Wohoo...I'm rich and famous...well maybe not rich...actually maybe not even famous but anyway my photo with a link to my Flickr feed was selected for inclusion in the fifth
edition of Schmap San Jose and Silicon Valley Guide:
San Jose Sharks
http://www.schmap.com/sanjose/introduction_history/p=168157/i=168157_23.jpg
Talk about lucky shot :)
I just happened to be in the right place at the right time and saw an opportunity for a nice pic.
But that's the way it works for pros and photographing enthusiasts as well I guess. They just take a lot of pics and one out of maybe thousand is worth saving.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
My Qstock experience
So last weekend was Qstock but I didn't have time to go see all the bands I wanted to because we were also moving to our new house the same weekend.
Anyway I did see Poets of the Fall, PMMP, Manic Street Preachers, Kotiteollisuus, Sahara Hotnights, Ismo Alanko Teholla and parts of the gigs from Amorphis, Radiopuhelimet, YUP and some local rising stars. The festival area was a lot bigger this year than before. The main stage was also bigger than before and everything worked very well. Big thank you and congratulations to organizers!
I'm very disappointed for not being able to make it to see Stam1na. I only heard the last three of their songs while walking from my car to the festival area. It would've been also nice to catch Mokoma but you can't have it all.
All the gigs I saw were good but the best by atmosphere was PMMP. The video here is of their first big hit, Rusketusraidat, and as you can see it still works.
Manic Street Preachers were also great but their gig was a bit shorter than scheduled and they didn't even do encore. The video is of the song they started the show with - Motorcycle Emptiness.
Ismo Alanko Teholla is amazing, it's just unbelievable what Teho Majamäki can do with all the drums and percussion instruments ...and Ismo's songs are simply genius. This is Levottomat Jalat:
I don't get why Poets of the Fall has not broken through internationally bigger. Here's a shot of them performing Carnival of Rust.
Overall I must say that I enjoyed most of these bands on Qstock much more than Kiss and Bon Jovi gigs I saw in Helsinki on May and June.
I've got also pictures from Qstock on Flickr. I'm sorry for the bad quality of the pics and the videos. The camera on N81 8GB is not that good :(
I should have taken my real camera with me.
Anyway I did see Poets of the Fall, PMMP, Manic Street Preachers, Kotiteollisuus, Sahara Hotnights, Ismo Alanko Teholla and parts of the gigs from Amorphis, Radiopuhelimet, YUP and some local rising stars. The festival area was a lot bigger this year than before. The main stage was also bigger than before and everything worked very well. Big thank you and congratulations to organizers!
I'm very disappointed for not being able to make it to see Stam1na. I only heard the last three of their songs while walking from my car to the festival area. It would've been also nice to catch Mokoma but you can't have it all.
All the gigs I saw were good but the best by atmosphere was PMMP. The video here is of their first big hit, Rusketusraidat, and as you can see it still works.
Manic Street Preachers were also great but their gig was a bit shorter than scheduled and they didn't even do encore. The video is of the song they started the show with - Motorcycle Emptiness.
Ismo Alanko Teholla is amazing, it's just unbelievable what Teho Majamäki can do with all the drums and percussion instruments ...and Ismo's songs are simply genius. This is Levottomat Jalat:
I don't get why Poets of the Fall has not broken through internationally bigger. Here's a shot of them performing Carnival of Rust.
Overall I must say that I enjoyed most of these bands on Qstock much more than Kiss and Bon Jovi gigs I saw in Helsinki on May and June.
I've got also pictures from Qstock on Flickr. I'm sorry for the bad quality of the pics and the videos. The camera on N81 8GB is not that good :(
I should have taken my real camera with me.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Qstock...I can hardly wait for it
Allright, it's time for the local Qstock festival again next weekend. It'll be fantastic to go there to see great gigs from great bands on Friday and Saturday. There's an excellent set of bands on the menu this year, go check it out yourself if you don't take it from me: http://www.qstock.org/2008/index.php?sivu=bandit.
On Friday I'm especially looking forward to see Mokoma, Poets Of the Fall and Manic Street Preachers. It'll be also interesting to catch Sahara Hotnights.
Saturday's setting on the main stage is at least as interesting as Friday's. I just love PMMP live. I've seen the 3 times so far. Kotiteollisuus is also one of my big favorites although I haven't seen them live before. And the main act on Saturday, Within Temptation will be interesting as well although I havent' really listened to their music much. Stam1na will be on "Rantalava" stage and that's definetly a must see. I'll also try to catch part of Jippu's gig.
Keep Rockin'!!!
On Friday I'm especially looking forward to see Mokoma, Poets Of the Fall and Manic Street Preachers. It'll be also interesting to catch Sahara Hotnights.
Saturday's setting on the main stage is at least as interesting as Friday's. I just love PMMP live. I've seen the 3 times so far. Kotiteollisuus is also one of my big favorites although I haven't seen them live before. And the main act on Saturday, Within Temptation will be interesting as well although I havent' really listened to their music much. Stam1na will be on "Rantalava" stage and that's definetly a must see. I'll also try to catch part of Jippu's gig.
