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One done, one more to go!

2008-02-09T21:34:00.000+01:00

Done with my first thesis, but no time to celebrate ...

I wonder whose idea it was that we have to write two different theses just to get this boring bachelor degree. It's useless anyway! Out there (in the real world), companies still don't even know that there is something like a "bachelor". I guess, they wouldn't even consider hiring anybody with just "half a degree". The only advantage is that, theoretically, one can change university after bachelor and continue somewhere completely else. But that doesn't explain what we need two theses for. Well, can't be changed now anyway.

Right now, I'm in an internship with a research company. At least the work is interesting. Got a Kubuntu PC there. Made me want to install some Linux distribution on my laptop too, but - as I could have expected - troubles with the graphics card. Linux always needs 3 year old hardware. Well, it will get that soon ;)

... As soon as I get my master.

I think, that's just fair!

(K) I love you, Marko! (})

Happenings

2007-12-12T18:15:00.000+01:00

Hmm.. some sucky things have happened lately :P My laptop broke... I got sick from a pizza... and the nice and warm weather ended :( +4-> -11 in one day.

Well... the laptop problem is being processed right now... Had to go to the shop where I bought it and ask for a receipt and send it to hp and then wait for them to contact me and send the laptop to them :P Therefore I wont have a laptop in Austria... but I think that's good actually. more time for me and Anita ;)

Also I'm getting better already from the probable foodpoisoning, and the weather should get better in the weekend, so everything's good.

Now I just have to somehow spend a bit over 2 more days... Well, I do have one more school stuff to do. Have to write an english presentation, but that's a matter of few minutes.

That's it for now, most likely next post will come from Austria.

Love you forever Anita.

Last moments part 2.

2007-11-27T22:22:00.000+01:00

The holiday is getting closer again.... and this time it's much longer... a whole month, starting from 15th of December until 15th of January. I can't wait to get to Austria.

We've already planned a lot of stuff for the holiday, most mentionable would be skiing trip :P Would be my first time ever to do alpine skiing...I hope I don't break my legs :P Then... I guess we'll also visit a running sushi, that's something we don't have in Finland... ( Only buffet we have is with kebab, rice and frenchfries).

Just few more weeks.

Love you forever Anita.

Christmas time is here (soon)

2007-11-23T19:46:00.000+01:00

Even if shops want us to think Christmas time starts in Oktober ...
Christmas time starts in December. It's the time for mulled wine, gingerbread and co. There are the Christmas markets, Christmas songs, Santa Claus for those who like them and those who don't. For students Christmas time mostly means: exams. Nothing you'd be looking foward to all year long ;)
After Christmas I'll be off to work as an intern. Then there's bachelor exam and afterwards off to Finland!!! ... Lots of plans for the next year already.
Enjoy Christmas!

No News!

2007-10-13T23:49:00.000+02:00

... is good news. Well, maybe sometimes!
In my case that seems to be true. All the time something unexpected happens, it's not that convenient.
For example I managed to forget my driving license at the dorm. At least I hope I only forgot it and didn't lose it :( So, I didn't manage to visit my friend for a nice video evening. Shit happens!
This way I had time to play some Gothic. That's also nice, but I haven't seen my friend for quite a while. Maybe next time I'm home ...
Let's hope for no news!

Last moments

2007-10-07T20:41:00.000+02:00

Jup... it's the time soon. I've been in Finland for 2 months now, and I've finally a chance to go and see Anita. Too bad I've only 1 week of holiday... but it's better than nothing. After the holiday I can start concentrating on the christmas holiday. That's some 2-3 weeks, bit more. After christmas, I've winter holiday for 1 week again, and then it's time for summer, and Anita can come to Finland for 2-3 months. Then we'll be 1/3 done with our separation. Then just 2 more years and we can be together forever.

But... 1 holiday at a time. I've tickets and most of the stuff... now it's just waiting... Few school exams and I'm ready. I'm really excited.

I love you forever Anita.

Budapest Riots

2007-09-17T23:12:00.000+02:00

Back from Budapest...
Just in time!
Today there have been riots in front of the parliament. People throwing stones at the members of parliament.
Just one day earlier I visited the parliament myself. Well, it wasn't as easy as I hope it would be. First we tried on Friday. There was some big thing, some french delegation visiting (at least there were french flags everywhere). On Saturday we tried again. We were there half an hour before the guided tour was supposed to start. Well, no more tickets! "Try again tomorrow at 8 a.m." Isn't 8 a.m. a bit brutal for holidays? Anyway, we finally managed to get in. It's great! Wonderful, lot of gold, nicely renovated ...
The rest of the city is not in that good condition. A lot of houses have parts of the facades falling down. Generally, it's not as tidy as Prague. But then, the "center" of budapest is also much bigger than what I'd consider to be the center of Prague. It's same with the castle: Budapest's castle hill is huge (at least compared to Prague castle) and there are quite a lot of private houses up there. Most of them look like they need a renovation.
Budapest is also quite boring on weekends because shops are generally closed. Well, like in Austria. That was one thing I really liked about Prague: Almost everything was open 7 days a week.
A nice thing about Budapest is that people there generally speak German well. And they are willing to use it. That was more problematic in Prague, where people generally didn't like to speak German.
Anyway, it was a nice time. Saw a lot of things. Found nice restaurants. Learned some new vocabulary ;)
But I'm still happy that I went to Prague. It was a great choice after all. Don't even want to think about what I'd have missed ...

