Bach really from outer space ??

As it is Xmas time I put J.S.Bach's Christmas Oratorio (performed by John Eliot Gardiner with The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloist (an excellent Archiv production) ) on ... very loud I must admit. After that I ended up in listening the whole St. John Passion (performed by the same "gang"). When those amazing tunes just kept floating in it just made me wonder once again how could one person have possibly generated those out of the world "tunes" and visions ? Not humanly possible if one thinks his total production ?



well after there are other wierd examples of something which is tough to explain.... Bach, Lenordo da Vinci, Mozart, ... and I am sure many more that have not landed in my map.

Brilliant !

Christmas party in Hesari Club... Tiernapojat !

We had the company Xmas party in HesariClub... I was singing in traditional Tiernapojat as King of Moor's. Tough fight with King Herodes again as usual. The other gents were amazing singers.Hooray traditions :o)

Running out battery...

My personal energy reservoirs seem to be pretty much finished for this year. Funny, but it is almost like exactly right now when writing this when the thought itself concretised ... Nice bottle of Montes Aplha charges the battery but still I am flat out.

Anyway about week to Christmas, and then after joyfull celebrations with the family we are off to Thailand for 2 weeks !!! Brilliant ! I been checking Phuket windsurfing scene and it look good - new gear available, nice smooth winds When checking the gear rental site I bumped into this http://www.phuketwindsurfing.com/video/bigwave.wmv If the thing is real, cannot really say anything else than tough wave and well done for beginner :o) ....Awsome but somehow looks a bit fake ?

Keep the winds like this and let me fly high:

First time trying Writely to write to Blogger

TechCrunch claims "Writely kicks A**" so I'll give it a go... this is from Writely to Blogger with love.

Kiteboarding...

One more thing from today... got the addresses to Kiteboarding instructors captured with my new toy ;o)

The road to new excitements for this winter and onwards is now laid... if we would just get ice on the lakes and some snow. Please winter come !

New camera... finally decently digital ;o)

I finally managed to make up my mind and bought us a decent digital camera... Fully water proof Pentax Optio WPi 6Mpix.

Pretty impresive work on usability - loads of features but no manual really needed while everything is quite "naturally straight forward".


(camera is good ... whihc does not mean that photos will be ;o)

Just smile - No remorse and no shame afterwards

I just spend a whole day listening presentations from innovation work groups. Great work - excellent stuff ! I participated myself in the same course earlier this year, and as always I was very very passionate about our project like everybody else were too. Today I had a chance to see how it looks from outside of thse passionate project teams. I blushed remembering my own thoughts and keeness to prove that we were right and had found something unique...
Being passionate seems to inherently include large portion of seriouness which eventually brings out some truly funny flavors of our personalities leading later on to "self embarassement" when realising how serious one was and how little credit one gave to all other opinions about the project.
However, better to have a slight embarrasement and later also hopefully good "internal" laughs afterwards than not being passionate on pretty much everything one does ? ?

Things that really matter...

For the last couple of years I've been wrestling with the fact that I was mentally immature to _really_ appreciate the uniqueness of every single moment of the first years of my 2 first kids. It was always really about me (shamed to admit it)... "when would there be more time for me?", "when would they do this and that on their own?","when could I sleep more?" etc. etc.
A pity really for my own sake (selfish again!) - invaluable moments lost !
Now with the third child Valtsu I've finally been enjoying every single moment of his life, and I feel sad & happy of course also to see him grow... just look at him !


Brilliant !

About EU subsidies to farmers

Sorry... I'm bit pissed off. Thoughts about agriculture and goverment subsidies to farmers:

In last Sunday's Helsingin Sanomat Opinions-section there was a lot of comments (via Hesari's Internet channel) about the results of last weeks EU's agriculture ministers' meeting ... virtually everybody were complainaining that
- why do Finnish tax payer have to pay for Finnish farmers
- why are farmers treated different than "normal" Finnish private small companies
- why do we produce eg sugar or actually any food in Finland (with our tax money) when it would be so much cheaper to import it from other (in sugar's case outside of EU) countries...

Why ?

Would actually be nice to have all those people asking "Why?" signing in to following "statement":
"I undersigned want to have my food cheaper now. It's totally OK for me that we do not have our own food production. I also hereby allow people not signing this to have priority over me and my family in case we cannot get all the food in a reasonable price from outside of Finland... under any circumstances."
If these "Why?" people are ready to sign this I am willing to pay significantly more now for all the food me and my family consumes than they do ... but as mentioned above will then have priviledge over the food once the shit hits the fan. (Because it will.. if it's in form of 100USD barrel oil, or lenghtened dry period in key food producing areas, or some politics, or what ever..)

well, actually I'm sort of doing that already now by selecting locally produced food but it does not quarantee me food in the future while I'm sure that those now protesting for local subsides for Finnish countryside will be the first ones demanding locally produced food when the shit has hit the fan... they always are


ps. local food even as subsidised is definately more economic - we as Europeans will anyway subsidise with our taxes the food produced in EU and transported in worst case by airgargo

Magical winter days...

Here I go for the first time... this is most likely going to be a collection of more of less floating more and less irrelevant thoughts about the life - Post1

Each season has few magical days... the absolutely gorgeus winter morning when all trees are covered by snow and flakes silently and gracefully float down thru sunshine.
Or that absolutely still moment beside the lake on hot summer day's evening.
Or that totally gray autumn day with rain pouring down and it just feels magically good to be inside wathing it all.
Or ... The first truly warm Spring day, or the day when the first signs tulips pop out of the ground.
These days feel so unique and makes one wishing that they could be actively remembered, and carried with. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) we just can't seem to be carrying them with and then use them during darker moments. Anyway - lucky to still be able to regocnise them anyway.

Well, last Sunday was a magic moment - and it helps today when shit keeps pouring downfrom the sky.