July 2011
2 posts
Katja's page →
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Home and family
This is a rainy weekend in Dumaguete, rarely it is like this, three days in row just rain and also mostly during the day which is more unusual. News from Oslo will make us remember this weekend. It is time to reflect our common responsibility to do not ignore those who show signs of isolation and despair.
We have done some improvements at home and in our web space. Now everyone has kind of own...
May 2011
1 post
Three girls part 2. Friday evening again.
The three girls giving birth at the dinner table; screaming in labor practicing what it is to be a woman and to become a mother. The three girls singing nummela in a rock concert, tea sieve and whipper as microphones, practicing what it is to be young and rebellious. The three girls in a funeral of the tiger surrounded by buddhas, incense and candles, practicing what it is to loose a friend and...
April 2011
4 posts
“Meri”
– Open water diver course Kookoos 9-11.4. & 16-17.4.2011
“Metsä”
– Climb to Mt Talinis 26-27.2.2011
Meri
1. Sinä päivänä kun opimme hengittämään yhdessä pinnan alla, meidän välille syntyi side. Ilman sanoja.
2.Siinä maailmassa on hiljaista ja hämärää. Hengitämme samaan tahtiin.
3. Pinnan päällä meri kasvoi maalle, otti värit. Side jäi, hengitimme vain katkonaisemmin.
Metsä
Sinne voi mennä, mutta ei se ota vastaan, toivota tervetulleeksi. Silti voit mukautua sen muotoon ja oppia sen rytmin. Päästä sisälle, vetää henkeen. Mutta sille on samantekevää jäätkö vai lähdetkö. Ei se ota kädestä, ei välitä vieraistaan. Silti, mitä kauemmin olet osa sitä, sitä vaikeampi on palata takaisin kotiin, löytää oma rytmi.
July 2010
1 post
night
there are ghosts in our house i heard yesterday, or at least white dwarfs; interesting news, we are sharing this place with spirits, i turned twice to look at my shadow in the mirror yesterday night when switching off the ventilator in the girls room the cats were running in the mid roof at the right time too so for a while i thought i was going to…but, SO i did not meet them yet, anyhow...
May 2010
6 posts
Stories in Tree Planting Part 1. Woman who wanted...
It was a very hot, but beautiful day, and mountain breeze catch us when were walking down to the valley. I was enjoying the morning and thinking how refreshing it is to get out to the field from the airconditioned office room for a change. As a project management advisor I am mostly advising the project from the office. But today we were not going to look at the papers but walk, observe, talk...
Odottamisen onni
Miten tänään onkin suomalainen ilta, varmaan kuuntelimme kuningas EItä liian monta kertaa pikkukakkosen sivuilta, tai mietin jo elokuun iltaa ja lauantaita joskus kolmen kuukauden päästä.Kummallista että asioita täytyy suunnitella jo niin pitkälle etukäteen, mutta on kai hyvä että on mitä odottaa.
Vaikka ei odottaminen välttämättä ole mitenkään rakentavaa. Tänään odotin tasan tunnin, että saisin...
Chinese
This morning girls were playing shopping in Chinese, long dialogue with imitated faces.
What is going to come from these multiligual children?
Missing
Cihild 1.: I miss grandmother and grandfather because they have mansikka
Aiti: Niin, tykkaatko mansikoista?
Child 1.: Yes, I miss mummo
.......
Child 2.: - smiling -
Aiti: Oletko onnellinen tanaan?
Child 2.: Joo, koska papa tulee huomenna. I miss papa.
April 2010
9 posts
Filipino Story PART 6. Election fewer
It is here on the streets and in the buildings. One and half weeks to go. Elections. The other day when driving to Bayawan from Dumaguete we were again talking about that crazy road construction in Negros with my colleagues. It seems that there are more connections than one deliberated before, beside providing employment and therefore happy voters it also brings pure money to run the campaigns. If...
Kolme nauravaa tyttöä
Minulla on kolme nauravaa tyttöä yläkerran kylpyhuoneessa, värikkäissä saaveissa, vettä valuvina, vaahtoa viiksinä. Minulla on kolme nauravaa tyttöä ruokapöydässä, pavuista tehty aitaus, porkkanoista tehty ikkuna ja kukkakaalipuu lautasella, hirviöitä joiden suupielistä pursuavat pavut ja nauru. Minulla on kolme nauravaa tyttöä, kädet mustassa maalissa, hiuksissa vihreää ja varpaissa pyörivät...
Weekend home
It was hard to start working again…. that’s how it is, resistance to change, holiday schedule in your bones and mind empty. It took some days, I think I was not so pleasant on Monday and Tuesday, but somewhere on Thursday I was fully back into it. It is a good work in the end, and I have good colleagues and that what matters. So now Sunday evening, after large dinner last night, rainy...
Back at home, back in Philippines.
Yesterday walking in Manila intramuros in the middle of wedding receptions, cracking hose carriages, dilapidated walls, gloomy Christian figures in the dark corridors. We were staying in the impersonal high-rise hotel on the Roxas, Bayview, yes it was from the sixth floor window, but we slept surprisingly long in the room with darkened windows, Venla turning around in the homemade nest on the...
“Switch of your computer. Be an interactive parent. Read your child.”
– Tarpaulin of NGO in the intramuros.
Thinking of begging children
Girl: So those old poeple will do food for the children, right? That old woman will take care of the boy.
Aiti: mm mmm
Begging Children
Girl: Mum why you don't give any money for that boy?
