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09 Apr 2004 - 06:34 - r1.57  MattiKinnunen

2003 

December 

Week 52 29.12.-4.1. 

  • Thursday 1st Jan 2004 to Monday 5th Jan 2004
  • Wednesday 31st
  • Tuesday 30th
    • Working hours: about 8
    • I do not remember what I did. Something useful anyway, I suppose. 
  • Monday 29th
    • Working hours: about 8
    • I do not remember what I did. Something useful anyway, I suppose. 

Week 52 22.-28.12. 

  • Week total: the official 40 hours or so. 
  • Sunday 28th
    • Desperate shopping around the French Concession. I hate bargaining and did not buy anything. Sirkku bought some clothes. 
    • In the evening we watched a Dutch movie: Zos and Zu (or something like that). It is a good one, and I think quite Dutch. I may move to Netherlands next. 
  • Saturday 27th
    • The girls in Asia Travels were a bit shocked when we rushed in to their office during their lunch break and wanted to pay our hotel in Sanya, Hainan. In the end everyone was happy and I was some hundreds of dollars poorer but had a reservation (just one printed page, but in color). 
    • The foreign language bookstore in Fuzhou Lu turned out to be quite good. They have quite many new books, also on China, in the top floor. They charge 10 RMB per one USD, which means that the price is quite the same as directly from Amazon. They also have a selection of classics in the ground floor and they are almost free. I bought Shakespeare´s Tempest, Prince by Macchiavelli (I have it also in Finnish, but in Finland and I think one should read it every second year or so) and some other books.
    • We had sushi for lunch. This time it was not that fun, maybe the novelty has worn out already. 
    • In the evening we went to see the circus to the Shanghai Circus in the north. It was mostly acrobatics, which was actually what we wanted. They also had some motorcycling in a giant metal ball, up to 7 drivers/bikes at the same time. I had never seen that before, but it just looked dangerous. One has to have something wrong in ones brain to do something like that. 
    • For dinner some Indian food (really good!) in Kaveen´s place in Huashan Lu, at 231. Excellent place, open until 4 am. 
  • Friday 26th Working hours: ehough for a Boxing day!
    • Quote of the day: "People try to put us down just because we get around. I do not need this f** s**" Who, modified by Patti Smith.
    • Some nice neighbour took us a few km from our home and found a taxi for us. He is working in the university as a member of the staff, but is not a professor. Drives very nice car though. University staff must have decent salaries in China!
    • The taxi took us to the railway station, where Sirkku got off. I tried to get the taxidriver to take me to Ocean Place, but he refused. So, I had to walk some 20 minutes, which was just OK. Nice morning, some 4 degrees but sun is shining so nicely!
    • I took train to Shanghai. In the evening we had nice dinner in some Sichuan-like restaurant in Julu Lu. We stayed in Shanghai Hotel, which is surpisinly close in style to the other "good" hotels in many Western Cities. In general, it is funny how standardisation and greed quite often lead to similar results as 5-year planning. Or so it seems. More on this later. 
  • Thursday 25th Working hours: ehough for a Christmas day!
    • Working with the infamous IIP-tool. I added some 100 competences for myself!
    • I was really tired, too several naps during the days. In the evening we just idled and enjoyed some chocolate at home. 
  • Wednesday 24th Working hours: ehough for a Christmas eve!
    • We had a nice lunch at Holiday Inn (JaniRahkonen, JyrkiInnanen, KirsiLagus?, Sirkku Ikonen, HannuLeskinen?, MaunuHolma, HeikkiAhola, JanneLeppanen?, Katja) with some French and Italian wines and even some foods, which clearly belong to Finnish Christmas table (beetroot, smoked salmon, peas, champignons) and then the normal Chinese and international hotel selection. Fun, nice. The local Sacher-torta was a bit strange, though.
    • In the evening we had a small Christmas party at our home (MaunuHolma, HeikkiAhola, HannuLeskinen?, me and Sirkku). See ... for more 
    • Presents for me: Mountain of the mind excellent book and addition to my mountaineering and adventure collection. Armchair adventure, that is the way!
  • Tuesday 23nd Working hours 8
    • Heuristic of the day: something tells me that all of this is going to better tomorrow (is this more a motto). 
    • MattiKinnunenLongDiary2003x12x23
    • 9-11 Emails about continuation of my contract, statistics etc. 
    • 11-12 Statistics and MXU warming thinking. 
    • 12-13 Lunch, walking and thinking. 
    • 13-15 MXU warming, A43 comments to some persons
    • 15-17 Twiki hacking etc. 
  • Monday 22nd Working hours 8
    • Mostly just trying to stay awake. Writing some emails and diary. 
    • The jetlag is too bad. It takes a few days before I am fully able to do something sensible. 
    • It is fun to be in China again. 
    • In the evening we went to Carrefour to buy some Chrismas stuff. 
    • Dinner at home. 

Week 51 15.-21.12. 

  • Week total: the official 40 hours or so. 
  • Sunday 21st
    • Taxi from Shanghai to Hangzhou with MaoWeiqiang. Idling at home and then dinner at some hotpot-restaurant next to westlake. Exhausted.
  • Saturday 20th
    • Flight back to Shanghai in business class. Fun! Nice food, a lot of space, no queueing and lots of champagne! 
  • Friday 19th Working hours 8
    • Morning: Meeting on architecture docs and processes. See HzSeMinutes2003x12x19xSystemToolsAndProcesses. 
    • Afternoon: Meeting on DIMUTI. See ...
    • Evening: in Tampere with my mother and brother. No dinner. But nice discussions and later (when mother went to bed) some beer at the local bar. 
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  • Thursday 18th Working hours 8
    • Morning: TAF meeting. I and Maunu were probably too verbose there. 
    • Afternoon: meeting on traffic testing with SamuliKenttamies?, HeikkiLatvala?. We agreed that the architect must prepare traffic usecases from which the system testers then can derive test cases. The architects also must define the testing network configuration but also ask form customer care. * Evening: visiting Flexi-people in Hiomo. Idling. Dinner (fried herrings and porter) at Botta. 
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  • Wednesday 17th Working hours 8 
    • Morning: meeting on traffic capacity brokers. See HzSeMinutes2003x12x17xCapacityBrokers.
    • Afternoon: discussion with several persons like SamiTilander, TeroPeltola?.
    • Evening: Christmas presents etc. Fried small whitefish at the sosialist restaurant Juttutupa. Some friends were there too: Tuomas Seppa, Timo Paukko, Timo Ernamo, Paivi Nikkila, Heli Anko and Outi Perahuhta. And the whole foreign department of Helsingin Sanomat. Fun!
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  • Tuesday 16th Working hours 8 
    • Morning: Motorola meeting continued. I skipped most of it since it became too detail oriented. I do not need to know all the details. 
    • Afternoon: A workshop on Performance attributes with MaunuHolma, TapioPehkonen, EeroPaukkkonen? and JyrkiRuohio.
      • We invented a dimensioning table, which we will implement later. 
      • Maunu has notes on this meeting somewhere
    • Evening: JanHellstrom? gave me lift to the centre. I had dinner (Italian fish soup, fried pike perch) at Carelia restaurant. Good food but a bit expensive. Orinally I would have wanted to have mussels but they did not have them. 
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  • Monday 15th Working hours 8 
    • Morning: emails, misc discussions with several persons. I was a bite late to work, it was so hard to wake up. 
    • Afternoon: meeting with Motoral experts on PQII. They had solve most of the problems. The experts were really sharp. It seems that the problems we have had with Motorola are not due to the techinical expertice but more due to normal organizorial issues which also affect our IPA-development. And we must remember that we have made our HW-desing too complex ourselves. 
    • Evening: dinner in restaurant Sikala with some old friends. Everyone is getting older. Opinions are getting rounder, just like the persons. There were Maria Viljanen, Satu Kiiskinen, Petri Griinari, Tero Norkola, Samuli Kunttu, Mika Ronkko, Ruby van Wekken, Kai Artes and Hannah Wilson. We discussed about something quite light, teased Mika for looking like Saddam and had nice time. I had fried herrings (aah) and a bottle of white wine (which cost 4 times more than in Venice, sigh). At hotel at 11.30 pm.

Week 50 8.-14.12. 

  • Week total: the official 40 hours or so. 
  • Sunday 14th Venice. 
    • Thick fog. No vaporettos to Murano available. I took a long walk around the Ghetto instead. And then had lunch at Ostaria Nova, in which I also had lunch in December 2002. Not a bad place. This time I has antipasto di Ca'Oro (or something, fish and squid), toast with baccala and deep fried squid. And wine and grappa etc. 
    • I took Eurostar, 1st class back to Milan. But some sad person threw himself under the train and we were 2 hours late. So, I arrived at airport after the plane to Copenhagen should have left. But the plane was 2 hours late too. So, in the end I arrived in Helsinki at 2.45am. 
    • The police mistook me as a terrorist and checked my passport when I left my bag in the luggage storage room. Or then they mistook me for Santa Claus?
    • I did not see any new churches etc in Venice. I just took it easy, ate the dished I had dreamt of all the year and just enjoyed the city without cars. I think that I may move to Venice after China. 
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  • Saturday 13th In Milan and Venice. 
    • I check-out the hotal and would have made it to 9.05 train, but the train was too full. I did not dare to risk standing the whoel 267 km to Venice. I has a coffee and read some newspapers and and spent time in the wonderful Milan railwaystation. It is a really nice place and full of interesting personalities. 
    • I arrived in Venice at 14.30 and took a vaporetto to Rialto from where I somehow found my way to Piazza San Marco and my hotel (Noemi. 
    • Some walking and sailing with vaporettos and then I found that my favourite restaurant Paradiso Perdutto was close due to renovations. Too bad, I was really sad. Fortunately I found another restaurant for dinner (sarde in saor, spagetti con nero di seppia, fritto misto, torta di chokolato, grappa, cafe and some wine) with funny old men serving. The name of the place is ....
    • After dinner some idling around. Piazza di San Marco is truly magnificient in the night. And it was so empty, no stupid tourist in addition to me.
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  • Friday 12th Working hours: 8 
  • Friday 12th Still the VFI-meeting continues. Everyone was a bit tired and since VFI is not using all our Netact tools, they were not that interested in some of them. We kept the presentations anyhow and in the end (at 3.30 pm) everyone was quite please with the whole meeting. At least I learned a lot both about our product and the ways in which our customers use them.
    • I had a walk in the morning before breakfast. This time I walk 15 minutes away from the city centre. Not nice and too cold too. 
    • In the evening some sightseeing in the centre of Milan. First we ( MaunuHolma, Maija Saukko, Vesa Heikkila, Rami Syvasalmi and me) had dinner at the same restaurant as on Thu. This time i had antipasti (lots of fried sardines) and a pizza and the normal amount of white wine. Not bad even though the pizza was quite small.
    • With Vesa and Rami we visited La Scala (under renovation, but standing still) or the plaza opposite. We also went to the roof of the Duomo. Excellent. That was quite enough of sightseeing and we went to a bar: sambuca, vecchia romana. After that Rami bought some presents for his daughter and we have some more drinks. And still some more in a suburban cafe next to our hotel and then couple of bottles of red wine. That was quite enough, but the main point is that we get to be some kind of fried (Rami, Vesa and me), which will be good in the longer run. We also discussed a lot about statistics, organization and history. 
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  • Thursday 11th Working hours: 9 
  • Thursday 11th The VFI-statistics meeting continued. 
    • 6.30-7.45 Morning walk from the hotel towards the city centre. Nice, cafes, open air markets etc. 
    • 9-9.30 Lorenza X from VFI told us how they use our statistics:
      • Collect measurement all time, 24 h readiness to interfere. Weekly 5 KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for the top management: at least fixed nw congestion and A-interface (=signalling) congestion. 
      • We (NOKIA) should implement something similar to IPA too, at traffic level. 
    • I gave my presentation. It went fast and well, but did not have too much in the way of sensible content (just to cheat to customer, I am so nasty)
    • Dinner at Pizzeria Vecchia Napoli, near via Dante: antipasto misto, , , tartufo nero, 6 dl of white wine, grappa. Nice. With MaunuHolma and Maija Saukko. Back at hotel quite early and then sleeping or something. Or maybe one Sambuca.
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  • Wednesday 10th Working hours: 10 
  • Wednesday 10th 8.40-19 VFI statistics workshop. (with MaunuHolma)
    • Dinner at hotel: mushrooms (porcini) and polenta (a kind of maize porridge), squid spaghetti, chocolate mousse and 1 bottle of young red wine. Nice. 
    • In the evening I check my email (nothing too important).
    • We were just listening while Guyla Bodog presented MSC-statistics. Guyla is quite a guru in this area (and in many others I assume).
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  • Tuesday 9th Working hours: 8
    • Course on system architecture by Gerrit Muller at NRC. Whole day. 
    • Flight from Helsinki via Copenhagen to Milan. I arrived at hotel at 11.30 pm and drank one glass of Sambuca! The hotel was in the middle of no-where and a Holiday Inn. Too bad, no luxury! I was disappointed. 
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  • Monday 8th Working hours: 8
    • Heuristic of the day: Select for talent, not for experience or skills. 
    • Additional heuristic of the day: Never try to perfect people. Focus on strengths!
    • In the evening I just read Tekniikan maailma-magazine and took it easy. 
    • 15-18 Discussions with JariSimolin, TapioPehkonen and TeroPeltola?.
      • It seemst that Tapio and us (=Maunu and me) have reached quite the same results about architecture documentation. Tapio has concentrated more in process. Now we just need to merge our knowledge and we will be quite much better off than now.
    • 9-12 Emails, free discussion. 
    • My phone is broken, call MaunuHolma instead.

Week 49 1.-7.12. 

  • Sunday 7th .Just taking it easy. I also met Kyosti Ranto in the evening at Coffee House
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  • Saturday 6th Tampere. I visited my mother and brother. Quite late since I slept until 3pm. BTW, the Hotel Intercontinental in Helsinki is really a bad hotel. I will change hotel! It is just terrible, waste of money. In the evening I went to my brothers garage and we watched "Saving private Ryan", which broke me into tears. 
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  • Week total: the official 40 hours or so. 
  • Friday 5th Trelling to Helsinki via Shanghai. In the evening I went to Restaurant Bulevardia with some friends. The food was good, but too expensive and the service was lousy. Too bad. Then some beer in William K and after staying awake for 27 hours I went to bed. I was feeling a bit dizzy due to the lack of sleep. 
  • Thursday 4th Working hours: 6 h 
    • Heuristic of the day: Do the hard parts first
    • Evening: Shanghai. Dinner at Cafe Montmartre and then some desperate shopping. Some wine!
  • Thursday 4th 12-15 Misc issues. 
  • Thursday 4th 11-12 Action point meeting. No minutes, since the action points and their states are minutes!
  • Thursday 4th 9-11 Misc isseue, establishing HzSeEmailTag and sending an email to most of out interfaces. 
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  • Wednesday 3rd Working hours: 9 h 
    • Heuristic of the day: If you cannot explain it without slides in 5 minutes, either you do not understand it or it does not work. 
    • In the evening I packed my bags for Italy and Finland and continued drinkin Beuajolais Nouveau. And reading the security book. 
  • Wednesday 3rd 14-17 Working with BasVodde on quality etc. I also moved system engineering team action points to SeItemToDo, which is much better system than the earlier one. Much!
  • Wednesday 3rd 11-12,13-14 See HzSeDiary2003
  • Wednesday 3rd 9-10 Discussions with PasiToivanen and JarmoHeikintalo? about RNC organisation. It seems that Flexi has much more logical and simple organisation. Ours is just mixing things up, there are too many departments and at least I have not understood the power/responsibility relations btw these departments. It seems that some of them are there just because they were there in the earlier two organisation and there is unwritten rule that you must not, well you know what. Now e.g. the program managers are hiring chief architect, not the Head of architecture department (or is there such anymore). Furthermore, the new chief engineer are not eihter in Torkkola's program dept or in Heikkinen's release dept (is there any real reason for having these two separate?) or in X's architecture/systems deparment. No, chief architects will in whereever they happened to be before the nomination. Strange! roll eyes (sarcastic)
  • Wednesday 3rd 4-5 reading emails etc. I woke up too early and did not find anything else to do. Ridiculous!
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  • Tuesday 2nd Working hours: 8.5 h 
    • Heuristic of the day: If you cannot analyse it, do not build it!
    • The French film "L'Ennui" is not worth 2 hours of anyones time. Soft-porn scrap pretending to be art. 
  • Tuesday 2nd 18-19 Working: emails, VFI etc. 
  • Tuesday 2nd 16.30-18 Shopping. I bought 4 bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau from Carrefour, 99 yuan each. Life is good!
  • Tuesday 2nd 14-16.30 Whatever, e.g HzRtMinutes2003x12x02xPreparation and misc discussion, VFI
  • Tuesday 2nd 11-12, 13-14 Kick offs continue ( See HzSeDiary2003 )
  • Tuesday 2nd 9-10.15 Kick-off HzSeMinutes2003x12x02xPipingTaskKickOff?. 
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  • Monday 1st Working hours: 12.5 h 
    • Heuristic of the day: Everythin should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler (A. Einstein)
    • I came to work by taxi at 9 am. Too cold for cycling, especially since our flat was also almost freezing in the morning. 
    • It seems that I am just too stupid for sticking to the normal 8 h /day. I am so ashamed! mad!
    • See MattiKinnunenLongDiary2003x12x01.
  • Monday 1st 20.30-21.30 Intalling SeItemToDo etc. 
  • Monday 1st 19-20.30 Discussion with JariSimolin and updating the material for the VFI-workshop. 
  • Monday 1st 17-19 Misc issues, thinking and discussion. Twiki drawing tool does not work and system is also otherwise strange. Bad.
  • Monday 1st 16-17 See MattisMinutes2003x12x01RncArchDocsA43. 
  • Monday 1st 10-12.30, 14-15.30 see HzSeDiary2003. 
  • Monday 1st 12.30-14 whatever, even 10 minutes of eating lunch. 
  • Monday 1st 9-10 Email etc

November 

Week 48 24.-30.11. 

  • Week total: 48 hours (way too much, again). Some week I will come to work at noon daily to get these hours back! Believe it or not!
  • Sunday 30th
    • Whole day reading books at home. And drinking wine etc. Lazy. Nothing to remember, but still enjoyable. I took 2 naps, but also managed to read Beyond fearfor some 150 pages. The book is excellent. I think Nokia should buy one. It would help our security management, which may not be quite satisfactory at the moment. 
    • No special dinner or lunch, just some pasta and tunafish etc at home. 
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  • Saturday 29th
    • Somewhat hangover in the morning. I idled at home, took taxi to the Radisson hotel, bought Internation Herald tribute and went to a small cafe to read it. On the way I bougth 10 CDs: Damaged by Black Flag, Never mind by Sex Pistols, Back in Black by AC/DC etc. 
    • I tried to do some work from home. But I could not reach atmweb.ntc.nokia.com, which was eventually fortunate, I assume.
    • I went with Sirkku to Carrefour. There was a small fired and everyone run out of the cafe downstairs. Good, since I could get some food without any queueing. They have quite good wineselection. We bougth 7 bottles. Especially this year's Beaujolais Nouveau (by Laboure-roi) is excellent. I recommend byuing a few bottles. It is really refreshing when you drink it chilled with some mild cheeses or just drink. A lot, like half a bottle. See Beaujolais Nouveau.
    • Later, we had dinner at BasVodde and his wife Yuan in one nice Japanese restaurant in Qindai Lu. Very good and quiet place. And then to Shamrock. 
  • Friday 28th Working hours: 7.33 h 
    • Heuristic of the day: If you cannot explain it in five minutes, either you do not understand it or it does not work (David Jones)
  • Friday 28th 17 - ... Hangzhou SIG in Commons Place
  • Friday 28th 15 - 16 I added SeItemToDo. It would make action point management automatic! Yes!
  • Friday 278th 12-14 Rest, discussions, work whatever. Not being a stupid robot.
  • Friday 28th RsmuTask kick-off HzSeMinutes2003x11x28xRsmuTaskKickOff
  • Friday 28th 9-11 DMT meeting.
  • Friday 28th 8.40-8.55 Queuing to shower.
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  • Thursday 27th Working hours: 10 h ( I am just stupid, see also the following ....)
    • Heuristic of the day: Anyone who gets carried away by a sense of personal significange is an idiot ... if we were not \[in front of the camera\], it would be someone else, who would probably do the job rather better. (John Simpson, BBC)
    • See also MattiKinnunenLongDiary2003x11x27
  • Thursday 27th 19-19.30 Some emails, Twiki-issues and SE thinking. 
  • Thursday 27th 18-19 I make web-pages for RescueTeam. 
  • Thursday 27th 17-18 Misc issues. 
  • Thursday 27th 15-17 TAF etc. 
  • Thursday 27th 13-15 Meetings with HzSeTeamMembers
  • Thursday 27th 11-12 Lunch in Holiday Inn. And HZ rescue team meeting. A kick off. 
  • Thursday 27th 9.30-11 Misc things. 
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  • Wednesday 26th Working hours: 9.5 h
  • Wednesday 26th 16-18.30 Technology transfer workgroup kick-off. See MattisMinutes2003x11x26CompTransWG. 
  • Wednesday 26th 15.30-16 Misc discussions etc
  • Wednesday 26th 12-15.30 Working on document naming etc. 
  • Wednesday 26th 11-12 Dimensioning meeting: HzSeMinutes2003x11x26xDimensioning . I took notes when Maunu was speaking. I managed to write minutes during the meeting and also put them as slideshow. Very efficient way of working. 
  • Wednesday 26th 10-11 Defining the document naming conventions with MaunuHolma. 
  • Wednesday 26th 9-10 Office work, so to say. Some emails, discussions etc. 
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  • Tuesday 25th Working hours: 7.25 h
  • Tuesday 25th 10.45-18 Working with intranet. See IpaDoc? and SystemEngineering for the situation. HzSeActionPoints has now IDs. Still open (MaunuHolma is working on it: naming rules for documents)
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  • Monday 24th Working hours: 14 h (really long hacking session in the night)
    • Heuristic of the day: Keep it simple, stupid!
    • See also  MattiKinnunenLongDiary2003x11x24 for more information about my day. I decided to move more personal issues to separate entries. Just to keep this a bit shorter. 
  • Monday 24th 24-03 I installed some other plugins. See the DSA.Plugins
  • Monday 24th 21-24 I installed HzSeMinutes and spread sheet plugin. And read some emails and even wrote some.
  • Monday 24th 18-19 I installed Drawing plugin to this intranet. 
Edit drawing 'it_works' (requires a Java enabled browser)
  • Monday 24th 15-16 Working on overload. 
  • Monday 24th I enabled automatic notification to this intranet. Add your name to WebNotify and you will get list of changes every hour. 
  • Monday 24th 10-14 Meeting (see HzSeDiary2003) and discussion with Maunu about overload situation. 
  • Monday 24th 9-10 Whatever, starting.

Week 47 17.-23.11. 

