How I was found...

Hey,

Almost since the day I created this blog, I've used a tracker to count how many visitors I have received on this page, you can see it on the right side beside "ShinyStat" box... and the total page hits is not the only information I get, I almost get wide range of information from you guys such as your operating systems, your browser types, or what country you are in when you're reading this blog.... the most interesting information I have found is the search keywords that people input in google, yahoo or msn search when they wanted to find my blog but didn't know or forgot my www address or those others who searched for some random things and apparently came across to my blog since it somehow fit into their search keywords. I'm gonna display the keywords here just for fun and make a top 10 list of the most strange keywords.

The top 10 list will be shown then rest of the keywords grouped into months.

Note: if you notice any mistakes with the spelling or odd grammar or missing dots above the letters such as jonkoping instead of correct spelling of jönköping, I just copied exactly what was used as the search keyword.

TOP 10 (in random order)

• how to annoy your teacher - September 2005 - unfortunately I don't think my blog had any good tips
• spud separatists - September 2005 - what is that anyway?
• good bye from work - August 2005 - people actually go online and search how to say good bye from work?
• pictures of forehead injuries - October 2005 - that dude has a strange photograph collection
• does matts sundin have a swedish girlfriend - January 2006 - unfortunately he's taken -- not that you would have a chance :)
• gay movie swede - January 2006 - uhm? no porn on my site
• asl shaved lady pictures - March 2006 - not even sure how to comment on that :)
• do you have a pictuer of frogs left and right side in the inside match - April 2006 - huh?!?!?
• black-pissing - June 2006 - sounds like a problem that I wouldn't want to have
• sweden law learn asl - March 2006 - get yourself educated, why would it be a law for Swedes to learn a foreign sign language?

Now, the entire search keywords on the record since July 2005.

July 2005
No Search Keywords - probably because I don't think I created any blog posts at that time.

August 2005

• bg0ur3
• bg0ur3.blogspot.com
• good bye from work

September 2005

• brandon & goure & blog & jonkoping
• brandon goure
• raslatt party
• 40 kronors lunch i jönköping
• bryden's bar+milton
• how to annoy your teacher
• http://bg0ur3.blogspot.com
• jönköping
• life at jönköping
• living in råslatt
• raslatt 05
• råslätt
• spud separatists
• stockholm party
• teckenspråk
• weight regulations for british airlines

October 2005

• "the daltons" "subtitles"
• amitysville house
• bg0ur3
• bg0ur3.blogspot.com
• brandon goure blog
• britta's 2nd birthday
• http://bg0ur3.blogspot.com
• innebandy blog
• innebandy pro touch focus
• pictures of forehead injuries
• semester + apartment + göteborg
• washer sweden kronors

November 2005

• "25 years old" + blog + cambridge + ontario
• airport regulations
• bg0ur3.blogspot.com
• brandon goure
• bredäng centrum photos
• bryden's milton
• life as a swede
• sentimental, say good bye, good luck
• swedes quiet bus
• teckensprak
• teckenspråk + "charlotte gustavsson"
• www winter coat large size in swede

December 2005

• sweden's mayfest
• brandon goure, ontario
• britta wiesner
• innebandy
• life as a swede
• liseberg gøteborg sverige
• odsp
• summer fun in sweden
• sweden life conversation
• webcam jönköping city weather

January 2006

• life as a swede
• bg[3] - windows ...
• brugge beligum
• does matts sundin have a swedish girlfriend
• gay movie swede
• hydro bg users
• mats sundin interesting facts
• mini-stick on calendars
• swede
• weather beligum
• world war postcards and letters

Feburary 2006

• brugge beligum
• cleaning swede shoes
• definite swede of cooking
• how to clean swede coat
• life as a swede
• map jönköping ikea
• max men bg
• sweden hockeygame 2005
• sweets food pictuer
• teckensprak stockholm universitet video
• translate swede
• waffle, how to make beligum waffle?

