...I do too seldom. I think it would be good to do always when you are feeling disoriented and your head is filled with too much noise. This Sunday I've been just chilling out, watching movies, doing some tibetan rites (affects mainly the middle-body deep muscles) and YES, meditating. Although I did not meditate for any longer that 25 minutes, I felt the effect. My head is now clear, I feel very calm and relaxed. Meditation, for me, is a good way to a) figure out the things that are on your mind and b) to relax. What comes to a) is evident in the first minutes of the process. When you concentrate on e.g. your own breathing and try to keep it at that, thoughts pop into your mind. Sometimes more, sometimes less. This time there were a lot. I found it hard to keep focus. Every time the thought pops in, I try to think it as something I accept as being my thought, let it pass away and concentrate again on my breathing. At some point the noise lessens to a point, where you are ready to proceed to calm yourself through imagining certain things that affect your chakras. For a long time I have not received as immense sense of tranquility as I did just now. My head became light, my breathing was slow, weight dropped from my chest and stomach. I was for a while in a flow state (or so I like to call it). After doing this for some while I ended the meditation. My feet were killing me (lotus position is not good for my knees), but I was calm. Now I'm though again feeling the weight coming back.. but it was fun while it lasted.
Yeah, and my mun sent me a package of food, some organic dry rye bread, john west tuna, salami-rod and some dark chocolate <3. They were eaten today with great passion and lust. Thank you!
sunnuntai 29. marraskuuta 2009
lauantai 28. marraskuuta 2009
Mid-term exams completed
Dear all!
I managed to miss out Armin van Buuren's DJ-gig, and now I'm bu gaoxing (if u don't know Chinese you may guess what it means). But, yesterday we were celebrating the ending of our mid-term exams, which were held on Thursday and Friday. We were just hanging out at Helen's and having whiskey in various forms, plus some shisha (it's gooood stuff :). The people present were: I, Silja, Ruslan, Antti (had to leave to another party quite early though), Nick, Natalie, Russell, Jaan, Marit, Thai, Ben, David, Wilson. Ruslan, again, was not supposed to get intoxicated but to my unsurprise did. No surprise, because Russell, a generous American guy, did offer us intoxicants. With Natalie we were taking lot of photos and having some good time :). With Jaan we drank some whiskey to celebrate the ending of the exams. Thai, Ben, David, Wilson are my classmates - they also honoured us with their presence.
The mid-term exams were composed of three parts: writing, listening and "kou yu" (spoken). For me - totally paradoxically - the easest bit was listening, because I never understand a word the Chinese people are talking to me. I can only express myself but am unable to receive Chinese sentences in any understandable form. The listening test was composed of several parts. For example, in one part one had to mark correct tones for the pinyin (Chinese written with these western letters) by listening the word being said from the tape. Tones - the cornerstone of the Chinese language - are in most cases quite easy to recognize. In the written test we filled out dialogues with proper questions and replies, wrote about what we are gonna do on the next weekend and how is the weather in the place X. Unfortunately I could not recall how to write Finland in Chinese, so I ended up writing of the weather of Beijing. The oral test was so utterly terrifying that I don't even want to think about it anymore. 4 parts: retell a dialogue you just read in your own words, read couple of sentences off a paper, talk about the topic that is written in your paper (mine was how has my Chinese improved during my stay in Beijing) and then she asked a few basic questions, for which I answered with some mumbling. Glad that's over...
Next week is going to be short in terms of studying, because on Thursday morning I, Silja and Jani are going to go airborne, heading for South Korea's capital Seoul.
Finally, some pics from yesterday evening:
I managed to miss out Armin van Buuren's DJ-gig, and now I'm bu gaoxing (if u don't know Chinese you may guess what it means). But, yesterday we were celebrating the ending of our mid-term exams, which were held on Thursday and Friday. We were just hanging out at Helen's and having whiskey in various forms, plus some shisha (it's gooood stuff :). The people present were: I, Silja, Ruslan, Antti (had to leave to another party quite early though), Nick, Natalie, Russell, Jaan, Marit, Thai, Ben, David, Wilson. Ruslan, again, was not supposed to get intoxicated but to my unsurprise did. No surprise, because Russell, a generous American guy, did offer us intoxicants. With Natalie we were taking lot of photos and having some good time :). With Jaan we drank some whiskey to celebrate the ending of the exams. Thai, Ben, David, Wilson are my classmates - they also honoured us with their presence.
