My Finnish adventure

Off late i have been very busy , not only with work but of course with my own finnish adventures. Before i write about my adventure @ 9 in the night , i need to explain a few things that led to it. Here in finland you need not have any key to go out of any building , whether it is the nokia office at karaporti or my house in Uudenmankatu. The doors are in such a way that if a person wants to go out of the building , all he needs to do is turn the knobs and he need not even lock it while going. You push the door and that is it , it gets locked.

Under this context , i write about the small adventure that i went through on thursday night. I wanted to collect the duplicate bill for my SIM card purchase at the R-kioski shop near my house. So after coming home (and entering it properly) , i rushed off to that store. I got the required bill and returned home , only to find that the keys i had are not the correct ones and there is no way that i can open the door for my house. My passport , phone , travel card and wallet were all locked inside. There was simply no way for me to enter that house. I was really tensed , coz the temperature outside was a freezing -2 and i didnt have any place to sleep. The prospect that i have to probably lie on the foot steps , or roam around the streets till morning sent a shiver. After some pondering over i remembered that a colleague whom i had met a couple of days earlier stays just two blocks away. I immediately rushed to his place , but was unable to operate that speak through at the apartment door. Some how after 15 mins i realized how to operate it and called him up. We then spoke to the rental office about our problem , for which they replied that nothing can be done till the next day morning. So i slept at narasimha's place for that night and went and collected the duplicate set of keys in the morning. It was a big lesson for me that whatever might happen never forget the keys in finland. If you loose them there is a big process of filing a police complaint , paying a fine of 80 euros etc .... Atleast have your mobile , wallet and travel card when you go out.

Today ,we are planning to go to a place called Suomenlinna , a place that is kind of etched in time. They say it has a long history of withstanding various wars and etc .... Shall write about it when i return. Till then adios.