Aaaah. Hela dagen har ägnats åt Matt Nathansons senaste; Some Mad Hope. Jag älskar.
Introlåten som heter Car Crash är en perfekt inledning på ett superbt album!

I want to feel the car crash
I want to feel the capsize
I want to feel the bomb drop, the earth drop, till I'm satisfied
I want to feel the car crash because I'm dying on the inside
I want to let go and know that I'll be alright, alright

Åkte hemifrån klockan sju, till gymmet för signatur och sedan var jag bara i stan i 30 minuter. Jag lyssnade på låtarna i Some Mad Hope, log glatt och såg på min absoluta favoritstad. Jag väntade också på bussen där Mimmi skulle vara på, kan inte strunta i det obligatoriska morgonsnacket! :)

Angel you sing about beautiful things
And all I want to do is believe
I traded my dreams for this mess of memories
And they just stoped working for me

De raderna har fått mig att älska. Ur låten Angel.
Totalt älskandes albumet tog jag och invigde iTunes Store hos mig. Jag köpte sammanlagt 5 låtar, 2 jag redan hade (fast olagligt!) och 3 nya. Matt Nathansons Car Crash (Acoustic), Romeo and Juliet (oh my god, oh my god). Även The Shins låtar New Slang och Caring Is Creepy (dessa hade jag redan) köptes, samt Colin Hays Beautiful World. Underbart. Nu blir det sängen med musik!


    Matt Nathanson, karln har alltid toksnygga t-shirts! Sedan råkar också hans musik äga...

Såg nyss ett avsnitt av Gordon's Kitchen Nightmares, som går på kanal 5. Fy fasiken vad underbart det programmet är. Ett av världens bästa reality-serier, och jag både gapskrattar och förfäras över innehåller.

Gordon Ramsay, den stencoola kocken från Hell's Kitchen, som försöker få dåliga restauranger på benen igen. Han svär värre än min morfar och är alltid brutalt ärlig. Han drar sig inte för att skälla på folk, och jag bara skrattar. Skrattar så jag nästan ramlar ur sängen. Det bästa som sänds på svensk TV just nu, och något som får en att somna in till fredagen med ett leende på läpparna.
Gordon, vilken man!

Alldeles nyss rullade eftertexterna i säsongsfinalen av tv-serien Californication. Jösses. Herregud. Jag flämtar. Sjukt bra serie, allt jag kan säga just nu.

Paus. Andas in. Andas ut.

Jo, serien handlar om Hank Moody, spelad av David Duchovny (ni vet, Fox Mulder i Arkiv X), som är en författare på dekis. Han super som en tok, sätter på allt som rör sig samtidigt som han försöker vinna tillbaka sitt ex (som han har en dotter med). Serien är en Showtime-produktion, vilket alltid betyder att en serie är bra. Men, denna var långt ifrån bara bra. Den var helt tokbraigt underbar.

Hank Moody, världens coolaste karl. Han är nog min idol, och säkert varenda person som ser seriens också. Hans liv, hans dalar och hur han försöker handskas med sin ångest - gör karaktären älskvärd. Han älskar sin dotter, och han älskar sitt ex. Han är även grov i munnen, vilket får mig att dra på smilbanden.

Jag ville bara få detta sagt. Californication är ren och skär kung. KUNG.

Ett snabbt tips, 6 (5) av mina foton från Dubai finns på min deviantART; http://igelkotten.deviantart.com/gallery/
Ta en titt! :)

Och en liten notis om Darjeeling Limited vill jag få in.
Såg filmen nyligen, och kan säga att den är bra. Varken mer eller mindre. Den ska tydligen vara en komedi, men sällar sig tyvärr till "komedi som inte är rolig"-hörnet, där the Breakup med flera redan finns. Men, som tur är för filmen, är manuset i övrigt riktigt bra.
   Tre bröder reser genom Indien på en spirituell resa och jag tycker att detta är den första filmen som skildrar Indien någorlunda neutralt. Vilket är vädligt bra, man blir inte bombad med moralkakor om fattiga människor eller förtryck, det finns i bakgrunden för den uppmärksamme att uppfatta - men man tvingas inte bry sig. Vilket är väldigt skönt. Bör ses åtminstone en gång! :)

Ah. Vad skönt det är att då och då få köra ur de gamla komedispåren och se på en bra dramafilm. Satte igång Garden State idag, ni vet den där filmen som han den där killen från Scrubs gjort. Zach Braff heter han, och mycket riktigt har han skrivit och regisserat den. Han spelar även huvudrollen, ett smart knep faktist, för du kniper man fler priser!

