I love this sculpture!!!!

This lovely piece of work (minus the grafitti) is located somewhere on a courtyard near round tower, and the sausage shop in Copenhagen town centre. It is partly hidden behind a big tree, and no one would notice it unless they are very nosy, or art lovers. (I am the nosy one.)

It is about 0.7 of actual human size. Put on a "real bench" for humans, you can in fact sit right next to them. Caught my eye immediately, as I felt "love" was the message. ... but as I looked closer....

I noticed it was a very old couple.

The man was bald.

The woman had her hair tied back. Very thin hair, presumably?
Holding each others hands....

But wait!!!! Did you notice her breast????

Her breasts had dropped to the level of her elbows. And the right side dropped more than the left!!!


KL... (if you are reading).. should be able to recognise this.
Breast feeding's side effects???

If you are right handed, you will cradle your baby in such a way that the head(heavier part), would rest around your right elbow/ arm area, and therefore baby would suckle your right breast......???

Am I brilliant????? Hahahaa......

Ok, I admit the part I love best in this sculpture is her breasts. However, I find the expressions on their faces really touching, and very real. The body language says it all. Love, respect, communication, companionship.

Beautiful piece of work.....

photos from copenhagen

This is a sausage shop. Unfortunately it was closed when I was there. They close shops on Saturday afternoons, that is why they have good quality of life.

The sausages. The two wooden thing are the handles of a pair of axes. Unfortunately, the axes were so polished and glittery that my hand phone did not manage to capture a good picture with them in.

One of the "passageways" off main Stroget street. As usual, the interesting things are in the side street and alley ways.

My handphone's camera is definitely no good. It was much prettier actually, with hints of yellow, orange and red in the creepies.

Took this picture in Nyhaven. I was wondering what it is. I was amused by the sculpture of a "king"(??) with many women surrounding him in a rather erotic way. And what are the children doing there???


I think they should put an AIDS prevention advert next to it. :P

Copenhagen-wining and dining with a millionaire's son

It is damn ex in Copenhagen (for me), but seems to be ok for my colleague, M, whose dad is worth £6m. Haha.. I was so shocked to hear him said that, "my dad probably worth £6m, or maybe more. He is damn rich!!!".

Talk about culture shock! No, he said all this while he was perfectly sober. And this has been repeated many times in the office etc ...It seems perfectly acceptable to talk about these stuff???

I only managed to cover parts of Stroget on my first day. As I was walking in Nyhaven, the wind got stronger and it was really chilly. I was so glad that I was wearing boots!!!COLD!! I did not manage to spend as much time Nyhaven as I wanted, but could make the conclusion that it is postcard perfect with its multi coloured buildings along a river, populated with swans. However, I had the perfect luck to go in low tide, and saw the pollution. Gross. Well, the Danes tell us that it is much better these days. You are allowed to not only fish there, but to eat the fiesh as well.

I got to miss the botanical gardens and the famous Tivoli as well. What a shame!!! My hotel was just next to Tivoli!!

Talking about hotel, I luv the hotel- bed is soooo comfortable!!! Single bed, but it is really long- 2m, and I could stretch my arms and legs anyway I want. The flooring was pine wood. Really cool designs. Clean lines. Hate those frilly flowery stuff. Maybe it is the wine, but I slept so well!

One the first night, we were suuposed to meet again 7 ish for dinner. But now I really learn about predinner cocktail/pre-dinner drink. Well, the " drink" at the hotel bar extended till 9pm! That was when we started to look for dinner. Bad idea. All the nice looking restaurants are full!! Finally found a nice place at Stroget. I actually ate both appetizer and a full main meal of roast pork. The roast pork was surprisingly yummy, and the skin was so crispy, that I ate them all. :D

On the second night, we ate in a nearby restaurant. Ordered a bottle of wine. As the waiter was a new kid on the block, he sent the dinner to teh wrong table. Poor guy. We got a complimentary bottle of wine, and I wonder if the other table got complimentary wrong food as well!!! I got to try all my best to look like I was drinking (I was actually sipping, my wine level did not move.. hehe). The two of them actually could finish almost 1 full bottle each!!!