Aiti: En mina anna lapsille rahaa, lasten pitaa menna kouluun ja jos niille antaa rahaa niiden aiti ja isa voi lahettaa ne kadulle kerjaamaan udestaan... ja uudestaan
Girl: But you gave money for that woman too?
Aiti: Ehka se huolehtii tuosta pojasta
Girl: Will she make food for him?
Aiti: En tieda
Girl: But why you don't give money for children too?
Aiti: Hmm...
Girl: Mum, can you give money for that boy please, just a litttle bit...
Aiit: -
March 2010
5 posts
Fragments 3
In Kabiki hotel Phnom Penh: French housewives are taking their gymnastic class in the green pool, fifteen women talking to each other and in variable concentration moving their arms and legs up and down under the guarding eyes or the teacher. All of them are slim but their skin is no more young and smooth, weather and sun wearing on surface. Before dipping in the pool they are comparing their new...
Fragments 2
Napping on the front seat of pajero, I am on the way home, sun on the face and aircon blowing somewhere down on the neck and breast. The radio turns to no woman no cry remix and it is vivid back here. Dark autumn and early winter night, sitting in that hole in the wall drinking Czech beer with girls on the bar, feeling of being young, feeling of being one, soft glow in air and blood rushing in...
Fragments
Friday evening and I have not seed a movie for months. Tired but switching on TV, nothing, flapping through channels. I end up on having culturally educational tour. First watching the CCTV and best parts of the spring festival; athletics forming human pyramids, serenade honoring the Chinese calligraphy, modern street show with traditional story and overwhelming visual effects on the China...
Alone at home
Just this little moment that is unusual, alone at home. Friday evening, already eaten the dinner, even washed dishes and here writing this, alone and it is quiet, only humming of the ventilator above. Girls are in the birthday party, Arnaldo somewhere in the air by now and here me after a long working week sitting on the couch in our hall. Interestingly today I was jogging my usual 10 loops at the...
February 2010
4 posts
Philippino Story PART 5.
This will be amazingly short story. We had a nice meeting in the office this afternoon, although Im unorganised and irritated of all the technical trouble. Having a new computer, loosing phone, loosing email messages….time spent on things that do not move things ahead. But maybe these breaks have also meaning?
Tomorrow it will be a field day after long long time. Discussions on...
Wednesday good night chat
Me: Girls are sleeping and I'm talking to myself
Girls: -
Me: Today I have lost my phone and discovered something
Girls: -
Me: As every day, I suppose, but I'm not so clear what
Girls: -
Girls: -
Me: Not even after some thinking
January 2010
3 posts
Today (Filipino story PART 4.)
Seems that I have forgotten completely to write anything here….or actually I had many stories in mind, but somehow just left in there in my head, spinning now and then around in my mind but never finding their way out as writing from there.
My favourite was Christmas, which I was going to write before Christmas. This is such a Christmas Country that there would be a lot to write.
-Like...
November 2009
1 post
Venla 3 years TODAY →
Some recent photos of Venla
August 2009
2 posts
Filippiiniläinen juttu Osa. 3.
Ehkä on oikein kirjoittaa suomeksi tänään, koska huomenna olemme siellä. meilkein viisi kuukautta Filippiineillä on takana. Meilla on koti ja huonekalut (lasten kerrossänkyä lukuunottamatta joka on heille kyllä jo tilattu), tytöillä on koulu ja kavereita, töissä on rauhallista, ja muutaman päivän ajan meillä on ollut jopa auto!
Oikeastaan ihmettelin lomalle lähtöä eillen, Hanoin jälkeen viimeinen...
June 2009
1 post
Filippino Story Part 2.
This is the year when the roads are repaired.For sure there are strips that need renovation, but it is not uncommon to see also the entirely good old roads torn up and replaced with the entirely good new roads. -What is the purpose of this? The roads are open everywhere, main roads and town roads. After season of asphalt roads it is again time to change to the cemented roads, these are more...
May 2009
6 posts
Our home in Dumaguete →
Click here to see where we are living….our things are still in Hanoi port so maybe after few months I will send a new link with the furnished house, but garden looks great already now.
WatchAnd who told Venla is shy? The summer school in ABC has ended and here you can see how the children are celebrating….
Olga and Venla in Philippines →
Interesting thing in the picture with five girls in swimming suits is that all of the swimsuits are actually Olga’s and Venla’s. Now we are all one big family.
WatchOlga and Venla playing in the park during the Mayflower festival, Joy just arrives to the park….
April 2009
1 post
Filippino Story Part 1.
Now I have been here in Philippines exactly two weeks. I arrived to Manila on Monday 23rd. Have seen already four islands and at least as many towns. This moment I am sitting in the Bo’s Coffee in Capitol area of Cebu, it is light, quiet and pleasant. It is one of those better places, Collecting my thoughts and preparing for the time when I am no more alone here. It has been a good two...
March 2009
4 posts
Where? →
What? →
Dumaguete
Now it seems like we are really going?
Yes, today we got OK for the medical checs and I don't see obstacles for the contract.
And when?
I am there in less than three weeks.
Good to change?
Yes, good, we had a long year or even more to find the next destination, next start, it has been start all the time here. Good to go.
Expectations?
Better not to wish too much, but seabreeze would be nice....
WatchVenla is swimming in Mui Ne Beach with mummi and Olga….the week before we were there with grandparents windy, sunny and sandy.