Filmen börjar i all fall på ett gripande sätt, men lugnar sedan ner sig. Den handlar om Andrew Largeman, en man som någon minut in i filmen får reda på att hans mor har drunknat. Man får sedan följa hans sedvanliga morgonrutin, där hans badrumsskåp är fylld av tablettaskar. Han åker till sin mammas begravning, träffar andra människor och till slut Sam. Samantha, som är hennes riktiga namn, är en fager ung kvinna spelad av Natalie Portman (hon från Star Wars 1,2,3). Underbar skådespelerska, underbart vacker och underbar person.

Filmen fick helt enkelt det att liksom bubbla i mig. Det är en romantisk drama, men romantiken hamnar lite i skymundan för dramat, vilket passar mig helt utmärkt. Dessutom, innehåller filmen en handfull scener med lite komedi, det känns skönt att mitt i all allvarlighet få dra lite på smilbanden. Att skådespelarna i filmen gör ett strålande jobb, att de flesta scener har helt fantastisk stämning, att soundtracket är otroligt bra (Shins!) och första kyssen gör att Garden State direkt seglar upp på min topp tio-lista. Jag gillar!

Jag vet, jag vet. En ruskigt lam rubrik, men vafan, det stämmer ju till 100%!

I am so fricking happy right now. First off all, I miss Sweden. Dubai is great, but I want to go home and meet my friends and... cough... school.....
Anyway, the biggest reason for my happiness is that at this exact moment, I am listening to Romeo and Juliet (Killers). Yes. That means my iPod is alive again. It only took me 3 fecken hours. I installed iTunes on the desktop, right. But, when it was finished I discovered a new problem "This version of iTunes requires a never Mac OS". So, I downloaded the latest iTunes update on my uncle's laptop. After experiencing the slowest download ever, I tried to start iTunes. But, now it said, "This iTunes version requires Mac OS 10.4.9". The laptop had 10.4.8. F U C K.

I downloaded 10.4.9, and then it worked. But, when connecting my iPod it said it had to be restored. When I pressed the restore button, it said it had to download iPod 1.1. So, that took me one hour. After that, when i transfered all my songs to iTunes I finally manage to fix everything. I just lost 2 Scrubs episodes. But, I got my music! :)

Everything is packed as I wrote earlier, just my cameras and stuff. I have my history notes to study on the plane (like biggest nerd ever), but, what else am I supposed to do on an Aeroflot airplane (russian airplane = nothing to watch). My flight leaves in a couple of hours, and I'll be back home at 9 am Swedish time. Excellent, can't wait! :D
This is the last post from Dubai, bye all. Next time, I'll be writing in Swedish again.
Love, Pourab.

Great success! I found Central Perk. Freaking awsome! Taxied our way over there, the cab driver got kind of mad because of my lack of knowledge no Dubai infrastructure. He didn't get that it's impossible to know every single street in Dubai when you're just a tourist, and, the names of the streets are arabic too - which results to like "Umm Sequiuem", which is pronounced 'omom Sekim' (which I did not know when I was sitting in the taxi). Anyway, we managed to find the cafe and it was very cool. The orange sofa was vacant, so we all sat done there. Or, I didn't. I took the Joey seat, the green chair next to the orange sofa. We ordered sandwiches, smoothies and coffees. I don't like coffee that much, but I took one just so I could say that I've ordered coffee in Central Perk. Oh, silly me! I also took a lot of photos in there, which will be posted somewhere when I'm back. (Really looking forward to the digital dark room work in Lightroom when I'm home).