And this is where I learn a new trick. Make the good use of a bottle of wine!!!!!

These Brits!!!!

M was obviously sober.. but pretended a bit "high", and started asking my boss if he is the one who will take over her place and be the director when she retires! He got the boss to "jokingly" say that he is the one to take over!!!

Hahaa.. I watch the whole thing with a smile... and played along, joking about how to address him when he is the boss. Eu have told me about these stuff, thank goodness, or else I would have really be very very shocked. At least I knew what was going on. Talk about being smooth operator. I think the Americans still got lots to learn from the Brits. It is sort of clear now that this job goes no where, but meanwhile I should learn more of these smooth operation from the millionaire's son.


The bills came up to more than a thousand Kroners for each meal. I sure had great dinners there.

Copenhagen, a quick 2.5 hours tour

Just came back from a 4 day trip in Copenhagen... but dont envy me yet.

I have
seen nothing much...
done nothing much...
bought NOTHING at all...

I thought I would have almost a whole afternoon to roam around on Saturday, but I ended up having effectively 2.5 hours. Blame it partly on my lack of preparation, and the sudden cold wind that blew. It did not help that that it turns dark around 5:30.

But being a fast walker, I covered MOST of the town in 2.5 hours :)

My 1st stop was a roadside stall selling hotdogs. I was damn hungry, it was 2pm + and the weather quite cold, I bought myself a something that look like a sausage roll for 21 Kroner near Tivoli gardens. Yummy!!!

I was ill prepared, so my 2nd stop was the tourist information center-cool, free computers to access tourist info!!-- and maps to get an orientation of the place.

Seen parts of Stroget, the famed pedestrian shopping street, and Nyhaven in dusk. It was a cobbled narrow street, with a mix of designer stores and those stores selling a mumbo jumbo of things targeted at tourists. I began to get "waylaid" by those window displays, and got worried about parting a thousand or two kroners if I really fall madly in love with those shoes (I think Danes make great shoes and bags!!), or worse still, one of those designer household stuff. Danish design is not famed for nothing!!

After walking for about 100-200m (maybe more??), down the street, I noticed a crowd on a side street. Hmmm.. Crowd=something interesting or trouble. Both sounds "interesting!" to me . Hahaa.


And surprise!!! I got what I was looking for "accidentally". I had been cursing myself for not bringing a map to find .

So, imagine my happiness when I realised.. it was ...This place!!!!

La Glace

That lace was packed with people, and I really felt like a kid in a candy store. I had been standing in the counter for about 10 minutes before realizing that you need to get a queue number for a machine, and wait till you get called before appearing at the counter. No wonder people gave me funny looks! Aw.... My only consolation was I was not alone. Many people were like that too, so excited with those cakes on the display that they did not notice the machine for the queue number. It did not help that the instructions was written in Danish!

Shortlisted the above two cakes....

And settled for the "Sports Cake" (Sportskage)

The Applesinkage... well, you might have guess it-- Apple cake.

WRONG!!! It is actually orange cake!!! That looked terribly yummy too. But as I was alone, I could only choose one, and settled for the more "famous" cake. these are the times I miss my sister and my sister gang terribly. If I got the gals with me, we would have bought 1 piece of everything!!

the cake was packed nicely in paper box and and paper bag which I planned to bring back. However, these got totally messed up by the strong wind while I was attempting to eat the cake in a courtyard of some impressive looking building. What a shame, my lack of preparation means I dont know what it was. Possibly a museum???

