Save A Tree

Please leave your Christmas trees to the forests. Earth needs all the trees and your few days having a "real" tree doesn't make it any better.

Buy a eco friendly "plastic" lookalike tree and feel better for at least trying to make a difference.

I have had the same "plastic" tree for ten years and it still looks rather nice.

SAVE A TREE, don't buy/cut real ones!

Down With The Sickness & Time Warp

You should try this game:



Zombies!!!

Also:

The Time Warp guys should see how the bee flies. Really.

Some Good, Some Bad

I actually enjoyed watching Ghost Town on DVD. Even though it was pretty close to that Eva Longoria ghost-thingy -movie, included dentist humor and Tea Leoni with some ghost whispering, I liked it enough to have a big surprise at the almost-end (actually me and J went WTF at that point, damn those movie bus drivers!!). This one I could actually buy on DVD rather than rent.

Another good surprise was Mirrors, starring Mr 24.. At some point it was so creepy I had to pause for awhile. The weirdest thing was, there were some creepy images I can't shed out of my mind for a couple of days. The creepiest part in the film was after I watched it, because I got freaked out by a reflection in the window that had a human in it. Of course, it was the TV and Ghost Town on it, but it was enough to make me go goose-bump all over.

Now the bad.. The Duchess. I don't mind period dramas but this definitely was Keira Knightley on one too many of that genre. She needs to do something else than wear a corset and either silly bonnets or stupid hairdos. I didn't like the movie most of its part. Even the guy (Dominic Cooper of Sense and Sensibility on BBC - I think) Georgina falls in love with has been in one too many period dramas. The only thing I ended up watching was the fabric of the dresses and the sets and sceneries of the film. The rest was wayyyyy too much Keira. Keira please, DO SOMETHING ELSE, like a good shoot-out with a hard-boiled toughguy. No more corset dramas, please. For some reason, I like Aidan McArdle, who plays Sheridan, I haven't seen him much, but I liked the BBC mini Jane Eyre, in which he played John Eshton the twin researcher. This guy could do a couple more corset dramas, I think.

Missed The Geminides & A Few Words About Mansion/Garden

So, I've been waiting another year for the Geminides meteor shower to arrive. And the weather HAD to suck, of course, so I missed the maximum. I'm not angry, just furious.

The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff: RIP-OFF! Do NOT waste your money on it. You'll get a few decent plants, but: They won't match seasons -> will not wilt in winter. The rest of it is bull. No trees (WTF?), just a few indoor plants and useless, ugly items, such as a weird horse-type statue. I found only a few usable items, the windows and doors were mostly ugly (recolors needed!) and the Apartment Life "bugfix" f*cked up my game because I use a lot of annoyance-removing hacks and these hacks were broken because eAxis decided to break everything - again.

I've had a day of disappointments today. Well, yesterday.

The Day The Earth Stood Still

I just love one-face-Keanu. Though in DESS it was justified, he is an alien and everything, I believe he's overbotoxed himself.

I had to whisper: "Wake up, Neo" at a certain point in the movie...

The movie: I thought I liked the movie until we got to the part where the Disney shit started, you know the *sob* I miss dad *sob* me too *sob shit*. Only US flag waving could have made the film worse. I hated the kid (Will Smith: Your kid is terrible, do him a favor and quit pushing him towards film career, he'll be in rehab in less than ten years anyway) from the get-go and when he called the authorties on Kleetus whereabouts, I was past anger. Made me realize why I hate kids and their way of thinking.. The graveyard (over-sappy shit) scene made me frustrated and I wanted to leave the theater, but thought I might was well let J finish it, though he wasn't pleased either. I'm sorry but this movie was sort of, like Disney meets Neo. The Disney part was the I-thought-you-thought-broken-relationship between the step mom and the annoying brat. I kept hoping the woman would give a good bitch slap to the boy and ditch him. How cruel of me.

One good thing: I almost cried when the spheres started gathering animals, saving the ones who weren't to blame. Another good thing: I almost cried when the woman understands Kleetu is here to save life on earth but not humans. We would deserve it. A disease that would wipe most of the population. Interstellar intervention. Anything that would give us a lesson...

The thing is.. I don't think we'd learn.

I'd give two stars to DESS, but only because I happen to like Keanu and I liked the two emotion spikes. That's it.

Top Ten Horror Movie Rules

How to survive in a horror movie?

Ten useful tips:

10. Don't rent an old cabin far away from everything
9. Do not wear skimpy clothing (definitely NO flip-flops, you can't run with them)
8. If you sense something is behind you, don’t bother checking, just run.
7. Don't run upstairs (unless there's a panic room)!
6. Never say “Who’s there?” (Nor hello, Anyone there etc)
5. Do not go search for something in the basement/garage/attic.
4. Never go ANYWHERE alone if there's someone else still alive!
3. Always check the back seat of your car. Always.
2. Never say "I'll be back". You won't.
1. Absolutely no sex (no boobs either)!

I Wish I'd Live To The Day..

I wish I'd live to the day when recording one's dreams would be possible. A Japanese group of neuroscientits or a group of nerds anyhow have gone one step closer to recording dreams: they have succeeded in recording random images shown to the person prior to the tests.

A Nice Weekend

I visited my friend L this weekend. We had a bit of girly fun, like farting and playing Wii (yeah, I dragged ours to her place). I love the town she lives in. They've left some of the buildings from 19th and 20th century unlike in my home town, where they've torn down almost everyting older than 1930 and built ugly concrete projects. Her town is not much bigger than this, but it seems like a bigger place. And how polite the people are. The cashiers actually can talk and they are helpful too. Unlike here. I was on good mood the whole weekend despite the high blood pressure that was diagnosed as a migraine, anemia, bi-polar disorder or panic disorder is still quite high. It annoys my to feel and hear my heart beat.

