This weekend was spent in Lodz, Poland at Midgard Gathering and on sunday evening I got the site open at last. At the moment there is only blog and photos, but more is coming. Also, some layout issues might be found, but time is relevant, so there might be some fixes coming.
]]>This weekend was spent in Lodz, Poland at Midgard Gathering and on sunday evening I got the site open at last. At the moment there is only blog and photos, but more is coming. Also, some layout issues might be found, but time is relevant, so there might be some fixes coming.
]]>Last week I found one song that did this to me. Found from friskyradio podcast 114, Gerardo Boscarino [Part 003], starting around 23:30 and stopping around 30:00. The lyrics start from 26:45. First time I heard it was in a metro early in the morning, when I was once again doing what I normally do in metro: trying to quess what kind a people are sitting near me just by looking them. Somehow the starting lyrics just hit me: "All around me are familiar faces, Worn out places, Worn out faces".
As soon as I got to the office, I started to look for the lyrics and the original artist and after a while, founded out. Tears for Fears - Mad World, released in 1982. So, it was released the same year I was born. Nice coincidence. I had never heard about a band like that. After few youtube-videos and some googling, noticed that the version in the friskyradio podcast is sang by Gary Jules. And the video is also kind a nice. Allthough, the Tears for Fears live versions are the best ones I found.
I still can't point exactly, what is it in that song that hits me so hard, but it just does. The part "When people run in circles, It's a very very, Mad world..." just fits to the feelings I'm having right now.
""""
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places
Worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere
Going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
no expression
No expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
no tomorrow
No tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which i'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very very
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday
Happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen
Sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me
No one knew me
Now the teacher tells me what's my lesson
Look right through me
Look right through me
And I find it kind of funny...
""""
Last week I found one song that did this to me. Found from friskyradio podcast 114, Gerardo Boscarino [Part 003], starting around 23:30 and stopping around 30:00. The lyrics start from 26:45. First time I heard it was in a metro early in the morning, when I was once again doing what I normally do in metro: trying to quess what kind a people are sitting near me just by looking them. Somehow the starting lyrics just hit me: "All around me are familiar faces, Worn out places, Worn out faces".
As soon as I got to the office, I started to look for the lyrics and the original artist and after a while, founded out. Tears for Fears - Mad World, released in 1982. So, it was released the same year I was born. Nice coincidence. I had never heard about a band like that. After few youtube-videos and some googling, noticed that the version in the friskyradio podcast is sang by Gary Jules. And the video is also kind a nice. Allthough, the Tears for Fears live versions are the best ones I found.
I still can't point exactly, what is it in that song that hits me so hard, but it just does. The part "When people run in circles, It's a very very, Mad world..." just fits to the feelings I'm having right now.
""""
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places
Worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere
Going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
no expression
No expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
no tomorrow
No tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which i'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very very
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world
Mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday
Happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen
Sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me
No one knew me
Now the teacher tells me what's my lesson
Look right through me
Look right through me
And I find it kind of funny...
""""
Well, maybe I just need to get a hang of myself and roll up my sleeves and start from the beginning.
Following lyrics from Jenni's song describes quite well my feeling at the moment.
"Väkijoukossa
mua kalvaa yksinäisyys.
Viel' nuoreen vereeni
on kirjoitettu iäisyys.
Kun kiihkosta huudan,
teen sen kuiskaten.
Kaiken uskon sinuun laitan,
vaikka epäilen.
Tuhannet mun kasvot
ja ne vaihtuvat vaan."
Well, maybe I just need to get a hang of myself and roll up my sleeves and start from the beginning.
Following lyrics from Jenni's song describes quite well my feeling at the moment.
"Väkijoukossa
mua kalvaa yksinäisyys.
Viel' nuoreen vereeni
on kirjoitettu iäisyys.
Kun kiihkosta huudan,
teen sen kuiskaten.
Kaiken uskon sinuun laitan,
vaikka epäilen.
