LUCKY~

GUESS.... What do you think I am doing....???

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Playing some musical instruments like melodian??

Think again,

Probably not...

my two hands are free, don't you see?

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Yes, that's right(or wrong...kk).

You got it(or not...kk).

A water pipe~!!! I water piped(making up crazy words...kk)!!! It was my first water piping! To begin with, I don't smoke. I haven't smoked ever, never until... yeah, this water pipe poppped into my life~ hehe. I knew about the water pipe, and wished to try it before I die, and searched for it from about one year ago. There were couple of places where I can try it, in Korea, and wanted to find the place but failed. But, who could even imagine I could meet it in FINLAND? Haha, in your face, my unkind luck~ I won, this time! One of close friends, Virko had it, and he kindly let me try it!

The way it works was also very new for me~ we put some sticky tobacco into the small bowl which is wrapped in silver foil it the picture and place it on the pipe body. After making some holes to the foil(it is to give heat when we lit the coal on the foil.), we light a small and round coal which burns quite a long time~ It burns the tobacco through the foil and makes smoke come out. When we inhale through the tube, the smoke passes the cold water in the body of pipe and gives cool sense~ Cool smoke... I wouldn't believed it ever if I didn't experienced it myself~! Moreover, there were flavors to taste!!! The tobacco use to have flavor in it and we can choose what to smoke. For me, mixture of apple & mint~ I prefer mint... hehe.

Am I look happy?? Haha~ sure to be so! It was real unique, impressing experience for me! Now, I think I am coming to get some senses that why people smoke~(But I will not! I know myself. I am too venerable to bad lure. I am sure that I will kill myself for unhealthy temptation...k)

Yeah... I think I am going to understand why boys always smoke when they are having some heavy or moody conversations... hm... He looks really used to it, of course.

Stefania's potato cake!!!

My cute, cute, cute roomate decided one day to cook a potato cake. Stefania, from Italy, where all the good, delicious dishes are overflowing such as pizza, all the kinds of fabulous pasta, was somehow determined to show she could also do good in the kitchen!!! This great, pleasant incident was laid fuze by Claudio & Fabrizzio(not sure about there spelling... please correct me if I am wrong!) who nagged her that they were cooking for her all the time~ Stefania, for sure, proved she can really be great this day~ (the picture is Stefania washing the potatoes which ended up happily in our stomach~ (<--- how do we write plural stomach? Do you think it should be written 'stomaches'???)

boiling, simmering~ boiling, simmering~ boiling, simmering~

I should have taken photo every processes she made, but I couldn't do that becuase Stefania kept me away from the kitchen to make me do my studies~! I felt guilty for just sitting and eating what she has worked~ still, it was sooooooo nice that I couldn't be upset... haha! So, the processes that the raw potatoes to be that appetite provoking cake is ever in secret for now! Sorry... hehehe~ I only know that the ingredients were, cheeze, ham, potato, and some bread crumbles which were set on the top... it was truly delicious!!! 맛있어!!! (<--- It can be pronounced MAT-IT-sAW!!! It is Korean for 'it is delicious, good'...)

Just see everyone's face! Happy with the cake~ Thanks to Stefania, we had real nice dinner that day! You should tell me the way, so that I could also prepare by myself!

3rd Stammtish

How do we look?!?! We were supposed to dress awkwardly fot the night~!!! We just look crazy, don't we? HAHAHA!!! Everyone had to show there bad taste, but it seems that everybody happened to be soooooooo cute~!!! Yellow, Red, Blue, Pink~ it was indeed a colorful night.


Among as, the one who showed most impressive change was my dear roommate, STEFANIA!!! Cannot believe her hair changed so dramatically! What did you do on your hair?? Though, still beautiful & sweet~! Her blush was done by me. kkkk~!!!

Look at this sweet, cute, cute couple! Aren't they marvelous?! Dan(correct me, if I am wrong) and Vivi! Dan came to meet Vivi, and arrived in Jyvaskyla just yesterday~ As you can see in the picture I took, he has really gorgeous smile!!! Wow! Vivi, you are a lucky girl! Of course, same as you, Dan! You are a lucky boy!

Ziva & I~!!! We really have got to hang around sometime! She is studying social work~ She has so heart-warming atmostphere and has ability to make people feel comfortable~

The man wearing pink shirt with two beers in hand(!) is one German guy, named Daniel(correct me if I am wrong). We took same survival Finnish course, and got to know each other there. Senlin, he, and I were all in the course and all of us passed it! Horray~!!! Cheers for us!!! Since he lives in German, and it is quite easy to get back and come here(compared to my home country!!!), he often(for me) goes back to his home~ I envy YOU!

Just guess whose feet are whose!!! HAHAHA~

ME & SELIN. Selin is truly sweet, sweet, sweet girl! I thank for the suvivail Finnish course for I could meet her there! I look like a clown standing beside sober Selin! Hehe... Selin is from Turkey, the country which connects East(Asia) and West(Europe)!!! Well, it's quite intersting for me that, the way she thinks('schema' would fit for the word technically, though.)is rather similar to what typical Asians do than people do from totally western parts. Well, well, it's great to share same thoughts, feelings~ Does location where we live really makes people behave similarly? We'll see~ hehe...

