Dat 61 The first and the last

Today is the first day of the second half of the spring semester here in Helsinki and the last day of me still being under the legal drinking age in the United States.

Going onto the second half of the spring semester, the classes that I am taking are quite interesting. I had my first Corporate Risk Management class at 4pm, and in the first lecture, we have the Head of Research of Nordea Bank to lecture us about financial risk. Despite the fact that he didn't really capture the class's attention during the lecture (Andy fell asleep!), I think he is quite passionate about teaching, he said that it was his 4th time guest-lecturing this course and he had 5 years of teaching experience before he joined the Bank.

In a way, I am quite happy that we have such high quality professionals to teach us, but then I would much rather have a more animated and interesting lecturer. Oh, and he is coming back to guest-lecture us one more time this week. Hm, must drink more coffee then.

Finnish class today was so and so. Nothing special, except that Maria and Christina were both present in class and we listened to student presentations on Finnish winter war and Finnish holidays.

So after the classes, we decided that we should go and meet at the m-bar for drinks. I love talking to you guys! I had really a great time today!

(Photo: Vladimir and Barbora!)



Excited about tomorrow!

Day 60 Another nice dinner!

I cannot believe I have been here for 60 days already. Time flies. I remember when I was writing my first blog entry, labeling it Day 1, I said to myself, it will take forever to get to day 50! And now today it is day 60! Time really flies!

I am also quite proud of myself for building this blog, for writing in this blog for 60 days, never stopping. Some of my friends ask how I did it, how do I have the time to do it, how much effort I put in it. The truth is, when you write a piece each day, it is quite easy. It is not like you are writing a thousand word essay each day, it is just writing what you want to write, what you feel, what you see. And I treat it as a must-do thing everyday, like washing up, brushing your teeth and showering.

OKOK, enough talk about my blog. Today was Andy's and Barbora's birthday! Andy was kind enough to invite the bunch of us to his place for a delicious Chinese meal! The food was super delicious! There were fish in spicy soup, brocoli and chicken, eggplant and pork, beef brisket with potatoes and carrots, some seafood and nicely steamed rice! I love it sooo much!

The only thing about that night was, I forgot to bring my memory card to the dinner! I brought my camera but didn't bring the memory card because I was uploading photos before going and completely forgot to put it back in. ARGH.

Photos later then, maybe I will still some from Barbora's cool camera! +.+

Day 59 1 CSI DVD + 1 Big Mac Meal = 5.75 Euros?

Today I passed by one of Helsinki's Mickey D's branches and found that they are doing this promotion on their big mac meal. According to their promotion, when you buy a big mac meal, if you pay one more Euro, you get a CSI DVD!

Wow... this is so tempting! I mean, 1 Euro is roughly about 11 HKD, so 11 HKD for a legit copy of a CSI episode? tempting tempting. But the thing is, I always watch those episodes free on youku.com or tudou.com and I never really think I need to buy them. And if I want to own them, I can simply .. er hem.. use "other means" to get them.

Plus, you will also be forced to eat the unhealthiest food there ever exist in this world. Nah. not really worth it.

Well, today, I had dinner at Vivien's and Boon Sun's place! The meal was really really nice! Great food, great company, great jokes (love the Singaporean Coke joke!), great desserts, really good fun!

(Photo: Thanks for the meal! You guys cook really really well!)