Like a sperm in the desert

My microphone is finally working on Ubuntu, but the sound quality is below poor. I guess I should change some settings but I'm running out of ideas. I have tried pretty much everything now. It just keeps adding this most annoying noise to what ever I'm trying to record. It's driving me crazy because I totally feel like recording something decent.

And I started to listen to this old recording of mine. It's from the summer 2006 and I remember how it took hours to get it right... Though I didn't. I guess I was too focused on the right timing that I didn't notice how I'm singing "like a sperm in the desert" instead of "storm".

Amoena - Annie's Song

I have always known that I can't pronounce English correctly. It doesn't keep me from blogging though.

UlosPäätä?

My bright moment

Finland is a bilingual country even though only about 5,5% of the population is actually speaking Swedish. That's odd, right? But I guess we Finns just like to honor our history or something. I really don't mind about the whole bilingual thing as long as I don't have to speak Swedish.

I have to use IBS Enterprise at work and for some reason its user interface is bilingual too. I think they just got really lazy when they were translating it. For example it might ask me in Finnish if I really want to close a tab but then I have to choose my answer between Swedish "JA" or "NEJ". So technically I'm forced to use Swedish every day and I have started to build some kind of strange attraction to it.

And today I even found myself thinking that I could study it more on my own time. But I wasn't really serious with the idea. It was like one of those ideas you never even try to carry out. You just play with them because they could made you sound so much smarter but aren't really you. Like when you think you should read more when you don't even like reading. Generally a good idea but not exactly realistic.

But I kept playing with this absurd idea of mine. Like how speaking Swedish could benefit me in my life. And then I went even further. I started to think how cool it could be if I could befriend with a Swedish Finn.

Wouldn't that be something?

And then I forgot the whole stupid thing.

Until like five minutes later.

When I remembered that I already have a friend who speaks fluent Swedish. Not that I've heard but that's what he says.

One goal achieved! Hooray!

Synchronized thoughts

(19:58:25) Hanz: sä oot kyl ottanu aika riskin et asut yksin linuxin kaa
(19:58:25) Amoena: jännää kyl olla tälleen joku viikko pari linux only

Excuses in disguise

I can't believe it's been a week since my last post. I do have plenty of excuses, but I know I don't have to make any.

I've been waiting for a good occasion to go to Viiala than just a regular weekend. But whenever there's a little holiday my aunt and uncle go there and then there's no room for me. So I spent my last weekend there, which explains why my blog is a few posts short. I could have blogged from there, but I was too busy eating and getting stuff. Anyway.

My mom gave me new curtains. They're like from the 80's and absolutely hideous. I'll post some pictures as soon as they're on. I'm going to make some other changes too as soon as Aleksi moves out. He already has an apartment and he's like half way there. He's just waiting for his fridge to start working or something. Anyway. I just want my place to really look like mine. It used to be our home for over three years and I don't want to live in the middle of relics or anything. I'm ready for something fresh.

And on Monday I had a small social gathering. First Mikke (formerly known as M.) asked if he could come over because his class was canceled. And since J.R. was still hanging around and Hannes didn't seem to have anything better to do I asked them to come over too. I like how these things happen spontaneously and almost like out of the blue. Only Ossi was missing, and I kinda really missed him. It would have been like in the old days when we were still working together, except even better since there's no time limits at my house and I had cookies.

By the way, I received a comment from PartyFlickan. I feel honored. I've been reading her blog for like forever and I was devastated when she stopped updating her first blog. So thanks for the sequel, it's definitely one of my Finnish favorites.

Hmm... I guess they don't pay me for blogging, I better start working!