TBN 3

Once again time to drag my antic sony to the night of Tokyo. Really should buy a smaller one...or maybe better not. ;D What to say, had lots and lots of fun like always exploring the night life of Tokyo. Got into really strange party, no wonder with Israel lol. Actually Israel was playing there as a DJ. Small cellar kept inside such a party that five Finns, French and Israeli didn't get any extra attention being only westerns inside. Better not to reveal more or your good night sleep could be history. Here some pics from that party.



Can you find all the Finns from the pic?


A privat party inside an another.


She was playing accordion and singing at the same time...in russian, not really but sounded like that.


Someone should change the dead bulbs...


The Land of the Rising Sun.

shopping and judo

Fixed THREE holes from the back tire of my bike on last Wednesday night. Thanks to hint from my dad, I was also able to fix the problem with chains getting off all the time. So, everything fine with the bike? Nope. Thursday morning on my way to lab tire went flat ONCE AGAIN. I continued with empty tire to school. If I wouldn’t have been in a hurry to morning class, the dear “mama chari” would be in the bottom of the river…

Next class was cancelled so asked from our student office where could find cheap bike. They are always so helpful and they didn’t let me go before they had called all around Tokyo and Yokohama in order to find the cheapest bike. Finally I was walking to the train station the map to the shop in my pocket. One hour later I was bicycling back to school with my brand new “oritatami-bicycle” (bicycle which you can “fold” smaller and take in train...hopefully). It took me 50 min. to cycle back to school and I missed only 5 min. of my next lesson. My new beauty has 6 gears and nice looking appearance. Only problem is that it’s so small. But hey, it’s a perfect work out. ;)

Gym with two wheels.

Gas station in small space. :)

What else…? Oh yes, started a new old hobby. I put judogi (judo uniform) on me first time since I was 11 years old boy. Felt damn good. From now on there will be judo training at least once a week. Krav-maga I’ll do only in seminars every now and then. It’s way too expensive to go local (the only one in whole town) KM-gym once week to do push ups. Here at the school’s gym I can do it for free…twice a week.

Not only the training of judo is fun but the atmosphere in the dojo is so nice. Can you imagine, when I went there on Saturday afternoon just to meet the sensei (my tutor organized it day before after I was able to find the gym), he insisted me to join their evening training. But told him that I haven’t done judo for last 15 years and I don’t even have judogi. No problem, he promised to borrow one of his old ones and so I was practicing throws once again. Heehee, really got practicing ukemi when did some sparring in the end with young Japanese girl. Got lesson how the technique overcomes the power. :D

Kimono day

Oops, almost forgot to share these pictures of beautiful kimonos from Kioto. Imagine the faces of us, two baka-gaichin, arriving first time in their life to Kioto and the whole city seems to be full of beautiful girls wearing kimonos. What a city! ...Next day my friends at the lab told me that on that particular day every 20 years old girl is wearing kimono (the age of becomming officially adult around here). The public holiday for celebration of becomming an adult. Heehee, what would happen in Finland on such a day..?! :)

bicycle & Geisha

2 weeks and 5 days waiting, 2 min. 30 sec. work, and 200 yens later my precious bike is finally fixed. Yep, fixed my bicycle on Saturday. It was sooooooo nice to go to the lab by bike today (the train is slow and boring)! Only that everything is not ok with it. Chains went off 2 times on way there and once on way back. :(


These small parts solved my problems with bike.


As I promised some time ago, here you finally have the rare picture of a living art which we were able to catch in our trip to Kioto and Gion district.


Geisha.

Study meeting

Phuuuuh, study meeting finally over...for the moment. Have to continue next Friday about the same topic. Got also some homework to do for the next time (deriving some equations).

Woke up this morning at 5 am. It felt like being back home, cold and dark. Sun doesn't rise before 6.30 here. Maybe this weekend I'll just relax. Watch some movies and sleep at least 10 hours per night. We'll see how does it go. But now feel like sleeping while standing still...


Our campus, Suzukakedai, yesterday.

At the moment...

I'm sitting in the lab. Finally my blog is updated...phuuuh. Ok, one mission accomplished another one waiting. Every Friday morning we have a study meeting, where one of the students of our lab is teaching others about some chosen topic. At the moment we are doing the book of "Thermodynamics of Solids" and guess whos turn it is this Friday..?! Yep, and with the topic: "Free Energy of Binary Systems". Better to get started, time is ticking.

Before getting into the interesting world of thermodynamics, and always so lovely differential equations, let me sum up what has been going on lately.

Weekly meeting last week's Monday. So, busy weekend with preparing presentation to it. Now I started to work with my Master's thesis. Every two weeks I have to send a version of it to my professor in Finland. This Monday was first deadline. No sleeping between Sunday and Monday.... Last night I enjoyed alot and slept 10 hours. Can't even remember when I have last time slept that much. (^_^) Oh, almost forgot. I passed the BIG EXAM which I did that Friday before going to Nara. What a relief. Only Master's thesis missing from my degree!

Chinese bicycle went broken two weeks ago. It's still like that 'cause can't find the broken part. I would need the chain-connector part...so far no luck. Local way seems to be, if there is only a flat tyre, to buy a new bicycle. Soon I've to follow it also. Miss bicycling and using a train is slow. Those cheap bicycles are probably meant only to use for few hundred kilometers in their life span.

Hmmm, What else? Oh yes, my knee didn't like that half marathon. Now it doesn't let me do even basic 30 min. morning jogging. It starts to hurt a lot and walking is painful for a one week. Better not to run. Now my goal to run full marathon is postponed a bit. But we'll see what happens in the future.

Found some pictures from my cell phone.


One pic from our BIG Christmas cleaning day.


Funny fish in the river next to my jogging route. When I stop on the bridge, they gather together under me...strangest fish I've seen in my life.


Filling a tank with liquid nitrogen. Cool stuff (-196 Celsius deg.).


One of the best things work in a lab studying superconductors. You play with them. (^_^)


And once more. A pellet of superconducting material, cooled to -196 degree, floating in air under a magnet.

Bowling

A week ago Antti, my Finnish friend (who I met some weeks ago) here in Tokyo, invited me to come to join bowling with him and his friends. Nice time, bowling following finnish style evening and night...some vodka played small role as usually... ;D


Antti the champion of the night.


Jussi scoring good.


From left: Dawn (CAN), Antti (FIN), Jussi (FIN) and Mika (FIN).