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Our local talents and foreign guests

Taina and Mika left yesterday and our house is empty again. This time we don't even have anyone to wait for.. Everybody who promised, already came.. Baah.. :( Luckily our freezer is stuffed with ruisleipa (rugine duona).. One more time our guests got into real shopping frenze and they were blaming the Leijonakapunki for that.. Sure.. Once you go for a walk in Orchard road, your head starts spinning, adrenalin starts flowing, bling bling everywhere and you end up just paying and paying and paying... Don't know if it is true, but I read somewhere that each Leijonakaupunkilainen owns in average (sic!) 10 credit cards... We have a very healthy economy here, people don't mind spending (over the top, over the limit, over the means.. But you have to own this new Luis Vuitton bag!!!)...

Anyway, we had fun with Taina and Mika, just that we worked like we normally do, so we had very little time to spend with them afterall.. And very little time to sleep..

However, we managed to go to the famous Raffles Hotel and have the Leijonakaupunki Sling coctail (it was invented there). As a tourist you have to go and try that, but somehow we never managed to do that with Kaj..

This is happening in the swimming pool downstairs. Spookyyyy....

Our small camera got broken. The last picture shows what kind off photos our camera is taking now (psychodelic!).. It got broken last weekend when we had our 3rd year students diploma show (a little bit like "perziuros" or "demo day"). So I don't have many pictures from there. The show itself was great, Taina said, it makes you depressed, all these super-talented ultra-young (average about 20 years old) people doing amazing stuff. Beating you and me in all senses with their creativity, sensitivity, angst, talent, urge to do things.. The most amazing thing was that students came up with their final projects in 15 weeks and the standard was very very high (think about all the guys hanging out in Dailes Akademija or the Media Lab for years and producing nothing!... )

Our star student from IMD diploma was Kai, he made a Japanese style war/plane animation, an unbelievable mix of 3D and 2D techniques. I saw his portfolio and this guy is SUPER! I really have no words to describe how good his stuff is, so have a look yourself. And when you start crying and tearing hair from your head, remember, this guy is 18 years old.. He's going to army now. I'm sure that when they see his stuff, they will make him do smth more useful, not run with the gun accross the fields.. And I hope they don't damage his hands and fingers(or head) in there...

Another girl from graphic design made 4 versions of 60 page illustration book printed on textile fabric, somebody wrote a whole book and drew illustrations, somebody made 3 series of amazing photography.. seriously, I have no clue how they do that in 15 weeks and with so much devotion and talent.. WAhhhh.. I'd better go swim to the pool now, I don't have a chance...