After spending a long time in there we headed back to our cave. My sis fell asleep, so my dad, my mum and I went to a supermarket nearby. All though my sister, mum and I like to only buy materialistic things, dad also like to buy vegetables. Yeah, that's right. As the asian he is, he likes to buy lemons and other fishy green stuff back to Sweden. I don't mind, I've got everything I wanted. And, the food they make of the vegetables is to die for! :)

But, I have also paniced this evening... At my uncle's place, I decided to charge my iPod because mine is iPod-formatted, and his computers are all Macs. But!! His desktop computer is a Mac 10.3, and I did not think of the fact that my iPod requires 10.4 or later. So, his dekstop had iTunes 6, and my iPod requires iTunes 7.6. Holy crap shit! I chose not to sync my library with his, but, the older iTunes re-indexed my files in my iPod so that they became unavailable .... I almost started crying. I paniced right, so I ran into his bedroom to get his Macbook Pro, which has Mac OS 10.4! But, trying to install iTunes 7.6 (he only had iTunes 7.2) the installer required a admin password. He was at work, so I tried to call him on his cell but it was busy for the 30 minutes I was trying.  I got really upset, and  decided to wait for him. But, the waiting was for 2 hours. So in the mean while I tried to install iTunes 7.6 on his desktop, but it also required 7.6.  When he came home, I ran to him and dragged him to the computer. I asked him for his password, and he answered - with a smile - "What password? I don't have one.".
Imagine my face right there. My eyes kind of twitched, and I dreamed of smashing the glass table infront of me.

So, here I am. I have packed my bags. Bought some small items for the Friends-fans I know of. iTunes is updating. I am seriously going to smash something if I don't get my music. I love music.

Good morning, I was too tired yesterday to be able to write anything, The day started re-heally early. like 9 am which is 6 am in Sweden (I've still not adjusted). I got dressed fast as hell, mostly due to my mum's heavy motivation (:D). The family took a taxi to a big shopping mall, where I started to just look around. I settled for a Lacoste pique, but that's pretty much everything I bought. My sister bought more shirts and belly-dancing skirts (??).

After buying my shirt, I spent the day buying some stuff for the one's who wanted me to buy something for them in Dubai. Thank god I'll be getting more money next week! The mall was pretty sweet, a lot of stores and almost only nice clothes, which is good.

We then got out of the mall and walked a bit. I took some half random photos. which I hope are not over exposed due to my total ignorance for my aperture setting, all though I use aperture priority mode (n.e.r.d.).
 Decided to lunch in a restaurand. After seeing the food (rice with chicken), tasting the cold chicken and then observing the filthy tables - I was hoping that I havn't got AIDS, rabies and salmonella from that lunch. I mean, how the hell can people willingly eat there? A couple ordered food, tasted a bit and felt the bread. They were so cool, they told him the food sucked **** and then left to the restaurant next to it. Hilarious!

At 9 pm we went to find Central shitting Perk. God damn it's hard to find. The adress on their website and on other internet pages is: "Umm Sequiem, near Spinney's". Like, what the hell? Near Spinnieys, stupid tards, there are normal streets and numbers in Dubai. Why not use them??? Came home 11 pm, tired and hungry. Shitty evening.

Today, I'll try to find Central Perk again, and then maybe ski at Mall of Emirates. So-weet!
Pourab, loving you all from sunny Dubai. Dubaifornication. :)

Yeah, as said in the heading, I've spent the day just walking around in shopping areas. Firts of all I went to a mall who's name I can't remember (Al SOMETHING). It was the coolest mall I've been to so far. They had Andalusian Court, Tunisian Court, Indian Court, Persian Court and a Chinese Court. As you probably can figure out, every court was built with the architectural standard of every country. The tunisian court was very cool along with the chinese one. Everything looked very expensive, even the roof was painted as a blue cloudy sky (except for the Chinese one). There was a lot of stores, and the one's I walked into was Levi's Store and the Lacoste store. I also photographed like mad inside! I actually filled up my 2GB memory card, so, dad bought me another 2GB memory card. And oooh! I also ate at Starbucks, for the first time in my life and of course, bought a Starbucks cup!

