How are we !!

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2009-11-16T01:01:00.001+02:00

- Taken at 1:01 AM on November 16, 2009 - uploaded by ShoZu

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- Taken at 1:00 AM on November 16, 2009 - uploaded by ShoZu

Life goes on

2009-07-02T16:58:00.002+03:00

First I was excited, about the whole thing of a newly married life...
I was excited enough to share the happenings in this blog.

But then I realized, happiness is around us with little stuffs, little events...
As little as just making some pan cakes or chicken curry together...
And that is probably of very little fun for others to read.

Gradually I stopped posting about making new dishes, going out for a short biking, going to nearby lakes, having a little gathering with friends... those little stuffs surely would tell how we are, but I had a feeling this blog will then become very boring !

I don't know when I will come back to this blog and write again.
But be assured, we are doing very well :)
As long as we are alive!

Pizza

2008-10-18T18:11:00.000+03:00

We made this pizza !!

18 October 2008
Saturday

Carcassonne and icecream

2008-10-12T20:00:00.001+03:00

Cool board game Carcassonne with ice cream !! Fun weekend !!

Pinapple pie

2008-10-11T20:32:00.002+03:00

Welcome to Senehaz and Goodbye to Sandun's Mom!!

2008-10-06T22:15:00.010+03:00

Xia's Housewarming party!!

2008-10-05T11:14:00.004+03:00

Rock festival

2008-07-26T17:30:00.000+03:00

Nallikari

2008-07-25T21:06:00.002+03:00

Xia invited us to join her and Sakari to have a trip at Nallikari sea beach !!

Vorta dinner

2008-07-24T18:47:00.000+03:00

Alu vorta, mas vorta, begun vaji, dal, alu vaji, basmati sada vat

Flower

2008-07-19T20:18:00.000+03:00

I just picked up some flowers from the street-side wilderness!

Ups, camera didnt focus at all, but I dont have better pics :(

It's warm

2008-07-01T14:38:00.005+03:00

Aha! Those words came! From Shanila! Earlier than I expected.

This morning, Shanila was getting ready to go to downtown. She was wearing a jacket. She came to kitchen to have a quick breakfast. After a few minutes she said "It's warm" and looked at the bright outside through the window.

I forgot to check what was the exact temperature at that time, but I would say it was around 20. But today was the first time she said in Finland "It's warm" :)

Summer is here!
(Pic collected from internet)

We planned the trip

2008-06-27T21:18:00.009+03:00

We have just planned up our euro trip for this summer. There was some sale saying it will last until midnight tonight and we ended buying tickets on 12:01 !! fweh! And yah, they are cheap tickets, so no change, no refund, no insurance and NO LUGGAGE. We will just take two backpacks!

Ok here is our trip plan !

16 August : Oulu - Tampere

17 August: Tampere - Milan, Italy

18 August: Milan - Rome, Italy (date not confirmed yet)

20 August: Rome - Milan (Date not confirmed yet)

20 August: Milan - Krokow, Poland

20 August : Krakow - Lodz, Poland

25 August: Lodz - Krakow

25 August: Krakow - Amsterdam, Netherlands

25 August: Amsterdam - Eindhoven, Netherlands

28 August : Eindhoven - Stansted, London (Only transit in airport)

28 August : Stansted - Tampere

Sometimes later back to Oulu... Fewh

We are now counting down 6 weeks only :)

Picnic

2008-06-21T20:16:00.004+03:00

That was first outdoor picnic. Satten da called me on thursday night, if we are willing to join them and Balaet vai's family for a picnic. Of course we agreed.

So we started our cooking. Actually Shanila cooked, I just gave hands.

The food was actually way better than we expected !! Niam niam !!

Chinese fried rice

Sweet and sour prawn

The picnic was great too.. here are some pics from there !
http://picasaweb.google.com/gagan.shanila/PicnicTurkansaari/

Home sweet home

2008-06-18T19:55:00.003+03:00

It's a great thing to get home and jump into food. Today I came home and wow, some great food was ready on the table.

Shanila made some fried Chinese rice, chicken grill, "khicuri" and egg vuna.

I felt like coming home :)
Home, sweet home

First invitation

2008-06-17T23:26:00.008+03:00

Sandun and Chamari, the great young Srilankan family here, invited us for the dinner... great second night it was here !!

