Firts adversity in KB-training

In training today while getting warm my left shoulder just popped out while punching air. I'd say it was semi-dislocated shoulder since it went back "in" after 15 seconds or so..

It really scared me since last time this happened 2 years ago I was wrestling and after that incident I couldn't even lift my arm for 3 weeks. Luckily the shoulder feels semi-OK and I think I can keep on training.

Loose joints and martial arts aren't that good combination. Hopefully this was the biggest incident I'll face since I don't have time to be injured.

ParisH. is so brave

This is just hilarious!

Truth about TV (according to internet)

Democracy by force. Does it exist?

Just started thinking.. How many countries do you know that have implemented democracy successfully to their country because someone told them or forced them to do so..

I can't think of that many. Hongkong(?) and some other countries that Europe used to rule back in the days. So would it be wiser to let these countries that haven't yet 'joined' us to do it by themselves. Slightly helping them in a form of some nice little prices but nothing more.

What happened to our patience. We're thinking everything in quarters (or what ever the stock term is) and if there is no progress something has to be done.

I don't know, I was just thinking.

Smoking inside car is SOOO this season!

Our society is like a man who is smoking in his brand new car. He likes to keep the car clean. When smoking the man keeps one window just slightly open so that the smoke clears out because of the draft and shakes the ash of the cigarette outside as well. Finally he throws the fag-end out of the window. Out of sight, out of mind.

If you ever meet a person who smokes and uses the ashtray of his/her car you know he/she is a good person! Observe the next time someone smokes inside his/her car. I bet 10 euros he does what I just wrote.

We should start using our ashtrays to realize that those things get full someday. The question is: What do you do then? Or is it already full?

Stand up marketing I mean comedy

What makes it even funnier is that it's all true :P


Without adds people might actually think what they need. Now someone else is telling you what to buy and you're buying it! Don't say that it's not true because you are wrong. I tell you you need socks that have 5 little holes for each toe and then you go and buy them. You didn't need them but you bought them.

Bush. This time in Australia.

Australia's long-serving prime minister was hosting Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Sydney.

Background info: Party elections expected before the end of the year. Party of the PM is trailing behind by as much as 18 points.

Ok, This is where Bush comes in:
BUSH: Hi there! (I made this comment up)
Bush thanked the PM for being a fine host of the "OPEC summit" (not APEC) and referred to "Austrian troops" (not Australian troops) in Iraq.

All that didn't really help PM or his party to become more popular.

So if you are the leader of your country. Don't invite Bush to your country. It's not worth the while. He will probably just start a revolution.

Bushism of the day.. I'm getting bored with these

I mean really that guy just keeps on saying stupid stuff. There's no end to it! Come to think of it, this might be part of his tactics. The more stupid stuff he says the less meaningful those statements become.

Do you know what is the Best advice for a famous Hollywood celebrities to bore paparazzis?
- Wear same clothes every day! It really works!
The paparazzis can't sell their photos to magazines because the famous person looks the same in every photo.

Bush is doing the same thing. after 100 stupid statements his comments start to feel boring.. But boy where the first 100 statements pure GOLD!!!

After each of these videos I have to pinch myself to see if I still exist.. or is this all just a weird dream.

Fame does funny things to a person. I hope I wont ever be famous. (A reporter from local newspaper just left my flat and I'm going to be on newspaper!!! Me famous!!! You NOT!!!) hahahahahahahaha!!! (this is called the Finnish black humour by the way, but still I'm going to be on a newspaper!!!)

Yes-man part 3. New challenge!

I've been postponing this challenge for quiet a while.. but today a friend of mine from kickboxing who trains with the national team told me I should try a match of kickboxing. Then he told there is a kickboxing night at the end of October in Oulu, north of Finland.

That's six weeks from now and in kickboxing that's nothing but he convinced me it's enough to prepare. Well, tonight in training our coach showed me the green light so here we go..

6 weeks of no alcohol and 6 days per week hard training.. I know I'm going to regret this.....not!

Compared to Bull running this is a bit different since there is no place to hide and I'm definitely going to get hit, big time. BUT hopefully the other guy gets hit more.

Ok, it's a bit stupid to write about this but this blog entry is only for me. Now that I've told this to the "whole world" there is no turning back.

PS. this totally screws my half a year project to gain weight up to 70kg since my match will be at the 63,5 kg category. Now I'm at 66,5kg. 3kg/6weeks=0,5kg/week. Should be interesting since I'm still eating like crazy.

Intresting challenge

Would you do this?
This guy did it

1 month and going strong...

It's been now over month without TV and still going strong. Well I saw little bit of Champion League trough Internet. It's the fault of the damn Finnish Broadcasting Company that allows you to watch many of their TV programs from Internet, like live football f.ex.

To be honest with you I haven't really missed that apparatus. I've been so busy with everything else. Lots of things are changing and I've never been happier, confused and busy in my life. But I'm liking it! I feel like something is happening. Let's see if I feel the same way when the year is changing or am I missing my TV and everything else it represents.

