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Written onboard M/T Ternvik May 2011 
 afternoon. It was a quick drive from Malmö to Go:teborg, but I had a stop at Laxbutiken for a snack. My last snack? I had just spent a fortune on diet powder so in order to avoid a complete waste of money I will have to get serious with my diet.
I had been home for a few days when I got my next ship, M/T Fure Sun
No use to go to Bangkok to check out my condo, I was confident that the work was progressing according to plan. After all I had hired a guy from Finland to do the job, so I expected some serious arse kickin' to take place in my condo. I called them from M/T Tärnvind and asked for their bank account, I had expected to pay my 2nd instalment in september.
 - Hey, you never sent your bank details so I can transfer the money.
 - No worries, we're a wee bit delayed.
- OK, send me the bank details ASAP when you have finished my condo up to the 2nd instalment
- I will do!
Yes, I want to pay everything as ASAP, I really
Well, I told them that I was coming to Bangkok to check out the progress in an e-mail I sent on the 15th of september. They thought it might be better if I came in January 2003 instead.
OK, so I cancelled my trip to Bangkok in November 2002, aiming for January 2003. But I thought
 the 30th of September “everything is going as planned and progressing quite nicely according to Win”
Well, nothing to worry about. I will just join one more ship before going to Bangkok and M/T Fure Sun came in handy. And I think it is pretty normal with a set back or two during a renovation. As he write to me “Unfortunately, some things do not become apparant until you start a job, so some plans have to be changed a little, but not so much”
 So no worries and I was looking forward to come down to Bangkok to have a look at my condo.
 fine, at least according to the e-mails.
Well, I got a suggestion from the contractor that I could come to Bangkok end of November, but by then I will be on a ship. And according to all reports things worked out just fine so I decided to stay in Sweden to wait for M/T Fure Sun and I would fly to Bangkok in January 2003. So this was pretty much the situation in October 2002.
 I'm writing more and more. So far I have only used my Olumpys Mju with slide film. And the few pictures  on my web page have been taken with the ship's digital camera.
How did all this start? Yes, I had a few pen pals and  as I don't like to write, still doesn't, I  came up with one of my bright ideas. I make a web page and they can get updated with pictures from Skåne and I don't have to write any e-mails.
Well, it didn't take long before I didn't have any pen pals. Well, they grew tired of me after two e-mails (3 weeks between) saying pretty much nothing. But I don't know if they are still visiting www.aladdin.st. Maybe, but anyway, this was how it all started back in J's apartment in the year of our Lord 2000. But now I'm tired of borrowing the ship's digital camera and I had decided to buy my own digital camera. So I went to Backa plan to look for a good camera. Canon or Konica. Konica had a lens cover and that was what I needed. I will need a camera that can take heavy duty use onboard a ship.
 expensive. Today you get several good quality cameras for that price. And what did I use the camera for?
What a waste, me and J had a “TAKE A PICTURE” war  taking pictires of each other eating.
I don't remember what date I bought my camera, but my first picture (That I can find in my files) is taken 16:17 on the 30th of October 2002. And of course, it is J on the picture. Well, maybe, most likely, it is due to our “TAKE A PICTURE” war taking pictures of each other eating thing we had  going that I can't find any of the old pictures. They went  straight to the waste bin.
Talk about nonsense, I mean, I was sitting in the  sofa chewing on my evening carrot and I had to be on the lookout  for J and his camera. I never knew when he was about to show up  with his camera.
Yes, when I thought he was watching TV he was suddenly standing next to me.  - PEEKABOO!!!
Yes, buffoonery is what I want to call it and today in the year of our Lord 2011, thinking back on it is quite embarrassing. Well, if we only could keep it to J's apartment. But we  continued when we were eating at restaurants as well, and that was something we did every day. We had our favourite Chinese restaurant on  Kvilletorget.
J was always leaving a quarter of a potato on his plate when we left. Just making sure that no one would come under the impression that we suffer from any eating  disturbances. And of course, we stopped at the bakery next door on our way home.
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 Tuesday 12th of November 2002 and I discovered snow when I went to walk J's dog in the   morning. Yeah, snow, a real dream came  through
Snow or not, the dog needs to get out and we had a park, or a small forest just a few minutes away from J's apartment.  And the dog liked the place so this was the place we went every day. Keilers Park is the name, or at least I think so.
  inside. Our friend has his birthday on the 9th of  November so we needed to  buy a gift for him because we were expecting cake when he came to Go:teborg. Luckily enough there was a knick-knack shop at Kvilletorget.
