So not my day!

Thursday morning I woke up and did some work. Nothing not normal about it. My sis called and asked the information she needed to do my job for few hours. This is so that I would be able to leave work a bit earlier.

First I went to fill up my tank. I noticed that my car took a lot of gas (9l/100km). I wasn't too worried about it but it wasn't a good sign. Next my sister called about a problem that forced me to go back home. When I was leaving the parking lot i saw that a van was coming (reversing) from a space ahead. So instead of driving under the van I decided to wait for it to go... The van almost ran over me! I had to beep my horn for several seconds before they stopped reversing and they came only inches away from my bumper. What you need to know is that had they hit me, they would have had to pay me. I didn't need to let them go first but I was nice and didn't want them to hit me.

Then when I got home I accidentally left my phone in the car. Then @ the computer I noticed that I would have to inform my sis about an issue... Of course she was nowhere near computer so she didn't receive any of my messages to come to msn. From my car I called her and snapped about not being at her computer. It really was not her fault.

Then when I was driving I saw many stupid people driving like crazy and doing stupid passes (?). Also I had to use my brakes more than once because someone decided to come infront of me from a crossing. Twice it was a big truck.

I am not proud to say but I also did one stupid pass of big truck and twice I had to abort the passing. (sorry, sending this from my phone and can't think of other word for passing another car.)

Also when I filled up my tank in Pulkkila I didn't get my blouses and it was really expensive :-( I really thought that I was not meant to come here on Thursday.

I am just counting my blessings as nothing really happened. No car hit me, my car didn't break down, I had enough money to buy gas and because I went home, I was able to pick my tomtom with me.

Hidden Deep

Yesterday I went to see this Finnish movie Syvälle Salattu (my translation of it would be Hidden Deep). I did not have any expectations when I went there. I just has heard some commercials of it through the radio. I usually don't go see Finnish movies because they simply suck. So I am pretty picky when I go see one.

You might say that it is not being picky if I go see a movie based on a commercial alone. But Ney, You see that usually if I hear the commercial my reaction is that I definately do Not want to go see that. So in this case I was like hmmm that sounds interesting.

The movie is a drama/thriller. I think that in this case they should have left the drama out and gone with the thriller. It indeed was thrilling. If they would have changed the ending it might have even been a semi good horror movie. Only thing that sucked big time was that the actors were pretty much the same as they always are. This is the problem with small country and small film industry. Directors use the same film crew and the movie just changes... It is not good when I usually then just see the actors acting and not the movie.

Any ways, the movie was thrilling and surprising. Iwould say that it was best to go see that in the movie theather, I am not so sure if it will be as good from tv. Nevertheless I am not sorry for paying to see the movie, though I wouldn't have mind the ticket to be a bit cheaper either. I think I will recommend people to rent the movie...

Knitting

I have been knitting some now for the past month or so. I really have been getting into making woolly hats. The pink in the pic is to my aunt, the grey is for my friend and brown is for my sister.

Woolly hats!

I am also trying to remember how the socks are made... These pink socks are for my aunt. Just don't tell her that they actually are different size. The loop count is the same in both socks...

Woolly socks!

My friend gave birth to baby boy about 8 months ago. This will be his first winter (yeah it was winter when he was born, but he really go out for the first few months and then it was spring) and he doesn't really have mittens. These ones do not have the the thumb yet, but the next ones will.

Mittens for baby

Day Watch

You probably guessed it already. This is the continuation movie to the Night Watch. It basically continued where the Night Watch movie stopped (not quite some time had passed, but nothing big had happened in between). The same atmosphere continued in Day Watch and as I had just watched the previous version it was fairly easy to continue watching this.

I think this had a bit more romantic feeling in it, even though it otherwise was quite dark. I was laughing to few scenes where there were basic American movie things. (You should know when you see them what I am talking about) (aka can be found in many movies.) I definitely recommend watching these both movies. Specially so that you will watch them back to back. If you have too much time in between something might be lost.

This time I did not have any problem with the Russian language (as I was expecting it already) and was able to get into the movie from the beginning. This was solid 4/5 star movie (not that I rate the movies that I watch). There were few surprising turns that the movie took, and some that I expected to happen. Overall I don't mind if I will have to watch these movies again.

I am actually quite pleased with the level of story telling and filming that I think I might start looking for more Russian movies.

Night Watch

I bought a double movie dvd a while back. It has Night Watch and Day Watch. The reason why I bought it was that I had seen a trailer away back when the movies were released and ever since I have wanted to see them. Just did not have to time to do so.

So I was eager to see the movie, as I had high hopes for it. My first surprise was that the movie is Russian (some how I had thought it was American, as it did fit the style). Well this did not stop me, and I continued watching it. After the first shock of language, I got used to it and really got into the movie. I was a bit slow I would say. I had hoped it to me a bit more faster, but having said that it was not too slow. I liked how, even though it is fantasy movie, it didn't have too much vampire this someone else that, but it let them be who they are. The story was the point more than the creatures.

I wouldn't recommend the movie to be watched if you do not like subtitles. My motto is to watch the movie in its original language and read the subtitles, just because the falseness of the wrong language used might spoil the whole movie experience. Trust me, I have seen German and Chinese movie spoken in English and I just could not get over it. (I rented those movies and I thought that they weren't dubbed...)