  • Week total: 53.5 hours (way too much, must cut down, be more efficient, delete and what other fashionable truisms there are)
    • Total reading: the normal magazines and papers Economist, Guardian weekly, New Internationalist (this month´s issue). Some books: Anja Snellman´s "Lyhytsiipiset" (rather poor one) and Neil Gaiman's "Caroline varjojen talossa" (good one). Then I also started the new Chomsky and one book on China. 
  • Sunday 23rd We went to visit the Zhejiang Yonggan Curio with Maikki and her family. It was kind of fun, nice weather and nice people. Big house full of excotic furniture. We did not buy anything large, since we may go there another time. And we do not have any house/home in Finland, so it is a bit hard to decide what to buy. 
    • We also had lunch at a local place and some beer plus one bottle of Shaoxing wine. The wine is always as fun to drink. 
    • In the evening I read Chomsky and went to bed early. Quite fun book, especially after reading Paul Krugman's Great unravelling" and one book of Chinese foreign policy. Reading is fun. And makes one a little more enlightened. 
  • Saturday 22nd Working hours: 5.5 h
    • Heuristic of the day: in order to understand something, you must not try to understand everything. Aristotle.
    • Really nice weather: sun, 8 degrees, no wind. Just like it should be. 
    • I got up at 8.30, had some noodles, check what HS has to say about the state of the world, walked some 30 minutes, took taxi to office and took shower. The shower at office is much better than the one at our home. Actually, I cannot wash my hair at home. 
    • The new park next to my home is taking shape at last. Now there were some people cleaning it or doing something else. 
    • Bas told me that the finance minister of the Netherlands keeps public diary in the internet. As I cannot write about my work in the internet, I must use this space. 
  • Saturday 22nd 11-15.30 Praring slides .... for VFI meeting. 
    • I took a simple approach. I just took some figures about IPA, which I use to explain the system architecture and the way traffic goes in the system. Then I will just use the official user manual to explain all ATM-layer measurement. I see no point in copy-pasting info from user manual to slides and then presenting the slides. Let's see whether others buy my argument. 
  • Saturday 22nd 10.30-11 Emails
    • Not too many. 
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  • Friday 21st Working hours: 12 h
    • Good day, we got a lot of work done. Both me and Maunu are a bit exhausted by now. Memory problems. Tiredness. No aggressions, yet. 
    • I must come to work on Saturday in order to make presentation slides from Vodaphone Italy. Not that much of fun. Well, I will take time off some other day then. 
    • In the evening I was reading Guardian Weekly, Economist, Noam Chomsky's new book and also some books on China. 
  • Friday 21st 15 - 21 SE work, statistics presentation preparation for VFI trip etc. 
    • Also interesting email discussions about VFI. 
  • Friday 21st 13-15 Piping meeting and also updates to  SeIntersiteMeetingPeriods.
  • Friday 21st 12-13 Discussion with Maunu on work load estimates (lunch too)
    • It seems that the work load is at least 50% to large. So, we must do something: either drop/postpone something or let the schedule stretch. We must discuss with others about this and that is why we have a meeting with Petri Vesterinen, Mika Seppanen and others on Monday.
  • Friday 21st 10-12 SE-meeting (Code, Templates, Task Plans). See HzSeDiary2003. 
  • Friday 21st 9-10 SE web updates, discussions, planning with Maunu
    • I took taxi to work. Stupid me. 
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  • Thursday 20th Working hours: 9 h
    • I came to office a bit late due to some personal issues. But I think my being late did not hurt anyone.
    • Rainy day, hard rain, dark, 14 degrees. I used taxi both ways. 25 minute walk at noon. 
  • Thursday 20th 18 - 20 SE work
  • Thursday 20th 15.30 - 18 Private, work related, meetings
  • Thursday 20th 11-15.30 SE meeting, email etc
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  • Wednesday 19th Working hours: 11 h 
    • I must cut down these working days. This is dangerous for my mental and physical healthAnd social life too. 8 hours a day must be enough / maybe I just must concentrate harder and delegate etc more.
    • Weather: 15 degrees, fog, rain. No wind.
    • Quite good day, no nasty surprises, even some calls from Finland. But not enough time to think.
    • One should have at least 2-3 free thinking time. Maybe one should walk outside 1.5 hours a day. Who says that onemust work in office. We could make some SE walks around HZ. It is easier to think while walking than sitting in thenoisy office.
  • Wednesday 19th 17-18 Discussion with Jyrki Innanen, Maunu Holma and Sampo Sainio on DIMUTI.
    • Question: is IWS1 good starting task for HZ SE team with DIMUTI. I promised to reply by 18th. 
    • Other issues related to DIMUTI: version control, prontto corrections etc. How to keep track? 
  • Wednesday 19th 16-17 SE-webpage updates (doc pages, the documentation framework)
    • This did not proceed. Some problems with concentrating in anything this time. 
  • Wednesday 19th 14-16 SE-work: resourse discussion with Mika, other with Maunu * The main question is how much "the waiting list"-persons can do SE in 1Q04. We must discuss this more. 
  • Wednesday 19th 12-13 Thinking while walking
    • From now on I will walk 30 minutes btw 12 and 13 so that I have time to think something and get some fresh (?) air. 
  • Wednesday 19th 9-11, 13-14 SE workshops
  • Wednesday 19th 7-9 Emails, thinking about some patent ideas
    • We came by taxi with Hannu. It is fast, but my brains would need some physical exercise in the morning.
  • ----
  • Tuesday 18th Working hours: 6 (sick in the morning)
  • Tuesday 18th 15-18 Random, boring issues. A bit depressed feeling. Must be the rain.
    • But I draw a new seat order:  se.jpg
  • Tuesday 18th 14-15 Piping technical discussion
  • Tuesday 18th 13-14 DIMUTI A-meeting
  • Tuesday 18th 12-13 office work, emails
  • ----
  • Monday 17th Working hours: 3.5 (sick in the afternoo
  • Monday 17th 11-12 Piping A-meetint
  • Monday 17th 9-11 Emails etc, thinking

Week 46 10.-14.11. 

  • Sunday 16th
    • We just took it easy and enjoyed life. Some nice food, some wine etc. 
  • Saturday 15th
    • I had sushi for breakfast and lunch. Dream came true! We went to dress market and then had lunch at Cafe Montmartre, which is a piece of France in Shanghai. We tried to have drinks in the rooftop bar in Peace hotel but there was a wedding going on there. Pity. Then we did some sightseeing and ended up via a Sichuan restaurant, a stupid and disgusting girl-bar to O'Malleyes, where Puaso was sitting! 
  • Friday 14th Working hours: 7
    • In the evening we were in Shanghai with a couple of friends. She is flitght attendant and he is a boss in Otava. Nice to have them here in China for 2 days. We had dinner in one Tepanyaki-restaurant and then visited some bars like Cafe 1931. I was back at  Pujiang really early in the morning. 
  • Friday 14th 12-16 SE workshops, thinking.
  • Friday 14th 9-12 Emails, SE discussion, work on Statistics
  • ----
  • Thursday 13th Working hours: 5
  • Thursday 13th 15-17 SE work
  • Thursday 13th 13-15 SE workshops 
  • Thursday 13th 12-13 Quality discussions
  • ----
  • Wednesday 12th Working hours: 11.5
  • Wednesday 12th 19-22 Dinner at the best restaurant in HZ. Heh!
  • Wednesday 12th 16-18.30 Misc tasks. 
  • Wednesday 12th btw 15 and 16 Discussion with Bas on quality, reading some articles
  • Wednesday 12th 14-15 Discussion on VFI and statistic with Maunu and Maija Saukko. 
    • We agreed on what we present in Milan in December. Basicly the old ATM training material and short expl. on counters. 
  • Wednesday 12th 9-14 Se workhsops
  • Wednesday 12th 7-9 Emails, Piping discussion etc.
  • ----
  • Tuesday 11th Working hours: 13
    • this is getting serious, but I managed to handle tens of delayed emails, which is useful. It is warmer here in the office than at home anyway.
  • Tuesday 11th 16.15 - 20 Email handling, again discussion on PQII prontos and our working practices in general 
  • Tuesday 11th 15.45-16.15 Wrote a note on brokers. To Janne Makinen.
  • Tuesday 11th 15-15.30 Discussion on DIMUTI with Kisu, emails, Twiki, 
  • Tuesday 11th 13-15 Workshops
  • Tuesday 11th 12-13 Emails, discussion on PQ prontos
  • Tuesday 11th 7-9 Course preparations, email on VFI statistics
  • ----
  • Monday 10th Working hours: 10
  • Monday 10th 17-19 Emails, Statistics, etc 
  • Monday 10th 15-17 Course praparations
  • Monday 10th 13-14 Discussions on PQII pronttos (Matti and Maunu)
  • Monday 10th 9-10 Preparation for DIMUTI planning meeting 

April 2003 

  • Saturday 19th
    • I spent the whole day writing DimUti documentation. I am building up saldo sothat I can spend time with my friend 25.-26.4.
    • Poor weather. It was quite warm yesterday. Now it is again some 15C and even some showers. 
  • Monday 14th
    • I took taxi to work. It is really boring - no adrenalin before work makes me depressed. 
    • Anyway, I spent most of the day just talking with workmates on the new organization of NET, how to continue from now on, how to motivate myself etc. 
    • In the afternoon, I managed to do some work. Or at least to list what work still needs to be done and in which order. See MattiKinnunenToDo. 
  • Monday 7th
    • Came to work late (just 28 minutes by bike!). At work reading "Documenting software architectures" and working on DIMUTI. 

March 2003 

  • Friday, 28th
    • Working with TWiKi?. 
-- MattiKinnunen - 08 Dec 2003

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  • See also HzSeDiary2004 for common events of HzSeTeam. I do not list all events them here. 
  • See also MattiKinnunenLongDiary for longer nonsense. I do not write long diaries so often anymore, though. 
  • Send your comments to me!
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April 

Week 16 26.4.-1.5. 

  • Monday 26th
    • I got lazy in the morning and took taxi to the office. It turned out to be a good decision, because it started to rain for the whole day.
    • We had an excellent meeting about PipingTask in the afternoon. Now the work in the HzSeTeam has started to be really professional and fast. I really would like to have this more this kind of teamwork in Finland too. We managed to find some problems in some design. It seems that it really pays to check the things carefully!
    • We had a firedrill. It went rather well.
    • I left the office at 5pm to meet my friends and Markku in, suprise!, Commons Place. We had one beer and continued to the Japanese in BaoChu lu. They serve the best sushi in town. And the waitresses are simply too cute for my friends. I have got used to the Chinese cuteness already. 
    • I managed to find Gratefull Dead DVDs for my friend Aaro Koskinen.
    • We spent the evening playing cards and drinking Shaoxing-wine. Fun!
      • Markku, Kossi, and Petri had visited North Peak and the large buddhist temple earlier. 

Week 15 19.4.-25.4. 

  • Motto of the week: 
    • "We've found by experience that people who are careless and sloppy writers are usually also careless and sloppy at thinking and coding (often enough to bet on, anyway)." - Eric S. Raymond, How to Ask Questions The Smart Way (2002)
  • Sunday 25th
    • Early morning and straight to the airport. Average speed 74km/h. 
    • Friends (Kössi and Petri) arrived in time. Taxi back to Mr Donut. 80 km/h.
    • Back to HZ by train. Some criminal slashed my bag in the HZ railway station. Nasty, not nice!
    • Resting, walking around the neighborhood, some afternoon drinks in our rooftop terrace, nice dinner in Snake-restaurant (we are VIPs there, they let us in despite the long queue. 
    • Nothing much more. 
  • Saturday 24th
    • To Shanghai (by train, at 10.51)
    • We (I, Markku, Sirkku, and Tuula) stayed in the YMCA, which is rather nice place. Since it is build in 1929 or so, it also suits well in my old-hotel hobby. 
    • Nice lunch in some Muslim restaurant in Yunnan Lu. Great food.
    • Funny, but strong drinks in Park 97 (5 spirits mixed together, about 1.5 dl). 
    • Some bargaining in the markets and then for a short rest to hotel.
    • Evening: Sirkku and Tuula went to a rave-party in Park 97. I and Markku rested. I had late dinner and continued reading the "Life and Death"-book. 
  • Friday 23nd
    • 15C in the morning. 
    • No taxi. I took the 66 bus - it took 1.5 hours to go to the office. I would have walked faster. 
    • 10-11: HZ IS meeting. 
    • I had lunch with Markku in ChinChin. Markku liked it. We ate too much. 
    • I wrote MattiOnIpaFuture.
    • I finished reading "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". No ideas, yet.
    • My chair is terrible. I got a new one from the 4th floor. It is not much better. All chairs here are terrible, extremely unconfortable.
    • Soon we will go to the Commons Place. We shall a beer, or two.
    • TeroPeltola? showed up here surprisingly. So, we will have some deep discussions next week. Tero refused to join us in the Commons Place. He wanted to have some proper food, not just spring rolls.
    • We cycled to Commons with Heikki. Markku joined us. We did not enjoy Commons for long, but instead went to the revolving restaurant. Their Chinese buffet is really bad!
    • Do not go to the "Japanese lounge" in Yanan Lu. It is a brothel! We went there to have a drink, but turned back after seeing no other customers, but some 20 whores. Not for us! Back to Commons (JuhaKamppuri? was there too). 
  • Thursday 22nd
    • No meetings today! I have plenty of time to read, write, and think. Surprising!
    • I got my laptop back. The first thing I did was to install Opera, Mozilla and Putty. Without them I cannot work.
    • I discussed with JaniRahkonen about statistics. 
    • Markku arrived at 5 pm. We tried to find a camerashop in Qiutao Lu, but failed. It started to rain after 5.20 pm, which meant that all taxis disappeared. So, we had to buy some DVDs and wait for the taxis to arrive. It was hot and humid. Not good for large guys like us. We were sweating like pigs. 
    • Dinner in the Japanese in Baochu Lu. I had my normal set of sushi and potato salad. Markku had a set meal of pork, egg and rice. He like it a lot. I was surprised that he also like the misosoup.
    • Later, I continue reading "Life and death in Shanghai". Now the woman got out of the prison after being there for 6.5 years (rather much for an innocent person) only to find that the criminals had killed her daughter. 
    • Two trains collided in North Korea killing 3000 persons. This must be the worst railway accident in history. 
    • It got rather cool in the evening after the rain.
  • Wednesday 21st
    • Warm still!
    • I took taxi to work. The female drive was clever enough not to drive QingChun Lu. No male driver has been so clever. 
    • No meetings today! I have plenty of time to read, write, and think. Surprising! I will tell later if I come up with something new. 
    • I cycled back home. We had dinner at Grandmothers: scallops and crabs were almost too good. 
  • Tuesday 20th
    • My laptop broke down - the hard-disk is dead now. Fortunately I keep everyhing important here in Twiki - I just had to reinstall some SW when I get the computer back (Opera, Putty, ...). I lost my bookmarks, which is a pity, thouhg.
    • I cycled to work - this time it took 36 minutes. Huge packs of cyclist everywhere. 
    • Weather: up to 33C, sun. Really nive. I like the warm weather. 
    • 9-10 Meeting with Main.Basvodde, LvYi, MaunuHolma, HongqiangHuang, KirsiLagus?, JariHassinen? on processes etc. 
    • 10-11 Discussion with Jyrki on my future tasks in Helsinki.
    • 15-17 Discussion on statistics (cell loss measurement) with ChenGuodong and MaunuHolma. This task is almost ready - it is much further than similar tasks in Helsinki!
    • I sent the other application. I think it is really good application and I will be really surpised if they do not accept it. If they do not, they really must have some exceptional applicants, or many of them. 
    • Whole sheep dinner in the opposite XinXian-restaurant. Excellent sheep - even I liked it and ate it - my vegetarianism is fading away. After the dinner we went to Common Place and from there after a few beers and cigars to home. 
    • Really nice day!
  • Monday 19th
    • I finally had the time and energy to have pineapple and mangoes for breakfast. They are delicious. 
    • Cycling to work: only 38 minutes by the heavy Chinese bike. Not too bad. 
    • First time I used shorts and T-shirt when cycling. 
    • Weather: 24C, sun. Great!
    • 10-12 HzSeTeam weekly meeting HzSeMinutes2004x04x19xToDoWeekly. 
    • Some not so public meetings on SE in the afternoon. We did not decide to do anything dramatic, so no need to worry. 
    • It is very hot here in the 6th floor. It is rather hard to do any real work. 
    • Now at 4 pm it is 30C. It seems to be summer, now.
    • We (me and MaunuHolma) realized that in the current state of the system of RNC, we do not have so much DC work. We actually should not have any. The basic framework is ready. What remains are the performance issues, traffic issues and occasional hard features. I will write more about this insight soon. Now I will leave and meet my brother. I assume we will have a beer or two. 
    • I wrote and sent one job application! Let's see how great my market value is. I asked for 6000 euros per month (in Finland) brutto. 
    • I went with my brother to have beer in the revolving restaurant in Wulin Square/Yanan Lu. The views are really magnigficent from there. I had not realized earlier how large a city Hangzhou really is. I think we could have some common dinner in this restaurant even though their buffet food did not look so special. 
    • We had dinner in the Ajisen Ramen - good as always. I cycled home and my brother took taxi. The driver drove over 100 km/h in wrong lane. Markku was terrified after the ride. 

Week 14 12.4.-18.4. 

  • Sunday 18th
    • I could not get good sleep during the night. There was a disco across the hotel in Maoming Lu. They play bad music very loud. 
    • No breakfast, I had to leave for the airport at 6.15 am. It was raining. I have never seen Shanghai so empty!
    • The taxi was fast - it took 38 minutes for 46.2 km from Ruijin to Pudong airport. It was rainig a lot - I wonder how the driver saw where she was driving. (by the way: female drivers are 100 times better than male ones here in China. Males are too aggressive.)
    • It was nice to meet my brother. He looks just as earlier, but of course a bit tired after the flight. He is also too large for the seats in airliners. 
    • We wanted to take the the maglev-train, but the first train takes off only at 8.30 am. So, we had to take the bus. 
    • Breakfast (omelettes and beer) in Cafe Montmartre in Xiangyang. Nice, quiet. 
    • In Hanzhou, at home at 3 pm. So rest. 
    • We took some new material to the tailor. He will make some new trousers for me. 
    • Dinner at the Snake-restaurant with JyrkiInnanen, JariHassinen?, HeikkiAhola, KirsiLagus?, Tao Ping and my brother, Markku. The normal Sichuan dishes. The owner was there - we missed him. 
    • I continue reading "Life and death in Shanghai". I also got the new Harvard international review, which seems interesting.
  • Saturday 17th
    • I slept rather late - I could not take the early train to Shanghai. I managed to take the 10.56 am train. It was almost empty in the soft seat cars. 
    • I had reserved a room in the Ruijin guesthouse in the French concession. It is an old set of buildings in a private park. Really nice place, a quiet oasis in the middle of a cosmopolis. I got a room in an new building, which was not so nice, but very clean, spacious, and even luxurious. 
    • Ruijing guesthouse could not serve lunch for me! I had lunch (salad, garlic bread, garlic soup, seafood curry, caramel pudding) in Sandoz, a Portuguese restaurant in Maoming Lu. Rather nice place. I regret a bit that I did not try their really Portuguese dishes. The real Portuguese food is good and simple (fish, potatoes, green wine).
    • After working on the other application for a few hours, I went out for a few drinks. I had strawberry margarity in the Colors bar (great place over artificial bond) and manhattan in some other bar. I was reading the book called "Life and death in Shanghai", which tells a story of a woman during the Cultural revolution. She was working for Shell and for that the revolutionaries put here in prison in solitary cells for 6.5 years. Not even Kafka could ever write so absurd things as Mao and his cronies created in China. The book would be really fun, if it would not tell a true story. I think everyone should read this book too. 
    • Weather 23C, sun. 
  • Friday 16th
    • 10-12 Meeting with many people about the RIS1 of A43 program. There is huge confusion. There is also much too few persons with any technical understanding of the product discussing these schedules and contents among themselves. Too damn bad!
    • Afternoon: nothing specific. I left a bit earlier after I got depressed. I used the whole evening for writing the other application. I hate writing applications - It always causes depression, panic etc. Fortunately, Sirkku was there to support me. Without her I could never write any applications. 
    • I finished reading Paul Auster's "Oracle night". It is excellent, really modern novel. It tells a story of a authors, who is writing a novel about a publisher, who is reviewing a novel called "Oracle night" - but it gets much more complex than this. You really should read the novel. Auster writes so enjoyable English. One learns much by reading his novels. 
    • Weather: 20-24 C, sun, nice. 
  • Wednesday 14th - Thursday 15th
    • Nothing. Braindeath, boredom, depression. Tiredness. No motivation to anything. I think someone will blame me for this after 9 months or so. But I do not care - I have drawn the conclusions long ago already. Thirsty and miresable, so I felt. Rollin's Band and Lemmy have a nice version of this classic song. 
    • If one is always totally motivated, in good mood, one cannot be creative. One must be a bureaucrat! Working by company SOPs, living by some other SOPs, not taking the initiative. 
    • It is must better to try to live with full speed and every now and then crash than try to hold it back. Life is so short. 
    • I guess I did something related to Nokia or RNC or whatever. At least I was thinking hard what are the most important problems, which prevent us from getting the products ready in more orderly manner. I even wrote something related. I will let you know more later. You be surprised!
    • Hot pot dinner with many Finnish and one French person. The food was as good as usually. I also ordered a bottle of Chinese spirit. It did not get too positive feedback. Later, JyrkiInnanen blamed me for causing him a bad hangover. 
  • Tuesday 13th
    • I took the TOEFL-test. The result is about 260 out of 300. This should be ebough. 
    • Lunch (Tuesday buffet in Branto) - I really miss this restaurant in HZ. 
    • We visited the calligraphy exhibition in the HK museum of Art. Much better than the exhibition in the Shanghai Museum. 
      • there was a visiting exhibition of Vietname art from the time of the war. Interesting.
    • Drinks at the lobby bar of the Peninsula hotel. The lobby is rather posh. Were I much richer, I would have high tea there every Saturday. 
    • Back at home after 10.30 pm.
  • Monday 12th
    • Just taking it easy. Walking around, sailing with the Star Ferry. 
    • We had lunch in the "Vietnam ...". This time we got the right spring rolls. They were delicious. 
    • Dinner at ...

Week 14 5.4.-11.4. 

  • My favourite places in HongKong. 
    • Branto - pure South Indian vegetarian in Lock Street, Tsim Tsa Tsui, Kowloon, opposite Cigar express (which is also worth visiting...). Better Indian food than aything I ever got in India! They have budget lunch on Tuesdays. 
    • Vietnam Thailand Spice Village - opposite Guandong Hotel, Prat Avenue (?), Tsim Tsa Tsui, Kowloon. Exellent Vietnamese spring rolls (not deep fried), delicious margaritas and tasty Tom Ka Kai. 
    • Habibi - Egyptian restaurant in Central, HongKong? Island. Best dates, halva and other desserts I have had (from Middle Eastern kitchen). They also serve Egyptian coffee, which is just right.
    • After lunch or dinner, I always visit either the large bookstore in Lock Street or the small (Dymocks) at the Central Star Ferry Pier. It is definitely a pity that I most probably do not have an opportunity to visit these restaurants for a while.
  • Sunday 11th
    • We went to see the horse racing to the Sha Tim racecourse. It was really fun. We were betting and having drinks for 6 hours. It was more fun than I expected. 
    • Dinner at Branto, the vegetarian Indian restaurant. Food was as good as always - much better in most Indian restaurants in India!
  • Saturday 10th
    • Early flight to Hongkong (KA623 at 830, rather good connection, one can have not too late lunch in Hongkong)
    • The taxi from our home to the Xiaoshan airport cost 91 by meter. We paid 100. The driver ask for 120. 
    • It was really nice to be in Hongkong among the Western civilization. I have noticed that I am really European - I really enjoy, and miss too, nice cafees, decent bookstores, large people...
    • We had lunch at "Vietnam Thailand spicy village". I tried to order the excellent not-deep-fried spring rolls I had last time, in March. But I failed. The food was OK anyway. 
    • The next natural thing to do was of course to visit the bookstore in the Lock Street. I bought "Einstein in Berlin", which tells about the time (1914-1932) Einstein stayed in Berlin. There were also some other famous physicist. It was the golden time and place for physics. It was also the time the Nazis took over. Really interesting book!
    • In the evening, we took the Star Ferry and had small dinner in the Egyptian restaurant Habibi in Central. I have never had so good halva and dates before. The restaurant is worth visiting just because of the desserts. 
    • Then to the Dymocks bookstrore at the star ferry terminal. It is so small, only 40 square meters. But it is better than any bookstore in Mainland China. I bought Paul Auster's new novel "Oracle night". It seems to quite good. I also bought the "Sex and the city"-book!
    • Then walking in Tsim Tsa Tsui. It is my favourite area - we were staying in the Kowloon hotel in there. It is so nice, lots of people, any shop you ever want to visit. Everything one needs in 3 square kilometers!
    • Singapore and Hongkong are examples of "socialism done right" (See Fortune favours the bold, by Thorouw). 
  • Tuesday 6th - Friday 9th
    • Some meetings, lots of discussions about HSDPA etc. 
    • Again, nothing specific, but working late.
    • Evenings: hanging in the office for way too long, but working most of the time. Some saldo is building up. I will use it later. 
    • Wed: training for TOEFL.
    • Thu: dinner with MaunuHolma in the QingChun Lu Japanese.
    • Fri: getting clothes from the tailor. 
    • Weather rather varying: Tue 29C and sun, Wed 10C and rain, Thu 17C and sun, Fri 20C and sun. I hope for more sun.
    • I wrote two invention reports and started to prepare for the 3rd one. 
    • I got some good ideas in the IS-meeting. And some other thoughts:
      • the new HZMT seems to be a reincarnation of the old DMT and PMT. Furthermore, there are too many ways to bring issues to HZMT without passing them through HZIS-meeting, that I am afraid that this will corrupt the whole basic idea behind this new structure. 
      • Also, I really wonder that we do not take any advantage of computers in preparing the decisions. There are Word and PPT-templates stored there and here. Instead, there should be a WEB-application in which we write the proposal. Each proposal would have a state (draft, WG, proposed for HZIS, decided by HZIS, ...) and all the decision proposal would then be visible for all (even rejected...). It would take 8 hours to implement such a system in Twiki, and it would save these 8 hours in one week. But, no computer, not in Nokia R&D. 
    • In the evening we just packed our things for the Hongkong-trip. 
  • Monday 5th
    • Early plane to Hangzhou. Back in office at 11am. 
    • Some meetings. 
    • Nothing specific in whole day.

