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It’s party time, just got 4 credits more! And from this day I’ll use an international credit system where our 180 is converted to 300 as needed credits for graduation. In the new system that 4 is 7.5 credits. Thus I have 39.5/180 or 70/300 credits depending on the system I use. I’ve never got this many at once before. Hooray. To bad the grade isn’t the best one: 1+ out of 3. I might improve it in the future. The course was Programming Basics (Java).

My university studies will start in two weeks and in this term I’m trying to double my credits. That needs a lot of more effort than before. Also the hospital work (I think I’ve told about that earlier) is taking more and more time every week. Yet you shouldn’t forget the sport competition which is still going strong (I’m second right after px). The next two weeks will be used in another work though. I’m handling the statistics service in the youngs athletics competition. Also got a few new site requests. So pretty active autumn is coming.

But today I’m going to use my time for Paprika.

Finally, three years later after creating the first temporary page and logo for pulu.org, I made a new layout for my main domain. Surprisingly it took almost whole day but that was just because of irc. A few months ago I asked Rez if he could make a pixel pigeon (pulu means pigeon in Finnish) for me and he made it. I really appreciate his art and greatly want to thank him.

I use pulu.org for my personal emails and pages which are not Elma related. There are only a few other sites although I would love to create more. Too bad I’m too lazy/busy, just how you want to call it. Pulu, as a name, was chosen because it was 1) short 2) easy to say and remember and 3) funny (pigeon IS funny!).

Did you know that it costs only about 12e / year to have own domain?

pulu.org

FM (Flowertouching Men), my team, was founded in the end of 1999. In total there have been 12 players. The first players were selected according to playing skills and having the WCup2000 in view. There were members from Finland, Sweden and Norway. So originally FM was just a super team consisting people over country borders.

Nowadays FM is known as a very stable team formed by good friends (even in real life). All of them are veterans and the top enthusiasm is gone. Still the greybeards achieve WRs, get good positions in different kind of contests and live the Elma.

Here’s a little overview of each member in FM. More I know about the people who are in FM now. Less I know of those Swedish and Norwegian guys who quitted many years ago. In brackets the number indicates the order when the certain player has joined FM. Current members are italic.

Abula (4.)
In team: 2002 summer -
Current total time: 41:08,96 (70.)
Number of WRs: 0/3 (current table / all-time)
WCup positions: -, -, 52, 8, 12
Role: Plays everything, projects, worst player in team
Been in FEM: 4 times

dz (5.)
In team: 2003 April -
Current total time: 39:03,07 (11.)
Number of WRs: 0/26
WCup positions: -, -, -, 31, 25
Role: total time, WRs, Mopobattles, level designing, projects
Been in FEM: 2

Dr_Luni (1.)
In team: 1999 end - 2000 Dec
Current total time: 46:26,25 (248.)
Number of WRs: 0/4
WCup positions: 38, 1, 1, -, -
Role: World Cups,WRs
Been in FEM: 0

Jokke (1.)
In team: 1999 end -
Current total time: 39:36,81 (17.)
Number of WRs: 0/53
WCup positions: 2, 8, 4, 5, 132
Role: Total time, WRs, World Cups
Been in FEM: 4

Karlis (1.)
In team: 1999 end -
Current total time: 39:37,43 (18.)
Number of WRs: 7/61
WCup positions: 19, 10, 3, 3, 5
Role: WRs, World Cups
Been in FEM: 4

mr (4.)
In team: 2002 summer -
Current total time: 39:04,92 (13.)
Number of WRs: 2/19
WCup positions: 71, 25, 25, 15, 26
Role: Total time, WRs, projects
Been in FEM: 4

psy (1.)
In team: 1999 end - 2001 Dec
Current total time: 40:52,86 (60.)
Number of WRs: 0/37
WCup positions: 18, 2, 11, 20, 53
Role: World Cups, total time, WRs, level designing
Been in FEM: 1

Sathy (2.)
In team: 2000 Oct - 2001 Dec
Current total time: -
Number of WRs: 0/0
WCup positions: -, -, 21, 19, -
Role: World Cup, level designing
Been in FEM: 0

