On Saturday (28.06.2008), my wife and I visited the Medieval market here. I missed twice the Medieval market (normally in the end of June or beginning of July) here. Luckily, I don’t miss it this year. (more…)

Time really flies, it is Summer now. During the last summer, I went to Särkänniemi amusement park in Tampere together with Malaysian friend and his family here. No, I don’t try roller coaster there becuase (more…)

Both of us like this Taiwan TV programme ~ 超級星光大道 One Million Star maybe you notice a familiar name appears in the list after the programme. We following every episode since the second season. Now is the third season, I myself is impressed by this participant.

Maybe you could have a look on these video clips uploaded on YouTube. She creates the song by herself and deliver them in this One Million Star contest. (more…)

My wife celebrated her birthday in Turku for the first times in her life. It just a simple celebration, no birthday party was organised, no friends were invited, just two of us. We went to Red Hot Chilis restaurant for Mexican food on Saturday afternoon. On the her birthday, I bought her a cake and prepared a slightly different dinner compare with what we used to have daily.

My wife said,

Several surprises have been received unexpectedly from my boss, KJ and friends in Malaysia. Hope that birthday is just like a day you can receive presents but needless to count your age.

Curious about the food? Have a look on photos. (more…)

Heavy snowstorm in Southern and Central Finland. The wind is about 10m/s in Turku and snowing from morning until now (late afternoon). Many snowdrifts were formed due to high winds. In certain area is expected to have up to 25cm snow. (more…)

During lunch, my colleague just shared this tradition with me. To be frank, I have never heard this before. Maybe I have not read enough

2008 is leap year, and Friday February 29th is leap day.

Throughout western Europe leap day is something of a topsy-turvy day when pranks are played.

In many countries, leap day has traditionally been a day when women may seize the initiative - and propose marriage. Finnish custom has its own adaptation of leap day marriage proposals — should the man turn down the woman’s proposal, custom dictates he must buy his suitor cloth for sewing a skirt.

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I was at Levi (about 170km from Rovaniemi) in Lapland for a seminar on the last few days. What around me was snow, snow and snow. I was lucky enough to see the Northern lights on Tuesday night. Ya, I managed to take photos of the Northern lights and also other views around.

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如果这世界上有两种永远不能相遇的人，那肯定是白天与黑夜。 隐约记得曾经有人说过这么一句话。

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Some pictures about food we had tried to prepare for ourselves here.
Of course, it is “home made” (more…)

I received my Targus backpack replacement case today. Thumbs up to Targus customer service (Europe).

I was given a Targus urban series backpack for my purchase of NEC Versa S3200 laptop. I have one Targus backpack before and still using it. So far, I have no complaint about my previous Targus backpack. However, this one was a bit disappointed me.

I used it for less than a month, then, several defects were discovered. Therefore, I took photos and wrote to Targus customer support (Europe) an e-mail about these problems. Guess what kind of feedback I received from Targus customer support (Europe).

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