March 2006

• affect of globalisation on macroeconomics
• asl shaved lady pictures
• blog swedish my jönköping elisabet
• brugge beligum
• djugardens hockey
• how do you clean swede shoes
• ho' +swede+it+is+nhl
• jenny swede
• slovak swede blog mattias
• swede sec
• sweden law learn asl
• think near tram user near bus and jönköping
• ur.se

April 2006

• "have a good day" swedish phrases
• 100% dating .bg
• beligan waffle mix loblaws grocery ontario
• beligum waffles
• brussels midi station atm
• coachline bus company ny
• do you have a pictuer of frogs left and right side in the inside match
• fireworkd design shirt
• getting a swedish personnummer
• pictures swedes traditional clothing
• webcam swede

May 2006

• "estonia clothes"
• "something about estonia"
• brandon goure
• canadian nickname fat swede
• crime in bredäng
• deaf bg people
• estonia tallinn movie
• final exams jonkoping
• gallaudet zoltan tenure
• http://bg0ur3.blogspot.com
• jönköping champagne quality
• kat estonia webcam
• life of a swede
• midi in powerpoint dont work
• most beautiful languages estonian
• random fact estonia
• sacred jesus blood brugge
• skype founded tallin
• skype tallin mayo 2006
• swede day rochester 2006
• swede life
• swedish phrases you would you like to go to a restaurant
• tallinn estonia party
• why city life rocks and country life sucks
• wikipedia estonia
• wikipedia tallin estonia
• window estonia tallinn

June 2006 as of June 11, 2006

• bg0ur3 blog
• black-pissing
• brandon goure
• brandon mackan
• capital city of estonia
• crayfish festival jonkoping
• jonkoping sweden exchange sudent blog
• omnitor
• ryerson exchange student in jonkoping blog
• screwed in tallinn
• swede +car +stories +crazy

bg0ur3

Update:

Hey,

There is a post about my trip to paris just below this post if you guys want to read more. this post is just to summary what I have been up to lately...

Yeah, things have been busy as always, with school, work and baseball... I always look forward to those days where I just stay home and do nothing all day... but good news!... I'll be done with Jönköping this saturday! (one last final exam on that saturday) and then I'm gonna be in just stockholm for the entire time I'm in sweden until I go home.

Lately I've been out to baseball games and practices... our team is 3rd in our divison now, though with the talent I've seen on the team I'm sure we can finish atop of the standings however I won't be around to see that... the season continues until end of September and obviously I will be in Canada before mid-July.

Thank god for our paris trip, or I would have barely seen Elisabet in the last 2 months, she has been very busy with her work... she is one of the people who is responsible for the sign language day www.tsp25.se , its a big thing in sweden where sign language was officially recognized as deaf people's first language and few weeks ago was the 25th anniversary... there was a big gala and all that like toronto's deaf culture centre (the gala was even on the same day) I didn't go to the Gala because my baseball team had a weekend series (3 games) in Leksand, (3 hours north of Stockholm) .

Anyway, as you all know, my time here is coming to an end too quickly... I'm beginning to say my farewells to those who I don't meet too often and this weekend I will say my "goodbye" to Jönköping. Even though I hate the town, it's always been a home away from home to me... a place where I can be alone and just chill and do nothing,... in Stockholm it's almost impossible to do something like that... thats the city life for me.

anyway, i guess you're up to date about me now :) I guess I will write few more posts before I go home before ending my blog for good since as I said in the beginning of this blog last year, this blog is only about my year in sweden... I ain't gonna bore you with my everyday details in cambridge :)

see y'all later
bg0ur3

Weekend in Paris!

Hey, I wasn't going to even post anything about Paris and was this close to ignoring my blog for good but after some persuasion from some people, especially Laing! I decided to not disappoint my audience, So I'm gonna post a pictorial blog about Paris and try to keep my words to a minimum if that is even possible.

We got in Paris on thursday may 4, late night. We walked from the Gare du Nord (North Station) to the hotel, about 30 minutes walk and slept. Then on the next morning, the first thing we saw was the Bastille but unforunately there was nothing spectacular to see there if you didnt know the history about the storming of the bastille.

Then we went to the Notre Dame Catherdal...its an ancient church that was built in 1160 or something and can hold thousands of people, it has 6,800 organ pipes or something like that, i dont remember the exact facts since its been a month since i went to paris :) Here is Elisabet and I in front of the church's rear.
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After the Notre Dame visit (we also went in the catherdal), we decided to go and find the Sign Language Cafe that Paris is known for, it was a huge disappointment... all of the staff there looked as if they were hearing and didnt know how to use ISL but we had lunch there... however before we found the cafe, Elisabet found a Starbucks!! she just had to have a Chai, (Sweden doesnt have starbucks) :)

After our lunch, we went to Catacombes de Paris, its a huge catacomb filled with 5-6 million bodies tha were exhumed from cemeteries of paris in late 18th century because Napoleon wanted to revamp the city design and deal with the increasing population and there wasn't any more room to build homes so the cemetery had to go and created a catacomb directly under the city of paris, Elisabet and I went down like 125 steps down on a narrow circular stairway and walked almost a kilometer before we finally saw the bones, then from there, it was almost another kilometer of nothing but bones bones bones, skulls, skeletons.-... it was an amazing sight, one of the must-sees if you're ever in paris.


