Cruel To Be Kind

Dancing Queen, that song was written by ABBA as a wedding gift for Queen Sylvia and King Carl XVI Gustaf .... Maybe you already knew or maybe you didn't...

Did you notice the size of the porkchops in the previous post ? And yes, there was a picture of macroons (my first try) as well as two different kinds of chocolate cupcakes. And lastly also a picture of some meat mix (meat and bacon).

I really do feel like being an adoptee means that I'm at least Cruel To Be Kind... Like you appreciate life's all different emotitions and shades. Living a contradicting, dispice the very thing that maybe not made what you are but contributed a great deal...

And squanting isn't just a Korean thing, it's not like they have license to squant, fact is Russian's also prefer squanting. I've heard. I also assume that more people prefer squanting not just Koreans and the Slavic people.

 Today Swedish royalist have reason to celebrate since our King Karl XIV Gustav celebrates his 65th birthday, and for Spring lovers and Japanese people, which also have reason to celebrate the first day of Cherry Blossoms.

Last Day Of April means that tomorrow is Walpurgis Night...


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Bare in mind that this one of my rare posts with youtube clips...

• Abba
• Cardigans
• Ace Of Base
• Robyn
• Helen Sjöholm
• Lykke Li
• Miss Li
• Eric Saade
• Danny Saucedo
• Darin
• Peter Joback
• Salem al Fakir
• E Type
• Eagle Eye Cherry
• Arvingarna
• Helen Sjoholm
• Jill Johnson

Abba most be the most famous Swedish group ever, about the rest I'm not sure but supposedly Cardigans, Robyn and Helen Sjoholm is close contenders...

Many of these Swedish arists is known for love songs and today is a big day in Britian since prince William is marrying Kate Middleton.

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What do you get if you you mix cake with a popsickle/lollipop ? Find the answer here.
Correct answer : a cake pop.

What's a cake pop then ? Well it's cookie dough on a stick that is glaced with frosting, melted chocolate or whatever sweet.

If liqourice is the new it then what about cake pops with liquorice taste ...?

Here's how to make 'em and by the way the pictures in this post isn't of cake pops it's everything else.

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I do love summer but I'd pefer it even more if I could avoid the annual Hay fever. That's why I prefer winter the most. Which season do you like?

Sometimes Ido feel like I do carry the world on my shoulders... Yeah my birth parents were unable to care for me or otherwise prevented top do so. I know that. But some days I feel my adoptiv parents did something cruel by taking my from my birth country more than my birth parents. I'm legally not theirs anymore, I can't and shouldn't go around thinking what if. Because what if never materialized.

Biologically I'm theirs of course, and I really hope I've found the right birth parents. Will my doubt ever disapear I wonder. I do hope so, I really do but who knows maybe I'll always be less 2 % uncertain...
My legal family has tried their best believe me, they have. Most of the days I get along with them but I just wish there was a way that I could honour my birth family while still not disrespecting or threatening my legal (adoptive) family.

Maybe, I should try to bend over backwards to try to please everyone, maybe I should stop trying and instead focus on the now. The things I have. Basically taking a child from their birth culture and family some days feels like a to big a burden to carry. If that's adoption in a nutshell than I've lost my trust in humanity at least partially. And I do know many sunshine stories, but personally I am only aware of the things I gained access to and I basically have no knowledge of my supposed what if life.

Now, I'm a proud owner of one of those smart phones, and it's a Samsung...

And no I'm not a coward for not wanting to publish pictures in my blog and more importantly to blog under a nickname. If you've followed my blog once in a while you would know why... And I personally don't feel like it's up to me to publish pictures of my birth family because.. I'm afraid that would hurt them and me as well. Yesterday there was an article about a Swedish woman who had gotten her facebook account hacked, and the attacker supposedly also read her blog and claimed ownership of pictures from that blog and is supposed to have been trying to portray that woman. Living this woman's life, as she would have done it.

