I’m knitting again and this time i’m up for more designs. It’s amazing how beautiful patterns come out with only 2 types of stitches: knit and purl And i’m getting faster in couting the number of knits and purls and dropping lesser stitches. It’s all about maths in knitting… just keep counting and see your pattern grow!

Double Moss Stitch:
1st row: K1, *p1, k1; rep from * to end
2nd row: p1, *k1, p1; rep from * to end
3rd row: as 2nd row
4th row: as 1st row
rep these 4 rows

I’m itching to create a project for my own wear… one t-shirt

My new biz cards have finally arrived and i’m elated

I got 10 free cards from Moo thanks to my Flickr Pro account. With meeting so many people, i really needed to give out my contact cards and these mini cards are so perfect! They are carefully cropped from my photos and designed with a slick small shape. Love it!

Last week’s been really magical… chances and opportunities have popped up and i can’t wait to get started in all of them. And so, these Sweska contact cards will come in handy! New identity? Nahh… i’m just being myself

Has it been so long since i last penned down my thought right here?

Oh my gosh!!! it’s already into the year 2009. And did I ever have any better way of welcoming a New Year?? Nope, absolutely never! Right under the stars, amidst the complete dark i said good bye to 2008!

2008 – my best year of my life as of yet. It’s been an incredible journey for me and i have never been happier!! I spent one quater of the year in Europe, travelling so much across 5 countries and I also brought my dear parents there. Work has been great and I also managed to sit for an exam. Yes, i am waaaay happier with my adult work life than my student life. But most importantly in 2008, i finally found something that i was searching for my entire life And i cannot simply look forward to more in the coming year 2009.

Life’s been changing too fast and i simply cannot afford to not pen down my thoughts right here. So i have only one resolution for this year: Blog Sweska! Blog!

Finally a brand new look after almost 2 years!!! I have been wanting to set up a new design with a new look for ages, and when i saw Notepad Chaos, I totally loved it

A new theme, a new look… My very own online scrapbook I’ll be tweaking things every now and then to play around. Let me know if there are any bugs! It looks all so good for now… Goodbye to my old look!

Gazillion things happened for the past few weeks. I was travelling again but this time my parents were here and we must have done almost all the touristy things possible in France, Holland and Belgium!  But it was really really good… you know places and things are touristy for a reason We saw immensely beautiful things right from history to nature to culture. More importantly, we had our long awaited family holiday because the last one was 15 years back when I was not even a teenager!

In short: Mission Accomplished. Yes, even though this is my first time in Europe or travelling entirely on my own, I did manage to figure things out and even bring my parents here. Hurraaayyy!!!! And now it looks like it’s almost time to go home as well, isn’t it?

Here are some shots from that DSLR, our newest family gadget

I have some story to tell about my weekend in Luxembourg City. This city is filled with deep valleys and forts and I spent the morning roaming along the Wenzel Walk high up at the edges of the cliff. And by the time it was afternoon, i went further down into the valley and took my 2 hours of idle thoughts beside the stream. So can you spot where i took the afternoon pic from the morning shot? uuuuuhh… plain bliss strolling up and down the valleys and forts of Luxembourg!

And now, this gets even more exciting… While strolling along Place d’Armes, I saw postcards featuring the Royalty of this country. And little while later, the main church was having celebrations and marching bands. Not forgetting to be both Kaypo and Kiasu, I went straight to the front door of the Church! And guess who i saw!!! I shook the hands of saw the Grand Duke, the Grand Duchess and the Princess!!!!! They were like right beside me… hmmm maybe after all I should have marched up a little more and shook their hands :s Uh well… my first brush with the rich and the famous! *ahem ahem*

Well… this is what i call meeting with the totally unexpected

I have been itching to post up how i had my afternoon coffee last weekend. Sitting on that narrow staircase winding up the wall of my hostel, i sat there beside the railing having my coffee while the sun ray was falling on the entire east of Lyon. See that? This is right from the Fourvière Hill over-looking the Vieux Lyon and really far away at the horizons can you see those snow capped Alpes mountain range?

The thing is …i didn’t know that i would be seeing this view… and in the coming weeks to go, I will never know what I will be feeling and seeing. And this is exactly why I have been running away every single weekend to a new place. Sometimes I can just spend the entire afternoon listening to the african drums beside the Rhone river, or watch the southern fields and the eastern Alpes as my TGV runs from Lyon to Marseille… I could be doing just purely nothing.

And for this pure thrill of seeing and experiencing something new, I keep running away every single weekend! Luxembourg seems to be in the agenda for this weekend. I got my trains and a place a night… and the rest I’m am just getting too lazy to find out!

Idleness and ignorance is sometimes my greatest thrill… and i am getting more than I have imagined!

Ok this is weird. I am lazy to cook, but if i go without cooking for a few days, there’s this urge to cook a little something in the comfort of my room. And after heeding mom and dad’s consistent reminders about eating balanced meal i cooked one just now

Pasta sauce is clearly the lazy people’s way of cooking Not too bad… here’s my easy lazy tasty dinner done in just 3 steps! And i opened another bar of Belgian Chocolate Noir for dessert. Bon Appétit!

when i woke up this morning i felt this suddenly…

That out of all my years in life i’m going through my best time as yet. And it is even greater that i’m realising it as i’m going through it right now because often we only realise our best times spent when it is already over or we keep waiting for years hoping for that best time to come.