This weekend was very nice as usual

First, we went to Thai buffet again, hihihi. The place is kind of okay with Finnish standard. Then, we went to see a new movie, “Angel and Demons”. Mr.Sugar joined us! It was supposed to be the second of “The Davinci Code”. But it was more like comedy/mystery. We even laughed with some parts of this movie

After the movie, Mr.Sugar took us to the nice bar on the top of Sokos hotel! It was really really nice place. We loved it

view from Sokos Hotel (10th floor). Can you imagine that it was almost 9PM

you can see the white church!

berry sangria! (vodka, spring water, berry, and juice) It was tasty

Since we got a bit cold, we decided to go to another bar. We had a couple of drinks there. Then, we went to Bakers! Mika also joined us at late night!

since this pic was taken by Nokia N90, very bad quality…

this night was fantastic! We drunk and dance a lots! We will never forget this fun night! After we went out the bar, the next day was already there!!!! CAN YOU IMAGINE that it is at 4AM in Helsinki! OMG, we love the Finnish summer SO MUCH

We went to techno event in Helsinki! Dj was Anja Scrhneide from Berlin, Germany! I really dislike the music at Finnish bar and disco So I could hear good techno music at least at night I was very happy

it was good event

the event place was @ playground.
We were the kind of first customer, hehehe

happy happy Friday night

This month was quite fast to past. It is already on May 28th I was not feeling well today… So Mr.A cooked my dinner and it was pretty! Here it is! Isn’t it pretty dish?? Looks like a face.

Lately, i love to eat salad at night. It is healty and light I will be in Tokyo next month so I need to be not fat, hehehe. BUT tomorrow is Friday!

We are going to techno party in Helsinki!

It was really great moment that my friends came to my graduation party!

ready for party!

with Sanae! Sanae gave me a nice gift. Thank you so much =)

Sanae, Yuan and myself! Peace~~

Sanae, Patricia, Sebastian, Yuan and myself

Kimmo and Susanna

Juha and Saana

Drummer Aki

myself, Andreas and Mr.Sugar

Helloneko is dead
of course, I was so tired after the party, hehehe

I had my final presentation for my master thesis. I was really excited about this presentation because this would be my last presentation and get my MSc Andreas was supposed to be at my presentation…but I got bad luck. First, I was supposed to be the second presentor, but the first guy was late. So my advisor said ” Hitomi will be first…” Second, Andreas came in the end of my presentation because of traffic jam. Third, I forgot to bring my cell phone.

Finally, I thank all of you that helped me out. I really appreciate to University of Helsinki and my MBI programme. They gave me great experience and education

Professor Juho Rousu. My advisor and head of MBI programme.

Esa Pitkänen. My academic advisor and coordinator of MBI programme.

Both helped me so much.

Professor Liisa Holm’s group

Samuli Eldfors, Dr. Petri Törönen, Matti Kankainen
Xuan Hung Ta, Prof. Liisa Holm, me
Ilya Plyusnin, Patrik Koskinen, Emmanuel Ojefua

Special thank to all in Holm’s group.

Finally, I am updating our South Spain trip.

We were in
Malaga –> Sevilla (2 nights) –> Granada (3 nights) –> Malaga (2 nights)

Out flight was quite early morning so our friend,David, gave us drive to the airport. It was really helpful When we were in Spain, the weather was excellent so we really had good luck

When we arrived in Malaga, we took a but to Sevilla!

from the airplane

first tapas and little beer before getting in the bus! In Spain, when you order beer, wine or some drink, you also get little dish called “Tapas”. It’s like Otumami in Japan!

Let’s go to Sevilla

Hotel in Sevilla

In Sevilla, it was amazing that they have so many orange trees! I really liked it so…We tried to catch one all the time, hihihi

we tried to catch one, but never get one orange, hehehe

First day, we just walked around the city and saw flamenco show at the restaurant.

flamenco show in Sevilla

I love to drink, Sangria

it was wonderful night

In the second day, main attraction was to visit to Seville Cathedral (JPN)  and Alcázar of Sevilla (JPN). Third day, we moved to Granada in the afternoone so we had enough time to visit to Archivo General de Indias (JPN).

Link to wikipedia Sevillila (JP)

My cousin, noriko, love Starbucks coffee. So do I!

Sevilla cathedral was gorgeous

from outside of cathdral. Let’s go inside!

Entrance

There was a little park in the church. You can see moorish style.

Then, we went the tower up!

from the top

Now, move on to Alcazal of Sevilla. This alcazar was also great. You can see mixture of moorish and spanish culture! There were many tolopical trees too.

entrance

Where is Mr.A?

I liked that place a lots!

Happy Tapas time
at night, one tax drives recommended to come this place. It was close to our hotel and place is called Alameda de Hercules!

good foods

This weekend has been very very good

On Friday, both of us were so tired with busy days…So we kept our energy for next day.

after busy week…Unfortunately, I don’t have my sleeping pic…but I do have my baby’s sleeping pic, hihihi

On Saturday, we had BBQ with my friends and went out to Helsinki. We could meet Daniel and Fabio in Helsinki. And we went to disco, Apollo. The place was nice but there were so many old people and fat ladies. I didn’t like the environment, but I had a good time with our friends!

This is my own opiniton thought and complaining about Finnish club or disco.

Funny fact in Finland… I got many hits from other ladies…If you are girl and getting hits or pushes from other ladies, that means they hate you with some reasons. Maybe they got some jealousy or whatever reason.

I hate one thing at club in Finland. To me, the ladies are so rude that they have never say “excute me” or “anteeksi” when they want to pass. The ladies just push you at club without saying anything….hahahaha. Maybe they think they are princess or queen at the club. Who knows! Also, I was shocked with girls a little bit This happned only in Finland. I have been traveling around the world, but only in Finland.

Of course, normal people are very polite and nice =) I like them…

thank you for a good time!

inside of Apollo.
it was nice place, but entrance fee was a bit expensive. You know, that is Finland. You pay a lot, but you don’t get the good quality of servie. Sometimes, you have to be VERY patientAnyway, we don’t care because we could see our friends

to me, this girl was shameless. you could see all her back. I mean if you have good shape of body, I don’t mind…but…

After this club or disco, we met Kimmo again at Base bar.

Can you imagine that we took a picture almost 3am. But the sky has still light! Wonderful Finnish summer

I went to Pärnu in Estonia with my colleagues. Since my Institute has 20th anniversary, I could have a chance to join this trip. It was nice to meet new people and know what is research going on.

I woke up at 5am and Andreas was nice enough. He came to the meeting place with me at 6am thank you for coming with me!

After 4 hours I left in Helsinki, we finally arrived in Parnu. It was very nice city. Of course, I had to work so I attened to all the presentaion they had. But it was interesting to see many researches at the same time. Now, I know who is doing what and so on.

After all presentations, we could have a city tour! I joined the tour, yay yay.

I took a walk around the hotel

random pics

Now it is time for party!

happy with having a beer! We were partying until 3am, hahaha

Oh gosh, next day and the rest of this week, it was very tough for me …I just learned that Monday boozing is not good to start the week

And I highly recommend to buy this Estonian chocolate. So good

love it!

May 5th is our anniversary

So Andreas bought pretty rose for me

pretty isn’t it

He was so nice on that day! He cooked my dinner, salmon salad! It was really good.