The mid-term exams were composed of three parts: writing, listening and "kou yu" (spoken). For me - totally paradoxically - the easest bit was listening, because I never understand a word the Chinese people are talking to me. I can only express myself but am unable to receive Chinese sentences in any understandable form. The listening test was composed of several parts. For example, in one part one had to mark correct tones for the pinyin (Chinese written with these western letters) by listening the word being said from the tape. Tones - the cornerstone of the Chinese language - are in most cases quite easy to recognize. In the written test we filled out dialogues with proper questions and replies, wrote about what we are gonna do on the next weekend and how is the weather in the place X. Unfortunately I could not recall how to write Finland in Chinese, so I ended up writing of the weather of Beijing. The oral test was so utterly terrifying that I don't even want to think about it anymore. 4 parts: retell a dialogue you just read in your own words, read couple of sentences off a paper, talk about the topic that is written in your paper (mine was how has my Chinese improved during my stay in Beijing) and then she asked a few basic questions, for which I answered with some mumbling. Glad that's over...
Next week is going to be short in terms of studying, because on Thursday morning I, Silja and Jani are going to go airborne, heading for South Korea's capital Seoul.
Finally, some pics from yesterday evening:
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| 27.11.2009 @ Helen's Cafe |
keskiviikko 18. marraskuuta 2009
sunnuntai 15. marraskuuta 2009
Trafficking and some other cool stuff!
Oh man!
Lot of stuff, lot of stuff...
First, I want talk to You about the Beijing traffic. I'm not sure about the statistics, but they say thousands of people die annually in Beijing in traffic accidents. I have not witnessed any accidents, which is quite miraculous considering the way people behave in the traffic; there are just too ****** many people here for it to work in any other way than it does. You see, when someone decides to break the rules, everyone gets pissed off and starts breaking the rules on their own. That way the police is also helpless - there is power in the masses. Policemen merely try to make the best out of it, preventing the traffic from turning into total chaos.
In Wudaokou, particularly the main crossroads, is quite chaotic. There are pedestrians, bikers, scooters, cars, LOTS of buses, MORE taxis, salespersons selling their stuff beside the street and thus occupying the precious space, and everybody tries to get to their destination as fast as possible. That's an unbalanced equation, dysfunctional. The result is some kind of controlled chaos, which, actually, very well depicts the whole country. There are moving objects EVERYWHERE. One had better to just follow the flow of the big masses and you'll do fine.
Another thing that occurred to me on Saturday as I visited alone the Beijing Military Museum was something about China's history. It is filled again and again with unprecedented violence. Which is probably the reason the museum was filled with guns for every fetish plus a very extensive historical depiction of China's most important stuff in the history. It is no wonder that you find this namely in the military museum - such violent history the country has lead. Throughout the history different emperors and tribes have either tried to unify or break up the country, whenever with a whatnot-agenda. And the westerners also in the 19th and 20th century with various wars have had their claws also involved with the Chinese war-waging.
The most impressive exhibition for me was the story of Mao Zedong. I mean, the guy reeeeeeaaaalllly did fight for the country a loooooong time before managing to unify China in a way, the result of which can be seen in concurrent China. No wonder they respect the guy. Zedong and the communist party members were betrayed by the Kuomingtang in 1927ish (Kuomingtang is with more capitalistic agenda) (although I'm not sure how much of this was plain propaganda, of course the communist party was always praised and THEY were betrayed and THEY were on the people's real agenda and everythin...), which resulted in the communist party members fleeing and scattering all over the country, establishing camps everywhere and doing some guerilla warfare tactics to survive. When the Japanese oppression really got bad in 1935 (Japanese started slaughtering Chinese people in China) Kuomingtang and communist party unified their forces to defeat the common foe. After defeating the Japanese Kuomintang (naturally) betrayed the communist party and started the same shit all over. It was not until 1950 that the last of the Kuomintang military forces could be annihilated and the peace and justice was restored throughout the galaxy.
Zedong made lot of books considering how to survive in the oppression and did hell of a lot of job to achieve the communistic way of revolution through violence against the capitalistic upper class. This he did. Unfortunately the man flipped in his later years, which resulted in lot of Chinese corpses. Buut, maybe he considered that to sacrifice some is for the greater good..or then not.
