The Chronicles of Croatia: Combined Chapters

Here I tell you about my trip to Croatia, as recorded by me during my holiday, alas I have been forced to post this to The Reilu Kerho almost 3 days after I came back to Finland, since I had no available interwebsings there. Nevertheless, enjoy my ramblings.

Chapter 42
(Whatever happened to the other 41)

This being the first chapter of “The chronicles of Croatia”, you wouldn’t expect me to start with Chapter 42, but with 42 being my favorite number it seemed like a good starting point. I shall just pass the other 41 chapters as having gotten inadvertently lost in the warp while wondering to the fridge for some sandwiches.

Now that’s been cleared up, its time to move on to the actual content of this transmission. I’m currently on holiday in Croatia, in a small costal town called Rovinj, It’s a very nice place to which the sea is always close by, creating many beautiful sights. There is a very close-knit center of the town, built around a large monastery / cathedral on top of a large hill. There is also the Limski fjord, which is pretty sweet. “Good food, fine wine”, as they say. I have to confess to having had excellent food during my stay here, and as it has also been cheap, I’ve had lots of it.

Our dwelling, and the great view from there.


The local beach scene.

Today we visited the nearby town of Porec, if only to revitalize some old memories. (We spent a week there 6 years ago). Still a very cool place, it seems. We had dinner and then went for a stroll around town.

Cake, nuff said.

It's people!

Ye most wicked chess board ever.

“Nevermind the noodle mooch, here come the “Epic Ice cream Wars!!!” Yes, you heard me, Epic Ice cream Wars… This wasn’t an all-out war as per say, but more of an aggressive feud over customers by two Ice cream-parlors, right across a narrow street from each other. Nothing here had changed in 6 years. The shouting and Ice cream juggling went on for hours, resulting in hilarity. I’ve got a few videos of this.

"Ice Cream man" in a bowlthing.

More Ice cream.

An Ice cream stall.

Ice cream juggling, FTW!!!

Other notable things were the T-shirts, sold by some small one-man shops, with some rather funny slogans: “665 – Neighbour of the Beast” and “One Tequila, Two Tequila, Three Tequila, Floor” and the fairground I visited just before we left.

I found this fairground a pleasant end to the day.

Chapter 69

Hello, and welcome once again to “The chronicles of Croatia”, this time as I tell you about my last day in Rovinj. In a mix of feelings I set off into the last day, taking a 7 hour boat trip with my family, which as we expected, was great fun.

The cathedral on the hill in the middle of Rovinj...

And the numerous mediterranean houses surrounding it.

The actual town.

The boat first circled around a plethora of islands taking on all the passengers from all the various hotels and app / camping areas lining them; before setting off towards Lim Fjord, which in itself is wrongly named as Croatia doesn’t actually have fjords, unlike Norway, and so was more of a gorge. There we had lunch.

After a delicious meal onboard the ship, many people went swimming, jumping off of the side of the ship, and even from the second floor of it, almost 3 meters high. I, on the other hand had had quite a lot to eat, (12 mussels and 3.5 hamburgers), and I opted to stay on the ship and rest for awhile.

He's flying!

Or not...

Shploooosh!

When we set off again, we were treated to a good bout of musicising (not sure if that is even a word) and yodelling. Many people took to some light drinking, but after half a glass of wine and my second sip of schnapps, I decided I’d better stop. ^^

The "schnapps" or as known in Croatia, "grappa".



Yodelling...

At around 9pm we went to Rovinj itself to have dinner, came across a "yacht de la fucking huge" (please excuse my French), and saw a master spray-artist doing some brilliant space themed paintings. We found our restaurant, one at which we had dined before, and I spotted the most hilarious name for a bar that I had ever seen, Caffe Bar "Molo Grande" Now, most people would fail to find this funny in any way, but since in Finnish “molo” is a slang word for a penis, and grande is… well, you catch my drift.

Caffe Bar "Molo Grande". XD

Now thats what I call a yacht.

As a finale we saw a one-man band. Some dude had strapped a bass drum to a backpack rig so that every time that he kicked forward, the bass drum made a sound. To this he added a number of bells and horns on his other foot, a small amplifier on the top of the rig, to play a simple tune, a guitar in his hands, and a harmonica fixed close to his mouth on a metal holder. Unfortunately my camera died right before we saw this spectacle, and I couldn't take pictures.

This concludes the last episode in my two-part trilogy of “The chronicles of Croatia”; as for the location of the missing 27 chapters between 42 and 69, I haven’t the foggiest.

--Cheesemeister-- <(^^,)>

Diablo 3 Announced!

This Saturday Diablo III was announced at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational! I don't remember when previously I have been so excited about an upcoming game. After reading all there was to be read on it, and having watched the 20 minute gameplay video, I am convinced it will have none of the shortfalls I had been fearing from a possible Diablo sequel.

The game is now in superb 3d graphics with fully interactive and still randomly generated enviroments, as well as a proper physics engine. I am very happy to say that the game is still from the tradition camera angle, and looks just as playable as before. The enviroments also look pleasingly gloomy and the monsters better than ever. Graphics wise I couldn't have hoped for anything better.

The interface and gameplay are fairly familiar, something which I think is a very good thing. Staying with tried and true methods of gameplay is often frowned upon these days when the market it stiffled with poorly made clones of once succesful formats; for example the World of Warcraft rip offs the world of MMO's is full of. I however, love the game play of the Diablo series, and though I have searched, no rip off has pleased me. Blizzard have of course made numerous improvements, but the game is at its heart still Diablo.

