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Fantasy Book Review - George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones

Warning, this article may contains spoilers (I am trying to be sublime about them though) and have written them in white text just to be on the safe side. Terminology According to Wikipedia these books are in these subgenres: High Fantasy - lots of fantasy stuff going on - like magic and …

Finnish third year students celebrations

Walked through a peaceful and frosty Helsinki today, when we stumbled on the Boulevard we were showered in candy and various songs on the theme 'we are the best'! Turns out this is a tradition, the to be graduates celebrate last school day in 'Gymnasium' the rest of the semester …

Job

Awaiting job confirmation then I will have more lovely things to write about! All depends on the NDA I may have to sign :s It is possible to find a job in Finland if you don't know the local language. Just takes persistence.

Detroit Red Wings - Boston Bruins 13/2 2010

Ah, finally. That felt good. Maybe Boston was a bit down but honesly, 6-1? A few shots from Boston that hit the posts but it didn't feel like they sent many really difficult towards Jimmy Howard. Been a while since Red Wings won this - and especially nice to see the …


Finnish - Word Cases - Non-productive Cases

Part one of this article - describing the Cases expressing Grammatical Functions. Part two: Locative Cases Part three: Others Non-productive Cases Abessive Meaning/function: without Ending: -tta; ttä Example: syyttä Examples: S/he got angry without reason. - Hän suuttui syyttä. Prolative Meaning/function: channel , by Ending: -tse Example: postitse, maitse Examples …

Finnish - Word Cases - Others

Part one of this article - describing the Cases expressing Grammatical Functions. Part two: Locative Cases Part four: Non-productive Others Translative Meaning/function: change into for (future time (DYN)) Ending: -ksi Example: johtajaksi, jouluksi Examples: S/he became the manager last year. - Hän tuli viime vuonna johtajaksi. I'm going to Finland …

Finnish Social Security - Kela

Found out today that if you move to Finland and don't have a husband/wife/sambo that is in the Finnish system - you won't either be. So in my case where my Finnish sambo has a non-Finnish employer - I will not get a Kela card. So no snowboarding this season …

Finnish - Word Cases - Locative (expressing place)

Part one of this article - describing the Cases expressing Grammatical Functions. Part three: Others Part four: Non-productive Locative cases (expressing place) - internal locations (in) Inessive Meaning/function: in, inside, etc (STA) Ending: -ssa/ -ssä Example: hotelissa, puolessa, tunnissa Examples: I am in the/a hotel now. - Olen nyt hotellisa. I …

Finnish - Word Cases - Grammatical Function

Finnish works the way that it adds something at the end of the word (and maybe change the middle of the word) to make it mean things like: location, possession, from, receipient, future, channel, how, ..., there is 16 of them - obviously I find this a little difficult! I will try …