Long time no see!
 

Hello everyone! Some of you oldies might remember me from ~10 years ago, when I was pretty active here. It's been so long that most people are probably completely new to me, but it's nice to meet you all! :fuzsmile:

So, I'm a 26-year-old uni student from Finland. I've been an Oddworld fan for a very long time and love all the games, but especially AO and AE. I'm also hopelessly addicted to WoW, but luckily my boyfriend shares the addiction. Other than gaming, I love travelling, photography, music, playing the guitar, drawing and my dogs.

At the moment, I'm in the middle of my exchange year, studying Japanese at Tokai University and living in Hiratsuka, right next to Tokyo.

Faz (Jenni)

Whats with all these Finns. It's a conspiracy to take over the forums!

Onaji koto ha hanasu hitobito nitsuite iu koto ga dekiru nippon

You left?

Come boy Phylum.

Well, G'day newbie whose actually not so newbie but really oldie.

Yay! Jenni’s back! :D

Are you staying?

Hello, fellow Finn!

I promised you I'd be back, didn't I? :fuzwink: But now that I checked on facebook, it was last August so I took my time.. Haha. But yeah, I plan to stay as long as I don't forget about this place again or become too busy in April when my studies continue.

Ooh, so there are many Finns here? Cool! I think I was the only one back in the day..

Hey everyone and thanks for the welcomes!

Welcome back if you remember me. :P It's been a long time. How have you been?

And yeah, same here with the addicted to WoW thing. Funnily enough, my guild is ran by a Finnish couple, they're awesome people. :) (EDIT: And if you're wondering, I'm Vasundhara on Moonglade-EU. I doubt you're on the same server as me though)

EDIT 2: AlectorFencer sends her regards.

It's awesome that a member from 10 years ago has come back. Welcome back!

I dont know you, but you sound cool/nice and stuff. So yey ^^ Welcome back. Perhaps you can beat some uplifting spirit in this forum.

That's getting very old and more unfunny by the second.

Welcome back, madam. Not sure how good of a state the forums were back in the day, but I'm sure you'll integrate again.

There's so many Finns, yah. But if you're as good as ol' Dynamithixy, we'll get along awesomely.

Nice sarcasm there. :tard:

Every time I'm actually nice for a change, why do people think it's sarcasm?

Because I was joking, see the awesome face? It means I'm joking too!

But thank you for the previous sentence. :)

Welcome.

I'll shit up your nose.

Nice sarcasm.

Welcome back, I knew the Finnish people were plotting to overthrow OWF. Go for it, you can't be any worse than the tyrants that run this place anyways.

When I saw this post I immediately recognized the name... but I don't actually remember you.

Wow, another Finn.

Wow, a guy from 10 years ago.

Hard to believe that this forum has been around for that long, despite me only knowing of it for around 2 years (I lurked for a while).

Keyword being girl.

Shit another girl, this place just got even more awkwardererer, it's worse if your normal.

`^_^

Whose normal?

You are.

Only because she's out of your league, little man.

A girl? We should have sex.

Louise won't be impressed by your FinnFuckingFrantics.

Who's a mammal?

I'm not little, I'm a tall person with the tendencies of a midget, because midgets hump stuff like dogs right? There was a midget at my Church once, you shouldn't laugh at tiny people in the house of God as an alter boy. I'm pretty sure God didn't find that one funny.

And as far as I can tell she's normal, which is why it's awkward.

Wham! Where's MA?

Maybe it's just because I'm tired but this entire post sounded like brilliant Dada-ist poetry.

Good thing?

Depends on your perspective. If you were intending it to be Dadaist poetry, then it's a good thing. If not, then it's probably an insult.

Thank you for the welcomes, everyone! :fuzzle:

I dissappeared already :p Nah, right after posting here again I went on a two-week vacation in Thailand with my boyfriend. While I was there, all hell broke loose in Japan, so instead of flying back to Tokyo I went home to Finland for two weeks, but since the news didn't show anything too alarming and spring semester was starting, I did eventually fly back to Japan. So, it's been a more or less chaotic month, but now I plan to stay.