Happy birthday Anita!

2007-09-12T06:32:00.000+02:00

"Happy birthday to you, happy birth day to you.
Happy birthday dear Anita, Happy birthday to you!"

And soon I'm off to school to suffer the long long day, 08-17... sucks.

Wish I was at Budapest with Anita.

Clouds

2007-09-11T22:11:00.000+02:00

Mmh... they say good students are sick on holidays... I guess I'm the worst then :P I got awful cold suddenly. Some 38-39 celcius fever, 10 liters of slime everyday, awful headache and pain in my throat.

Meh... still gotta go to school. I've annoying presentation tomorrow... and impossible physics :P

I finally understood the physics of harmonic oscillator... and we already change to Buckingham π theorem, and I'm totally out of it :P So I can't afford to skip any classes.

Luckily we've only 2 hours of school on thursday, and I can quite freely skip that if I'm still feeling awful.

mmh...

Well... now that Anita is going to Budapest, I've 5 days alone :( I need some project for the evenings :P

Maybe I finally build me some webpages... or maybe move in more stuff (I've awfully heavy shelf to move in still... I'm NOT looking forward to rebuild it)... or some other project. Hopefully I get MSDN account before the weekend so I can format my comp and reinstall the programs.

Oh, and I finally got answer considering my reclamation on flight tickets (not sure if I even wrote about it here)... They wrote 'since we feel bad for you, we offer you 30€ as a token of good will'... I had to pay 150,01€ to get new tickets as I had got no information that the timetables had changed...

Well.. that's it for now. I hope to get better by the morning.

Kisses and hugs Anita, hope to see you soon from some internet cafee.

Off to Budapest

2007-09-11T21:11:00.000+02:00

Tomorrow morning I'm off to Budapest (Hungary). I'm going to leave home around 5 am. So I should arrive in Budapest around 9 am. I hope the hotel is ok. Well, it won't be as bad as the one I chose in Prague. But then there I only paid € 70,00 for 4 nights ... What would you expect :P
This time it's a bit more expensive. But my parents are paying part of it, so it doesn't matter that much.
I'll try to publish some pictures after my return.
Another thing is that I should try to find an internet café from there. To check my mail because I'm selling stuff on ebay and to contact Marko.

Right now Austria is playing against Chile (football). It looks like we're not that bad this time. But still no goals, so nothing is decided. Guess I'm not going to see the end of the game. I should go to bed soon.

Kisses to Marko

First week behind

2007-09-09T10:42:00.000+02:00

Now the first week of uni. is behind... Atleast the time goes faster now. And... I got some motivation to study after Czech :P

We already had one 'test'... Some entry level test to english, and everyone who get's A from it don't have to attend english classes. Jup, I got A, but I'm still going to attend the classes because everytime we have english it's in the middle of the day, useless to skip.

Hmm.. what else... I also have to prepare an presentation for wednesday... really easy one though.

And only 39 days after this night. I remember when it was still at 60s :P

Also, it's been a month since I left Austria.

That's it for now.

Love you forever Anita.

To paint or not to paint?

2007-09-07T11:24:00.000+02:00

I like painting.
To be honest, I like it a lot!
It's just that most of the time I simply don't know WHAT to paint. And even if I have an idea, quite often the final result turns out to be not quite what I imagined. I rarely like what I painted. While painting it feels ok, but as soon as I'm finished I usually want to throw it away. Well, I seldom do that. I just hide it somewhere. After a few weeks, when I look at it again, it usually looks a bit better. And then I start searching for a place to put it.
Now I'm hungry.
But after lunch, I'll give my painting skills another try. One day, I hope to be satisfied.

Longest day ever

2007-09-06T07:05:00.000+02:00

*yawns*

Today is going to be the longest day ever... I got up at 6, took shower, brushed teeth and took off to school... well... Now I'm here. writing into the blog. But in 2 hours I have to be in a meeting, go get keys for my new apartment and buy more credit for my mobile.. and school starts at 14:15. Sucks to live far away, having to rely on '3rd-party' lifts to school. Takes time and money.

Anyway, estimation is that I'm back home at 21:00 or 22:00 most likely later, since there's no busses anymore and I have to somehow arrange a lift. Then studying of object oriented programming... aand... something else Can't think of what.

