a goal and created chances for all the other 3 goals. Arlin, Jonas and I were also dressed in Helsingborg's colours of red and blue. I think from now on I'm going to be a Helsingborg fan! :) Thanks again Jonas for bringing us to the game and Happy Birthday in advance Arlin girl. It was great having you here and watching the game (and the other stuff) with you. :) I still can't believe we were so close to Henrik Larsson and I even heard him shout at one point!

*Renee*

Girlie Ice Cream.

We read about ice-cream reviews in the newspapers the other day so we got some last night on our way home. And Jonas stopped at Preem!!! Yay! Heheh that's my favourite gas station...obviously because its cute. Damn we should have Preem in Singapore! Then perhaps I might be more motivated to drive. :p

Cute kan the bear?? Hehe I get so happy whenever we drive past a Preem. :))

So Jonas got his Daim ice-cream and Nene got her Magnum Almond..and we found the ice-cream we read about for me! Its called 'GIRLIE'. Heheh...I can't believe i'm still such a sucker for crap like that...but it was realllly good. It was more gelato than ice-cream I thought...and it tasted a bit like Sugus candy too! Mmm...and I don't even usually like ice-cream all that much. And the best part is that there's glitter in the stick! Check out the pics :)

Me and my Girlie ice cream.

Nene stole mine too!

Check out the glitter!

Ice cream sisters :)

- A r L i N -

Exercise!




Since we've been eating so much...we figured we should at least pretend to be a little healthy so the three of us went out for a run the other day...heheh..we did that in the evening at around 11pm so no one would see us.....and it was also probably 10 degrees outside and Nene of course looked absolutely fashionable in those tights! :D

Haha I just love my pink socks.

- A r L i N -

Food part II

Food part II

This being the first time Arlin's experiencing a Swedish summer (despite having been here numerous times :p), we had to barbecue of course. Takde barbecue during the summer tak sah. We marinated the chicken like 2 days before and tried out all kinds of different spices.

Barbecue preparations.

Arlin on the phone with Johanna.


While I was doing all the work, look who's standing around looking all pretty? :p Nolah just kidding. She did most of the work. :)





Here's all the food we grilled. Chicken, chicken kebabs and sliced herbed potatoes in that alumium foil pocket. Arlin even used the spices we bought in Copenhagen and it was really delicious.

The expert grill chefs. Haha yeah very expert. The food kept rolling off the grill and the skewers burnt.

The smokey sisters. :)

Hard at work. Barbecuing is so leceh eh? And it takes forever and you have to stand there and keep turning the stuff around all the time.

Oh and here's the head chef, supervising the grilling :p

But in the end it's all worth it. Everything was really yummy and we ate and ate and ate. Mmmmm....



Oh yeah Hathairat was also here in the morning a few days ago. I've mentioned her before. She's a colleague and a good friend.


We had brunch at home before we drove to work together.

Damn now I'm seriously hungry. Again. Gonna go raid the kitchen. I want to eat Ba's bbq chicken! Nak!

*Renee*