Movie Star

It has been ages since I have written anything here! I guess Facebook is partly to blame, but my slackness is as well. Sirli and I are heading back to Oz for a 6 month stint on Tuesday, so there probably wont be much here in the next six months either.

I've have done a few voice over jobs this year, which has been fun. Here is an ad which I spoke one line in, though it's not actually me acting in the video. See if you can pick which guy is me?


Tieto "The Hotel" from Tolm Stuudio on Vimeo.

I've done some other stuff, including one piece where I do some acting, which I'll try and post when it's online. Hollywood here I come!

Things I Miss About The Estonian Winter

The sun was shining today, and I took a tour to Haapsalu. It was a great day to be out seeing Estonia, and made me realise that an Estonian summer is a wonderful thing. At one stage I found myself thinking back on the long winter we just had. What was great about winter? I decided to put together a list of all the things I miss about winter time in Estonia.

1. Nothing.

The End.

Home Brew

My Brother gave me a home brew kit when he left Helsinki. He had used it to make his own beer, because alcohol is so expensive in Finland. I don't really have that problem here in Estonia, beer is cheap enough, but I have brewed my own beer before and I really enjoy it. However I haven't seen any home brew supplies in the shops here in Tallinn. My brother had managed to get his hands on a coopers can of malt extract. With one of these it's really easy to make good quality beer. I wondered if the Coopers website could tell me if they sold them in Estonia. It didn't, but they did sell them online. I punched in my details just to see how much it would cost. The malt extract was $8.95. Not bad. But the postage was $38.50!!! That's more than four times the price of the can. So I guess it's not really a viable option to ship the supplies from Australia ;)

Coopers Website

Christmas Vouchers

Both of my siblings gave me great Christmas presents this year. Both got me something that couldn't actually be physically given on Christmas day. Both did not have the time or were not able to get a voucher from the actual provider of the service. Both mad their own voucher so that they had something to hand over on the day. I think the respective vouchers say a lot about the difference between my brother and my sister. I have posted pictures of each voucher so you can see.

First up, my sister Brydie made a beautiful voucher for a dinner at a restaurant in Queenscliff for Sirli and I. It was actually far nicer than the official voucher which we eventually received.



James, my brother, decided to organise a go-karting session for the male members of the family. I was a little worried when I noticed he was printing things from the computer 30 seconds before we started opening presents! While it was certainly a great present, the torn, ink smudged voucher looked a little sad compared to the beautiful one Brydie had prepared. But the message really captured the Christmas spirit.


As an interesting side note, the only "ass whooping" was received by James, who was so bad that he had to make up a story about how his kart had no brakes. Actually both karts he drove had no brakes. It seems he is as bad at karting as he is at making vouchers!

Estonia at the Australian Open

I was looking at the Australian Open website to see when Estonian player Kaia Kanepi would be playing. A few people have asked me if there are any good Estonian tennis players. Kanepi is the only one of any real note, having been ranked as high as 18, and currently ranked 60. She will be representing her country here in Australia, a country famed for its beautiful women. However she isn't so much of a beauty herself, and it seems the Oz Open website has selected the worst possible photo of her on her profile page.

Kanepi's picture from the Australian Open website

I think they would have been much better of using the picture below, which was from a womens magazine. Yes, that is the same person!

Picture from a magazine