Week 14 29.3.-4.4. 

  • Sunday 4th
    • The Summer Palace. 
    • We even hired a cycling boat, which was not that fun - it is really hard to pedal. 
    • The marble ship is a significant invention. One cannot use it for killing people. I recommend other marble guns for all countries. USA could build a really magnificent one. 
    • Evening: back to the Pass by bar. Then trying to find a theather with Chinese opera. After taking several taxis, seeing bazaards we ended up to a concert of Mozart. It was really bad. Some dinner in Beijingese restaurant. 
  • Saturday 3rd
    • Seeing the Great Wall at Simatai with 23 other backbackers. Fortunately the others went hiking. We took it in a lazy manner and took the cable car to the top. I was so afraid up there - I had to come back down really soon. But I went up the stairs faster than any hawkers. I am not scared to go up, if I go fast. Staying at the top and, especially, coming down is what is really terrifying. I am such a chicken, a sissy. 
    • The Simatai Great wall is worth the fear. The wall is on very steep mountain range. I do not understand how anyone could attach over the range even without the wall. 
    • It takes 4 hours to drive to Simatai (about 150 km...). We also saw some really dry countryside. It was really not that tempting place for planning a cycling trip. 
    • Dinner at "Pizza Works" (39RMB and one can eat all the pizza etc and drink all the beer one can). Then to "Pass by bar", which is absolutely a world class backbacker place. It so nice to be there having some drinks, see all the people, look at the old hutong-houses, see all the books. I do recommend it to everyone. If I would like in Beijing, I would go there several times a week. 
  • Friday 2nd
    • No real sightseeing today. Just going around - we tried to go to the Summer palace, but it was too cold. 
    • I had my usual 2nd vacation day stress - it is so terrible - even drugs do not help. I even had pain in my neck, literally. 
      • having Thai-food provided temporary relief. 
    • In the evening we had a walk in the Hutongs. They are nice to look at and wander in, but I am not so sure whether I would like to live in them. I so spoiled. 
    • Dinner at the "Big Fish Bowl"-restaurant, which BasVodde introduced to my in January. Fish was good as usual, and even hotter than I anticipated. 
  • Thursday 1st
    • Sightseeing began in earnest! We went to see the Forbidden City. It is really magnificent set of houses etc. But the most interesting issues were those historical fact I learned there. I did not know that the Chinese emperor almost never left the Forbidden city - it is rather strange way of managing a country - of course, travelling used be much slower in 1600. Also the approach of builing in ancient times seems to be valid also now: just gather more than enough workers and things get ready very fast. They got more than 1 million workers to build the F City. 
    • We had Beijing Duck in the famous (?) Beijing Duck restaurant. We ate the food of precidents, chancellors, and dictators: Ahtisaari, Kohl, and Castro had been there before us. It was good and the beer there was even better. 
    • The Tianmen square is very windy, and I think the mausoleum of Mr. Mao spoils it!
-- MattiKinnunen - 23 Apr 2004

MattiKinnunenDiary3Q2004  

07 Oct 2004 - 11:23 - r1.20  MattiKinnunen
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  • See also my public diary! It contains non-work-related topics.
  • I DO NOT UPDATE THIS DIARY ANYMORE

September 

Week 37 13.9.-19.9 

  • Monday 13th
    • 9-10.30. Discussion with BettinaWolker on Traffic Testing, which is not an easy task to coordinate as she should.
      • there are, again, so many different boards working on this issues. TeroPeltola? has established a KPI and outage forum,which should, among other issues, define the KPIs for RNC (not MGW, of course), and "support development of RNC to best of its class" (sic!). 
    • 10.30-12.00 Office work. Rather good mood and many small things to do. 

Week 37 6.9.-12.9 

  • Friday 10th
    • I gave a lecture about the characteristics of good requirements in the Friday-lectures series. See SeFridayLectures.
      • good discussion during the lecture. 
    • Nothing much more.
  • Thusday 9th
    • Meeting about the product strategy. See MattiOnProductStrategy, which I wrote on Wednesday. It pays to have hangover - it frees the mind!
Some days are missing from here. Too bad! 

August 

Week 35 17.8.- 29.8. 

  • Thursday 26th
    • Autumn is here. I did not dare to cycle, since it is raining cats and dogs. I took bus instead. Finally, I even managed to get Travel Card. 
    • Long discussion about the state of the R&D and Nokia in general with MaunuHolma. Sari Baldauf is in HangzhouOffice right now. I hope Maunu has an opportunity to ask Sari for some ideas how Nokia Networks is going to make some really enhancements in quality. The current campaing, which states that "quality is our business" is a disgrace. It is so stupid! As if we could make better quality just by hanging out posters, when we are not even using the standard industrial practices. What a shame. 
  • Wednesday 25th
    • Serious cycling began: I cycled 75 minutes with 80% of the full speed this morning. Really refreshing and should help me in reaching my health goals. There are really nice places to cycle in Helsinki: I cycled by up the riverside of Vantaa, then through the Central park (forest) and via quiet suburban streets. Nice and rather safe. 
      • I was totally wasted when I got back home in the evening. I am not as fit as I used to be when I was younger.
      • We walked aroung the Töölönlahti and checked a couple of menus along the way. 
    • The 2nd part of my IIP. Since I got into MIT, I do not have much time to work here anymore. This is due to my extensive holidays: maybe 50 days still this year. So, I will work until 15th of October and then take a 2-month holiday...
      • We removed a couple of tasks from my STIP. 
    • I will have a 25-minuted walk in the afternoon - just to get my brains to work again. One must not stay in the office building the whole day. It is not good for humans to do so. 
    • It seems that nobody is really trying to figure out the reasons behind the current WCDMA crises. It seems that most managers, even quite high ones, are happy if we can solve this and that crises. I do not understand such an attitude: it is clear that the current crises are due to some systematic problems and minunderstanding is our R&D. At least I think that the co-operation amoung NRC, System Technologies (Koskinen), RNC developement (and inside RNC development between IPA-framework and RNC SW application), standardisation (is anyone really following the standardisation e.g. the work SamiKekki? is doing - does anyone try to anticipate the coming R&D-challenges from the current standardisation etc), marketing, etc. It seems that all these stakeholders are doing their own duties in more or less isolation from the others. This is not good, this is not even acceptable. 
      • Then we have our own problems with methodologies, management practices, misconstructed organization, excessive amount of this-and-that managers, non-enough-competent developers (so called competence development is a joke here) etc. But I have written so much about these issues, tried to make them better for so long and against so much irrational resistance, that now I am about to give up, move to MIT and continue thinking about R&D and large-scale product development from an academic point of view. 
    • I am suffering from acute want of competent, enthusiastic, and honest discussion partners. I am so lonely here. I really miss Maunu and Reijo. Of course, there are still others with whom it is always a pleasure and productive to talk. But most of them are so busy with current crises and so down-throdden by the past, that having them around is not so great a blessing it would be in some other situation. 
    • I receive about 2 work related emails per day. Really quiet here: I am now convinced that my contribution to this company is not so much needed anymore. It may well be, that my special talents are in creating totally new products in great teams. I am not so good in doing simple things alone. 
  • Tuesday 24th
    • A romours has it as follows: the HR are career map development project intended to get rid of the "chief engineer"-jobtitles. Reason: engineers are not leading anything, managers are those who lead. Incredible but so telling attitude in this company. Anyway, some parts of Nokia R&D were so much agains this idea that the current career map still includes "chief engineer" and the like. The career map is a bit strange: it seems that "chief engineer" is more demanding than "program manager". See also the Word-attachment: it has the titles in columns, but the headings of the colums are not there. I think the heading are the job grades (JG), which would indicate that the "chief architect" has JG 12, which is the same as senior program manager has. Strange. 
    • I cycled to work and back to home. Nice weather still. 
    • The doctor measured my blood pressure, which was quite high. So, I panicked and bought a bloodpressure meter OMRON M4 for my personal use at home. Incredibly, my blood pressure was considerably lower on Wednesday morning. I tried to get rid of all stress, think nice thoughts and eat only a little. I think I will get my bloodpressure under control by excercising, drinking less, and eating less. I also think I should lose more than 10kg. Let´s see...
    • I visited the local gyms in Kallio. I think I will start to regular the Silver Gym. It costs something, but I have found that I just cannot use the local gym in the Säterinportti office block. I need to get away from the office as soon as possible in the evening. 
  • Monday 23rd
    • I cycled to and from work. Really nice weather since I managed to escape the thunderstorm in the evening. 
    • I was hacking in my mind with the performance modelling tool. It is quite well developed already. 
    • I held a peripathetic walking meeting with MaunuHolma. I called him and walked around the nearby bushes and forests while talking. It is always nice to talk to someone, who has though about large scale product development a lot. 
    • I cooked Italian risotto for the first time since coming back from China. I used some preserved squids, which made the risotto really good and exotic. I think I will cook this risotto to some selected friends too. It is a bit too excotic for those who do not love squid, but what the heck: they must stay away!

Week 34 16.8.- 22.8. 

  • Sunday 22nd
    • My godson´s 2-year birthday party: too many people and so many kids. I escape to the balcony. 
    • I got to lend a book about the architectural wonders of Boston. Nice buildings there - especially I would like to stay in the Bakers-house designed by Alvar Aalto. 
    • No excercise. 
  • Saturday 21st
    • I spent the morning as many others did by watching the Olympic Games at TV. Sport is rather entertaining and provides also an excellent excuse for not doing something more productive. 
    • I decided to check how the poor people shop and walked to the Lidl-supermarket in Pasila. It takes 20 minutes one-way, so in case of acute poorness I can still managed. I did not find the shop good: most of the groceries were not so delicious looking. The shop itself was not very pleasant and the guards were intrusive and ugly. I assume I will never go to Lidl-again. Siwa and Valintatalo, which are near my home are good and cheap enough for me. And the shopping-hall and open-air markets are not far away either. 
    • I played some pinball in Linnanmäki. I got 2 replays (6 total). Not bad. 
    • In the evening, we were invited to Swedish-Finnish greyfish party at Tero Norkolas. The greyfish were good (Chinese) and all the drinks were too many, but somehow, with unhuman willpower, I managed to stay rather sober until 1 am. After that I let go and was a bit more drunk at home at 3 am. Nice party: 10 guest, one of which is a professor of biology and really civilized person. Other were not uncivilized either.
  • Friday 20th
    • It is still warm. I took bus to Pajamäki and walked from there to the office. It takes 32 minutes. In Perkkaa one can only see mothers, babies, and dogs. All men are missing. Maybe they are here in Säterinportti hacking away...
    • I started to write PerformanceEvaluationToolStrategyTask. I assume it is now time even for me to start doing something real here. I got my salary (net about 3100 euros) today. I will have a beer or two to celebrate it today. 
    • No news from MIT. They have sent a package to me, but I have not received it. I am getting inpatient. 
  • Thursday 19th
    • Sirkku´s birthday: we celebrated by having Thaifood at dinner and watching "Fahrenheit 9/11" in Bristol. Really good movie, but I knew most of the things already: most of them are in Paul Krugman´s and Chomsky´s recent books, which I read in China. 
    • Nothing specific at work. Just trying to get something done and thinking about product development. It is so quiet here: I just sit here all alone and the others somewhere are taking care of acute crisis. I think this is so nice. 
    • Cycled to work.
  • Wednesday 18th
    • Cycled to work. Nothing specific: a meeting on effort estimation in architecture work. We should be better at it, but I do not know how.
    • Sirkku´s relatives visited us in the evening (and I missed a concert by Pelle Miljoona). Some wine. 
  • Tuesday 17th
    • I visited TeroTaskila?, JariIsokangas?, and SinikkaSarkkinen? in Tampere. Now I know which kind of tools they would like to have. 
    • I enjoyed free time with my friend Kössi by the rapid with a few beers. We also had dinner at Knossos. Great food there. 
    • I travelled by train to Tampere. From Helsinki I took the Pendolino, 1st class. It was not worth the price. 
  • Monday 16th
    • I walked from Mäkkylä. Nothing specific at work. In the evening I travelled to Tampere and spent the evening with my mother. She is a bit sad because I will move to USA (i.e. abroad). 

Week 33 9.8.-15.8. 

  • Sunday 15th
    • Idling at home for most of the day: wathing Formula 1 and Olympics, fixing bikes, sleeping and reading "Software craftmanship".
    • Sushi-dinner at Kabuki with OlliFinni? and his family (and Sirkku, of course). Excellent, not bad at all and not even too expensive, either. 
  • Saturday 14th
    • Mostly idling at home. 
    • I walked to the Akateeminen and bought the new Foreign Affairs, which had some good articles about China. I read them in Cafe Engel. 
  • Some missing notes here...
  • Monday 9th
    • Still happy - even more than before. 
    • Sun shines and 23C.
    • OlliFinni? gave me and my book a lift to the office. Now my library is here. Check it and learn something new!
    • Installing Cradle tooks some time, but now it is running in my computer (or so I think). There are some manuals for me to read before start hacking away with Cradle. It seems to be a good tool.

Week 32 2.8.-8.8. 

  • Sunday 8th
    • Unpacking continue from 11am to 7pm, but then the home was ready and we were able to leave to Sea Horse to meet some friends from Boston, USA. 
    • It is nice to meet some persons from Boston. Milton has even Bsc from MIT. He seems to have similar values as I do. 
    • After enjoying the delicious fried Baltic herrings, we returned to our home (5 persons) and continued celebrations with some nice Prosecco from Italy. 
  • Saturday 7th
    • Slowly, slowly, but still so happy, exalted even, I got out of bed. 
    • Hard day: moving friends stuff from old home to the new one from noon to 4pm and then drinking his beers. Later, at home we managed to continue to unpack our stuff. It started to look quite desperate. But happiness helped here too. 
    • Sunny, 27C, sweating like a big pig. 
  • Friday 6th
    • I met an old couple from San Francisco this morning. They had flown from SF to Zurich (Switzerland) via Germany, Check, Hungary, Austria and Baltic states (in some order, check the map) to Helsinki, Finland. They were on the way to the airport. I cycled with them to the airport. Nice couple, really skinny and brown after cycling so much.
    • I was late from my IIP - not very clever thing to do. But MikaLehmusto? had invented good incentive targets for me. So, now I know what I should do in order to get some bonus-money. Incredibly, this seems to have something to do with the good of the products (RNC, MGW, IPA). 
    • So, I came late and stayed lated. At 8 pm I got this email
Dear  Mr. Kinnunen,

Congratulations!  After careful consideration of your admissions package, we are pleased to extend to you 
an offer of admission to the master's degree program in System Design and Management (SDM) in January, 2005.  
The SDM program is rigorous and academically challenging, and your application indicates 
that you are capable of meeting that challenge.

We believe that the SDM program offers an outstanding opportunity for personal and professional growth, 
and we look forward to having you join our program.  We are selecting our new class with care, 
taking into consideration the many elements that comprise an engineering leader.  
Each new admit has great potential, not only as a contributor to the SDM program, but also as a future leader.

On behalf of the faculty of the School of Engineering and the Sloan School of Management at MIT 
that participate in the SDM Program, and our colleagues in the Program Office, 
we extend our congratulations on your achievement. 

Once more, congratulations.

Sincerely,
Dennis P. Mahoney
Director, System Design & Management Program
    • which made me so happy. I started dancing wildly around the office - I do not think there were anyone else here at that late moment. 
    • Check: http://lfmsdm.mit.edu/sdm/ for more infomarmation.
    • Celebration continued until 2 am: first some real Champagne at home (with Sirkku, Li and AaroKoskinen?) and then some beer etc in Rytmi. 
    • Should I start to support Bush, because his 2nd term would certainly crash the US-dollar (all my savings are in Euros...)
  • Thursday 5th
    • Cycling to the office - some 22C, sun. 34 minutes. 
    • Discussion on whether NRC is suitable for making some tools is still ongoing. 
    • I spent the day reading some material, installing Cradle and discussing. 
    • The new CD by www.sonicyouth.com Sonic Youth? is rather nice. 
    • In the evening idling at home - we managed to unpack some stuff. 
  • Wednesday 4th
    • The first CA-meeting. Nice people with extensive experience - now I feel young, in China I always felt so old. Excellent!
    • A meeting on one "Performance SOP". It seems that I should write another version of my "Designer´s guide to performance in IPA" from 2001. Why not?
    • I was too tired to do anything productive in the evening. I managed, however, to read some 50 pages of "Hullu työtä tekee" and the newest Economist. So the who evening was not in vain, I assume.
    • I tested the web-browser in my mobile phone 6820a. It is next to useless: slow, the screen is too small, and the phone crashes too often. I would never buy/use this phone with my own money. 
    • Long discussion with MaunuHolma on documentation etc. 
    • I took train to the office. 
  • Tuesday 3rd
    • I cycled to the office - it is so much fun, 23C and sun shining.
    • The local radio-shop in Porthaninkatu is the place to get electronics fixed. Really nice old men working there. Reasonable prices. 
    • We received our things from China. It took exactly 2 months to get them. Now our home is full of boxes. We have no places to put all the things we now have. Too bad. At least we have to buy some new book-selves.
    • I got 3 new books today: 
    • I got the www.iht.com Internation Herald Tribune? for the first time delivered straight to my home. It is one day old, but still it relieves my anxiety - I feel more like member of the world community. www.helsinginsanomat.fi HS? is so local - but I do subscribe to it too. Other magazines I substribe to are: Economist, New Internationalist, Harward International review, and maybe some other. I do not exactly remember. Anyway, the more one reads, the better persons one becomes. 
    • We had the traditional "Tiistaitapaaminen" ("Tuesday meeting") in Sea Horse, which one of the best places to have a dinner in Helsinki. The food is really traditional and fresh etc. There were 11 friends this time - some came all the way from Joensuu. 
      • Maybe some pints too much...
  • Monday 2nd
    • Rather nice now that most Nokians are back here in the office. Nice to meet my new workmates and even my boss! A boss makes one´s day.
    • Some emailing about "RNC tool strategy". 
    • Some work on the seating plan.
    • Reading some articles. 
    • Tired.
    • Sun shines. 
    • I stayed in the office way too late leaving only after 6pm. Almost noboby works here after 4.30 pm. 
    • I found a new route to home: bus 205 to Kamppi and from there by metro. It took 50 minutes (including shopping some food). 
    • One speedy jeans guy tried to enter our house - I had to use the back door. This is how living is Kallio is like. 

July 

Week 31 26.7.-1.8. 

  • Sunday 1st
  • Saturday 31st
    • My birthday. I am now 36-years old. It is rather much. I am getting old, but not tired.
    • Sirkku gave me a book about Stalin. I was and still am so happy about the book. I can hardly wait reading it. Maybe I should take a weeks vacation just to read it - but only after I receive my other books from China - I need some reference material.
    • We drove to Joutseno to meet OlliFinni? and his family. Olli is a master cook and we ate some delicious smoked and fried fish. Some beer too!
    • Again, we stayed up quite, too late. 
  • Friday 30th
    • The workshop in the morning.
    • We rented a Smart and drove to Valkeala. The Smart Forfour is really nice car. If I would buy a car, I would buy it. 
    • Salmon-suop etc in Valkeala.
  • Thursday 29th
  • Wednesday 28th
    • Rain, 14C, thunder. I took train to the office. 
    • In the evening we visited Mr Tero Norkola, a literary agent or something. He is also a decent cook and we had nice squid etc. Some drinks too much and definitely too late. Chaos. 
  • Tuesday 27th
    • Sunshine, about 23C when I cycled to the office after 8.30 am. 
    • Only 105.5 kg. Strange. 
    • I went to the gym for the first time since I broke my shoulder in China. Now the shoulder is OK but my level of fitness is not OK. Getting better, though. 
    • I have managed to sell my extra (old) bicycles and my extra mirrow. 
    • I managed to install and use XNA in/on my Zaurus. 
    • The MIT-interview went well in the late evening. I am quite confident that they will accept my application. Pat Hale, the interview (a director there), said that my ideas and motivation are exactly in line with the whole idea of SDM@MIT. We also discussed at lenght on military history and how knowing the history helps also in business. Some worrying issues: it seems that I really must brush up my mathematical skill before going to MIT. This will be a tought autumn after all. 
    • We had a couple of beers in Bullman restaurant with Päivi Nikkilä, a radio journalist. Some nasty gossipping!
  • Monday 26th
    • Still sunshine. So, I cycled some 50 minutes. I have already lost 2 kg. Not bad. Now only 106kg - I still have opinions...
    • Others are returning to office. 
    • SDM@MIT wants to interview me. Excellent. I am excited. The interview will be tomorrow, on Tuesday. The interviewer will be Pat Hale. 
    • In the morning I chatted with JyrkiInnanen, TapioPehkonen, JouniSaukko? and Heikki Koskinen. 
    • In the afternoon I chatted (at least) with Matti Palo, Kisu Lagus, Eero Kauria, Sami Tilander etc. Fun to have other people here too. Oh, I almost forgot Tero Peltola. 
    • Funny how fast one can sell stuff in the net. I posted an ad about one large mirrow and got first reply in 2 minutes. Another ad about 2 bicycles got 4 replies in 2 hours. Maybe the low price has something to do with this. I like to give my unnecessary stuff away with just nominal prices. 
    • The new Sonic Youth DVD rocks almost too much. I get goosepimples when listening to it. No, I am not watching so much during working hours. 
    • It is time to leave the office and cycle some 50 minutes. Really nice weather today. 
    • Nothing much at home in the evening. I read some books and Suomen Kuvalehti. Again pasta for dinner. 

Week 30 19.7.-25.7. 

