超多…慢慢看! 对!他有给照片~想看的和我说 ---------------- Terve to all my friends in Taiwan!!! (Terve = Hello in Finnish) It’s been exactly one week since I arrived in Finland and exactly two weeks since I left Taiwan. I can’t just believe how quickly time passes! All I can say is that I miss Taiwan – especially all you people who made my life there more colourful and meaningul! I believe I’ve managed to form strong friendships while I was in Taiwan and I sincerely hope those relationships will never end! After leaving from Taiwan I landed in Thailand, Bangkok. I had a nice welcoming company there with a professional girl worker who I met on a bus from airport to Kaohsan road. She was specialised in making acquaintances with lonely male travellers. Because I want to believe that everyone’s a nice person I thought she was just a regular Thai girl who’s just interested to practice her English or learn about other cultures. She helped me to find my Finnish friend Kata in Bangkok and eventually, seeing my escort being extremely bored in a bigger group I politely said to her that perhaps it would be better if she went on her own way because I was planning to spend the whole evening with my friends and go to bed early. She agreed, said bye and disappeared in the crowd in a flash of an eye. Later on I heard from Kata that she hasn’t always been a woman… Yes, my first evening in Bangkok taught me that the most beautiful girls in Thailand aren’t necessary even girls nor do they have any innocent plans for you… Regardless of my ‘warm’ welcome party I soon found out that Bangkok is actually an extremely hot, big, dirty, noisy, crowdy and sometimes smelly city with heavy traffic and loads of pollution. Compared to this, Taipei was a cozy place to live. The only positive side compared to Taipei was the fact that it wasn’t as humid city. Even though, the sun was burning hot making your skin feel like oven baked, it didn’t necessarily make you sweat like a pig as it did in Taipei after walking 1-3 meters from the front door :D Oh, the Thai food from street vendors was also very tasty in a spicy way, which I enjoyed. Out of total 7 days we spent almost 4 days in Bangkok. We had the chance to eat a lot of Thai food, see Thai boxing fights, visit the Grand Palace, do shopping in a big weekend market, take a ride with a Tuk Tuk –taxibike, eat a fried bug and enjoy a relaxing-painful Thai massage for 2 hours! Kata also had acquaintances in Bangkok with whom we stayed two nights. The other friend was part of a wealthy family and their house was huge with a nicely decorated garden with a swimming pool. We took a morning swim in the swimming pool where the water must’ve been around 30 Celcius – warm, warm, warm!!! From Bangkok we took a 4 hour minibus ride to South-East to a small coastal city where we jumped on a ferry and headed for the Kho Samed island for our 3 day beach holiday. This was my first time ever to experience a beach holiday on an island so can’t really compare it to anything else. I’d say the beach was pretty similar with Kenting regarding the sand and the crystal clear water. Weather was also burning hot on one day – I even got burned!!! - and on the other day it was rainy and cloudy, but cooler. Both had it’s pros and cons but coming from snowy Finland, I prefer the sun ;P It wasn’t clearly the best season for travelling because there weren’t that many tourists. But in the beach, bungalow and restaurant area it seemed to me that there were still more Westerners on the island than local people. Most travellers were alone or in a group of friends. Not many families there. Even in there and that time you were able to see elder tourist male with 1-5 younger Thai girls surrounding them. A sight that most likely will never disappear from the country… We were tight on budget so we couldn’t really do all those (expensive) activities like boat ride around the island, renting a motorcycle, doing scuba diving or riding a jet ski that were offered. Instead we focused on sun bathing and swimming and when the rainy day came we enjoyed watching DVD movies that were still playing in cinema. For some weird reasons the subtitles weren’t always exactly what the actors said… ;D And alcohol was extremely cheap there (though I never tasted a drop) and my friend got the chance to prove how tough drinkers Finnish women are! She and a British guy got a bucket of some cheap whisky (about 0,5-0,75 l) and competed who can drink the most in one time sipping the whisky through straws. She won the first round (one bucket with 3 drinkers) and the second round was a tie. The next day she didn’t feel that good… ;P So that was Thailand for me. And for Finland it started at 7.00am on Saturday morning. The flight was 10h and around half of the time I was sleeping and the other watching movie, reading book or magazine or just sitting and praying for the time to pass more quickly. Eventually my plane landed and seeing my girlfriend again after a long, long time (felt like forever) I truly felt like being back in Finland, although just the thought of it seemed to be impossible. Actually seeing those Finns on a fully booked plane and the typical forest landscape that I saw through the airplane window when we were landing made me realize that it really had to be Finland where I was going. But I was lucky (or the sun just keeps following me) because starting on the day