And the award goes to...

At the Farewell Exchange Gala which was held last Friday, I was presented with this award. And obviously this certificate is going up on the wall in my future executive office. Three more weeks left in Kingston. Got some actual school work to attend to this week in the form of three group presentation, but I'm not worried. Mikkeli has prepared us all into making presentation even whilst "green-faced" during the Orientation Week of 2005... x)

Got to do some preparing so, later... Congrats to Ilkka W for turning a bit older today! :) I'll be having those cases of beer once I return, mate! *can you spell paaarteeee!?*

The Daytrip to Ottawa

Here I am, again, posting new stories from my exchange in K-town. Another week has gone by so fast, and new stories and legends have been forget! Other issues concerned, I have under a month to go in K-town, so I'll be saying farewells to a multiple of different friends I've come to know, honor and party with during my exchange. But there's no hurry yet to bidding farewells, so might as well let you the basic rundown on what happened on our daytrip to Ottawa.

Just as before visiting the parlament of Canada, including the House of Commons and the Senate, I stumbled across a familiar sounding word on a street poster... The poster was an add of a loungebar called Helsinki, located on 15 George Street. Naturally we tracked the place down, but to our unfortunate luck, it opened up after 8:30, which was sadly too late of a time for us to be in Ottawa.

Here's our roadtrip crew, Max being excluded from the picture because he's... well, French. Yuvon, Kaisa, Dan and me all we're excited to visit the capital. Why wouldn't we be? :p I drove us to Ottawa, and discovered that a speed limit had been put on the Buick. Dammit, this was the SECOND time this happened!!!

After visiting the Parlament of Canada (which can be seen in the background, behind Dan's new, Men-in-Blackish shades!), we headed over to the National Museum of Canada, which is apparently the most visited museum in all of Canada. Of course we got there 20 minutes before closing time, so we were able to get a general glimpse of the bottom level (the tour reminded me of the one, which Janne took us on at the Louvre in 2002:). After our tour of the capital, we headed back to our dear hometown of Kingston. Bacardi, Absolut Vanilla, Cutty Sark Scotish Whisky and beer were all served on the way back home.

After getting back to Kingston and receiving a delicious buffet dinner from Henna and Kristin, it was time to shake our communal asses off at Alfie's, where the monthly Indian Hip Hop night was held. The night was full of great dance moves and awesome music. On Sunday, FC Beercelona (my team, word!) won their game over some dodgy, Spanish-speaking a-holes in the indoor soccer league.

An awesome cinematical sweetspot!

A brilliant script, a realistic villain, sizzling hot ladies and of course, one of the most debatable castings for Bond (Hasn't everyone of them been...), Mr. Daniel Craig. The end result? In my opinion one of the best movies I've seen in the last few years. I mean, who could've ever known that parcour would translate into such an entertaining rat race on the silver screen?! And the new Bond is a perfect fit in portraying the on-going transformation from a rugged blunt instrument into the Vodka Martini sippin', Aston Martin drivin' cool cat of the MI6. Daniel Craig truly makes a forgettably strong debut as Bond. Naturally there'll always be Sir Sean Connery, but Daniel Craig is definitely a runner-up in my book after this movie.

Well kiddies, I'm off to Ottawa tomorrow for a daytrip and it'll be an Indian Hip Hop night at Alfie's (one of the school bars) later on in the evening. Tough luck, gotta go parteeee! :p

Bhangra night, here comes 146 Collingwood!

"We're gonna party like it's ya birthday..."

Being 25 years doesn't mean that you have to act like an adult, does it? Say, spending time chillin' on the road is not forbidden... In the middle of the night, before heading to bars? Didn't think so.

What a blast I had celebratin' my birthday this year! Don't have the memory capacity to go through what happened between Wednesday and Sunday, but a whole lot. Drunkenness and major hang-overs. Thanks for the presents!!! :)

Random events and moments in K-town

About a week ago we went to the Pearson International Airport to pick Henna's friend Satu. She was going to stay in K-town for a week, enjoy a break from reality and get some schoolwork done on the side as well. On our way to Toronto we came upon a Volvo with a surprisingly ghettoish licence plate. It read "NOLIFE", which when combined with the safety-orientated Volvo brand quite puzzled me. One would think that Volvo driver's would actually have lives, no?! As it turned out, the driver looked like one of the stand-ins from the movie "Boyz In The Hood"... He was dark and he was mean looking. And driving the safest car Scandinavia has to offer.

Amongst all of the partying Kaisa's bed caved in. Literally.

Henna was celebrating her coming of age... erm, I mean, her 22. birthday a few weeks back and for everyone to get into the paatii, paatii -mode, we went to eat at a Greek restaurant with foul-mouthed waiters and a wonderful atmosphere. After a good dish of salmon and potatoes the main partiers of 146, continued their wild night at the Stauffer library studying and typing assignments...

Even found one of the most anchient bowling establishments in North America, where the burgers were not that brilliant and the settings were straight from a Soviet nuclear plant. Nonetheless, we had fun bowling and being hungover from last night's partying. Mika was the surprise winner of the event and received nothing for it! :p

Henna had the wonderful idea of raking their entire backyard. Actually, she's been acheing to do some raking ever since autumn arrived in Kingston. So, after me, Kristin, Aman and Kaisa had arrived last Saturday to be part of this überwonderful "Operation Rake", and Henna was all psyched up to finally rake, we threw her into the kitchen to make us pancakes. Meanwhile we raked the sh*t out of that backyard, leaving behind only confused badgers and bedazzled squirrels. Maybe next fall Henna can rake. Just maybe.

The 80s Party

146 Collingwood threw one of those unforgettable theme parties ever held in Kingston. The night was full of house-trashing, broken wine bottles, cheezy wardrobe usage as well as good tunes. Right on target was this party, here are the photos to prove it:

Getting in the party spirit gradually with Milwaukee's Best.

Yup. The Finns are havin' a smashin' ol'time!

Getting there gradually, spectator-wise...

This was the situation in the living room, 146 was packed from top to bottom that night!

Four fashion statements of why the 80s should never entirely come back.

November's here already!

Gosh! November crept up on me like a bedazzled mining engineer before the Bostonathon road trip! This is definitely the turning point of this trip, it's been a wonderful experience so far and I'm still in for some fascinating events, experiences and parties!! :) Just to recap, of what's happened within the last few weeks here in K-town, I'll post a few more pictures and some text to go along with them, so you'll grasp the general consensus of what living's been like in these parts of the world.