I'm really happy to move to Oulu, even though it's a dormitory, I have to share a flat with another guy. But atleast door to my room is lockable :P

With a good luck I could move today already... it all depends on the position of jupiter and mars, and the 7 dwarves. Most likely next week.

Also some other good news from school... We'll get the MSDN accounts and we can legally download Microsoft products (I know everyone thinks MS is evil, but it's necessary evil).

Guess this is it for now...

Love you a lot Anita.

PS. ah, also realized we can celebrate anniversary on my Autumn holiday, and I happen to be in Austria then. Will be a great day ;)

First impressions

2007-09-04T20:19:00.001+02:00

So... the school has started... So far it's been really nice. I've really missed
studying. Of course now I have to use a lot of money for books and such... sucks really
as I also want to spare money to be able to visit Anita as often as possible.
Oh and I managed to find an apartment from Oulu... that's really great. I really hate traveling to school for hour everyday.

So... these were my first impressions for the 'second' year.

Love you forever Anita.

Finally REAL holidays!

2007-09-01T16:36:00.000+02:00

At least I'm done with work.
Money is on my account, now I can relax. Celebrate my brothers birthday. Cook again, no need to eat canteen food anymore. :P
I'm selling stuff on ebay now. It's time to get rid of some of those things. Stuff which is only lying around.
I'm also gonna move to a new appartment in the beginning of November. If there's anyone out there who wants to help me move my stuff ... You're cordially welcome.
Cu!
Love you, Marko!
Anita

Beginning of the semester

2007-09-01T16:31:00.000+02:00

So.... The school starts in 2 days. The schedule looked quite awful. On monday I'll have 9 hours of object oriented programming :P but yea... not too much classes... 8-17 twice a week and then easy. Though long friday sucks.

And the time still goes forward... 48 days currently and counting. I hope to be able to study enough German during the year so I can start at Wr. Neustadt next year.

That's it for now. Ciao.

Love you forever Anita.

Long wait...

2007-08-25T19:10:00.000+02:00

As I wrote before, the change to Austria is most likely not going to happen. I just have to bare the waiting... still 55 days before we can meet again.

This waiting is awful. It hurts and makes the time go even slower. I hope when the school starts it'll be easier.

Anita, you mean everything to me.

Sad moment

2007-08-23T22:09:00.000+02:00

Finally got the answer... and of course bad news... Everything was going too smoothly. I'll have to keep on studying in Finland and finish my studies here.

I'd have to learn c-1 level German and pay off my study loans to be able to study in Wr. Neustadt safely... it's just easier to finish my studies here then... so 3 more years before we can move together.

Now we'll have to start planning a lot of holidays together.

I love Anita forever and ever.

Waiting waiting.....

2007-08-22T14:16:00.000+02:00

Now I got an answer from the school... it says I have to wait a bit more :) Oh well... atleast they haven't forgotten me.

And still no answer

2007-08-21T18:24:00.001+02:00

This waiting is really stressing...

Brain training

2007-08-21T13:16:00.000+02:00

Einstein's riddle
Like it reads on the page, Einstein had said that "98% of the people in the world can't solve this riddle"

Actually it's really easy with pen and paper :P or now days with excel graphs :)

More Waiting

2007-08-20T15:10:00.000+02:00

Still no answer... I have to keep on waiting :P I hope I get the answer before the school starts here, I'll have to settle some financial issues and stuff still... But I need the answer first.

My first book

2007-08-20T00:06:00.000+02:00

I started writing a book :P I always wanted to do it and now Anita suggested I should try it, atleast it gives my mind something to do.

It's going forward slowly :) Around 2 pages per hour. And I still havent thought what I should write about :P I'm just writing for the fun of writing.

Soo... Good night, I'll keep on writing for a while still. And wait for the answer in the morning, hopefully a good answer.

I love you a lot Anita.

So, 21:06

2007-08-19T20:47:00.000+02:00

Monday's approaching quickly.
To work again. Only 2 weeks left. Afterwards I'll go on holiday ... at least I hope so. Italy, Linz, wherever. By train. That's the plan.
Made some lentil and some rice balls today. Let's hope they taste well. Gonna take them to work tomorrow. As a snack or in case there's nothing edible in the cafeteria.
Also started a painting today. It's always so horribly difficult to start. Especially if you don't know for sure what you want to paint. I know I can paint landscapes pretty well. Problem is: I don't want to paint any more landscapes ... :( But then, what else? Turned out to be something like a city at night or late sun down. At least it's pretty dark. Wonder if that means anything.

Hurty morning

2007-08-18T12:04:00.000+02:00

Uhh.... had awful night. I fell after coming from a bar and managed the hit my pinky finger, wrist and side of my chest.... Now I hurt everywhere :P

There was some awful live band in the bar :I Drummer played so hard that you could not hear other instruments.

