Oulu

one of the cities I love most in the world.

stuff 2010

yesterday I came back home very late like past midnight and I parked my vespa in the garage. I've spotted my old record player laying in a corner of the garage. it was an akai just like this one:

it stopped working a couple of years ago because the motor drive and the belt gave up and it's not worth to repair them.

I am not that much into turntable technology, I am not a technician, but I know that there are some good ones and some bad ones. so I am planning to do some research and maybe make an investment and buy one someday sooner or later.
I will clearly look for Technics ones or maybe another akai.





it depends how much money I will have because me and Polly are planning to do some travelling and travelling has the priority for me (:
we are planning to go to visit many places around europe in next months.

athens




istanbul




barcelona




and of course helsinki many times

this year I hope we will have the time to do the travelling we want (:

helsingin rautatieasema

I've found some interesing pictures of the Helsinki Railway Station which I am glad to post here. I like this being theforst blogpost of '10 and I hope I will spend more time in Helsinki then in any other city as soon as possible.
I've visited Helsinki last summer with Polly. We spent two weeks living in Malminkartano which is a quartell of the north outbounds of Helsinki, you can get there with the LR trains running from the Central Railway Station. You can reach basically every place in Helsinki and every city of Finland from the station.
I am missing very much the city, I loved it while we were staying there, there are so many reasons of me being so sentimntal towards Helsinki. But I bet everyone can share my feelings if visits the city.

The station is used by approximately 200,000 passengers per day, making it Finland's most-visited building.
The main maintenance area for the Finnish Railways is located at Pasila, the first station out of Helsinki Central. The old steam locomotive roundhouse facility to the south of Pasila station still stands and is used for sundry functions. This roundhouse facility is pretty impressive to see and me and Polly were so happy that something so peculiar is still being used and kept alive nowadays.

The first railway station in Helsinki was built in 1860, as Finland's first railway between Helsinki and Hämeenlinna was opened.
It was desinged by the Swedish architect Carl Albert Edelfelt.


Soon the station turned out to be too small. A contest was organised in 1904 with the intention of producing plans for a new station. It was won by Eliel Saarinen. The new design was finished in 1909 and the station was opened in 1919.





I love this place <3

<3

*Betulaceae

A month ago me, Polly and Emi went to bosco in città to take some pictures for Polly's new project *Betulaceae.
It was a nice place and a nice afternoon.
This may be a backstage image. But you can click and check the set on Polly's flickr.

<3

ilta puuro

I was at Polly's place an hour ago when my mum called me because she wanted to give her a little xmas present and I come back my place in order to pick it up.
By the way now I'm still at my place because this morning we found at esselunga the PORRIDGE!


Porridge is one of my favorite foods ever. So now I am eating porridge, or "puuro" in finnish, and later me, Polly and our friends will be together for a dinner <3


It will snow more!



here it is my lovely dish (:

summer hits!

when we were in finland me and polly used to do funny things.
in the morning we also used to watch some tv. the voice was the main music channel there and it was broadcasting always quite funny music as power metal and so on. this band was one of our "favorites".

Unklubi.

haha.

maybe depressing actually, but we were always laughing a lot :P