I prefer partying with Aki. He is just as party addicted as I am and we go out almost every night - preferrably until the early morning. We have a lot of fun together. But we can also be very sad. Aki is very sensitive and does indeed cry when he is not doing well. He is not embarrassed by that. I admire that. At times, I would also prefer to cry but I can't. We often philosophize on life and love. He agrees in many of my ways to think - we are soulmates. We for instance hate the waiting and hanging around before the gigs and therefore easily grow impatient. We also like bitching a bit about others and are like girls when it comes to that. Once it was really embarassing for us. Aki just started gossipping awfully about a band, how bad their music was and how awful their gig. We were highly amused until we noticed that they were standing next to us. I am very happy that he exists. As you know Aki joined the band four years later but has really settled in by now. 1999 our old drummer didn't like the job anymore and moved to Thailand. Back then Aki still sold t-shirts and posters for us. I went over to him and asked him if he didn't want to become our new drummer. He accepted immediately. And even though he is so skinny cause he hates sports as much as I do he has an incredible energy. He gives everything on the gigs, no matter if his arms are gonna hurt the next day and he has soar muscles. Then I could almost die out of laughter in the mornings when he hardly gets out of bed. When we are on tour and don't sleep on the bus but in the hotel myself and him share one and Pauli and Eero the other room. That fits well because we party animals end up in bed pretty late anyway and don't wake up the others like this. It's also practical cause we both don't need much time in the bathroom and aren't in each other's way like that. The only stupid thing: Aki doesn't smoke and I get a bad conscience when I smoke too much around him. He says that it doesn't bother him but still I try to smoke less. Aki likes the whole fanhype as little as I do, also because people came on to him already. Some people even called him a fag. Some fans hung around his flat as much as around mine so he moved. Now we are almost neighbours.

thanks to DarkLady90