In overall... very sucky night.

It's weekend!

2007-08-17T22:03:00.000+02:00

That was a great week! Who would have thought that everything would work that fast?!
That's a reason to celebrate:

;-P
Poor piggy, nice piggy!
No, didn't eat anything of that small piggy. They had other stuff but to get it, we had to fight mighty warriors:

... more pics on my website: www.underdark.at.tf

Waiting continues

2007-08-17T14:54:00.001+02:00

Didn't get any answer from the school today :( Now I'll have to wait until Monday at least. Well... I hope I get nice answer on Monday then :P

Nothing else happened here.

Love you Anita

Good news

2007-08-16T19:17:00.000+02:00

A lot of good news for me and Anita. First of all, it is possible to change to FH in Wr. N. and also I can change quite soon they say, maybe even this Autumn. It would be so great. No more cold winters in Finland or cold but wet summers :P Just hot Austrian summers and warm winters :)

Now I just have to get final answer tomorrow. I hope everything goes well.

Life at Muhos

2007-08-15T15:30:00.000+02:00

So..... I finally managed to get to the school. It was quite painless. I was prepared for a lot more, but it was ok (I didn't get the planned learning agreement done). I had to do some choices which will affect rest of my life and so... just a normal visit.

I also visited student dormitory and found out that they're full and if I'm lucky I can get an apartment next year :/ Soo... I'll have to live with my parents for now, or get one really expensive apartment I got informed about (some 330-350€ per month) I'll most likely stay with my parents... I have to save money to be able to visit Anita on my Autumn and Christmas holiday.

That's what I've done today... Now rest of my time until school starts is just waiting and waiting.

See you.

I love you a lot Anita (K)

Hot Hot Hot!

2007-08-13T19:36:00.000+02:00

It's incredible... Outside it shows that the temperature is around 20 celsius, still I'm sweating all the time. I guess there's quite a lot of moisture in air or so. Anyway, it's really making the nights awful. I can barely sleep few hours every night because it's so hot.

Today I didn't do a thing :P I was planning to go to the school to show the papers but after sleeping only a few hours at night I could not get up at 0600 to get a lift to Oulu. Tomorrow I'll try to get up or take a train/bus.

I miss Anita very much :(

Haikea Kaipuu

2007-08-12T15:47:00.000+02:00

Thought I'd write something today... Dunno what I should write... My days have gone forward slowly, I've felt sick for the last 2 days... Probably should'nt have gone to the bar on friday... My hangover lasted until last night.

Oh well... can't think of what to write so I'll finish for now.

Love you Anita.

work @ arsenal

2007-08-11T21:39:00.000+02:00

That's it:
I'm spending my holidays working... this month at ArsenalResearch.
There I'm the only Geomatics Pro. That means: They tell me what they want to visualise and I have to try to find a way how to do that. Mostly it's about modelling databases, webprogramming, somehow get coordinates and networks between the coordinate-pairs.
It's pretty interesting and I already learned a lot. It's like being paid for studying - great!
And the coffee is great. I love this espresso machine they have! Well, on Monday I'll get more of that stuff! ;)
Yours,
The coffee-addict

Wien->Düsseldorf->Copenhagen->Helsinki->Oulu

2007-08-08T21:45:00.001+02:00

So... I got to the airport early enough in the morning. Got everything done... and then they told me that the time for the flight from Düsseldorf to Helsinki has been changed by 6 hours. And if I take that I've no chance of getting a flight from Helsinki to Oulu. Oh well. At Düsseldorf I got a reroute through Copenhagen, It was several hours faster... Too bad it was 30 minutes late, so I missed the connection to Oulu. I went to complain and got told that tough luck, buy new ticket... Well I bought a new ticket for 151€ (same price I paid for the whole Wien->Oulu)... aand I got to Oulu.

I'm furiated about the flight companies :P I'll call the company I bought the flight from and demand my money back or else!!! Or something like that.

Let's see... what else.... I got served AWFUL food... frozen bread and water in the SAS planes and some quite nice fresh bread in Finnair plane. Also I found out that Helsinki airport has 2 public telephones :P only in the international flight department... 5 minutes walk away from the domestic flights (I needed to inform my ride from Oulu to Muhos few minutes before flight, luckily a nice granny let me use the airport phone for free).

Ok, that's about it for now.

I miss Anita a lot.

Wien -> Oulu

2007-08-06T23:56:00.000+02:00

It's been the best year I've ever had, and now it'll come to an end... atleast for a while.

Luckily it's only 4 months for now. then We'll be together for 2-3 weeks again, and then next summer we'll have a long holiday together.

I'll try to write more on the blog when I get to Finland, something to do to keep me from being sad.

