Panze's Personal Home Page

Panze's Personal Home Page

Me:

Hello! My name is Panu Hakkarainen, a.k.a. Panze. I am 31 years old software test engineer and live in a quite small town called Varkaus (about 23.000 inhabitants) in Finland. I work with industry automation and in my work I deal with many software and hardware components and code languages. But I am not a coder (thanks to heaven). My work is sometimes hard but on the other hand I know how to relax. I am a bit of a "man who never grew up" if you know what I mean.

My hobbies:

I like to play basketball. That I have done since I was about 10 years old. And it is still as fun as ever. And if I may say so I am also better player now than ever. Hehe! I also play volleyball and go jogging time to time.

I have also other hobbies than sports. I like to read a lot. You might say that I am addicted to literature. Every kind of books suits me; Scifi, horror, fantasy, drama, romance, you name it. You can check my Recommended book list if you like. (Click the link on the Navigation Bar on the left)

I also like to read comics. Fantasy and japanese manga are my favorites in this area. Drawing with pencil is also one of my hobbies. Over the years I have developed a little bit of talent and I hope to gain more as the time goes on. Usually my picture topics are from fantasy (or scifi). If you are interested you can look my Fantasy Art gallery. (Click the link on the Navigation Bar on the left)

Another of my hobbies is making scale models. This is propably something which every male has done in some part of his life. I used to make WW2 airplanes and tanks when I was a teenager. Nowadays I have interested again about modeling but not anykind of modeling. I like to model starships. Not anykind of starships but starships from Babylon5 TV-series. However I don't anymore use the commercial plastic models but prefer to construct my models from the scratch. I have finished one project and I am planning to do more. If you like you can look my finished model. (Click the link on the Navigation Bar on the left)

Other areas of interest:

Like every finnish male I have performed my compulsory military training. (It is also possible to do civil service) I have always been a patriotic and both of my grandfathers have fought in the World War 2 for our independence. That is why it is my opinion that it is our duty to serve in the army. I also think that the time in the army trains the young men (and women) both physically and emotionally. I myself served 330 days and became a reserve officer. After the regular service I have participated two military refresher cources and some voluntary training.

I am also interested in the history. Especially the history of the ancient cultures like Egypt and Rome are my favorites. World War 2 is another interesting subject. Of cource any history is history and therefore interesting. I am not what you may call a professional researcher, not at all. I just fancy to read about history.

There are more areas of interest and of cource there are a lot of other stuff about me. If you are interested send me an email and ask! Especially if you are a representative of the female sex! ;o)

Email Panze

Yep, it's me!

Picture of me when the uniforms were still "real" uniforms and the men were, well whatever they were