I've been slow to update my blog lately. Sorry for that. I've had a lot to blog about, so I try to remember everything (as if...) for my future blogging.
Yesterday The Czech Republic took a surprise beating from the Finns in ice-hockey World Championship tournament held in Switzerland. I was pretty sure the Czech team would run over Finland in advance. Luckily I didn't bet on it.
It's hard for me to decide whether the Swedish Peter Forsberg or the Czech Jaromir Jagr is the world's best ice-hockey player ever. Yesterday it was Jagr. Fortunately he couldn't substitute the rest of the team's bad playing. No man's an island - no man's a team.
Bad news. I decided to stop my DIY working out programme. I couldn't handle it after day 23.
Good news. I'm very excited about the music quiz I'm planning with my brother. It will be great!
Have a nice Vappu! (May Day) More to come...
Music for the undummies (mikä mies?)
It was something like 1,5 years ago when I blogged about my idea for a new type of music quiz. Well, now I'm thinking about it again, this time actively. As a matter of fact, I have done most of the thinking already - only implementing is lacking. I'm working on it.
I'm creating this quiz with my brother. He knows (even) more about music trivialities than me. For the sake of losing anonymosity I can't reveal more about the quiz, but it's possible that this time one of my (our) efforts will actually materialize. Who knows - not me. Anyway, if you see a great new music contest on TV (it could be any Finnish channel) you may ask yourself:Where's my beautiful wife? Is this THE Smek's music show? He-he, it could be...
I'm creating this quiz with my brother. He knows (even) more about music trivialities than me. For the sake of losing anonymosity I can't reveal more about the quiz, but it's possible that this time one of my (our) efforts will actually materialize. Who knows - not me. Anyway, if you see a great new music contest on TV (it could be any Finnish channel) you may ask yourself:
Smek's Fortnight Cycling TM
This is my own weight-losing program. My friends and family have contributed, so a big hand to them.
On the first day I did the following:
-one push-up (punnerrus)
-one sit-up (vatsalihasliike)
-one squat (kyykky)
You can think of some other movements as well if you like. Do just one of each, no more even if you could/wanted to. The following day I did two push-ups, sit-ups and squats. No more, no less. It seems ridiculously small amount of moving in the beginning, but the idea is that your muscles get used to those exercises. You don't break them in the beginning.
I continued to add the amount of those exercises until ten. Then I stopped adding the number for 4 days. Now that was a fortnight (14 days) cycle. Then I carry on from 11 eleven exercises until twenty, and so on. Some evenings I have forgotten to do my exercise. The next day I have still followed the original plan. If I left out the day 4 (which I did by the way), on the fifth day I did 5 exercises just the same.
Day
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1, 2, 3...
Ex. nr
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 11, 12, 13...
Today I'm going to do my 12th day. So this program hasn't been tested thoroughly yet. I'm curious to know how far I will get by following these fortnight cycles. So far so good. No injuries yet (better knock on wood). I'll keep you posted.
On the first day I did the following:
-one push-up (punnerrus)
-one sit-up (vatsalihasliike)
-one squat (kyykky)
You can think of some other movements as well if you like. Do just one of each, no more even if you could/wanted to. The following day I did two push-ups, sit-ups and squats. No more, no less. It seems ridiculously small amount of moving in the beginning, but the idea is that your muscles get used to those exercises. You don't break them in the beginning.
I continued to add the amount of those exercises until ten. Then I stopped adding the number for 4 days. Now that was a fortnight (14 days) cycle. Then I carry on from 11 eleven exercises until twenty, and so on. Some evenings I have forgotten to do my exercise. The next day I have still followed the original plan. If I left out the day 4 (which I did by the way), on the fifth day I did 5 exercises just the same.
Day
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1, 2, 3...
Ex. nr
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 11, 12, 13...
Today I'm going to do my 12th day. So this program hasn't been tested thoroughly yet. I'm curious to know how far I will get by following these fortnight cycles. So far so good. No injuries yet (better knock on wood). I'll keep you posted.
Vasa is sinking again
Vaasa (Vasa på svenska) is a strange city in Finland. There is a deep separation between Finnish and Swedish speaking people. They are practically in war against each other. That's something I don't understand.
Today I read about one incident in Vaasa. The Swedish speaking kindergarten was denying all Finnish inside its area. They even compared speaking Finnish to swearing. (Swe-aring, LOL!) That's pretty insulting.
Based on experience I had on Finnish speaking kindergarten (or pre-school if you will) in Stockholm, this is outrageous. There children were allowed to speak Swedish if they wanted to. And they did. I saw no harm in there - on the contrary: it gave a nice little language bath to our daughter.
How can Finland-Swedish be that narrow-minded? At least in Vaasa. I know that they are fighting for their existence to an extent, but still. Provoking people against each other doesn't sound that good an option to me. I'm disappointed in those people in question. Maybe I have broadened my understanding against Swedish while living in Sweden, but I think all the Finns should do the same. Not necessarily to live in our neighbor country but to be more permissive at least.