The mid-term examination week is nearing, but I'm not really specifically trying to study for it, because there's enough work as it is with the Chinese. I'm waiting for our exam week's last day, Friday 27th, when Armin Van Buuren is coming to town. I'm def gonna go there!
This weekend was veery nice! On Friday we went with Silja to Beijing acrobatics show, which was amazing! Almost as good as in Shanghai, although the staging, clothes, music, lights (especially the wavy cool lasers) were far more superior than in Shanghai. In Shanghai the content was bettert and far more better group spirit and coreography than in Beijing. The show was in Chaoyang theatre, which was filled with fat westerners. The hightlights of the show was this kind of a...dam, too hard to explain, u better check out the video below. Anyway, the guy was running outside the mousecage, even blind-folded and with a skipping rope, and both times we nearly had a heart-attack with Silja, because the guy was that close to falling, because he started to fumble and got too behind where he was supposed to be. I mean, he was at least 10 meters high without any securing nets under or ropes on him. The guy was quite scared himself, blowing air from his mouth after stopping for applauses. Or then we got hoaxed very well - either way it was amazing how one has such a balance of body and a daring nature. Only in China.
On Saturday I went to see the Beijing Millennium monument and the aforementioned war museum. In the evening it was time to celebrate Antti's birthday.
We began by eating at a local student cafeteria's restaurant side...all kinds of exquisite dishes, duck, chicken, beef, vegetables, everything was (too) plentiful. After that we came to my room to eat some doughnuts and start playing a game called "juomapeli", which was quite hazardous. Leaving Silja to work off her diarrhea related problems, we played the game for some while. After an hour we were quiite wasted. And we and I did stuff I dare not mention here. The people who have played this game get the picture ;). Any hou, after this we headed off to my classmate Lasse's apartment in central Wudaokou. The place was in the 20th floor and the view was amazing, the nightly Wudaokou was cool and the apartment was like some kind of a roof-apartment kind of classy place with floor heating and everything. The place was filled with lot of westerners, most of which probably were studying economics-related stuff. Lot of guys and girls... Having spent there a while we headed off to Helen's Cafe, drank some whisky-cola buckets and one tequila shot (which Nick veery kindly offered [Nick is Silja's Los Angelesian classmate and a very pleasant person in any case]), plus smoked some shisha. I promised to test out the Sanlitun bar district, if one of my classmates, Carolyn (U.S.) would teach me how to dance hip-hop. Reciprocally I would of course teach her how to dance off to some faster beats (4/4 beats). Sanlitun's first try was Vics, which was way too expensive for comfort: 200 kuai in, so we skipped it. Instead, we went to a place across from Vics: Mix - 50 kuai in. It had two dance floor and this splurgy feeling into it. We danced our sweats and feet away with Carolyn for almost 4 hours, at some point stopping to sit down to some table, which was filled with Chivas Regal whisk(e?)y bottles, I don't know but I felt as if I was in some rich people's upper class paateii, sipping some whiskey and mixers, which were completely free for me, and chatting with people. Ruslan and Jani hunt down some chicks, and got their phone numbers *thumbs up*. When the DJ finally winded down with the beats, the clock was something like 6 A.M. We decided to take a taxi and go to Wudaokou to have some breakfast, which Carolyn kindly did offer. We were totally wasted from all the dancing and waited for a while for the breakfast to come. Finally we got some zaofan, ate them and headed off to our own sweet dorms and apartments. When I went to sleep it was 8.30 A.M. on Sunday.
Here I am now, alive and well.
And here's some pics from all the stuff that has been going on, including the Finnish university representatives, who really had came all the way from Finland on an entourage through the major cities in China to tell Chinese students about our beloved universities. It was fun to talk to some puunjalostajat, who were apparently some kind of semi-professional musicians, as the other one played keyboards and the other one sang very powerfully and on tone something about jaloviina. Cool that they did come all the way from Finland to here to speak to us also :).
And yeah, the weather here is all the time about 0 degrees, and some snow is also on the ground, which was nice. I reilly feel like home now, though I'd rather it be something like +20, because as I am notoriously famous for being such a cheapskate, I try not to buy any more clothes, and I really do not have clothes for any colder weathers. We'll see if I freeze to death here...anyway, here's the pictures 'n' stuff:
Shame I really documented poorly last night:
Zai jian!
