Archive for August, 2008

Countdown to H&M in Tokyo

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Many Swedes, like myself, have a special love-hate relationship with the likes of H&M and IKEA – publicly we might say that we despise them for being providers of cheap crappy goods and marching towards world expansion in an imperialistic manner. Privately, however, we all shop (or have shopped) furniture at IKEA, praising them for [...]

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All in all – a disastrous Olympics for the Swedes

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Well, tomorrow is the last day of the 2008 Olympic Games and being a Swede, you got to think “Thank You, the disaster is finally over….Let’s forget about Beijing and concentrate on London!”
With one day left (without any hopes of more medals), Sweden ended up with five medals; four silvers and one bronze. That places [...]

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What Japanese wants to watch on TV during summer

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

In answer to the poll “What foreign TV series do you want to view thoroughly this summer holiday?”, in itself not such a strange question, there were some in my opinion highly unexpected results – please see below:
1. Full House
2. Bewitched
3. Columbo
4. 24
5. ER
6. Dae Jang-geum (Korean)
7. X-Files
8. Winter Sonata (Korean)
9. Knight Rider
10.Beverly Hills 90210
11.Prison [...]

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