when I arrived the weather in Finland began to be hot and extremely summery which meant 23 – 27 Celsius degrees for us – it’s hot for us, believe it! And it’s been like that since then. The tan that I got in Thailand seems to be only improved in here. Well, maybe because I’m having a whole month for holiday and my girlfriend likes to take sun bath, we easily end up in the beach or to a park just to hang around and get some sun tan ;P Besides, my girlfriend I missed my family, the beautiful Finnish summer, swimming in the sea after sauna, clear blue sky, rye bread, potatoes, fresh vegetables, my friends and all my typical activities especially related to my sport hobbies eg. kung-fu acrobatics ;D All of these I’ve had the chance to get used to again. On the other hand I didn’t miss at all seeing drunken Finns in the middle of the day wobbling down the streets with half empty beer bottle and yelling and screaming all kinds of good and bad things that came in their minds. I also didn’t miss some of the youth cultures here which meant dressing in an aggressive or provocative way together with their attitude and spending most of the time just hanging around in the city centre doing nothing. Going to the beach in here, especially in Helsinki, doesn’t necessary mean that you go there to enjoy the warm weather, astonishing landscape or to have quality time with the people you love but instead just to show to everyone else that you’re worthy of being there – in a superficial way. It’s a known rule in Finland that you work out during the spring to get in to a “summer fit” which means that if you’re able to do it, you can feel satisfied in yourself when being seen in a beach in Helsinki. And of course lots of people think like this and having a sun tan is part of this “satisfactory feeling”, the beaches are filled with people who just lie on their towels to get some sun. And some people never learn that white skin gets burned easily so there’s also people who don’t get tanned but instead burned on their face, back or whole body with a bright red colour ;P We also had the chance to visit my girlfriend’s family’s summer house on an island in the South-West coast of Finland. The attached picture was taken from there. The area represents typical Finnish coastal scenery with lots of trees, water (sea in this case), tiny islands and a clear blue zero-polluted sky. Although, the water in the Baltic Sea is grey in colour and non-transparent it’s still less salty as the Pacific Ocean and very clean. It ’s typical for Finns to build their saunas next to the water so that after a hot sauna they can run butt naked through the pier and jump in to the sea. Same thing applies also in the winter, even though it’s so cold that the water is frozen. We just make a bigger whole in the ice and then jump to 1 – 3 Celcius degree water :D In addition to sauna and swimming we also used their boat to go around the coastal area and I even tried water skiing for the first time in my life. I have to admit that it was challenging but fortunately I was able to water ski for few hundred meters before I fell down, again... Next time I’ll be much better, I promise :D There’s still lots of things that I need to do in here before I truly feel like belonging here. First of all there’s plenty of people I’d like to see but as people are having their summer jobs and I’m “free” for the whole July, it’s difficult to get our schedules to match for a reunion. I’m also waiting for an answer from my previous employer Accenture, whether I could start work again in August. Regarding my studies, I truly hope that I have only my Master’s Thesis to work on. That I will know after I get my course results from NCCU. Hopefully I can find a mutual agreement with Accenture so that I could do the thesis for them. That would solve million and one of my current problems :P But my passion at the moment is to create an Action Enterntainment industry in Finland that would include movies, stage shows, sports, hobbies, life-style and anything else that would need some spicing up. But that too is just a part in my big picture plan that may or may not come true. All I know that as long as my heart keeps pumping and my happy memories living, I can keep on moving forward always looking up no matter what future brings along. I’ve already taken the first step in my life when I was born so why stop it here? We’re here to live our life to the fullest! Thanks to you, I can say that my Taiwan X-perience was the BEST time in my life!!! Godspeed to you in everything! With Best Regards, Tung Ps. Below are my contact information. Please, feel free to contact whenever you feel like it. And if you ever happen to stop by in Finland, I’d be happy to be your host or at least accompany you in part of your visit. Tung Bui www.tungbui.com e-mail: [email protected] Phone: +358 41 4594 392 Current location: Helsinki, Finland - Coordinator of the X-On Stunt Team - Member of the Board of Finnish Parkour Association / Suomen Parkour ry - Member of the Board of Ky-Liitokiekko / Ky-Ultimate MSN: [email protected] Skype: tungbui IRC-galleria: TUng IRC: #parkour.fi, #parkour, #kungfu, #stunts actor, stunt, model, martial artist, fight choreographer, extreme sports -- ☆═══╮╔═☆╔╗╔═══╮╔═══☆ ║ ═ ║║ ╰╯║║☆ ═ ║║ ═╣ ║ ╔═╯║ ║║ ╔╮╯║ ═╣ ╚═☆ ╰☆══╯╚═☆╚╝╚═☆═╝ＤＥＶＩＬ --

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