Kirsty & Shanon & Moonju & me. Everyone was sure to have great fun at the night!

The Day of Paris~!

I saw my first movie in the teater in Finland! Yes, as you could imagine withe the picture above, I saw "2days in Paris"!!! I was really pleased that it was my first film in Finland since, the film of Julie Delpy's. "Before Sunrise" is my favorite, favorite, favorite movie~ and I crashed into the way she carried conversation in the film. The way the film pictured the real but really romantic love affairs was truly incredible for me to watch! There are some people who say the film is a sleeping pill, though, for me, it was a realistic LOVE~!!! Of course, afterwards, I also watched "Before Sunset", too. If "Before Sunrise" was a lemon, which gave me fresh and sweet as well as a little bit bitter for its momentariness, "Before Sunset" gives me a sense of tenderness but some sense of lackness which is destined to everyone as time flows... The memory is beautiful thing until we start to deal with it.. Well, However, I saw Julie Delpy's movie today with Vivi~ and it was great! The conversations were all colored with inspirating contents!

The story flows by mainly by two lovers who always tends to be crossing each other and ends up misunderstood. Of course the guy in the movie was TOO American and the girl was also exaggerated in their characters.. They show how those two(American & French...) cultures can be compared. But I am sure that they only show overly stated streotypes to give the audience to laught. The main point is that really different two lovers can still love each other!

Yeah... it was happy ending... It's good for ourselves to watch movies which ends happily, though the reality is a bit different from the film. To tell the truth, if those events happen to be in the real world we live, it cannot end that happy way, usually. But again, I prefer to watch happy films... or elso I might get influenced too much to the depressing mood.

Nevertheless, it was real fun to watch in both French & English with Finnish subtitle for I could totally fit myself into the American boy in the film! I was in the man's shoe during the film and it really helped me out through the running time to be interesting~ hehe.

P.S. It was rather surprising that the parents in the movie, were the real parents of Julie Dalpy's!!! Wow, for that!

P.S. I almost forgot to tell why the title of my diary is the day of Paris... haha~!!! I AM GOING TO PARIS NEXT FEBRUARY!!! I booked my plane tickets, today! From 13/2 to 20/2, 2008, I am in Paris with one of my friends leaving there! I am looking forward visiting Paris, badly!!!

Calming down a bit...

Yes, my IDs are from this blue funny looking creature.

I have started to use 'cookimon', the abbriviated form of cookie moster since I made my first e-mail. I don't know why I chose it, but may be the warm looking creature came into my mind that time. Actually, I haven't seen the Sessame(am I right?) Street, though, I loved the cookie monster's feature because it seems to have humor as well as some sense of being humanity. He was shown to me to be clumsy and full of mistakes to me, and that's the point where I found it to be familiar with me. Nobody is spotless or perfect in this world. I think we have to know to love or at least accept people(of course including oneself) with flaws or mistakes. It's real hard thing to do. We usually have prejudiced viewpionts when others seem to differ from ourselves and think it is 'weird' or perhaps 'strange'. However, it is natural to be different, and even we cannot understand them, it is OK since they could not understand us, vice versa.

Well, until here, it was my junk philosopic chat.

I feel great in these days. and really enjoying my days when I open my eyes...
Can't believe that I am living totally different life from what I used to have in Korea. The life in Seoul(the capital of South Korea) was like a real exciting hell! Alwasy in rush, under heavy pressure to do something(especially if it concerns my studies or preparing my future job), everybody is too busy to meet, full of traffic jam, full of mass transportations, much noise... I always dreamt in those days about a real countryside life like here! It's calm, pieceful, have lots of time for myself and so on.

I know it's just a streotype, but when I come to think of my blood type, which is Rh+ B~, I think I am dull in changes around me. I had no thoughts when I moved to Jyvaskyla, and my mind was simply occupied with simple, tangible things and many events which were held in few weeks. But as time has flown, and passes, the hectic air calmed down, and I started to feel something different... Well, I have to acknowledge myself, sometimes, I feel lonely here. It's natural to feel in that way. Yes, I know. People are born to be lonely in some sense and nobody can help it. I am afraid it might make you(any possible reader of my blog)worry, but it's not that miserable thing, it's just a matter of fact... I think.

I often heard from my mom and brother, that I am quite ruthless person... for making people around me stand a bit far and not let them come into my CLOSE area. Well... what do you think?

Sammy's BD PARTY

Yeah~ 10/18, it was dear Sammy's birthday and all of us prepared her surprise party that evening. Sammy was going to hold her own party on 10/19, and I bet she couldn't imagine there would be another surprise for her before that! We were in a rush when Moonju took her to by some food... We only had an hour or so to set the place!



Matching the time of Sammy's opening the door was quite tricky than we thought(look at the melted candles all over the cake~! haha...). The candles were almost gone when she came in, still she made up to turn of her birthday candles and make a wish! I'm sure that the wish would come true!!!

