Merry Christmas!

Gothic Show - The Video!

Finally!!! Here it is! The video from the Gothic Show "Hårmesse Julecupen 2008". I have had to cut it up to the part where me and my mates runned the catwalk because the whole show lasted for an hour... Our appereance though lasts only for 10 minutes or so... Only to think about the long hours (7 fucking long hours) it took us to get all dressed up for just 10 minutes on stage.... Anyway!! Enjoy!!

Pepperkakehus!

There is a pepperkakehus auction in a shopping mall in Trondheim. The houses, which are made of "peppercakes" are submitted by different Trondheim's primary schools and the money raised will be given to the fight against cancer. Here are some examples of the peppercake houses.

This is a replica of Lerkendal Stadion - Rosenborg's football stadium.

New kitchen cabinets!

Today Santa Claus - aka Harald the janitor - brought us some new kitchen cabinets. More space for storage is always good news, but call me suspicious I do believe this "gentleness" will come reflected in the houserent next month. You see, last month we got an "informative" letter where the house owners talked about some new law that can lead to the increase of the houserent in 2009. In other words, I do not believe in the mere informational purpose of the letter and I do believe this is just a warning for what's going to happen: the houserent will increase after Christmas. But well, let's hope the increase will be minimal. In the meantime I have washed and placed our stuff in our new kitchen cabinets. Merry Christmas!

My favourite Christmas gift

What toy or gift did you like best as a child? Call me sissy, but every year I used to get a Barbie doll and I loved to dress her up and do her hair. Barbie is by the way the best sold doll in history and next year will celebrate her 50th anniversary! During the history of Barbie there has been some controversy, amongst others, by the proportions of the doll.. or might we say the UNproportions. Her waist was extremely thin in relation to the rest of the body. However, the new more improved Barbie has experienced a wider waist and more normal female proportions as well as a renewal of her wardrobe, which was very classical and princess-like. Maybe that's what made Barbie such a special doll though. I admit I used to like her old clothes better, because those were clothes nobody had in their closets! The new Barbie is just way too ordinary... but yeah, sellings come first and if little girls this generation prefer a more modern Barbie that's what they should get.

What about you? What was your favourite childhood toy?

Hunger fever

Just posting something stupid really... but lately I am so hungry!!! All the time! :-S

Lolita Lempicka

Just the other day I got a sample of one of Lolita Lempicka's perfumes, Fleur Défendue (Forbidden Flower). I really love the smell of it, and I've been doing some research on the internet about the fragancies. The design of the perfum bottles is exquisite. Lolita Lempicka is a French designer and she has some fragrancies out in the market that are worth checking out:

This is the first "eau de perfume" called Lolita Lempicka.

This one is the first fragrance (remember the previous one is an "eau de perfume") and it's called Awaken Desire.

This one is simply called L and it appeared in 2006.


Fleur Défendue (Forbidden Flower). This is the one I got the sample of and it could be described as a sweet and fruity smell. Really fresh but romantic. Came out this year.


Fleur de Corail - the last fragrance launched by the French designer. It is a sister fragrance to L and it was also launched in 2008.

Culinary creative

Today I just had a culinary epiphany! Just took what I had in the fridge and made a really good dinner. First, I fried some onion on a low fire, then added some red pepper, chopped meat, sliced ham and corn. All properly fried in the pan and ready to serve! Now, I know any regular person would not make a big deal out of this, but when you are someone like me who cannot even make a spanish omelette without smashing it all (or without making it taste like castnuts) this is pretty much a success! Did I mention I improvised it?? (= No recipee)... Yeah yeah... shut up, Eva! :-P

Body Of Lies

Tonight I am going to watch "Body of Lies", the latest of Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. I have heard the movie is not good and that the only thing that is worth it is DiCaprio's performance, but still it doesn't save the movie. I don't know whether that's right or wrong, but I'll give you guys an update later!

Update: The movie was quite much as described. Felt way longer than the 2h and 7 minutes it lasted and only DiCaprio manages to impress. The iniciated love story DiCaprio - nurse is uncontinued and the movie ends quite suddenly like if they were in a rush to "get over with it". The beginning is promising but the ending is disappointing.

Fritatta!

On saturday after the show, Diana and I decided to eat something at SAS Radisson Royal Garden, because we were starving! And there I had the chance to eat the best omelette I have ever tasted! They named it fritatta, but it really is not like an authentic Italian fritatta should look like. This one was just an omelette... but what an omelette! Thick, soft and very light to eat, it was made with mushrooms, potatoes, red peppers and parmesan cheese. Delicious! The best omelette I have ever tried!

