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Emergency Relief

We have received some Finnish food emergency relief aid this week!! Ruisleipaaaaa!!! (rugines duonoooos!!) Ja poronlihaaaa!!! (ir siaures elnienos!!!) Jokko came by to Leijonakaupunki on a work-related trip and was very kind to bring this good stuff to us.. Waaah, so tasty!!! Besides that he did another good deed. I have to admit that I was loosing a bit of motivation to write this blog lately. I stopped seeing weird stuff about this society and writing cool stories about our amazing trips started feeling a little bit useless. However Jokko told that I have this fan circle in Finland who actually like following our adventures. So now I'm very re-energized (ha, ruisleipa and sisu started flowing in my veins again!) and I try to make-up for the stuff that I/you/we missed last weeks. Sorry about that..

It is really suprising how fun is to hang out with someone from Finland. The truth is that we with Kaj don't have too many friends here and spend so much time together that can almost read each others' minds. The local people here are very orderly and sensible. It is so refreshing to talk to someone who has life outside of this country (he he..)

Last Saturday there was Chingay parade that we with Kaj didn't see, because we were in some nova-bossanova star Cibelle concert with Monika and Roland. However, we managed to catch the preview party on Friday. Jokko was taking all his pictures with his mobile phone.

And he continued doing so when we went to Botanical gardens on Sunday too. He he...

Then we went to have foot massage and we were all squirming in the firm grip of these middle-aged blind masseurs. Wah, it was a good afternoon! Come, people, come, see how much fun it is?

Otherwise, Jokko was asking and I noticed that many people actually don't know really what kind of place I'm working at. Yong has been working on the new website of the Temasek Design School and I think it gives a much better idea about the school than the previous one. Check it out. As I came from holiday last Tuesday, we got to know that Ministry of Education finally aproved Moving Images diploma course. Meaning that we'll be running 2 diplomas starting from May. There was a lot of uncertainty about the whole situation, first the Interactive Media Design course hired lots of people (5 new staff all together!!), but the ministry was very late to approve the proposal for the new course. So if you look back to my posts around Christmas I was wondering what is going to happen to all of us as there's not much of work.. No problem about that anymore.. Everybody is terribly stressed out, but I am quite happy that we get to do something, however hasty the whole situation is. Would have been such a pity to waste the whole year just waiting for something to happen... This semester i had only 6 hours teaching, next semester I have 22!!! I feel moderately busy with 6 hours teaching, I wonder how it will go with 22...

We have lots of beautiful pictures from Bali, but I will try to write our travel adventures in another entry. Now its getting quite late.. But here's a preview picture, isn't it beautiful?!?