Stene (1.)
In team: 1999 end - 2000 May, 2000 Dec - 2001 Dec
Current total time: -
Number of WRs: 0/15
WCup positions: 81, 7, -, -, -
Role: WRs, total time
Been in FEM: 0

Tisk (3.)
In team: 2001 Dec -
Current total time: 41:53,09 (91.)
Number of WRs: 0/2
WCup positions: 90, 76, 15, 13, 103
Role: all-around hoyla
Been in FEM: 4

Ufo (1.)
In team: 1999 end - 2000 Dec
Current total time: 45:14,49 (212.)
Number of WRs: 0/8
WCup positions: -, 58, 63, -, -
Role: all-around hoyla
Been in FEM: 0

YeeS (1.)
In team: 1999 end - 2000 May
Current total time: 42:51,04 (136.)
Number of WRs: 0/10
WCup positions: -, 5, -, -, -
Role: WRs, total time
Been in FEM: 0

Willing to join FM? It’s not the easiest thing. You have to be a Finn, a good player, own good Elma attitude (not going to quit, life style, keen to meet other members) and our friend. Currently only one guy fulfills the criteria who isn’t in the FM. I don’t reveal the name but it shouldn’t be difficult to figure out.

Jokke, who has been active from the very beginning of Across (1997) and is one of the greatest players in the history, has been getting more and more inactive in last months. He hardly played World Cup 5 and a while ago he announced that he will quit for quite sure. He’s only waiting for Elma2 to see if it’s any interesting and after that he’ll quit Elma and FM. Sob sob.

Tisk has been in non-military service for a year now. A few weeks till and he should be active again. I hope he will bring some new fresh athmosphere to our team. Karlis is not in Elma mood, also mr is just cruising and dating. dz is living with his girl and taking care of their hedgehog. Tisk’s also having a girl friend. Soon FM will be just a club of boring house-husbands.

I would like to see some competition in total times between Karlis, mr and dz. They are very near to each others. Other than that I’m not expecting anything from those guys.

Tisk is moving to Helsinki in a few weeks. Then 67% of the FM lives there: Karlis, dz, Jokke and Tisk. I hope Tisk will host me sometimes so I could come to meet my team friends. mr is living in Joensuu and me in Oulu. I might move to south (Helsinki is in south and Oulu north) after I get graduated. mr also has tried to get his girl to accept moving to Oulu which would be great.

Yet, we have a home page. Not updated too regularly though. We have ideas how to improve it and so on but unfortunately it’s not high priority. “Maybe one day…”

www.moposite.com/fm

Because WCup is such an important Elma event I feel that I really have to write something about the end of it.

It ended.

Grats to players who deserve it: MP, Jalli, axxu. Jalli is before axxu because I overrate the Pipe king status. Thanks to px and vk for organizing the contest.

I came 12th, which I’m very happy of. An original goal of mine was top20. Karlis was 5th, dz 25th, mr 26th, Tisk 103rd and Jokke 132nd. As a team FM was just the third best in the WCup5 after ICE and AC. In fact, originally FM was founded because of the WCup2000 where we (well, I wasn’t in FM back then) got the victory. Also WC3 and WC4 team victories came to FM.

Nowadays many people are suffering of Elma overdose including me, Karlis and MP. But what I’ve heard at least axxu is already improving his total time. Actually this may be your last chance to rise in the total time list! I bet you want to show your best in the end of the Elma1: go and improve your total time.

Update: Wrote a personal WC5 report to Mopolauta.

A traditional announcement of my studies progressing. Passed Basic optics course and got two credits. The 2.5 grade is very good (out of 3).

Tisk (my team friend) arrived in Oulu on Monday and left the town on Friday. During that time we played some multi records (team and personal) and wc515. Because Tisk has been taking his non-military service and living in an apartment without internet connection he hadn’t been able to take part in to the WCup5. He just finished one level when was spending time at his brother’s and now got quite an OK time in current event. Anyway the final standings are not too good for him.

I’ve met Tisk five times before if we exclude FEMs and AC-meat2. Once I was at his place and this week was his second time here in Oulu at my home. The other times we have met during non-Elma IRC channel meetings (we happened to irc in the same non-Elma channel back then). For me Tisk is one of the most met Elma players.

Most time of the meeting we chilled, talked, did sauna, ate and drank. Had really nice time, at least if you ask me.