THE TRUTH BEHIND THE INSTAGRAM PICTURE

Instagram pictures are just pure moments of perfectness, fortunate captures in the exact right moment, non?

Well.

DAYS OF CRYING, STILL

I'm currently in a state of nothingness.
I wake up. I eat breakfast. I lay by the pool until the building ahead starts spreading long monsters of shadows over the mosaic tiles framing the water.

I go back to the room. I shower. I scrub, every bit of my body, as I see it darken and darken for each day.

I run my finger through my hair. I really do need a haircut. Moana-style by all means, but it just doesn't seem to happen for me, that wavy laidbackness. The split ends are making their way up, further and further towards my scalp.
And then I remember nobody in the world cares about that.

I put on clothes, make the hard decision if I'm going to wear a bra today or not. It's usually not.
As said, nobody will care.

BOOBIE-GRABBING & ZEN-LIVING

Tonight, I woke up with a shock. Across my chest an arm had landed all of a sudden and I felt a tiny, sleeping body come closer to me. I pushed Jennifer away again, silently laughing about this being her second attempt to second-base me in her sleep, and soon went back to dreaming.

Next time I woke up it was quarter past eight and my girls were eager to get to the breakfast restaurant.
"Big day today!" Jennifer shouted from the bathroom. "Wakey wakey! Doi Suthep before noon, remember?"
I did, even though my body had no intention of co-operating today.
I had been up until 2.30 that night, chatting with the friends back at home. The time difference really sucked at times. When it was pitch black night for me, Claudia and Simon were off celebrating our weekly tradition of The Sunday Pizza, and I missed them like crazy. They were the biggest part of the routines I do actually miss, the everyday fikas and the long, long, long, neverending, talks.

But outside sun was shining Thai-style; a warm, glowy light that made all of my Instagram pictures look temperature-enhanced, and breakfast was waiting for no one after 10 am.

We filled our plates with fruit and gorged up on coffee and french toast and hurried vacay-style, meaning: not so much.

11 AWESUME THINGS WE DID IN SINGAPORE

Arriving in Singapore, we had a looong list of tips and things to do, provided by Mona, mostly, but also our dear friend Pinterest.

We had 6 days, 5 nights, simply too much to do, too little time. There's no point in procastinate anything now, is there? So let's just dig in to it.

BUZZLING BANGKOK & BREAKUP BREAKDOWNS

Life in the sun is simply better. Life with Pepsi Max for 16 baht and every flavour of chips you couldn't even have imagined is better. Life with the only task for today is writing and finding the cheapest streetfood is better. The tourist sites can wait. We have been staying by the pool, charging our batteries after six very hectic Singapore days. The weather is more than fine here, it's much less humid than Singapore and the sun warms you, it doesn't instantly make you sweaty.

ART.SCIENCE MUSEUM SINGAPORE

Julia is such a nerd.
She likes biology and chemistry and math and even went through the natural science program in high school, whereas I chose not to be that ambitious and studied social science instead, secretly longing for the day I would pursue my true interests of the more creative sort.  

Now Julia wants to study psychiatry instead and my art persona is no longer hidden, but still, it somehow felt like somebody had modelled the ArtScience Museum in Singapore to perfectly fit our specific wants. 

Located right next to Marina Bay Sands, it should be no problemo finding our way there - if you are not one of the Axelsson sisters, that is. We jumped off by Marina South Pier. Don't do that. You'll

have to walk in the gazing sun for 20 minutes before turning up at Shoppes at Marina bay, something that would have taken you 2 minutes if you just exited at Marina Bay.  

...It was not even our first time in the area. (!!!)

Oh my, this is going to be an interesting trip... 

Speaking of interesting, they have this permanent exhibition on ArtScience Museum called Future World. We both managed to get in on Julia's student card, which ment two exhibitons for 19 S$ each.

And then the fun began... 

UNAWATUNA - A CAPSULE OF FROZEN TIME // LAST DAYS IN SRI LANKA

DAY 9-16 

UNAWATUNA

The 31th of January, we got fed up by the German lady and the dead corals and violent waves of Hikkaduwa and packed our suitcases for another beach town called Unawatuna, after being tipped of that there was supposed to be a beach reachable only through a walk in the jungle, that was supposed to have calm waters and very little people. Jennifer was longing for snorkling and I was just longing to get away from the hotel owner and her cheap internet, so we jumped on a train and 40 minutes later, we were there.

PICTURESQUE GALLE FORT

 Along the south west coast of Sri Lanka,
there is a small town called Galle 

with an UNESCO-certified fort.

We spent a day there, traveling back to Europe for a lovely couple of hours. 

~ HERE'S OUR STORY ~ 
~ IN PICTURES ~

THE MAN AND THE WATERBOTTLE SECRET

This is the story of what happened in Hikkaduwa a few days ago. 

We stayed a couple of days in Café Ceylon and except for the weird German lady, the staff was very lovely.  One day we bought a papaya and asked if one of the staff members could split it for us since we didn't have a knife.
He came up to our room with two plates with each half of a papaya, some napkins and a slice of lime. We thanked him smilingly and he stayed to talk with us for a while. He introduced himself as Haryana.