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Having driven through the USA and Canada Coast to Coast 3 times, negotiated with Toronto traffic, parallel parked like a boss in LA, and found my way through NYC, I finally learned to drive for the second time. Starting from square one was certainly a frustrating experience! Why can I NOT convert my license in Sweden? […]

About to move to Sweden? Buy Swedish! To further boost the Swedish economy, here is a quick table to get you started!   All suggestions welcome! §1. Survival Junk Food We don’t eat fast food here…  Coffee       §2. Establishing Your Home  Groceries       §3. Home Sweet Home  Furnishing Toy store §4. […]

Cover Photo: Vrångö island, camping under the starlight. Disclaimer: If you have never been camping before. Read on. (otherwise, go camping!) Sweden is THE safest country to go camping! What I really like about CHALMERS is… the staff actually care to share the little things in the Swedish newspaper with us international student. I appreciate […]

During my first year of master’s in Göteborg I declined the race, but I wasn’t going to repeat that mistake during my second year. I paid 595 kr for a half-marathon and it was totally worth it. #yolo! WHY? When I first heard about the race I was highly skeptical (come on, who would pay that […]

Figure 1 (above): Raj got his arm chopped up (while saving a puppy… yeaaah right). Hero is alright… so is the puppy… 27 April, 2015 – Gothenburg, Sunny, 11°C Updated: 17 June, 2016 – Gothenburg, Drizzle, 16°C §1. Medical Insurance: Take it seriously. Adult-time. in short: I am a Canadian citizen but since I will be […]

Echo Elke’s Blog on Stockholm-Tallinn boat cruise: the Gothenburg –> Frederikshavn, Denmark cruise is more efficient! Yes! You can leave after a hearty breakfast… relax on the ferry, enjoy Denmark, and come back to home-sweet-home before bedtime.   %1. Itinerary: StenaLine offers several daily return trips from Gothenburg to Frederikshavn. If you time it right, you […]

You know that old fella in the machine shop that is struggling with Windows XP (and you made fun of him?) That guy is you in …3…..month if you have no idea about coding. (don’t believe me?) STOP! if     you.knowledge(coding) == 1            break; else           […]

I have been a fan of the popular American website TheChive.com since the beginning. (No seriously, since the very beginning. i.e. circa 2007, when there were only 20 pages of “posts”.) If you are a “Chiver”, Keep Calm and Chive On! On TheChive.com there is a “Cat Saturday” post every Saturday. In honour of that I […]

“But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song […]