That's another argument not publish pictures, blog with alias and to not have a facebook account... If it actually is true...

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Geran Changsik (Korean egg dishes)
Dalgyal Changjorim (Korean egg dishes)

sounds kind of tempting, but I don't have a clue of what kind of dishes they are let alone how to spell and prounance it in Korean. Have you eaten both or one of those Korean dishes ? Do you know what kind of dishes they are?

Great Leader, Dear Leader is a really interesting book about North Korea by Lintner B.

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Do you like eggs? How often do you eat them ? Do eat many more around easter ?

• Ice cream
• Boiled eggs (Eggs Benedict, Eggs Neptune..)
• Fried eggs
• Coddled egg
• Omelette
• Poched egg
• Scrambled eggs
• Shirred eggs
• Pickled eggs
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• French toast
• Biff Rydberg (steak á la Rydberg) Swedish speciality
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1. Geran Changsik (Korean egg dishes)
2. Dalgyal Changjorim (Korean egg dishes)

The list above could supposedly be even longer, but I've chosen to draw the line somewhere...

Today's Easter Monday...

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I must confess that I personally have days when my motivation for life is next to zero. Days when I feel like doing absolutely nothing else than watching TV. Like nothing else mattered.

Today it's Easter Sunday...


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And yes they also make cars like Hyundai, which is Korean.

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Holy Friday, not so many days left before Easter Evening.

This post will be one my moore personal posts and it's not about the movie with the same title...

I never thought that it was peculiar or odd for a Korean born person to have big feet, (my feet are 7 1/2 or 8) it depends. Since I knew a few Koreans with the similar size (in shoes) i was quite surprised when I realized that most Koreans born in the 80s or earlier have relatively small feet...

I guess I'm not one of them and I have no problem finding nice shoes...


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(Holy) Maundy Thursday... I wonder which countries actually celebrates Easter ( with eggs, egg hunting and Ester bunny)... Swedes consumes a large quantity of candy just for that particular weekend. Good thing we have dental care.

The famous Lemon  meringue pie, sort of.

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Did you know that a somewhat ancient tradition that still is more or less current is the thing with Swedish people's surnames? Many centuries ago, the general custom was that a person had a personal name like Jon (Johan in Swedish) or Charles (Karl in Swedish) his daughter could be called Mary (Maria in Swedish) or Anne (Anna in Swedish and then her surname would be Johnsson (different spellings), or Karlsdaughter/Carlsdaughter after the father.

If they had sons they could be called Eric (Erik in Swedish) surname Johnsson (Swedish for Johansson) and then his sons would be called Ericsson (sons of Eric's.)

Today marks the third day of Easter Week; Holy Wednesday.


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Today happens to be Holy Tuesday, which means its near Easter Sunday, (only 4 days to go).
In Sweden we eat a lot of eggs and hide easter eggs filled with gifts and candy (for the young ones). And there's the traditional easter meal similar to Christmas dinner.

Coincidentally I baked a lot of cookies in time for easter..

A must for Easter dinner, Sillsallad.

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I'm adopted which would mean that I would be not only disgraceful but a bad person since children only are given up for adoption if your birth parents doesn't like you. (Common opinion of KADs among Koreans).

Apparently a certain Katrin Zytomierska wrote a post sometime ago where you she believed that adoptees were messed up people with complicated lives. I would say that that again is a common misunderstanding influenced partially by media.

Fact is that adoptees comes with a past, they have no clean slate so to say, but of course you could easilly try to erase and hide those things by changing the name and raising that child into a White/Western society which would mean they also learn a Western language like English, French, Spanish or German or maybe even a less wellknown language such as Canadian English/Canadian French, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch or what have you.

Usually or oftentimes these young innocent children have been traumatized by separation but I know several adoptees that managed to create successful lives despite being adopted into and by a family. Because of what adoptees are likely to encounter while growing up, I'd like to state two things; it's really not that difficult to understand when you think about it and secondly adoptees are humans too. Some adoptees adjusts better to their new life while others aren't so lucky.