  • Sunday 25th
    • We borrowed a van and brought some stuff from Tampere to Helsink with my brother. Sun was shining. 
    • In the evening, I read Harward International review (an interview with Paul Krugman), The American Heritage of Invention and technology (interesting article about WWII D-DAY technology), Helsingin sanomat (poor newspaper, I will subscribe to International Herald Tribune instead) etc. 
  • Saturday 24th
    • Sailing trip to Porvoo by motorship King (www.royalline.fi). The Helsinki archipelago is nicer than I have imagined. In Porvoo, we had coffee and drank a bottle of sparkling wine by the riverside. Really nice. On the way back the sun was shining and I got sunburnt. 
    • I took the 1830 Pendolino to Tampere. It takes only 87 minutes. Nice. Markku picked me up from the station and we went to his garage to have a beer and talk bullshit, which is fun thing to do, sometimes. 
  • Friday 23nd
    • I continued planning my work for the fall period. It is progressing well. I am really looking for having some workmates here and really begin working. 
    • It was raining in the afternoon when I cycled home. 
    • We visited the Diacor lab in the morning. 
    • In the evening, I fixed Sirkku´s bicycle, which actually was not even broken. The front tyre was somehow misplace. I have never seen such thing to happnen earlier. 
    • I intended to take the tram and ride around Helsinki late in the evening, but somehow I turned into a couch potatoe and could not leave home even for a short trip.
  • Thursday 22nd
    • I visited the nurse. She said that (after 1.5 years in China) I seems to be OK except that a) I am too fat (I knew it) and b) my blood pressure is too high (again). The remedies are trivial: less food, more exercise, less alcohol and less stress. Let's try that for some months and see if it helps. I should lose at least some 13 kg, preferable some 20kg. Not too easy, but after losing 20kg I would as light as I was when joining Nokia back in 1997. Working in Nokia is making me fat. Or is it just working?
    • Twiki was broker again. Now it is not. 
  • Wednesday 21st
    • I cycled to the office. Nice weather, about 20C, sunny. 
    • Aggio-sport has moved away from Haaga. I cannot find their store anywhere. Too bad, because I need nyw cycling shorts and shoes. 
    • Long discussions with MaunuHolma.
    • This Twiki does not work properly after some reconfiguration of the server atmweb. I fixed some problems, but some remain still. 
      • It seems that Twiki is too vulnerable to some changes in the environment. Luckily the problems are easy to fix. 
    • I stayed in the office until 6pm as I wanted to see how Tour de France, stage 16 turned out. Lance won, surprise?
    • Sirkku and her sister were selling some old things in the Hietalahti flea market. The things were not so good, but they did manage to break even. 
    • Normal pasta-dinner, an English drama from TV and some books. Normal evening. 
  • Tuesday 20th
    • Migraine, I stayed at home. I got better in the afternoon, so I did some new things
      • I vacuum-cleaned our flat. It takes only 10 minutes, so I think Sirkku was right when she insisted not to buy a Trilibyte.
      • I also visited the public library (15 metres from our home) for the firts time in years. I bought a new library card and borrowed a few books. I even managed to read Veren Vimma by Leena Lehtolainen. It was more or less waste of time - I have read much better crime books earlier. Leena is getting better, though. This books is much better than her first one. 
    • New potatoes for dinner. Really Finnish. 
  • Monday 19th
    • I bought a new bike from Velosport. The bike was not too cheap but it feels good!
      • The new gear/axis-system has two rubber-cushions, which make some noise when I drive. Strange. Even lubricating them does not help.
    • We had some pasta for dinner. It is rather nice to cook.
    • I read "Power and womanhood" by Yrsa Stenius in Finnish. It is an important book to read for anyone. 

Week 29 12.7.-18.7. 

  • Sunday 18th
    • Idling at home. Later we visited Linnanmäki again and ate pizzas for dinner in Manala. The pizzas were terrible. Do not go to Manala for pizzas. 
  • Saturday 17th
    • I took it extremely easy until 4 pm. 
    • I visited the surroundings of Tuska-festivaali. There I could see some nice Gothic-youngsters and feel myself so old and wasted. 
    • I bought two books: an anthology of Joseph Brodsky and a book on mathematics and stock markets. 
    • We visited Mikael and his family in the evening in Tapanila. Nice evening. 
  • Friday 16th
    • Nothing worth mentioning at work. Still waiting for something to turn up and light my motivation. It will come, soon, I am sure.
    • I went to the Linnanmäki amusement park to play some pinball. My current favourite is Gofers. It is quite easy one to play, but it requires fast reflexes and total concentration. 
    • In the evening I went to see my friend in Kuusiluoto island. It is nice place - a piece of pure nature in the middle of Helsinki. We grilled some food and had a few beers there. There are also some nice sheep there - they are really friendly towards anyone who has food to offer. 
      • Some Russian men were fishing by the bay in the middle of the night. They said "Kuha, hjyva".
  • Thursday 15th
    • 20C, mostly sunny
    • It is still hard for me to really start working here in Helsinki. I came to work, sent a letter to the Copenhagen police station (they have my mobile phone there and I want them to send it back to me; it is my 4th phone within one year...), read "3G training material" and were thinking about "RNC tools strategy" as a part of more general strategy of developing systems like RNC and MGW. 
    • No lunch today, just a couple of sandwiches. 
    • I know a way to crash Opera and the whole Windows 2000 Professional. Go to the page http://aikataulut.ytv.fi/reittiopas/fi/line/?line=50&type=1 and click the blue point next to text "Sörnäinen". It will crash your computer. Too bad!
    • From my office window I can only see trees (a forest) and clouds. It is hard to believe that I am really looking at the 2nd biggest city in Finland. Looks too much like countryside to me. 
      • I walked from Pajamäki to Säterinportti (I took the bus 50 from Sörnäinen to Pajamäki. This seems to be the most convinient way of getting to the office withour cycling). It took some 35 minutes and I saw about 3 other persons during the whole time. This place is too dead for me. Good thing is that I can read books while walking, which was not so easy in China. Today I was reading a crime novel by Liza Marklund. 
  • Wednesday 14th
    • Nothing special at the office today. 
    • I am still trying out different ways of getting to the office. Today I took the tram and train to Leppävaara and then bus 23 to Säterinportti. Not fun at all. 
    • I visited Aaro Koskinen in Hiomotie 30. We went to the centre of Helsinki and had a couple (really, just 2) pints. I do not know the most hip-places anymore, but luckily Aaro does. 
    • The furniture shop had delivered out sofa. Now we have already beds, sofa and one table (with 3 chairs) at home. We have also managed to put all the books on the shelves, so our place starts to look like a home. 
    • I cooked some pasta for dinner. I have to start cooking with pasta - it is about 1.5. years since I have had to cook myself...
  • Tuesday 13th
    • Today I took tram and train to Mäkkylä and walked from there to the office. It takes 22 minutes to walk from Mäkkylä, which makes it a decent morning walk for a fat guy like me. 
    • Nothing special at work. Reading, planning. I worked on the floor plan for out next office in C5. 
    • I went to the grocery shop for the first time since coming back from China (and of course I did not visit them too often in China either). I found it surprisingly easy to buy something to eat and even something for cooking. It all cost 37 euros, which I consider cheap. I may be mistaken here. 
    • Wine is cheap here. I bought a bottle of Italian Prosecco for 6 euros. We drank it almost too fast. 
  • Monday 12th
    • First real working day here in Finland. I took it easy, tried to get used to the view from my new office and trying to catch up emails etc. Everyone else is on vacation, which makes me feel lonely here in the office all alone. I do not like this kind of solitude - I need to be in a group, I need to discuss with someone. It is rather hard for me to work alone. I cannot help it at all. 
    • I walk to and from Mäkkylä station. I also brought my new tax card to payroll service in Mäkkylä. Now I only (!) have to pay some 30% tax...
    • We bought a new sofa. It took 2 minutes. 
    • At home we were arranging our books and other stuff. Petri Griinari visited us.

Week 28 5.7.-11.7. 

  • Friday 9th to Sunday 11th * Moving to Porthaninkatu, Kallio*
    • On Friday:
      • Sirkku and others continued to paint and decorate our new home. It was in terrible shape when we got it. There we dozens of holes in the walls and the whole flat was dirty.
      • I visited the Helsinki Tax Office and one barbershop near our home. 
      • At 2pm, I got the truck and started to drive to Tampere. It took almost 3 hours to drive there, because the truck was too old. I tried to listen to radio, but both the radio show hosts and the music they played were so bad that I had to mostly listen to the engine. Is it so that the Finnish radio shows are bad or is it just because I understand the language?
      • We (Markku, Ikonen and Japi) moved all boxes from my mother´s garage to the truck in 1.5 hours. It was surprisingly easy. We also enjoyed the nice weather and some beers too. 
      • And then we had two pint in the local pub Patarouva (queen of spades).
    • On Saturday:
      • Early morning and straight back to Helsinki by the truck. It took only 2 hours to drive back to Helsinki. I was speeding most of the time. 
      • Again, it was easy task to carry the boxes from the truck to our home (me, Markku, Masse, Jussi, and Sirkku). 2 hours. 
      • The guys left. We took the truck, drove to Sirkku´s sister´s place and then to Ikea. I do hate Ikea, I always get bored and anxious there. We did manage to buy something small, anyway. 
      • We called it a day and went to our temporary flat in Tehtaankatu. It is called "Ulla". See http://www.kotivisio.fi/index2.html. (BTW: this Stadihome-system is excellent. Cheaper than a hotel and nice flats!). 
    • On Sunday:
      • Sight-seeing by truck. We had morning coffee (and delicious cake) in Tamminiementien kahvila. 
      • We managed to get our kitchen and bedroom OK. It was time to call this flat home....

Week 27 28.6.-4.7. 

  • Monday 28th
-- MattiKinnunen - 07 Oct 2004 

MattiKinnunenDiary1Q2004  

07 Oct 2004 - 11:26 - r1.85  MattiKinnunen
  • See also HzSeDiary2004 for common events of HzSeTeam. I do not list all events them here. 
  • See also MattiKinnunenLongDiary for longer nonsense. I do not write long diaries so often anymore, though. 
  • Send your comments to me!
  • THESE ARE MY OPINIONS! THESE ARE NOT OFFICIAL OPINIONS OF ANY ORGANIZATION. READ WITH CARE!

March 

Week 14 29.3.-4.4. 

  • Wednesday 31st
    • 9-12 HSDPA workshop. Interesting and good explanations. This is the way to work. 
    • 12-13 Finally a lunch with BasVodde. Rather lively discussion on the need to write documents. 
    • 13-14.30 Emails about the future. Also discussions etc. 
    • later flying to Beijing. More about that later. 
    • I sent an email a while ago about a task T. I said that a) the persons doing the task do not have the necessary skills and knowledge and thus we cannot expect to get a correct solution, and b) that the current documentation is of so low quality that it cannot serve as basis for decisions. Now, I got complaint everywhere that I am unconstructive. I think I am the contrary. I think it is very constructive productive for the product and the company that I point out that the necessary people are not working on the task T and that the quality is not good enoug. I think not to say this would be extremely unproductive and unconstructive just let things go as they are going. Actually, I think it is everyone duty to keep an eye on who is doing what and on the quality. I am a bit depressed by this all. I think we would really need this coreteam of architects, which would then take the technical leadership. This way we would save at least 40% of the calendar time. But it may of course be that there is no need to be faster or more cost-efficient. Who know? After all, even Bill Gates is giving his money away. Maybe the owners of Nokia are even more clever - they do not even want to earn the money - so there is no need to bother giving it away...
  • Tuesday 30th
    • Rather long day: 9 am to 9.30 pm. I will ...
    • By taxi, some 18C, sunshine. 
    • 9-10 Discussions with MaunuHolma, emails and such.
    • 10-12 HzSeMinutes2004x03x30xOnTesting
    • 12-13 Walking and having a lonely lunch. 
    • 13-13.30 Meeting on statistics
    • 13.30-15 Discussion with MikaLehmusto? on the tool manager position. Rather interesting. Let's see what Mika thinks of me. 
    • 16-19 Discussion with MaunuHolma on HSDPA 
    • 19-21.30 Emails, discussion with TeroPeltola? on PipingTask, HSDPA etc. 
    • Home, exhausted, some dinner, brains going off. 
  • Monday 29th
    • Now, by bike. Some 12C and no rain! Nice. I met one partner company guy on the way, but cannot write his name. 
    • 9-9.30 Meeting on CPM overload generation 
    • 9.30-12 Discussion with MaunuHolma on HSDPA. We have two principle solutions, which we should check. We have rather good understanding of the problem. Now, we need one small, dedicated group and some people to lead them. Then it would take 2 months to get the solutions. 
    • Lunch with PetriJappila at ChinChin.
    • 13-13.30 Meeting about HSDPA workshop.
    • 13.30 - 15 HZ A43 architecture project plan inspection. Both the projector and conference phone were broken in QuYuan. Bad! And the phonelines are terrible. Is it really impossible to get the infrastructure correct? How can we pretend that we are number 1 in this industry, when we cannot even buy decent phones? Incredible! Stupid! Irresponsible.
    • I came to think about the role of NRC in our R&D. It seems that they have been studying e.g. HSDPA for at least 7 years now. They have even made some prototypes, even for something called FlexiBaseStation. But now that we should develope the HSDPA for RNC, we get no help from NRC. The least they could to would be to provide a comprehensive list of sources and references and maybe even some consultation. I cannot quite see how Nokia can afford NRC to be so distant from our R&D. The only reason I can come up is that NET platforms R&D is of so small an inportantance, that actually, it does not really matter what we do, how long our programs take and what they cost. But I must be wrong, because that would be against all business reasoning. I do not know what to think about this NRC-issue. I just feel that closer co-operation would really be beneficial. After all, we sell network elements to the customers, not reseach results, I assume. But this is the way it has been (no help from NRC) all the time I have worked in Nokia. Once we could get two persons from there to work with our performance problems, but they got scared in two months and left the whole Nokia! That shows that there is some extra complexity in out products (not likely) or in our way of working (very likely). 
    • I then came to think about our way of working as a whole. I think that we are now working as fast as we can with the current ways of working. If we want to work faster, we must at least
      • abandon the brain-dead idea of waterflow-model R&D with the target of getting this right first time
        • use instead some modern incremental process or spriral models with supporting tools.
      • abandon the ways of doing desing with solely with Word and Powerpoint and start using computer in such a way that they really do some of the work in our behalf. 
      • automatize testing
      • stop selling HW, and sell instead traffic tranfer capacity and computation (cf the way IBM sells supercomputers)
      • increase the general requirements for the quality of work (by e.g. increasing the skills, competence of people)
      • increase the influence of technicly competent people in technical issues
      • start to be honest, at least not lying to each other and ourselves.
      • start using commercial components in places where other companies can do something better and we can buy with reasonable price.
        • remembering that we will still need some support in-house, cf Chorus.
      • stop using the brain-dead collaboration models - they are more costly than doing things in-house. 
      • in short: start using modern supply chain management methods. They are available. 
      • ... more coming later, this is my passion nowadays ...

Week 13 22.3.-28.3. 

  • Sunday 28th
    • It was really a positive surprise to find a large enough spring-jacket for me in some shop nearby our home. The winter-jacket was becoming a bit hot. 
    • The weather is nice: about 18 C, sun is shining, mild breeze. 
    • Late lunch in a Sichuan place in the corner of Moganshan Lu and Wener Lu. Really good "kum bo chicken" and something else too. 
    • I was working on MattiDraftCV. I need it for the other application. Applying is definitely not fun at all. It is terrible. But I am not yet both famous and good enough to get invitation to interesting jobs. I am sure that will change in the next 3 years. 
    • My dream is the be a university research (e.g. assistant professor) and industrial system architect at the same time. I will do my utmost to make the dream come true. It is not that far away, after all. 
    • I was quite happy about my draft CV. So, I took it easy at home in the evening and read a little more about "Fortune favours the bold". I came to think that we in NET should be a bit bolder if we are to be profitable in the future. 
  • Saturday 27th
    • Lazy day, mostly at home until afternoon.
    • We tried to take some textiles to the clothes-maker/tailor, but the "lao ban" was not there. So, we left the textiles there and promised to return "mingtian". 
    • Some nice sushi at the Japanese in Bao Chu Lu. HeikkiAholo? was there too. I also took one stabilizing beer. The sushi is very good in this place. It is a pity that Sirkku will not join me there more than once a week. I could have sushi every evening. 
    • Some shopping: one new bag for laptop (which I do not have, yet). 
    • Evening: at home worrying about the other application. Nothing but worrying. Then I gave up and joined Sirkku in watching old Sex and the City DVDs, which are rather fun. I was, of course, reading a book at the same time: "Fortune favours the bold" by Thurow. Good and interesting book it seems to be. 
    • The application has been received by the right officials in the right place. Now I am waiting for an invitation to the interview. 
  • Friday 26th
    • 9-10 I wrote about system archictecture process concernign HSDPA DO etc: MattiOnProcess
    • 10-11 The IS-meeting. The material is in QuickPlace somewhere. The meeting was good. 
      • QuickPlace does not work with Opera. Stupid to implement tools which require some specific browser. Too common, though. 
    • 11-12 I proofread the Fire rescue plan. Rather rare words in there - the Chinese are really using the dictionary. 
    • Lonely lunck - fried rice. 
    • I bought again a few pens. The Parker pens are almost free in China. And they are so good. They are pens just made for system architecture work. Everyone should have at least 5 of them - one needs to have pen always at hand. 
    • Working on documentation. Little, but still
    • 15-17 SD GPA meeting. This meeting was much better that I expected. Really nice to be positively surprised sometimes. I really lack these positive surprises. 
    • HSDPA discussion got out of hand. But then it stopped. 
    • Mr. Bush is making bad jokes about WMDs. He is both stupid and has bad sense of humour. 
    • Hangzhou SIG convened in Commons Place. Participants were this time HeikkiAhola, JuhaKamppuri? and me. We intended to take only a couple of beers, but I lost count at 6. We had fun. The bar was rather full for some time. There was a pianist. After the bar we had some food around the corner. I left my bike (locked to a bar) there, but it was not there anymore on Sunday. So, now I know that even old modern bikes are too tempting for the criminals. The new non-modern bike of mine was standing there for 2 weeks a month ago. 
  • Thursday 25th
    • Motto: " Do not try to solve problems for or with people who have no sense of humour!". Are there such people in Nokia? 
    • Again by taxi. I am turning into a lazy middle-aged man. What a sorry state of affairs!
    • Again no electricity at home. It will be rather fun to be here in the summer. I predict 3 days/week without electricity. 
    • Quickplace usage in Helsinki RNCd is rather stupid. They write minutes in Word and attach even Powerpoints to these Word docs and then save the resulting Word doc to Quickplace. The Word doc even contains links to Quickplace. I think that writing the minutes directly to QP would be more efficient (both for the author and especially for the readers). QP seems to be rather good tool, even though it is not as easy to use as Twiki.
    • 9-11: emails etc. Discussions!
    • 11-13: working on documentation. Also working on MattiOnProblemSolving.
    • Lunch in ChinChin with PetriJappila. Now, we had gum bo chicken imitation. It was not too special. We did have about appropriate amount of food this time. Binary search works. 
    • 14-16 DIMUTI technical meeting. HzSeMinutes2004x03x25xDimutiPlanForE0andE2. 
    • No reply for our travel plans in 1.5 days. May it will come later today. 
      • it came - no way to get the whole team to Finland in May. Sad.
    • I experimented a little with SeItemToDO?. Now, it works really fine. 
    • I left early, at 6pm. I had headache. 
    • I had dinner in the Japanese in BaoChu Lu. Some sushi, good !
    • I managed to think about the other application in the evening.
  • Wednesday 24th
    • Again: bad weather, or at least not too warm. By taxi, but returning by bike.
    • No electricity at home. Sirkku could come to office, but she will go to the hotel instead. It is easier to concentrate in the hotel.
    • 9-12 Emails: on the future, on sending emails (MattiOnEmail), on meeting practice (MattiOnMeetingPractices) etc.
    • 12-12.30 Lunch in the opposite building. Now, after 9 months of lunching on spring rolls and fried rice, I am fed up with them. I am also fed up with the tofu sticks I ate for 6 months. What next? Where to have lunch now? Maybe I start going to the cafeterian in the 3rd floor. 
    • 13-14 See HzSeTeamDiary2004?. 
    • 14-18 I made major updates to our SystemEngineering pages.
    • I got TOEFL-test place from Hongkong on 13.4. I also reserved a hotel. Now, I just need flight tickets. 
    • Israel, Palestina etc are just getting more and more nuts. I am a bit worried - this will not end well. 
    • MaunuHolma is in Beijing on Focus-course. I did not understand to insist for this course. I would have been interested though, but it may that I am so competent in all areas, that I do not need any competence development anymore.
    • Dinner at Grandmother's. They have excellent scallops and crabs there. I do recommend this place (in Wen Xin Lu, a little west from the Nan Du De Jia Xi). 
    • I tried to read something at home, but I was way too tired. 
  • Tuesday 23rd
    • Again by taxi. I am too lazy. Weather has not changed: 8C, overcast. 
    • 10-12 Piping meeting: HzSeMinutes2004x03x23xPipingMeeting. 
    • HSDPA is taking speed. Some 15 emails last night. Now, someone should a document about it. Starting from requirements, business case, current IPA/RNC architecture. Then proposing some alternatives and comparing them. Yes, I know SinikkaSarkkinen? has written this kind of document, but at least I cannot parse her document. I may be just not clever enough, but anyway. 
    • Lunch with PetriJappila in ChinChin vege place. We ordered too much. Last time we ordered too little. We are using binary search to find the right amount of food - but are we always having the same amount of hunger? Is this possible?
    • 13-14 HzSeMinutes2004x03x23xReplanningWithChenGuodong. Strange: no changes in PQII traffic unit document due to PipingTask. We have done great work here! 
    • Travel plan quite ready (thanks to ChenGuodong and YanDezheng). I sent it to JariSimolin and MarkoAntikainen for comments and approval. Let's see how much ado it creates. 
    • Electricity blackout are getting more and more frequent. Not good. China should buy large scale Wartsila engines and build new powerplants. Or start insulating their houses. Or start using solar energy. 
    • 14-17 Discussions, discussions, e.g., on HSDPA. There seem to be some new alternatives in the design. It may turn out that the 2APC-MXU and new SFU are not necessary after all (but a new NIS would be). This is exciting. Not having to develop new MXU and SFU would certainly make A43 integrations considerably easier and faster - we would save at least 6 months. Let's see. 
    • I need to find a TOEFL-test center. Send information to  me if you have any. 
    • The Israelis murdered the leader of Hamas. I consider it both a serious crime and act of superior stupidity. It is telling that almost all countries except USA condemned the murder. So, according to USA, it is kind of OK to murder people. Well, of course - capital punishment is the order of the day in Texas - lynch all dissidents!
    • The latest Economist contains good survey about the Chinese economy. I dare not to copy it, but I may forget it on my desk...
  • Monday 22nd
    • I woke up early due to the whisky. It is so refreshing, is it not. Is was not thristy, nor miserable. 
    • I shaved away my tournament beard since the tournament is now over. For now. The 2nd tournamanet is starting. It will be going on with full speed tomorrow.
    • I took taxi to the office. Mistake. The traffic is so bad and the Chinese music in the taxi is even worse. 
      • yesterday the taxi driver jumped away from the car in traffic lights and went behind a pillar for taking a leak. 
    • 9-10 Meeting on HzSeMinutes2004x03x22xPipingRealSytemSimul
    • 9-12 The weekly team meeting: items to do, discussions on the future of the team. 
      • On the future in IPA-framework
        • new PIUs (1-2 / release)
        • performance problems will continues as requirements go up
        • many new features (as the framework stabilizes)
        • more IP/data traffic 
        • QoS-issues will continue to be serious. 
        • cost reduction (R&D should be much cheaper). 
      • I am not so confident that the current GIGA-RNC will be there after 6 moths at all. Neither that it will be successful. For me, it seems that many of the repeatedly encountered problems will be in GIGA-RNC too. The approach is not different enough from A1 and Flexiserver1. But I am a realist - not a "Yes, can do"-person, which is a handicap in NET. Or is it, after all. 
    • 13.30-14.40 See HzSeTeam's diary. 
    • I sent the application by express mail. Let's hope that the normal mail system is realiable from here to Europe.
    • 15-16 meeting on documentation and its structure. 
    • 16 onwards: something not so important or productive - at leaset reading and writing emails. 
    • Evening: I got a stress attack. I took some medicine called beer. It helped a lot. Then I could read the Economist Technology supplement. 

Week 12 15.3.-21.3. 

