Helsinki -5 degrees Celsius, light snow.
Sunrise 9:00 am, sunset 4:04 pm.
Last Friday I organized a surprise party for Tuomo. Last Monday Tuomo established a company called Black Belt Arts. It’s a company offering consultation in Music, Culture, and Media Business. Of course his doing lots of other things as well, but this was description of the main line of business. I think it’s very admirable to establish a business in the age of 24, so I decided it’s something worth of celebrating for.
I agreed with Markus and Ilkka (couple of Tuomo’s closest friends) that we are going to go out for a dinner and then maybe for few beers. I also lured one of our good friends, Hannu to come with us to Helsinki. Everything went really well. Tuomo didn’t have a clue that I was planning something and it was fun to watch expression on his face when he came to meet me at the centre of the city and I was there with Hannu and Markus (Ilkka waited already at the restaurant).
At this point we told Tuomo that we had planned this and we were heading to the restaurant, but we didn’t tell to which one. We decided to go to place called Sea Horse, because we had heard such a good praises about it. Sea Horse is a place that offers you quite basic Finnish food, great atmosphere and the best service I’ve ever come across with. While we were on our way to the restaurant Ilkka called and told that there was a problem because the place was so full. We asked for him to wait until we were there so we could figure out some kind of plan B. After a few minutes he called again and told that he managed to get us a table! The hero of the day! 
The place was definitely worth of the reputation. First of all, when we got in there was this old charming doorman welcoming us and taking our coats. Then we were shown the direction to our table where Ilkka was already waiting for us. Little gestures, like tipping that we should make our orders before the big company on the other room makes theirs, made us feel respected and raised the atmosphere even more. When the food was splendid (stuffed cabbage rolls, meatballs, and stuffed small herring) there was nothing between having fun. Everybody enjoyed and after eating and drinking quite a bit we decided to get on the road. The whole evening was a success and Tuomo truly surprised.
Yesterday I accompanied Tuomo to the airport. He flied to the Cannes, France. He went there to work for Musex at one of the biggest music industry fair, Midem. I have to say that I envy him just a little bit! 
I definitely wouldn’t mind for a trip to Riviera of France, but I just have to settle for snow and frost.
