Paintball / Tequila / Juanda

I just arrived from my weekend in Jyväskylä, a small city (town) about 2 hours away from Tampere. The reason for the trip: Juanda's goodbye party. He is leaving tomorrow to Ethiopia for a couple of months to do his Masters Thesis. I went there with Beto and Vinas to say 'good-bye' and party for a while. The party went well but we got passed out a bit too early. The next day we went to play PAINTBALL. However, before going there I decided to finish the unfinished business that I had left the day before: TEQUILA...

A finnish guy told me that if the organizers of the game found out that I was in a 'bad-condition' (too drunk), I would not be allowed to join in. They didn't find out and guess what: I RECOMMEND IT. You sweat more, you risk yourself more, and the pain becomes painless. I did get hit many times and i have to admit that i only shot 3 or 4 guys during the whole 3 hours that we played.. but it was still 100% worth it. I got a couple of bruises: 2 in the stomach, 2 in the legs, 2 in the chest and one in the neck (straight on my 'adams apple'). It didnt hurt as much as i would have imagined, but it did leave a lot of pieces of plastic stucked in my neck and some sort of paint/blood mix (but with some water everything was ok).

So, the moral of the story is tequila + paintball = fun fun fun. But also... tequila + paintball = terrible hangover. Terrible.. I took 3 Panadols (the finnish # 1 painkiller), but they didnt do the job. Later we ate like animals and we went to Juanda's house to drink a bit more and pass out again too early.

Juanda is now on his way to Ethiopia to find a new life and probably the time of his life. We (Beto and I) will for sure miss him and hope he comes back safe and sound.. where i stress the word SOUND

Not worth it...

A few days ago I decided to quit smoking. I had been trying to do it for a while but i guess i needed something to wake me up. I heard 2 different stories of 2 people close to me. The first one past away after a terrible death involving the removal of part of her tongue and other organs.The second story is the diagnosis of chronic emphysema to a person very close to me (both of these stories in 2 weeks). So, i decided.. no more smoking for me. Its not worth it.

I also decided to check out a couple of statistics in the web that could wake me up even more (something like the extra-cold-water-bucket on my face)... this is what i found: 22% of all male deaths and 11% of all female deaths are due to smoking 25-a-day smokers are 25 times more likely to die from lung cancer than nonsmokers Within 10-15 years of giving up, an ex-smokers' risk of developing lung cancer is only slightly greater than someone who has never smoked... so i guess that after having smoked for the last 10 years of my life... i still have a chance of turning the table around... and if there is actually only one chance to live... it better be good.

Consequences of smoking:
foul smelling hair, hair loss, loss of hearing, glue ear, eye irritation, cararacts, blindmess, loss of sense of smell, reduced supply of oxygen to brain, increadsed risk of stroke, paralysis and loss of speech, headaches, nicotine hangovers, mood changes, panic attacks, gum disease and tooth loss, tobacco-stained teeth, foul-smelling breath, dimishished sense of taste, plaque and gum disease, cancers of lips, tongue, throat, larynx, oesophagus, bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia, coughs and colds, wheexing, shortness of breath, asthma, tar deposits, damaged cilia, pleurisy, lung cancer, slow healing skin wounds, premature ageing and wrinkling, reduced oxygen supply to skin resulting in gray, parched appearance, tobacco-stained fingers, osteoporosis, narrowed and hardened arteries leading to arteroclerosis and gangrene (AMPUTATIONS), cold hands and feet, vascular disease, stomach ulcers, cancer of stomach, kidneys, pancreas, bladder, impotence, deformed and reduced sperm, reduced fertility, low birth-weight baby, cancer of cervix, cot death

Live in my Life

I believe that it is possible to study the life of a person by looking at the music which surrounded his or her life.

Nowadays, i have been introduced to an australian band which I did not know before: The Cat Empire

They are incredibly famous (which makes me feel like a music ignorant), and incredibly good for my taste. I am not sure if i can describe their genre (which according to I-tunes is either 'Alternative & Punk' or 'Easy Listening'... what ever that means), but it is something between jazz, reggae and punk with a touch of latin wind instruments.

I have listened to both of their CDs: The Cat Empire, and Two Shoes... they are just EXCELLENT. Are those kind of CDs that you can just put from the first song and glide yourself to the last one without thinking it twice.

Personally, i think that the song 'The Wine Song' is amazing, also 'In My Pocket', and 'Two Shoes'... wonder if i will ever get to see them live in my life.

TheCatEmpire

Job.. where? how?

Now i am in a foreign land. Everything is nice.. life is simple (maybe too simple...) and i am graduating soon. I NEED A JOB (a cry for help?)... the thing is that it has proven very difficult (not to say impossible and painful) for me to even get an interview in Finland. I guess that you win some and you lose some...

I havent given up on Finland yet, but if i had to guess, i would think that by this time next year i wont be around here.. I actually would like to go far... SOUTH AFRICA... NEW ZEALAND.. SINGAPOUR.. dont know... or close also.. maybe The Netherlands (the nether-nether land)???... hmm... i guess i have to start to play my cards...