Malmö

A couple of days after we set our foot on the Swedish soil, the emptiness of our new home called for a need to visit the country's most famous 'export' the world has come to know, IKEA. There are of course many IKEAs in Sweden but the nearest within our reach was the one in Malmö, which was slightly over half an hour of train or bus ride away from Lund. And more than a dozen of us walked around with the ugly blue IKEA bag full of our decors and necessities, walking the street like we owned it. hoho...more like we got own...

Though IKEA was our main objective, we did managed to scout around the 3rd largest city of Sweden. In fact, we actually went back for a few more times and managed to see some interesting things, and of course we bought our bike from Malmö as well. There are some nice buildings in this city by the baltic Ocean, of which is another world famous architecture, The Turning Torso by dear Santiago Calatrava. Slightly short of 50 storeys high, its the tallest building in Sweden...some say Scandinavia...can you believe that?? While being the tallest building, it also offers the most expensive meeting room in Sweden, which is located right at the top level of the building. Cost of renting the place for a day, 7.5k EUROS...hohoho...

Anyway, here's some pictures from Malmö

The train station

The skull followed.... :S and so it rained..

but somehow, this guy seemed to be enjoying the water. He gets dumped into the river whenever some kids hit the target in one of the games during the Malmö Festival. Yup, we thought we were lucky enough to be able to check out Malmö Fest just after we arrived shortly in Sweden. But oh well...not exactly so happening. Its some carnival which runs for a week with stage performances by their local artiste...mostly singing in the 'alien' language of Svenska. a couple more shots from the festival.

This is the Malmöhus Castle, which apparently was restored by my Professor-in-charge of the design module I'm taking in Sweden. That's a glimpse to how boring the module is..hoho. BTW the 2 pictures above was taken by my little Fujifilm A30 not my mega-sized D50...haha..of cos there's photoshopping to it..just the sky..cos it was raining on that day..haiz.

A new housing project near something famous...hoho.. guess what.



THE TURNING TORSO!

That's all from Malmö for now. Next Stockholm.