And for those of you that might have suspected as well as those who didn't have a clue; I've chosen to write about my birth family but since I do not want to jeopardize my delicate relationship with my birth family or share to much for the same reason. I might have fabricated some parts of the details, and that is to be my own secret.

This marks the beginning of easter week starting with Holy Monday.



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I do have days when I my temper is really easilly changed into anger, irritation or annoyance. Like the other day when I became irritated because of something my mum had done. I became really angry so I riped a picture for a drawing I was making.

Yes mum and I still have our days when we don't seem to understand each other or see eye to an eye. I even wanted to rip the actual painting into pieces but I refrained from doing so since I know from experience that you never can recreate the exact same image twice.

Or it's at least really difficult if you're not a really skilled artist, then I do believe you should know those exact things. But me on the other hand I don't.

To be honest I do feel my parents my mum and dad and mum especially isn't really that supportive of my relationship with my siblings and Korean birth family. Of course they seem to prefer one of my siblings over the other and that's annoying and far from enough for me. I do feel a bit restrained to be honest to the point where I get really frustrated until it eventually boils over. And no my blood type isn't B it's A.

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Over the years I have had other blogs, the oldest one (deleted) was

1. euroasiangirl I started that blog in autumn 2008 can't remember exactly when. 
2.  I started a Swedish blog at blogsida seventhsister this is me in December 2009. I still have that blog but I don't write as actively as before and some post have been password protected or deleted and there's no pictures left. 
3.  I started a new Swedish seventhsister blog at devote I decided to delete that blog after a few months. And as you all must know by now I started my current blogg in 2010 after my devote blog was deleted, created in late 2010.
4. Recently I decided to start blogging at wordpress under the alias kimchegirl that blog has been run and created in March of 2011.

A slightly more specialized blog is

• Hallyu and Genokai which I started in late 2010, or simply asianpopcultureplusmore. I hardly think I would be able to start another successfull blog because of the fact that I'm first of all a real person, with a life but my main argument is that I am a student trying to achieve my Bachelor's degree upon many other things. Not to be forgotten is the fact that I'm trying to learn Korean (Hangul) so that I can visit Korea in the future by myself.

So you see the prospects of my starting yet another blog is next to zero but isn't impossible, maybe I'll one day decide to start another blog. That would only happen if I married and/or became a mother by adoption, marriage or pregnancy and yes I know that it's only you're child in the first and last mentioned case.

So this is my actual 250th post...

And since the cat is safe inside I've done some Easter baking but the easter cake will not be made until the day before Easter Eve...

Will there be another blog ?
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So let me tell you something; life's big secret is that there are no secret or hidden plan for you. Shocking right !? Instead it's up to you, what you want to do with your life. You could devote yourself to charity work, your carrier, make money on your passion or become a fulltime mum by being a housewife. Not that any of those optitions seems that appeling to me right now. I'll probably go for optition one and two if I had two choose between them.

And believe it or not I think I went into my Korean language learning with presumptions and prejudices like... it's easy to learn (they only have this many letters and vowels)... Once you understood the rules it's supposed to be very easy... Not true, it's time consuming, frustrating, a source for irritation, annoyance and whatever else. But I can't give up, I'll fight and I will learn it.

But yeah it's more difficult than I imagined and percieved.

Today the cat's been missing for a week and not so much as a clue from the cat.... Why hasn't it come home yet, it's honestly not that far. The cat was back at home again at between 24 and 1 AM... Pure joy.


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I suppose the first thing that might pop up in your head is a trip to DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). That is a very interesting area, yet I havn't had the oppertunity to go there myself. I could of course have done so last year.

Maybe some of you already knowns that you might be able to visit North Korea (as a tourist), you knew right ?

