Never had to have a chaperone, no sir. I’m there to keep my eye on her

Posted on 5 March, 2013 by tharangark

Temple Bar Food Market

Temple Bar

Peeeez

Trinity College

Brunch at Lennox Café

Had a visit from Pri some weeks ago, fun fun fun!

Sweden vs. Ireland – Is there’s always an excuse to party?

Posted on 16 December, 2012 by tharangark

In Sweden?
– Yes, let me just check my schedule.

In Ireland?
– Yes.

There’s no question who deserves the mark on this. And that’s what I love about this country and its people. There’s no fuss, nothing is very complicated or to structured. If you want to do something, just ask and someone will undoubtedly say yes. However, in Sweden people are often tied up in something very important. Schedule’s all set and people often hang out in their groups and rarely leave it for a beer with someone else. OK, I might have over-exaggerated a bit, but it is not far from the truth.

Sweden vs. Ireland
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Anywho.. Over to yesterday’s excuse for a party:

TWELVE PUBS OF CHRISTMAS
The last couple of weeks Dublin been INVADED of people dressed in sweaters that, well, lets just say that Mark Darcy’s mother would be proud. People dressing in awful, yet charming, Rudolph-sweaters. Santa hats. Reindeers antlers. Christmas tree lightning in their hair. On their shirts. On their shoes. Business people. Students. Old people. Young people. Hip people.

In Ireland, they have put a christmas-twist on their usual pub crawl, by dressing up like a christmas tree and then visiting 12 pubs on a strict schedule! And it was busy, every pub was crammed with happy people! Of course,I had to try it out! Quite satisfied with the result! Was invited to join sweet Fiona, her sister Teresa and friends.

Irish people are the most relaxed, easy going people, but when it comes to 12 Pubs of christmas, it gets serious. Look at the schedule they emailed everyone, love it!

Got to try out a bunch of cool pubs, found my favorite one so far: the pub with no name. Cool atmosphere, cool music, gorgeous people

As you can see, the results of photoing is as good as the number of pubs you’ve visited. Hmm..

One week later

Posted on 8 October, 2012 by tharangark

I think I will have to start with apologizing for the lack of updates; the past week I’ve had crazy much to do and way to little sleep.

I moved in to my flat last sunday. As I’ve told I live really central, which I enjoy a lot!
After living three years on my own, in a 67 sq.m I must say that moving in to a shared flat is different. Don’t get me wrong, the ladies are great, but having to adjust to three strangers and sharing the main areas, is somewhat a challenge. But also fun and an adventure in it self!

Other than that I’ve mainly been occupied with school. The masters studies is still quite easy, however, having to focus so much on the language makes it a bit more difficult. I really enjoy every single course but one of them stands out from the crowed, it has really taken me by surprise! This specific course was the one I’d looked the least forward to: Financial Analytics!
I had imagined it to be solely based on figures and numbers, not very exciting. Instead, it is the reverse! The lecturer is excellent in his pedagogic way, explaining everything, not from the Accountants perspective, but in the point of view of a business man, a sales manager, marketer, CEO etc. He mixes technical info with humour, present cases and examples, gives us time to contemplate. I had never thought Financial Analytics would become my favorite course!

What has been occupying most of my time is finishing my dissertation for IHM Business School, back in Sweden. I’m actually finishing my Undergraduate in the begining of November, until then I’ll be studying my undergrad and postgrad parallell. I’m writing the dissertation with four other people; fortunately, we’re on a good way. But, it isn’t over till it’s over, we still have a lot of finishing on the paper, an opponent report to write and two presentations needs to be done (one to be used for the board meeting and one for the company we’re writing it for).

But don’t worry, I AM enjoying my time here in Dublin and am making time for some social activities as well! Yesterday, for instance, Fiona, Hannah and I went for dinner, then Octoberfest and ended up in supercool Dame Lane. Unfortunately I dont have any pics to show, but it’s a narrow street full with pubs and clubs, where people buy their drinks and meet up out on the streets. We ended up spending many hours on the 4 Dame Lanes dance floor. Having danced in 7cm heals I was more than happy that Dame Lane is a cross-road to my street, only 400 m’s from home!

Here’s some pics from this week

: Dinner at The Pygmalion with Hannah. If I remember it correctly we were celibrating our awesomness!

: Dinner at Nandos with my flatmates and their friends!

: Night out with classmates Shaz, Pedro and Hannah

: One of the reasons I haven’t slept much lately is because of the late night Skype dates I’ve had. With this handsome fella for instance!

: Pub in Temple Bar with Classmates Magnus, Pedro and Hannah

: Not being in Sweden, doesn’t mean I cant have “Fredagsmys” (= “Friday cuddle” don’t have a better translation for it).

: Sunday morning I took a long walk around town, in areas I’ve never seen. Btw, autumn is here!

: Finished the walk in beautiful Stephens Green

: Saturday evening started with a Lovely Tapas dinner at The Market Bar with Fiona and Hannah. LOVED this place: good food, great interior and atmosphere!

: Then we continued to the October festival in the IFSC district, the last day of fourteen. Have no idea why I thought this would be a nice picture, or why I didn’t take one of the actual October fest…

: Banan and chocolate crêpes. Dorky picture, I know…

: Walk across the Liffey with a view of the Financial district

Saturday evening

Happy Arthurs day!

Posted on 28 September, 2012 by tharangark

“Well, we knew we’d go drinking Guinness anyways, so we’d might as well start celebrating right at ones!“
Told by my irish friend Mícheal when I asked where the Irish fighting spirit during the Olympics came from.

And maybe he’s right, maybe that’s how Irish people are: if you don’t have something to celebrate, then make something up. Because we’ll all end up drinking a Guinness anyway. Yesterday, I got convinced that the philosophy is real! Yesterday the entier Ireland was celebrating Arthurs Day, painting the town black. Maybe you’re wondering Who Arthur is and why they’re celebrating him? (I made the mistake by calling him Saint Arthur to a taxi driver, who got himself a good laugh!)

Well, Arthur was the founder of Guinness Beer, the number one beverage of Ireland. That’s it. And what chocked me was to find out it has only been a celebration for three years! It’s a mere marketing trick to increase the sales!

Well well, with that said, of course I had to celebrate it myself! I met up with my new dear friend Fiona at a club. We saw a great band called “Keywest” play and then danced all night. With the band, like true groupies! And to be honest, I got myself more Strawberry Daquiries than Guinness!