Started with snacks..mmm...

then "woooo" dinner...
salad, coconut potato rice and chicken !!
(I couldnt almost breathe afterwards, ate so much )

hehehe
hahaha
eheheh
everyone smiling

Oh, I forgot to mention again, Chamari is expecting a baby in 1.5 months

We have chatted for long. Had fun with similarities with languages..
example:

Shanila: What's that fruit in English ? Tal ??
Sandun: ow..taal..taal
Gagan: Ow, u call it taal too hahaha

Well may be its not that funny to read, but it was fun for us.

And ohhhh... they gave us a superb gift, totally unexpected !!

A nice glass set

Sandun, Chamari... hi5
It was a great night !
Thaaaaaaaaaaaank u :)

Gagan & Shanila

First day

2008-06-15T23:00:00.001+03:00

Our first day was at Helsinki...
There was some concert and to my greatest surprise there was no seat in the first two morning trains (quite rare for Finland, but looks like it was a very popular concert), so we had 3 hours to roam around the city

I think the statue moved its head to look at us ;)
So Shanila got afriad and ran away (to take a pic)...
Joking !!

Checking around
A nice cafe (Closed, but looks like Shanila is waiting for her orders :D)

A nice architecture

:)

We asked some one to take a picture of us together

We watched the trains coming and going from there
(off, I was panting... had to run down fast after pressing the 10 seconds timer button)

Posing for a shot

She was enjoying

We have walked around, taken lots of pictures, videos, lets not post all of them here...
Footstep on Finnish streets !

Finally inside a train to Oulu.
I think it was better that we could not get seats in the first train :)

We r at helsinki

2008-06-15T09:09:00.001+03:00

Jumbo tuna sandwitch, coffee n helsinki :) we r here together.
- Taken at 9:04 AM on June 15, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu

Last hour of waiting

2008-06-14T22:04:00.001+03:00

It's 10.01. BA is expected to land at 11.05. My last hour of waiting :)
- Taken at 9:58 PM on June 14, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu

Its raining

2008-06-14T21:07:00.001+03:00

Raining here!Quite much actually. Waiting in the bus stop near xia's place at helsinki.
- Taken at 9:02 PM on June 14, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu

Arrived at helsinki

2008-06-14T18:36:00.002+03:00

I have just arrived at helsinki.N got a call from shanila.She had arrived at heathrow safe n sound
- Taken at 5:32 PM on June 14, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu

Welcome to my "Nest"

2008-06-14T16:13:00.008+03:00

I was feeling like a male bird... making the nest...bringing small things at home... preparing to invite the female bird to the nest !!

Here are some surprises! I believe she is not gonna read this blog before she arrives our nest..and dont you tell her too earlier ;)

Preparation on going....

Home key!! She needs to unwrap it, open the door,
cut a ribbon with a scissor (not in pic) to enter

Hidden gift 1

Hidden gift 2

Hidden gift 3

Hidden gift 4

Hidden gift 5

Hidden gift 6 ( the easiest to find, its in the freeze)

Hidden gift 7 (A box with "!" sign on all sides... Not so easy to find)

It was fun to prepare them :)
Excitedly waiting to know how long she takes to actually find all of them!

Still in train to Helsinki
Oulu time 16:30

Going to meet her

2008-06-14T11:09:00.003+03:00

Today I smsed Shanila "C ya"...
It has been a loooooooooooooooong time we havent said that to each other.
Yes, I am gonna see her !!
In few hours :)

In the train...
Summer outside !!
People taking icecream :)

From the train to Helsinki
Oulu 11:15

Off she goes, here she comes

2008-06-14T01:42:00.004+03:00

It's time for Shanila to cross over 6300 Km !!
She has just left her home for ZIA airport, Dhaka!

Destination:
Oulu (Finland)

Latitude : 65° 01' north
Longitude : 28° 28' east

Start point:

Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Latitude : 23° 51' north
Longitude : 90° 24' east

Distance : 3 920 Miles
Azimuth : 333 Degrees

Have a safe trip Shanila !! Very safe !!

Here we are!!

2008-06-11T01:01:00.001+03:00

Here we go...

Count down 3...
3 more days only !
And after that we are going to be together after a long tiresome story! We are not gonna go through those, rather we are now going to dream about what's next !!

It's a bit windy today... and wet cloudy weather !! My favorite !! While writing here I can even smell the fresh wonderful breeze coming through my window...bringing me wonderful memories...inspirations to live forward... together...

We started with the fanciest ceremonies ever, better than dreams...
That was only the beginning of a true story we are going to write...
We cannot promise about how it will be, but we hope to make it an interesting one...
We are gonna try...at least that's the plan :)

Yliopistokatu
Oulu, Finland