the Mekong Monologues

Sunday, 29 June 2008

True love

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

Thursday, 26 June 2008

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.