Lot of stuff, lot of stuff...
First, I want talk to You about the Beijing traffic. I'm not sure about the statistics, but they say thousands of people die annually in Beijing in traffic accidents. I have not witnessed any accidents, which is quite miraculous considering the way people behave in the traffic; there are just too ****** many people here for it to work in any other way than it does. You see, when someone decides to break the rules, everyone gets pissed off and starts breaking the rules on their own. That way the police is also helpless - there is power in the masses. Policemen merely try to make the best out of it, preventing the traffic from turning into total chaos.
In Wudaokou, particularly the main crossroads, is quite chaotic. There are pedestrians, bikers, scooters, cars, LOTS of buses, MORE taxis, salespersons selling their stuff beside the street and thus occupying the precious space, and everybody tries to get to their destination as fast as possible. That's an unbalanced equation, dysfunctional. The result is some kind of controlled chaos, which, actually, very well depicts the whole country. There are moving objects EVERYWHERE. One had better to just follow the flow of the big masses and you'll do fine.
Another thing that occurred to me on Saturday as I visited alone the Beijing Military Museum was something about China's history. It is filled again and again with unprecedented violence. Which is probably the reason the museum was filled with guns for every fetish plus a very extensive historical depiction of China's most important stuff in the history. It is no wonder that you find this namely in the military museum - such violent history the country has lead. Throughout the history different emperors and tribes have either tried to unify or break up the country, whenever with a whatnot-agenda. And the westerners also in the 19th and 20th century with various wars have had their claws also involved with the Chinese war-waging.
The most impressive exhibition for me was the story of Mao Zedong. I mean, the guy reeeeeeaaaalllly did fight for the country a loooooong time before managing to unify China in a way, the result of which can be seen in concurrent China. No wonder they respect the guy. Zedong and the communist party members were betrayed by the Kuomingtang in 1927ish (Kuomingtang is with more capitalistic agenda) (although I'm not sure how much of this was plain propaganda, of course the communist party was always praised and THEY were betrayed and THEY were on the people's real agenda and everythin...), which resulted in the communist party members fleeing and scattering all over the country, establishing camps everywhere and doing some guerilla warfare tactics to survive. When the Japanese oppression really got bad in 1935 (Japanese started slaughtering Chinese people in China) Kuomingtang and communist party unified their forces to defeat the common foe. After defeating the Japanese Kuomintang (naturally) betrayed the communist party and started the same shit all over. It was not until 1950 that the last of the Kuomintang military forces could be annihilated and the peace and justice was restored throughout the galaxy.
Zedong made lot of books considering how to survive in the oppression and did hell of a lot of job to achieve the communistic way of revolution through violence against the capitalistic upper class. This he did. Unfortunately the man flipped in his later years, which resulted in lot of Chinese corpses. Buut, maybe he considered that to sacrifice some is for the greater good..or then not.
The mid-term examination week is nearing, but I'm not really specifically trying to study for it, because there's enough work as it is with the Chinese. I'm waiting for our exam week's last day, Friday 27th, when Armin Van Buuren is coming to town. I'm def gonna go there!
This weekend was veery nice! On Friday we went with Silja to Beijing acrobatics show, which was amazing! Almost as good as in Shanghai, although the staging, clothes, music, lights (especially the wavy cool lasers) were far more superior than in Shanghai. In Shanghai the content was bettert and far more better group spirit and coreography than in Beijing. The show was in Chaoyang theatre, which was filled with fat westerners. The hightlights of the show was this kind of a...dam, too hard to explain, u better check out the video below. Anyway, the guy was running outside the mousecage, even blind-folded and with a skipping rope, and both times we nearly had a heart-attack with Silja, because the guy was that close to falling, because he started to fumble and got too behind where he was supposed to be. I mean, he was at least 10 meters high without any securing nets under or ropes on him. The guy was quite scared himself, blowing air from his mouth after stopping for applauses. Or then we got hoaxed very well - either way it was amazing how one has such a balance of body and a daring nature. Only in China.
On Saturday I went to see the Beijing Millennium monument and the aforementioned war museum. In the evening it was time to celebrate Antti's birthday.