A good weekend ended with a nice dream. I forgot most of it almost instantly, but there was this guy with blonde curly hair, who followed me at a book fair. I noticed him staring, but he didn't turn his eyes away. As I walked away, he followed. I was not bothered. After finding a book about a color (I don't remember what color, maybe it was cirulean blue, but blueish anyway), I read a paragraph. There was a name, which I don't remember. The writer sounded something like Alexander Dumas. While I was reading, he came to me and started talking, like we've known for ages. He started talking about this study. It was about relationships, how people have grown too careful and getting married after nine years is too late, that relationships grow boring if they don't move fast enough. He finished his pedantic talk and then said: I want to be married in ten months. It was, like, he was giving an order rather than just stating something. I blushed. I said: "I'm with someone." He shrugged and said: "No, I didn't mean it like that. We can be, sort of, like friends and not risk your relationship, but we can change the status if you ever feel like it. Now this guy was cute and all, but all I could think about was J, how much he has done for me in good and bad and decided I'd rather be with one I know than possibly go tumbling down. Then he started to appear everywhere and I was soon intrigued and I figured he was too. In the end, I fell in love with him and the rest of the dream is X-rated, but it left me a good feeling.

This dream was apparently effected by Twilight, which I didn't like. It held somewhere inside me, I think, because the whole stare-at-me-follow-stuff was straight from that movie.

Twilight, What? Mental(ist)

Holy poo that movie sucks. I don't have ANYTHING positive to say about that movie. It was like 90210 + True Blood messed with a all-time-worst dialogue, stupid "romantic" jumping up and down trees, some vampire baseball.. Shit, shit, shit. I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it. Don't waste your money on it.

I have also forgotten to mention my third favorite show, Mentalist. I don't know why I like it. It's not really good and that guy should be quite the mentalist to actually be able to pull stunts like that. I like Robin Tunney and there's something in her face that makes me just want to stare. I've seen The Craft for at least, like, twenty times. For some creepy reason, I love her chicken legs in it.

Simon Baker, who is the mentalist, Patric Jane (I always thought it was Jayne) has the most evil grin on his face sometimes. Great, wicked smile. Awesome! After CSI went to all-poo halfway through the eight season, this is my replacement. Simon Baker, who you'd might know from The Guardian and Land of the Dead. Of course I recognice him from Ring Two and The Devil Wears Prada (but I'd never confess to watching them)..

There's this X-Filish sparkles-theme between Jane and Lisbon that always works for me. Basically, any show having that kind of a relationship between the main characters, I'm sold.

Doctors From Hell

Over-golded, trendy clothes, big belly.. This was my doctor today.

He suggested that my high blood pressure that came out of nowhere two days ago is because I might be bi-polar, suffering from migraine or panic disorder. He also said I might be a bit depressed or anxious. He also added that having a history of childhood abuse might effect my mind (no shit, Sherlock). Not to forget he thinks I'm anemic. Oh and let's not forget that he sent me home with blood pressure 30 units higher than it should be.

Nothing's changed, I'm just a bit poorer and yes, my head's still humming, my heart's beating too fast and NOW I'm pissed off too. I though I've had some poor doctors, but this one... The next time I'll go see a doctor is in a body bag. I've had it. No one calls me crazy until I start seeing pink elephants climbing trees.

And apprently I'm wrong about thinking what depression meds did to my sister has something to do with how they'll effect me. After all, we only share most of our genes. But no.

He just wanted to know do I like my life. I had to think a sec. I have J, a few well chosen friends, a nice place to live in, my most important people are alive and the only thing in my life I don't like is school. I, amazingly, like myself. I'm surprisingly happy being fat.

I basically told the doctor to go fuck himself. Well, no, I was polite as always. But I DID ask him why was he being so arrogant. "I'm not being arrogant, you're just being touchy." After a night of takykardia, humming in my ears and worry about my health in all, I'd like to have something else said instead of stating that I'm a mental case.

I'm not. The only thing I don't have the energy to do is school stuff. I can go out (even though my back aches), go shopping, sit on the computer, watch movies, talk with people, play Wii with people, cook, smile, laugh, cry... I am not crazy or even mentally unstable (isn't what all the really crazy people say), I just don't like school, had a tumor-like thingy in my belly (that's still hurting) and a muscle that hasn't healed properly.

It's all in me head, as Mr. Tweedy has to remind himself every now and then (in Chicken Run).

I forgot, there's one annoying, arrogant doctor I like and that's House, MD.

Tune of the moment:
Disturbed - Down With The Sickness

My Carbon Footprint

My carbon footprint is 5,08 tonnes (Kg) of CO2 according to the test I made. According to carbonfootprint.com, it is 2.92 tonnes of CO2. I don't know about the units in the second test, so I can't really tell did I just give the wrong answers. The average footprint in my country is 12 tonnes according to that last test.

How big is your footprint?

Change of subject: I have had my new Nokia N95 8Gb for quite some time now. I can't say nothing negative about it, I've liked every bit of it, except the crappy Spiderman 3 movie that came with it. Well, if I really have to complain about everything, it's still a bit slow, killing hung software is difficult, the camera isn't properly covererd and after a while the keys start making noise, but everything else is cool. The price? Way too much, but everything costs nowadays.

Today In Russia...