Today I read about one incident in Vaasa. The Swedish speaking kindergarten was denying all Finnish inside its area. They even compared speaking Finnish to swearing. (Swe-aring, LOL!) That's pretty insulting.
Based on experience I had on Finnish speaking kindergarten (or pre-school if you will) in Stockholm, this is outrageous. There children were allowed to speak Swedish if they wanted to. And they did. I saw no harm in there - on the contrary: it gave a nice little language bath to our daughter.
How can Finland-Swedish be that narrow-minded? At least in Vaasa. I know that they are fighting for their existence to an extent, but still. Provoking people against each other doesn't sound that good an option to me. I'm disappointed in those people in question. Maybe I have broadened my understanding against Swedish while living in Sweden, but I think all the Finns should do the same. Not necessarily to live in our neighbor country but to be more permissive at least.
A world glass act
It has been widely spread in the news that some people have found small pieces of glass in their food in Sweden. Especially in chicken, but in other products as well. Now they have found glass in Finland as well, for example amongst frozen vegetables by Findus. Despite the seriousness of the situation, it's kind of 'funny' to find glass in a product by 'find us'.
Glass is now everywhere and no-one knows where it has come from. Try sabotage. Humans are clever enough to launch satellites that almost orbit the globe, LOL, so why not 'spice' food with glass somehow? Glassy food might become an extra specialty in our imaginative Amigo restaurant too.
This whole thing started, silly but it's true, in Sweden. Now it seems to have a copy-cat version in Finland as well. Next they take Manhattan? Oh, yes, they did that already. How did Leonard know? Sorry, bad joke.
Eating glass is dangerous. My wife had her tooth split in half when she ate a piece of chicken in Stockholm last year. I blogged about it even. Now we were wondering if it were a piece of glass that caused it. Then again, it was lucky that she didn't accidently swallow it. I hope she didn't.
This all is pretty worrying. Old way of torturing prisonaires has come back. The Swedes dunnit again, "världsklass", as usual. They say in Finland that "sirpaleet tuovat onnea" (slivers bring happiness). I hope we won't get too much of happiness in the future still.
Glass is now everywhere and no-one knows where it has come from. Try sabotage. Humans are clever enough to launch satellites that almost orbit the globe, LOL, so why not 'spice' food with glass somehow? Glassy food might become an extra specialty in our imaginative Amigo restaurant too.
This whole thing started, silly but it's true, in Sweden. Now it seems to have a copy-cat version in Finland as well. Next they take Manhattan? Oh, yes, they did that already. How did Leonard know? Sorry, bad joke.
Eating glass is dangerous. My wife had her tooth split in half when she ate a piece of chicken in Stockholm last year. I blogged about it even. Now we were wondering if it were a piece of glass that caused it. Then again, it was lucky that she didn't accidently swallow it. I hope she didn't.
This all is pretty worrying. Old way of torturing prisonaires has come back. The Swedes dunnit again, "världsklass", as usual. They say in Finland that "sirpaleet tuovat onnea" (slivers bring happiness). I hope we won't get too much of happiness in the future still.
Why do fools fall for it in April?
Yup, it is time to trick people. The first of April is a traditional day for jokes and pranks. Almost every newspaper has some unbelievable news today. It may be like 'money is given free in a certain store at 10 a.m.' or 'Barack Obama has Finnish relatives, go check if you're one of them'.
I have practised several April fool jokes lately. I even carried my own tradition to Sweden with me. It was no success there, for obvious reasons.
This year I made a little different joke. I printed out ads saying 'Get Mad Donna tickets from telephone number 277455421 precisely at midnight last night'. There was a discount promised for certain type of people and the line would not open before that. I checked in advance that the number doesn't exist, so no real harm was done. If you check the number carefully, you push the buttons to 'APRILLIÄ!' I guess no-one really realized that.
The downside of the joke is that I have no idea how many fell for it. I misspelled it deliberately so that no-one could seriously demand Madonna tickets from me. That is, if the joke didn't get a good reception.
Madonna is about to give a concert in Finland this Summer, so that in mind many people might have taken it into consideration. It wasn't the most perfect prank, but it was probably the fittest, coming from me. So far.
I have practised several April fool jokes lately. I even carried my own tradition to Sweden with me. It was no success there, for obvious reasons.
This year I made a little different joke. I printed out ads saying 'Get Mad Donna tickets from telephone number 277455421 precisely at midnight last night'. There was a discount promised for certain type of people and the line would not open before that. I checked in advance that the number doesn't exist, so no real harm was done. If you check the number carefully, you push the buttons to 'APRILLIÄ!' I guess no-one really realized that.
The downside of the joke is that I have no idea how many fell for it. I misspelled it deliberately so that no-one could seriously demand Madonna tickets from me. That is, if the joke didn't get a good reception.
Madonna is about to give a concert in Finland this Summer, so that in mind many people might have taken it into consideration. It wasn't the most perfect prank, but it was probably the fittest, coming from me. So far.
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