We began by eating at a local student cafeteria's restaurant side...all kinds of exquisite dishes, duck, chicken, beef, vegetables, everything was (too) plentiful. After that we came to my room to eat some doughnuts and start playing a game called "juomapeli", which was quite hazardous. Leaving Silja to work off her diarrhea related problems, we played the game for some while. After an hour we were quiite wasted. And we and I did stuff I dare not mention here. The people who have played this game get the picture ;). Any hou, after this we headed off to my classmate Lasse's apartment in central Wudaokou. The place was in the 20th floor and the view was amazing, the nightly Wudaokou was cool and the apartment was like some kind of a roof-apartment kind of classy place with floor heating and everything. The place was filled with lot of westerners, most of which probably were studying economics-related stuff. Lot of guys and girls... Having spent there a while we headed off to Helen's Cafe, drank some whisky-cola buckets and one tequila shot (which Nick veery kindly offered [Nick is Silja's Los Angelesian classmate and a very pleasant person in any case]), plus smoked some shisha. I promised to test out the Sanlitun bar district, if one of my classmates, Carolyn (U.S.) would teach me how to dance hip-hop. Reciprocally I would of course teach her how to dance off to some faster beats (4/4 beats). Sanlitun's first try was Vics, which was way too expensive for comfort: 200 kuai in, so we skipped it. Instead, we went to a place across from Vics: Mix - 50 kuai in. It had two dance floor and this splurgy feeling into it. We danced our sweats and feet away with Carolyn for almost 4 hours, at some point stopping to sit down to some table, which was filled with Chivas Regal whisk(e?)y bottles, I don't know but I felt as if I was in some rich people's upper class paateii, sipping some whiskey and mixers, which were completely free for me, and chatting with people. Ruslan and Jani hunt down some chicks, and got their phone numbers *thumbs up*. When the DJ finally winded down with the beats, the clock was something like 6 A.M. We decided to take a taxi and go to Wudaokou to have some breakfast, which Carolyn kindly did offer. We were totally wasted from all the dancing and waited for a while for the breakfast to come. Finally we got some zaofan, ate them and headed off to our own sweet dorms and apartments. When I went to sleep it was 8.30 A.M. on Sunday.
Here I am now, alive and well.
And here's some pics from all the stuff that has been going on, including the Finnish university representatives, who really had came all the way from Finland on an entourage through the major cities in China to tell Chinese students about our beloved universities. It was fun to talk to some puunjalostajat, who were apparently some kind of semi-professional musicians, as the other one played keyboards and the other one sang very powerfully and on tone something about jaloviina. Cool that they did come all the way from Finland to here to speak to us also :).
And yeah, the weather here is all the time about 0 degrees, and some snow is also on the ground, which was nice. I reilly feel like home now, though I'd rather it be something like +20, because as I am notoriously famous for being such a cheapskate, I try not to buy any more clothes, and I really do not have clothes for any colder weathers. We'll see if I freeze to death here...anyway, here's the pictures 'n' stuff:
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| Randomii |
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| Beijing Acrobatic Show 13.11.2009 |
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| Beijing People's Revolutionary Military Museum 14.11.2009 |
Shame I really documented poorly last night:
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| Antti 24 14.11.2009 |
Zai jian!
sunnuntai 8. marraskuuta 2009
Alive
Despite the fact that I got ill on Thursday (although the symptoms were visible already on Monday in the form of diarrhea) and thus dis skip school on Friday, I am now feeling much better (Sunday). I was still a bit skeptical - to say the least - yesterday when I was feeling only half-recovered and knowing there would be Silja's birthday aftermath in the evening. But as the Finnish proverb and its bad translation goes: "that which can not be cured with tar, alcohol or sauna is lethal". So I endeavoured with the middle choice, and the result: feeling healthy as an ox. Famous final words probably.