Tuhannet mun kasvot
ja ne vaihtuvat vaan."
Started a Jaiku-service today, my profile can be found at netblade.jaiku.com.
At the moment I'm at Inkoo with a couple friends from Jamboree. Spending some quality time.
]]>Started a Jaiku-service today, my profile can be found at netblade.jaiku.com.
At the moment I'm at Inkoo with a couple friends from Jamboree. Spending some quality time.
]]>Our journey started from Niittykumpu's Teboil, where we had a cup's of coffee just little after 10 am. After that we headed to All Right, Yamaneko needed a new bikejacket. After some trying on, he found a nice Held jacket, only 250 € from salecorner (original price was around 370 €).
Quickly back to Kehä III, then to Vihdintie and to RM-Heino, to get myself a new pair of sunglasses. I had broken my earlier on Jamboree (luckily it was last day on the campsite, when a plate about a 50 kilos dropped over them). There were quite a lot of customers, so we spended there a while, just talking and drinking coffee (once again). When we got out there, we noticed a big raincloud, that had just passed us. Nice, we didn't have to ride in rain, allthough the roads were wet. Well, that's life.
We had a plan to go tour a bit the roads that we drove by car last winter, near Hyvinkää and after that go visit Punajuuri in Inkoo, Kavalahti, where she was as an instructor on Järeä's patrol leared basiccourse. So, we got back to road and headed north.
The route to Hyvinkää was quite a straight (so not), first to Takkula, then Lepsämä and after that came a big curve, as I turned right from somewhere that had a fournumbered road, that looked nice. A quick stop near Kiljava and then allmoust straight line to Hyvinkää ABC for a lunch.
At the end of our lunch we phoned Punajuuri (about 2.30 pm) and we told her that we would be in Inkoo after about 1 and a half hour. At the same time Punajuuri told us things from the course, that were not so nice to hear. There were no head of course, no one organized things there and so on. So, we were a bit sad for Punajuuri, because it wasn't her fault at all. She was asked to go there to handle some things that our troop leaders had promised. Both of them had some other stuff this weekend and because they had promised that our troop would handle a couple of things, someone had to go there. Funny, because in the spring, in some meeting we had talked about this and we came to conclusion that no-one promises anything on behalf of our troop.
So, we continued our journey. From Hyvinkää ABC to west, as finaly we got to Vihtijärvi, where we had a pause. After that to Vihti, Lohja and to Inkoo and only about a 25 kilometers of this was a road that had less than 4 numbers. We were at the Kavalahti some minutes after 6 pm, so our timetable had gone a bit wrong this time. But, we found great roads.
We headed back home around 10 pm, when it was dark allready. In the meantime there happened some strange thigs, that I woun't start opening here, if someone likes to know why my respect towards Järeä is going down all the time, feel free to ask.
]]>Our journey started from Niittykumpu's Teboil, where we had a cup's of coffee just little after 10 am. After that we headed to All Right, Yamaneko needed a new bikejacket. After some trying on, he found a nice Held jacket, only 250 € from salecorner (original price was around 370 €).
Quickly back to Kehä III, then to Vihdintie and to RM-Heino, to get myself a new pair of sunglasses. I had broken my earlier on Jamboree (luckily it was last day on the campsite, when a plate about a 50 kilos dropped over them). There were quite a lot of customers, so we spended there a while, just talking and drinking coffee (once again). When we got out there, we noticed a big raincloud, that had just passed us. Nice, we didn't have to ride in rain, allthough the roads were wet. Well, that's life.
We had a plan to go tour a bit the roads that we drove by car last winter, near Hyvinkää and after that go visit Punajuuri in Inkoo, Kavalahti, where she was as an instructor on Järeä's patrol leared basiccourse. So, we got back to road and headed north.
The route to Hyvinkää was quite a straight (so not), first to Takkula, then Lepsämä and after that came a big curve, as I turned right from somewhere that had a fournumbered road, that looked nice. A quick stop near Kiljava and then allmoust straight line to Hyvinkää ABC for a lunch.
