September 22, 2012

wak up and smell the coffee

something that always freaks people out is when i explain that instead of drinking coffee, which is a perfectly acceptable way to wake yourself up, i pop caffein pills. this is more so with foreigners that never heard of caffein pills, in finland they are common knowledge. the idea of a "pill" just associates to drugs and medicine pretty strongly. ive taught myself slowly to enjoy coffee with milk and sweetener, but a true coffee person would call it a sweet milk drink tainted with coffee. either way, im not going to bother making coffee, waiting for it to cool down and drink it in order to get my fix. the wonderful thing about it is that is has a placebo effect sometimes! like, i am tired and fatigued, but just taking the caffein pill energizes me, because i suppose i then already look forward to 'waking up'. 100mg/one cup of coffee doesnt have that strong of an effect on a person who is used to caffein on daily basis anyway, so the added placebo effect is very welcome.

for a couple days now its been around 18-19C here and the air is chilly, almost brisk. fall is coming. BUT the weather forecast says it will go up to 28C for next week again which is very nice as miss R is coming!! woohoo! friends! party! finnishness!

once again i find myself thinking, wow, im making so much notes of the weather, i really must be old!!

last night i was out with people from the office.we had a good time and found ourselves at a big private event, someone had a contact there. theyd paid the restaurant for 200 people but only 100 came - so we were welcome to abuse the free drinks/food menu. while watching the exotic belly dancers.



















walking down to Karaköy.





















a guy sitting on the steps of istiklal street's tram doorway.  closing the doors of moving vehicles is for fools?

















near Taksim square last night 







ive been looking out for some kind of VPN or proxy software or similar to help my life, the amount of sites banned in turkey is just growing and the workarounds are tiring. im currently testing Astrill, it seems very pro and yet easy.

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