In short, yesterday evening we hanged out in Silja's dorm with Silja, me, Jani, Antti, Momo, Marit, Jaan and Nick (and for a very short time one of Nick's friends). Nick is an American open-minded guy, who is very well aware of the state of his country (and the world), plus he is also Silja's, Marit's and Jaan's classmate. So, anyway we were playing "I have never" -game, in which you say something like "I have never *somethingperverted*" and if somebody has, he/she has to drink. Fun and very...mind-unraveling and good for getting to know the people you're hanging out with. After some crazy playing and my sweat-filled and dizziness-causing trip to the local supermarket at 11:15 P.M. we left for Wudaokou to try out the local KTV, which is basically karaoke in China. A huge room with comfortable red couches, big screen and annoingly loud sound system (which, of course when you think of it afterwards, could have been turned off to a bit more lower level). I did not find that many songs for myself from there, and the queuing system did not always function, so I just mostly hanged out and sang along. It was veeery fun though :)
Going backwards in time I got sick on Thursday after kung fu class, fever rose up to 38.0 (degreed of C) in the highest and I thought that I have H1N1. Well, don't know it still but I tried to the best of my abilities to avoid the cleaner ladies (who come everyday) and all the other "authorities" that could send me to some god dam hospital quarantine zone, and I'd waste my time there. I'd rather die in my bed, thank you! Anywho, I think I infected my roommate Ruslan, who is as we speak in not such a good shape :(. I hope he gets better soon, and also that I won't get ill again.
From Silja's blog you can check out what happened on Silja's actual birthday on Wednesday, it was fun night that also.
It was quite a hussle to figure how the Chinese delivery system works. I ordered a small external hard drive, because my space was running low on my laptop. The delivery guy sent me messages in Chinese, which my Nokia can not display, so all I could see was blocks in the SMS. I sent this message to a phone that could display the text, after which I asked my laoshi (Chinese teacher) to decipher it for me. Still I did not get it because the text message said my packet is in some building 2. So I went there but apparently the delivery guy only hangs there for a certain amount of time, so better luck next time. I got a text message on the same day just as I was dining in the cafeteria, no idea what the message contains, but of course I supposed that it must be the same guy and hanging out in the building 2. So I rushed there and there was a whole bunch of delivery guys, of which one of them was my guy, having showed the number on the SMS to every other delivery guy just to identificate the one who sent this to me. SOH, I got my HD:
And now I'll just sit back and relax and wait for my Pyro Pizza to come... no exercise this week basically, but hey you can't do sports every week, right..? Right!
I'll add some moa pics when I receive them; this week I was lazy in this regard.
Signing off.
In short, yesterday evening we hanged out in Silja's dorm with Silja, me, Jani, Antti, Momo, Marit, Jaan and Nick (and for a very short time one of Nick's friends). Nick is an American open-minded guy, who is very well aware of the state of his country (and the world), plus he is also Silja's, Marit's and Jaan's classmate. So, anyway we were playing "I have never" -game, in which you say something like "I have never *somethingperverted*" and if somebody has, he/she has to drink. Fun and very...mind-unraveling and good for getting to know the people you're hanging out with. After some crazy playing and my sweat-filled and dizziness-causing trip to the local supermarket at 11:15 P.M. we left for Wudaokou to try out the local KTV, which is basically karaoke in China. A huge room with comfortable red couches, big screen and annoingly loud sound system (which, of course when you think of it afterwards, could have been turned off to a bit more lower level). I did not find that many songs for myself from there, and the queuing system did not always function, so I just mostly hanged out and sang along. It was veeery fun though :)
Going backwards in time I got sick on Thursday after kung fu class, fever rose up to 38.0 (degreed of C) in the highest and I thought that I have H1N1. Well, don't know it still but I tried to the best of my abilities to avoid the cleaner ladies (who come everyday) and all the other "authorities" that could send me to some god dam hospital quarantine zone, and I'd waste my time there. I'd rather die in my bed, thank you! Anywho, I think I infected my roommate Ruslan, who is as we speak in not such a good shape :(. I hope he gets better soon, and also that I won't get ill again.
From Silja's blog you can check out what happened on Silja's actual birthday on Wednesday, it was fun night that also.
It was quite a hussle to figure how the Chinese delivery system works. I ordered a small external hard drive, because my space was running low on my laptop. The delivery guy sent me messages in Chinese, which my Nokia can not display, so all I could see was blocks in the SMS. I sent this message to a phone that could display the text, after which I asked my laoshi (Chinese teacher) to decipher it for me. Still I did not get it because the text message said my packet is in some building 2. So I went there but apparently the delivery guy only hangs there for a certain amount of time, so better luck next time. I got a text message on the same day just as I was dining in the cafeteria, no idea what the message contains, but of course I supposed that it must be the same guy and hanging out in the building 2. So I rushed there and there was a whole bunch of delivery guys, of which one of them was my guy, having showed the number on the SMS to every other delivery guy just to identificate the one who sent this to me. SOH, I got my HD:
And now I'll just sit back and relax and wait for my Pyro Pizza to come... no exercise this week basically, but hey you can't do sports every week, right..? Right!
