End of one life Sudden long weekend On wednesday I had a normal morning. I woke up at 6.50 being tired as usual and I was swearing my miserable life and worst job on earth. I had my breakfast, packed my laptop and put on my company's cap. I was ready to face the day's challenges. On the way to work I thought I had finally became so tired that I had slept several days and woke up on Friday morning instead of Wednesday. The roads were quiet, almost like midsummer traffic in Helsinki. At the airport I parked my car [View Full Entry]

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Here again New beginning It's been a very long time since I wrote here last time. I had even forgotten the password to log in. But here I am again laptop on my lap, watching Ice Hockey World Championship game Russia - Switzerland. Outside temperature is around +40 C here in Kuwait and the game is broadcasted from Canada. I have desperately tried to follow a game where Finland plays but for some reason they don't show any of those games in local sports channels. Just some random games with no intrest at all like games where Denmark is beatened up [View Full Entry]

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Holy Month of Ramadan The month of Ramadan started around 13th of September and I must say these around two weeks here experiencing this month have been rather interesting. It is like Christmas time which last a whole month what comes to people's habbits. Well, not exactly but there are some similarities like eating until you burst after fasting all day from sunrise to sunset. This they repeat every day. Every evening is a feast. And people visit each others all the time for breaking the fast together around 6 pm after the prayer. People are very tired, hungry, thirsty, dizzy [View Full Entry]

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Nightmarish days We have been absent for some days and the reason is that first we were sick at home and then spend a couple of days in Al-Salam Hospital. Last friday our friend Khaled visited us and he brought us delicious Egyptian sweet pastries. Unfortunately someone in the food chain had added his own spices in them. We all were supposed to make a small trip to Iraqi border across the desert (sounds like nice day off trip, huh?). Soon after eating the pastries and having tea, Vera with very fast digestion felt not allright and she decided to stay [View Full Entry]

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... and almost getting used to this place :)) Legal immigrant Good news! I got my local driving licence here. In fact this happened a couple of weeks ago if not a month. Finally I can drive legally. This really was a lucky strike. I almost gave up hope of me getting this document. It might sound weird that getting a driving licence is such a big issue. My sponsor tried to get this done for me for four monthes but finally I managed to arrange it using my own contacts. By chance I happened to meet another finn in a [View Full Entry]

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Recovery after a disaster Thanks to a frequent follower of the blog, Project Manager Esa, I was able to return the lost entries back to the blog. They are not really complete though. Some formats of the headings etc are wrong and links do not work. I am not going to fix them though. It is 23:35, I received a phone call and complaints from the airport about some problems I have no clue about. So, I think I must start to find out what they are talking about this time... At this moment it seems it is a problem in [View Full Entry]

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Last entries lost There was some crash on the information highway as the last survived entry mysteriously predicts. This site had suffered some vast problem or attack and around 50000 entries disappeared. My entries since March 2007 seem to be lost for good. I don't know how to get them back. [View Full Entry]

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Summer is here Many people escape this place this time of the year. Especially expatriotes who have normal agreement here. I just talked to a Finn I happened to meet here and he was going to Finland for a month. They had rented a cottage next to a lake for whole month. There is not enough words to tell how much I would like to do the same. Well, I can just dream about one month long vacation. Temperatures are every day above +45 C and night temperature is around +40 C. My car has 3 liter engine and it is [View Full Entry]

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Weekend after returning back to reality After one week in Finland it was hot reality to find myself again here in a middle of heat and dust wrestling with same challences as before holiday. I realized the work continued the same or even a bit more demanding than before. Today after the weekend I felt good about my work, I thought I had done fine job last week and I felt confident. Well, those ****** shot me down as first thing in the morning, just after "Hello, good morning, how was your weekend?". Ok, I thought about it myself and talked [View Full Entry]

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Escape from cuckoo's nest FOR COMPLETE SET OF PHOTOS, CLICK THIS TEXT In a train between Turku and Helsinki I am writing this while green finnish scenery with nicely rolling hills, wild flowers, red wooden houses, forests and a bit gray sky is passing us while the train rushes towards Helsinki. I will continue writing when I get back to Kuwait and I have the whole story to tell. So, if this entry is strangely jumping from subject to subject, just forgive me. We left my brother Mika and his wife Marianne to their small town and to their charming small [View Full Entry]

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