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Diary entry,   MattiKinnunen , 31.12.2003 - 5.1.2004   Paska reissu, mutta tulipan tehtyä   or   Shitty trip, but I did it Everything went well until I in my incredible stupidity tasted some chicken food in plane (by South China). It was poisoned or stale and tasted bad. For some reason I even swallowed. Too bad. After 7 hours I was iller than I have ever been in my life. Anyway, we had some time before the sickness to check the surroundings of our hotel (South China Hotel, Sanya, Hainan). It is right on the beach and since we had a super deluxe room with seaview in the top floor, we were also able to enjoy it quite much, even from the hotel room. The water is warm and the evening (New Year´s Eve!) was nice. There was some lame BBQ in the garden but we had some local BBQ in the nearby busstation. I have never tasted so good grilled squids! Oh, they were heavenly. If someone promises me them in an afterlife in heaven, I may even consider starting to believe i...

Working hours: about 4 I do not remember what I did. Something useful anyway, I suppose. We left for Sanya quite early. See MattiKinnunenLongDiary2004x01x05Sanya. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: about 8 I do not remember what I did. Something useful anyway, I suppose. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Joulukuussa 2003 kävin työmatkalla Milanossa ja Suomessa. Tähän on poimittu matkan vapaa-aika, viikonloppu Venetsiassa, käynti kotona ja ensimmäinen joulu Kiinassa. Teksti on alkuperäistä englantia, ja hakasulkeissa ovat omat lisäykseni. Tiistai 2.12.2003 I went shopping for some souvenirs: 8 pairs of Hangzhou scissors and some Chinese cooking knives. And for myself, lots of wine. New thing: Seeing a thief running with a woman's purse and lots of people running after him. Something I learned today: The more good wine, the better. Keskiviikko 3.12.2003 In the evening I packed my bags for Italy and Finland and continued drinking Beaujolais Nouveau. New thing: I understood why taxi drivers keep the car windows open. The seat covers smell bad. Lauantai 6.12.2003 Tampere. I visited my mother and brother. In the evening I went to my brother's garage and we watched "Saving private Ryan", which broke me into tears. Keskiviikko 10.12.2003 [Milano.] Dinner at hotel: ...

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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 act...

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-y...

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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! Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Taxi from Shanghai to Hangzhou with MaoWeiqiang. Idling at home and then dinner at some hotpot-restaurant next to westlake. Exhausted. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Flight back to Shanghai in business class. Fun! Nice food, a lot of space, no queueing and lots of champagne! Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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! Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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 11.3...

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa ...

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. ...

Working hours: 8 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 en...

Working hours: 9 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  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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 10 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). Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

.Just taking it easy. I also met Kyosti Ranto in the evening at Coffee House Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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! 12-15 Misc issues. 11-12 Action point meeting. No minutes, since the action points and their states are minutes! 9-11 Misc isseue, establishing HzSeEmailTag and sending an email to most of out interfaces. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. 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! 11-12,13-14 See HzSeDiary2003 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 archite...

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. 18-19 Working: emails, VFI etc. 16.30-18 Shopping. I bought 4 bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau from Carrefour, 99 yuan each. Life is good! 14-16.30 Whatever, e.g HzRtMinutes2003x12x02xPreparation and misc discussion, VFI 11-12, 13-14 Kick offs continue ( See HzSeDiary2003 ) 9-10.15 Kick-off HzSeMinutes2003x12x02xPipingTaskKickOff . Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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! See MattiKinnunenLongDiary2003x12x01. 20.30-21.30 Intalling SeItemToDo etc. 19-20.30 Discussion with JariSimolin and updating the material for the VFI-workshop. 17-19 Misc issues, thinking and discussion. Twiki drawing tool does not work and system is also otherwise strange. Bad. 16-17 See MattisMinutes2003x12x01RncArchDocsA43. 10-12.30, 14-15.30 see HzSeDiary2003. 12.30-14 whatever, even 10 minutes of eating lunch. 9-10 Email etc Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".