At the end of our lunch we phoned Punajuuri (about 2.30 pm) and we told her that we would be in Inkoo after about 1 and a half hour. At the same time Punajuuri told us things from the course, that were not so nice to hear. There were no head of course, no one organized things there and so on. So, we were a bit sad for Punajuuri, because it wasn't her fault at all. She was asked to go there to handle some things that our troop leaders had promised. Both of them had some other stuff this weekend and because they had promised that our troop would handle a couple of things, someone had to go there. Funny, because in the spring, in some meeting we had talked about this and we came to conclusion that no-one promises anything on behalf of our troop.
So, we continued our journey. From Hyvinkää ABC to west, as finaly we got to Vihtijärvi, where we had a pause. After that to Vihti, Lohja and to Inkoo and only about a 25 kilometers of this was a road that had less than 4 numbers. We were at the Kavalahti some minutes after 6 pm, so our timetable had gone a bit wrong this time. But, we found great roads.
We headed back home around 10 pm, when it was dark allready. In the meantime there happened some strange thigs, that I woun't start opening here, if someone likes to know why my respect towards Järeä is going down all the time, feel free to ask.
]]>I was watching TV, when I started to wonder why there were so much flashes behind our livingroom window. I got to the balcony and I was just amazed about the view. Satku was allready sleaping in our bedroom, but I just had to go and wake her up to see the thunderstorm closing up.
Other images that I took about the thunder can be found here.
I was watching TV, when I started to wonder why there were so much flashes behind our livingroom window. I got to the balcony and I was just amazed about the view. Satku was allready sleaping in our bedroom, but I just had to go and wake her up to see the thunderstorm closing up.
Other images that I took about the thunder can be found here.
At the moment we are at Heathrow airport, waiting for an gate announcement. The camp was over for us on thursday and after that we got to London for a quick three night holiday. So, a lot has happened since last blog-post, but I'll get back to that later on. Now there is only one thing in my mind... getting back home after nearly three weeks of camping and touring.
]]>At the moment we are at Heathrow airport, waiting for an gate announcement. The camp was over for us on thursday and after that we got to London for a quick three night holiday. So, a lot has happened since last blog-post, but I'll get back to that later on. Now there is only one thing in my mind... getting back home after nearly three weeks of camping and touring.
]]>NHQ is goign down at quite a good speed, people here are talking that they can lay down whole tomorrow. I think not, there is still lot to do at Kuksa.
]]>NHQ is goign down at quite a good speed, people here are talking that they can lay down whole tomorrow. I think not, there is still lot to do at Kuksa.
]]>Last night was pretty hectic, I stayd up until about 2 am. Besides adult hub's toilets there have been finns having good time for the last 4 or 5 nights and usualy there have been 3 to 5 people, but last night there were a lot of us finns. Other people just walked by and a couple of times we heard them saying that they should have quessed that the noisy people there are finns. "Ah, crazy people those finns."
The bad thing about staying up so late was that we had our Kuksa-staff photo taken today at 7:30 am. So now I'm feeling realy tired and I know that I won't be able to sleep at the following night. I have to be at Kuksa all night receiving finnish contingents stuffs, as they get things packed. Well, sleeping is overrated.
]]>Last night was pretty hectic, I stayd up until about 2 am. Besides adult hub's toilets there have been finns having good time for the last 4 or 5 nights and usualy there have been 3 to 5 people, but last night there were a lot of us finns. Other people just walked by and a couple of times we heard them saying that they should have quessed that the noisy people there are finns. "Ah, crazy people those finns."
The bad thing about staying up so late was that we had our Kuksa-staff photo taken today at 7:30 am. So now I'm feeling realy tired and I know that I won't be able to sleep at the following night. I have to be at Kuksa all night receiving finnish contingents stuffs, as they get things packed. Well, sleeping is overrated.
