Journeying » Helsinki

Summer, summer, summer

KJ Lim — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:52:22 +0000

It is summer now. The length of the day is 19 hours and increasing. Pretty of sunlight for outdoor activities or reading in the evening under evening sun. Please stay longer, summer.

Walking on the frozen sea

KJ Lim — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:44:37 +0000

I have the thought to walk on the frozen sea for years, but, I was lazy. Finally, I made it on last weekend. It was a sunny day, but, so windy when I walked on the frozen sea together with my wife. Sharing several photos I snapped during our walk.

TechTags Plugin [ Winter | frozen sea | snow | walking ]

May day celebration

KJ Lim — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:46:12 +0000

Celebration for 1st of May is a bit different here. During the eve, students will gathered in city centre in late afternoon. At 6:00p.m. present or previous graduated students will put their white hat on for the whole evening and also 1st of May. You will see many students and families picnic or partying in parks to celebrate the May Day or Vappu in Finnish. Friend of mine was a bit surprised with this kind of celebration. The event celebration is more like a family activity day. Yes, it is indeed.

We have a bring-a-dish Vappu eve brunch on last Friday noon. I volunteered myself to prepare Malaysian satay (A-Jin’s version, supervised by my wife) for my colleagues. I received many great feedback from my colleagues regarding my satay, haha. I’m glad they like it.

On 1st of May, we have BBQ in the nature reserve park, Arboretum together with our friends here. The park is also a good for bird lovers. There are two birdwatching and viewpoints towers which you could enjoy the scene and also appreciate the natural. Many locals are here for birds watching.

A bit pity was, the weather was windy, shower and cloudy. If the May day weekend will be good for outdoor activities.

TechTags Plugin [ May day | Vappu | Nature | bird watching ]

Snow scene 02

KJ Lim — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:28:28 +0000

Weather of last week was freezing cold. It was -16 to 18°C during weekdays and -20°C during weekend. Yet, after foggy evening in last weekend, branches of trees are cover with a layer of snow make an amazing beautiful snow scenery. Local say this scenery is rare and it might happened once in decade. Sharing with you the scenery.

TechTags Plugin [ snow scenery | foggy day | trees ]

Snow scene

KJ Lim — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:29:41 +0000

December 2008 was the coolest December here since last recorded in 2002. The heavy snowfall since December 2008 made the neighbourhood looks white on the ground and remaining until now. Snow still fall every now and then, the weather is below zero from last December and believe will remains for the whole Winter. When the sun shines, the snow scene is really beautiful to enjoy. Sharing some pictures I have taken with all of you. Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

KJ Lim — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:18:10 +0000

Wishing all of you Merry Christmas and a happy new year. May your dreams come true and healthy life! Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta voutta!

TechTags Plugin [ Merry Christmas | Happy new year | Hyvää joulua | onnellista uutta voutta ]

Feeding birds

KJ Lim — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:44:55 +0000

I decided to feed birds around neighbourhood at our balcony. It is fun and nice to watch them come for the food. So far, great tit is the “frequent visitor”.

Later, I learned from my former and current colleagues, when birds familiarized to a certain feeding location they aren’t really able to find a new location if the feeding is discontinued during Winter. Ah…I sensed the commitment! Okay, okay, I will continue to feed them along the Winter.

[techtags; bird feeding, great tit, winter]

Moved to new county 02

KJ Lim — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:18:10 +0000

Just like last time, we need to setup our apartment. The layout of our current apartment in Helsinki is a bit strange to me but my wife like it. She said it looks like a family house layout to her.

For our flat decoration this time, I have my paintings and seal carving works flamed and put them on the walls. Yes, I brought them all the way from Malaysia to here during our last trip back to Malaysia in June.

TechTags Plugin [ busy | new flat | moving ]

Moved to new county 01

KJ Lim — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:29:32 +0000

In May, I started travel between two counties daily with train which daily life my wife already had for 15months. I saluted her patient for this. After I join her path, we decided we should move to somewhere a bit nearby because the traveling expensive for both of us in this way is too expensive. Therefore, it is wise to move from current county to another county.

In July, we got the offer for apartment in Helsinki and we moved. House moving is a painful job especially you move to somewhere 200km away from your current residence, Turku. We would like to express our heartiest appreciation to our friends in Turku for their help during our house moving. Without them, it is a mission impossible.

TechTags Plugin [ busy | new flat | moving ]

RM50 per month broadband service

KJ Lim — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:18:33 +0000

I just learned actually we are using 10Mbps/10Mbps broadband here and the fee is about RM50 per month.