Oh well... we'll still have tomorrow... have to do something nice, maybe swimming.

That's it... can't think of anything else to write now.

I love you Anita.

Bye, bye, honey!

2007-08-05T18:41:00.000+02:00

Such a nice summer ...

But soon it's over. Marko is going to leave Austria on Wednesday.
We are already planning what to do in winter. I hope it's possible that we can go skiing. But of course it's not sure that there will be snow for Christmas.

At least I have something to distract me from feeling lonely. I'm still working whole August and in September I'll try to find some friends who are willing to go to Italy with me - with the train.

8h

2007-04-26T22:53:00.000+02:00

Finally, the last night is here. Took a long time, and I´m anticipating a long night... The last moments are always the longest (only applies when waiting for something). Maybe I should just go to bed and sleep... well, try to sleep... but I´m too hyperactive.

Did a lot of shopping today and ate one MCD burger (no fries, fries are bad)... played World of Warcraft in a cyber cafe and got totally bored with it again... That´s about it... aah and ofcourse chatted a lot with Anita. Nothing spectacular. Oh... I did see a guy almost getting hit by tram. The guy was walking and talking on a phone, and suddenly stopped on the edge of the railroad. Tram was coming and he was just standing there talking to the phone. Tram had to break and hit the horn before the guy realised to step away :P Would have been funny to see it hit him (He would have been ok since it was so close to the stop, going maybe 10 km/h).

What else.... aah yeah. Met annoying french kids in the cyber cafe.... hrrh... What´s funny in shouting ´aloo´ inside a small cafe (there was maybe 5 of them and they were shouting aloo to each others every few minutes). Makes my ears ring.

Well that´s all I did today. I also had a strange dream... but can´t remember it... I only remember it was strange.

I´d like to write a book.

2 nights ´til ...

2007-04-25T23:53:00.000+02:00

Oooh... only 2 more nights until I´ll go back to Austria... It´s like waiting for Christmas but much more exciting. In just 31 hours I´ll wake up in Prague for the first time... aah.. I know what I could write about... about my last adventure in the academic life in Prague.

Soo... here every student gets a study record book (written together?) When you sign up for courses they´ll be written there and after you complete a course you need to take that to the teacher and get a signature in it. A bit like a year book, the more signatures you collect the better you do. Yeah yeah, I had only 2 signature... well almost ended up having just 1 since the teacher of this particular subject was avoiding me as much as possible. On monday I wrote him an e-mail that I should see him before friday, until now there´s still no answer. Today I decided to go to the school and find the guy and get the missing signature... there he was in his office sitting in front of computer.... it seems that answering mails is too straining or something :P (The importance of signatures, without them you wont get credit for the course)

Well... it´s now happily after me. Tomorrow I´ll have another adventure, but from what I´ve heard it´s much more less painful. I just walk in fill some papers and be gone... I hope. What could go wrong (knock knock knock).

Ok that´s about it...

Oh and I still want my time machine (point to one of my first posts {regarding this, they found out that Einsteins relativity theory [no idea how it is written, can´t be arsed to google] was really as he said it was, so maybe we´ll see time machine some day}).

30 hours 55 minutes and counting

Tik Tok Tik Tok (theme from 24)

The truth is out there

2007-04-25T00:57:00.000+02:00

Oh well... had to write more then :P

I was reading some news feeds and found some nice news.

They have found a new exoplanet. A planet which is only 1.5 times the Earth and they think that the average temperature on the planet is 0-40 celsius. One of the topics say that it´s habitable. I wonder... I´d like to go to space.

Well, more news. I hope there are some Canadians reading this blog some day. We (Finland) won you (Canada) in (ice)hockey! (4-2). Too bad it was only a practise match.

hmm this is a funny news...

Pentagon has made hero stories about dead American soldiers. For example, Young female soldier Jessica Lynch, her heroic fight against overwhelming Iraq forces... well, in reality her gun was jammed because of sand and she could not shot even one shot. then... about a NBA star Pat Tillman, a NBA star who gave up his career to join forces. Pentagon told that he died when leading a ferocious counterattack... In reality he died in stray bullets shot by USA troops....

Funny funny funny... oh and pentagon forbid the friend of the deceased NBA star to tell the truth to the family of deceased soldier.

Well.. sure, such heroic stories raise morale... though it´s not nice for the families of the people, especially as the truth will come out someday :)

aah... this one I already told to Anita, but I´ll share it to the random visitors of the blog also...

Happened in London. A Polish (I wonder why did they have to mention the nationality) guy run into a Pizzeria, entered the kitchen, grabbed a big knife, jumped on a table, dropped his pants down and cut his penis off.

I wonder. blood, a lot, pain... also quite a lot I´d bet... And one unhappy guy after he wakes up in hospital and realises what he has done. Next.