]]>Planning for the tearing whole camp apart is today's word. Where-ever I go here, I hear someone speaking about how these tents and other stuff is going down after couple days. Finn's seem to have everything under control, but for example the swiss and germany doesn't know anything about how they are going to get their stuffs out from the campsite. Well, let's hope they get all sorted out.
Now of to get our towels and swimmingsuits from adult hub and back here to see finn-swiss hockey match and after that to sauna.
]]>Planning for the tearing whole camp apart is today's word. Where-ever I go here, I hear someone speaking about how these tents and other stuff is going down after couple days. Finn's seem to have everything under control, but for example the swiss and germany doesn't know anything about how they are going to get their stuffs out from the campsite. Well, let's hope they get all sorted out.
Now of to get our towels and swimmingsuits from adult hub and back here to see finn-swiss hockey match and after that to sauna.
]]>We had pretty nice touring, about one thirth of the NHQ's here at the World Scout Center. Learned a lot about scouting in other countries, mostly in form of how the scouting has been organized. Most of the country's had two or three top-level organizations, when we have only one in Finland. The biggest differance seems to be in religions, in Finland we are quite open with other religions in same organzations, when for example in slovenia there are 3 top-level organzations and the only differance seemed to be te religion. A bit strange, I have to say.
Today we also heard a quite good joke from the national teamleaders meeting. There are some teams that have been complaining about the airtrafic over the campsite and those teams asked the Jamboree organization to do something about it, as it is so dangerous. As if. Well, the organzation had talked to local officers and they agreed that there is no danger. Again, unbelievable, as if the organization could somehow make the campsite as an restriced airspace. Why the teamleaders wont think about the story I wrote about earlier today.
]]>We had pretty nice touring, about one thirth of the NHQ's here at the World Scout Center. Learned a lot about scouting in other countries, mostly in form of how the scouting has been organized. Most of the country's had two or three top-level organizations, when we have only one in Finland. The biggest differance seems to be in religions, in Finland we are quite open with other religions in same organzations, when for example in slovenia there are 3 top-level organzations and the only differance seemed to be te religion. A bit strange, I have to say.
Today we also heard a quite good joke from the national teamleaders meeting. There are some teams that have been complaining about the airtrafic over the campsite and those teams asked the Jamboree organization to do something about it, as it is so dangerous. As if. Well, the organzation had talked to local officers and they agreed that there is no danger. Again, unbelievable, as if the organization could somehow make the campsite as an restriced airspace. Why the teamleaders wont think about the story I wrote about earlier today.
]]>Satku is makeing today's Jampost, the finnish newspaper here at the Jamboree. After that we are qoing to tour the camp a bit, as it is a day off for me.
About an hour ago I heard a realy strange story about how thing work here. When we got to the camparea, there were some child protection trainings, where we learned that we aren't allowed to touch anyone under 18. Fair enough, we tought, this is somehow reasonable warning when there is 158 nations represented. But today story went straight over my head. One participant, 16 years old was having 38.5 degrees celcius fewer and she couldn't walk, 'cos she was so tired and feeling sick. So, leaders in her's troop desided to get her to hospital amd the leader of the pack (ovet 18 years old) took her on his back to carry. As they got to the hospital, the leader got a lot of shouting on him, as he hadn't obeyed the rules by touching the participant by carrying her. After that the participant had to manage on her own forward to the examination room. Unbelievable! This kind of a rules wouldn't come even as an idea in Finland, in fact if you wouldn't help your fellow people, you would be sued for not helping.
]]>Satku is makeing today's Jampost, the finnish newspaper here at the Jamboree. After that we are qoing to tour the camp a bit, as it is a day off for me.
