Facebook archive from 2007

I started using Facebook in October 2007 and have been using it since that time until February 2021 when Facebook deleted my old account with all the memories during those 14 year and many friends all over the World. They did not tell me the exact reason why and did not give me any opportunity to defend myself. They just started asking for verification of my acccount several times a week First they asked me to provide verification code sent by email, then take a photo or video of my face.  Finally they asked me to give a verification code sent to my phone number. They provided 3 old phone numbers. I tried to contact their support to explain that I can not verify via phone number. They said that I will have 30 days to verify after which my account will be permanently deleted. 

They offered me to create a new account, there was a button for that after I had blocked out of the disabled account. I did and managed to add some of my old friends back but I lost all my posts on my timeline and all posts in numerous Facebook groups. However they provided me all my data for download. That is better but still not the same. Now I am losing many frieds and many memories esspecially with those 5 friends that had their profiles on memorial state. 

What did I do to deserve all this agony? Why did Facebook started bullying me?  I am devastated and sad. It will take me years to start rebuilding all those documents of my life. 

My Facebook archive from 2007

is at work

29 Oct 2007, 13:18

is sleeping

29 Oct 2007, 17:24

is a bit hungry

1 Nov 2007, 16:42

is going to bed already

1 Nov 2007, 16:56

Tim Sippala added a new photo.

One of our wedding ceremonies in Singapore, October 2002. In the middle there is the Buddhist monk that blessed us and our cats in the presence of 70 cats of MettaCattery cat shelter and a few friends.

1 Nov 2007, 17:03

In the year 2003 we were living in Townsville, tropical Australia. I was trying to find a new kind of Christmas spirit in the new conditions. Both of us love durian fruit, so it became our new Christmas tradition. There is also a little bit Chinese influence, the red shirt and chopsticks.

1 Nov 2007, 17:03

is up at 4 am and going for a long walk with his dogs. After that breakfast and work.

2 Nov 2007, 01:02

is starting Friday's work

2 Nov 2007, 04:22

is working and thinking "iit's Friday!" ( my time zone is GMT+10 )

2 Nov 2007, 05:31

is working but soon going home for the weekend activities

2 Nov 2007, 10:38

is done with this week's work

2 Nov 2007, 12:10

is going to bed soon on Friday evening and ready to get up early again.

2 Nov 2007, 16:01

November 2nd 2007. After 14 months of growing our first banana plant is finally flowering. Can you see the little baby bananas inside? We might get some bananas from our own garden for Christmas!

2 Nov 2007, 16:32

Early in the morning there is peace ... well, not so quiet either but lots of tropical and other birds around. You can hear the dogs panting so it is a little bit hot even this early. Taken in Caravonica, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

2 Nov 2007, 18:33

Jyväskylä, Tourukatu 8. 1990 / 1991 ? I was living in this nice wooden house. I paid my rent by maintaining the house and the yard. It was build in the year 1914. During the Second World War the house was almost destroyed by a Russian bomb.

Place: Jyväskylä, Finland (62.2333, 25.7333)

Address: Jyväskylä, Finland

2 Nov 2007, 18:44

is having his morning walk and then doing garden work... Trying very hard to stay away from this addicting tool

3 Nov 2007, 02:12

is going to sharpen his chain saw and kill some palm trees in the backyard hoping aftert that there will still be some fingers left for FaceBook

3 Nov 2007, 05:10

is going out. Hoping to see Larissa Waters tonight.

3 Nov 2007, 14:59

is so happy after meeting Larissa. She's absolutely the right and most comptetent person to be a new senator!

3 Nov 2007, 20:18

Tim Sippala posted in I support the Australian Greens.

4 Nov 2007, 11:54

is doing some garden work

4 Nov 2007, 13:00

is preparing for Monday and work week. Bugger ...

4 Nov 2007, 15:46

is awake early Monday morning

5 Nov 2007, 01:35

is at work already on Monday morning

5 Nov 2007, 05:00

Memories from Singapore 2002 (onwards)

Some memories from Singpapore.  This post has been created afterwards using old audio clips and photos. I have just dated it to  December 1st 2002 when I had left Singapore for Australia and the big adventure that started in January 2002 was over.  My Singaporean wife and myself and our 2 cats moved to Australia.

Embedded audio clip from my tumblr.com  blog should open in the windows below.

http://timwalks.tumblr.com/post/132529385946/moving-to-singapore-in-2002-was-one-of-the-big

http://timwalks.tumblr.com/post/132688160666/in-january-2002-i-moved-from-finland-to-singapore

Above you should see the audio clips above.


story to be continued.

January 27th 2002 I left Finland

I have dated this to the day when I left Finland for Singapore, January 27th 2002 but I am writing this 15 years later.  I live now in Vietnam, in a small village with tropical fruits, small rivers and channels in the Mekong delta area. The Lunar New Year is coming on 28th.  On January 28th 2002, 15 years ago I arrived for the first time in my live in tropics. First ever touch with tropics and Asia was in Bangkok. It was only for an hour. Then we continued to Singapore where I settled in.  The year 2002 was a remarkable turning point in my life. Something that I could never have expected, happened. I haven't turned back yet but the adventurous is going on. or at least life is going on. 

I had a very nice apartment in the Eastern Helsinki, in the suburb of Vuosaari   I wasn't renting and I hadn't bought the apartment, until of about 60 sqm. I paid about 20% of the value of the apartment as the membership fee of a housing co/operative, and got the right to rent my apartment for cheaper than I would rent a similar place on the rental market. In Finnish the term asumisoikeusasunto refers to buying the right to live there. 

It was really a nice place:  a small bedroom separately and then big livingroom and a kitchen on one side of it.  I divided the room with a desk that I had constructed the Multiplan shelving elements that I bought in ISKU shops in Helsinki.  On the desk was my computer and peripherals, then into it I had embedded a space for a serve computer and other stuff that I wanted to hide.   I was watching TV so I had a huge TV set nearby. I actually did not see much on the screen but at least I heard something when I was working on my computers.  When the September 11th terror attacks took place in New York I was tuning a server to be put inside the counter. 

On the other side of my workstation counter was the kitchen table, just a few steps away from my office chair.  Behind it there was the kitchen itself, a good oven, dishwasher, fridge. I usually cooked my own food, especially during the last year 2001 in this apartment because I had decided to eat healthier and lose weight, even reduce smoking and eventually quit it. 

Finnish houses are almost airtight, well insulated against the cold weather outside.