  • Again too many hours. I really would deserve a saldo leave, but unfortunately the official policy does not allow such. I do not agree with such a policy - even Jorma Ollila said in one interview (in the magazine "Yliopisto", the official magazine of University of Helsinki) that when the guys have worked hard and are tired, they must have some days off even if they would not have any annual leave left. I think that this also allows superiors to give saldo vacancies when guys have worked hard. But policies are policies and the subjects of the policies cannot but obey. Or is it really so that if one has had saldo leave in year X (against some extra hours in year X, always working overtime in advance), then one cannot have saldo leave in year X+1? This is how I have understood. I think it is weird. 
  • Sunday 21st
    • Rainy day and not too hot either. I decided not to have a walk in the morning. Instead, I took a taxi to the office (actually, the first taxi did not know QingChun Lu at all. So, I had to take another. Strange ignorance.
    • I managed to finish the application. I think it is quite a good one. I should get into the interview at least. Do I deserve a beer now? I think I do. Some attachments are missing. TOO BAD. They were at home. Luckily. My heap-archive system never fails. 
    • We had a few beers and excellent Sichuan food in Baochuo-lu (the restaurant which is always full, with yellow outer wall). We means I, Sirkku and Heikki. Especially the chili-musroom pot was excellent. 
      • afterwards, some whisky (John Walker Gold-label) at Heikki's. I also smoked one pipe tobacco-cigarette. 
    • The other application is then next. 
    • The third application comes then in summer. 
      • do not ask where I apply to. It is still secret. 
    • I had fried rice lunch, as I do too often. Then I had a gallon of instant coffee. It will kill me after some years. Drugs today: coffee, alcohol. I have some Cuban cigars, but I save them for the time my dear brother arrives. Then we will smoke them and talk so much nonsense that it will be quite increadibly fun! Still one month to go.
    • BTW, my annual or other leaves are as follows
      • A-Leave 1.-2.4
      • A-Leave 28.4.-30.4.
      • A-Leave 1.5-7.5.
      • B-leave in Finland 9.5.-23.5. (not confirmed, but likely): 
      • Leave 31.5.-18.6
      • Leaving China 30.6.2004
      • in practice this means that my effective contribution in HZ office will end on 27.4.2004
    • Consider this! It so sad that I have to leave this nice country so soon. And where will I get good Chinese food in Finland? Nowhere! TOO BAD. I am considering expatriating to Singapore, Hongkong, or Shanghai next. 
    • Anyway: I have never had so many alternative opportunities as I have now. Not too bad, I would say. Is it really so that life always gets better? How good will it be when I am 65 or something. At least, I will have read a few 1000s books by that time. 
  • Saturday 20th
    • Straigth from bed to the textile markets. Terrible, I have shopping angst. Or phobia. Anyway, I managed (with much patient support from Sirkku) to buy some nice textiles, from which I hope someone can sew some jackets and trousers.
    • Then lunch at Ajisen Ramen, where the quality of the food seems to be constant or high. Fried rice with some eel (my absolute favourite) and some sea fish. No beer, I try to teetotal for a few weeks now, which is utterly pointless. One week OK now. I feel like having a beer, but I try not to.
    • The week was quite exhausting and I had not had enough sleep. Thus I slept for 4 hours in the afternoon. This is my normal Saturday-routine.
    • After naps, I tried to do something useful, but found myself just surfing the net. The Friday's accident (23 dead when a bus and a truck smash into each other) has raised a lot of discussion in Finland. We have never had such an accident before, which is fortunate. In some other parts of the world, notably India, such mishaps are quite common, unfortunately.
    • Pakistan claims to have had some terrorists surrounded, but let's wait and see. The Pakistan government is quite a terrorist government itself. But as we know, there are good and bad terrorists and the fashions are changing always. Anyway, killing anyone (innocent and guilty) is wrong - Christians would call it a sin, for me it is sufficient to say that it is wrong.
    • Weather is still not too good: some 10C, light rain, overcast. No exercise today.
    • No real dinner - no exercise = one meal a day suffices.
    • It is going to be quite busy, even hectic, spring for me. Lots of travelling, many friends coming over from Finland and I going there and whatever.
      • I do not have that many days in the HZ office left. I start to feel that I and Maunu have achieved something in 1.5 years, that the team is going to be a good one and that we have learned a lot of inter-cultural and distributed system archictecting andthat we have even made some if not innovations then at least novel methods for working in such an environment. And it has been really fun to be in China. And expatriating to China prevented me from leaving Nokia, so I assume Nokia should be quite satisfied with what I have done here.
    • I have started to read Italo Calvino's "Hermit in Paris", especially "American diaries 1959-1960". What skill he has in writing. If I had such a skill, I could write "Chinese diarie 2003-2004", but since I do not have, I must just be happy with this diaryand those scattered notes in the Forum. Anyway, I do recommend reading Calvino for everyone - if one could read it in Italian, it would be even better.
  • Friday 19th
    • I am running out of steam. No energy left anymore. Fortunately weekend is coming soon. 
    • 9-10.30 HzSeMinutes2004x03x19xReplaningWithMaoWeiqiang. I want to learn to make simulations, they look fun. 
    • 10.30-11 Idling, thinking, emailing, diarying,....
    • 11-12 HzSeMinutes2004x03x19xReplanningWithChenGuodong
    • 12-15.30 Preparation and giving a course on IPA to project managers. Real fun, good questions, active audience. 
    • 16.30 -18.30 DIMUTI inspections - good work by the team. 
    • 18.30 - 19.00 Emails etc.
    • 10 hours. Too bad. 
  • Thursday 18th
    • Now the winter is back. Only 5C in the morning. And we do not have electricity at home. Too bad. 
    • 9-10.30. Meeting with HongqiangHuang on the new DIMUTI-structure. Great discussions!
    • 10.30-12 Preparing the course on architecture for the project managers. What an earth am I to tell them! They are so clever. My preparation did not lead anywhere. I must improvise!
    • Afternoon: checking the DIMUTI code changes for IWS1. Our team has done good work. Quite magician they are. 
    • Evening: cycling back home. It was freezing, but fun. Working on the application and reading the newest Economist. It has good surveys of technology and poverty. 
  • Wednesday 17th
    • Terrible rain in the morning. It did not rain when I left for office by bike. After 1 km torrential downpour forced me to seek for cover. After 30 minutes waiting I decided to go back home, change some dry clothes. Then I did not get a taxi. And the bus was full. I almost started to cry, really. 
    • In the morning, we wrote a statement on the future of SE in HZ for some Helsinki managers. Not the thing we are most interested in. I starts to seem that I am definitely not a manager, at least not in RNCd/NET since the bureaucrazy is just too bad for me. I would prefer a much lighter approach to organisations and ways of working. And more professionalism and adult way of working and managing. 
      • Somehow, our (mine and Maunu's) efficiency somehow dropped a lot when A43 really started and we had to start to work according to some official ways. Also, there are so many small and almost insignificant issues (managerial) to take care of. So, no management for me. The tool manager position could be OK, though, since there would be a lot of design work included. This is hard - I would so much like to do more difficult (intellectually, not work amount ) tasks, to proceed in my career and to make products in such a way that Nokia could and would prosper also in the future. Somehow it seems that I will not get the difficult tasks (there are the chief architects for that, or then there just is none available), that the current organisation will not (be able) to offer me any higher/more responsible positions (or even acknowledge my current responsibilities), that the current way of working will continue even though it would (and must) be possible to develope IPA-like system with 33% of the current expences (financial, not intellectual). Buu, I have a bad day today. It must be the rain or is there some reality in my ranting. 
    • In the afternoon, we had a meeting on HzSeMinutes2004x03x17xServiceCategories.
    • Another meeting on SeIntersiteMeetingPeriods?. 
    • Then I wrote some ideas about the future of the SE-team. This thing is taking too much time currently. Is this management? I need time-management courses and fast. Tomorrow!
    • I had fried rice for lunch, alone. I do not know where BasVodde was - oh, now I remember. He was having the management lunch. He is so clever - could tweak his way into management circles. I have not been able to that, yet. 
    • I managed to fill in more than 50% of the application. And it was fun! 
    • From James Menzies: (Copyright © 2004, Newsday, Inc.)
      • 4. The Deadly Connection: BE AWARE that mobile phones played a key part in the Madrid massacres. FULL STORY. One of the horrific realisations that is coming to the surface in the wake of the Madrid massacre is that mobile phones played a key role in the technology used to implement the crime, making it beholden on everyone in the industry to be aware of this and to be fully on their guard for the future.
      • One of the unexploded bombs retrieved by Spanish police in Madrid was typical. The ringer of the phone was wired to two detonating caps, an operation that experts say is delicate and requires training, but can be accomplished with common tools available in any electronics store. The detonators, in turn, would set off 22 pounds of gelatinous dynamite. Packed around the explosives, in the sports bag that concealed it, were nails and screws designed to serve as a shrapnel. More sophisticated phone bombs also incorporate timers, but in general, all a bomber needs do is dial or e-mail the number and let it ring.
    • So, are we producing weapons and weapon support systems here? But futrher
      • Cell-phone bombs have one major weakness, jamming. With up to a 150-yard range, jammers prevent the phones from ringing and thus stop the detonation; in rare cases, they may accidentally ring the phone and detonate the device prematurely.
      • The jamming concept originated in Israel in the early '90s and is currently used by U.S. troops in Iraq. The United States has tested an air-dropped cell-phone jammer, WolfPack?, that can knock out all cell-phone traffic in a combat zone. There have also been reports the U.S. military has gone even further and is testing a short-range device in Iraq to protect convoys. This gadget detects cell phones near a convoy, then rings the number, detonating any potential bomb before the convoy gets too close. 
    • So there is a new profitable business opportunity. 
  • Tuesday 16th
    • Even nicer weather. Too nice. Makes me cry. 
    • We bought a new kitchentable with 6 chairs. It cost 1900 RMB, which I consider cheap. It will just fit in our new kitchen. I hope at least. 
    • Network all but down at the office. We could not use TWiki at all - so we cancelled some meetings. 
    • I came at 10.15. Flexible hours rules!
    • I read/browsed the HSDPA-study by SinikkaSarkkinen?. I got something out of it. The language was a bit hard to parse. 
    • Afternoon: working with DIMUTI. Discussing with several persons on SE and also on technical issues. 
    • Again, discussions on May workshops. 
    • Again, staying too late in the office. When do I have time to prepare the application. I must write a few essays today, some tomorrow and maybe the rest on Thursday. I really must. I must get out of this career. 
    • I tried to find some nice fresk baked muslin bread in the evening, but I could not. So, we had to cook our own dinner. Or Sirkku did that.
    • I cycled to the Monkey-park and did some exercise. There were quite many Chinese there and they were more fit than I. Terrible - I am not young anymore - I have to do some exercise just to keep fit. Too bad, but I must adapt. 
  • Monday 15th
    • Again nice weather. I felt like a king checking my kingdom from my rooftop terrace in the early morning. It was so nice. 
    • I cycled to work. The number of cyclists is increasing - it is already hard to pass by everyone at traffic lights. I cannot do it anymore, which means that I have ride in the peleton, which is - as everyone who has followed Le Tour - dangerous. 
    • 9-10 Meeting about DIMUTI:  HzSeMinutes2004x03x15xReplanningWithHuang?
    • 10-12 Weekly meeting: HzSeMinutes2004x03x15xToDoWeekly?
    • 12-13.15 team lunch in the XinXiang-restaurant across the street. Rather good, even though I do not eat so much meat. 
    • 13.30-14 Meeting on Piping 
    • 14-17 Working on diverse issues e.g. HzSeMinutes2004x03x31xHSDPA (and HSDPA in general)
    • 17->20 Discussion with MaunuHolma on May workshops etc. 
    • Dinner with Sirkku at Mao-restaurant. Idling. 
    • Now it is sure that my friend will travel to China in April/May. Great. 

Week 11 8.3.-14.3. 

  • Sunday 14th
    • Idling at home after having a 1-hour walk in the morning. I bought a new winter jacket.
    • Long sleep in the afternoon. Later, preparing some applications.
    • Nice day.
  • Saturday 13th
    • We set off at 8 am for CiXi. There is the place to buy Chinese furniture. Buying furniture is terrible, there are just too many from which to choose.
    • We managed to buy some small items (a closet, a bench, some night-tables etc), after which I was ready to have a cup or two of ShaoXing-wine. I turned out that I had four of them, which made me quite a happy camper.
    • We stayed for two hours in the pub/restaurant at Lu Xun-library. The food there is not so good, but the warm wine is excellent - actually it is for sure the best warm wine in the world.
    • There were some groups of Chinese and I "gam bei"ed with them. Sirkku filmed the happening. The videos are rather funny (or just sad examples of drunken hilariousness?). Anyway, I find it nice to be among the Chinese. Everyone is so happy and friendly. I will miss the Chinese a lot back in Finland. Maybe I have to travel to China every now and then (just make sure that Nokia pays the flights)
    • We (I, Sirkku, Heikki and Tuula (Maunu left earlier)) had late dinner at the crab-restaurant. The flat, salty fisd they serve is one of the fish-dished I have tasted.
  • Friday 12th
    • Raining in the morning, 7C at 7am. Where did the summer go? I took taxi to work. It is strange that all taxidrivers want to drive the length of Qing Chun Lu even if that takes some 20 minutes. It is much faster to take almost any other route.
    • 9-12 Meetings: HzSeMinutes2004x03x12xReplanningWithLiNa and HzSeMinutes2004x03x12xReplanningWithChenGuodong
    • 12-12.30 Working lunch (so called shadow information sharing meeting) with BasVodde. 
    • I finally got DeC working. It could turn out to be useful. 
    • The HzIpTt? has also started to use Twiki. Nice! Good luck and ask for help when necessary. 
    • We will go to buy some furniture tomorrow. Shopping? Is it the purpose of life or meaning or just a curse? 
    • We have been in contact with our coming landmadame (a female landlord). So, we really have got the apartment. I am so happy. 
    • This is one of the best records even recorded: Damaged by Black Flag. It has been one of my absolute favourites since early 1980's. Buy it and "enjoy" if you dare.
    • I will have a beer or two at Commons, again. Just to wask away the office dust. 
    • Just one beer and spring rolls in Commons Place. The pub was empty, and somehow I did not feel like drinking alone there. Drinking alone is never a good idea.
    • I finished the books "Are your lights on?" bu Gause and Weinberg. It contains some good slogans, which I may use when preparing a problem solving course later.
  • Thursday 11th
    • Suddenly, the summer is over. Only 10C in the morning, but I cycled to work anyway. I forgot my phone at home - so I had to make calls from the florist's! One call of 3 minutes cost 0.5 RMB. 
    • 9-10 Meeting on Piping etc: HzSeMinutes2004x03x11xReplaningWithMaoWeiqiang. 
    • 10-11 Emails etc. I told MikaLehmusto? how competent I am! Let's see if he believers. He should.
    • 11-13 Working with MaunuHolma on the future plans of HzSeTeam. Also JyrkiInnanen has got active on this issue. Nothing to worry, anyone!
    • 13-15 Working on MattiOnTwikiMaintenance and other issues. HeikkiAhola proposed writing guidelines for timer values. Since our team does not have time for this, we proposed this to Maikki, who is overseeing any possible free resources. 
    • Main.Hongqiang told me that AIGENE seems not to use so much CPU-time as we have thought. Strange. More testing is necessary. 
    • We may have got a new home in Helsinki. It would be a small 1-bedroom apartment in Kallio, which is the most densely populated area in all Nordic countries. That would be the place to live after China. Any other place would be just too quiet for us. And the apartment would not be too expensive either. 
    • And then we celebrated by having a couple of beers in Commons Place (the best bar in Hangzhou) and by eating some Japanese in Hubin Lu. The food was not that special. Only exception was smoked eel with some sweet sauce. It was exciting - I have never tasted such eel before. I may even go and try it again. 
    • I read this Taxonomy-based Risk Management-article from 1993. If the extra-compentent, over-confident, professional, non-humble management of us had read that arcticle before A1 or A2 or A3 or A41 or A42 or A43 or Flexiserver R1 or Giga-RNC, they would have understood that all those projects had unnecessary risk (and would also have seen some issues to try to make success even a bit more likely). But as we know, reading anything is not in fashion and challenging current ways of doing and questioning projects started by higher managers will only earn you intimidation of firing by some anynomous power holders and warnings etc. So sad. 
  • Wednesday 10th
    • Summer is here now. Even now (at 5pm) the temperature is 25C. In Finland this would be in the news, even in July. It is so arctic place.
    • I picked my Chinese bike from Commons Place (or actually nearby). Nobody wants to steal it - it is too Chinese even for the criminals. 
    • I was reading my Feyerabend in the lobby of the office building and started to laugh aloud. The Chinese gave me that look. They do not know how fun philosophy is. They should try. 
    • 9-12 Meeting on Piping: HzSeMinutes2004x03x10xPipingPEMeeting.
    • 12-13 The normal working meeting or lunch with BasVodde (fried noodles today...)
    • 13-14 Meeting on Dimensioning with LiNa, JunruLi, HongqiangHuang, MaunuHolma.
    • 14-15 Discussion on optizing FU rates automaticly with MaunuHolma. Now we know how to do that too. It seems to require some human intervention, but if we had a free mathematician here around, we could even do it automaticly. But unfortunately we do not have a free mathematician. Or have free - apply !
    • 15-18 Meeting about requirements etc with more than 10 persons in Helsinki and MaunuHolma. We (I and Maunu) did one groupwork and invented concepts up-network and down-network, by which we can generate reports from the requirements managements system. It seemed trivial but it, surprisinly, was not. 
    • 18-19 Discussing with MaunuHolma on the future of HzSeTeam after we leave the building for good. 
    • Some quotes from Feyerabend (Conquest of Abundance)
      • " ... the real causes of incomprehension, which are quite ordinary, normal, run-of-the-mill inertia, dogmatism, inattentio, and stupidity" p 33
      • " This, incidentally, is the reason why the presentation of scientific results differs so drastically from what happens during the reserch, i.e., which people are still thinking, and gives such a misleading picture of it. " p 34, a thing worth remembering also here in Nokia, when improving processes etc. 
    • See also http://hangzhou.china.nokia.com/forum/hzrndforum/phpBB/index.php for some discussions. 
    • No dinner in the restaurant. Instead, Sirkku made some cross-kitchen stuff with rice. And we had some beer. 
    • I read the newest Economist (except the fashion survey). 
  • Tuesday 9th
    • I cycled to work. Nice. about 22C. 
    • I was really tired after my trip to HongKong. I could not really think at all during the whole day. But something happened still
    • 10-11 We had a meeting on projecting: HzSeMinutes2004x03x09xProjectForB2.
    • 11-12 Discussions and checking emails.
    • 12-13 Working lunch with BasVodde (fried rice ...)
    • 14-15 Rescue team meeting. 
    • 16-17 Meeting on traffic use cases. I promised to work on them in December, but I have not had time to do anything. SamuliKenttamies? knew to expect this and was not too disappointed or angry. 
    • I left the office at 17. We (I, Sirkku, and Tuula) had dinner at Ajisen Ramen (mackarel and tepanyaki fried rice with smoked ell and coffee float for dessert - all but the float were good). 
    • At home I took it easy by reading the new Feyerabend books, which is rather fun and exiting. I am so happy that I studied philosophy since it would be hard to learn at work, whereas system architecting etc are rather easy to learn once one know enough logic and philosophy. Life is fun!
  • Monday 8th
    • I did not get too much sleep - I was so afraid and in panic and having terrible stress because of the GMAT test at 9am. I woke up at 4.30. 
    • After having a short walk (and talking to Sirkku over phone, several times (also before 9am)) and having breakfast, I set off for the test place. It turned out to be a terribly ugly industrial building somewhere in the suburbs. And I was having this stress. It was terrible!
    • Some notes about the test itself: * There were 14 others taking the test in the same room with me. All were young and Chinese and small. I was the only old, foreign and large. 
      • The essay were quite easy, but I could not get really going - the text did not flow easily. I just tried to get rid of the panic, which succeeded quite well. After writing the essays, I was quite cool and full of confidence. The level of concentration was getting higher. 
      • The quantitative part was quite hard for me. I had to use my intuition several times - I just did not feel like doing all the calculations. Most questions were quite trivial anyway. I used some 63 minutes out of 75 for the 37 questions.
      • The verbal section was the pure fun - I finished the 41 questions in 53 minutes (out of 75)! Most of them were just trivial, no difficulties whatsoever. So much fun I have not had too often.
      • The total score turned out to be 730, which means that I did better than 97% of the tested. Not so bad and much better than any MBA or other school can reasonably ask for. 
    • I then did the normal things I like to do in HongKong: 
      • I visited the books store in Lock Street. I bought the following:
        1. R Feynman: Six easy pieces
        2. R Feynman: Lectures on gravitation
        3. The illustrated Feynman
        4. I Calvino: The hermit in Paris - autobiographical writings
        5. P Feyerabend: The quest for abundance.
      • All these books are so good. Having a bookstrore like the one in Lock Street is essential for living decently civilized life. 
      • I had lunch (mixed pakora, Indian dali and 2 mango lassis) in the Italian Vege Restaurant in Lock Street 9 (Branto!). It is one of the best Indian restaurants I have ever visited. It is really worth a detour (or even leaving home just to get there). I do recommend it to anyone.
      • I visited the DrMartens shop and bought two pair of shoes, since they are the best shoes money can buy. 
    • At the airport I had a few beers (Monday's drugs: alcohol, cola, chocklate, coffee - all the licit ones you can get in HK).
    • Back at home at 11 pm. 

Week 10 1.3.-7.3. 

