21.3.08

My Birthday party

Yesterday we celebrated my birthday by having dinner at Raku Ya. The dinner was excellent and we are definitely going back for more. After the dinner we had drinks with Petra and Tiina.

Here are some photos from the evening:
















I got many lovely presents, including my favorite perfume as shower gel, cherry lip balm, Gummi Bärchen, a Thai cook book, T-shirt, a gift card to Helsinki Day Spa and a new tattoo.

Thank you!

19.3.08

Fresh ink

I got home like an hour ago and I'm feeling very tired.

I just got my fourth tattoo done by Kristian at Legacy tattoo. I will now add the photos here but I'm too tired to write more today. I also have a video and I will add that later.

This tattoo is my birthday present from Chris. It's flowers as I told you, cherry blossoms.









17.3.08

Nice stuff, me likes...








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A New Week Has Begun

This week is going to be fun. Lot of nice stuff happening.

Today I was talking about my studies with the education counselor. As you might know I'm specializing in Asian business and with that I'm taking courses in sustainable development. The education counselor thinks that with the courses I have chosen I should have no problem in getting a trainee position in Asia. I'm taking lot of courses in Asian business, culture, languages and communication. Currently I'm studying Asian politics in the university.

So, the schedule for the rest of my studies is now clear and if everything goes as planned, I would only have one more year of hard studying to do.

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16.3.08

New colors

I just changed the colors in my blog and as you can see I have a new clock also.

This weekend has been really nice so far. I have no pressures at the moment with my studies. Next week I'm not in a rush with assignments. I have only one assignment that has to be ready. Today I have to make my learning plan for the rest of my studies. I already know what courses I want to take. So it should be no problem.

Yesterday we were in downtown. I didn't bought anything for myself. I got a present for little Elina. She has birthday on Thursday, the same day as I have mine. She will be three years old. I also bought something small for my sponsor child who lives in India. Chris got a little present for his sponsor child who lives in Philippines.

In the evening Chris met his work mate in an Irish bar. I spend my evening with my neighbor watching a film.

I'm really waiting forward to the next week. On Thursday is my birthday and we are going to have dinner in a Japanese restaurant with our friends. On Wednesday is an exciting day also. I'll tell you about that later.

15.3.08

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Aidosti oikea

Teki mieli aamulla huutaa ääneen hallelujaa, sillä eilistä Hesaria lukiessani oli vihdoin joku kirjoittanut aiheesta joka on ÄRSYTTÄNYT mua siitä asti, kun ensimmäisen kerran kuulin henkilön tätä sanaa käyttävän. Se on tämä "aidosti" sana. Aina, kun kuulen jonkun käyttävän sitä, tekee mieli rääkyä kovaan ääneen ARGH! Olen miettinyt pitkään, että miksi sitä ylipäätään käytetään.

"Mä ole aidosti sitä mieltä, että.." Ja jos et ole aidosti sitä mieltä, niin oletko sitten epäaidosti eli valehteletko? Miksei voi sanoa: "Olen sitä mieltä." Onko niin, että sillä ei ole enää tehoa, onko tullut sanottua liikaa? Miksi nyt ollaan niin aitoja??

Perjantain 14.3. Hesarissa Vesa Karonen kirjoittaa Kanavalla -palstalla tästä ilmiöstä otsikolla Aidosti, oikeasti. Häntä ärsyttää myös sanan "oikeasti" käyttö. Eikö seuraava lause kuulosta ihan hemmetin naurettavalta? Tämä on lainattu Tuomas Enbusken keskustelusta Yle Radio01:stä 21.2. "Okei, jossain sotilasdiktatuurissa, jossa ihmiset on aidosti telkien takana..." Ja taas tekee mieli huutaa lujaa ARGH! Siis ne on niinku ihan aidosti siellä telkien takana, eikä siis niinku leikisti.


Toivon joka päivä, että tämä sana palautuu siihen aitoon ja oikeaan tarkoitukseensa ja unohtuu, niinkuin leikkisä "aikuisten oikeasti", jota jengi hoki yhteen aikaan koko ajan. Silloin tuntui välillä siltä, kuin olisi ollut lapsen seurassa, joka oli juuri oppinut uuden sanan ja kokeili miltä tuntuu käyttää sitä.

Mikähän on seuraava päivän sana?

13.3.08

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Väsynyt ihminen

rentoutuu kotona töllöä katsellen. Ikävää, ettei sieltä vaan tule mitään, kuin vasta klo 21.

