August 10, 2006
This Time of Year
This is still Finland, I hope you notice. I hope you notice how warm and sunny it is overthere. On this side of the globe its very very cold. Down to +8C at nights! brrr.... I hate winter...
Its this time of year again. I can't believe its only 2 years that we're married. We're so old and dependant on each other.. :)
It was a sunny day and it was nice to out to Suomenlinna for a walk.
Unfortunately we forgot our swimming gear. The water was warm and the sun completely scorching! So I missed my last chance to swim this summer... :(
We had a nice walk anyway.
And found this piece of potentially fatal design. If you can't read Finnish, what do you think this sign means? Nice colours, right? But is it trying to tell you something? Looks like it, but can't really say what, right?
This is how they draw this in Leijonakaupunki. Have they got better designers? :)
I waved Finland bye bye..
This year we had such a beautiful summer!
Its still summer in Leijonakaupunki (as its been since last Ice Age) and our friends are still there. It was extremely nice to see some of them. Yong, Giul and Jo got initiated to the joys of smoked reindeer, rye bread and juustoleipa.
Luca has grown again. He "speaks" a lot and interacts with people all the time (he knows how to gracefully (and demandingly) point his finger at things) and occassionally plays the piano. So clevveeer...
Its this time of year again in Leijonakaupunki. The ghosts are once again having their holiday from hell. Its the 7th month, the Hungry Ghost month. This would have beed a perfect occassion to see a Chinese Opera (they are staged everywhere to entertain the ghosts), but it was too short a time for me to be able to arrange that.
In the 24h stop over in Leijonakaupunki I managed to see a lot of people 1) the reindeer party, 2) coffee with my ex-colleagues, 3) a round of students projects, 4) lunch and happy shopping session with Fity and Jo, 5) more of happy shopping without Fity and Jo... :)
I was very happy to be in Leijonakaupunki again. Such a wonderful place, I thought, so relaxed and clean. It kind of got back to me only on the plane to NZ after I watched the Discovery documentary about Leijonakaupunki history. A few times the main politicians made some comments that got my hair up: "Leijonakaupunki girls (the national airline steuardess) have to be on the right side of 30s" says LKY, the Father of the Nation.. Hmm.. After preaching for months and years about aging population and encouraging people to employ older people and elderly? "I'll pin down my political oponents", LKY again, the image juxtaposed with the oposition party leader's futile efforts to sell his book to the weekend shopping crowd. "I think, the Speakers Corner works very nicely, as there are very few speakers", GTC, the senior minister declares his understanding of democracy... Ach... Its nice to come visiting and shopping, but I'm so happy to be out of there... After watching the documentary, I got a really bad taste in my mounth...
Its also this time of year in Leijonakaupunki. I left the city before the big whuha happened, but nevertheless I witnessed the expression of national pride (or national angst?) in the field of these moove media cows. The post in the background says that Moove Media congratulates the nation with the 41st anniversary of Independence. And see what? Most of the cows are neatly knocked down. I can imagine that a bunch of youngsters (or were they frustrated foreighn workers?) had a joyful kung fu exercise session here...
I had 6 people (including 2 small people:) seeing me off to the airport from Leijonakaupunki. Considering how many people saw me off in Finland, I'm better off in Leijonakaupunki.. :)
And this is the only picture that I managed to take so far in Auckland. I'll do better, I promise! :) Miss you all!
Posted by gkligyte at August 10, 2006 05:44 PM