Ok... this is not news, but a suggestion

If someone happens to have freetime next week, and enough money to travel to finland for few days just for fun. I suggest you to go to any big city on 1st of May. You´ll see a lot of people in colorful overalls. And you´ll most likely get drunk if you join any group. It´s time for our VAPPU! Why don´t they have anything like this in europe... or do they? Tell me now! Tell me everything! nah, it´s too soon, no time to plan a trip to anywhere.

Ok... too much text already. But if you had enough interest/you were bored enough to read all the way to the end, congratulations. You´ve now maybe had a chance to won a chance to participate into a lottery. Good night.

Tik Tok

2007-04-25T00:33:00.000+02:00

Hmmm....

Last evenings in Prague... First I was planning to post after I had left the country for good, but as I got a good chance now, I thought why not.

So... I´ve been in Prague for almost 9 months... I´ve completed 2 courses in the university and had a lot of fun :)

Before I met Anita I was drinking with the students almost everyday, but luckily Anita tamed me a bit :) And with her love and support I got motivation to do some schooling :) Too bad she was here in Prague only for one semester. Well... soon I´ll be going back to her for the rest of the summer... it´s going to be a summer I wish it would never end.

All in all about Prague, as a place for doing your exchange... I would not recommend it if you´ve some motivation problems with studying :), but if you´re like my roommate, who had finished his school already, and was here only to party for 4 months... welcome. Probably the best place for partying, especially for western people.

Uhh.. still 54 hours to spend... If my laptop was NOT broken... I could have a lanparty and play for 48 hours and sleep the rest :/ If I had not drank few days ago so much that I don´t want to drink for atleast... 2 more days I could have a boozy few days... Btw, drinking and sports are not good together... Hmm... I was drinking with 2 fellow Fins and we drank until... maybe 4 or 5... or 6 and then we went to throw frizbee... We ended up in some ´sparta park´ where we slept on the grass and threw frizbee, can´t remember in which order... and while going there we went shopping... I was zombieing my way through the shop and broke atleast few jars and fell a dozen piles of stuff. I also killed a tree.

All in all... Prague has been a great experience. I don´t regret coming here at all.

Thank you, thank you

MJ out.

or not, just to the bed, have to sleep.

->

Projects

2007-04-24T21:25:00.000+02:00

Ever "had" to work in a team?
Did you like it?
Did you work?
Or did the others? ;)

I'm no big fan of team work. At least not, if I can't choose the team I'm going to work with.
Well, at university you often don't have a chance. So, what do you do? Do you take the lead (and the work)? Or do you wait for the others to do something?
Unfortunately (?), I'm the kind of person who takes the lead and the work load too.
This time, I was quite lucky. At least nobody is openly not working. Of course there's always some who don't do too much, but well, it's fine.

Anyway:
"Of course I'm a good at team work."
"I like working in a good team."
"I'm team-oriented."
... At least on my CV.

Got no time?

2007-04-18T19:22:00.000+02:00

Someone here who has a bit too much time?
No?
Well, didn't think so.
But hope dies last ... or so they say.

Bought a map of the world and put it on the wall of my dorm room. It's really frustrating how small a part of the world I've been to only. I'm twenty already. Would be time to see the world, but how?
If I don't work, I don't have the money to go anywhere. And if I work, I don't have the time.
World sucks.

Driving school ad.

2007-04-17T16:13:00.000+02:00

I was searching the web for some driving school in prague... I found some funny advertisements...

"Still you don‘ t understand? You want the driving licence B class. Our teacher has the driving licence D or C class. We think that is not in order when the teacher is on the same level with his pupil. But it is only our opinion because the law it admits in the Czech republic. Teacher has B class and will teach you for B class. No one car offer you more with a FABIA Comfort car. You will see that our FABIA is a unique one in all Prague. After the training in our driving school you will be able to drive any vehicle without being surprised by anything."

Well.... they don't mention that they offer teaching in English anywhere.... :)

Prague feelings

2007-04-17T13:43:00.000+02:00

Soo... I'm back to Prague after a month. Have to say that the weather is a bit better than in Wr. Neustadt. +24 or something and no wind.... almost too hot for me.... This czech keyboard is awful :) They've combined german one and then some strange... I have to press shift to be able to enter any numbers and all special characters are in strange places.... Oh well... I'll get my laptop back someday.

Ah yeah... visited a driving school today... they told me it would take about 3-4 months to get the license, as the summer is really crowded time.

Hmm... that's about it for now...

I miss Anita :(

Back from the east

2007-04-14T09:19:00.000+02:00

...er holidays. :(
Too bad it's over. Time for studying again ...
Wonder if we should make a trip to the mountains. It's just that, the sight is bad. Would make little sense ...
Maybe just swimming, sight doesn't really matter for swimming. But it will be really crowded.
We'll see.