I heard Putin is going to do his famous questionnaire on Russian TV. Unfortunately people just can't phone and ask. I would ask him what will happen to Medvedev (or whatever the puppet is called) if he starts thinking with his own brain and speaking with his own mouth. Do the russians actually believe that Medwhatever is the president? 'Cause in my humble opinion, he's not.

I bet they will assassinate the president and the "people" will ask Putin to step into his shoes.

The last bit of the snow is gone after two days or rain. I hate our weather.

Snow's Gone

The temperature is up to +4. The snow is almost gone. There's soft wind and sunshine. It used to be -15 this time of the year. So I guess winter's gone too. Greenhouse effect, anyone?

I'm cold.

Oh and I had the weirdest nightmare EVER! I don't remember much anymore since I've been up for eight hours now, but I remember the bit where there were worms in my veins and I cut little cuts and squeezed them out of me. I woke up itching, so I took a three-hour bath and changed the sheets. I have been watching some scary movies, but I skipped all the gory ones. I think the movies are not to blamed for this dream. I think it's Trauma Center - Second Opinion, which I've been playing on Wii. There's an operation where you have to make small cuts in order to get some nasty things out of a patient. I hate that game.

Speaking of games, We have bought only a few games for our Wii: Resident Evil 4, Raving Rabbids and Raving Rabbids TV Party, Fit and Sports. I love Raving Rabbids, I've had some of my best laughs playing Raving Rabbids 2 that we borrowed from one of J's friends. The balance board has been my favorite since I realized how to work my balance. Tip: Don't bother with the yoga, it will only make you frustrated or feel inadequate. Besides, Fit's Age calculator sucks. My body is 21 years old in it's opinion.

Eric's Hot

No, not Eric Cartman

Eric Northman the character from True Blood. His real name? Dunno and don't care, apple to ones eye won't need a name because it just lasts for that second. Well, for you who care, this cutie pie is voted ten or so times the hottest guy in Sweden. Born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1976 was named Alexander Skarsgård (and yes he is related to Stellan Skarsgård, being the son).

I bet my life he's gay.

And in this photo on IMDB, he looks like Eva Green.

I love Swedish, especially coming out of something that looks like that.

Anyway, rest your eyes on this:


Or this...



How kawaii is THAT? Huh? I always though guy wearing a top like that was hillbillyish, but look at that pack? Would you put that in a suit? Nooooooo-o.

And when the hell did I start liking guys with long hair? Swedish guys.. well, I used to date a guy from Stockholm, but he was a computer whiz, drove a BMW and was too skinny.

If You Had Money, What Would You Do With It?

So,

Let's imagine you've won €6500000 (That's USD 8 375 000, CAD10 000 000, GBP 5 500 000 or JPY 811 000 000), what would you do with all the money?

I've heard inspiring stories, like one guy paid the loans and credit cards of his siblings and parents and then some less inspiring stories, like this one guy bought an expensive car and clothes and partied his money. Would YOU be an inspiration or desperation?

This is how I'd spend my money:

• New computer put together for me, J and both my kid sisters (that's €14 000)
• Canon EOS-1Ds Mark (for €2 500)
• A bike (replacing the one that was stolen in June for €2 000)
• Lasik surgery (for never needing to wear contact lenses again for €3 800)
• A monthly pay for myself of €3 500 for the next 50 years (for €2 100 000)
• 4-bedroom apartment of my dreams (for €1 010 000)
• My study loan, J's credit card bill and his car loan (€23 000)
• Renault Mégane Break 1.5 dCi 88 Authentique for my big sister K with 5 children (for €26 000)
• Toyota Prius HSD for my kid sisters M & T (for €62 000 combined)
• Toyota Prius HSD for J's brother (for €31 000 combined)
• Honda Civic Hybrid 1.4i CVT for myself (for €28 000)
• Honda Civic Hybrid 1.4i CVT for J's sister (for €28 000) (whom I hate)
• BMW 530d for J (with everything for €120 000)
• €250 a week for the next ten years plus a 1000 for christmas for my big sister K (because she couldn't handle money - for €140 000)
• €25 000 for J's brother (he just built a house and would probably need it)
• €250 a week for the rest of her life for J's mother (for about €140 000, she's 71 after all)
• €140 000 for each of my kid sisters (that's €280 000)
• €10 000 for each of K's kids (for €50 000) on a saving's account
• €10 000 for my kid sisters in case they have children (for €20 000) on a savings account
• A house for my big sister (for €290 000)
• A two-bedroom apartment for M (€185 000) in her home town
• A two-bedroom apartment for T (€189 000) in her home town
• For WWF (€150 000) Climate projects (€150 000)
• For UNICEF Climate Projects (€100 000)
• 90 WWF supported animal donations of €250 for me, M, J and T (for €90 000)
• Travel and shopping together with my friend L and J, M, T (for €100 000)

Did I already spend everything? :)

Next Year

When you're making your new years' resolutions, resolute this:

I Will Not Kill A Bee

We need bees. Really. Stop killing them.

Quantum of Solace & Great News!

I forgot, I was supposed to hype the new Bond film.

I loved it. I just loved it. Can't say much more. I loved every aspect, every twist and turn, especially the motor oil bit. There are some people who I'd like to give the same treatment. :) The car chase in the beginning, great, though I felt a wee sorry for the Aston Martin. I loved Olga Kurkova and her tan (how come the Ukranian women are so pretty? Like Milla and half of the supermodels). The locations, wow! The hotel where they stayed at with Strawberry Fields and Matis (?) guy was great looking in its white stone.

Was that really Tosca they were shooting at? It looked interesting. I might want to go see Tosca like that. I guess I have gotten old since I've grown a liking to some operas, like Lucia Di Lammermoor, The Medium, Faust (with Damnation, of course)...

