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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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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 pers...

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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...

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. ...

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, mos...

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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 explana...

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...

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 m...

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 ...

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 thes...

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 S...

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...

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

see MattiKinnunenLongDiary2004x01x17LeadYourSelf I slept more than 10 hours from Tuesday to Wed. The Radisson in Beijing, near Nokia office is really professional. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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) Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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 Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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! Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

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. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Sick leave. See also MattiKinnunenLongDiary2004x01x05Sanya. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".