Keep Rockin'!!!
Salmon...what salmon?
Now it's official...I'm a bad fisherman. That's why this blog is called fisher wannabe :)
I'm now back to Oulu and done salmon fly fishing for this summer. This was the fourth summer since I started fly fishing salmon and the first time I didn't catch any of those beautiful and tasty creatures!
I was in Utsjoki for 12 days and fished in 9 of those days for about 40 hours altogether. I fished in Vetsijoki and Utsjoki rivers and the only action was in Utsjoki with a small salmon, tintti, which somehow escaped after a couple of minutes fight.
As any fisherman, good or bad, I can blame some of the bad fishing luck on the conditions. The early part of the first week I was up north there was still some new fish swimming up to Teno river and its tributaries and they were quite active. But towards the end of that week it all basically stopped as the water on Teno river got very high because of the heavy rains espeacially on the upper parts of the river.
The good news is I got much better casting the fly with a shooting head as I dind't loose any good casting time by playing with salmons :)
The Vision's fly fishing jacket I bought this spring was very good and I can honestly recommend it to anybody.
I'm now back to Oulu and done salmon fly fishing for this summer. This was the fourth summer since I started fly fishing salmon and the first time I didn't catch any of those beautiful and tasty creatures!
I was in Utsjoki for 12 days and fished in 9 of those days for about 40 hours altogether. I fished in Vetsijoki and Utsjoki rivers and the only action was in Utsjoki with a small salmon, tintti, which somehow escaped after a couple of minutes fight.
As any fisherman, good or bad, I can blame some of the bad fishing luck on the conditions. The early part of the first week I was up north there was still some new fish swimming up to Teno river and its tributaries and they were quite active. But towards the end of that week it all basically stopped as the water on Teno river got very high because of the heavy rains espeacially on the upper parts of the river.
The good news is I got much better casting the fly with a shooting head as I dind't loose any good casting time by playing with salmons :)
The Vision's fly fishing jacket I bought this spring was very good and I can honestly recommend it to anybody.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Fishing season ... argh, I wanna start it already!
This seems to be the 3rd summer in row that I don't start my fishing season in Kiiminkijoki but I have to wait until my summer break when I get to go to Utsjoki. This is my last week at work and on Tuesday next week I'll start my fishing season in Utsjoki...either in Utsjoki river or in Vetsijoki river. I've heard that there's quite a lot of salmon at least on Teno river. Aslakki says the salmon is climbing up to trees already :) (see http://www.tenojoki.fi/tenopaasivut/aslak/)
I've made only moderate equipment purchases for this season. I got me a fly fishing jacket and a Guideline's shooting head from Perhokolmio. The line I got is Power Taper DDC Connect Intermediate for one hand rods. It'll be interesting to see how it works...I'll try to report it here. The jacket is the long version of the Vision FlyWater jacket. Should be ok but if not I'll definitely report it here.
I've made only moderate equipment purchases for this season. I got me a fly fishing jacket and a Guideline's shooting head from Perhokolmio. The line I got is Power Taper DDC Connect Intermediate for one hand rods. It'll be interesting to see how it works...I'll try to report it here. The jacket is the long version of the Vision FlyWater jacket. Should be ok but if not I'll definitely report it here.
House deal done
A quick update on the house matter. We did get into agreement with the seller on the house I mentioned in my previous post so I'll be moving from the northern side of the city of Oulu to the the southern side. I'm so excited about moving to a new house...we've already started packing stuff and today we need to go select the tiles for kitchen.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Buying a new house
I've been lazy on blogging for quite some time already. Somehow Facebook takes quite a lot of my "online life energy" and it's hard to find time and energy to do blogging. Twittering I've almost totally given up on because of Facebook.
I've been up to so many things since the last time I wrote something here but the biggest thing is that we've sold our house and are looking for a new one now. We're already in kind of hurry as we should move out from our current house by the end of July. I've made an offer on a new house (literally new...it's supposed to be ready by 3rd week of July) yesterday and now waiting for the response from the seller...should know something by tomorrow.
It certainly isn't the best possible time to be upgrading a house right now as the interests are high and still going further up. Also it is expected that the house/apartment prices are going to go down in Finland. But we made the decision to sell our current house a bit before all the signs of the economy turned to red. But as a wise man once said, let's hope for the best and fear for the worst :)
I've been up to so many things since the last time I wrote something here but the biggest thing is that we've sold our house and are looking for a new one now. We're already in kind of hurry as we should move out from our current house by the end of July. I've made an offer on a new house (literally new...it's supposed to be ready by 3rd week of July) yesterday and now waiting for the response from the seller...should know something by tomorrow.
It certainly isn't the best possible time to be upgrading a house right now as the interests are high and still going further up. Also it is expected that the house/apartment prices are going to go down in Finland. But we made the decision to sell our current house a bit before all the signs of the economy turned to red. But as a wise man once said, let's hope for the best and fear for the worst :)
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