Well, I've heard it said that you need a visa for China and supposedly you can't be Korean citizen or Korean born like me. But for other nationalites the possibility seems to be open.

I personally don't intend to visit North Korea, with this post I just want write about another, not so well known tourist sight. For obvious reasons it wouldn't be possible for me to visit....Maybe it's a must see place, maybe not. I guess I'll never know for sure...

If you ever get the chance visit, I'd say take it.



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Yes mum's cat is still missing, however we may know where he's hiding...

The other day I came across a documentary about Thai mailorder brides in it, besides portraying a harsh reality and inequility I also realized were the general view of Western men's desire for an Asian bride comes from.

In Korea especially the future livelihood and assurance of future generations lies on the male which would be the son. When the parents considers retirement they don't move into a pensioner's house instead they move in with the son or simply give their residence to him. He's expected to now care for his elderly parents and he's supposedly also the head of not only the household but the entire family.

While apparenty, the survival of the family in Thailand rests on the women and explicitly on the youngest daughter's shoulders she's the one that is responsible for providing for the family. But in a country were the general income could be as low as $ 2 it's no wonder that young women are more or lessed forced into becoming or considering becoming Thai mail order brides or possibly being pushed into prostitution.

Apparently Thai women especially are obident, nice and doesn't object or leave their husbands if the marriage or relationship is bad they rather stay then leave. Maybe it could have something to do with them being dependent of their husband's economical and financial stability as they are expected to provide for their Thai families...

But yes things changes everywhere, every day there's an occassion for someone...

Of course it's not only Thai mailorder brides that are popular it's actually all Asian women. Of course Korea is highly patriarchial to yet a biracial marriage seems less common between a Korean woman and Western man altough I think that is increasing. Korean men are generally not raised to be in equal relationships and the Korean woman is raised to stay at home, take care of the household and future children. Because in Korea the survival of the next generation means almost everything.

I realized that my defintion of myself or more so my identity is really fragile, obscure and undefined. Just as fragile as a cat's affection I suppose. They're independent creatures, maybe that's why I like cats so much.

Instead of my usual routines ; (the baking I mean) , I'll have surrendered into a project of more urgent status. O.B.C.H (Operation Bring Cat Home). If you're lucky I might publish an entry that's baking related at my other blog very sooon... and if I don't try to be patient.

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To an untrained and unaware eye I know that I could quite easilly be mistaken for an Asian foreigner and more particularly Asian woman, you know those women that are desperatly trying to become someone's Asian bride. I don't think there's that many that might percieve me like that, at least I hope not but I know there are those men that make that assumption and presume they can approach with peculiar questions and requests.

To most Swedes I believe they realize that I'm no where near that kind of women. My values of life are in fact very different. Of course I like to find love some day down the line, but I wouldn't settle for just anyone and I'd rather get to know the person first. That could take days or weeks or it could take months or even years, you can't know beforehand.

I do think I could become a good mother but that's not my ultimate goal in life, I also believe in equaility between a man and a women. I don't necessarilly need a marriage or church wedding to validate my future relationship. Yet I do understand the legal protection that inhibits. But I don't have to get marred just for the sake of out.

Having children seems like something most people consider a biological right, but fact is that it's a preveilage even though some consider it be the next step forward in a relationship. It doesn't have to be, a life without children is not the end of the world.

I once was adopted to foreign country, I now love my new parents, yet the reunion doesn't in any way annul the love I continue to feel from my adoptive parents just as the love, compassion and sense of belonging shouldn't be patronized. I'm very much Swedish yet I'm also partially or very much Korean and on top of that a European raised woman.

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Seeing that my plans for the summer is next to non existant this is what I'm hoping to be able to do:

• Present my Master Thesis
• Visit Korea (even it it's a long shot)
• Visit my Chinese friend (seems unlikely)
• Go on holiday to another country (actually this also feels unlikely)
• Get another cat ( almost as unlikely as me going to Korea)

Now I have visited and eaten at two of the Korean restaurants in Stockholm, I'd say the food was pretty amazing. But I might be biased. The only thing that seems to become a reality is my thesis presentation but that isn't certain either....