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Thursday 14th of November 2002 and we stopped at the bakery shop on our way home from the  Chinese restaurant. Yes, we did the same stop at the  bakery shop pretty much every day.
And I had spent a fortune on this darn Cambridge Weight Plan diet powder just a few weeks ago when I signed off M/T  Tärnvind in Malmö. What an utter waste of money!
Well, I can take the diet powder to M/T Fure Sun and I can enjoy my leave with a piece of cake or two.    they are very good, at least when I bought them in Skåne back in the days. But obviously they only use whipped cream and chocolate in Go:teborg. Yes, who wants' to eat whipped cream and chocolate? Not me and I gave the darn cake to the dog.
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Saturday 16th of November 2002 and we were not only eating cake. We were also drinking beer. We had it all at Kvilletorget:  Pasta House, Chinese restaurant, bakery and knick- knack shop. There was even a pub and pool hall.
And both the Chinese restaurant and the Pasta house had a bar, or at least a bar counter where   the locals had their beers.
We had a few beers at the Pasta House before moving on to the Chinese  Restaurant. We made a stop at the pool hall, but that was, well, not our kind of place. So we continued to the Chinese restaurant, first time for me drinking beer there so it was new territory for me. Well, actually, I had never been drinking beer at Kvilletorget before and the whole area was new territory for me. But I had J as a guide. He knew the area quite well, and he was also quite well known in the area.  And honestly, the reason for us going there was because there was one Waitress that was very   beautiful. She was from Skåne, but she was studying at the University and she worked extra at the Chinese restaurant.
Well, anyway, after a few beers  we decided to go  make complete tits out of ourselves at the  Chinese restaurant. Yes, Charisma Man never sleeps.
We were having more beers and while we sat there talking to the owner A Cook that I had been worked with onboard M/T Eken came in. Of course, we had plenty more beers and then we decided to go to  a disco next door. Yes, we even had a disco, but I don't think they were open for very long and I was at the place this one and only time.
I think it was an old theatre and then it was a pub and a Thai restaurant. And I don't remember the disco lasting for many months. But I can be wrong, this was my only time drinking at Kvilletorget. It was OK, quite fun. But it isn't anything that I miss. Saturday night and it was Kvilletorget by night so we spent the Sunday at home in the sofa. Well, except for a quick visit to the Chinese restaurant for some spring rolls. And when we finished the spring rolls it was straight back home to the sofa, the bakery shop was closed on Sundays. I remember one day when I ran in to a guy outside the DVD shop. I had not seen him for many  years and I had always thought of him as a PART GUY. And now I run in to him outside the DVD shop.
- What are you doing here? - I just been at the DVD shop - Doing what? - I bought some movies to watch Saturday night.  - What the 
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Thursday 28th of November 2002 and the birthday boy  came to town. His birthday is on the 9th of November but he was out of town. J and I had bought the  present at the knick-knack shop 2 weeks ago.
And we had bought a cake so  everything was ready when our friend came to Go:teborg.
We had the darn cake, it didn't take that long to finish.  And I don't remember what we bought as birthday gift, but I'm sure it was something stupid.
Well, November was soon coming to an end and December  and Christmas are approaching by leaps and bounds. Snow and Christmas  decorations and we're only in November. It will be really nice to leave all this behind onboard M/T Fure Sun.
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Friday 29th of November 2002 and we had time to go watch a hockey game before November came to an end. Malmö Ice hockey Club were in Go:teborg to beat Frölunda and my friend and I didn't   want to miss this event.
It is not fun to go watch ice hockey with my friend, Frölunda is  his favourites and he is getting so angry every time Malmö kicks their asses.
 We usually start our ice hockey adventure with a pizza at a restaurant close to the ice hockey rink or arena or what ever they call it. Just across the street from the Pizza.
 And by the way, why isn't there any pictures of me eating? Well, J took millions of  embarrassing pictures and he kept them on his computer. Protected with a password. He was always browsing the pictures in windows explorer. Thumbnail size and he was laughing at the pictures of me.
What he didn't know was that I had ACCESS to his computer. So the worst pictures were, well, not deleted. Yes, I had deleted them, but first I had to change the size to 1 pixel by 1  pixel before deleting them. Or he could have recovered them.
WHO'S LAUGHING NOW? But there were plenty of the embarrassing pictures so he would have noticed if they were gone. So I changed them to 25 by 25 pixels and he never noticed when browsing the thumbnails.  OK, it has come to my knowledge that we have senior citizens visiting my web page. How hard can it  be? So it's not very easy for them to see the blue coloured links to the next page.
So
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