Concrete Pixels

I was in Sweden last weekend and my day there was spoiled by the winter’s wrath. On the day I traveled through an overnight cruise accross the Baltic sea there was a forecast of snowstorm with up to 30+ m/s wind. Due to the urgency of my mission there I was forced to go. While [...]

Finally I got the real golf cup “the Areva 2008 Golf Cup ” held at Rauma Golf Club, Finland on September 22-26, 2008.
It’s still fresh in our minds the famous slogan of Obama “YES WE CAN” after which “YES WE DID” was added after he won the US presidential election. He did it when [...]

The long, cold, dark & wet winter has once again come to our place, Finland. It’s long as this will last until March next year. Cold as expected but we still have not experienced though the real winter in this place at minus 30+. Last year was only about minus 15. Dark, as we [...]

Concrete when produced requires a certain measure of what we call workability. Until today I doubt if there is really a general agreement on the definition of workability. This is the reason why there are so many methods in measuring it like the slump, flow, vebee, compaction index, etc. Despite it’s many limitation, the slump [...]

I’ve been grounded for almost a month now at home due to an appendix operation. Three days before the operation I feel an abdominal discomfort that leads me to take at first medicine for diarrhea. The next day, it does not get any better and I thought perhaps my gastric has come again so I [...]