Sammy with her 21th birthday light!

Openning time~ She got a new dog! Now, she is going to take a walk with her(him?) everyday after taping her(or hime).


Moonju smothering Susana with a balloon. It's always pleasure to play with them~ (I am quite curious why pople get happy when they see balloons... It could also be other things to do the same role~ hehe.)

Everyone picked one puppy which resembles oneself and wrote down heart warming messages to Sammy.

Everyone... with apple crumble(Gaidig's), chocolate cake(Vivi & Mooju & Aure's). Fantastic!!!

Sammy & her puppy & Vivi & Sammy's boy friend(Can you regocnize hime? haha... He's definitely in the picture!!!)~ He's name is Mikko(am I right??) and works in Antila...hahahahahaha. He has brown hair and black eyes~

I & Sammy's boy friend & Sammy and her puppy.

TALLIINN, ESTONIA~!!!

On 10/11, total 17 people headed to Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. Since I'd never though I could visit there, I was blank about the place and had to look up some general info. about the country and others. Well, I am not sure whether it will be called in other countries as well, however, Estonia was one of the 3 Baltic countries(It was written in the net, as 'states', but unsure whether it is better to call them states or countries, or nations....) with Latvia, and Lithuania. I would never have believed that I could visit the country, in my whole life...! Full of excitement~ Rar Rar Rar~ For me(from far east, indeed), the name 'Balt' itself sounds totally dreamy!!!

We moved by the coach for about 4hours to Helsinki, and changed into ferry. The trip in the ferry took about 3hours, but we stayed one night there and started our expedition in Tallinn from the morning! It was great to experience crossing the country bound on water! Of course, the night was incredibly great, and everybody seemed to ball it up!





Stefania smiliing brightly! (The sun beside her was the only sun we saw during the trip... Haha~ Still, the weather made us weary and sometimes upset, the atmosphere was totally European to me and it was quite good... I believe so.)


Everybody in the ferry, having chats all together with the drink~! (YES, now I know that why people drink that much on the trip to Tallinn! Alcohol is really much cheaper than Finland... Well, is it good to be so? Well... well... If there is one good facet, there is of course counter aspect of it.) // The picture beside it is taken in the center part of the Old Town in Tallinn! YEAH~


Our luch was pan cake filled with various ingredients. I chose the one filled with minced meat and cheese. Well, actually when I hear 'pan cake', someting sweet and yellowish brown soft bread comes to my mind, usually with honey. It might be my stereotype which is built by Anglo-American culture... However, the pan cakes I saw and ate in Tallinn was totally different from what I expected and it really worked! I was almost stuffed when I finished it~ Taste? Of course, GOOOD~! ^-^*


In the pan-cake house. We were huge group, and I had to write down our orders...kk


Cute dragon which I found in the city museum's toilet... cute, cute, too cute to miss~
I heard that the dragon is symbol of evil in the Western(well...out of Asia, perhaps) while, Asians worship it as a symbol of sacred one. I am not sure whether it is true or not, though they look different in many ways. Asian dragons tend to be longer like snakes with claws and don't have wings usually. They grab or bite a holy marble and covered with scales... and have long, long mustaches... You can see it when you watch Sim Hyung Rae's movie, "The War" which dealt the typical legend or old tales of Korea. It is believed in Korea, that when a snake live a long life and fill a thousand years, it can turn into a dragon and fly up to the sky and be a holy creature.


The spire which is over the building infront, is the most famous landmark of Tallinn. It was shown in every picture when I entered Tallinn tour. We went up to the roof and walked around it!!! (in that stormy weather~!!!! We are adventurous people, indeed.)


Aure & Angela going down.


The stairs remind me of the story, Rapungel. Spirl stairs... It is also the subject of my one of favorite poems...


The Winding Stair

-W. B. Yeats. (1933)
My Soul.
I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,
Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,
Upon the breathless starlit air,
'Upon the star that marks the hidden pole;
Fix every wandering thought upon
That quarter where all thought is done:
Who can distinguish darkness from the soul
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Susana giving a lovely smile on the roof!


Simple common doors of acient(?) buildings gives me sensations of different as well interesting culture. Would others from else where but Korean will feel the same when they visit Korea? Wonder, wonder... ^^


Three sisters... something was famous for these buildings...(should look up)


100% European...


Can't believe it is the real scenery I looked!!!

Cute toys of Estonia. I truly love the features of them!!!

In returning ferry, we did some Spanish card game named something "Buro". (Not sure about the spelling.) I meant 'donkey' and Susana taught the rules... We made up some penalty with 'Truth or Dare Question". During the game, I took the role to make up cruel questions since the people who have to answer have to feel reluctant to answer the question... Well, well, sorry guys. I didn't meant to put you in trouble, but only tried not to make the air dull~

Again... alcohol...

I with (traditional??) origianl blend of Estonia beer. (How happy I look like~! Haha~)

The name was Saku(lager). It was smooth and tasty. I am sure that if my mother was hear with me, she and I would have drunken dozen of those seating there...

Everyone... having chats with chips...