I'll add some moa pics when I receive them; this week I was lazy in this regard.
Signing off.
maanantai 2. marraskuuta 2009
Trukkikuski Klaus
In the beginning of September, when we arrived to Beijing, in our hostel were some German guys, with whom I hanged out one night. Although I had seen this video before, it's just so bad-tastish that I have to paste it also here. Enjoy!
sunnuntai 1. marraskuuta 2009
Par-tei'ing 'n' touristin'
Yupp,
it's finally happened. As amazingly as on the 1st of October the weather was clearer than clear (feichang ming), on the night when it became November, something else happened: it started raining snow. Though already almost completely molten away, the students of the school were like little kids when they had the chance..the campus was filled with snowmen :). Cute.. :)
I placed an order today for a new 250 GB 2.5" external hard drive because I'm running low on space..Total cost is not anything special compared to the Finnish prices - a tad cheaper: 39.7 euros. Let's hope it is delivered ASAP, as my picture album and movies are filling up the hard drive of this over 4-year-old laptop.
On this week there two major events: DJ Kid Koala (Canadian-Chinese turntablist scratcher) @ Yugong Yishan, a kind of a venue for DJ's to perform, so not a bar. Here' few shots from there:
Kid Koala was amazing: he played from one end of the musical genre spectrum to the other end - from very calm and soothing, beautiful melodies (all the time doing some vinyl mixing to form beautiful multi-layered melodies) to some harsh distorted guitar beats. And the mastery of the turntables was without a doubt something I have never witnessed before.
On Saturday it was time to do some basic sightseeing and in the evening to celebrate halloween. The day began early with some Beijing Drum & Bell Towers near the Lama temple that we went into almost 2 months ago. We there witnessed a nice drumming ceremony, reminded me of some kung fu movies with the hitting on the rim of the drum membrane. Drum & Bell Towers, in the early times, were meant to direct the liferhythm and pace of the daily life of the Beijingers. Nowadays they are just a popular sightseeing destination, nothing more. The other place we visited was Beijing Planetarium, which was, against the expectations, not so good. The exhibition - although very cheap - was quite poor. One had to pay extra for going to the space theaters and whatnots...so we did. 2/3 were total crap as they were more or less meant for under 10-year-old persons. Imagine they show people this kind of shit with the expensive and very capable equipment in these half-sphere movie theaters, where you could virtually experience something very beautiful, if they would have had the time and the effort to do so. But no. Anywhay, one show was good, it was about deaths of stars.
The nighttime was reserved for the halloween. I did not manage to buy anything from the Xizhimen's all too crowded market for the night to wear, but fortunately Silja and our Japanese friend Momo did buy me something.. It was quite a sight for sore eyes when I wore it :D. Anywho, we started off with some Johnny Walker black label, some 2.1 L booze bottle and sodas. So, off to good start..But this time we did not overdo it so it was quite OK and, at least I, was feeling very well the whole night and without empty spots in the nighttime memoires. We went to a party called "Acupuncture", which was located in a fancy location in LG (the trademark) twin towers high up in some floor. It was kind of classy place with three different venues: techno (it really was techno, praise the lord), house music (it was also really house music, again praise the ..well maybe I shouldn't say lord) and retro music. Jason offered us one round of rum-cola, but man the place was so expensive that I did not myself buy anything, just offered Jason my small token of appreciation in the form of money. We were dancing a lot, laughing, taking funny pictures and mingling amongst the people - we had great time I think. Silja was dressed as a bitch (net stockings and heavy-duty makeup) and Momo was a Chinese street fighter, in this cool Chinese blue dress. Ruslan was quite wasted but did manage to be in his senses for the whole night. Jani was Jani :), happy as always.
Sadly I have to inform that I went to eat to McDonalds - a mistake not to be repeated hopefully ever again. After the LAN bar (the name of the bar we were in) we went to Wudaokou to check out Helen's cafe but decided, instead of free beer, to go to a place called Lush to eat our hamburgers before retiring at 5 A.M. to the warmth of the dorms (which by the way now have central heating turned on \0/).