Unofficial Simpsons intro

Armeijaa aidoimmillaan

Vaikka en mikään armeijan ylin ystävä ole niin voin kyllä jo sanoa että tuossa on sellaisia vässyköitä ettei ole järkee. Älkää näyttäkö tätä venäläisille tai ne tulee rajan yli jo huomenna.Video Suomen korpisotureista

Perfect weekend

Photos of the weekend

What do you get when you combine: lake, summer cottage, good friends and 1000 euros worth of food and drinks… Perfect weekend!

This Monday is a bit shaky but that's life!

FUCK POST!

I was hard on Spanish postal service in my last blog but they sure as hell know how to screw things up in Finland as well! Sorry Spain. I take it all back!

Post just wants to divert all my mail to my fathers address even if they have my new address. So far, all my bills, important insurance papers, 5kg of HUPELLUS posters, all my social service papers, etc.. actually all my mail. It didn't help that I visited city administrative court, Post Office, city administrative court, wrote them e-mail... Nobody can do nothing. The woman in city administrative court said I'm not the first one..
FUCK POSTAL OFFICE! If I one day start a underground guerrilla movement it's sole purpose is to blow up all the postal offices of earth. E-mail me to join the movement.

Until that day, PEACE! This rat is leaving the boat just as soon as the opportunity rises. The boat is sinking, and it's sinking fast. Thank god that I can see land in the horizon. Now one bottle of vodka to help me forget these last 2 awful days.

OK OK OK. Post isn't LUCIFER and what really pisses me of is the fact that I've wasted 2 days of my life for absolutely nothing! Time is valuable in Finland! Shit, I've turned back into a bitching Finn...! It seems it's not enough to live in Spain for one year to get totally rid of hectic lifestyle... It's not "Fuck POST!" it's "FUCK THIS COUNTRY AND LIFESTYLE!" I don't want to turn back to the old me..shit shit shit. Next september 11th I'm going to blow the smoke of this joint and then Nomad will be heading south. 363 days to go (I reserve the right to change the date of departure by +-1 month.)

Eating is hard work

Who would have guessed that eating healthy was so much hard WORK, yes work.
Here is my normal eating rhythm for one day:

Breakfast at 7:15 a.m
• porridge and some blueberries, no sugar
• 2 slices of rye bread (optional, depends of the day)
• cup of tea
• glass of homemade juice
For this I have 20 minutes to shovel it down the throat.
Things to remember: don't eat too fast, don't burn your tongue with tea.

Lunch at 11:30 a.m
• usually some meat and pasta (as much as the plate takes without huge spills)
• glass of sour milk
• glass of water
• Salad (as much as the plate takes)
• 2 slices of rye bread (this is dark bread)
For this I have about 30-40 minutes, depends of the patients of my friends. I try to eat slow which I learned in Spain. Finns eat way too fast their food!!!

Dinner at 4:00 p.m
• Usually some pasta, lasagñe or rise with cow's meat (not pig's meat!) or chicken or some soya.
• few slices of rye bread with cheese and ham and tomatoes (depends of the price).
• big glass of homemade juice
• no salad (don't like making salads)

Snack 6:00 p.m (depends if I'm hungry)
• Bread or fruits


9:30p.m Recovery shake-drink (right after kickboxing, I need the protein)


Evening snack 10p.m
• 2 dl of muesli + 1/2 dl of raw soya soaked in milk. Then some yogurt + banana +blueberries (if I have plenty of them)
• big glass of juice


That's my normal weekly diet almost everyday. Weekends I don't eat that much because usually I don't use that much energy.

While writing this entry I ate 2 slices of bread, banana and an apple and half a liter of juice. Full!

With this diet I aiming to increase my weight with 5 kg by the end of the year. I'm telling you, it's hard work this eating business! I'm sorry all you who are trying to loose weight, no sympathy here. Well maybe little but for me it's easier not to eat than to eat plenty.

Super Mario on autopilot

Respect for the man who made this level!

The Only Mario Level That Plays Itself - Watch more free videos

And here is a Mario poster I made few weeks ago. I think I'll do some changes to it..

Talking with a stranger

There are 2 possibilities how a conversation goes if a stranger starts it with you:

1. Good morning!/hello! (and a smile if it's a woman).
2. Complaining complaining and some more complaining (usually when it's some bittered old b***h).

hurry hurry!!

and hurry some more. Train must be one of the best places to get your pulse going for now particular reason.
*PLING*
"Next stop Kuopio" says the woman voice from the speakers.

People start running for the door and putting their stuff together like they have 2 minutes to get out of the train or they'll die.

The funniest incidents happen when the door doesn't open. First they try to open the door calmly, then by shaking it back and forth, then by kicking it and finally almost crying.. And it's not just the old folks. Those reactions are universal. Once it happened and the door really didn't open so when I was the last person of the queue I turned around and started slowly walking towards the next exit. People started panicking behind me and I was enjoying every single second.

