Do sports, eat well, pay your bills, do your work, take care of others, finish your assignments, earn your money, be creative and funny, work harder, participate, be active, own your rights, serve, love, make babies, hold on the things you love, work more, look good, conversate, carry the weight of the world on your shoulders and never get tired.

She fights for her life

Weird days, lazy days full of action and energy.

ps. Oren Lavie, rather a nice singer

Snow Patrol

Laying down and forgetting world does not sound like a bad idea to me.

Laying down in front of a metro entrance looks appealing too.

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Gary Go

Gotta look myself in the eye
And say it’s gonna be alright
Maybe everything won’t be alright
All the time
I’ve gotta take these chances where they are
It’s gonna be alright
I’ve gotta see things for what they are
At the time

Lost with no place to begin
I’ll slowly adjust to the sun just face I’m in

Restore

At times I need to restore myself, after it all gets too much and I collapse. It usually takes about a week to restore myself, during that week I am tired,cannot really focus and if someone asks what did he or she just say I might not have the tiniest clue.

I also got a friendship restored this week. Or actually, the friendship never went anywhere or broke down, just communication did. But that´s not what friends are about, about words and communication, right? We continue existing even when words run out.

Last weeks have been challenging.. There has been crisis in many different levels and one of the biggest ones has been cases of death. An "extended family"-member passed away just four days after his beautiful daughter was born and an old friend of mine passed away this week. I hadn´t been in contact with him for a long time, but suddenly all memories became vivid and felt like yesterday.
Sorrow is maybe the heaviest emotion to carry. Whether it´s your own or someone else´s, it doesn´t matter. Either way it weighs a lot and should be given appropriate amount of time. Sorrow needs space and to give the space to it requires courage that most of the people lack, unfortenately.

Human life is weird and cannot really be restored, can it? Rest in peace, dear people.

la la la

You know those days when your head is full of stuff, it overloads and ends up exploding? Yeah,well I kind of had that today. Praise God, I have friends who are willing to listen to my maniac talks at times. Friends relief Co.

That´s life with a giant L. God is good.

I cried for Afgani soldiers

Confusion never stops neither losing things, memories and people. I really did cry for afgani soldiers this morning at work while watching news. Well, I had been awake the whole night, but anyway.

I have had great revelations lately. It is awful to notice that you have forgotten how someone´s laugh sounds like. Someone who once was the closest is now only a face among faces in your head. I can recall many people´s laughs, they mean a lot to me (Oh boy, do I sound healthy right now), but just noticed yesterday that there is someone whose laugh I cannot recall. That someone used to be someone special and now... just distant. It is kind of sad that we lose what we have gained, that we as humanbeings are limited and things like this are out of our control. I would love to remember, but I simply cannot.
So many things are out of our control. Memories, feelings, intelligence, laugh, tears, other people.

Blame on Coldplay and a walk in darkening Spring evening for this triggering melancholy.

Nice week

My sister has been here the whole week, liking it a lot :)

Storm

It´s funny (and slightly sad) that we tend to easily forget who´s there to help us in everything.

Who am I
That the voice that calm the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me

What does not kill you makes you stronger

Well, as my previous entrance (academic) was slightly negative, let´s bring up something positive, another artist! Wohoo.

This time I am presenting someone, whose fan I have been for a while. When I was a teenager I used to collect postcards with his paintings and clue them on my door. My mum must have been very happy. Anyway, I still like his paintings and art, though I am not cluieng anything anywhere anymore... So here we go: Kaj Stenvall.





He has done oil paintings since 1989. Basically he is painting a familiar character (could be Donald Duck) in various settings.

"Stenvall is fascinated by the transitional line between the comical and the tragic, and vice versa, and his art’s inherent humor – both absurd and tragic – is quite clearly an essential feature of his approach."

If you happen to be in Finland, more presicely not far away from Helsinki, you can go and see his exhibition at:

Galleria Kaj Stenvall
Bulevardi 5
Helsinki

Tue-Fri 11am-5pm and Sat-Sun 12am-3pm

(Picture:http://www.artshop.fi/en/images/kaj_stenvall_painting_veen_art.jpg)

Parekh, my friend, is an ass

I have been reading to an exam I have not been able to finish earlier and while I am reading this lovely Parekh´s book, I do remember why I have not been that motivated...

