Happenings

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.

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)

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!

... 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

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

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!

"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

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

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

To paint or not to paint?

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

*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 ;)

Beginning of the semester

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...

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

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.

Hurty morning

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.

Life at Muhos

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!

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 :(

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

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

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!

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.