Breaking

2007-03-29T09:05:00.000+02:00

Showers break ...
Glass breaks ...
Laptops break ...
Better not break up!

Easter holidays are coming soon. Hope for some nice days with nice weather.
Probably a few day trips.

Should also do something about my RPGMakerXP work ... hm

Our FH project is also developing. That basically means that it's getting more complex and more work intensive every week.
Wonder when we are going to loose orientation in our project.

Yyta

2007-03-27T13:36:00.001+02:00

Yearly Youtube Awards

That's some fun stuff :) and good stuff. I especially liked the animation kiwi and the music from the girl.

Back to daily happenings... Weekend's over, let's see what I did... I ate, I bought a 500gb external hd, I ate, I ate... oh and between those I took shower sometimes.

Back to future ->

Decided to add something here... new competitor for wikipedia, Citizendium

Now, to the burger king!

Back from BK... never again triple whopper... It was AWFUL.

Weather is nice though. I was wearing just shorts and t-shirt... it was a bit funny though as I saw people wearing some heavy jackets and caps and everything :P Damn southern people :)

It's summer!

Some fun from youtube

2007-03-22T16:44:00.000+01:00

Console War

Too lazy to write anything. Just a link.

Oh well, I'll add several links :P

Wii vs. PS3

and more

Windows 2.0 advertisement

I'm starting to find microsoft scary... Developers

Tutoring

2007-03-21T22:19:00.000+01:00

Today's tutoring was ... surprising. Although I have done all those things during highschool, there were some formulas I've never seen before.
I'm really sorry for the girl, who was there. They have an awful maths book. All vectors ... Really! They explained everything with vectors and have strange ways of writing everything. I first had no idea what all the stuff meant.

Anyway.

Bought a new USB-Stick today. Interesting, isn't it?! ;)

Tomorrow we'll go swimming in the evening. I'm really looking forward to that. All the sitting at FH is kind of tiring for the back.

Ever used the program Matlab? It's really funny. You can't use it without setting your Windows skins to standard. I will crash! ;) Great stuff!

Burger King

2007-03-21T14:13:00.000+01:00

Today was my first experience with Burger King. I ordered a Long Chicken burger and medium fanta. It endedup costing 5,50€, I would have gotten Long Chicken menu for 5,35€ :P

The burger was really great, would have been better than mcdonalds chicken burger if it was hot instead of warm... The place itself was quite nice, sofas and everything... too bad some guy in next table was chainsmoking.

Oh and they had every meatarians dream.... triple burger... three meat beefs.... mmmmhhhh.

That's it for now.

Summer Job

2007-03-20T22:01:00.000+01:00

Found a job for summer holidays :)

Wonder how it will be like. It's somehow related to our semester project at university. I hope it's going to be as interesting as it sounds. The company is situated in Vienna. So I will have to travel to Vienna every day... Well, doesn't take that long, I'll survive it for one month. Generally, I prefer to live close to the place where I'm working.

Of course there's not only work waiting during summer.

Tomorrow, I'll have my first coaching. That means I'm going to teach some Maths to a high school student. I'll have to rehearse the topic on my way there. Takes 30 min by train. That should be enough ;)

I'll post a report tomorrow.

Windows advert from 198x

2007-03-20T10:44:00.000+01:00

Mmm... good old advertisements.

Just wait until you hit the 7 minutes mark :)

-MJ

Vindows Wista

2007-03-19T13:48:00.000+01:00

Coding with Windows (tm) Vista (tm) speech recognition.

At least it looks nice, Vista that is... Too bad it's so demanding on hardware...So I wonder why they keep on sticking those Windows Vista capable-stickers on laptops with 512mb ram, which already have problem running Windows XP...

Oh well... I'm off to get my study book and start studying German.

Hasta luego... Auf wiedersehen that is.

Money money

2007-03-17T17:48:00.000+01:00

What would I do if I had 205.6 million dollars. Well... I would of course stack them into my room.

Sunshine from Wr. Neustadt

2007-03-16T11:58:00.000+01:00

Finally back to Austria. Austria where the sun is more yellow and grass greener, Austria where... the cars are faster, though the internet slower.Where the kangaroos roam and... you got my point. Happy to be here.

The header is so scary...

-MJ

'Round the world

2007-03-14T23:08:00.000+01:00

on the map!
We're working on a project about traffic jams ... yeah!
Not that far yet.

Roads are still empty and there's only this one picture ... so it's still quite boring. Wonder how it's going to develop.

Gonna pick up Marko in Vienna tomorrow :)

Sketch

2007-03-14T14:49:00.000+01:00

Since I'm bored I'll try to write more posts here... So... I'll post my tattoo edits, though they're not ready yet.

That's my modification of the 'medicine logo', just removed the wings, the cane and turned the heads of the snakes a bit. There's still quite a lot to do. The pic got really blurry when I altered it, so I have to fix that and area where the cane was shows quite well.