I also went sight seeing. I checked out the Jameira Islands, the coolest islands in the world. It's built up of many artificial islands shaped as a palm tree. I also had a look on the 7 star hotel in Dubai, but from a pretty far distance, which made me wish I had a telezoom lens. I photographed alot while sight seeing too ;)

After eating I went to another shopping complex which also had an arabic name (damn hard to remember). There I bought the first shirt in Dubai (I expect buying at least a couple more). It is a Ed Hardy T-shirt, which looked pretty nice. I also almost bought a pair of Evisu jeans, but they were too baggy to fit in my clothing stile. Stupid Japanese with baggy jeans! Or maybe Evisu is Chinese jeans? What ever, same shit.
Tomorrow I'm going to buy some more things for me and others, and I'll try to post the god damn postcard to Jim. Only adress I know in my head, and I know he's expecting one. Too bad my memory sucks so hard, guess he'll get the postcard after I'm back in chilly Sweden.

So long for now, Pourab.

After writing yesterday's blog, I visited the Mall of the Emirates. It'e one kick-ass mall with 400 different stores and a ski facility inside! The stores are really cool, there's like one store per famous designer. I saw some cool Louis Viutton shoes that I would like to have, but being metrosexual isn't really my aim ;) Good for me there were other nice Vuitton shoes, and not only nice vuitton shoes - there were nice shoes from pretty much every exclusive designer you can imagine. There was also a H&M store, which was pretty darn cool! ;) Ate at Kentucky Fried Chicken, lived up to my prejudices about the food and it even included the "I'm a big, fat, stupid American", neat!

I slept from 12 to 9, and then 11 to 14. Yeah, I'm pretty tired. It's plus 3 hours from Swedish time and I would like to stick to the Swedish time. I don't have the energy to totally fuck up my sleep schedules, and then re-fuck it when I'm back home. Anyway, I went to the beach today by taxi with the family. The taxies here are cheaper than water, which is pretty good because this town sucks for pedestrians.

The beach was nice with water and sand. That's like all the praise you can give to a beach, and oh - there were also a lot of arabians who stared at my mum and sister. Guess it's hard to get some from the women in this country (the non-tourist, non-indians) cause they pretty much just shows their eyes. BORING! I took some photos there too, and they looked good on the LCD on my DSLR (camera - digital single reflex lens camera \Trying to learn you guys the camera words\) but, they may look like shit on my computer when I'm home. Nothing that Photoshop can't fix though!

Later went to see the local markets because my dad thought we should take a look at the non-tourism parts of the city. That sucked, big time. I don't know why, but poor people's areas tend to smell like rotten fish. Wonder if the "good" areas smells like crap to the poor people.... That's all I have done today, skipped Central Perk because I want to go there during the day. Tomorrow, it's Wafi and Mall of the Emirates, and a park I think. Need to but another memory card too, only 30 pics left... Sometimes I hate RAW.

Love from the fat-ass-american! :)

Ehm, jag taenker inte fortstora min svenska genom att skriva utan de tre sista bokstaverna, so.. from now on my blogs from Dubai are going to be in English. Take it, or leave it. Some of you readers may have a little chance to kind of improve your English, I hope! :)

Anyway, woke up at 11 am Dubai time. That is 8 am back in Sweden. I slept without any quilt on me and I still woke up a bit sweaty. After eating a very unhealthy breakfast I got into the car with my uncle (and my camera) to pick up my aunt, who is a nurse and had a flight to Dubai. I got some pictures of the town and I also noticed one thing. It feels I'm like in the Rinkeby of Sweden, there is barely any Arabs here but there's plenty of Indians. That is weird. Even half of the rich guys are Indians. As the rich people they are, nobody drives Volvo or SAAB. Dad called it bull shit, I would say - If you can afford a Porsche, why drive a Swedish car?

