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Korea adventure – day #16 & 30: Korean movie night

Week 31
Suwon, Korea

Oh my!
Oh my!

I am very delayed on my postings.
Time passes so QUICKLY!
After this attempt to blog my time in Korea, I stress my respect for those who blog daily. It is NOT an easy task. Anyway, let’s start to catch up somehow.

One of the main activities that took most of my time while I have been in here is polishing my lectures, lecturing and grading. I post about this main activity will come, as I am very proud of my students. Other pursuit in this time has been to catch up with some writing, in which as we know I am “slow” but advancing 🙂 Thus, most of the korean events reported in here, are mainly the social-discovery happenings.

During the summer school we have two movie nights at the video conference room of the Yulgok Hall. In each one of the movie sessions we were so spoiled with snacks and drinks.

snacks and beverage for the movie

sitting arrangement

The movie on July 16^th : The thieves.

This film is good! Now that I am exposed a little bit to the region, I think I enjoy the movie even more. It is an action movie and the story has interesting twists. Here the trailer to make you craving:

The movie on July 30^th : The Berlin File

This movie has a complex however interesting storyline. However if one does not follow carefully what is happening one can get lost easily. On the other hand if you follow the storyline, the movie is keeps you constantly wondering. It is also an action movie with a lot of shooting. Yeap, this film confirms that I did not born to be a double agent! Here trailer:

Summarising:
Watch out for Korean films because they are good!

changes…..

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much is happening and it has not been time to write.

I will actualize in the next post later next week.

However for the moment I should inform that my university email is having some troubles.

Due to this, if you cannot reach me at the UEF account, please use my alternative email.

More soon!

working and enjoying in Finland

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Week 50
Joensuu, Finland

This is a post dedicated to our dear friend Marcus, who has inspired us to enjoy life at its maximum 😉

Let me explain. Often people that care about me tells me that I should relax. The comment arises because most of my time I dedicate it to work. Nevertheless, I should confess that I have been lucky because what I do is what I like to do! The only BUT is to find a proper mechanism to be paid constantly for what I do 😉 that is work in process!!

In October 19^th while being at a summer cottage with my dear friend Kirsi, we were commenting about this: there is not one way to live life, and it is hard to find your own way. So, advices and suggestions are always welcome!. Marcus has encouraged us to enjoy more 😉 as both of us are perceived as kind of workaholic. Actually, it is common that we get together to enjoy time and work. So, this time we decided to document some of our hard work lives and share it.

1) First we need to drive some kms until reach out cozy summer cottage. Once there we discover there are still FLOWERS!!!!

Flowers in late autumn

2. Harvest some bio and unique carrots!

I confess this activity was new for me, and I did not help THAT much, however I did enjoy 🙂

Harvesting 1/3

Harvesting 2/3

Harvesting 3/3

3. After harvesting, one has to clean the carrots from all the dirt

washing

4. Then prepare the carrots for WINTER. This work is done indoors by pealing and cutting the carrots.

preparing for winter

5. Ready to get into the freezer

ready to go to the freezer

6. Maybe I am not dress in proper office dress code, but in a cozy environment one gets ideas to do some writing…..

some writing as well

7. After so much hard work, SAUNA!!!!!!! 🙂

This part of Finnish culture is from my favorites! 🙂

sauna

8. After sauna, fireplace 🙂

fireplace

9. Before the day is over, a toast for our friend!

toast for our friend

It is an ART to balance work and pleasure, specially in this modern “knowledge society”, but the day was productive, we got food, enjoy nature, and start and finish and abstract, in addition to actualize ourselves…..So it was not difficult to have sweet dreams and see a new sunrise (ok, the sunrise below does not look as sunrise but it is a new morning on this trip!) 🙂

next day….

However, I confess I am in the process to balance work and pleasure. Maybe, lately the relax part is expanding! 🙂 Perhaps the secret is in discipline and small production batches!

In any case, thank you for my harvesting teacher and our inspiration for this post Marcus 😉

Next post about: games and coincidences…

my game experience with: rüsselbande

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Week 48
Joensuu, Finland

Since long my internal voice tells me: write in your blog about the games you play.

Ok, the idea is cool! Specially because the games one plays as the books one reads and the people one interacts with are part of one’s experience. All sums up!

However in order to write about games the follow up question is: how or what shall I write about games? There are plenty of games reviews out there, from commercial and academic perspective. In addition, from my personal viewpoint:

Each individual has a personal game experience.
Each time I play a game, my game experience changes due to multiple factors. For example: my level of tiredness or energy, the time at what I am playing, the ideas and things that are in my head, the people I play with, how is the day, the meanings surrounding me while playing, and the list continues….

As this is MY BLOG, and I decided it is my virtual reference point, what I want is actually a digital memory of bits and pieces of my game experience 🙂

Hence, the first game I want to write about is rüsselbande. I played this game this year in late October with my niece and sister. I had a good time and right now I want to play it again.

What I find fantastic of rüsselbande’s game mechanics is: it is fun for a four years old as it is for a 45 years old. Good design Alex Randolph!

Here some photos to make you craving to play it as well!

game rüsselbande

ready to start

the pig race is tight

a free ride for three of us

blue is getting behind

advancing

the end is very tight!

actually the blue, which was me, did it ok at the end! 🙂 Looking forward to play this game again 🙂

Next post: working and enjoying Finland….

playing entrepreneurship

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Week 46
Joensuu, Finland

This post was mainly written after I met Peter Harrington at the vs-games conference. I admit that time pass by FASTER than my ability to accomplish the things I want to finalise during my 24hrs of life that I have each day. Nevertheless, I keep on crossing out items on my constant growing TO DO list. Slowly but surely. 🙂

I met Peter because he sat on a strategic spot, according to my opinion, at the social event of vs-games. Later, I was fortunate to share the dinner table with him and have a quality conversation! Peter is the director of SimVenture. He is an entrepreneur himself, with decades of experience. So, I was eagerly hearing all what he was sharing to me, and being honest. I was also asking and talking (part of my nature 🙂 ) . It was an enlightening evening!

The advices I listen often from people with life experience, as Peter or Christian, are full of common sense: focus, build trust, establish discipline. These three characteristics that entrepreneurs should acquire, and imho, could apply equally to individuals in research and academia.

Now I can play SimVenture and publish this post. The simulation is a bit challenging I must say, but so the real life stuff.

To published this post took me longer than expected because I wanted to play the game before posting. At the moment SimVenture is for windows machines. Hence, before to make the necessary arrangements to run the game on a MacBook I decide to update my machine. Ohhhhh! that was a WRONG decision. Apple Inc. is not making my life easier……

playing SimVenture

next I will write about my frustrations generated by Apple Inc.

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