Gothic Show - Rocking the runway!

Some shoots my friend Diana managed to snap during the show!

Gothic Photoshoot

Now I am finally aloud to post these pictures of the gothic photoshoot pre-fashion show. This time the photographer is a professional, Vegard Breie, and he has been named "Best Photographer of the Year". Here's the link to his site: http://www.vegardbreie.no/

Happy B-Day, Ville!

Tomorrow saturday is Ville Vallo's birthday! He was born in 1976 so that would make him.... 32!! Time flies! (Don't worry Ville, you still look young!). Tomorrow I will be a bit busy to post because I will be in the catwalk show at SAS Radisson Royal Garden, but from this blog I want to wish Ville a happy birthday!! No mention I am posting this because this man is my idol! I still get goose pimples with some of his songs!

Photoshoot with Oddbjørn Wetteland

Fashion Show!

Just one week for the Fashion Show! Looking forward to it!

I've been ditched by.... Zara??

Exactly. I have not been given the job at Zara that I had applied for. After passing the first round of group interviews - where I did a great GREAT performance - I don't seem to have matched the requests for Zara. Amazing. Four years of universitary education and not even fucking Zara wants to hire me!!! Like what, I am not fit enough to sell clothes to stupid blondes with daddy's credit card? Aparently not! Well... to set the record straight... fuck off!!! I can do better! And Zara, by the way, sucks! I once bought a pair of pants there when there was sales and the pants were labelled 3€ more expensive than before sales! So actually they are a bunch of cheaters! No wonder Amancio Ortega is the richest man in Spain and the third in Europe... he surely knows how to steal his extra euros! As you can all appreciate, I am damn pissed, but still optimistic than I can find a better job than that. So your loss Zara!! Go hire stupid fully make-up stuffed teens for your shops and you'll see the mistake reflected in your revenues! Good opening!

PS: I've always liked H&M and Gina Tricot better!

This Christmas...

Following with the recently started Christmas gifts talk I would like to take the chance to make a statement here. This year I have decided it is time to put an end to gifts that I do not really need or will make any use of. Since there is not really much I look forward to or really need, I hereby beg those of you who annually exchange Christmas gifts with me, that instead of buying me something, you make a donation to one of the following NGOs (non-gubernamental organizations). The amount of money is not the important, but the help that any money will provide people who really need it is what really matters.

- Intermon Oxfam España: https://www.intermonoxfam.org/es/page.asp?id=482

- Plan España: http://www.plan-espana.org/involved/135823/

- Médicos Sin Fronteras: http://www.msf.es/donativos/donativo_i.aspx

Please consider this, I would really be glad if you decided to make a solidary donation this year instead of buying soemthing else that I do not really need. Thanks and happy countdown to Christmas!

Saturday's Party

Opening a bottle of wine without an opener is not always THAT easy, ok?

This time with the visit of my friend and former co-worker Thidarat, who is in the army in Bergen, and Margaretha who is Olav's sister. It was cosy but the San Francisco made me want to go to bed early!

Kitchen experimenting

It's no big secret that I totally suck in the kitchen, but I have decided it is time to suck less and that's why I'm trying new things! This time I have tried to make horn, which is somehow of a croissant with salami and cheese on the inside. The first step is to check we have all the ingredients:

The second step is to mix the ingredients correcty to obtain the mass. And there it is!

Now we work on the mass and make it take the shape of a pizza. From there we will cut the mass in 8 equal pieces, which we will fill up with salami and cheese and then roll up until we get these: Time to bake the horn now! We will preheat the oven at 240 degrees Celsius and place the tray in the middle of the oven for 10 minutes. (Please try not to cry when looking at how clean the oven is...).

And then, if you have followed correctly all the instructions - which I think I have - and are not distracted watching The Oprah Winfrey Show, you should get a less toasted version of this:

Dracula vs The Dark Angel

 

 I had a lot of fun in the Halloween party at Diana and Frode's place, but maybe poor Frode doesn't agree because I accidentally hit him with my stick!! Ooooops!! It all started as a funny "battle" when suddenly the stick slipped away and BANG, landed on Frode's nose... poor him!

Halloween party!

The good weather is here!! (Please, notice the sarcasm)

I am all floating with joy and excitement over the fact that the fucking snow is back to town!! This morning I stood up and what do I see as I roll up the curtain?? Yeah, that white shit falling down the sky.... wwwooooo-hoooo!! (Grrrr). It's winter...