This time it wasn't all about "No one can have eyes like that", but more like, "Why does a guy that ugly have such beautiful eyes.." :) Me and my shallow thoughts! I kept thinking what if those eyes were gifted to Jensen Ackles (whose own eyes are not bad either)... I have always loved the eye part in men and as I've grown older, I have grown to love exceptionally colored eyes.

The only thing I didn't like about the film was that I was sitting too front. I usually sit on the 5th row (of 13?), but this time there was just too much action and at times I felt a bit unease having my range of vision filled with action.

The really good news: WE GOT SNOW! Snow, people, snow, the white thing we didn't have last year... As a proof: The view from our kitchen window.

It's not much, I know, but after last year with no snow at all I find this more than refreshing. I'm pretty sure no one will whine this year, since I bet snow is what they'll enjoy instead of the slush we were so scared of.

Anyway, let's cross our fingers (or toes, heck, even arms) and hope to have many more snowy days . Please, Mother Nature, I ask of you. Give us more snow. Or at least keep this.

What Men & Women Say And What They Mean

What men say and what they mean?

1. My mom is the most important thing in my life

I'm gay but not willing to come out yet

2. I haven't found the right woman yet

I'm gay but not willing to come out yet. Or I'm a dick who beats his women or demands too much or is just a regular dick.

3. There's only one woman for me and I haven't found her yet

I have commitment issues. Or: I'm gay and not willing to come out yet

4. I'm happy with her, she completes me as a person

She sleeps with me, doesn't fart in front of me and always wears make-up

5. We don't need to get married

Cause I'm afraid of divorce, custody battle and losing

6. I like you

I'd like to have sex with you

7. I think I love you

This will definitely get me between your legs

8. It's not you, it's me.

It's me. I want to keep on bed-hopping in hopes of finding someone more skinnier, prettier and richer than you.

9. I love you

I love you. Or at least I think I do. At least for now. This is not, like, forever.

10. We're through

We're through. Don't start crying, it's no use. You have no use to me.

11. Should we forget all others and start seeing only each other?

You're going to forget all others and be mine. I'm going to keep a reserve.

12. Will you marry me?

Shit, should have asked about the prenup first.

13. You're pregnant? Really? Wow, I mean, wow.

Fuck. Shit. No, no, no. How could you do this to me?

14. I'm not ready to be a father

I don't want kids! They smell, are noisy and cost money!

15. I don't want this baby, but I want you

You better have an abortion

16. You'll be a great mom, I'm sure!

But I won't be here seeing that

17. Want to move in together?

I need someone to share the rent and since I already sleep with you, wouldn't mind. I hope you're into cleaning.

18. I'm sure my mom will like you!

You better look sweet and innocent or she'll eat you alive

19. Don't worry, at least my dad will like you!

He'll like anything with boobs and blonde hair...

20. How many boyfriends have you had?

You better lie.

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What women say and what they mean?

1. My dad is the most important thing in my life

I haven't had a real boyfriend yet.

2. I haven't found the right man yet

I can't trust anyone, really.

3. There's only one man for me and I haven't found him yet

I have too high standards. Actually, you'd look great with black hair.

4. I'm happy with him, he completes me as a person

I can fart, burb and yawn in front of him and don't need to prented I like ice hockey.

5. We don't need to get married

At least not this year

6. I like you

I love you, but can't say it yet or you might get scared and run away

7. I think I love you

Don't flip out, don't flip out, don't flip...

8. It's not you, it's me.

It's you. You don't shower, you're not giving me enough attention and your wallet is not as fat as I thought it was.

9. I love you

I love you. Will you marry me and give me four, no three children?

10. We're through

I'm testing you. If you say "ok", we're through, but if you're willing to fight, I might take you back.

11. Should we forget all others and start seeing only each other?

You're going to erase all female contacts from you phone and never talk to another woman again! I'll keep Dave and Mark, they are my exes, but they are my friends.

12. Will you marry me?

Why the hell do I have to be the one to ask?

13. I'm pregnant.

You better at least act happy.

14. I'm not ready to be a mother

I am, really, but I'm testing you.

15. I don't want this baby, but I want you

I'm not ready to be a mother. I'd rather have you.

16. You'll be a great dad, I'm sure!

At least your wallet will be.

17. Want to move in together?

I can keep a better eye on you if we live together.

18. I'm sure my mom will like you!

You're handsome and I've already told her you're rich.

19. Don't worry, at least my dad will like you!

I told him you're rich and that's enough for him.

20. How many girlfriends have you had?

I'm testing you. You better not lie, 'cause I'll find out the truth eventually.

Holy Poo Bryan Adams Takes Good Photos

Check the Bryan Adams web site. I don't know what he says to those people, but they look at the camera in such a way...

I knew he is a photographer and was a photographer before he started taking his music seriously but I always thought he takes some black&white pics and that's it, but hey, Harry Belafonte! He's shot, like, everyone. I only wish I'd knew how he looks at Angelina Jolie through his lens. (He made Josh Groban look handsome)

Now, I have ALWAYS denied being a fan of anyone, but I have to confess I used to like Adams' music pretty much back in the early nineties, before I took a liking of electronic music. I did have a picture of him on my wall, but not for long. Does that count as being a fan?

If I was asked who'd I want to date, I guess it might be Bryan Adams. I'd ask him what he was thinking when he first had the idea of a melody to Star. Or did his heart start racing when he completed the chorus to Everything I do (I do it for you).

I'm sad his music just keeps repeating the same all through the year(s). Maybe he is better off photographing people. Sry.

