YOU KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN IN FINLAND TOO LONG, WHEN……

1. You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you should keep to take to the store and which can be sacrificed to garbage

2. As you walk past the Parliament Building in Helsinki, and see the statue is titled “Svinhufvud” you no longer read it as “Swinehead”… instead you think “What a good Swedish name!”

3. When a stranger on the street smiles at you:
a. you assume he’s drunk
b. he is insane
c. he’s an American

4. You don’t think twice about putting the wet dishes away in the cupboard to dry

5. A friend asks about your holiday plans and you answer, “Oh, I’m going to Europe!” meaning any other Western European country outside Scandinavia.

6. You no longer scrunch up or fold your paper money. You always put it in your wallet

7. You see a student take a front row seat and wonder “Who does he think he is!!??”

8. Silence is fun

9. The reason you take the ferry to Stockholm is
a. Duty free vodka
b. Duty free beer
c. To party hard….no need to get off the boat in Stockholm, just turn around and do it again on the way back to Finland

10. Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than 10 scoops per pot

11. You pass a grocery store and think “Wow, I had better go in an buy something!”

12. Your native language has seriously deteriorated, now you begin to “eat medicine”, “open the television”, “close the lights” ´, and tell someone “you needen’t to!”
Expressions like “Don’t panic” creep into your everyday language.

13. You associate pea soup with Thursdays

14. Your idea of unforgivable behaviour now includes walking across the street when the light is red and there is no WALK symbol, even though there are no cars in sight

15. Your notion of streetlife is reduced to the few teenagers hanging out in front of the railway station on Friday nights

16. Your bad mood becomes your good mood

17. Sundays no longer seem dull with all the stores closed, and begin to feel restful instead

18. “No comment” becomes a conversation strategy

19. You finally stop asking your class “Are there any questions?”

20. The fact that all of the “v’s” and the “w’s” are together in the phone directory seems right

21. Your old habit of being “Fashionably late” is no longer acceptable. You are always on time

22. Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay

23. You begin to understand Jussi Jyylanpaarvi’s broadcast of the hockey game

24. You refuse to wear a hat, even in –30 degree weather

25. You hear loud-talking passengers on the train. You immediately assume:
a. they are drunk
b. they are Swedish-speaking
c. they are American
d. all of the above

26. You give up on trying to find fat-free food and pile on the butter, cream and sugar

27. You know how to fix herring in 105 different ways

28. You eat herring in 105 ways

29. You no longer look at sports wear as casual wear, but recognize them as semi-formal wear

30. You can now reconstruct the missing letters on a building. For example :MERI…….LITTO OY

31. You have undergone a transformation
a. You accept mustamakkara (Black-blood sausage) as food
b. You accept alcohol as food
c. You accept

32. You understand why the Finnish language has no future tense

33. You no longer have to search for the flushing mechanism

34. You no longer see a problem in wearing white socks with loafers

35. You no longer correct people who say MAC Donald’s

36. You just love Jaffa

37. You’ve come to expect Sunday morning sidewalk vomit dodging

38. You know that “religious holiday” means, “let’s get pissed.”

39. You enjoy salmiakki

40. You know that “men’s public bathroom” is another phrase for sidewalk

41. You know that more than three channels means cable

42. You get all Swedish jokes

43. When you’re hungry you can peel a boiled potato like lightning

44. You’ve become lactose intolerant

45. You accept that 80 degrees C in a sauna is chilly, but 20 degrees C outside is freaking hot.
Also, you accept -30 outside as a reasonable temperature, but anythuing under 22 indoors is unreasonable…

46. You give the air hostess your undivided attention when she demonstrates how to fasten, tighten and unbuckle your seatbelt. You eye the person sitting next to you suspiciously when they don’t do the same.

47. You don’t waste alcohol. When you spill your drink on the desk and actually contemplate slurping it up anyway

48. You stop asking “how are you” when you meet people. It’s just plain “hi” or “mmph” or *nod*. Communicating becomes less and less important…

49. It doesn’t matter what nationality the other person is, they’ll understand finnish as long as you talk really loud. If this doesn’t help, just talk very slow (but still very, very loud).

50. Upon hearing finnish when abroad, you immediately duck for cover and hope they go away. Whatever you do, you in NO WAY, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE utter a single finnish word (By god, they might want to come and talk to you, as if that was completely acceptable finnish behaviour when not in Finland!)

