Belgian Beer Review: Trappistes Rochefort, originally uploaded by Chiva Congelado.
A beer with an interesting colour, dark but not transparent, and very clean aroma. High alcoholic content, but an excellent soft taste with hints of Gouda cheese, full grain bread and chocolate.
Sanoi minun suomalaisen tulevan vaimon täti Brysselissä käydessään.
Kuka sitten maksaa sosiaaliturvaa kun kaikki ovat eläkeellä?
Demande: Il faut lui faire la guerre
Réponse automatique de mes collègues de cours: à George Bush!
It seems to be the case that what happens in Sweden usually ends up happening in Finland as well. Six months ago, Swedish voters opted for a switch to the right, and in Finland the same happened yesterday, with Keskusta (Centre Party) clinging to its lead, but with big gains by Kokoomus (National Coalition), and big losses for the Social Democrats. The Greens had marginal gains as well. Frankly, not much will change, which in Finland’s case I guess is OK.
What hasn’t so far been commented very much in the media is the proportionally huge gains made by the populist Perussuomalaiset (True Finns), who went from 3 to 5 seats, and their candidate Timo Soini was the third most voted nationwide for his district in Uusimaa (southern Finland). Why do I care about this development? Because these guys are the kind of people that wouldn’t want me in Finland, as they tout a pretty strong anti-immigrant line (á la Jörg Haider, Jean-Marie Le Pen or the Vlaams Belang party here in Belgium). With phrases such as “we want Finland to select who, how and where from do people come to the country”, they show both their complete ignorance of the fact that to get a residence permit you have to go through stringent procedures and their belief that foreigners in Finland are mostly refugees, which is so untrue to almost be comical.
So, to sum up, Matti Vanhanen will probably stay as prime minister, the government will shift a little bit to the right but not much, and we got three more Tony Halme clones in Parliament. Let’s see how the situation develops.
Not the result I expected, Chivas lost the Superclásico against rivals América in Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium. It is the first time in 2 years (7 matches) that the holy flock loses against our most bitter opponent. Américas goalie and NT material, Francisco Guillermo Ochoa, steered them to victory with 3 saves against Omar Bravo.
Damn! At least it’s good that I don’t do bets.
Chivas didn’t perform that well in the rain on Thursday, and they let a win slip at the last moments of the game. Let’s hope that they wake up on the return leg, because we want to see them play in Japan.
Nykyään on helpompi ja saman hintainen matkustaa Helsingistä Brysseliin kuin Helsingistä Jyväskylään.
Suomirokki refers to rock produced in Finland, usually sung in Finnish but successful as of late in English as well.
As was the case in other countries, in the beginning in the 50’s performers would sing covers or translations of international hits, but this later changed. In my experience, Finnish rock gravitates towards glam rock, blues, pop or variatos of heavy metal, which is the genre that might be most familiar to listeners abroad, with bands such as Apocalyptica, Nightwish, the 69 Eyes, Children of Bodom and others.
Currently however, the three most popular Finnish bands abroad are The Rasmus, HIM and Lordi.
I’ll profile many of these bands in future posts.
Oletko huomannut että suomeksi Itämeri on väärällä puolella?