  • At work. See SeIntersiteMeetingPeriods and HzSeMinutes for the main meetings and happenings at work. If you need more detailed information (e.g. for supervising my work or whatever e.g. just out of curiosity), just ask and I will write. Now I do not feel like writing that much. 
  • Sunday 7th
    • HongKong is quite peacefull on Sunday, at least between 9 am 10 am. I had a long walk to calm my nerves. I do not know if it helped, not for long at least. 
    • After doing some exercise I panicked totally. I thought that I cannot do any of them correctly, but then a bit later I could. Somehow I am most afraid of the mathematics even though the exercises are in fact quite easy. I must be the time limit. Too bad. Talking with Sirkku helped a lot. Also visiting the history museum (quite OK, very much worth the 1.5 hours and $10 it costs). 
    • I had late lunch in the Vietnam and Thai village - some curry this time. 
    • It is strange that I seem to have examination phobia. When I was younger I did not - I always took it quite easy and usually everything went really well. I hope that everything will go well tomorrow. I just have to get some deep sleep. 
    • Last night I had terrible nightmare. We (I and my brother and someone else) were taking care on JyrkiInnanen 's dog. Jyrki was abroad or something. For some reason, somebody shot the dog. Then someone shot the man who shot the dog and I shot the latter man. Jyrki came back and we did not dare to tell him what had happened. It was quite hard to explain the absense of the dog. Furthermore, somehow many people, including my mother, found out of the shootings and dead men and refused to talk to us. The dream continued even after waking up and falling asleep again. Strange. It did not have any end, it just kept on going. 
    • A fried of mine had the following dream: Nokia had rationalized the office environment in such a way that all employee were sitting on conveyor belts. The belts took them to the correct meetings and working places. All but one (including e.g. TeroPeltola?) were sitting on the belts. The only happy person was MattiKinnunen, who was selling used American cars and making lots of money. 
    • Now (7.30 pm) I will have 2 cans of beer and read some more about the history of drugs. I have had today: cacao, coffee and alcohol. 
  • Saturday 6th
    • I am getting careless: I needed to wake up at 6am to catch the plane to HongKong, but I had not set the alarm clock on! For some reason I woke up 5.59 am and managed to get to the airport in time. The taxi cost 100, with meter I would have cost 85. I was too tired to argue. 
    • The flight was OK. Some arrogant lao wai tried to use his phone during take-off, but I busted him. I am a legalist as you know, when it suits me. 
    • HongKong is just as fascinating as last time. I had lunch in vegetarian Indian restaurant (break, malai kofta and biriyani, all as they should). Then I decided to do some sightseeing and took the Star Ferry to HongKong island and back. It was fun, the weather was nice and the ferry rolled nicely over the waves. 
    • Then it was time to practice a little for the GMAT on Monday. All exercises went well. I just have to take it easy on Monday. 
    • For dinner some vegetarian spring rolls and spici seafood fried rice in "Vietname and Thai spice village" opposite to my hotel, which is Guangdong Hotel. The hotel is OK, nothing special, but quiet, in the right neighbourhood in Kowloon, my favourite place. I had a short walk just to see some new streets. All of them were full of people, neon light and noise. I like it. 
    • My brother will arrive in Shanghai on 18.4 and some friends on 25.4. They will leave on 9.5, when also I intend to leave for Finland. 
    • I enjoy so much travelling, staying in different cities. I must take care that I can continue travelling in the future too. 
  • Friday 5th
    • Dinner with MaunuHolma and Sirkku in the Japanese in QingChun lu. It was the 4th time this week in some Japanese. 
    • It took less than 7 minutes to pack my things for the trip. I am professional traveller. 
  • Thursday 4th
    • Meeting, just meetings. 
    • Evening: dinner at Ajisen Raimen (me, Sami, Maija, Philippe and Patte). Just like in Shanghai: good.
    • Some shopping in He Fang Jie. 
  • Wednesday 3rd
    • Quite noisy meeting with furious passion about Dimuti in the morning. In the afternoon some hot discussion about project practices.
    • Team building: walking by the lake and having a dinner in the Snake restaurant. The owned complained that I always order the sama dishes. Well, we asked him to bring 3 surpise dishes. They were not as good as the standard set of dishes. Too bad! 
    • Sami, Jari, Philippe and Li Junru visited our home after dinner. It was nice. 
  • Tuesday 2nd
    • Really long day. 
    • It seems that the revolution continues well. A43 is adopting our structures. In the past the delay used to be 2 years. Now 2 months! What on earth is happening? 
    • Discussions about HSDPA continued in the Japanese in Qing Chun Lu with MaunuHolma.
  • Monday 1st
    • We managed to finalize the new documentation stucture. It is revolutionary and everyone will obey just because they cannot resist the revolutionary forces. Take care. 
    • In the evening we (me, JariSimolin, MarkoAntikainen, SamiTilander and BasVodde) had dinner in the Japanese in Qingtai Lu. The food was excellent as always. Sake was deceptive as always. I had some of it, which led me to propose us to go to Commons Place. There we had what we always have there. And it got late. My bike was still standing there. Everything was fun. Bas was a bit fast with his criticism of the way of working in RNCd. I tend to agree, most parts at least. 

February 

Week 9 23.2.- 29.2. 

  • Sunday 29th
    • Sirkku did not propose me! Hmm, what should I think of this?
    • I spend the whole day at home preparing for the GMAT-test. Most of the exercises are just trivial. The test should not present any real 
difficulty, but I must be caraful and not arrogant.
    • Nothing much more. Raining a lot. Cold.
  • Saturday 28th
    • Raining in the afternoon. I took it quite easy by just reading at home. We have lunch in the La defence restaurant in Wen San Lu. Not good place but the food was acceptable. 
    • In the evening JaniRahkonen threw a party at his home. Most of the expats were there and it was quite fun. We used a variety of drugs: nicotin (cigarettes, cigars, snuff (not me but the others)), alcohol (beer and Finnish (!) vodka) and I assume someone also used caffein. It felt good and all the worries went away. Even the rain did not bother us at all. It is a pity that current internation prohibition of most the usable drugs prevents us from using the drugs which would be most suitable for the occasion. See e.g. "Forces of Habit" by Coutrwright for the history of drugs and their role in shaping the modern society (and nature and trade) in the last 400 years. It is fundamental. See also "Out of it"-book. 
    • Back at how quite late, but not early.
  • Friday 27th
    • Nice weather. I again cycled to the office. Nice! The Chinese find it very amusing to see me cycling with my new bike, helmet and only with a jeans and T-shirt. But it is impossible to wear more clothes. Even the jeans are too much - I intend to use shorts soon.
    • 9-10. I explained my idea about Dimuti to MaunuHolma. See got it, at least partially and suggested improvements. This means that it is not completely flawed. 
    • 10-11 HZ IS-meeting. Strange, but luckily short one. 
    • 11-12 Dimuti thinking. Also roles. 
    • 12-13 Lunch with BasVodde. Fried rice as always and some good discussions. It is refreshing to sparr with Bas. 
    • 13-14.30 HzSeMinutes2004x02x27xStatistics?. 
    • 14.30-17 Hacking, thinking, discussing this and that. Taking it easy on purpose to let thoughts come. And coming they are!
    • I will end the week by having a beer or two in Commons Place. I invited everyone. Let's see who turn up.
    • The bugbear moved on top on my phone. He may even answer your calls! 
    • I read document about messaging network and post offices by TeroVenetjoki?. Excellent document! Let's wait until it get accepted and then read it together in HzSeTeam.
    • More later, now I will come to the bar!
    • HeikkiAhola joined me - we cycled to the bar. After a few hours and beers, JaniRahkonen and his friends Juha and Maija-Liisa (???) joined us but left soon. Then MikaSeppanen? came, Heikki left and we went to the Reggae bar. Home at 2am. Quite dizzy, but I managed to call my brother, who is coming here later. 
  • Thursday 26th
    • Again: nice weather and cycling. Strange things happening in the street, but many Chinese smiled at me. It makes me happy.
    • 10-12 Discussing with MaunuHolma on HzSeMinutes2004x02x26xMetMetDimEtUserview? and on UserView documentation. Some new ideas, as always when we discuss on something.
    • Lonely lunch, fried rice.
    • 13-15 Working on DimutiTask: MattiOnDimutiFuture and also writing MattiOnArchitectRequirements due to request by PetriVesterinen.
    • 15-17 Meeting with Helsinki Traffic team on e.g.  DimutiTask. See HzSeMinutes2004x02x26xPlanForDimWorkshop?.
    • Now going home. No time to write more. 
    • The need of an assistant is getting bigger all the time. 
    • British discussion about the war in Irag is getting all the time more interesting. Read the news!
    • I know how to improve Dimuti a lot. It is so simple! 
    • We (me and Sirkku) had lunch in the "Crab-restaurant". And some beer, too. The food in this restaurant has always been excellent and it is dirt-cheap. I recommend it to everyone. 
    • We watch "Lost in Translation" DVD. The film is really good. Worth buying from the pirate-shop!
    • I did not sleep enough. Too bad. The Dimuti-idea kept me awake. Good!
  • Wednesday 25th
    • I cycled to work. So nice. It takes 44 minutes with the new bike, which btw is already broken... 
    • Meetings from 9-10.30 (ChenGuodong's tasks), 11-12 JunruLi's tasks of DimutiTask UI part, 13-15 about DimutiTask and later 17-18 about PipingTask. 
    • In addition we did some commenting about the documentation structure with MaunuHolma. I also commented extensively on the new seatplan for the HZ. It is so fun! 
    • For lunch I have fried rice and icecream. I did not had my normal lunch companion BasVodde with me. Boring. 
    • I also updated my plans of DC-domain division and sent it to SamiTilander. 
    • Also some email discussion on MattiOnCommunication. JyrkiInnanen supports my ideas, HannuVaanenen? refutes them with byrocratic argumentation, which I of course reject. 
    • Weather quite nice. Some 15 degrees. I could cycle with just my T-shirt on. The Chinese seems to find that a bit odd.
    • No news about the Pentagon report I quotes earlier. 
    • We will go the Hangzhou Tasha (??) to spend our coupons in the evening. I plan to have a beer in the Commons Place before. 
    • It is funny that MaunuHolma has also started to complain that we would really need to have a secretary. See my diary entry on 23.2.
    • Is is also funny that more and more request come to us. We should write this and comment that in addition to our current competence developement task and technical design. It is of course nice that people trust our abilities, but even though we have only so many hours daily for this Nokia. I am quite sure we must drop many really important issues. For example: we do not have time to write technology transfer plan for SE-work. I suggested that the relevant persons like PetriVesterinen, MattiPalo?, and JyrkiInnanen would write a draft, on which we could then start discussion. Of course, our current plans provide a kick-start for this. But let's see. It seems that they are not that enthusiastic. 
    • It happens to be that those who can have much to do. Others do not. But the differences in salaries are not similar. Pity! I am getting quite far from ideals of equal salary. Is this bad? Tell me!
    • I do feel that my current JG of 9 is a joke, but really a bad one. I cannot understand the managers who cannot even get this kind of simple things correct. There is no acceptable excuse for this. 
    • Good meeting 17-18 about PipingTask. Some inventions. Try to find them in HzSeMinutes2004x02x25xPipingPerfEtStatistics .
    • Great day. I felt like doing something for my salary, which is good, I assume.
    • Some beer and spring rolls in Commons Place with Sirkku and Tuula. Afterwards, happy consume: we bought a risecooker. 
  • Tuesday 24th
    • Still hacking too late in the evening. 
    • Working, some. See the HzSeDiary2004?. Some meetings.
    • Lunch with BasVodde (fried rice, spring rolls) and lots of furious discussion about the fact that the mediocre way of working is spreading. Or at least I see that happening.
    • Meetings also in the afternoon. 
    • I received a few books from Amazon: "Good hotel guide to continental Europe", "Devil's disctionary", "Forces of habit" (a study on the history of drugs) and "Fortune favours the bold" ( about globalisation). Now I need to find time to read them.
    • Quite unproductive day. Some interesting mail-discussion about the future and also on some technical issues like RSMU performance and DIMUTI in A43. 
    • I cycled back home. THe new bike is really fun to ride - it has some rudimentary suspension too. Many Chinese find it amusing that a tall lao wai rides this kind of ancient bike. They pat me on shoulder, which I find quite nice. 
    • Sirkku made some simple dinner. After dinner I read Economist and some parts of the "Good hotel guide". I think we will have holiday in Greece soon.
  • Monday 23rd
    • I am a bit terrified: again one new day full of meetings. Where can I find time to write all the papers and analysis I intend to write. I need a secretary or several. Winston Spencer Churchill had two since he only slept 4 hourt per day and worked 20 hours a day. Or maybe I just need more delegation or a brainwash-course in time management. 
      • Why is it so that if you are a manager, you have more access to secretaries? How come the working time of a manager is more valuable than that of a system architect? Tell me, please! Or, why do we have so few secretaries in Nokia, especially in China? Having more of them would reduce the work load of the main designers. But I know, we have the upper limit for the number of personnel, not for the cost of the personnel (or lower limit for the efficiency). But it may be, of course, that having a secretary would not make my work any faster. Hmm, I am outsmarting myself here. And all this is plain stupid. Forgive me.
    • I will have at least 13 meeting in the week 9. Most of the meetings are such that I need and want to be alert and have also to lead the meeting (together with MaunuHolma). Only one or two meetings in which I can just relax. I will not tell which are which. Check my calendar if you are so curious! Anyway: I do feel that I do enough for my salary - if not even more than is reasonable. But still: the level of difficulty could be much higher. Or maybe I am just arrogant. Ignorant I am not. Steve was! And Phil was free. What am I talking about? Can you guess? If you can, you are a punk... and you will win a price ! Collect your price at my desk. This is not a lucky draw as luck has nothing to do with this. 
    • Pentagon published a report saying that global warming and climate change it the most important threat to the national security of the USA. This is a bit embarassing for Mr. Bush, who claims to have national security as his most important topic, but has, so far, said that there is not such thing as global warming. The report is still secret, but someone had leaked it to the Observer. It will be quite interesting to see what will happen in the USA.
      • The report itself is quite gloomy. See it . For China it says: " China's huge population and food demand make it particularly vulnerable." and for Bangladesh "Bangladesh becomes nearly uninhabitable because of a rising sea level, which contaminates the inland water supplies. " and for Finland " Immigrants from Scandinavia seek warmer climes to the south. " and for Netherlands (BasVodde should take note here) "By 2007 violent storms smash coastal barriers rendering large parts of the Netherlands inhabitable. Cities like The Hague are abandoned." All of this makes one a bit sad. I have started to consider taking train back to Finland!
      • See the whole article in Observer. 
      • See also Karen Armstong's column about "'Positive thinking' can be a route to spiritual and political disaster " if you think that everything will be all right...
    • This is fun (if you like programming): Factor in Haskell
    • I woke up at 7 after 4 hours of sleep. I was stupid enough to hack something until 3pm (I was also reading my new book "Applied SW architecture" by Hofmeister et all. It is a good book.)
    • 9-10 Meeting with HongqiangHuang and MaunuHolma on RsmuTask and the tasks of HongqiangHuang. See HzSeMinutes2004x02x23xHuangHongqiangTasks?.
    • 10-11 The weekly meeting of HzSeTeam. See HzSeMinutes2004x02x23xToDoWeekly?.
    • 11-12 Discussion with YanDezheng and MaunuHolma on A43 project management. There is great pressure on YanDezheng from EspooOffice. Too unfair. The problem is that YanDezheng gets the pressure when I and MaunuHolma are the bottlenecks here. 
    • 12-13 Team lunch
    • 13-14 Meeting with LvYi and MaunuHolma on the tasks of LvYi
    • 14-15 Meeting on Hangzhou.Dimuti task with LiJunru? and MaunuHolma
    • 15-16 Technology transfer meeting. See MattisMinutes2004x02x23TechTranfer. There was some good discussion in this meeting. I am still missing all information about the strategy and future. Someone is keeping it secret and making our work unnecessarily hard. Is this the Nokia value of "respect" I just ask. 
    • 16-17 Emails, misc issues (at the same time A43 requirement meeting and Giga-RNC B0 review, but there has to be some limit even for my participation. I wrote this: MattiOnHwRefutation, which might just confuse you. Be careful! It is a bit philosophical, I am afraid. No comments expected. As usual. 
    • 17 and afterwards: home, studying.
    • Dinner with Sirkku in the local army (Mao) restaurant. The usual fish, but some strange eggplants, beans and noodles (of potatoe?) and of course some beer. 
    • My new traditional bike is really nice. It even has rudimentary front suspension, which makes cycling so soft. I think I will use only this bike - it gives me fancy feeling and I assume that the thieves are not so interested in it. It was even so cheap - less than 400 RMB with locks and basket. 
    • This was a good start for a week. No problems and enough meetings and happening to keep me awake. 
    • Ville Eerola and Jari Eloniemi and Maija Saukko are here in Hangzhou. Good. 

Week 8 16.2.- 22.2. 

  • Sunday 22nd
    • Really lazy day. I just stayed at home and in then neigbourhood doing next to nothing. I did, however, write a letter to the editor of HS pointing out that the ex-prime minister of Finland, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, is trying to avoid the responsibilities all politicians have. Let us see whether they publish my note. I was a bit not-that-serious. Usually they publish my rantings. 
    • We had dinner in some restaurant-cum-clothesshop neat our place. The food was not impressive. It was trying to be Western. All Western food in China has been a disappointment so far, but we still continue trying. Not that clever. 
    • We bought some books: a picture book book about the Korean War, one book about SW architecture etc. Bookshops are getting better. 
    • Sirkku pointed out that it was she (her?, I lost my grammar...) who started my current interest in Feyerabend and Feynmann. Now I have written that too. All credits to Sirkku, who is professional philosopher. I only have Master of Arts from theoretical philosophy, which is not that impressive achievement after all - but it has not prevented me from working in Nokia. Does this tell more about me, my educational background or Nokia. Send your answers to me. 
    • On Saturday we had summer here - 24C. Today the max temp has been just 10C. I liked yesterday more. 
    • I should train for the coming exam, but I dislike training. I must still. Maybe some training today and them more tomorrow. 
    • I miss Shanghai. Hangzhou feels too small sometimes. And I miss European metropolises: Paris, Berlin, London, Barcelona, even Budapest and Prague (especially the pub "U zlatony tigra" or something similar where I tend to spend my time when I am in Prague). Maybe I will change my career to travel writer...
    • About careers: should one choose one when one is young and then stick to it for the rest of life? Or would it be better to have several careers, each of them lasting less than 10 years? Would 7 years be suitable time? Having several would be more fun, I assume, but maybe one would not become so well-off moneywise. But who really cares about money - it is so vulgar and it seems to be too easy to make enough money to survive without too many financial worries? Having just one career (by decision, not by passion) can well lead to losing some important values. I think several careers is better. So, let us see what happens! But is it necesssary to change the whole field of working or is it enough to change btw companies or even withing company from one product family to another. Who can decide? Again, if you know the answer, send them to me!
    • If you can read Finnish, check the diary of my friend at the Univerity of Turku. 
  • Saturday 21st
    • I slept long, until 9.30 am. About 9 hours and I am fresh again. 
    • The weather was really nice and I had to get out. So, I decided to walk to the office to collect my new bike. It took 1h40minutes (10km).
    • I read a story of the Chinese man called XXX (in Guardian Weekly), who was selected in the local government in some elections a few years ago. He has been using legalistic tactics in opposing the misdeeds some politicians have performed (corruption, rigginh elections etc). This lead me to think about forms/strategies of resistance/revolution in general. I can see at least the following general strategies:
      1. Open confrontation by military force (e.g. Mao, Lenin, Castro, Boxer rebellion, Frech revolution, ANC, militias in USA, ETA, IRA, ... )
      2. Civil disobedience (e.g. Gandhi, ex eastern Europe, South-Afcica (ANC), ...)
      3. Legalism (Finninsh in the 19th century, some Chinese now, USA (I sue you. Let's sue the government. 2nd amendement), ...)
      4. Satire (ex Eastern Europe)
      • All these strategies have pros and cons. 
        • Number 1 can be quite succesfull in short time given enough milatary power in the hands of the opposition. The problems is the high toll in terms of human suffering and also the rather big likelyhood of establishing a new dictatorship. 
        • Number 2 requires huge mobilisation of people and thus charismatic leaders. The human toll can be quite high if the other side resorts to using military force (Indian independence is a success story, the uprisings in Hungary 1956 and Checkslovakia 1968 are not, nor is what happened in China in 1989).
        • The number 3 is more interesting. It relies on the fact the almost any dictatorhip needs to keep up a facede of legal structures (just to win some popular support since pure fear and violence is quite non-economical). So, using the legal facede itself can be quite succesfull. In Finland, we used this in 19th century. When the emperor of Russia published edict restricting the freedom of the Finns, we sued him and in the end some of the edict were discarded (you can see this tradition in Finland even nowadays, in the respect for law all Finns tend to have). Number 3 can also fail miserably when the establishment feels that losing the lagal facade does not present a real risk and thus resorts to force (killing, imprisoning etc). If succesfull, number 3 leads to number 2. 
        • Number 4 prepared groud for numbers 3 and 2. This can be real succesful. Remember e.g. Havel, Polish sci-fi, dadaism, ...
        • Note that so called terrorist can also use all the tactics (of course they mostly use covert version of 1). 
        • Note that here I do not say anything about whether revolutions are good or bad. I think taking a stand about this would spoil the whole idea. From the point of forms of resistance all revolutionary movements are equal. Being a pacifist I do dislike loss of human life, but one could dislike it purely on economical reasons too - or religiuous etc. Not that any research would be completely free from the values of the researcher. 
      • I think I could write a Master Thesis in political history about this. It would be fun. I think I will contact my friend Heikk Patomäki, who is the professor of international relations in the university of Helsinki. Maybe he would be willing to supervise it. Maybe I switch my career into something related to political history and international relations. Or then I just write a paper on this issues and publish it in some suitable journal. 
    • Other things to write about in the near future (so much, but most of them I already have written in my head. I just have to type them out). 
      1. Analysis to Giga-RNC plans and project
      2. Analysis of using COTS in large scale product development. See MattiOnCots. This will be part of 5 (too).
      3. Analysis of A43 program plans for B2 and E0
      4. Analysis of RNC system desing organization (actually, I intend to write a counter proposal)
      1. Proposal for my new job in Helsinki. It is about the real problems in our product development. See also MattiOnHisFutureTasks, which is the first version of this proposal. A better version will appear soon. Other material include also MattiOnArchQualityA43, MattiOnDocumentsProcesses, MattiOnCommunication, On system architectures and organizations, On asking WHY, On general way of working, and in general thw whole MattiOnRawNotes. 
      2. Application to System design and management in MIT
      3. Application to USC system architecture program (established by Rechtin!!)
      4. My CV. 
      5. Better version of MattiOnLibIfForStatistics.
      6. An explanation of my DC-domains. 
      7. A priority list of technology transfer based on MattiOnTechTransfer.
      8. A proposal for the strategy for RNCd. See also MattiOnTechTransfer and MattiOnTTransOrder. 
      9. A proposal for the Nokia architecture network and institute (this I have written in one notebook during the Italy trip)
      10. A generic list of requirement for traffic systems (for tranferring people and things, not in telecom). This I more or less finished in the bus from Taipei to the airport in July 2001. I still have not written it. 
      11. A generic classification of selection system (based on the discussion with Sirkku about how to select teachers to open university). 
      12. A requiremetn list and evaluation of system design tools (actually, only if the proposal in 5 get accepted). 
    • I wrote MattiOnHwE0checks. 
    • In the evening I had dinner with HeikkiAhola in Hawking-restaurant (the banana pancakes are good and the whole restaurant is funny). We then went to the 411-gallery for a photo-exhibition opening. Nice photos from Tibet - I recommend this exhebition. I did not take any significant amount of money with me and could not buy anything. Last weekend I bought some works of art. The owners tried to encourage me into buying some by offering me free beer. They did not know my clever plan. After art some been with BasVodde and his wife Yuan in Shamerock. I forgot to pay my bill - Bad paid it, I hope. I smoked too much cigars, which made me feel not blissfull at all. 
  • Friday 20th
    • A bit hard to wake after 4.5 hour sleep. But I am so ful of energy and ideas!
    • I took taxi to work office and read Feyerabend the whole time. He is so fascinating. Also his ideas are fascinating. I have found my old love in philosophy of science again. 
      • It is getting warm. 
    • 9-10 Meeting witn MaunuHolma and YanDezheng ()
    • 10-12 Meeting on PipingTask (HzSeMinutes2004x02x20xPiping), I as secretary (as usual)
    • 10.30 I wrote a note on architecture and documentation and processes: MattiOnDocumentsProcesses.
      • It is so fun to create concepts, discuss about technical problems, read emails, write notes and diaries and draw on the white board simultaneously. Then I really feel like doing something. Just sitting in a meeting without doing several things at the same time is torture, and should be prohibited by UN. Even mandatory requirement to sit, not stand and walk during meetings is torture and also against human nature and also decreases our creativity. 
    • 12-13 Discussions on quality with BasVodde and lunch. It seems that the habit of accepting substandard quality is widespread in NET. I think that we should not tolerate that. We should strive for high quality. First thing would be not do planning in Powerpoint, or at least not decisions solely on substandard slideset. We also should make sure that each member of any inspection (both technical and managerial) use enough time for reading the document. 
    • 13-14 HzSeMinutes2004x02x20xDimensioningPerfModel . Lack of sleep is catching me. 
    • 14-15 Working on emails, diaries, and discussiong with HongqiangHuang on RsmuTask and also robbing the bank. 
    • 15-17 HzSeMinutes2004x02x20xDocumentationByHassinen . These minutes are mostly nonsense since I am too tired. I feel drunk even I have just drunk tea. Strange. 
    • No replies to my MattiOnCommunication. But I do not expect them too much. My proposals are so long - most persons do not have time and energy to read them, I am afraid. 
    • terrible day not that things would be so difficult, but there rather many of them. We must delegate. 
    • Evening: Arvo Brune (u with umlaut) brought the painting I bought from him last Sunday. It is so impressive. 
    • We had dinner in "snake restaurant": new dishes (different types of squid, rice and of course some beer). After that I watched the 2nd part of the "A bridge too far", which was informative but not so good. Then I read some Feyerabend and Economist and something else and passed out. Not sleeping, working too much, having a few beers and eating chili-food makes one feel so blissful. I recommend this way of living to everyone. 
  • Thursday 19th
    • We have now lived 1 year in our flat! We have used 30 kWh electricy per day.
    • Motto of the day: "Anything goes - there are no rules in science or in R&D! Any rule of discovery would limit ourselves".
    • 9-11 Hacking, thinking about discussion database. 
    • 11-12 Meeting on premises, but the meeting was late. We had another with BasVodde. Own meeting is better! At least faster argumentation and even some ridicule. Bas had some good ideas.
    • 12-13 Working lunch with BasVodde
    • 13-15 Meeting on HzSeMinutes2004x02x19xDimutiIWS1. Good work!
    • 15-15.30 Meeting on System Startup instrumentation. Problem solved by the group! My brains work still even with so few hours of sleep.
    • 15.30-16 Discussing with HannuLeskinen? on organization etc. 
    • 16-17 Emails, diaries, etc.
    • Sirkku is in Shanghai. I will go to Commons Place and have a beer or two. 
    • I did not go to Commons. I walked with MaunuHolma to Baochu Lu and had a lonely dinner there. I had one beer. 
    • I watched one DVD ("A bridge too far", which tells about operation Market Garden in WWII, remember! One of the main blunders by the allied forces and again due to arrogance...) and read some magazines (Economist). Sirkku came back and we discussed for a while about Feyerabend and the difference of myth and science. It is so refreshing to discuss about philosophy!. I drank a few beers while watching the DVD. 
    • 12.30 am to 1.30 am: I got some ideas and wrote this: MattiOnCommunication. It will help me later when I will write the book of mine. 
    • Now it is again 2 am. It is time to go to bed and read some book and see some dreams. 
  • Wednesday 18th
    • Motto of the day: "Why should one argue, when one can use _ridicule_". I agree! Sirkku was a bit afraid of how I will apply this. She thinks I am use ridicule quite enough already. But can one really use it too much? 
    • I got bored of staying at home. I should have - I am not well yet!
    • Took bus to work. K199 is a bit faster than 66, but it could be 2 times faster with some trivial, elementary traffic rules. But maybe the local dictators are not powerful enough to enforce traffic rules. They have lots of time to police the internet, not the streets.
    • 10-12 Statistics meeting.
    • 12-13 Working lunch with BasVodde.
    • 13-14 Commenting the current seating plan, DIMUTI UI-plan by JunruLi etc. Writing a note on MattiOnTTransOrder etc. Many small things just to keep the brains warm.
    • 14-15 Developing the criteria for detecting whether somebody has technical vision.
    • 15-16 Reading meeting minutes, discussions with PetriJappila etc. 
    • So many things in one day. And writing more than 3 pages. I happen to write 2 books each year. Strange.
    • 10 C, raining.
    • I called my mother. She told me that I should have stayed at home today. Maybe I stay tomorrow! Who knows?
    • We (me, Sirkku and Tuula) had dinner at the Japanese in Qignchun Lu. This time the food was OK and the waitresses so cute. Some sake and beer too. A sake at day keeps me in ridicule. 
    • In the evening we watched "American Splendor", which was splendid. I then read some articles on Feyerabend and used two hours for writing emails. It was already quite early when I got to bed. Then I read some 7 pages of the newest Economist. The speed is up!
  • Tuesday 17th
    • We woke up in time to enjoy a long and not-so-healthy breakfast in WTC. I even had an omelette. 
    • Rest of the day I spent sleeping, watching DVDs and after 7 pm surfing in the net. From DVDs I learned how much damage incompetent medling in minor details by the bosses (over the expert views) can cause. Also it is clearly harmful to keep unnecessary things secrets. This is true also in Nokia. I am still waiting for strategy update for RNCd and HZ. The current ones are just outdated and ridiculous. I am a bit surprised how our management cannot even get strategies on paper. They seems to use their time medling with minor issues and also fulfilling not-so-intelligent orders from above. We will see the results - already now we are not making any profit! And it will get worse, because the margins in the industry are getting smaller whereas our way of product development is getting all the time more expensive. And still there is no sense of urgency, no sense of needing inventions etc. Strange, irresponsible!
    • I wrote down some thought on my future in Helsinki. See MattiOnHisFutureTasks. It is hard to get chellenging enough tasks in Nokia, at least in NET. Somehow it seems that the organization/culture cannot understand and cope with persons, who develope fast and want to really do good work, not just fullfil the required STIP-target, people who want to push themselves and others and develope the whole business. I also find the strict hierarchy in NET not so nice. It prevents progress and invention. Furthermore, I cannot understand how NET can strive for being the number one in the world when we are working so inefficienlty and not trying our best. We are happy to repeate the well-known mistakes over and over. We just trust that some recessions or money from NMP or something comes and saves us. Nobody is responsible. Buu, I am getting tired. And losing my temper. 
    • But we could develope an IPA-like system with 80 persons, including managers and secretaries. We only have to get good enough people, give them difficult enough problems and try to work in world-class manner. If we do not, then some other company will. In fact, I could establish such a company, I know already enough how to make this R&D 66% more efficient. It is not even hard! But I am not going to tell it to our current management, before they give me suitable tasks and positions. Some other company will, anyhow. 
  • Monday 16th
    • Motto of the day: "Elän parasta aikaa"
    • See HzSeDiary2004
    • Terrible flu coming. I am losing my voice, it is hard to speak. Cough, running nose, feeling hot. I will be absent on Tue.
    • Otherwise OK day. I took taxi to work and will ride my new bike to home. I hope my body can take it.
    • There was an electricity black-out in our house in the evening. We had a coupon with which we could stay one night in WTC. It solved the problem. It was nice just to take taxi to the 5-star hotel, get in the room, take shower and order dinner from room service and then just watch TV (BBC!!!) and read some magazines. It is strange how fast time flies: on 18.2.2003 we left WTC for our current home. 
    • My flu was a nuisance in the evening. 
    • I wrote a note on technology transfer: MattiOnTechTransfer. 

