True love

Wonderful. True love. So beautiful it makes me cry.

Our 10:th Wedding Anniversary!

On the 27:th of June, me and Janne are celebrating our 10:th anniversary..! I can´t believe it´s already been 10 years since the day we got married in S:t Olofs Chapel, a beautiful little red wooden church by the sea on the west coast of Sweden.

This was the happiest and most beautiful day of our lives. Together with friends and family who had joined us from Sweden, England, USA and Hong Kong, we had a wonderful ceremony and celebration which we´ll always cherish in our hearts. 

Unfortunately, we don´t have any digital photos from our wedding day to be published here (as digital cameras simply were not invented then), but I´m posting some photos from the beautiful little chapel (built in 1721) and its surroundings for you to see. They show the chapel, the altar and the view over the sea seen from the chapel.


The other day, I found the song that we chose for our wedding dance on You Tube; Dance me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen.

Leonard Cohen has always been very special to us, and we love this song. When I found it, I was happily surprised to see that Cohen obviously had written this song with weddings promising eternal love, in mind. 

Darling; I´m dedicating this video to you. Thank you for always believing in me, supporting me and loving me no matter what. Thank you for always being there for me, wherever I am in the world. Thank you for standing by me in good times and in bad times, in sickness and in health. Thank you for 10 wonderful married years. What we have is truly unique, and I´m looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together! I love you more than words can say.

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

At home...

I´m writing this at my home in Stockholm. I landed here early morning on the 20:th of June, just in time for the traditional Midsummer celebration. I´ll have four weeks of well deserved vacation here in Sweden, which I´m very much looking forward to. No plans yet, except for spending week 29 in Halmstad on the west coast where my family lives. On the 21:st of July, I´ll head back to Phnom Penh and Janne will head for another duty trip abroad, this time to Amsterdam. But that´s then. Right now, we´re only resting and relaxing. Mmmm... nice...!!! 

Let´s go shopping

This isn´t a very good picture, but I couldn´t resist showing it to you; look closely and you´ll see that it´s a roller coaster. It´s running inside a shopping mall. That´s how big the shopping malls are in KL.... This picture is from Berjaya Times Square, a gigantic mall with 900 shops, a cineplex with Southeast Asia´s largest cinema and movie screen, and a huge indoor theme park of 133,000 square feet called Cosmos World. All in one building. 

Monorail

One of the many means of transportation in Kuala Lumpur; the Monorail.

Beautiful lampposts...

I admire the beautiful and imaginative lampposts they have in Malaysia...
Here and below are two in the shape of flowers...

Sultan Abdul Samad Building

The Sultan Abdul Samad Building, the first moghul-style structure built in Kuala Lumpur, which was officially opened in 1897 as the Supreme Court. Today, it´s housing the High Court and is the centerpiece of KL´s historic district.

Old and new, side by side...

In this picture you can see both one of the minarets of the beautiful Jamek Mosque, built 1909, and the Kuala Lumpur Tower, the second tallest building in KL, built 1995.

Petronas at night....

Quite impressive, I must say... We felt really small, looking up on the 452 meter tall building from the ground...

Petronas Twin Towers

The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur are the world´s tallest pair of buildings at 452 metre (1,480 ft). Between 1996 and 2003 it was the world´s tallest building, until the Taipei 101 Tower topped it by 56 meters (190 ft). The towers were designed by Cesar Pelli and Associates, and the cost for the whole project was USD 1,2 billion.

A weekend in Kuala Lumpur

The weekend trip to Kuala Lumpur was great in every way. It was of course lovely to see my beloved husband Janne again, and get the opportunity to spend some time together. KL is a modern, clean, well-organized city which made me, a Phnom Penh citizen, feel like "the hillbilly cousin" on a visit (which I was, I guess). With numerous impressive shopping malls, multi laned highways and modern buildings side by side with old colonial and islamic architectural wonders and with a multi ethnic population, Kuala Lumpur comes across as both outwardly cosmopolitan and very Asian at the same time. Although, I must say that I kind of missed the "chaos" and "unpredictability" of Cambodia. One of the highlights for the two of us who has a big interest in architecture, was the many interesting buildings to admire.

More photos will follow, but as there seems to be a problem with publishing all of them in the same posting, you´ll find them one by one or in pairs, above.

Going to Kuala Lumpur

Yaay - today I´m happy for two things;

1) I have internet connection in my flat again! Which means that I have a fair chance of connecting with the rest of the world after two weeks of isolation.

2) Today (Saturday) I´m flying to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to meet up with my beloved husband who´s there on a business trip. He landed there this morning, I´ll arrive this afternoon, and we´ll have almost two days together in KL, before I have to go back to Phnom Penh for work on Monday morning. Less than two days in KL might not seem too long time to some people, and most would probably not bother to fly from Cambodia to Malaysia for a short stay like that. But for a couple like us who don´t see see eachother more often than once every three months, it´s a very welcome addition to all that time that we spend apart.
And oh, there´s one more thing that makes this visit to KL very special to us; We got married in June 1998, and went to Malaysia on honeymoon. We spent almost two months there and in neighbouring countries, and already back then we said that we´d really like to go back to Malaysia for our 10 year wedding anniversary. And now; voila - 10 years later - we´ll be back there (almost) right on time for some romantic anniverary celebration. Which I´m reeeeally looking forward to! ;-)

So now; time for some last minute packing - as always...

Birthday Girl!

Today is Polly Jeans´3:rd birthday! Hipp, hipp, hurray!

Oh, how time flies! I can´t believe that it´s three years since we got our little beloved puppy girl!



Happy birthday, honey! We love you sooooo much!!!

Waiting...

We're all waiting for something... You are probably waiting for a new posting here. I'm still waiting for the installation of internet connection in my new flat...

I wonder what Polly Jean is waiting for. What do you think..?