The buildings are quite impressive all though I wasn't in the tourist neighbourhood. It was palm trees everywhere and the roads here are better then Swedish roads.

So, I've got a couple of pictures all though they're pretty bad. I've seen my uncle's camera and it rocks. ROCKS. Now I'm just waiting for him to come home, he had a design he had to post before deadline or something. When he's back, we'll be heading off to the big shopping malls. I'm hoping to fill my memory card there! :D Oh yeah, guess I'll dine at the Central Perk too. Awsome.

Bye for now, Pourab sweating-in-30-degrees-warmth.

P.S. bilddagboken aer blockerad i Dubai. Haerliga gamla icke-demokrati, kr'o'kbilder aer inget man for kolla po i Arabien.

Jag aer framme i Dubai nu. Det aer lagom varmt, klockan aer fyra poe morgonen och jag svettas soender.

Vaknade klockan 7 (skulle vaknat klockan 6), hasta som en tok vilket resultera i att jag gloemde mitt kaera stativ hemma! Vael i Arlanda tog oet familjen frukost poe McDonalds (bara jag som inte kaekat noegot), frukosten ledde till att jag skollade tungan. Vilket fortfarande kaenns.

2 timmars flyg till Ryssland. Jag hade foerdomar om de som bodde runt orten (Moskva?) men var helt stensaeker poe att flygplatsen skulle vara jaettefin och vaeldigt vaerd att fotografer. Fy fan. Fy fan vad fel man kan ha. Moskvas (den naest-stoersta) flygplats aer helt sjuuuuuuuuuuukt lik en tysk kompost. Jag riktigt kaende Sovjetunionens praegel, allt var roett och folket Bondskurk-aktiga. Det aer sant. Otrevligare svin till maenniskor for man leta efter, jag fick inte ens fotografera min hand inne i en tax-free-butik. Folk vaegrade svara po ens froeger. Fanns inga hissar foer min rorelsehindrade far. Folk stod daer inne och ROEKTE! Jaevla.... manniskor! Dessutom verkar de koera dubbla vaexlingskursen naer man skulle vaexla dollar mot deras smutsvaluta Rubel....... Tyvaerr var inte det det vaersta, naer vi skulle poe planet till Dubai soe bar en tjock gubbe min pappa poe en pall nerfoer 3 loooonga trappor. Jaevlar var skraj jag var do...

Efter fem timmars flyg landade jag i Dubai med kass horsel. Slog lock som fan, och jag plogades av den outhaerdliga smaerta i mina oeron. Karln som hjaelpte pappa i Dubai Airport foer iallafall dagens ros, han var ruskigt sjyst :) So, jag saag till att han fick en fet peng av pappa. Min morbror (som mamma inte traeffat po 18 aar!!) haemtade oss i sin bil, och Madelene hade soo raett naer hon sade att ingen kor gamla bilar i Dubai! Min morbror aer foer oevrigt en grym kille. Han aer grafiker och konstnaer, han har ett kamerastativ (hurra) och sjaelvklart en Mac. En Mac Pro dessutom. Wihoo! :D

So, det var min dag hittills, tog en matpaus mitt i. Skoent med riktigt kaek, trots min nedsatta hoersel och mina braenda smakloekar. Imorgon ska det sight-seeas!
Love, Pourab from Dubai in Arab-country-somewhere-in-the-middle-of-the-world.

P.S. Ursaekta att jag ibland ersaetter 'o' , 'a' och a:t med en prick oever med olika forkortningar (ae,oe,o,aa). Jag aer ganska so yr!

Jag är mitt uppe i ett paniksökande efter de små saker som ska med till Dubai, men vilka jag inte har någon som helst aning om var de ligger. Högsta prio har ju mina solbrillor, oanvända sedan Augusti vilket medför att de är totalt, hopplöst spårlöst borta. Det gör mig ledsen, men jag ska fan i mig hitta brillorna innan klockan slår 10.