Week 7 9.2.- 15.2. 

  • Sunday 15th
    • Idling at home, lunch in the nearest restaurant (potatoes, broccoli, and yellow tuna fish).
    • I walked to the Ego market to buy a battery for my camera. The battery is as expensive as my new bike. 
    • In the evening we visited the opening of art exhebition by Arvo Brune. I bought one huge painting/work of art. And one smaller by some woman (Charlotte ?). I will be a mesenate!
      • I have no idea where to put the large work of art in Finland. 
    • Some beer and snacks in Shamrock, which sucked as always. Commons Place rules. 
  • Saturday 14th
    • We (me and Sirkku) intended to participate in common visit to see the blossoming blums, but we were too early. So, we walked by ourselves. We saw the blums and whole bunch of Chinese looking at them and having picnics. 
    • Finally, we found our way to the hills. It was quite a steep uphill to climb, but the views from there are worth the climb and loss of breath. I had some problems with my hearth, but I think they are mostly stress, not exercise related. We walked all the way to the North peak and then down. Some nice girls wanted to take a photo of them and us. It was fun. They were so cute and small. 
    • We had lunch in the Japanese in Qing Chun lu. Not too good and quite expensive.
    • I bought a bike - a traditional Phoenix! It is so sturdy.
    • In the evening I just idled. 
  • Friday 13th
    • Good news: A42 start-up improvements (by TapioPehkonen, TeroVenetjoki? and me) are a success. We decrease the start-up time by 50%. Almost no Prontos. Great. Best possible feedback I can get. 
      • But it was hard. First I wrote an A-Pronto stating that "ATM-messaging is not suitable for distributed systems" and proposed two alternatives: replacing ATM or writing the start-up SW from anew. Of course, the managers did not believe me, they though that they know better or at least that they should get the credit. So, they started a project, which took 5 months and ended up in with the same conclusion. Or not quite: it ended up with at leat 30 proposal. Then I and Tero dictated what to do and together with Tapio did it. The manager got fired! That's what happens when you try to outsmart me!
    • I do not recommed trying to outsmart me! Not for anyone ...
  • Thursday 12th
    • 9 hours. Still too much.
    • Working too late does not pay. I was too tired to really do anything (but send emails...)
    • Morning: working on documentations (and HR jazz cafe)
    • Afternoon: meeting with JyrkiInnanen and Maunu.Holma about future issues. Also traffic engineering meeting.
    • I walked to Intime store and took taxi to home. Nice weather. 
    • Lunch at Chin Chin vege-place with PetriJappila and MariaAiraksinen?.
    • Tired, I went to bed early. No dinner. 
  • Wednesday 11th
    • 11 hours ! Too!
    • Quote of the day. Paul Auster says of his work as writer. 
      • "with is that somehow I think that by living my life as a writer, I am living my life to the fullest. Even if I have a day when I sit there crossing out sentences, tearing up pieces of paper and have advanced not one jot, I can still stand up from my chair and say, "Well, I've given it my best". And if you can say that at the end of every working day, you feel like there's some reason to go on living."
      • I agree. I think this the only real way of working. 
    • 9-12 Discussion with MaunuHolma on documentation. I also wrote something to HR JazzCafe? about management books
    • 12-13 Work lunch at Mao/Army-restaurant (11 Finns and 1 Dutchman).
    • 13-14 Working on documentation structure with MaunuHolma
    • 14-15 Meeting on documentation: HzSeMinutes2004x02x11xDocumentation?. We are now really enthusiastic about this issue. We are also proceeding so well, we understand so fast more and more about the nature of RNC-type distributed gateway system. This is so fun.
    • 15-17 RNC System team with the whole HzSeTeam. Nice!
    • 17-20 Working on diaries, emails, etc. I updated many places, discussed by email with many person.
      • I also wrote a note on A43 architecture and quality etc. I am getting really interested in this work again. Feels good.
    • It is surprisingly hard to buy envelopes in China. I needed to visit 7 shops before I found one.
    • I am not quite OK. My throat is sore - I cannot cycle. Stupid. This country is killing me. I have never been ill this often. 
    • Clash rules! The live CE "From here to eternity" is really good!
    • I will get some management videos from HR. We can then have our own management training here. I will be really hilarious. 
    • Now, I feel so happy about this all. Strange how often my mood change. I am an scincillator!
  • Tuesday 10th
    • Working hours: 10h (2 too much..., no sense at all)
    • I managed to get to work, but I am still quite weak. Hard to walk, somewhat easier to think but then again some messy thinking coming via email from Helsinki was able to make me feel ill, not sick though.
    • Piping meeting in the morning. I took notes, as always: HzSeMinutes2004x02x10xPipingConcepts.
    • Afternoon: meeting with JyrkiInnanen on SeIntersiteMeetingPeriods. See HzSeMinutes2004x02x10xInterSitePlanning?
    • We also discussed one hour about system architecture documentation with Maunu. I have some notes on paper.
    • I also discussed on MattiOnLibIfForStatistics with Han Guanghua and Wei Jianhui. I managed to explain my idea with their help. Good!
    • Meeting with MikaLehmusto? on organization etc. No notes. 
    • I also applied for 3 jobs today. I must see what Nokia has to offer. Maybe it has something no good, hard, and interesting to offer that I change my long term plans. Let's see. 
  • Monday 9th
    • Some nasty virus invaded me. I had to stay at home and sleep. In the evening I read a book about Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend. It is a collection of their letter correspondence and some essay. Really worth reading. I began to feel even more that I simply have to go back to academia.

Week 6 2.2.-8.2. 

  • Sunday 8th
    • Most of the day at home reading and writing and surfing the net and sleeping.
    • Lunch at Xianese restaurant nearby.
    • I bought an grip exercise tool from the army shop. It is too weak, breaks down in few days. Or maybe I am too strong.
  • Saturday 7th
    • Lunch at Hawking-restaurant in the old town. It is one of the nicest restaurants in Hangzhou. We had stinky-tofu soup, which was not bad.
    • We also visited the museum of Chinese medicin. The house, in which the museum is, is more interesting than the exhibition. 
    • No dinner. 
  • Friday 6th
    • VP-piping meetings from 10-15. See HzSeMinutes2004x02x06xPipingTraffic
    • 15-17 Meeting with Helsinki people on documentation 
    • 18-24 Dinner in Snakerestaurant with Mika, Katja, Henri, Kari, Tuula, Maria, Lassi, Sirkku, Juha, Pasi, Anne, Heikki. Excellent food. See also the video at \\hzfil001\groups1\R&D\SE\Misc\Matin in Hangzhou. 
    • Really fun, and then some drinks at our home.
  • Thursday 5th
    • Motto: "Simple problems are not worth my time"
    • Nice weather. I walked 20 minutes before taking a taxi. Sun shines, a few degree plus. Some exercise in the morning keeps depression at bay. 
    • I had some Chinese buns for breakfast.
    • 9-10 Thinking about technology transfer and writing an email/suggestion to the responsible persons. I also visited the lab.
    • 10-12. Thinking about dimensioning ( "design, evaluation, and testing of configuration variants inside the contraints defined by system architecture") with Maunu. See MattiOnDimutiDimensioningOrg for some notes. 
    • 13-17 See HzSeTeamDiary2004?. 
    • Sun is still shining at 3 pm. Excellent. 
    • AnttiHeimonen? says that their technology transfer plans are quite similar to my ideas. Good for them! And for the whole Nokia!
    • Sirkku says that the Starbucks next to Shanghai Art Museum is fancy. The view reminds her of the central park of New York. Even though I think that Sbucks sucks, I may visit this one. 
    • I also worked a little on MattiOnLibIfForStatistics and proposed it to MaikkiVanhanen? too. I hope that we have free persons in IPA improvement for this task. 
  • Wednesday 4th
    • The cleaning lady did not come. I was waiting until 9.15am. She should come on Friday. 
    • Sirkku in Shanghai. 
    • Morning: discussions with MaunuHolma, MikaSeppanen? and HongqiangHuang and even with MaikkiVanhanen?.
    • Some spring rolls for lunch. 
    • I walked 25 minutes. It refreshed my brains.
    • 13-14.30 HzSeMinutes2004x02x04xDimensioningWeekly
    • 15-18. Meeting on A43 documentation with EspooOffice personnel. We (me and MaunuHolma) had not done our homework. Bad boys, us! Anaway, after some hot discussion we end up with some kind of agreements.
    • Too long day!
    • I called my brother. He has a stupid boss, who does not allow my brother to take vacation before 1.5. This means that my brother may not be able to visit HZ anymore!
    • I had lonely dinner at "Snake restaurant". It has opened after renovation. Food is as good as before and the owner as happy to see me. I am happy to see/meet him. We will have bigger dinner there on Friday, at least 10 persons. 
  • Tuesday 3rd
    • I took taxi to office. I felt lazy. 
    • 9-10.15 Meeting on RsmuTask
    • Rest of the day solitary thinking about several issues. 
    • Lunch at Chi Chin.
    • Afternoon: shopping for digital camera with Heikki and Juha Kamppuri. I bought Pentax Optio S4, which is small enough.
    • Dinner at "Crab restaurant" with Sirkku, Heikki, and Juha. 
    • I bought also 6 CDs
    • Sirkku bought glasses. 
  • Monday 2nd
    • I cycled to the office. It was not too warm outside. Check MattiKinnunenFitness2004. I will cycle back and also visit the monkey park outdoor gym facilities. 
    • 9-10 Preparation for the day
    • 10-11 Weekly SE meeting: HzSeMinutes2004x02x09xToDoWeekly
    • 11-12,13.30-17 Working on SE-issues. See HzSeDiary2004
    • 12-12.30 Team lunch in Chin Chin, the fake restaurant. 
    • 17-18.30 Meeting on requirements management arranged by Tero Auranen: MattisMinutes2004x02x02ReqManagement
    • Still some sleeping difficulties. It may be mostly due to excessive playing of Triple Pop with the phone. Or then some stress. Cycling and excercise should help.
    • Bird flu is spreading. N-Korea is testing chemical agents with political prisoners. Some explosions here and there. Normal stuff. But what will USA do with N-Korea. It has WMD, a dictator etc. Should USA attack? But that would be not so good, since they could loose more own troops! Place your bets!
    • A bit lazy feeling, hard to write in English or even in Finnish. 
    • I intend not to drink any alcohol in February. Maybe I teetotal also in March. It would be good. 
    • I need to find a home in Helsinki. It is too hard. Or maybe I will become a nomad and find a home in some other country. 

January 

Week 5 26.1.-1.2. 

  • Sunday 1st
    • I woke up too early, about 5 am. Too bad. Fortunately I got some sleep from 7-11. 
    • Some stress is hounting me. I should find ways of relaxing. Maybe cycling would do.
    • We went to buy baquettes in C4 and then to furniture market to two office chairs.
    • I fixed my bike and tested it. 
    • I also had some gym exercise in the Monkey park.
    • Lunch at the Sichuan near C4. No dinner. 
    • Nice weather, it seems spring is coming. 
  • Saturday 31th
    • Our 7th anniversary! We took it easy, went for lunch in Chin Chin vegetarian restaurant.
    • Sirkku bought me silk for my new bathrobe. It will be really nice. 
    • We had coffee in one small coffee shop near the south-end of Yanan Lu. Damn good coffee. 
    • No special dinner. 
  • Friday 30th
    • Back at office at 8.30!
    • Hacking this and that the whole day. Check e.g MattisScratchArea. 
    • We (PetriJappila, HannuLeskinen? and me) had lunch at the vegetarian restaurant nearby. Excellent. I used to be vegetarian 6 years (1989-1995). I never had as good food back then as I had today. Nowadays I do not eat mammals or birds. I do eat fish, frog, snakes, snails etc. 
    • I think that I will be alone in Hangzhou SIG in Commons Place this evening. 
    • SE work for A43 is gaining speed in Helsinki. They has send quite many inspection invitations or similar during our holiday. 
    • I bought 3 CDs in the morning: Dylan's Diamond Dods, some collection by Red Hot Chile Peppers and a live recording by Linkin Park. I will buy more in the evening, if I can find any. I have more than 200 CDs and some 200 LPs. 
    • I read schizophrenia is equally common in all cultures. Does this mean that schizophrenia is in the genes (since culture does not make any difference)? Or are all culture so similar, that some persons develope schizophrenia due to normal human traumas. Maybe I should read more. In general, it is quite interesting to think about the reasons for mental sicknesses. Not that I feel like catching one...
    • Weekend! 
    • When the going gets tough, the tough get going (and the rest flee): "China's corruption crisis has been laid bare with the disclosure that more than 1,200 Communist Party members committed suicide and more than 8,000 fled abroad in the first half of last year. Another 6,500 - mainly government officials or senior cadres - were listed as missing. President Hu Jintao has said China will pursue fugitives abroad, according to Wen Wei Po, a pro-Beijing daily newspaper published in Hong Kong."
    • The bird-flu is spreading but only amoung birds. First (doomsday) estimates about possible human fatalities are coming. Too scary! 
    • There have been just too many food related problems in the last years. I think that we should start thinking of quitting to eat me. It would also save some resources. I just read yesterday that China will have to import more and more food in the future, because more and more plants will be fed to animals. What a waste. 
  • Thursday 29th
    • Sick at home. Nothing much.
    • In the evening small dinner (potatoes, egg plants) at "orange crab restaurant. "Snake restaurant" is closed until 3.2.2004.
    • I bought 9 CDs: Sonic Youth (Sister, one of the most important recordings in the history of non-classical music), Ministry, Sheryl Crow, Metallica, etc. 
  • Wednesday 28th
    • The avian flu is now officially in China, too. From Strait Times:" China became the 10th Asian country to be hit by the avian flu after it confirmed on Tuesday there had been an outbreak of the lethal strain of H5N1 among ducks in the south-western Chinese province of Guangxi but said no human infections had been reported so far." "Isolated cases also appear to have emerged in other parts of the country including in a chicken-raising household in central China's Hubei Province and in a duck-raising household in neighbouring Hunan Province, the Xinhua news agency said."
      • So, it was not just a miracle. It was just of question of time. Now we are waiting for reports of the first human cases, which I assume will come next Monday after the official delay.
      • "In southern Guangdong province, a major poultry supplier to Asia, authorities have stepped up monitoring of registered suppliers of poultry and intensified supervision of bird flu innoculations at registered chicken farms." I just hope that all suppliers have remembered to register, which is of course the case... Not in Indonesia though: "Regulation -- or the lack of it -- is also a major issue. Wednesday's Jakarta Post said only 50 or the capital's 1,000 bird slaughterhouses were legal or licensed."
    • Whole day at home, no lunch, just reading, cooking tea etc. 
    • Dinner at some restaurant nearby. Potatoes, fish and some meat. I skipped the meat. Otherwise good and funny tasting Harbin beer "the oldest in China".
    • Some new CDs:
      • www.bumblefoot.com Bumblefoot?: Uncool
        • totally nuts French guys.
      • She1: Rich and famous
        • young porn girls and old men from Berling playing a bit like Garbage
      • Outkast: Stankonia 
        • Frech rap with fun add-ons
      • Futuristia: Demain, C'est maintenant 
        • Straight rap from France
      • The One reference monitor speaker test CD: some acoustic blues. 
    • S. Baldauf and J. Ollila has visited Poc (Flexiserver), which is going to make loads of money and nice bonuses for us all quite soon. All that remain is to fix some bugs... pronto-bees are on-going, now also in FServer development. Lots of management attention and appropriate measures and many *ers looking over shoulders of those doing the dirty hacking etc. You know it all already. It is always so much too late. 
    • I have now been thinking much about my future. It may well be that I continue in system architecting since I feel that my talents and interests are in the discipline. The best mix would be to devote 50% of my time to academic research and 50% for industrial product development. It requires most likely that I move to USA. 
    • Weather: upto 8C and sunshine. Nice, I could even cycle to office tomorrow. 
  • Tuesday 27th
    • No motto today. Or maybe: "Is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have" Sheryl Crow.
    • And a quote by Tanenbaum: " WYSIWYG is a step backwards. Human labor is used to do that which the computer can do better.". I totally agree with prof Tanenbaum! MSWord sucks!
    • Morning at home. Some reading. 
    • Lunch: beans and rice by Sirkku.
    • Walking for 2 hours in the mountains: from Long Jing to Rose Garden. Real nice small road "9 creeks in misty forest". We also intended to visit "Winding lane thours bamboos forest" or something but we a) ran out of time and b) did not find the start of the path. We will try later (most likely on Sunday again). 
      • We visited Hannu and his family. They live in the same house in which Jarmo used to live. 
    • In the evening I was trying to find best places for my future from the internet. I am quite sure I have already found it. I will tell about it later. 
    • I think I am getting ill. I am not feeling that well. Bad. 
  • Monday 26th
    • Motto of the day: "Asialliset hommat hoidetaan. Muuten ollaan kuin Ellun kanat" "We take care of no-nonsense task. Otherwise we are like Ellu's chicken" Linna, Tuntematon sotilas/Unknown soldier, which is btw rather good book on war, leadership and human nature. Just like Norman Mailer's "Naked and Dead" and of course quite many histories of WWII (check e.g. Beevor's Stalingrad).
    • I needed to visit the office since I wanted to send a few email from my Nokia account. The office was freezing. 
    • No lunch today, but some exercise by taking a walk from home to WTC. They still do not have newer magazines than last Tuesday's. I start to wonder whether the government has something to do with this. 
    • The avian flu has spread at least to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Laos, South-Korea and Pakistan. It is quite a miracle that it is not in China yet. So far the virus has not been able to cross the species barrier. When it does that, most likely SARS will be forgotten completely. Let's hope that will not happen!
    • Dinner at: 
    • Weather: still cold, a few degrees, no sun, overcast. No wind. 

