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After a long day’s meeting the whole group went to Långa Bryggan for dinner. Långa Bryggan means long jetty in Swedish and that was what it was. A 500 m long jetty, and then a platform with a house on it.

The food was quite good and we had a beautiful view of the Öresundsbron (the bridge between Sweden and Denmark). After the dinner we had all had a sauna and took a swim in the ocean in the full moon light. Very nice… But somewhat cold

I am on a business trip to Lund. Actually I am staying at Clarion hotel in Malmö, but Sony Ericsson is located in Lund.

Yesterday was my first day ever in the Lund office. I got a Lund ID card and spent most of the time in meetings. At 5 pm when the last meeting was over I was one of the few left in the building :-O

Josef gave me a ride back to Malmö. The he suggested to have dinner with his fiance so we went home to their place. Then had an hours long walk along the harbor area and the Turning Torso. Our destination was the Mai Thai restaurant but it was closed.

Next stop was a Vietnamese restaurant, but it was also closed on Mondays. So we ended up at Lemongrass. An Asian fusion type of restaurant. The food was quite good and I enjoyed the company a lot. It was fun to meet Josef again and to finally meet his fiance.

First thing that happened at the office today was that my PC got stuck in trying to connect to our disk server. It needs the connection to synchronize my local documents with the server for backups. Usually there are some minor troubles slowing the PC down. But not like today.

I could not get anything done the first 1.5 hours. My plan was to finish up yesterday’s meeting notes within an hour and get to my Japanese lessen at 9 am. Now I had to cancel the lessons to finish the notes after my PC decided to work properly again… Around 9:30. After I restarted it a few time.

So the day did not start so great. But the ending was really nice.

Chie and I met Andreas at a yaki-niku restaurant in Meguro for dinner. We had a lot of different types of meat, which we grilled over a bed of charcoal. And talked about anything and everything.

We had enjoyed the dinner so much that once it ended it felt too early to end the evening. Instead of going home we took a short taxi ride to Red Pepper in Ebisu.

They are always so friendly at Red Pepper. And this night was not different. We got our own room in a kind of outdoor tent space connected to the kitchen heated by a kerosene heater. In the cosy heat by ourselves we had desert. Grappa for the ladies (sorry Andreas I could not resists it ) and pancakes and ice cream for the man

Headed out from the apartment at around 7:20 as usual to arrive at the office, as usual, around 8 o’clock in the morning. The day went along as usual. Until around 5:30 pm when I did not go home as usual.

Yesterday I was asked by one of the managers to take notes in a meeting starting at 10 pm

So I did. It finished at 11 pm. I had prepared most of the notes prior to the meeting and rounded up most of the things I could not figure out before the meeting and left at 11:30 pm. I’ll finish the notes tomorrow.

I got an internal mail at Sony Ericsson today. It was my new contract. Another year in Japan

All I have to do now is sign it.