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I've recently started watching Adoption Stories, and the few episodes I've seen so far hasn't said anything about the adoptee being grateful, it's the oppositie the prospective parents are portrayed as being extremely grateful and lucky because they've basically been able to become parents and a real family.

But what's a real family ? These days it's hard to tell, especially in the Western World and also growing number of divorces. However this wasn't really what I wanted to discuss. In one of the episodes there was a couple with one biological daughter that eventually settled on Korean adoption.

Their main argument for their final selection was that Korean children and infants aren't placed in orphanages like most orphans generally are percieved to be. Instead the couple has been told that Korean children are placed in foster homes and are being taken care of by the foster mum. Seems ideal, I suppose if it wasn't for the fact that there actually are orphanages for Korean orphans too. Why else would they be called orphanages !? The reason I know this for a fact is that I prior to adoption over 20 years ago, spent approximately 3 months in an orphanage starting from my birth and until my adoption.

Of course this was almost 25 years ago, so maybe things could have changed but there will always be if not orphanages in Korea at least institutions as Koreans my be more easilly influenced or pushed into such a decision. Actually the number of foster homes and foster mothers in Korea is not eqivallent to that of Korean orphans... Maybe they never will, as of right now they have quite a distance to leap.

Unlike me, my brother was born several years later and he was placed in foster home, but in his case his mother made a concious decision to place her son up for adoption. While I wasn't even given the chance to rest on my mother's cheast, I didn't have a chance to snuggle with her, I didn't scream to make my announcemennt to my parents, I did scream for born though. At least that's what I imagine that I did, I didn't get a chance to get a first glance even at my Appa and Omma and niether were they.
Instead I was to become a hidden family secret, returning over 20 years later at Korean age 26. For that long I was my family's big shame and tabboo. There could be a small possibility that this has made me screwed up, but I wouldn't necessarilly call that a failor as I have been doing pretty good in life up until now.

And I'm aware of the fact that are a lot of strange things hidden backstage or stowed away, discrepancies in the Korean adoption system. And this post did fulfill it's purpose but that's only the top of the iceberg. There is still more subjects to be touched and talked about were the general awareness is next to null.
Maybe, just maybe I'll put this blog on hold when there is nothing more to talk about, no more topics to written and discussed. Only then it seems as if this blog wouldn't be updated as regularly. But never deleted. But like I said it seems as if that decision isn't like to establish itself in the near future or even years to come.

And yes, it could that the agencies that handles Korean American adoptions delibrately chooses to place the young ones in foster homes instead of orphanages. Yet there actually is a shortage of Korean foster mother's which means that a majority of the young ones can't be placed in foster homes but has to be placed at an institution or orphanage. And to be placed at orphanage ight be something that many Korean adoptees have in common, yet I believe the percentages of such a placement has decreased among the younger KADs. But orphanages will always exist.
I have a voice and I'll continue to use as long as there's a need and a purpose for it.

Worringly, is that mum's beloved cat is missing since two days now, hopefully the cat isn't hurt...

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There's so much talk about adoptees being in some kind of greatfulness and unequal relationship to their adoptive parents. But I actually believe that if it hadn't been for adoptees birth mum's intention to surrender her child or some random unfortunate event or both that child would never have been given up for adoption.

So who than would have to feel greatful? The supposed orphan and future adoptee or the adoptive parents?

It's a really big thing for a mother or any parents to willingly give up their child (or so I like to think).
Then it only seems logical for the adoptive parents to feel some kind of gratitude and greatfulness because if that woman hadn't made such a decision, that particular child and adoptee would never have been adopted and become a part of that particular family.