"It is true that some categories of humans such as the mad or mentally handicapped may lack some of the distinctively human capacities and would therefore appear to have less or no worth. However, they are rarely devoid of these capacities altogether, and are mad and handicapped in a way that only humans can be. Besides, they are also the sons, daughters, parents, friends and so forth of normal human beings, to whom they are deeply bonded and in whose worth they therefore participate. Furthermore, madness and idiocy are not easy to define.
Once we start denying worth to certain kinds of persons, we run the risk of denying it, or encouraging others to deny it, to a wider class of humanbeings, and hence we have good reasons not to go down that route. Conferring dignity and worth on such persons also test, affirms and intensifies our general commitment to human worth for, if we are able to value them, we are even more likely to value our more fortunate fellow-humans. For these and other reasons, we may rightly grant them eaqual wort."

Great, Bhikhu Parekh, what a conclusion, such a fresh and surprisins point of view
.
For some reason this piece of argumenting made me think about another book I just finished (I don´t recommend that book either).
It was a book about midgets in the time of the second world war, how they were treated and how many so called normal people paid to come and see the amazing freaks, such as some african tribe or midgets living their every day life. It is not so long time ago, I am aware of that. Still, I did not know that such argumenting as above is even hypothetically needed, especially in a book about big terms like "rethinking multiculturalism".

Who let this guy publish a book anyway, it is not that awesome and why do I need it for my studies, really?!

We

We humans are funny. There might be loads of stress, pressure and sadness in our lifes.
Still green mint tea, good reggae music and making an album of precious memories from a far a way country can fill one with happiness. At least for a while.

The eccentric Spanish Surrealist

Well, well, I´ve been away for a while, and what I did during that time can be see at: www.namnamvietnam.blogspot.com

What I am doing now is: I´m back to studying and working, anytime soon. This Spring is full of intense and interesting studies as well as other happenings.

Anyway, now I would shortly like to recommend an interesting life story to read or interesting pieces of art to see. Mister Salvador Dalí.

The picture below stopped me at a book store a while ago already and as artists and their life stories have always interested me, I grabbed the book. His life is interesting, go for it guys!!

(Picture from: hilobrow.com/2009/05/10/hilo-heroes-may-10-12/)

"He painted bewildering pictures in which every object has several meanings

-and their interpretation is only possible by examining the work in detail.

Whether in the realm of literature, film, advertising or fashion, a great deal of what is to be found in Dalí´s work can be explained by reference to his biography."

Prestel Art Guide Lifelines: Dalí

From now on...

... until Christmas you can follow my journey at:



http://www.namnamvietnam.blogspot.com/







Enjoy!!

Basquiat

I have been reading one of the life stories written of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
I love reading artist´s life stories. And I don´t mean artists like Madonna or Phil Collins, but artists like Picasso or Basquiat.
They were living outside of a box. In many ways, both creatively and self-harmingly.

Admirable and shocking.

Brave and stupid.

Black and white.

Fascinating.


Picture from:


http://srjerman.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/15basquiat_30.jpg

Moody pictures :)

Where the tourists go wild

Went to Tallinn with mum. Had a loads of fun, were dead tired at the end and bought nice stuff. We didn´t buy lots of stuff, though previous sentence sounds like that ;)

Happiness

Weddings were just beautiful last weekend. Sincerely saying: one of the nicest weddings I´ve ever attended.

The atmosphere was relaxed yet graceful :)

I wish you all the best, Eevi & Antti!

ps. My brother also got married last Saturday, by doing do he surprised us all. It was a very pleasant surprise though :)

Picture taken by Anneli Kärki www.siion.fi/sanoinkuvinsavelin/

ps. of course pictures of the wedding couple will be seen later, as soon as they get back from their honeymoon

One bridal shower :)

Eevi is getting married and needed to have her last days as Miss celebrated

Preparing...

Janika and her beautiful baby tummy :)

She did a bit of a rain dance to collect money.. and she got one euro! And five more later..

We also went bowling, which was.. entertaining.

She also got an Indian head massage, food in a restaurant and the rest of the evening we spent on a cottage, having sauna and lots of fun!

We´ll propably get to see some wedding pictures soon :)