In general first it's the elderly folks that want to get out. They are behind the exit door even before the announcement comes from the speakers. They worry the most. I wonder how much their blood pressure rises just from the thought that they might miss the stop (I bet they think of it every single time!)? After the old folks it's all random, women, children, men, couples... then it's me.

I'd say I'm pretty "cool" when it comes to leaving trains. I've never missed my stop because I was too slow to walk out. STILL I get this funny feeling in my stomach if something in my 'leaving the train' routines doesn't go right, like my shoe laces are open and I have to spend 20 seconds to tie them. My pulse rises and I get worried for a short period of time. I want to get rid of that feeling because it happens in other situations as well. Spanish people don't have that feeling, but then again maybe that is the reason why they are always late...

Still people panicking in trains never ceases to amuse me.

Voice of the world

Great video on youtube. of a bird that could very well be an ambassador for us with aliens if we meet them one day.. (the video can't be embedded.)

Refugees in Finland

Immigration policies in Finland have not changed in the last 100 years or so. Next year we are taking 750 regufees.
Asking about this from our immigration minister Astrid Thors she tells she wanted to take, imagine, 1000 refugees!!!! WOWOWOWWWW!!! 250 more than normally but sadly she didn't get her way. She also said that Finland does take a little less refugees than Norway and Sweden. No shit, Sweden has at the moment over 100 000 (if I recall correctly) refugees from Iraq for example.

That woman is a donkeys ass! Just like our policies that deal with refugees!

Study graphic design..

..And spend more time writing reports than doing creative work. I'm not kidding. I should be doing creative stuff but I'm stuck for hours trying to write bullshit, 5-8 pages to be exact. I understand that they don't want me to forget Finnish language and I have to know how to write reports for the rest of my life but it's just something I don't like doing. Writing the first few pages is Ok but after that you just have to start repeating the same stuff over and over again and finally make a short conclusion that binds it all together.

(Wait just a minute! This all sounds somehow familiar... YES of course, back in high school we wrote hundreds of essays during the courses and at the final examen, and they all had the same pattern: Write something good at the beginning and then 300 words of bullshit and after that something smart for the teacher so he/she thinks you know what you are writing about. Everybody wants you to write a report but nobody wants to read it properly. I could compare it to life but I wont involve life in this blog entry ;p )

Anyways

I'll give you an example: Few years ago we had to make new book covers for any book we wanted. I did these covers of a war book:
Back & Front cover

Then we had to write an essay why we chose that book and why we used certain color and then some analyzing, etc.. AAARGHHHH!!!

Finally at the end of the course we got the notes and the teacher gave me 3/5 of the whole course. I don't give a rats ass about the notes but I'm always interested of where it comes from. This particular work was OK according to my teacher but I failed to explain why I had used the color green and what did the gun and the hand symbolize. She also didn't like the fact that text in the back of the book was missing, as well as the price. The instructions said you don't have to put any of the original texts etc. Only the design count.. Well obviously it wasn't the case with me.

At the moment we're designing a marketing campaign on some subject that we drew out of a hat (literally). I got skin care product. Immediately I got a great idea for some face-cream for teenagers. The problem is that that is not how this assignment should be done. First we should analyze the markets, make plans for budgets, choose which medias to use etc. and only then start thinking of an idea. Oh and of course before you get to do any work you have to write marketing plan, briefing for the teacher and few other documents. By the time you get to do something creative the course is almost over and you just have to make something really quick!

I understand that this is how the real world works but still now we are climbing to the tree with our asses first. If you have an idea first like I did with this skin care product you then have to build the whole product over the idea. Not the other way around like in real world where you have a product and it needs a innovative solution.

Is it my fault that I get ideas before I've managed to write 20 pages of reports?! HELL NO, this time the school is doing something wrong, not me! That is my statement and I will hold on to it! You can only get it from my cold dead hand!

(And yes, in that last sentence I refer to earlier parts of the writing like they teached me to do in school. You know the book cover.. Ok if you still didn't get it. I'm like the dead soldier and the gun is my opinion.. symbolism..)

Daft Hands

Great video and more than that a great idea!



Other recommendation:
Daft Punk is one of my favorite artists and their music/animation movie Interstella 5555 is awesome. You just have to "purchase" it!

Sicko *****

I've been postponing to see the new Michael Moore movie Sicko because his movies always make me furious or sad. Now I finally saw it on my way back from west coast and I have to say it's his best movie yet. It's even more touching than his previous movies and it does make you think of stuff.

I mean I'm not going to start analyzing the movie or tell about it. At first I tried writing about the movie for about 10 minutes. I gave up because I'm not really that good of a writer to tell you well enough what the movie is all about. It sure as hell is not just about health care and bad insurances!

Skip the new Die Hard (it's awful) and see a movie that actually requires you to use your own brain for a change. Trust me it's good.