Yet I realize that one; being an adoptee means that it very likely that are a living contradiction, and if adoption is something that has to happen I think that it might become easier if the adoptee and the adoptive family is of the same ethnicity. Possibly it could also be so that adult adoptees might have a better understanding if they were to adopt themselves, although it might also make things more difficult if one parent is an adoptee.

I'm not trying to disrespect adoptive parents as much as I might intiatally have come across as in this entry, I'm trying to explain that adoption is a really complex thing and a great challenge and responsibility that's all.

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Once you're in it, you can't get out.


(A) you either start promoting, lobbying or believing in the abolishment of adoption.
(B) you can only relate to other adoptees or even same ethnicity adoptees which means you either married a fellow adoptee or have nothing but adopted friends.
(C) you don't believe establishment of adoption is a neccessarilly good thing yet you havn't ruled out adoption yourself.
(D) you're pretty well intergrated into your adoptive country (society, culture), you don't have a big interest in adoption, reunion and/or birth family search. You're adopted, but you identify the most with your new culture. You're friends and partner are all of that culture (which in my case would mean 100 % Swedish).

It's about time that adoption gets its rightful media coverage because its nothing else than a Western concept. I like to state that I'm not resentful to either of my families, but the process of achiving an almost equal coexistance hasn't been easy. Respect is a word that comes to mind.

And I don't neccessarilly like to label people so this entry should be seen as an attempt to identify different values found among adoptees not to place this and that person in one of these sections.


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The following entry is based on my personal experience and I welcome comments, like always. Not all comments well be accepted for publishing,unfortunately though.

Adoption of any child be it infant or toddler is very convinent in a way especially for busy carrier centered women and women in show business like the fashion industry and Hollywood. For models and actresses they usually risk lossing income and reputation as well as popularity if they decide to start a family the ordinary way, but if they decide to skip the pregnancy thing they seem able to enjoy both sides of the world.

The joy of motherhood and a stable income. To choose adoption just because of its conveniance is in my eyes pure selfishness. I mean women that delibrately chooses adoption even though they could concive naturally that to me seems to be nothing else than selfishness and lazyness.

In that comparision adoption seems more convinent but unless you're not filthy rich or Madonna you are likely to be forced to wait for years. But then if its so easy to become a parent shouldn't it be just as easy to annul it? Well, no it shouldn't be, that to me is just cruel. But even so it does happen that adoptions go wrong, that adoptive parents regret their decision or simply can't keep their bundle of joy.

Above picture of my lovely plant in my old place, unfortunately that plant didn't survive the heavy summer rain this summer...

If they would have been more prepared or had a larger social security net, they might never decided to annul the adoption or let alone initate an adoption process in the first place. Do you realize how many separations that child of yours would have to go through just because of you? Don't take to easy way out, just because things might get complicated. You're supposed to be the safe heaven for that child. Don't blame the child for its history or come with lame excuses. And please don't believe you can decide to return to sender. In adoptions or any family building their shouldn't be a reclamation period.

Yet I'm aware of the fact that sometimes, it might not be ideal for the child to stay with it's birth parents but I also assume that people generally are less openminded towards relinquishing a child born by their blood and maybe not so much when there are no blood relations.

Before commenting; be aware of the fact that this entry may be more or less biased , and you'll probably not like this post and may not even agree with me. But please leave religious things out of this and please don't try to promote, defend or speak in favour of adoptive parents. This post was written by an adoptee which means it is written from another perspective.

