Fresh Of The Heels (+ winner of competition)
Back and fresh from my recent trip to Qatar, Doha I welcome you all to XAASID 2.0 – A new theme, more posts and hopefully some new faces blogging with me for you all to read.
How have you all been? I hope you have all enjoyed your recent break from work/studies if you was celebrating EID and if you are now celebrating christmas or the new year then happy holidays to you too. Unfortunately I wont be off this new year, infact I will be stuck sitting my end of semester final exams for various subjects so wish me luck while your feasting like you do once a year!
What I miss the most every year come winter (November-April) is the snow that used to whiten our streets and trees back home in Oslo, Norway. Theres has to be no place like it where everything will change from their original colour to a single shade of white.
Old or young, skinny or fat, black or white- you can not but be amazed, in awe of this gift from the skies. For example, being able to go up north and witness the “northern lights” at night and to be able to share this prodigious, spectacular occurance with someone special, perhaps family or that special someone.
“No pencil can draw it, no colours can paint it, and no words can describe it in all its magnificence.”
Julius von Payer – explorer and a keen observer of the northern lights
Seeing the northern lights is a jaw-dropping and mystical moment. Perhaps not so surprisingly, the northern lights’ spectacle has created as many legends as there have been people watching. Northern light symbols are found on the Sami shamanistic drum. The phenomenon has several different names in Sami. It is, for instance, known as Guovssahas, which means the “light which can be heard”. The northern lights were traditionally associated with sound by the Sami.
Furthermore, during the Viking Age, the northern lights were the armour of the Valkyrie warrior virgins, shedding a strange flickering light. And according to Japanese legend it means good luck to conceive a child under the northern lights..perhaps I should have my first born under such circumstance..perhaps..
Anyway, just wanted to pop in and say hi and that I am back to entertain you all so stay tuned.
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P.S Thank you everyone who entered our competition we had running for quite some time now! The winner has been emailed and by request chosen not to be named on the blog for personal reasons. Thank you all and keep up the good work. =)
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December 20th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
nice read, and good luck with the studies, btw should Leicester not be your last home lool.
December 20th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
My home will always be Oslo