As far as characters go, only two out of five have been revealed, the traditional barbarian and the new witch doctor. Neither of them are especially to my taste, but the barbarian I must admit looks cooler than ever. All the classes can be either male or female, and I understand the appearance of armour has been modelled specifically for each class.

As of yet, there is no release date, but apparently the game has already been four years in developement, with still some time to go. Nevertheless I am very excited. Now, in addition to Empire: Total War, I have another game to look forward to.

Be awed at the official Diablo 3 website.

Pyry's Playlist: Melodic Screams

Here goes my playlist.




Messed with Gimp :D


1. Van Halen - Eruption
This is propably the strangest song in my playlist. Its a kickass guitar solo by Eddie Van Halen. The whole point of this song is that it shows what to expect - electric guitar. The only thing that's same for all the songs.

2. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
I wanted to have many different songs in my playlist. I really like this song and I'm sure its very different than all the others.

3. Spiderbait - Black Betty
One of the best songs ever. Thanks for Sak for founding this one.

4. Rage Against The Machine - Bulls on The Parade
I really like the hip-hop attitude but I usually can't stand rap music. RATM does hip-hop mixed with rock and they rule!

5. System of a Down - Tentative
Nothing to say here. You all know I'm a big fan of SOAD and this is probably their best song ever. I just love to sing this song.

6. Tool - Aenima
Tool is a great band and I wanted to have at least one progressive song in the list. Great band, great song!

7. Rush - YYZ
Another quite progressive song here. The only instrumental in the playlist. YYZ is my favourite Rush no doubt.

8. Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man
Maiden is one of the favourite bands of mine so I really had to include at least one of their songs. I have alvays liked this song after I heard it at Sakari's a couple of years ago.

9. Dio - The Last in Line
Dio is a god! All hail!

10. Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
No need to say a single word. Its Zeppelin goddammit!

11. AC/DC - Who Made Who
This was a tough one. It was hard to choose one tasavirta-vaihtovirta song but in the end this song got here and The Razor's Edge didn't.

12. Dragonforce - Operation Ground and Pound
EPIC! They really know how to play the guitar! And this playlist is all about guitar I suppose.

13. Megadeth - Peace Sells
This was the last song I added to the list. I chose it because Metallica didn't have a song short. Thanks to this song my playlist is 79 min 45 s.

14. Queen - Innuendo
Bohemian Rhapsody is their best song butu thi is close second. Rhapsody didn't make it to the list because everyone has heard it a hundread times.

15. Helloween - The King for a 1000 Years
The best song ever made. By the most underrated band - Helloween.


I finally did it.

Next Work Shifts

Week 25 (16.-22. June)
Monday 15-20
Tuesday 15-20
Wednesday 11-15
Thursday 11-17
Friday FREEE
Saturday FREEE
Sunday FREEE

Week 26 (23.-29. June)
Monday 11-17
Tuesday 14-18
Wednesday FREEE
Thursday 8.30-14
Friday FREEE
Saturday FREEE
Sunday FREEE

Week 27 (30. June - 6. July)
Monday 8.30-13
Tuesday FREEE
Thursday FREEE
Wednesday 17-22
Friday FREEE
Saturday FREEE
Sunday FREEE

Big Fish

I caught this during my visit to my Grandparent's house.





It's a pike.

As seen at: Jonttu's Blog.

Legend: EPIC UNFAIL

Olli writing because he forgot his account's password:
Pyry and Tony had a really epic Magic game today. Pyry made a new record with his awesome combo deck and created 46 4/4 Cat Beast tokens with haste in a single turn with 3 Hunting Packs. In response to this, Tony played Echoing Decay (Target creature and all other creatures with the same name get -2/-2) and Cleansing Beam (2 damage to creature and each creature with same colour). Pyry would have done 184 damage to Tony but actually Tony did 184 damage to Pyry's creatures. Epic win for both of them.

Full account of painting night coming later once I go home and get some sleep.

P.S. We played a multiplayer game (Suspend deck, big mana cost deck, artifact deck) where Pyry's timesifter made 13 consecutive turns for Olli and Pyry without Tony getting a single turn. Olli had 4 or 5 turns coming up when he died. It was the most insane game ever, even more insane than the game with Tony and Pyry.

Painting Night 7.6.!

As many of you know I am helding a painting night on 7. June. My place at 19.00 sounds like a good time for me. Remember to take your own food & drinks and take a lot of unpainted minis of course. And taking own paints is good of course as I don't have all the paints you need and we will have quite a rush for all the most commonly used colours.

I have already asked Tony, Olli and Scott and 7.6. is good for them. Jonttu you are free to come if you wish.

p.s. Take your BRUSHES!!!

Thoughts of McDonald's

I just had my first shift and I my legs feel like shit. Total of 6 hours of running around every second and standing still like once an hour. The good piece of news is that I don't have to do physical excercise this summer! But the bad news is that one of us vomited because he hadn't eaten anything today. So it was generally a bad day.

Even though my first day doesn't sound any good I had a good time. Time goes by really fast because I am always doing something. And I get payed very well. Today I got more money than I earn in a month! And that's just one day!

Now that I got a job I am happy to have the money to do my mounted goblin army and my parents can't whine at me for sitting in front of PC all day ;)

Work shifts here we come...

Week 23 (2.-8. June)
Monday 14-20
Tuesday 14-20
Wednesday 14-20
Thursday 15-19
Friday FREEE
Saturday 10.30-15
Sunday FREEE

Week 24 (9.-15. June)
Monday FREEE
Tuesday FREEE
Wednesday 8.30-13
Thursday 16-22
Friday 16-21
Saturday 10.30-15
Sunday FREEE

ps. Olli Rock Hard, Ride Free is a song by Priest if that was what you meant. And I watched the video btw and it was quite sweet.