An Open Letter To Josh Groban

Dear Josh,

The thing you did at the Emmy's...

It cracked me up. It was great! I had the best laugh for weeks! Anyone who said you shouldn't have done it are uptight cu*ts! You always sing these doo-do-loo-la-la-lovey-dovey -songs and that was a breath of clean air! You actually can sing other than pretty churchy songs too! Awesome! Amazing! I'm not a fan of yours, I don't even like more than two of your songs but your v-log gave me the impession you're not this pure little cute church-boy and I LIKE IT! A little bad boy in your image would do great!

I also think that you could ditch your eyeglasses to something more.. umm.. less gay. Check out the Police Eyewear, they'll look great on you. Try V 8270 for starters and fire your stylist for letting you wear those hideous Dame Edna things.

Also, I'm going to be stealing your song to make a Sims 2 video, hope you'll forgive me and not sue. Tell that to your label too.

What else..? Oh, right. I have never-ever-ever though of you as something more than the too-good-awkward neighbor boy type, but your late night kitchen blog made me think what kind of a kisser you are. Than I remembered how young you are and I realized I probably wouldn't get to try unless I became a Natalie Portman myself. Anyway.

Are you gay? I don't mind if you are, I just want to say that the womanhood is missing something in you. If you aren't, don't marry. Or at least do a prenup.

Here's the JG v-log embedded for you few readers:


Late Night Kitchen Time from Josh Groban on Vimeo.

They killed him!

Jim has been shot and survived. He looks at Melinda and waits for her to wake up after falling asleep next to Jim's hospital bed. When Melinda opens her eyes, they have a short conversation:

Jim: You're more beautiful every time I see you.
Melinda: You're awake! I love you.
Jim: Mel, there's a thing that happened. Umm... Uh, it's called an embolism - it's a technical term and you don't need to know about it.
Melinda: Let me go get you a doctor.
Jim: No, please. Just look at me, right here. Please look at me, right now. Look, look at me right here. I want you to remember me this way, please.

By this time Melinda understands there's something wrong, so she looks at the bed where Jim was sleeping when she fell asleep in the chair. His body is on the bed and the heart rate monitor now shows flatline. He's gone.

Jim: I'll always love you, Melinda
Melinda: No.
Jim: Always
Melinda: No, not you. Please, not you.

So, that's Ghost Whisperer for me. Killing Jim was the last episode I'll see.

Congrats, Barack Obama!

Since the start of the US presidential race, I've been saying that it should be a white woman before a black man (sry, I'm a racist). After seeing the white woman options I thought maybe a black man is what the USA needs. Because the black people are often summarised with the poor, I reckon a black president would be something for the poor and the needy.

The world thought this as a good thing. Most of the indexes went up and the markets ended up slightly up. Will Barack be the savior or end up screwing up worse than Bush?

Besides, Barack is not pure black. He had a white maternal grandmother?

Well, anyway, congrats mr Obama, I wish you a good time in the White House and a bunch of excellent decicions. I hope you'll be remembered as the president who turned USA to the right track rather than the "first black president".

Sudden Memory

I dated a guy who looked like Brendan Fehr.

Me? The butt-ugliest girl in the school. What the hell was he thinking?

I Still Don't Need Piracy Info

I'm going to ste... *ehem* borrow someone's great idea.

Remember this post?

Well, I came across with a picture from one of these image boards. There should be some kind of a "post this on your website" -campaign to remove one of the silliest "features" on DVD's you buy:
I still buy legit DVD's. But not for long.

I'm not sure who owns the rights to this photo even though there is a tag to a blog. I guess this is fair use, though.

Will The Sun Stop?

Very few sunspots. Scientists are baffled.

Just for your information:

if the Sun shuts down, we have approximately ten minutes before we start to get colder. In less than a year, all life on this planet will be gone. Happy thought, isn't it?

My New Favorite Show

True Blood.

I didn't like Anna Paquin at the first look, but after reading all the Sookie Stackhouse books, I think she's jut fine.

I love everything in this show.. everything. It's a shame there's only material for one season or one and a half.

I love the music that plays in the background when Bill is glamouring someone.

I love the look in Bill's eyes when he's angry..

I love it that they don't speak that clinical, forced pretty English.

Thanks HBO.

Ok, The Summer Is Officially Gone

Some of the most beautiful moments from the summer already gone.. A stream of fresh water, the Devil's Gate and Spidey at J's home town..

Bring Hubble Down When It's Old

Dear NASA,

When Hubble's work will finish, please bring it down. Put it to a museum for display. It would be more than cruel to let it burn or what's worse: leave it up there.

I Don't Need Piracy Info or Forced Commercials

These days when you buy a DVD, you get all sorts of little "extras" on the DVD (or blu-ray) .. You might spend €25 to buy a one-disc movie or more if a bonus DVD is included... Right after you've read the disclaimer, you get a stupid "buying pirated dvd:s is stealing, stealing is against the law" -ad which you cannot skip or fast forward. If you don't get this one, you've forced to watch upcoming releases (like in the 30 Days of Night DVD WHICH I LEGALLY BOUGHT!) that you cannot skip either. I buy movies on DVD, I go to see them in the movies, I rent movies, so WHY AM I FORCED to watch piracy ads on a dvd? Why am I forced to watch upcoming release adverts when I already paid for that DVD? It would be different if the DVD was free and ad-funded, but when I pay for something I don't expect to pay to see adverts!

Do the releasers actually believe that pirates (copier or rippers) would rip that into their productions?! Ha! The only one who suffers here is the one who paid money to buy that. The ones who share their ripped stuff, they remove both annoyances. That is definitely not something that would encourage people to buy their DVD's rather than download them FREE from the P2P -networks..

