Over dinner in Stockholm, my friends have expected for me to bring them to explore the city at night. We were eating dinner in a Pakistani restaurant at Gamla Stan (Old Town) area, ordering chicken curry, chicken beriyani and a dish that I don't quite remember with five small plates of white rice. The total was almost 750SEK, it was really expensive. But...

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I was in Kiev, Ukraine when Lil sent me messages from Stockholm, informing me that we're gonna meet at Arlanda Airport before we're flying to Amsterdam the next day.  "Hey, Lil and Dinie are gonna meet up with you at the airport - let's say around noon? You're already back in Stockholm by that time, right?" I took my travel journal and looked...

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"Final call for boarding to Kiruna."  "All passengers for a flight to Kiruna, please proceed to Gate 31" Amidst all the hustle, we finally boarded the plane, taxied and flew into Kiruna. The cold but sunny weather greeted us, welcoming us with warm hands to the icy state. The temperature was at negative nineteen-degrees at the time but some locals said that it...

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It was a very windy night. Lil and I had just gone back to the room after we descended from Aurora Sky Station, disappointed because the clouds were very thick and we only saw plenty of faint Aurora. I was on my way to the kitchen with my laptop to arrange my trip to Ukraine when Lil and Dinie suddenly proposed to hunt...

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Our flight to Paris was scheduled to fly early this morning. I just had few hours to spare after flying back to Cairo from San Francisco, leaving a bag with dirty shoes and of course, unwashed clothes.  I went over to Dinie's house in Sayyeda Zainab a little after ten pm, merely an hour after arriving in Cairo. Lil was already there, karaoke-ing...

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