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Prime Ministers

• Olof Palme
• Ingvar Karlsson
• Carl Bildt
• Ingvar Karlsson
• Göran Persson
• Fredrik Reinfeldt

Politicians

• Hakan Juholt
• Torbjorn Falldin
• Svante Lundkvist
• Kjell Olof Faldt
• Lena Hjelm Wallén
• Odd Engstrom
• Mona Sahlin
• Margareta Winberg
• Marita Ulvskog
• Lars Engqvist
• Bosse Ringholm
• Erik Asbrink
• Beatrice Ask
• Jan Bjorklund
• Maud Olofsson
• Bo Lundgren
• Alf Svensson
• Gudrun Shyman
• Goran Hagglund
• Lars Leijonborg
• Thomas Bodstrom
• Anna Lindh
• Leif Pagrotsky
• Bjorn Von Sydow
• Ulrika Messing
• Ylva Johansson
• Thomas Ostros
• Maria Wetterstrand
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Korean Cuisine

I really like to keep my link to Korea fresh in my mind and I've been considering weither or not I should try to cook some Korean cuisine. This is a big challenge for me since I for one don't know any authentic reciepes. Furthermore, not one of my family members are especially appricative of Korean cuisine except for 갈비 Kalbi/galbi and 삼겹살 Samgyeopsal. I have tried to make my own interpretation of Bibimbap and also fastfood noodles which I add a raw egg in while hot and mix with stirr fried vegetables. Really yummy and the closest I can come to ramen noodles, I suppose. So who would eat it if I cooked it?

I honestly believed we had passed this stage by now, but I seem to have been mistaken. Last week I had another exam and on top of that I have a re-exam in a few days. Since I felt like I needed to prepare for my test instead of going to my class I decided to stay home and study. When dad came home he became really, really annoyed with me for skipping school which isn't compulsory by the way. I tried to explain it to him but he replayed with something about me quiting the entire course and then he sort of forced me into promising that I would attend next class. Hello !? I'm over 20 by now not 10, so is there anything wrong with this picture .... ?

Do you end up in these kind of arguments with your parents ? How can you get out of them ?


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If it only was possible to survive on literature and books alone, then I wouldn't feel hungry. When it comes to books that interests me apart from books about Korea and Korean history I'm also very found of English classics. Like Margret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind, North And South triology by John Jakes, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

• Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• A Midsummer's Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Robinson Crusoe by Alexander Selkirk
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Lord Byron
• John Keats
• Tess of D'Uberville by Thomas Hardy
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Virgina Wolf
• D.H Lawrence
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M Montgomery
• Atonement by Ian MacEwan

A smaller selection books I loved and read, once. Who's your favorite author(s)?


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Today I'm not feeling in the mood to blog about anything, period. Instead I'm trying to live my life but I suppose you'll here from me again very soon...

In the mean time do pop in to my other blog and read some of the stuff there and especially this two posts Likely stigmas and Korean economy maybe there will be more thoughtful stuff published there soon, when it happens I sure will let you know.

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Below the answer to what Italian bread I was making the other day...

Still no clue then this might help...

If you guessed Ciabatta then you're correct...

But actually this post was supposed to be about Swedish trends somewhat and not traditional Italian baking. despite the fun I find in it.

I suppose most of Americans and foreigners might be aware of the Swedish crime stories the most recent one would be The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but also Wallander although I confess that nothing comes close to the original Wallander, Krister Henriksson. And the female lead, portrayed by none other than Noomi Rapace has since begun acting and filming in the States.

Another Swedish crime story is about the policeman Martin Beck, known as Beck. Portrayed by Peter Haber.


And another very, very popular series in Sweden these days are the comedy series titled Solsidan, following the life of upper class life in a posh part of the capital city. And yes they live in the posh side so yes one can assume that they might be suppoerts of the New Moderate Party.

And previously another comedy series called Svensson, Svensson was taking place in a middle class family in a smaller city. They father was a postman and the mother was a bank employee and they had two children one son and one daughter. That series started airing in the 1990s but made a slight comeback in 2007 which continued until 2008. Apparently they are now producing a movie with Susanne Reuter as the mum, and Allan Svensson as the dad they have both kept portraying their roles since the start in 1994.

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I can't believe it's April already, but sadly it is. Today is official April Fools Day, but the pictures in this post isn't fake or anything. And yes they're from Namdaemung and yes they're mine.

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