Week 4 19.-25.1 

  • Sunday 25th
    • Quiet day. We got up early and went to spend our Trust-Mart coupons. We had lunch in the foodcourt below Trust-Mart: tepanyaki food and some beer. Later just idling at home. 
    • In the evening a 1 hours walk around neighbourhood. Quite nice and quite. We bought again a few DVDs, but I think I will never have enough time to watch them. Some guys were selling breads straight from barrel. The breads were tasty. 
    • Maybe this is what holiday means. Doing next to nothing and having stress because of it. Strange, maybe there is something really wrong in me to have stress all the time, come what may. Stupid. I must remember what I learned in the Lead Yourself-course and find the youthful strenght I used to have when I was a few years younger. Or then I can, of course, but some Prozac or similar and dope my brains out. 
  • Saturday 24th
    • Quote of the day: "And, just like it should in all stories about philosophers, in ended up in complete chaos" Feynman
    • I am getting my energy back. I got up before 11am and now I have already (by 1130am) read newspaper, eaten breakfast. Soon we will go to Grandma's place for a decent lunch. 
    • Now I have rested enough. I will start writing and reading certain issues, which may change rest of my life for good. Hope so, at least. 
    • The problem of Nokia is that the organization is not flexible for fast developing persons. The organisation does not understand that racehorses have to run. Thus it keeps them mostly in stable, sometime lets them go out for a walk. This is not sufficient - the horses get bored, start kicking around in their stable and ultimately either leave or lose the condition. This condems Nokia to an average firm (at least when looking from personnel point of view). We say that we strive to be the number 1, but in reality we do not do that. The natural explanation is that we have too much money and too much talent. So much that wasting more than 50% of the talent does not hurt our sales. Of course, using all the talent we have in Nokia would certainly make our sales bigger and our product development cheaper and faster. Too sad!
    • Or then I just do not understand how to run a business. I will study it and then tell you later, after a few years. 
    • It is still really cold, now at noon 2C. And the wind from west is quite strong. This is just like in Finland.
    • Lunch was good, especially scallops. 
    • I took a nap and took taxi to Radisson. I intended to buy a newspaper and go to Commons Place to read it and have a few beers. But the stupid pub is still closed and Radisson only has Tuesday's papers. So I had to come to home. Boring. 
    • In the evening we watched "Oceans eleven". The DVD was of bad quality. We did not see the whole film. When you do not pay much, maybe you should not expect much either. 
    • Writing well under way. Results will be visible in early May. 
  • Friday 23th
    • Motto of the day: "When I'm good, I'm really good. When I'm bad, I'm better." Mae West/Sirkku Ikonen
    • Quite quiet day. I woke up at 11.30 am and went directly for lunch in "orange crab restaurant"
      • eggplants, potatoes (du dou si, but fried too), strange soup of fish, tofu, sausages etc and beer. One only. 
    • I have passion for newspapers and took bus to Yanan Lu. But Radisson only had Tueday's South China Morning Post. Yesterday I bougth Tuesday's Herard Tribune in WTC. Strange that they do not get the newspapers faster from Hong Kong. Well, even old newspaper is better than none. No specific news, some strange discussion whether HK can have some election according to Basic Law in 2007 or only after 2030. I did not quite get it. 
    • Avian flu has now spread to Thailand and Cambodia. Let see when it comes to China. I hope never. Last spring SARS spoiled travelling. 
    • I tried to go and check the pagoda near Diamond resort, but the guards prevented me. Strange, they behaved as if D Resort owned the park. Maybe it does?
    • Some 3 hours sleep and again to the restaurant. We tried to get into Grandma's, but they said "mei you". I understand that much Chinese and so we left. Most of the restaurant are still close, but we managed to find a place where we got best fish for many weeks. They had first deepfried the fish, then put in a folio with tomatoe-chile sauce and heated it over fire. Very good. And some eggplants and potatoes. Beer, just one. 40 RMB. Not bad!
    • I bought 4 CDs: Thinktank, Suede, Smashing Pumpkins, and Sheryl Crow. All are quite good. Yesterday we bought some 10 DVDs. This is mad. 
    • I have managed not to think of Nokia today. 
    • The weather has not changed. It is still quite cold and sun is shining. 
    • I started to read two books: history of economics and "Mountains of the mind". Both seems to be good. But I have not had too much time today for them. Tiredness is too deep. Muscles are aching, which is perplexing.
    • No plans for tomorrow. I may start writing certain things. This diary is an exercise to keep English fluent and brains warm. I regret that I did not start this when I came to China. 
    • Link of the day: turbokart!
  • Thursday 22th
    • Motto of the day: "Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do." Bertrand Russell
    • First holiday day. My mood was changing as as always. In the morning I was quite happy and full of energy. Then suddenly I lost all initiative, but fortunately Sirkku made me walk in the hills and I got happy again. 
    • We went to Xi Hu and there to the new area in the northwest corner. There is somekind of wine PR area with fountais, exhibitions and also a small bar where one can enjoy excellent Shaoxing wine for 5 RMB per class. Best such wine I have ever tasted. I must go there again later, especially with my Finnish friends in April. 
    • Lunch at some new restaurant near the old town: spring fish, abalone soup (terrible), etc and nice dark Xi Hu beer. 129 RMB, 
    • Wednesday evening we had dinner at Zen restaurant, which is a new place near the corner of Xi Hu Da Dao and Nan Shan Lu. The food is kind of Westernized Asian, names have words in Thai or Vietnamise, but dished are not that much Asian. Anyway, the Vietnamise fish cakes are just as they should (and server with sweet chili sauce). Also the "green beans with chili" is good, actually best green beans I have ever tasted. About 220 RMB for two person, mostly because their drinks are overpriced. Nice place. We may go there for the beans and fish cakes also in the future. 
    • Now it is the year of monkey. I am a monkey in the Chinese year and animal classification. So, this is going to be a good year for me, at least I feel so. Much better than 2003 and 2002, anyway. 
    • Our Nan Du De Jia Dong compound had a powerful fireworks show last night. I went out to see it at midnight. These people are just nuts. Everyone brings new box (huge) of firework and they go in the middle of explosions and add some more explosions. It is quite fun to stand there and look what happens. One feels as if standing in the middle of fireworks, the noise is terrible, smoke dense and one has to take care not to catch fire from the falling debris. One should not leave China without experiencing this. 
    • I am still reading Feynman's books. He is so much fun. And it is so nice to see that one can really just insist on doing the things one likes and most of the time something, at least lots of fun, comes out of it. And the attitude " who cares what the others thinks" gives one so much freedom. I must get more books about Feynman. 
    • The weather has been nice for the last few days. It is cold, actually bit too cold for my wardrobe, but I manage. The sun is here again after some weeks of miserable rain. The sun is very important and I must start to take care that I get enough sunshine daily. Having a 30 minute walk during "lunch hour" is a good idea and also gives more freedom for thinking that those lousy cubicles we have. They are just too small for a guy like me. I really suffer from them. But since everyone is equal in extremely naive way, there is not so much we can do. Well, I can survive the 12 weeks (about 60 days) I have left in my contract. In Finland there is a possibility to use some common sense and adjust the cubicles according to the size of the inhabitants. At least I think so. But this is getting negative, which is against the Nokia values and also not so fun anyway. 
    • Speaking about the Nokia values, I still think that the value "respect" does not make any sense. "Respect" is a transitive verb and requires an object. So does the noun "respect". It is easy to test. Just go to someone and say " I have respect". You will certainly get a counterquestion "For what do you have respect". So, having this ungrammatical "respect" as a value is stupid and also leads to subjective (well, all abstract values are subjective) evaluations. Anyone can claim that someone has/has not "respect". It is as in logic where you can derive anything from a contradiction. I do not mean that I am against having company values, not at all. I consider them of some value in defining the culture, but having this kind on vague, ungrammatical values does not help at all. 
i * Maybe it is time not to think about Nokia after this during the holiday. There are more interesting things to think about, outside office hours I mean.
    • Yesterday the whole city was empty. Today there were quite many families walking in the centre and by the lake. It is somewhat similar to Christmas eve in Finland but then not. 
    • 7.10 pm: they still have enough explosive to make listening to CDs a pain. And they are still selling more on the street. BTW: there must be so many factories producing fireworks in China. Billions of them going off during a few days. If they still sell them tomorrow, I will buy one box and set it off! That will show them? But what, you may ask.
    • No special dinner today since the lunch was quite large. Some rice and broccoli. Besides, most restaurant near our homw were close. Only this not so good hot pot place was open and one place we call "orange crab restaurant". 
    • I finished the Feynman books. Some quotes, the spirit of which I share: 
      • " the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgement in one particular direction or another" * " ... the type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself" * " after you have have not fooled yourself, it is easy not to fool other scientists" or anyone else, I would add. * " when you have a very wide range of people who contribute without looking carefully at it, you do not improve your knowledge of the situation by averaging" which applies to any decision situation. And having just one person who does not carefully look at the situation making decisions, is just as bad. * " I have not got the speed to think like that [to please authorities]; my first reaction is immediate, and I say the first thing that comes to my mind" which is familiar to me and quite ENTP. * " nothing happens because there is not enough real activity and challenge: You are not in contact with the experimental guys" which tells why I should visit the lab more often and why I also should start coding again, and testing too. * " Mr Frankel ... began to suffer from the computer disease that anyone who works with computers knows about. It is a very serious disease and interferes completely with the work. The trouble with the computers in you play with them. They are so wonderful. ... it is the delight of in being able to see how much you can do" which is just getting worse with Word, Ppoint, Excel and the like, which divert your concentration from the thinking to the typesetting. 
    • Some links for studying English: English1 and common errors and on-line grammar and some funny rules, Grammar book. This is also good: Writing resources.
    • Great pages for learning something about management. 
    • Nice weblog by M.G Soikkeli, who is a professor of literature. In Finnish: Markun majakka. 
    • It is getting early, now 3 am. Now 4 am. 

Week 4 19.-25.1 

  • Thursday 22th
    • Motto of the day: "Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do" Bertrand Russell
  • Wednesday 21th
    • Motto of the day: "I always do that. Get into something and see how far I can go" Feynman and this applies to me too very well. The problem is that this kind of experimental and learning approach is not so much appreciated by the official Nokia organization, which wants to divide and conquer and also not distribute information openly (even when there is no need to keep the information secret). Well, secrecy and designation will always be both more expensive and slower than openness and multiprofessionalism. This is because s and d waste human resources, of which there is a want. In most cases, we have less intelligence, talent and professional skill than money. 
    • Quote of the day: "I hate the philosophical thoughts of Matti", anonyouys, HR jazz cafe. So, my education still affects my thinking and the way I write. Or maybe this anonymous sees my thoghts about how to make the world/Nokia a better place etc as so value-laden that they seems to be philosophical. In any case, this is strange.
    • 9-15 Working on MattiOnPerfModellingTool and writing something else too (emails, notes)
    • 12.30-13 Discussion with MaunuHolma on dimensioning, DIMUTI, RNCd organization, responsibilities, excel-tools, who does what, who knows what etc. We shall write a proposal which a) describes the current situation and a') how we have ended in the current situation and also b) introduces several alternative ways for solving the problems of the current situation. To solve them we need to have so called constructive co-operation btw many persons representing many organizations. This will be extremely difficult and thus good fun!
    • 13-14.14 Discussion with PasiToivanen on the future of whatever. 
    • 13.30 The Ocean Plaza personnel was firing fireworks and they got the lawn on fire. Great!
    • 15 onwards: Spring festival holiday. The official time to leave the office. 
  • Tuesday 20th
    • Motto of the day: "The test setup for a system is itself a system" Recthin
    • It is amazing how good and relaxed my mood and feeling is after I realized that money, job grade etc do not really mean that much for me and that I have, in fact, been trying to force (for the last years) myself in a role, which is against my personality and values. Everything looks so beautiful, the insane traffic in HZ does not stress at all, it just makes me laugh. Also, no incident at work can anymore insult me, I feel so independent. I now remember that whatever happens, I have some professional skills and also my natural intelligence, energy and curiosity, which will be worth a decent living (and interesting things to do) in any case. There are so many interesting things to do, so many difficult problems to solve, so many great persons to get to know, so may good dinners to eat, that taking stress on something which happens at work now or ever, is just waste of the short life I have. Maybe these thoughts will help someone else too. Life is nice.
    • Still more about motivation: I think that it is also upto each person (including me) to raise alarm and seek help when motivation goes down. The problem is, of course, that it is sometime not so easy to detect this. 
    • 9-10 Idling, emails etc. 
    • 10-11.30 Discussions, thinking about several issues.
    • 11.30-13 Lunch at Napoli Pizza (even a pizza) and washing my hair.
    • 13-15 Meeting with LiNa (and MaunuHolma) about dimensioning. LiNa's draft document is promising. 
    • 15-17 Again thinking, brainstoriming MattiOnSwbtIdeas. 
    • 17-18 Working on MattiOnPerfModellingTool and discussing with MaunuHolma on HzSeMinutes2004x01x20xDescription?.
    • 18-18.15 Updating SystemEngineering. 
    • 19-20 Dinner at "Crab restaurant" in Wen Xin Lu with Sirkku. Excellent squids, deepfried schrimps with cinnamon and salt, pumpkin pancakes with lemon dressing etc. Very nice and the price was just 77RMB. This is one of the best restaurant near my home. 
    • 20-22 Reading "Please understand me" and "Surely You are joking, Mr Feynman". 
  • Monday 19th
    • Motto of the day: "Having diffucult problems is the only justification for getting to office in the morning"
    • I thought a bit more about motivation last evening. To say (note that also the performance evaluation formula seems to have this idea) that the motivation of a person should not affect the work of the person. I think this completely makes the whole concept of motivation empty. According to one dictionary motivation is " the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action; the reason for the action", so by definition there is no action without motivation. Therefore it is not possible that the work efficiency would not depend on the motivation. To claim otherwise is to make the whole term motivation meaningless. Of course the motivation (like on assembly line) can be external, forced by the job or then it can be just the need not to get fired, but this kinds of things do not motivate me the least. 
      • Furthermore: I feel (as a de facto line manager of SE team), that if I see/hear that someone in the team has low motivation, it is my responsibility to talk with the persons are find out the reason for low/nonexistent motivation and then also do something that will increase the motivation. It would be really starge/nonnatural for me just to notice low motivation, do nothing and then e.g. in performance evaluation complain about it. To do so would actually mean that I am not up to my tasks as a line manager. But I may make a mistake here since I have not gone to the official Nokia line manager training. 
      • Now this is quite enough about the topic of motivation. I now happen to have better motivation than during the last 1.5 years, so this complaint may go away by itself. 
    • 9-10 Situation update with MaunuHolma and misc discussion on many issues. 
    • 10-12 HzSeMinutes2004x01x19xToDoWeekly
    • 12-13 Lunch in "Mao-restaurant" ( Huo Hong Nian Dai) with some of the member of HzSeTeam?. Nice, good food. No beer!
    • 13-14 Misc issues. 
    • 14-17 HzSeMinutes2004x01x19xRsmuAndPiping
    • 17-18 Diaries, proposing targets from MaijaSaukko? (thanks to ChenGuodong for good proposals)
    • Dinner at home: noodles and tuna etc. No alcohol on Mondays? Reading "Please understand me" and watching "Beijing bicycle", of course at the same time. The film was quite OK. 

Week 3 12.-18.1 

  • Week total: the official hours minus 2 days in Beijing attending Lead Yourself-course. 
  • Sunday 18th
    • Motto of the day: "Honesty and openness lead to victory"
    • It was again raining and I had to take the bus. No taxis around. This time the it took only 45 minutes and then 10 minutes walking in rain.
    • 10-12.30 IIP with the boss.
      • My performance evaluation is: almost on target but some development needed (4.3 in scale on 0-10, 5 on target). 
        • this despite of that I fulfilled my STIP (personal targets) very well. 
      • However, my workmates rated my performance in the same scale to be about 8. So there is a contradiction. 
        • the contradiction is to do with my behaviour, which has not been too pleasing towards management. I admit that I should be more polite and not so straight and also try to look things from many point of view. I am working on this. And maybe I could keep my motivation more constant (maybe it is better to have average motivation all the time than high sometimes and low the other times). Even better would be not to let motivation affect the work, but this I find a bit hard to do, at least in any work, which requires creativity. 
          • also, I think that it would not hurt/do any harm, if the persons, who notice that my motivation is low, would come to me and notify me and that we could together discuss what is the reason for low motivation and what we could do at it. I find it a bit unfair and unproductive and late (almost only) to discuss this in performance evaluation in the end of the year. If we would take these issues up earlier, maybe the motivation would get better and so would also the results. It may be that I have not seem to be too receptive to such a feedback, but even then giving it and discussion would do good for all of us and for the compary too. I may be a difficult person to manage, but I still think it would be worth trying since sometimes I am and have been able to quite good architectural desing and also some other things in my 6 years in Nokia. 
        • Note that it does not only matter what you do/achieve, but HOW you do/achieve it! Remember this and you will get far in Nokia! I will try too keep this in mind and unflip my bozo-bits!
        • anyway, it feels nice that workmates appreciate my work. Thanks!
      • anyway, the IIP was quite nice happening. I have now declared peace towards anyone. I feel so good in this peace! I have found the old Matti who I was back in 1990s and now I feel so free, happy and full of energy. No problem is too hard for me, no situation able to make me unnecessarily angry.
    • 12-15 Thinking about the IIP and trying to find ways to improve my performance since I want to be exceptional this year! I was in 2001 and in 2002 I was on target. I must get better!
    • We (me and Sirkku) had dinner in the Japanese restaurant in Holiday Inn restaurant. "All you can eat and drink" cost 138RMB/person. The food was not remarkable, but sake and beer were good plenty. Almost too plenty, we got a bit drunk. No problem with that, though. 
  • Saturday 17th
    • I think that this kind of 10-day working periods are not that productive. I am sure that we would get the same amount work done if we would take this weekend off. It all depends on motivation and alertness. We are not (really) sitting at the cashier in supermarket or digging a ditch. Or then, maybe we are, we are just too proud to admit it!
    • Meeting on PipingTask in the afternoon. And this was really nice meeting.
      • MaunuHolma was ill and I had to do without him. It was a bit hard since I do not know traffic architecture too well. 
    • Some discussion in Forum. There should be more. The more discussion, the better results. 
  • Friday 16th
    • Motto of the day: "By being unreasonable in everything, I will reach a balanced reasonableness and the smile does not disappear from my face. "
    • Whole day meeting on PipingTask: HzSeMinutes2004x01x16xPiping?. 
      • I managed to take notes, discuss, invent ideas, read emails and write emails at same time. And it was so much fun! And I could almost use all my concentration and energy and speed. I will continue doing this. 
    • In the evening the mayor of Hangzhou gave a party at the official building. Good food! And both me and Sirkku won in the lucky draw!
    • And the whole day it was quite impossible to get a taxi. It is so sad this insane traffic policy in Hangzhou. 
    • Elearning "Software architecture principles". Quite naive, but worth going through, at least for newcomers.
  • Thursday 15th
    • Updating information with MaunuHolma
      • about documenting system architecture. We decided to continue with our current plans and try to reach a compromice with EspooOffice.
    • Writing 2 travel claims (I am gettting professional: in less than 1.5 hours and almost correct)
    • Meeting on HzSeMinutes2004x01x15xTrTesting
    • In the evening eating pasta and taking it quite easy at home. The course was quite intensive and tiring.
    • Elearning "Action plans" and "Introduction to Symbian OS". Symbian seems to be quite well designed OS.
  • Wednesday 14th
    • see MattiKinnunenLongDiary2004x01x17LeadYourSelf?
    • I slept more than 10 hours from Tuesday to Wed. The Radisson in Beijing, near Nokia office is really professional. 
  • Tuesday 13th
    • Lead Yourself-course in Beijing.
    • see MattiKinnunenLongDiary2004x01x17LeadYourSelf?
    • And (as always with BasVodde) great lunch and dinner (in the same place as on Tuesday: schrimps, sweetsour fish, hot gabbage, beer)
  • Monday 12th
    • Motto of the day: "You can teach skills and knowledge, but you cannot teach talent"
    • I was really tired and depressed in the morning. It was partly because of reading too late and partly because of general anxiety and whatever. I hope the course will help me in sorting out my passions, wishes, plans etc. This cannot continue like this much longer. 
    • 10-12 HzSeMinutes2004x01x12xApWorkStatus
    • 12-13 Diaries, reading. 
    • 13.30-14.30 Statistics workshop
    • 14.30 onwards: flight to Beijing. 
    • 20-22 Dinner with BasVodde in some extremely good restaurant close to He Ping Li Nokia office.
      • The best schrimps I have in China (rather much like fritto misto in Italy!)
      • superb spicy fish, which was so hot that even I had to order some rice with it!
      • and good Beijing beer

Week 2 5.-11.1 

  • Week total: the official hours minus 1.5 days sick leave
  • Sunday 11th
    • Dogtired the whole day. Mostly at home reading and later in the evening watching some DVDs. We had dinner in Baochu Lu, in the yellow hotpot restaurant. We thought that we had ordered some potatos or omelette, but we got stinky tofu. It smells terrible. I did not taste, but Sirkku did. She kind of likes it, but even she could not eat the whole dish. It was hot or spicy, too. 
    • I bought a nice box of incense and just too many DVDs from some small shop in Baochu lu. They had some documentary films about the WW II, the history of which is one of my dearest hobbies. Now I just have to find time to watch them.
  • Saturday 10th
    • My first Saturday in Hangzhou and at home since November. Or not at home after all. We had nice lunch at the Sichuan Snake Pit restaurant (fish soup, griller scrimps, si lan hua etc) and then went to Janne's. They had a farewell party with most expatriates participating. Nice atmosphere, nice discussion, not too rioting at all. After some 7 hours we we tired enough to leave. Sirkku was sick anyway with flu or something similar. 
    • In the evening I read books. 
  • Friday 9th
    • Motto of the day: " choose - watch - choose "
    • 9-12 Working with MaunuHolma on SE-issues and reading on IWS1
    • 12-15 See HzSeDiary2004
    • 15-16.30 Thinking about the future. Discussion with Julia Guo on university co-operation.
    • 16-24. The annual party. The program was, eh, quite Chinese. I find it a bit strange, but still entertaining. However, we had kind of Finnish program it the lobby. The food was not too good. After the party we went to Shamrock and for some reason I did not feel like drinking at all and left quite early with Heikki and Janne. Good discussions in Shamrock with some nice people. I like that. I even remember what we were talking about!
  • Thursday 8th
    • Motto of the day: " never try to perfect people "
    • 9-12 Web-updates, discussions on SeIntersiteMeetingPeriods. See also HzSeMinutes2003x12x26xVfiStatisticsItaly.
    • 13-15 HzSeMinutes2004x01x08xSpringPlanning
    • 15-16 Hacking, discussions on DIMUTI. 
    • 16-18 Discussions with TeroPeltola? and others. 
      • Tero promised that there is some work for me in Helsinki after I leave China. He also told me to take it a bit easier and not to get infuriated so easily. I must heed this advice. My conbustible character causes me trouble, which is not that good thing after all. 
  • Wednesday 7th
    • Motto of the day:" kun painaa vaan perskeles niinkun nyt justihin tuntuu, niin sitten se on oikein" Jorma Panula, Finnish conductor.
    • Working hours: the standart 8.
    • 9-10 MaunuHolma gave a course on traffic architecture. 
    • 10-11 Discussion with Antti Heimonen on the future jobs in RNC development. There is something for me still - but nothing specific at this moment. 
    • 11-12 CMMi intervie. CMMi audit: the official mass of process believers. Arranged once a year or when the customer asks for it. 
      • There is no substitute of talent and professionalism, not in any process or methods or tools or whatever. 
      • I gave quite strict feedback and maybe too funny. I was in funny mood. I hope the auditors did not mind too much. 
    • 12-16 Discussion with several persons etc. Again with Antti Heimonen and MaunuHolma on SE work and its future in HZ. 
    • 16-17 Whatever, wherever. 
  • Tuesday 6th
    • Sick leave in the morning, then some hours working on emails and discussions with MaunuHolma, PetriJappila and others. 
    • I bought an electric heater for our bed room. Nice! Now we can sleep in the larger bedroom, which means that we get more and better sleep.
      • the heater has 2kW power, which is almost like what we have in small saunas back in Finland. 
  • Monday 5th
-- MattiKinnunen - 22 Feb 2004


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