Cloudbusting 143

Couple of weeks ago I was on a bus stop. I ride a bus 4 days a week, nothing new there. All of a sudden 5 busses storm in to the platform and my bus is the last one far away from the platform. There is 2 choices: run there before bus speeds away or wait. I limped at that time so I decided to wait. I put my hand up and the bus seems to go pass me but then it dives back. All the time I´m mouthing F**K F**K F**K STOP, which is normal procedure in this situation. Then the busdriver keeps the door shut and I mouth F**K F**K OPEN, which is normal. Finally he opens the door and I go in without looking at the driver as I usually do. When I´m at my seat the busdriver, from southern Europe I presume, starts to shout at me: YOU SAY F**K, ME SEE YOU. YOU ANGRY, YOU SAY F**K, YOU LAZY, YOU CRAZY! This goes on and on and he doesn´t start to drive. All the passengers stay silent as they probably know that he is crazy by
now. I go to him and say: I look angry most of the time, so do you want to kick me out or what? Then he looks away and starts to drive at furious speed and I have to limp back to my seat and try not to fall to floor.

I´m not a racist but some of the actions of foreigners are so strange. Their body language suggests that someone has just burned their village or something (might have actually happened before he came here) while there really is nothing going on. Finnish body language is quite restricted and if somebody starts to shout then there must be a real problem. Maybe they just want drama as they are not so used to so much silence and polite traffic that is so usual here. If I mouth something to myself does it really justify endless full stark raving mad rant? I know that all passengers want to stay silent as they are just happy that somebody drives the friggin bus in the first place. There is not enough drivers because of small wages, so anybody will do, even loonies.

This is the stop where I had to get off to cool down. Of course there was some mildly intriguing clouds too. I see the same driver sometimes, but I try to look the other way. I hope I don´t see him tomorrow.

Cloudbusting 142

Summer is about swimming in the sea
not for me
but those who are brave enough
There is a long pier
for invisible swimmers
of the cold waters

Oh, wait, I did swim in the sea 3 times
but those were just brief visits
after sauna

Cloudbusting 141

Sometimes I see amazing stuff up there
where not many people bother to look
I walk around and see other people
drifting around there
observing the poops of their dogs
gazing their shoes
thinking about the days in the office
hoping to find the meaning of life from inside themselves
whatever
I want to say to them:
"look up there
I can show you something you probably see only once in your lifetime!"
but I never do
because that would be like acting crazy in public
right?

I´m sorry to my 7 lovely daily readers that I rehashed this scene from monday. I just had to do it for SWF.

Cloudbusting 140

Funny
I never considered myself the kinda guy who writes poems
for real
but I can´t help it
they just keep on coming
as I feel inspired almost every day
and why shouldn´t I be?
there is so much to be inspired by
every day

Cloudbusting 139

smell of fallen apples
in the clear cold august evening
sounds of the party
red wine in the glasses
smoking in the backyard
by the path of candles and lanterns
philosophy of living
slightly drunken slur
watching shooting stars and aeroplanes
passing by in the fading light
remembering all the years
between early middle-age and childhood
all those who are not among us anymore
gone to other places
where they had to go
while we stayed

Cloudbusting 138 + Leppävaara tower

If you are a sucker for reflections then here is something for you to suck. Leppävaara tower is 68 meters high and has 21 storeys. It has appeared in previous posts and will probably do so many other times too as I see it almost every day.

How I´m going to follow yesterdays mammatus-pic? It will be a disappointment anyway, I can´t make it much more spectacular than that. Have I peaked at cloudbusting 137? I don´t like to think so.

Cloudbusting 137

24.8.2008, 8:54 am, Mammatus clouds

I finally catched them, one of the most uncommon clouds. It usually appears before a strong storm and as a part of some other cloud, like cumulonimbus etc. Now it was on the edge of a large nimbostratus cloud and it rained almost all day after that. I could say that there was a storm of biblical proportions after seeing these, but that would be a lie. Amount of rain was quite easy and moderate, while the raindrops were extremely heavy and big. Typical early autumn rainy day.

I try to tag all my new and old posts according to cloud type. I´m not going to blather much about metereology (as I don´t know much about it) but to just have some real info every now and then.

I guess I´m lucky when it comes to catching all kinds of clouds. I just went out at 9 am and this was right above me as a surprise. It´s not like I spend all day outside lurking in the bushes.

Cloudbusting 136

Finnish rowhouse-living in the middle of the forest by the bay that used to be sea. Just ordinary cumulus clouds up and down this time.