About an hour ago I heard a realy strange story about how thing work here. When we got to the camparea, there were some child protection trainings, where we learned that we aren't allowed to touch anyone under 18. Fair enough, we tought, this is somehow reasonable warning when there is 158 nations represented. But today story went straight over my head. One participant, 16 years old was having 38.5 degrees celcius fewer and she couldn't walk, 'cos she was so tired and feeling sick. So, leaders in her's troop desided to get her to hospital amd the leader of the pack (ovet 18 years old) took her on his back to carry. As they got to the hospital, the leader got a lot of shouting on him, as he hadn't obeyed the rules by touching the participant by carrying her. After that the participant had to manage on her own forward to the examination room. Unbelievable! This kind of a rules wouldn't come even as an idea in Finland, in fact if you wouldn't help your fellow people, you would be sued for not helping.
]]>As soon as people had cleaned the cafe, we rearranged the tables in circlem so everybody could see eachother. There were some small-talk going on, but unfortunately most of the people were too tired to have some nice free time with the people they are working with daily.
Finaly, when all if the kitchen had finished their work and joined the rest of us, those who are in charge of the cafe (staabi) started to tell us the story that made cafe Kuksa what it is today. It was pretty nice to hear how the members of staabi started the project and got to know eachothers along the planning. As the story went on, we had some ham-pie to eat. Also we heard that current day was the best in selling and we had doubled the selling compared to the goal.
Along the staabi's presentation we got a lot of thanks of how we had done a great work and how they would like to work with us in the future. We all got invited to make cafe Kuksa for the next Jamboree, that will be held in Sweden 2011.
At the end of the 'party', we got ourselves quite unique T-shirts, a slim fitt Finnish contincent's shirts, that had a bit different color rhan the real ones. After that we all started to head to the adult hub for some sweet dreams
As I got to the hub and to my tent, I founded some finns having a good time for themselves besides the toilets. I hanged with them for a while before heading to my own sleeping bag. I have to say that we finns know how to make a lot of noice at nights, when all the others are sleeping.
]]>As soon as people had cleaned the cafe, we rearranged the tables in circlem so everybody could see eachother. There were some small-talk going on, but unfortunately most of the people were too tired to have some nice free time with the people they are working with daily.
Finaly, when all if the kitchen had finished their work and joined the rest of us, those who are in charge of the cafe (staabi) started to tell us the story that made cafe Kuksa what it is today. It was pretty nice to hear how the members of staabi started the project and got to know eachothers along the planning. As the story went on, we had some ham-pie to eat. Also we heard that current day was the best in selling and we had doubled the selling compared to the goal.
Along the staabi's presentation we got a lot of thanks of how we had done a great work and how they would like to work with us in the future. We all got invited to make cafe Kuksa for the next Jamboree, that will be held in Sweden 2011.
At the end of the 'party', we got ourselves quite unique T-shirts, a slim fitt Finnish contincent's shirts, that had a bit different color rhan the real ones. After that we all started to head to the adult hub for some sweet dreams
As I got to the hub and to my tent, I founded some finns having a good time for themselves besides the toilets. I hanged with them for a while before heading to my own sleeping bag. I have to say that we finns know how to make a lot of noice at nights, when all the others are sleeping.
]]>Been strugling with the internet for couple hours, once again all connections were down.
I managed to do everything that was on my to-do list for today, luckily. The open source session was a bit of a disapointment, it was targeted only for the newcomers and actualy most of the people there were just hanging out and trying to hack those ubuntu's. Luckily I talked a bit with those 2 quys from IBM and allmost managed to get them by a N800 for themselves.
]]>Been strugling with the internet for couple hours, once again all connections were down.
I managed to do everything that was on my to-do list for today, luckily. The open source session was a bit of a disapointment, it was targeted only for the newcomers and actualy most of the people there were just hanging out and trying to hack those ubuntu's. Luckily I talked a bit with those 2 quys from IBM and allmost managed to get them by a N800 for themselves.
]]>I have to be at work from 4 to 9 pm today and I should go ti shower before that. Also there is some Open Source presentation by IBM 2 pm, that I would like to attend. Hopefully I manage to do all this today.
]]>I have to be at work from 4 to 9 pm today and I should go ti shower before that. Also there is some Open Source presentation by IBM 2 pm, that I would like to attend. Hopefully I manage to do all this today.
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