Archive for January, 2007

Helsinki and movies

The weather turned to snowing again. And the premier of “Night At The Museum” movie is tonight and in Helsinki. The highway between Tampere and Helsinki was closed in the middle of the trip because of the accident but it caused only minor delay. We still arrived early … So typical for me. :oops: I am always early everywhere and then I have to figure out what to do with the spare time.

Snowing

It is snowing again.

Snow again

Well, we got some snow once again. This time the ground is actually even looking white. Let’s see how long this lasts this time, I have become a little bit sceptical whether we are going to get any kind of proper winter this year. Weather forecast isn’t promising anything too good.

And of course it turned out to be slippery again - not too difficult to drive but something was reminding about the weather in the dashboard, the little yellow warning light telling me that computer is actually taking care of handling the too much sliding.

Everyone are planning their winter vacations although, it doesn’t feel like winter when it is so warm and so far (until today) we haven’t been seeing the snow but I guess it is something people are used to do at this time of the year - planning the upcoming winter vacation.

Xinyue coming to Finland

It is now 15 days until Xinyue will arrive to Finland and I am beginning to think that we will not see any snow before that day. And the longer we will go with this season, the better it would be if we wouldn’t get any snow as then it will just take too long before Spring will arrive.

Winter is not coming

Winter is not coming after all. We are now running on the sixth day of the new year and we still cannot see much of a sign for a winter. Temperature is still quite high for this time of a year and no sign of snow.

The text messages are still not travelling between Finland and China, phone calls are back to normal now. Internet is slowly recovering, it is now possible to access some sites in China again and people in China are able to access for example Windows Live Messenger network. According to the recent reports, the recovery will take still pretty much all January. The Wikipedia has been again quite quick on getting up to day and already has an article about 2006 Hengchun earthquake and also has details about the damaged communication cables.