This was someones tattoo, A colored snake on a twig. I played with it a bit and got out this. It's quite nice, Would be really nice as an uv tattoo. But I think I'll be sticking to the medsnake tattoo...

That's it for now.

-MJ

Bored

2007-03-14T12:14:00.000+01:00

Last hours of boredom, what to do. We decided that we'll finish my tattoo sketch before I'll go into parlor so that's out of picture... I'm actually pretty hungry... but I finally managed to lose some kilos and managed to fit my old jeans so I don't want to eat just because I'm a bit hungry :/

No new games... Well... I have, but I lost my motivation to gaming. Weather outside looks really nice but it's actually pretty cold. So, no sniffing flowers (more like exhaustion fumes).

I’ve no alcohol so I can’t get into coma… oh I DO have alcohol but awful ones… slivovice…. hrrh… I have 20+ new movies though… But I want to save them for Austria…

Hmm… There is always Simpsons… or some anime… or series… Or, I could twiddle with our blog :P

Now I’m off to do something.

-MJ

Countdown

2007-03-13T23:29:00.000+01:00

Oh, and sorry for the stupid adverts in this clock :) It was the easiest one I found :)

-MJ

Finnish Vegetables

2007-03-13T22:48:00.001+01:00

What's the difference between

and ?

You can see: cucumbers and something "like" sausages made out of something "comparable" to meat.

www.uku.fi/nutritionepidemiologists/fruits.htm

quote wikipedia: "Makkara (finnish word for sausage) is a very broad term for basically everything edible stuffed in a sausage-shaped natural or artificial skin."

Sounds delicious :P

more wikipedia: "Increasingly popular vegetarian and nutritionally unorthodox sausages fall without problems in the category of "makkara" as long as they maintains the "sausagy" shape."

So, what did we learn today?

- Everything that looks sausagy is a sausage.
--> Cucumbers are sausages! Bon appetit!

Something something...

2007-03-13T22:47:00.003+01:00

Hello again, I finally managed to visit the driving school. First I met a woman who spoke only Czech and after a while I managed to find someone who spoke English. The English speaking guy just wrote me a number on a paper and told me to call the teacher and then he wrote the price of the licence on a paper, 14930 cr. That's quite ok 14930/27 ~ 553€ that's nice compared to the Finnish prices.... around 1500€ or so. Maybe I'll go there some day.

What else.... I'm depressed : / I'm hungry, thirsty. Weather looks nice though... I might go outside, maybe get the tattoo I've planned on.... I just never find the tattoo parlor when I'm looking for it... and I want my tattoo on an 'impulse', if I print a map, then it's like I planned to go into the parlor… too complicated.

I want a time machine.

-MJ

Random rantings

2007-03-13T22:47:00.001+01:00

Hmm.... I've no idea what to write in these. ... Well let's try something... My day; I had an awful hangover thanks to mr. Bozkov and mr. Koskenkorva. Shouldn't mix Finnish and Czech stuff together :/
I had planned to go to a driving school, but it would have been quite ironic to go there in my state... I ate toast with nutella... aaaand drank a lot of water and I cured my hangover a bit with a beer. I'd still have a bottle of redwine and another beer, and slivovice, and gin... But I think I'll pass them for now.
What else... I've played a bit with my computer.... I think. I've watched few episodes of Simpsons and accidentally deleted files which I didn't manage to return and now I have to redownload 3 gb.
That's it for now. I'm off to do something educating... like watching southpark.
'til the next time.

-MJ

Party's over

2007-03-13T22:46:00.002+01:00

and it improved considerably with every hour passing.

The new party team did a good job. Let's see how they deal with the typical after-party problems: broken windows, dirty walls, ...

- underdark

Party downstairs

2007-03-13T22:46:00.001+01:00

and work upstairs ...

Should go down, shouldn't go down, should go down, ...

Musics horrible ... Would require a lot of alcohol to stand it. Probably working's the better
decision. Just boring.

- underdark

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quote graza (austrian ;) ):
21:30:17: jo, und des reiht se nahtlos in meinen "sochn de ma am oasch gengan oba für de kana wos kann und i söba damit fertig werden muas ohne dass ma wer höfn kann"-katalog ei
21:30:21: und der katalog is dick
21:30:28: mit dem kannst kinder daschlogn

Weekend's over

2007-03-13T22:45:00.000+01:00

and again: Nothing done!

A classic: During the week you're too ... let's say "tired"
to do anything. So you plan that you're going to do it
on the weekend. Well, weekend comes, weekend goes,
and nothing happened...

- underdark

Getting started

2007-03-13T22:44:00.000+01:00

How to start a blog? Any ideas?
Well, I don't. That's why you have to read this.

Never thought I would write a blog. Simply not what I usually do...

- underdark