Birthday

This is the first birthday of my blog. It is unbelievable that a year has passed so quickly. The year has been wonderful! I have learned so much about using the internet and how to find content which is useful. I have met online so many wonderful people all over the world and through them about different cultures and also history. I have learned that the people behind those avatars and icons are real and that connecting through the net is nothing to be afraid of but brings many delightful moments to your life.

Now I am in front of great challenge. I will try to use a blog in teaching in a much larger scale and I will also try to convince more people to get connected by other means than e-mails only. All the experiences I have got are something that is not taught in the universities or schools but I will try to make my effort to change that.

Since I have such a big list of friends I would like to thank for help and support, I will only mention the one who got me into this and has been helping me all the way both technically and mentally.

Thank you Gil :) One year ago I still thought that this is not going to work!

More Tags

I have been tagged again by Jay a.k.a. Dat from DatMoney.com. There are actually three different tags for three different things from which people can choose.

The first is the Birthday meme I already did in November so I can skip that.

To the second meme Jay was tagged by Cotojo and here I have to tell seven weird things about me. That is not even hard. I think most things I do seem weird to other people

1. Let’s start from the beginning: I was 2 or 3 years old and my mother tried to take a nap and was singing a lullaby to me. I was not sleepy and at some point I asked my mother: “Are you crazy?”
2. I had a imaginary friend named Kaisa when I was too young to go to school. I obviously had really seen her based on my parents’ descriptions.
3. I was actually very shy when I was younger. I think that I was about 30 until I got rid of that.
4. At 17 when we had a week’s winter vacation I spent it solving Geometry problems
5. I tend to save everything: Old bills I have paid, old lessons I have been listening to, or I have held myself. You never can know when they turn out to be useful, except I don’t have much of a chance to find them any more.
6. I am a candloholic. I buy originally looking candles every time I see on in the shop or the flea market. I of course burn them, too, but at the moment my shopping speed is bigger than the burning speed. I also like candle holders.
7. I collect every Japanese puzzle I see. It can be a book or a magazine, a single puzzle from the daily paper or a puzzler downloaded from some website. I have enough puzzles for the next 3 generations at least. My grand-grand-children are going to think I have been totally nuts. Conceptis makes enough puzzles. I can’t even solve all of their weekly variety in one week and still I must get a new book or a Conceptis magazine by ordering them from abroad

The third tag to Jay is from Julie in which I’m supposed to go through my archives and choose five favorite posts about my family, friends, myself, something I love and lastly, one of my choice.

1. family: Second day in school
2. friends: Reasons to blog
3. myself: What do Puzzles, Finland and Spanish Wine have in common – Conceptis
4. Something I love is definitely the Pic-A-Pix-puzzles and
5. One of my own choice tells about the amazing Internet phenomena in Finland.

And I tag my recent friends who have written their comments on my blog:

Nature Nut /JJ Loch from Nature Shows and Dreams
RennyBA from Renny BA's Terella
pussreboots from Puss Reboots
April from Nature At My Doorstep
itot54joni from which ever blog he chooses
Cyberpunk from CYBERPUNK'S SO-CALLED LIFE

You can answer which ever meme you choose or do the birthday meme, just follow the link above.