God jul

Or if you prefer English: Merry Christmas

Hey everybody,
Just noting the fact that I managed to get a more or less functional version of http://www.gandoon.com up and running again. Most likely not online at all times, but at least more frequent than previously imagined.

Welcome to all my spaces… Especially to my DeviantART and Picasa galleries, with material not necessarily available at the local picture gallery. Of course flickr is still available, but due to the 200 image cap for free accounts it will probably not be extensively updated, but what is there will remain.

Well, then it is final… This will be the last post on this server for probably quite some time. I loose my flat, I didn’t get the job in Japan and nothing seems to go the way I would like them to.

So, now I need to get my degree, get a job (preferably not in Sweden) and just get away and be someone. Keep all fingers crossed and hope for the best. I haven’t given up on Japan, but there has been so many disappointments now: Three applications in the course of three years and three consecutive backlashes. Well when three comes to four, that might be the time to stop… or is it?
I still feel so lonely though

The site http://gandoon.wordpress.com will in the mean time act as a temporary stand-in for this site (provided that I actually post anything there).

One year, no posts and still no improvement.
I still hope to go to Japan, no change there. I will have my Masters degree by May this year, and right now I take a course in industrial environmental work to finish off my studies.

Within a few months I hope to migrate this page once again, this time hopefully to the Computer Society at Lund University’s; newly acquired server pool. A personal physical or virtualised server might become available there quite soon. That would be really great since it has become a little bit annoying with a server running around the clock at home. Further I will move quite soon, to Japan or elsewhere and then it will not be feasible to run a private server at home.
I also have a page at http://gandoon.wordpress.com nowadays. The reason is that I might use it as an intermediate while setting up the new services and when the main http://www.gandoon.com is down (as might have been noticed) is quite often. The server is mainly running daytime CET until further notice.

What wonderful times these are…

Despite the fact that it seems as if whatever I do I break something. My best glass vodka bottle gets knocked over (of course filled up with expensive drops) and breaks into about a million tiny pieces, my pants get wedged in the toilet door while trying to stand up after picking up something I dropped, and torn to shreds. My luck seems to be very carefully portioned so that I wouldn’t feel to happy at any given time. (Oh, what a sight… Too happy?)

Despite the fact that after a wonderful onset of Spring around here, today it snows!!

Despite the fact that I haven’t heard from some old friends I was hoping would contact me. Leaving me wondering whether I have done something wrong.

Despite all this…
These are indeed wonderful times!

In a few months I will have my MSc, my engineering degree. I have just about made it…
Just a little further.

Will it happen?
Will I return to Japan, this wonderful country that captured my senses in so many ways? This… second home of mine.
I keep my hopes up, it seems as if I have quite a good chance of going.
The ”Not too much happiness” clause above unfortunately seems to ground me for the ”Golden Week” though, I don’t have the funds to go then

Being a very busy man these days of course I also need to mention the concerts I will do with my choir, Lund University Male Voice Choir and the great baritone Peter Mattei on Thursday in Helsingborg and on Friday in Malmö.