This is damn funny…i come acroos this on myspace which this girl claim to found it at a forum…i hv to agree most of it ^^

yeah hooo

Is school holiday…yeah hooo… even though i was not in school anymore…or i should say im too old to be in school but i still feel the excitment of holidays just like went i was young (sounds old) anyway that’s not the point

but since is school holiday = the kids are on holiday = we are going on HOLIDAY!!! haha…which = IM ON HOLIDAY!!! yes…a week holiday… im going to Ruka, Kuusamo which is Northen Finland very near to Lapland. Yippy, a resort gateaway for sking…coincidently that would be my 1st and probably last birthday in Kuusamo… maybe i should try to make a birthday cake out of snow ^^if it is snowing…lol

Yesterday in Helsinki it was raining rae (looks like snow but melts when u touch it)… me and Fabienne (well we are in the Finnish language class. is friday) went out of the class and went out which is super cold tat time and open our arms to welcome the rae that somehow looks like snow…haha…my 1st time snow and her 1st time snow in Finland (she is from Switerland came here as au-pair just like me too ^^) crazy but fun… we even touge out trying to lick the rae…haha…now it sounds ewww…disgusting…cant really concerntrated at 1st after the break and our eyes keep on looking outside with a smile on our face while the teacher is teaching in front…haha…notti student we are…

and i will be going to Jyväskylä to visit my blueberry pie…haha… dont ask me who i wonned tell u…lol… Kuusamo im coming!!! so i will be away for a week…dont miss me…hehe…and dont ask me buy survinor…lol…or maybe i will scope some snow and bring back…haha..hopes it doesnt melt creative gift….lol…it can transform from snow to water just like transformer…ok now im starting to talk like i have lost my mind im not crazy or am i….who am i???? ha…ok enough of craping…see you in a week…muakzzzz

Heitä Sikka

The highest point of 60 pts when u get both pigs final position laying on their ears Today was J**’s grandpa celebrating his 97th birthday…wow…he is vanha (old)!!! but yet very health and strong too (he gave me a strong embrace, i nearly cant breath…hahaha). Have little eating and chit chating section at his place which currently he staying at old folk homes but it was really cool little camber of his… very comfortable… than this thing really caught my attention…it is not a bird, not a plane but is a Heitä Sikka = Throw Pig… not the real pig but this is a traditional finn’s game that has existed for 1000 yrs ago. Once upon time, at a far far land there is this bunch of people who created a game where they throw LIVE pigs for game… entertainment seek i think is crazy but fun at same time…u got to be strong to carry a pig up NOT 1 but 2 pigs!!! and throw them… and than see how much points u gain for the position of the pig laying down on the floor & watch the pig get up trying to escape from this crazy bunch of nuts ppl somehow is cruel…Than out of mercy this people not longer throw LIVE pigs but instead used the pig bone and craft it into a pig shape… better… till today is replace by plastic pig…even better I wonder where to buy this game… looks fun to play and according to the guide paper it says this game can last for 6 days…OMG… wat a week to enjoy

1st u roll the pigs like rolling dice, than for each final position the pig lays down is the points u will get for the round. All points on positions are stated on this paper (above)

For this position u lost one round but i think this is the hardest position to get should be the highest point ma…

diff…

I really admire this bank SAMPO for their innovative and creativity… keke… smart enug their keychain not only serve as a trademark for them, a keychain (obviously) and also a trolley cheater cause trolley that need to insert coin €0.50 can now use the SAMPO coin instead… handy always there… no need afraid no small change in ur wallet

simply detach the SAMPO coin from its holder

wah lah….it fits perfectly Trolley ur being cheated….keke…im not €0.50 but its twins SAMPO coin…

Interesting facts abt here… recycling are very handy here, located at most hypermarkets (we also have in Malaysia but who cares to recycle ooOo…but ppl here really recycle & i barely sees rubbish on d streets) They even hv big big big huge huge recycle center where u can dump/recycle all ur unusable items…I went there before but forgot take pic…keke…next time

ppl here very healthy with food one… they dont only eat POTATO okie (im telling u r baobei dear…haha)



and u get paid for recycling bottles. okie we also hv at Malaysia where u always heard OLD NEWSPAPER, SAU GAU POH CHEE but… one hand recycle another hand buy things and the total u spend on shopping items are deducted simply because u can use right away the amount of money u get from recycling botols or tins (dont pengsan here getting confused of what i trying to say :p i noe it sounds misleading…keke…fail my english ma)



“Yummy, finish drink can throw d bottles away lu”
“Yer, so rich throwing money away”
“Huh?”
“U dunno mer? Each of this bottle can earn u extra money”
“Really??? How much?…FAT TAT LU”
“€0.40 each”
“=.=… enug buy me 8 biji sweets only”