Back to the cake. I learned that to the Danes, creams dont necessarily have to play a layering or decorative purpose in a cake. It can make up the cake almost entirely by itself!!!!! That was a most sinful cake, and damn difficult to eat. I could not finish it to last drops, as it keep dropping of the paper which was holding it, and I had bits of cream on the corners of my mouth, cheeks, hair and also coat. At first, I was busy wiping myself, but I soon gave up when I realise that the wind would keep blowing flapping bits of the paper which held the cake onto my face/coat, so I might as well "concentrate" on finishing the task on hand.

This is all that I could "bring back"- A photo of the paper bag.

I got to stop at the cake.. as it is 1 am in the morning, and I am damn sleepy.
Continue about finishing bottles of wine, drinking beer in a pub (I am a BADDDDD gal.... haha), and ogling good looking people whizzing pass in bicycles

ciao!!!


By the way... it is getting very very cold in london.

I got to walk to work in a 2C!!! Thank goodness I invested in a coat and tights!!!

work... copenhagen... and that cottage

We had a meeting about the trip today, and we all vetoed sending in the stuff by courier Damn Ex!!! . M, the only guy in the team, will have to carry all the heavy stuff. haha... He was muttering about "equality". He obviously realised that he is bullied by gals who are not scared of spiders at all. He was amazed than none of us were scared of creepy crawlies, and only scared of stuff which fly.. like a bumble bee. Tough gals, we are. Today A slammed the whole stupid Broth*r printer, that it finally cooperates, and stop eating up our papers. Tough gals kick ass and go places.

Just found out that I will have about 3 hours of time to myself on saturday. what should I do? I have not read up about copenhagen yet!

Do I go to the lakes? Hang around and enjoy the music festival? One thing is for sure, i have to walk a lot and take public transport only occasionally as it is not cheap there either? I obviously have not much money to spend, since my pay have not arrived, and I already have to buy more "presentable" clothes that can stand the winter chill this Friday. Friday will be my shopping day :).

I was chilled to death yesterday on my way to work, 13C. Today was about 8C, and I used my cheap but trusty pseudo jacket. Cheap is good when you see "youths" aka gangster around some corner.

It probably wont rain this saturday, but the temperature will be a chilly 9-11C. Cold. Coat needed. Raincoat?Umbrella?

Took a quick glance at a touristy website...

Of all places, Rosenborg Castle seems most interesting, simply because I have not visited an european style castle before. But will the flowers still be there? Or should I go to the Tivoli garden?
I am not sure. Somehow not in mood to play.

Well, no point planning. I might end up sleeping in the hotel room. Sore throat. Bad mood. And i think teh flu is getting worse.

Lets just hope that this nasty flu goes away, and I will have a peaceful trip.

Oh yeah. I fell in love with a cottage, the first time I walked pass it. Yesterday, I noticed that they put up a "for sale" notice!!!! If only I got the £££, I will go and buy it straight away. The area is just so nice!!! Imagine, there are a few B&Bs around here, in these cottage-y houses. People actually come here as "tourist"? Well, that should not be suprising. If one day I move away from UK, and come back to London for a visit, I will probably stay in those B&Bs here. Beats those high class, lifeless hotels nearer to Heathrow. Bleah.

I love the cottage so much that I wondered if I could buy it and turn it into a B&B? That should help to pay the mortage isnt it??? Hmm. What will happen to my day job then? May be I should make it an "ambition" to run an B&B. Haha.. British B&B which serves nasi lemak.

Resolution of the day.........NO more PR*MARK tights!!! They cant last more than a few washing with the ultra rough way I wear them. Buy the 60d, and it is not warm enough when you are outdoors, but damn sweaty (yucks) when you are indoors. 40d is totally hopeless against the cold, even under your pants, but still too warm indoors. Got to spend £££ and get those M&S stuff with high tech sounding materials that is supposed to make sure you are not too warm and too cold. Expensive, but those 2 pairs I bought last autumn is still going totally strong!!! The 2 pairs of knee highs are still sticking at the knees levels :). A gal had got to do what a gal to to do--- buy quality tights! I swear the make legs look slimmer :)

P/S to check out shoes in copenhagen. Danes make good shoes.