Mental note to self, check this out: Asmahan, The Golden Voice - Songs
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Ha! Today I bought a useful toy, a scanner. I wanted one for the longest time, ever since the switch to a new motherboard no longer supported my SCSI-card. Ond now i am wandering down memory lane, scanning all those negatives. I tell you, it is amazing what memories they bring back.
Hmmm, a photoblog, perhaps?
hmmm. I don't agree exactly, but partly, Your soul is bound to the Solitary Rose : The Alone.
"When I wake up alone, the shades are still drawn on the cold window pane so they cast their lines on my bed and lines on my face."
The Solitary Rose is associated with loneliness, melancholy, and patience. It is governed by the goddess Merope and its sign is The Sword, or Unrequited Love.
As a Solitary Rose, you may be summed up as a hopeless romantic. You desire love and have so much love to give, but thing just never seem to work out the way you want them to. In life, you can be very optomistic, even when things are gray and nothing works out to your expectations.
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Göteborg is a nice place. Yesterday we had dinner at Göta's, and the food was excellent. Later on I met Erica and Anders, Ella and My. We were couchpotatoing and enjoying it, we kept at it until i fell asleep in the sofa. I was quite tired the day after...
Quite a good visit, i got to see many friends, even though the trip was so short and the seminar programme intense. I did some intense lecturing this time, on the use of First Class and the approaches to flexible learning. Seeing the staff at NFA for a friday morning brunch was also great fun, though sad when we all know that the Academy will close next year. I will miss it, the people there are the meetings that has taken place there over the years.
Nice thing this, though I envy those with more to say. Well, we can't all be like that. A strike for the middle man? Yes, maybe. I find it difficult to put my thoughts into written form in this medium. Takes some getting used to I suppose.
It's a pity I can't figure out how to add images here easily.
Damn, i begin to wonder if i should opt for movable type as a blog tool instead?
They say magnetic sun storms wreaked havoc on telecommunications in Sweden last week. Viruses has blocked much of the e-mail traffic and access to one on the largest providers. People have time to do other things, but seem paralysed when the web isn't working. Talk about vulnerable. And i thought we had these problems only in Finland...
Chatting with a new friend on yahoo we stumbled onto the question of whiskey. Which ones are good, which one the favourite? I said macallan at the moment, it used to be laphroigh. It turned out to be a difficult subject, there are so many good whiskeys. I have a dream of going on a whiskey tour to Scotland and sample some of them. Maybe I will.
Came home from Stockholm last night with the ferry MS Amorella from Stockholm to Turku. As it was Saturday it was obviously crammed with young drunk people. Actually they didn't in the end bother us at all, the boat was so big they were invisible. The problem came at night. I woke up by the rocking of the boat. It went up and down. Up and down. When i fell asleep the weather was calm, when i awoke it was less so. I got scared and started thinking about Estonia, we had seen the memorial only the day before, next to the Wasa museum. The cabin was above car deck, and above water level, but in a maze of corridors with a tricky way to the emergency exits. The kids were sleeping. Should I awake them and get up? Should i get dressed and check the weather situation? No, if i left the cabin it might be worse, i immediately imagined the kids alone in there, trapped. I felt almost paralysed.
I did not sleep much last night.
The boat arrived on time in pouring rain the next morning.
Phew, this speed is really almost too much. Everyone everywhere, all the time, all at once. I need some time for myself, some time to think. Some time to read a good book, some time to sip my bloody tea, please.
Sounds like rambling? Well, welcome to blogging...
This is where I get to spill the beans, right?
Right.
Blogging is fun, but it takes some time to find the right tone, and to add the bits and pieces that actually might be interesting. It's easy to feel a bit intimidated, as there are so many ambitious blogs out there. That is, however, beside the point. Bloggin by definition should be an open ended affair, leaving the floor wide open for all participants. But, like so much else on the web, what could be labeled fake professionalism take over and rule by force and speed alone. Not that you have to buy any of it, but it is hard to ignore. Sort of like all this spam mail now clogging the once wonderful tool called e-mail. Nah, i am not one to nag about the good ole times, things are changing, is all. But i don't have to accept that. I can still make my small little blog here in this corner of the web. Nice to have you here.
Yes! I finally completed the last work on the upcoming filmmagazine, our third issue this year. It was really tough, but now we are done, and we made another 40-page issue, i am proud!
The Ballistic Brothers in my ears, all are asleep in a very rainy Helsinki. Autumn is here indeed, and time is esacping me like a thief, there are sooo many things to do...
I am beginning to like bloggin for the time being, it is nice to throw some comments in here whenever the urge overcomes me.
So, time for some sleep.
Goodnight!
Past midnight, the kids are sound asleep. Not even up for a game tonight, just sortof browsing, not really tired. Typical, I wake up only after midnight, and there's nothing to do. Well, that's what you have yahoo messenger for. I like the design better than MSN messenger, only problem is almost allt the chatfriends i have use MSN, and there isn't even an easy way to have yahoo search my address books for possible yahooers, or at least i have not been able to find that setting. (And no, i don't want to chat with just anyone, not that desperate, i prefer my friends). Luckily there's Helga from Brasil to keep me company and beat me in pool. Yes, the games actually work and qre quite fun to discover. Again a new thing coming through the wires. At least to our apartment in Lauttasaari.
Saw a good movie tonight on FST digital (finally some use of the expensive rented box). Pizza King from Denmark (1999) See http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0170407/ .
It is true that there ar...
The sun is shining outside my window. A cold wind is pushing trees and people around, making us all bend in determination. I am home, down with the flu. My head is spinning, while nice italian music is soothing my tired mind. I should set up the community for our junior football club, but i rather just lie down and read donald duck.
Sigh.