Next week's agenda will be following: Silja has her 25th birthday on Wednesday, so some kind of action is bound to take place both on Wednesday and on Saturday. Friday I might go to a Tresor-party, which has its origins in the Berlin-based club called - surprisingly - Tresor, which is the birthplace of the German techno. We'll see where I'll end up.
Cheers to Finland!
it's finally happened. As amazingly as on the 1st of October the weather was clearer than clear (feichang ming), on the night when it became November, something else happened: it started raining snow. Though already almost completely molten away, the students of the school were like little kids when they had the chance..the campus was filled with snowmen :). Cute.. :)
I placed an order today for a new 250 GB 2.5" external hard drive because I'm running low on space..Total cost is not anything special compared to the Finnish prices - a tad cheaper: 39.7 euros. Let's hope it is delivered ASAP, as my picture album and movies are filling up the hard drive of this over 4-year-old laptop.
On this week there two major events: DJ Kid Koala (Canadian-Chinese turntablist scratcher) @ Yugong Yishan, a kind of a venue for DJ's to perform, so not a bar. Here' few shots from there:
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| 29.10.2009 Kid Koala |
Kid Koala was amazing: he played from one end of the musical genre spectrum to the other end - from very calm and soothing, beautiful melodies (all the time doing some vinyl mixing to form beautiful multi-layered melodies) to some harsh distorted guitar beats. And the mastery of the turntables was without a doubt something I have never witnessed before.
On Saturday it was time to do some basic sightseeing and in the evening to celebrate halloween. The day began early with some Beijing Drum & Bell Towers near the Lama temple that we went into almost 2 months ago. We there witnessed a nice drumming ceremony, reminded me of some kung fu movies with the hitting on the rim of the drum membrane. Drum & Bell Towers, in the early times, were meant to direct the liferhythm and pace of the daily life of the Beijingers. Nowadays they are just a popular sightseeing destination, nothing more. The other place we visited was Beijing Planetarium, which was, against the expectations, not so good. The exhibition - although very cheap - was quite poor. One had to pay extra for going to the space theaters and whatnots...so we did. 2/3 were total crap as they were more or less meant for under 10-year-old persons. Imagine they show people this kind of shit with the expensive and very capable equipment in these half-sphere movie theaters, where you could virtually experience something very beautiful, if they would have had the time and the effort to do so. But no. Anywhay, one show was good, it was about deaths of stars.
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| Drum&Bell towers ja Beijing Planetarium |
The nighttime was reserved for the halloween. I did not manage to buy anything from the Xizhimen's all too crowded market for the night to wear, but fortunately Silja and our Japanese friend Momo did buy me something.. It was quite a sight for sore eyes when I wore it :D. Anywho, we started off with some Johnny Walker black label, some 2.1 L booze bottle and sodas. So, off to good start..But this time we did not overdo it so it was quite OK and, at least I, was feeling very well the whole night and without empty spots in the nighttime memoires. We went to a party called "Acupuncture", which was located in a fancy location in LG (the trademark) twin towers high up in some floor. It was kind of classy place with three different venues: techno (it really was techno, praise the lord), house music (it was also really house music, again praise the ..well maybe I shouldn't say lord) and retro music. Jason offered us one round of rum-cola, but man the place was so expensive that I did not myself buy anything, just offered Jason my small token of appreciation in the form of money. We were dancing a lot, laughing, taking funny pictures and mingling amongst the people - we had great time I think. Silja was dressed as a bitch (net stockings and heavy-duty makeup) and Momo was a Chinese street fighter, in this cool Chinese blue dress. Ruslan was quite wasted but did manage to be in his senses for the whole night. Jani was Jani :), happy as always.
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| Halloween @ LAN Club |
Sadly I have to inform that I went to eat to McDonalds - a mistake not to be repeated hopefully ever again. After the LAN bar (the name of the bar we were in) we went to Wudaokou to check out Helen's cafe but decided, instead of free beer, to go to a place called Lush to eat our hamburgers before retiring at 5 A.M. to the warmth of the dorms (which by the way now have central heating turned on \0/).
Next week's agenda will be following: Silja has her 25th birthday on Wednesday, so some kind of action is bound to take place both on Wednesday and on Saturday. Friday I might go to a Tresor-party, which has its origins in the Berlin-based club called - surprisingly - Tresor, which is the birthplace of the German techno. We'll see where I'll end up.
Cheers to Finland!
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