Finland

Strong sun, dark clouds, blue clear sky, thunder, lightning, green areas. All together at the same time.

Got the keys for my new apartment in Helsinki... :-)

فيه ايه يا عم ؟ فيه ايه يا عم ؟!

ايه يا عم مالك ؟
و الله بندفع فوق ال 30% ضرايب

* 1 month since I quit smoking.
- Do you want to smoke again ? Yes.
- Are you going to smoke again ? No. I hope I can resist more.
* 3 months in Finland.
- Do you have new friends ? No.
- Did you know anyone ? No.

= Why is life that hard ?

* A month since I've been here in Finland and started working for Nokia
* I've got my creditcard PIN code in the morning (From the nordea bank suckers). At last they accepted my application but they decided to send the card to the wrong branch. 7 minutes on the phone to convince them to send it to another branch. It takes them also 2-3 days to send it to another branch!
* My debian.org account has been created and NOW I'm at last an official Debian Developer (Technically, this happened on the 14th. An hour ago ;-))

Nothing to say. Nothing real yet. I'm still alive. I'm not that OK. I got lost 2 times when I was coming back home today. This is the 2nd time for me to come home and the 2nd time to get lost. I moved here yesterday. Over.

Now I'm back at the hotel. Coming back wasn't that easy but it was easier than going to myhome. I still can't find any landmark near my home but identifying a landmark near the hotel is easy (The Nokia research center building).

I missed the bus at 15:44 (It passed just in front of me but I didn't wave to the driver. Don't ask me how). But I took the 16:14 bus. 30 minutes in this cold!

Moi,

Yes, It wasn't easy to reach my new home but I've done it!

I'm now posting this from my home with my 1M Cable connection.

And I was supposed to move today. I thought that I should take the bus to Espoo where my new place is, buy food and keep it in the apartment and install the cable modem I bought yesterday, take the bus back to Helsinki, take a taxi with all my bags back to Espoo.

It's a bit complicated I know but I didn't feel like moving my bags and then not being able to find food or coming back to Helsinki. At least, here I'm in he hotel, the office is within a walkable distance, I have internet, I somehow know where the market is and I know where I can find a restaurant.

I've seen my new apartment today. It's more of a studio with a bathroom and a kitchen.