I was born in a small town in Western Finland, moved to Helsinki to study architecture and have found my home here. I'm 23 years old. Quite shy and reserved, except around people I know. I love good films, music and visual arts. I also go to gym and like it a lot. I don't drink coffee (everyone drinks it here in Finland!) but I love tea. Dr. Snuggles was my childhood hero.

I'm not very good at describing myself, so you may want to take a look at what my closest friends think of me: draw the curtain

I'm a third year student of architecture in the Helsinki University of Technology. Right now I'm taking time off my studies to work, save up money for travelling and trying to figure out my future.

I plan to travel a good deal before graduation, since I have been to so few places and there are so many places I just need to visit. I'm not going to die before having been to Kyoto, Tokyo, New York, and London and having seen the zen gardens and spiky Manhattan skyline and the neon jungles. I've also been thinking about exchange studies, but I'm not sure of that yet.

I'm good at gathering information about things I'm interested in - if something catches my interest, I usually begin with a wikipedia and google spree, progressing to a library visit and so on. I think I'm also pretty good at drawing and writing. I like to analyze films, paintings, poems, architecture; pretty much all forms of art and I like to think I have some talent in that.

Hmm. Well, I'm short (170cm or 5'7"). Apart from that, I don't know.

(A): I don't read that much, but it is not that I wouldn't like reading, it's just that I don't seem to have time and energy, so my reading happens mostly during holidays and occasionally weekends. I feel like standing on the shore of a deep, fascinating ocean, and I've only got my toes dipped.

The only classic author I've read is Dostoevsky, whom I adore. Crime and Punishment is such a deep and intense masterpiece.

Recently I've been digging the sci-fi classics, and found Ursula K. Le Guin a brilliant writer. I also like Philip K. Dick, though I've only read a couple of his books. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings has a special place in my heart since I first read it when I was eleven and it made a huge impression. I used to collect plants as a child (for real!) and the long depictions of different kinds of trees, herbs and flowers made it feel like Mr. Tolkien had written the book just for me, which was a wonderful feeling. I love Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with its wonderfully bubbling and absurd humour and verbal acrobatics.

(B): I'm a film enthusiast. I have quite a broad taste, but I'm especially fond of visual directors and films. At the moment my favorite directors are Tarkovsky, Malick and Aronofsky. Though I'm passionate about film there are many many classics and other more or less Important Films I haven't seen since I tend to be quite picky and also my viewing habits are quite irregular. I also take delight of that fact, because now I know there's always some great movie just waiting to be watched.

These I love: Stalker. Pulp Fiction. Diary of a Country Priest. Vertigo. Monty Python, both the Flying Circus and the movies. The Matrix. The New World. Requiem for a Dream. Jackie Brown. Am�lie. Rashomon. City of God. Donnie Darko. Garden State. Blade Runner. Pi. Apocalypse Now. Se7en. American Beauty. Fight Club. 25th Hour. Lost in Translation. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The Constant Gardener. And many, many more.

(C): I have a Last.fm account that gives a good idea of my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/FVM/

I love Sigur R�s, m�m, Bj�rk, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Mew, Yann Tiersen, Nouvelle Vague, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Magyar Posse... I lean to post-rock and trip-hop and generally indie type of music, but I also listen to classical, mostly Vivaldi and Sibelius, and minimalists like Arvo Pärt and Henryk Gorecki.

(D): I love Chinese, Indian / Nepalese (for some reason we have tons of Nepalese restaurants in Helsinki), Japanese food. Good sushi is just absolutely heavenly experience. Also some Finnish things, like gravlax on dark rye bread. Beer and wine are my choice for drinks, I always like to test new stuff.

All kinds of things. Unfinished school projects. New movies. Architecture. Interesting exhibitions. Grocery shopping. Politics. Japanese gardens. Life, the Universe and Everything.

Often I'm just sitting in front of my computer, sometimes reading or watching a movie. I might be having a good time with friends, either just chilling at their homes or out partying. I rarely go to bars or clubs though.

you find me interesting. Go ahead.