Lost In Japan

Dear All (if there are any readers still left after my almost complete absence)
I have decided to do a rather heavy rework of this site and restart it with a somewhat better focus…
I need to update the Wordpress of the site (I’m running 2.1.3 here for God’s sake!) and also redesign the layout, [...]

Six months hiatus and then I come back and make a post with no content, just a picture and a link to a text about Dubai:
The Dark side of Dubai
Well, the article was truly interesting since I’ve been a long “fan” of Dubai (from a distance, as I’ve never been there) and really wanted to [...]

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 [...]

I’ m back in neigboring Korea for a speedy visit, and it has been nearly nine months since I was here last. Unfortunately not much spare time this visit, but I’m still enjoying the change of scenery. Also, my living situation here in Seoul is vastly better than last year. I was stuck at mediocre [...]

Seeing as I have been in Seoul for about a month now, I know have sufficient knowledge about Korean tradition, culture and society to make a complete comparative assessment of Seoul vs Tokyo in the 21st century…… Yeah, OK, so I am not an anthropological expert or anything and staying just a [...]