walking on the winter wonderland

Today was another wintry snowy day. Me likes this kind of snowy days :) The snowflakes float and fly through the air towards your face, it is much like those fake snow machines in shopping centres that blow foam into your face, only this time it's real :)

Love how the white layer of frost settles onto benches and the ground, forming a wintry landscape. Snowing makes the cold all worth it :) This weekend the temperature is forecasted to drop to -9, with highest being -5 degrees C. It's going to be cool, real cool :) For once it's going to be a white Christmas <3

Haven't mentioned how much I like my room/studio apartment. Although it's not exactly the warmest place one can be at (even trams and other indoors are warmer), the bed and the comforter keep me warm and snuggly when I sleep. It's also very quiet and peaceful around here. All I can hear is the sound of the fridge and the ticking of my clock, I'm serious. And this peace is something that I never have at home, be it in hall or home home. In hall there are always some kids running and shouting along the corridors or from other blocks and whatnot, at home there's the TV and chattering of family (my family talks really loudly - ok fine sometimes I'm the loudest but still) and keeping the door closed doesn't keep out the noise), so this solitude is something that I really relish. Not to mention a space that I can really call my own - at home I share a room with the housekeeper so when she sleeps earlier than me (which is always), I'll have to evacuate the room 'cos she has to wake up early the next day, so I'll go to my sister's room, and when she sleeps too and I still have work to do (or refuses to sleep yet), I'll get banished to the kitchen with Max (my laptop). Poor thing right, me :( In hall, well, I suppose I have my own room and I can sleep whenever I want to so that's a bit better, but then we're always rushing from one activity to another, and since hall is a social place, there'll always be chatting sessions and/or birthday celebrations so your room is not really the most private place on earth. So therefore, this is the only place where I really have my own privacy. I sleep whenever I want to, I eat whenever I want to, I buy what I want to eat and cook what I want to eat, I leave my things lying around where I want them to be, I go out whenever I want to go and don't have to inform anyone, I come back whenever I want to and don't have to tell my family whether I'm going home for dinner, I don't have to answer to anyone. Therefore I really love my room here because it's a space I can call my own. I mean, it's not that I'm complaining about people at home or in hall because those are definitely my loved ones, but you've gotta admit you need your own space every now and then and I never have that in Singapore.

Museum of World Culture where we have our lessons - cool right? Having lessons in a museum :)

Trams in Gothenburg