Good Luck, Earth

Today the first protons were injected into the 27-kilometre tunnel way below the Earth's surface. Large Hadron Collider started it's work today (if they already didn't in August)..

Will the rumors eventually become the truth? In the worst case scenario, we'll all live for at least ten years. After that, every year is a bonus. You'll have plenty of time to raise a kid, so let's do it today (only low birthrate countries please)! We'll destroy the planet sooner or later anyway so why not in the name of science rather than Russia bombing us to protons anyway?

They should make a movie, with Morgan Freeman doing the credit voiceover: "September 10th, 2008, The Collider was started and slowly and surely the end of days of life on Earth became nearer." The movie should -of course- be called "Armageddon 2" or "The Collider". And If I could choose, I'd name Gillian Anderson as the main scientist, Sigourney Weaver and Harold Ramis as the warning scientists, Tony Shalhoub as the hero dad, Gary Oldman as the other hero dad (and they'd fight over Tony's daughter and Gary's son dating), Megan Fox as the Daughter, Charlie Cox as the son.. The movie would basically be about the love story of a couple in their late teens and the last minutes before the end would start. There would be gunfights, BOINC network calculating how to stop it, scientist fighting, world peace. No riots because everyone would be too afraid, changing weather. Basically, you could put every destroy-the-earth-you-stupid-humans -movie plot in one. Imagine the amount of CGI! Imagine the scientists all over the world stating against the movie.. and the freaky cults... And everyone would go see it! Genious, am I?

Most Bizarre Dream..

I had a dream about Colin Farrel. It wasn't a typical love dream for me, but a wee weird one. Unlike the pics and videos what we usually see everywhere, he was very kind, spoke softly and looked at me in such a way..

We were at his house (one my mind productions of course). The house was very modern, furnished minimally and it was full of light. We were somewhere close to the ocean since I could hear the waves.

I was leaving him (!! Who would leave Colin Farrell anyway?) and he was sad and sort of disappointed. He looked at me in such a way I can't even describe. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen that face in any of his movies or pics, so it must be one of my mind productions. It broke my heart. I just told him that he's too famous and I don't like his "showing off" and I wish he'd go back the way he used to be.

I woke up and was - once again, like - is this planet Earth?

Pro Life or Pro Choice

In short: I'm Pro Life with Choice

But I'm not rubbing it to your face. Every woman has her right. Ever since I've been a teenager, I've know I'd put my baby up for adoption if I would get knocked up. Besides, I've always been careful enough to keep myself clean from The Pill and STD's. Financially it would be safe to be a teenage mother in this country, you'd only need some some humble attitude and strong will, so being a teenager in this country, would not be a reason.

If I got knocked up by a one night stand, I'd go Life & Adoption..

If I got knocked up in an abusive relationship, I'd go Life & Adoption..

If I got raped, I'd still go Life & Adoption.. It wouldn't be my or the baby's fault.

If I had no money to support myself, I'd go Life & Adoption..

If my baby would have something wrong, I'd go Choice. The only time I'd go choice. A life lived only half or without knowing who you are, unable to ask and unable to understand is not a life. A life lived as a burden to other people would not be a life.

The reason for this post is the numerous sites each defending their own side.
I found a site dedicated to a law that would force abortion agencies to let the parents of a minor know. The site introduced tens of calls to Planned Parenthood in which a voice altered "teen" called to check if they would offer her abortion allthough her "boyfriend" was 22 (In the US, it's called a statutory rape). The only thing I learned from those tapes was that most of the ones who worked on that line didn't know about that law or were too bored in their job to actually listen to the caller. I found a site with horrible pictures of aborted fetuses. I found a site claiming that anonymous abortion on a clinic without parents knowing is much better than butcher abortions (I agree).. A few girls die over septicemia or some complication, but that is almost always the result of their own actions. It's like taking a vacation in Iraq: Lot's of sun and sand, but you might end up dead any day. If you're ready to have sex, you're ready to suffer the consequences and it might include a death. You might have HIV instead of a child, would like that? Decisions, decisions...

So, I'm pro life with Choice and Let Others Choose Their Side.

Bad Russia, BAD!

Well, apparently our friends the Russians decided to attack Georgia. Unlike what CNN has heard from Georgian officials, it is NOT like Russia attacking Finland in 1939. When Russia attacked Finland, they underestimated the will of the Finns and sent too few troops. Now they can finish the war by using nukes and send no troops at all.

The Georgian's claim that they are the innocent counterpart here and compare themselves to Finland "as a small country". Now, I dont' know much about the situation in Georgia, but this much I know: War is always bad and it should be judged by every other country in the world. Georgia moved its troops closer to its boards not to attack Russia but resolve an issue - and Russia answered. Do they really think Georgia would bother to attack Russia? It's the second biggest country in the world FFS!

Everyone's afraid of the Russians today. They are in with the "bad guys" and the "goodies" can't say or do anything without

USA, IF you want to set up a missile shield or at least a military base somewhere in Finland, I won't object, you got my vote. I don't stay in Finland, but I'm still a citizen. I'd rather be in it with you, USA, than be oppressed by the Russians - again!

It Can't Rain All The Time..

Well, actually it can. It's been raining the whole day. No breaks, just constant rain. I guess it's fall now. In August!

The summer was sucky anyway. We had warm days (meaning above +23 centigrade) for less than two weeks since May 1st until today. My flowers at the balcony froze in June! How creepy is that?!

If this is greenhouse effect, this greenhouse has its windows broken.

