Pre-summer party, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, The Museum of Medieval Stockholm, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Wow it's my third week already!  Time is flying!

Downtown Stockholm 29th May.

26th of May was highlight of the week.  It was the pre-summer party at work which started at 2:30pm and ended close to 5am.  There were games, singing, dancing, a lot of singing and finally I went home at 2am ish.  Shots of alcohol were consumed.  And a lot of coffee.  I drank so much coffee I couldn't even sleep properly and woke up on Friday just plain exhausted.  To make things worse I've been having a pretty bad cough from all the karaoke.

Pre-summer party, table tennis!

House hunting, the second week in Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

The second week in Stockholm involved me looking at several places since I need a permanent place to live after the apartment hotel.  I spent the 17th, 18th and 19th of May looking for a home to live.  At the suggestions of my work colleagues, I placed an ad on blocket.se and within a few hours I was, amazingly, getting responses!

My friendly blocket.se ad

I got to visit quite a few places around Stockholm as a result of the ad placement.

First week in Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

After months of waiting for work permit issues to be sorted I am finally in Stockholm.  I arrived on the 9th of May Liberation Day and am presently living in Solna in a hotel apartment that costs an astounding 3300 USD a month, thankfully most of it is paid by the company.  My first day I showed up at work even though I was very jet lagged after flying from Singapore to Helsinki and then Helsinki to Stockholm, it took me a whopping nearly 20 hours.  In life, attitude is everything and even though I was told that I didn't have to show up I did anyway.  I also needed to keep myself awake since I was very jet lagged and did not want to wake up in the early hours of the morning.  I think I even made dinner which I hadn't in months, nothing fantastic, just pasta.  It's a lot of work since I hadn't cooked in months.  Before Singapore I was on an epic trip around the UK, and spent every day eating out, so it's going to take a while for me to get to grips with cooking regularly again.

On the 10th of May I had an appointment at the immigration department to make my residence card.  That's also in Solna.  I had some initial difficulty finding the place since google maps isn't always the best, but I found it eventually.  The woman told me it would take 5 to 10 days and would be sent to my current residence.