Järkytyin juuri, kun jouduin todistamaan hirveää juustomainosta. Tiedätte varmaan. Sen jossa blondi syö juustoa ja ääntelee kuin aikuisten elokuvassa konsanaan. Loppujärkytyksenä karmea peruukkipäinen eunukki avaa suunsa. Huh. Mikähän mainostoimisto tuosta mainoksesta vastaa?

Viikko on ollut äärimmäisen tiukka. Eilen tunnilla, tänään tentissä. Yhden ison esseen palautus, yhden ryhmätyön palautus. Kvantitatiivisten tehtävän palautus siirtyi onneksi ensi viikkoon! Olisin muuten vääntänyt sitä tänään ja huomenna. Edellisestä tehtävästä sain 5. En siis sittenkään jätä kurssia kesken. Aika moni on kuulemma keskeyttänyt. Keskeytys prosentti on kuulemma ollut 30%. Siis iltaopiskelijoilla.

On tosi väsynyt olo. Viikonloppuna voisi kerrankin rentoutua. Ensi viikolla synttärit tiedossa ja pääsiäinen. Kivaa!

Tiedän jo mitä saan Christianilta lahjaksi. Ne on kukkia, mutta ne ei tuoksu. ;0)

10.3.08

Päivitetyt sananlaskut

Se mikä ei tapa, se vituttaa.

Itseäni olen aina kiittänyt ja kiitosta on riittänyt.

Tili tuli, tili meni. Näkikö kukaan kumpaakaan tilannetta?

Parempi pää täynnä, kun kymmenen oksalla.

Niin makaa kun sattuu sammumaan.

Laatta on heitetty.

Viina on viisaiden luoma.

Kahden aina kalliimpi.

Ken leikistä suuttuu, se ottakoon diapamin.

Avainrengas on kätevä pikku härveli, jonka ansiosta voit hukata kaikki avaimesi kerralla.

Hölkkää, niin kuolet terveempänä.

Idiootit pitävät yllä järjestystä, nerot hallitsevat kaaoksen.

Ihmiset ovat kuin viinit, huonot muuttuvat vanhoina happamiksi, hyvät tulevat vanhetessaan yhä paremmiksi.

Ihmisillä, jotka väittävät, etteivät anna pikkuasioiden häiritä itseään, ei ole koskaan ollut hyttysiä makuuhuoneessaan.

Ihmisiä on kolmenlaisia. Niitä, jotka osaavat laskea, ja niitä jotka eivät osaa.

Kukaan ei ole hyödytön. Aina voi olla edes huonona esimerkkinä.

Kun on korviaan myöten kusessa, on parempi pitää suunsa kiinni.

Kysyvä ei tieltä eksy, hän on jo eksynyt.

Meille on annettu kaksi lahjaa, joita tulisi käyttää mahdollisimman paljon - huumori ja mielikuvitus. Mielikuvitus korvaa sen, mitä emme ole ja huumori auttaa meitä hyväksymään sen mitä olemme

Mitä enemmän asioita tietää, sen enemmän tietää asioita, joita ei tiedä.

Naura ongelmillesi, niin kaikki muutkin tekevät.

Se viimeksi nauraa, joka hitaimmin ajattelee.

9.3.08

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Studying, studying..

This weekend I've been mostly studying.

Yesterday we were though at this tattoo convention from which Chris wrote about earlier. He forgot to mention the best thing that happened there. We were already leaving and wondered why Ika and Juuso where not following us so we went back and Juuso told us that the Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine wanted to take photos from Ika. She is probably going to be on the cover! So, maybe it was all worth of 18 Euros. After the convention we had dinner at Seahorse and few beers in down town. We had a fun evening.

Today I have been studying and the next week is going to be a very very busy week. I have one exam and few assignments to do. I also have lessons on Wednesday. Today I wrote one essay and did one assignment. I didn't finish them but I got lot done and that always helps.

Now it's time to relax with a book and after that I'll go to bed.

The International Helsinki Tattoo Convention 2008 by Chris

The Tattoo "convention" was to be the happening of the year, well ok, maybe not that special but I think we all had positive and high expectations. After all it was 18 Euros to get in + then another 2 Euros for your jacket.
On a side not, I have never quite understood that jacket fee. It's silly. I have been to places before that, even if you don't actually have a jacket, you still
have to pay 2-3 Euro's for your make believe jacket! Just a money scam!

Anyhow, myself, Eveliina, Ika and Juuso arrived at Kaapelitehdas just after 4 pm on Saturday. After about 15 mins of browsing around I thought, "there must be some more rooms here to check out, it can't all just be in this one tiny room or can it?"
Well, it could! It was like visiting a flea market, only a flea market is more fun. The only thing you could really hear was the buzzing of tattoo ink machines piercing the flesh of beer drinking-sweaty people.