Cloudbusting 135

The best paintings happen almost accidentally. They just appear without trying too hard.

Cloudbusting 134

Every day has a certain direction
I just never know what it is
before it happens
up, down, left or right

Cloudbusting 133

Got to do this
Got to do that
So many little things to do
Here and there
Everywhere

Cloudbusting 132

Monday morning this week
just another ordinary day
but little different
people are back
summer is over

Rainbusting 4

I watch the raindrops fall
and I drift back in time
to see another me staring at the window
almost the same like this

I thought I could never love anybody
but then I did
I thought nobody could love me
but then somebody did
I thought I didn´t have any love inside me
but then I had plenty

It feels good to admit that I have been so wrong

Cloudbusting 131

I watched the olympics yesterday. There was dudes running fast like robots and chicks jumping like there was springs in their legs. The gazillion billion dollar stadium looked like a pulsating sci-fi dome with strobo lights. Lot of entertainment for sure. Then why all these people had to perform to a stadium with 75-85% of the seats empty?! Why they had built the stadium in the first place if nobody bothers to go there? That´s one of the biggest problems in today´s sports. Give all the overpriced tickets to companies and organizations, in another words to people who don´t give a shit about sports. Then none of those corporate people bother to show up, and the organizers have to wheel in busloads of schoolkids to make it look like somebody cares. Meanwhile all the people who actually care are left outside queing in the rain for weeks. Hahaa, buzz of, nothing for you here! As a result you have athletes performing to TV-cameras and their friends and maybe couple of schoolkids. It´s been reported that 75% of the tickets were sold to chinese people. That´s about the amount of empty seats. Maybe they were too ugly to be shown in TV and China banned them to go watch the games! Who knows, they might have had access to uncensored internet too while there.

Cloudbusting 130

August sun rise at 5:30. The morning papers have arrived at 4:00-5:00 am and I´ve wanted to see what it looks like outside in the silence. That´s the threshold of the day. If the sleep hasn´t come before the morning papers, then it won´t come after that. It´s time to give it up.

Every year there is less and less papers delivered. Now almost everybody have come back from the country and directed their papers back to the city address. Few years back there was more than 10 papers delivered but now it´s only 4.

Vvvvvvrrrrooomm - tutum - tutum - vrr - tutum - tutum - vvvvrrrrrrrrrooommmm

Pretty soon there probably won´t be morning paper delivery and I have to find a new mark for the beginning of the new day. I don´t care if the paper-versions are gone, I haven´t had newspapers delivered in many years.

Cloudbusting 129

The animal spirit of the tree
could be a dragon
as they are so popular these days
or just a flaming duck

I´m so happy that it´s saturday. There is many good things to happen this weekend.

Cloudbusting 128

Just as I thought that summer
had given me all it had to give
comes a vision so bright and rich
makes me feel like Uncle Scrooge
counting his golden coins

Cloudbusting 127

The grey night falls fast outdoors
in the garden at the Isle of the Dead

Cloudbusting 126

Some days just start well
like you always know
that everything is meant to go well today
even though it´s 5 am.
and the ache of the night in oven won´t give up

Cloudbusting 125

A view over sea from a busride to Espoo from Helsinki.

Cloudbusting 124

Stairway to Heaven

I´m not a fan of that song, it´s just a good title
Led Zeppelin 3 is my favourite album from them
That´s the way, what a song

Cloudbusting 123

Sunday is a peaceful day in so many ways
not all of them
but this one is

Cloudbusting 122

Caption competition: what is the building thinking?

Cloudbusting 121

Yesterday the colour of the day was red
today it´s yellow
at least to me

Cloudbusting 120

Long distance train and local train in Helsinki main railroad station.

Warm and sunny july 2008.

Cloudbusting 119 + hip flask 2

Hip flask houses (shown in cloudbusting 110 too) are wide from the middle, which creates quite odd view from the side. It´s like perspective is not working.
Couple of cloudy days lately. A welcome change from the usual blue skies and +25C weather. I don´t mind.

Cloudbusting 118 + cow

Korpoström Archipelago Center has cows made from scrap car parts on the restaurant terrace. During the last 30 years or so the artist has done mostly cows in different forms.

Cloudbusting 117

Mid july sunrise, 4:16 a.m.

Cloudbusting 116

A building in the clouds
Clouds in the building
Typical new finnish office architecture
Plenty of steel and glass
no personality