I'm making an entry to try to keep myself awake. I've gotten too little sleep this week and I'm going to fall asleep, if I lie down somewhere. Anyway, I uploaded a couple of photos that I took a while ago (October 1). I think that they're kinda cool. At least it's a rare sight from the main railway station in Helsinki, because the street lights ( Read more... )

My life does involve other things beside studying Japanese. I just write about it more than of other things so the picture that my blog paints is that all of my time goes to either studying Japanese of whining about how difficult and awful studying Japanese is. So today I'll write about the other things that I've been doing besides that thing, ( Read more... )

In Finnish. Eilen oli ohjelmassa japanilaisen taidemusiikin kuuntelua Kazehana-konsertissa Sibelius-akatemialla. Mua kiinnosti pääasiassa kuulla koton soittoa ja oli mielenkiintoista nähdä miten niitä käytännössä soitettiin. Se ei näyttänyt mitenkään helpolta. Oikealla kädellä näppäiltiin ja vasemmalla painettiin kieliä alaspäin välillä muuttaen ( Read more... )

I was listening to Ryöksopp's Eple yesterday when I stumbled upon a mention of it in an old entry of mine from a year or two ago. (One of these days I'm going to gather all the "Current music" songs from my journal into a single file because they hold a lot of forgotten gems.) Then this morning I heard Nydi playing an interesting song which turned ( Read more... )

I went to donate blood today wit MM at Kivihaka. It was my second time. It went okey, I was just really wiped out afterwards for many hours. I guess that that's just part of the deal ( Read more... )

Busy days. We had this Japan theme day on Monday that our student organization organized. I was helping with the cooking there. About 40 people showed up. The menu consisted of miso soup, this sushi that you rolled yourself (forgot the name), gyouza and yakisoba. Everything was good, but the gyouza was the best. I hadn't eaten it before. I might ( Read more... )

I had a strange thought last night, even by my standards. I haven't completely lost my mind, so fear not. I was thinking about how I focus on observing the world and trying to understand life. That led to a thought about how the party observing people are often aliens in science fiction, which led to a thought along these lines: "What if I'm an ( Read more... )

( Lotsa studying yesterday )

Huisin masseeta ja hilpakkaa synttäriä H_a_k_ulle! :DWell on Sunday I was at the Japan Day over at Annantalo. I've meant to go there for the past 4-5 years, but there's always been something else or I've been out of the country so this was my first time at the event and it so happened that I was at our Institute's student organization's stand there ( Read more... )

I'm in a bit of a bind concerning tomorrow. I also have a kinda stupid and a bit funny story to tell you but I'll get to that later on. I was supposed to work on my homework today but I was just so tired after I was done with other stuff that I never got to it. The good fanfic that I was reading might have something to do with it as well, but I ( Read more... )