I Met Chris Evans today

Well, I didn't actually meet Chris Evans (the actor, not the radio guy). I just saw his double. The guy looked just like him, with the hair cut, hair color and beard. I actually stopped and stared at this guy and he noticed it. If J hadn't been with me, I'd probably would have explained. Now he probably will remember an ugly woman who looked at him like a pound hamburger :D

Dark Knight

For some reason, I didn't feel the Joker. I just kept seeing that obviously shy young man behind that mask. I saw the moves from hundreds of other films and it left me numb for some reason.

Most of the action sequences and the parts where the movie tried to kept suspension, I predicted everything that would happen, so I was only surprised in one scene - and so was most of the theater. The music was unfortunately subtle, no great feelings or high notes. I expected more from Zimmer - but on the other hand, I've never really liked Howard's production so I guess that's what made the movie lame.

When those things put aside, I can't regret I paid money to see Dark Knight. I liked everyone - even Maggie "Secretary" Gyllenhaal. The action was good enough and the end didn't leave me cold. I'm going to see the movie again this weekend and try to forget Heath Ledger under the Joker suit and only see the Joker.

A good movie. Well done, everyone.

A Freilekhn Gebortstog Mel Brooks!

I've seen Young Frankenstein so many times... The voice of Bigweld.. Producers..

You're the god of comedy, Mel Brooks!

Happy birthday and let there be many others!

My Bunny

Her name is Bud.

Rest In Peace, Stan Winston

It's a shame that basically no one noticed the news on Stan Winston's death.

Hey, Stan Winston, people! You've been watching his work for decades now!

How about a short reminder Make-up, special effects in, creature designs: Constantine, Terminator(s), Iron Man, Artificial Intelligence, Aliens, Predator...

Rest In Peace, Stan Winston. The world will miss your imagination.

Some Good, Some Bad and Some Shiteous

Let's start with the Good.

Indiana Jones:

I hadn't read a single review and tried to keep myself from getting any information on the film. As soon as I saw the scull I knew that H.R. Giger got himself copied. The sculls anyone? Well, of course the movie was behind Lucasarts and Stan Winston, but the scull was SO close to the alien one, I couldn't help myself but enjoy the rest of the movie too.

Iron Man: Good enough. I had low expectations, so it surprised me in the positive way..

The Happening:

Shyamalan rocks. I mean seriously rocks. Yesterday when I walked out of the theater, the strong wind gave me the chills. So far his movies (the ones I've seen) have made me:

See dead people in my dreams
Break my toe
Like Joaquin Phoenix
Cry
Scared
Wait for the plants' revenge.

+learn how to look for the little things in the movies

But hey, what the hell was the microphone thing in The Happening?

Well done, Mr. Shyamalan. Night-san!

Kung Fu Panda

The chopstick fight was the best ever!

And The Not Bad, but not good:

Dark Floors

The second Finnish movie in English (that I've seen) and the only bad thing was the Lordi members. The rest of it: Ten points for Finland. Ten poäng Finland. Seriously, I didn't even know Marcus Selin can DO things like that. You can also see the annoying captain from "Aliens" in this little piece of Finnish movie history.

The Shiteous:

Whisper

Again one of the movies that have made me want to destroy all the children.

And some others just on DVD and blu-ray

Go David!

One of my favorite hymns, composed by the great Sibelius of Finland, has lyrics in English, which I never knew. I heard it sung by a great young singer, David Archuleta. Finlandia is very beautiful sung (in Finnish) by a Finnish choir Cantores Minores as well, but I must say it has never brought tears to my eyes before though I have always felt it.

I know many hymns are borrowed from other languages, but I didn't have an idea a Finnish composer actually is that famous. I'm sure Finland has at least one artist to be proud of.

The original video was removed from YouTube, but I suppose you could try finding it by searching david +archuleta +be +still +my +soul

Population

This is a very nice thought coming from a pirate network.

I'm sorry that I suck so much that all I find in this - what most people call tragedy - is the relief for the Earth. Take those 200 000 people in China and Myanmar that will die because of this chain of natural events and make three children for each of them. That makes 600 000 more people on Earth. Three children for each of them and in twenty years 1 800 000. And so on and so forth.

I do value a human life, but I value it so much I want to keep it for generations to come, that's why I'm glad so many people die. Nearly a million people worldwide die by suicide annually. Give them 2 million children and them 2 million children.. The Earth is at it's boundaries and these things only relief it for awhile.

I remember one economist friend of mine once said that birth rate in every country should be less than 7.45 births/1,000 population so there would be tax payers for the future AND the Earth would survive. In China, the rate is 13.45 births/1,000 population and in Niger, the rate is 48.95. Notice, that the top 20 of birth rate countries are the ones that receive most part of the foreign relief.

1 Niger 48.91
2 Uganda 47.45
3 Mali 47.29
4 Afghanistan 47.27
5 Chad 46.50
6 Somalia 46.04
7 Angola 45.14
8 Liberia 44.81
9 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 44.73
10 Burkina Faso 44.46
11 Malawi 44.35
12 Sierra Leone 43.34
13 Yemen 43.16
14 Benin 42.57
15 Guinea 42.26
16 Madagascar 41.91
17 Mauritania 41.79
18 Zambia 41.77
19 Sao Tome and Principe 41.36
20 Nigeria 40.87

Now, the top 20 countries to not waste the Earth:

1 Germany 8.45
2 Lithuania 8.49
3 Latvia 8.87
4 Slovenia 8.90
5 Austria 8.90
6 Italy 9.05
7 Czech Republic 9.10
8 Andorra 9.32
9 Monaco 9.36
10 Croatia 9.51
11 Japan 9.56
12 Russia 9.62
13 Singapore 9.63
14 Bulgaria 9.65
15 Greece 9.73
16 Hungary 9.77
17 Estonia 9.79
18 Switzerland 9.83
19 Malta 10.09
20 Georgia 10.10

Germany is very close to the "good value", but they will eventually have a lot of problems to have children to pay their pensions and taxes to support the system they've build. In my country, a woman gives birth to approximately 1.4 children. It should be 2.3 to keep our pensions paid in the future. So, eventually, my country will die off while the African and Eastern countries will fill the earth while they use toxic energy sources and produce children like rabbits.

