Project PT

Ok, another project of mine just started. As I mentioned yesterday I had the first meeting with my personal trainer this week, yeey! I've never had a PT before and after the meeting I actually realized what I'm about to do to myself. I'm used to go to the gym when I want to, and I'm used to cancel when I don't feel like it.. He and I will meet 10 times during 10 weeks and he'll schedule classes for me for every week, which I of course have to follow no matter I want to or not. But, I think it's going to be awsome, I'm prepared to work hard!! I told him I wanted to be shaped like this, with nice muscles in the right places:

Sara beach 2012?

However, I'm afraid I'll end up looking like this:

Not only do I need to work out with heavy machines, but also change what I'm eating. I just cleaned my fridge and threw away my salty, floury and sweetened friends.. Luckily I can continue drinking wine, as long as it's red.. and I'm allowed to drink one beer per month :)

Oh, I'll miss you Barilla. You've made my life so much richer, but it's best for both of us to go separate ways now. And Kalles Kaviar, I bought you just 1,5 week ago and see, you're almost finished. Speaking for itself. And Fridays without tacos, do they exist in Sweden?! Santa Maria, you've probably forced me to sit by myself every Friday evening from now on..

Carlsberg, I'll miss you too, but I know we'll see each other once every month.

French style Saturday

Hi there,

Hope you had a fabulous weekend! I know it finished a while ago but for me the weekend continues. For those of you who didn't know, I'm between two jobs and I can spend my time just as I prefer. The initial days of this week consisted of professional massage, a meeting with my new PT and well, yeah, that's about it. Not too hard. The weekends are more fun though. To be honest it's quite boring to have so much spare time when no one else has.

Here are some pictures from Saturday. We had lunch with white wine at Pastis, a genuine and very charming (and for me until Saturday unknown) French bistro in the middle of Stockholm's old town. A restaurant in the old town without any tourists, unbelievable! Of course, as in any real French restaurant, there was salad with chèvre and primeurs on the menu and of course I just had to pick that.

We continued to Kungsträdgården where we could watch the japanese go crazy with their cameras to catch the cherry tree blossom (no no, I did not go crazy with my camara, I just had to take one picture to put on the blog).

Pastis - Gamla stan

Cherry tree blossom - Kungsträdgården

 Tomorrow I'll tell you more about the first meeting with my new personal trainer.. Until then, cherio!

Operation

Not for very sensitive readers..

I had a new experience today, an operation (but don't worry, nothing serious and I'm at home and I'm recovered now). The operation went really fast, maybe half an hour, and it was less painful than cutting the hair, anesthesia is good :) Luckily I woke up afterwards as well, I was a bit worried about that. I mean, I've never been put to sleep by drugs before so how could I be sure? 

I had fasting instructions to follow, I was only allowed to eat one sandwich before 7 am and the operation started around 1.30 pm. I had to set the alarm to get up and eat that sandwich and then I could go to bed again. As I easily get affected by low blood suger levels I was dizzy already when I arrived to the hospital. But it was nothing compared to the dizziness and nausea afterwards, like a really bad hangover, but despite feeling like throwing up, that sandwich tasted delicious after not eating and drinking for so many hours.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a more productive day.  =)

In case I got lost?

My purple wake up room

Drug channel

Yummy. I was starving after so many hours of fasting

Soft Sunny Sunday

After Saturday's snow chaos (snow is equals to chaos in Stockholm no matter what time of the year) we could once again enjoy a warm and sunny spring day in Stockholm. This was a pretty good day, I must say. I woke up at 1 o'clock which is a little late, but since it was due to a good house party the night before I didn't mind sleeping late.

As usual I spent the Sunday afternoon inside with my handball team, a bunch of hyper active 10 year old boys who like to talk more than to listen :) Even though we hadn't planned a single exercise before getting there we managed to activate and entertain them for one hour. They just love the new bigger balls that we've started to use even though they have some troubles to grab them with their small small hands, hehe.

The walk together with Sofie along Brunnsviken after the training made my day. It's almost 6 pm, the sun is still high up in the sky and it's warm enough to walk around without jacket, summer is coming closer :)

I've decided that I will write more about my daily adventures and only update my tagalog progression when I've actually made some progress. Let's just hope these progression updates will be frequent enough.. at the moment I'm having a dip..

Pain

Yesterday I went to Sthlm Physique to get massage. Not the nice, relaxing kind of massage, but the more painful kind. 10 years of pain in my left leg and veeery tense muscles, the masseur was a bit chocked. He said he didn't press hard but it hurt like h**l and after 50 minutes I was totally exhausted. But it actually feels a little bit better today. I'm surprised, I thought my leg would be very stiff and sore. I'll go back on Wednesday, looking forward to another hour of pain!

Over to tagalog. Today I'll finish the lesson I started before Easter. A lesson about pets.. or not really. What they wanted to teach in that lesson was what I explained last time, the diffcult thing. Do you remember? I hardly remember myself.. Long breaks are obviously not good for the learning process. :)

Tagalog Easter break

It's Easter and I'm taking a break from tagalog. Mostly because I'm busy socializing with my family back home in Örnsköldsvik (in the north of Sweden). I'm having a great time here. Lots of good food, good company and of course beautiful nature. Yesterday we went to the sea and grilled out, delicious!

Soya sausage and home made bread

Mom, me and my sister

View over Gullvik outside Örnsköldsvik

Breakfast @Vurma and complicated tagalog

I just came home from a nice breakfast at Vurma, delicious yoghurt with raspberries and sandwiches with cheese and avocado, yummy! And coffee of course.

I'm starting to realize that tagalog is complicated, a lot more complicated than I first thought. Yesterday I found out a quite strange thing. I'll try to explain it. It's about pronouns and adjectives. You know pronouns are words that you use instead of names, like I, he, her, their etc. and adjectives are describing words.

What's different in tagalog is that you use different pronouns depending on whether you want to express that something/someone is nice (as an example) or if you want to emphasize it more and say that something/someone is so nice or very nice. Let's look at some examples.

In English you would say:
- Sara is nice
which in tagalog is:
- Mabait si Sara
Literally translated this means:
- Nice [marker] Sara

But now, if you want to emphasize how nice I am (which you do!) you will say: 
- Sara is so nice
and in tagalog:
- Ang bait ni Sara
which literally means:
- How nice of Sara

It's definitely not the same structure as English or Swedish.. As you can see you take away ma-  from the adjective and only use the root, you also add ang in front of the root: mabait (nice) becomes ang bait (so/how nice). The marker si also changes for ni.


I think another example makes it more clear:

- He/she is thin --> Payat siya --> Thin he/she

- He/she is so thin --> Ang payat niya --> How thin of him/her

Obviously the word payat doesn't have the prefix ma- so you don't need to change that but you need to add ang. You can also see that siya (pronounced 'sha') has changed to niya. 

Another example, and now you probably get the structure: 

- Maganda ito - this is pretty
- Ang ganda nito - this is so pretty 

I realize that this was more complicated to explain than to understand, hope you got some of it at least. And hope you understand that I'm having a hard time learning tagalog :)

Enjoy your Saturday!