Of course I remember you, Eddie! Just haven't been talking to anyone on MSN for ages and ages. Really miss that. Send my love to Claudia, too! I hope both of you are doing fine. And I'm fine, too, thank you. The daily earth quakes are getting tiring already, although I actually think they're quite cool :fuzcool: As long as they stay small, like 3-4.. It's a funny feeling when your bed starts shaking for a few minutes in the middle of the night or you're just taking a shower when the room starts to sway like you're in a boat. Other than that, my new Japanese class seems nice, even if pretty hard, and the sakura is so pretty <3 I hope I'll get to stay here for the whole semester ie. nothing drastic happens.

And thank you, Justin. That was charming.

Welcome Back.

I wasn't here in 2001 but everyone knows me as crashpunk/wariopunk or that annyoing kid.

Welcome back indeed - I'm touched that you still remember. :)

I had forgotten that you said you were studying in Tokyo, it was lucky you weren't there when the earthquake happened. You say they're still getting aftershocks all this time later? That must be odd - It's brave of you to go back there, I hope everything goes okay for you in that regard. How well is Japan recovering from your perspective?

I haven't really been on MSN in... Hmm. 3 years or so - I've lost contact with much of the old crew, I miss those old times even though they were very strange, but we all move on and that. :)

Aye, we do move on but it always saddens me to think of all the great people I've lost contact with. I was also absent from MSN for over a year and just recently got back. I think it wasn't as long as 3 years ago when we last talked, though.. But time kind of seems to go faster the older you get :p
Apparently it's normal for after shocks to occur 2-3 months after a big earth quake and our teachers keep assuring us we're safe and another big one will not come, since the plates have already settled. There have been a few rather big ones, though.. Just last night and two days ago, both over 7. Not here tough, but roughly around the same area, where the original big one occurred. There were tsunami warnings, too, but no new waves. Here they were about 3s. Luckily, I'm pretty far away from the epicentre. Last night there were multiple minor earth quakes and in the morning and during my second class a bit bigger ones.th I even get a warning on my cellphone like a minute or two before they begin, so I'm just sitting there waiting for it to happen. After my arrival a bit over a week ago there wasn't any activity, but now it's constant and getting kind of annoying. I just hope there will be no more nightly quakes to wake us up.

And if it continues like this I might get worried, but the Japanese people aren't and they're going about their daily lives as usual by now. Most of the train lines are running already, even if there are fewer trains, but at least moving around isn't a real pain anymore and people can get to work, etc. They are trying to save electricity everywhere they can, so in addition to the fewer trains, there are no lights inside the running ones at daytime and most billboards are turned off, which makes the streets look kind of spooky and different in big cities like Tokyo and Yokohama. But at least there are people around unlike right after the quake. The stores are now looking normal, too. At first they were completely out of bottled water, all canned foods, bread and milk. Now there are just a few empty shelves, but you can basically find everything you need.

Like I said, our spring semester stated normally, so I had to return if I wanted to do the whole year here as planned. If I were to return home, I think I wouldn't get a chance to come back via my Uni again, because there are so many applicants every year. And I really want to get back to my boyfriend, dogs, family and friends soon and for good without having to come back here a second time in the future. 4 more months left! I really love it here, though, and am gonna miss my new friends terribly when we all go back to our countries (or some stay here), but at the same time I can't wait to get back to my loved ones in Finland. My mum and my boyfriend's family (and he too, but for different reasons) wanted me home for good, because they're scared for my safety, but I'm not really. Not as things are now. There were many exchange students who returned home and are not coming back, though.

But yeah, the Japanese people seem optimistic and so am I so far ^^ Let's see with all these earth quakes.. Sorry for the novel.

(Oh and I play on EU - Ravencrest (Horde) and Darkspear (Alliance). Detest the Alliance, though.. My boyfriend made me play the quests while they were still there before Cata, so now I have an 80 human pala tank and, now that I spent the two weeks in Finland, a worgen because, well, worgen <3)

Go buy me some ero-doujins.

Uhhuh, Oh, sure.

I forgot I wrote that.

I remember you! And the cow avatar!

It's been ages.

Alcar...

An animated avatar! Ban her!

It was uploaded about a decade before the rule was introduced, I think we'll survive.