More bones, neatly arranged, we could even touch them although it wasn't allowed to do so. There was someone at the end of the tunnel that will inspect your bags or pockets to see if you have stolen anything. The end of the tunnel had almost another 100 steps upwards :)


Me going upstairs, exiting the catacomb, i dunno what i was trying to say.... oh well..
Elisabet and I also went to the Louvre Museum... the world's largest art museum and i took this picture only because xff did it too :) if you don't know what i'm talking about... check this out
Elisabet and I saw so much there, Mona Lisa painting of course, and greek sculptures, renaissance paintings, picasso, da vinci, monet etc... and more other things, we had to skip most of the museum cuz it was too big and we had more things to see in paris other than ancient art :)
Here is Elisabet and I in front of the Louvre Museum from the outside after exploring the museum, we went into the museum directly from the subway station so we didnt know what it looked like on the outside until we got outside.

Elisabet and I eating ice cream on Avenue Des Champ Élysées... Europe's most expensive shopping street... I saw that somewhere on internet before going to Paris but i cant cite the source since I dont remember which site I saw it from :) Avenue Des Champ Élysées is a street that goes straight from the Louvre Museum to the Arc Dé Triumph along with lots of restaurants and clothing stores, automobile stores (like ferrari, renault, bmw... none of those cheap fords-- sorry bez :) )

Me in front of Arc Dé Triumph, its the world's largest meeting point of streets, 12 major street meet directly in the middle of Arc Dé Triumph, there is a large circle around the Arc Dé Triumph, the only sane way to get into the middle is to use the underground tunnel.

Elisabet looking down on the Avenue Des Champ Élysées, somewhere down there is the Louvre Museum, you can see how far we walked :)

Then we were hungry, so we went to an "Italian" restaurant on Avenue Des Champ Élysées, I thought I would order something new, and I saw a pizza with pepperoni, eggs, and some interesting spices... so I decided to go for it... big mistake :)... see the egg on the pizza?
and see my reaction? :)... I couldnt even finish it, the pepperoni, egg were undercooked but I'm assuming its a french delicacy... I also ordered a hamburger with eggs on the nightbefore and I ended up with just half cooked groundbeef with a slab of sunny up egg on the top of the ground beef... "that is a hamburger?" I thought.. oh well...

On the next day, we went to the Eiffel Tower.

That's the view of Paris from the top of Eiffel Tower... the city looks charming but its not really... and note the resemblation between this picture and Washington DC's Capitol Building to the Washington Monument? I guess now we know who the americans copied the design from :)


There is 4 entrances to the Eiffel tower, two of them had looooooong line, so Elisabet and I went for the shortest line and then we found out that it was a short line cuz the only way to get up were to use the staircase... we still went for it, and climbed 668 steps to halfway top of the Eiffel Tower before using the elevator to go all the way top (there wasnt any open staircases to the very top if you guys were wondering)

My favorite picture of the whole trip!! :)

Found Canada Dry Ginger Ale!! :) had not drank that since leaving for Sweden... delicious!! :)

Overall, Paris was a very interesting experience... their public transportation system were very AMAZING and DISGUSTING at the same time... they had 15 subway lines, 4 train lines, and countless bus lines and it seems like we never needed to wait for more than 3 minutes to hitch a ride to somewhere in the city... but 90% of the stations looks like they havent been taken care of since they were built (first subway station was built in 1900s or 1910s)... or maybe I'm just biased, but Stockholm has very CLEAN subways and stations....paris's subway stations is not even accesible to wheelchairs, theres stairs EVERYWHERE and no elevators at all... but oh well...

Paris defintely has lots of history there, I would have liked to stay a bit longer to explore more of the city but the weekend was supposed to be a romantic getaway for me and Elisabet and it was just exactly that, we had tons of fun together which was a nice change of pace from our hectic schedule in stockholm.


I've got more stories and pictures but I dont want to stay on blogger.com too long :) if you want to know something more just ask me.

bg0ur3