They had some merchandise for sale, like punk shirts, hats, pins and whatnot, stuff that you could find in several places directly under Rautatientori. But here you had to pay 18 Euro to get to see it.

Everyone in our party sorta had the feeling that "what am I doing here and please lets just go somewhere and eat!".

Well, in 2009 we'll all be wiser and won't be attending. I have also left the 2008 tattoo convention page on Facebook. I'm no longer a member there!

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8.3.08

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International Women's Day

International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.

The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies. Following is a brief chronology of the most important events:

1909

In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States on 28 February. Women continued to celebrate it on the last Sunday of that month through 1913.

1910

The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance.

1911

As a result of the decision taken at Copenhagen the previous year, International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.

Less than a week later, on 25 March, the tragic Triangle Fire in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working girls, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants. This event had a significant impact on labour legislation in the United States, and the working conditions leading up to the disaster were invoked during subsequent observances of International Women's Day.

1913-1914

As part of the peace movement brewing on the eve of World War I, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with their sisters.

1917

With 2 million Russian soldiers dead in the war, Russian women again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and peace". Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the women went on anyway. The rest is history: Four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere.

Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. The growing international women's movement, which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women's conferences, has helped make the commemoration a rallying point for coordinated efforts to demand women's rights and participation in the political and economic process. Increasingly, International Women's Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of women's rights.


The Role of the United Nations

Few causes promoted by the United Nations have generated more intense and widespread support than the campaign to promote and protect the equal rights of women. The Charter of the United Nations, signed in San Francisco in 1945, was the first international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right. Since then, the Organization has helped create a historic legacy of internationally agreed strategies, standards, programms and goals to advance the status of women worldwide.

Over the years, United Nations action for the advancement of women has taken four clear directions: promotion of legal measures; mobilization of public opinion and international action; training and research, including the compilation of gender desegregated statistics; and direct assistance to disadvantaged groups. Today a central organizing principle of the work of the United Nations is that no enduring solution to society's most threatening social, economic and political problems can be found without the full participation, and the full empowerment, of the world's women.

To read more go to: http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm

5.3.08

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Kepeätä keskiviikkoa

Nyt oli pakko kirjoittaa, kun en ole taas vähään aikaan antanut kuulua itsestäni. Ei ole hirveästi ollut fiilistä tänne kirjoittaa, kun illat menee esseitä "raapustaessa" eikä runosuoni semmoisen pusertamisen jälkeen enää syki. Tänään sain yhden esseen taas valmiiksi ja huomenna alan jo tehdä seuraavaa ts. tutustun aineistoon, joka käsittää kuutisen kirjaa. No ei niitä tarvitse kannesta kanteen sentään lukea.

Loppuviikon ohjelma on siis tiivistä ja intensiivistä opiskelua, tatska messut lauantaina, mahdollisesti sen lisäksi keilaamista tms. iloista ajanvietettä. Saa nyt nähdä.

C:n vanhemmat tulevat yöllä Thaimaasta, missä ovat viimeiset kaksi kuukautta nauttineet kesästä ja auringosta.

Nyt on telkku auki ja mitäs sieltä tuleekaan, G-piste. Joo joo. Kestääkö tätäkään ohjelma edes viittä minuuttia. Lässyti lää. No ei kestä ei. Taitaa olla aika käpertyä peiton alle ja lukea hieman viihteellistä kirjallisuutta.

2.3.08

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Chilling at home

The weekend is coming to it's end. I'm enjoying the last hours by chilling at home. Today I wrote an essay, did some exercising with our bike and after that some yoga stretching.

We woke up already at 4 this morning. Our upstairs neighbor was making love with some new guy. According to the noise she made the guy must have been quite a stallion. It took over two hours to get back to sleep and you can imagine, we weren't too happy about that. I wonder what her grandmother thinks. She lives on the other side of the wall. If we woke up I bet she did as well.

Then in the morning just before ten. I thought it would be a great idea to hear some music and I turned the volume up and listened those great bass lines. Me and Chris enjoyed it and I hope our neighbor did as well. Maybe now she remembers how thin the walls really are. The problem is I think that we are way too quiet.

Today is Sirpa's birthday. She is in Greece at the moment. Happy birthday Sirpa!

In the next week I have to write two essays. The society and politics in East and Southeast Asia -course will start tomorrow. On Saturday we are going to the Helsinki International Tattoo Convention 2008. Busy week ahead again.




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Ps. Chris went to movies. Guess what he went to see. Rambo. I know. It's embarrassing.