A glimpse of Helsinki: Winter Day!

It was a rather last minute decision to join in the Winter Day celebrations.. but it was certainly an interesting experience! =) You'll realise first of all that we are all wearing overalls! Every department/faculty has their own overalls.. and the guild of Industrial Engineering and Management (the one i belong to) is called Prodeko.. we have White overalls with Rainbows on it haha..

The celebrations started with us forming teams and going around stations to play winter games =)

See the difference between our super white new overalls and the overalls of this Lao Jiao guy? haha.. He has badges to show for the many events he has participated in..

Our Rainbow ones are so much nicer than the Yellow ones in the background =)

Crossing from 1 place to another on.. well.. beer crates!

The game of "see-how-much-snow-u-can-stuff-in-your-friend's-long-johns"!

Snow Rugby =)

Move the whole team down the slope on a sleigh =)

I was Pei Joo's Reindeer.. coming back up the slope to pick up the rest!

Extra points if we form a human pyramid!

Snow Tao Pok =)

My first try at Ice-Hockey.. was disastrous!

Team Rainbow's creative square snowman =) .. look he has a beer in his right hand.. extra points!

After the games we had dinner and then we went for Sauna! Sorry no pictures.. Coz first of all.. i dun wanna spoil my camera.. 2nd even if i brought it i will be enjoying myself too much to remember to take pics.. and lastly.. coz its a mixed (guys and girls together!) sauna where everyone was totally naked! Almost all.. coz we singaporeans a bit shy.. we were wearing our swimming attire.. But it was a good sweat nonetheless.. haven't sweat for more than 2 weeks. =)

The After-party at Smokki (just 100 metres from my apartment).. The band came on a while after we arrived and played some Finnish and English songs.. the music was pretty good.. but the singing was terrible =)

Wei Sing, Ri Hao and I decided to stay on longer than Pei Joo and Shu Shan.. to make the most of the 2 Euro entrance fee. But then some techno trance kinda music came on.. (Wei Sing is a closet Ah Lian who likes trance haha).. and we were danced for a while before deciding to leave coz we had class at 10 the next morning....

But on our way out.. 2 random things happened..
1) A random guy came to talk to us.. (he was obviously high).. He asked us the same question a few times coz he cant remember he asked.. But he did apologise.. saying "I'm sorry.. u know Finns like to get drunk rite? hahaha" ...

2) At 12 midnight.. this RANDOM MARCHING BAND just walked in and played terrible music.. everyone stopped what they were doing.. the music stopped.. and everyone just watched them..
A few mins later (and after a few songs where people danced around)... they played the Teekkari Hymn.. Everyone joined in to sing.. It was in a strange way.. a wonderful show of how proud they were to be a Teekkari (a Technology Student) =)