Too good to be true

Take 7 gold medals, stir it with 2 silvers and add 5 bronze. Voila, the ingredients for Swedens best Winter Olympics ever. Certainly better than even the most optimistic Swede would ever predict. I'm gonna miss the olympics, that's for damn sure.

In case you've been travelling to another planet (or you're just not interested in ice hockey) - "Tre kronor" won the gold medal 2 days ago. 3-2 against team Finland - our biggest rival - in an olympic final that had (almost) everything. The game winning goal scored by Niklas Lidström (the guy who is known as the best defenseman in the world, but has never really made it in the national team). The assist from Mats Sundin (captain, oh captain) and Peter Forsberg (the greatest). And Henke plays as good as it gets when he manages to save an open netter with 20 seconds to go in the game. Now, consider the fact that this was the last Olympic game ever for many of our greatest players (the top three involved in the goal above) and you have the ingredients to a great game in the best olympics with the happiest of happy endings.

Semifinals

After a somewhat questionable loss against Slovakia the other day, Tre Kronor finished 3rd in the group. Russia won the group with 5 consecutive wins and look extremely strong, I've got 3 kronor (humour) saying Russia will win the Gold. In the quarter finals we played the Swiss (who played well over the expectations finishing 2nd in their group after victories against Canada and the Czech Republic!). Fortunately we won 6-2, goals scored by Mats Sundin (2), Daniel Alfredsson, Fredrik Modin, Henrik Sedin and Henrik Zetterberg.

Semifinals next, against the Czech Republic. It'll be an interesting game considering they beat us bad on home turf last world cup. If we can just pick it up a notch and "Henke" plays insanely well, that we're spoiled with, I think we can win this. To be continued.

Let's get ready to rumble

Finally! A looong wait is over: Helloooo Winter Olympics! I'm so damn excited about the hockey..

New Caledonia - what ever happened to the old one?

One week of vacation in Ozzy and back to work. Well, I don't know if I'm even supposed to call a trip to New Caledonia "work"? Anyhow, I did work, I actually worked more than I kind of hoped for. I had scheduled for one extra day to look around this island outside of Australia but that didn't happen. But I had a good time anyway.

Nicolas and Nathalie were the two people I turned out to work most with. But after a weeks work I got to go out my last night in New Caledonia. A girl from work took me out together with a girlfriend of hers. We had a great time and they took me to this really cosy restaurant just outside of Noumea (capital of NC). After that we went to La Bodega, a bar on a pier just in front of my hotel. It was packed with people and we met up with Roger from work as well.

It's sad to say, but that kind of was my trip to NC. Work, eat, sleep. and one night at a bar on a pier. Good thing I had a great time anyway. Long live San Remo - they must have thought I never eat anything but Italian food - 5 days in a row at the same restaurant. Almost scary how convenient I can get sometimes. By the way, Convenience (or lazyness) will be the doom of humanity. Remember where you heard it first.

Oh yea! I bought an Ipod Nano at the airport in Brisbane! According to my friend Eric in the states you're nothing until you have an Ipod. It feels so great to finally be someone.

Last days in Australia

When we came back from sailing the Whitsunday islands I spent my last days of vacation in Whitsundays at Chateau Koala - The backpacker hostel I mentioned earlier. Although it rained almost everyday we had an awesome time. It may not be the most incredible place on earth but hey, we were in Australia, it was 30 degrees Celsius and most importantly - we were on vacation. And it didn't hurt to know that it was a a few degrees below zero back home.

So what did we do during these last days? Allow me to quote Mr. Jerry Seinfeld: "Nothing!". We played some cards, talked about important and not so important stuff and just had a great, relaxed, time. It's amazing how exciting it can be to eat, sleep and drink sometimes.