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| Me and my beautiful wife Rita! |
Veli Kaksonen
(nee. Mankinen)
Keuruuntie 7-9 C 13
00510 Helsinki
Finland
birthday: 26.05.1978
phone: +358-40-5490437
email: firstname (dot) lastname (at) piipiip (dot) net
This is me (in finnish) explained by some psychological test (also in english).
I'm not quite sure about all of the things explained there.
Especially the parts which say I cannot stay put for a second
and that I forget people. Anyhow it explains that basically I am:
extrovert, intuitive, feeling and perceiving.
Still it is just a test. You have to find out your self
if you really want to know me!;)
On 19.8.2006 I married my love Rita Kaksonen! That was no doubt one of the two best days in my life!
I also decided to take her lastname upon marriage. Now my name has funny
multiple meanings in it (in finnish only, sorry ;))...
Our first child Linne Kaksonen was born on 31.10.2007 and I cannot even
start to explain the ammount of joy involved!
We are both, Rita and Me, just overwhelmed with happiness!!
While I'm not with my wife and Linne I usually go to WORK
Movial is the place I have chosen for that, or they chose me, depending on how you see it.
At the moment I work as a Innovation and R&D Manager
Here is my CV which explains my working history more deeply.
On one frustrated morning some four years ago I invented scratchbox
so I would not have to do the things I was assingned to do (cross-compile GTK+).
Nowadays Scratchbox is used by quite a few embedded Linux platforms.
Scratchbox was started during maemo / Nokia 770 project...
I also like to sing...
I've been to school for that and also took some lessons from the private sector.
At the moment I am studying pop/jazz singing at Keski-Helsingin musiikkiopisto.
A few recordings:
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Everything Happens to Me 12.2003 version (words: Tom Adair, song: Matt Dennis) Piano: S. Pietilä Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans 12.2003 version (words: Eddie de Lange, song: Louis Alter) Piano: S. Pietilä White Christmas (Irving Berling) ---- Something completely different (Singing and backing guitar: Veli, Leading guitar: Petri Osenius): Corrina (trad.) Mack The Knife (words: Marc Blitzstein, song: Kurt Weill) My Favourite Things (words: Oscar Hammerstein II, song: Richard Rodgers) Vie Meidät Rakkauteen (L. Leandros - K. Munro, suom. san. Chrisse Johansson) Message in a bottle (Sting & The Police) ---- 01- Light My Fire (The Doors) 02- Under The Bridge (Red Hot Chilli Peppers) 03- New Way Home (Foo Fighters) 04- Leijat (Lee Pockriss - Hal Hackady) 05- I Will Stay (Hurriganes) |
Here are a few pictures I've taken:
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and then nice picture of me. Taken loooong time ago.
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| Wa-na-ha! |