So, the poor countries will inherit the Earth - and kill it. How nice, eh?

Eeew, Perez Hilton

First: I have nothing against gay people. Being gay is just a line in the DNA, like bad bone marrow, red hair, short index finger or blue eyes.

Second: I hate Perez Hilton.

Who the *bleep* is he to talk anything about anyone? He wears fugly clothes, is fat (I mean FAT, not healthy), he talks like a woman. He's the shame of gay people and make them look bad. Look at Kyan Douglas. Or the gazillion other gays, who look and sound good and are actually smart people.. Even Carson Kressley (or whatsit'sname) would be less annoying, if he'd cut the crap.

I didn't even realize trashing other people can make someone go as far as P.H. did. And why wouldn't he use his real name anyhow? Mario is such a cool name for a pizza - or a plumber..

I'm ashamed to say I have read perezhilton.com. But that's over now.

Oh.. and if someone wants to ask me who the hell am I to talk anything about anyone.. well, here's an answer: I recognize my own behavioral patterns and the faults in myself. Apparently some don't.

Mario what-ever-your-name-is: Go hide in your crappy apartment and die a lonely death. Even Avril Lavigne deserves it.

The Trail Part Two

Daphne Mezereum

Nature Trail

We went for a little walk in "the nature", the little park in our town.. The park is left completely in it's natural state, so our adventure there included a lot of cold, wet stuff to sink our feet in..
A few images of runt trees. The fungus is very beautiful. These kind of forests are very important to ecosystem, but there are not much left because of the government run arboriculture.


We also heard a lot of birds. Surely we heard (and saw) tree creepers, european greenfinches, common chaffinches, black-billed magpies, a few hooded crows trying to hit squirrel nests, willow warblers, a lesser spotted woodpecker, a flock of canada geese (or something like that) flying over us and various tits and starlings..

A pretty good day bird-wise. I actually felt a bit sad there, remembering our little angel-bird :(

Yesterday Was When You Died

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. -Jacques Deval



I just keep thinking..

She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back. She didn't fight back.

And..

What if she hoped we were there to save her.. What was her last though. Are they capable of thought like us? What if she hoped my hand would come and take her away...?

And..

Would it be different now if we had kept the door open? She could've flown out to safety...

And..

I didn't look at the cage when I went to the kitchen first thing in the morning. I didn't look. What if she was still alive? What if I could've helped her?

It's funny that when I heard about my uncle, I couldn't have cared less, but when my pet bird died, I cried. I have actually been crying for eight hours now.

Her roommate, the white one, DOES miss her and this is not me humanizing it. I've been watching their behavior for over a year now and I know now that she is confused. It broke my heart when she was going on the floor, pecking at the rug and doing her "meep" sound which they used in order to know where the other one was. No reply. She did it again a couple of times, then went to the place where the other one used to peck the oven and "meep". Now it's all quiet. I cannot believe how much I miss that sound. And I feel sorry for the white one who is now all alone.

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."
-Robert Ingersoll

Today Was When You Died

Today was a particulary fine spring day: The sun was shining from a bright blue sky and the wind blew softly from the East. There is no snow at all and I already saw green grass growing by the wall. Today was the perfect day to believe in soul, believe in angels and believe in god. Today was a particulary fine day to die, but not for you.

I woke up, did what I usually do during the day and paid no attention. I walked by at least ten times today and never checked if you were okay. You were lying there the whole day and I didn't even notice. I talked to you and expected no answer, like always. You never answered to me anyway, so I didn't mind.

J found you there, laying on your tummy, in the corner. He called me and cried. I couldn't look at you for more than just a second. But that second was enough for me to see you were dead. For the rest of my life I will remember how calm and soft you were, just laying there. I hoped you were still alive but your cold body told me the grim reality. You were there no longer.

I know you died when I was sleeping. I didn't hear if you called for help or suffered long before the release finally came. I don't know what were your last thoughts of if you were capable of thinking anymore. I don't understand why you didn't fight back. I can't understand why you were picked and not someone else less important to us.

I know who killed you but though I tried, I couldn't revenge your death. I looked at his eyes but instead of anger I felt pity. I'm sorry. It would've been so easy to me - just a quick snap - but it wasn't really his fault. It was mine. I brought him to your life and - trust me - it will haunt me for a long time.

Today was a particulary fine day to realize there is no god. Because if there were, everyone would die of old age rather than by someone else's actions.

Tomorrow J will look up a good place for what's left of you. It will be somewhere under a tree so there is shelter for you. He'll make sure that the sun will shine there and the wind won't be too harsh.

And though you were just a bird, I have shed more tears than the day my first love was buried.

Because you were my own.

Good bye, Täplä. I will remember the white of your wings and how beautiful your feathers look like even at death. I will remember how you used to groom my fingers and I think I can still hear the sound your wings made when you flew. Your color will stay in my thoughts and I hope one day I'll see someone like you and can imagine it's you.

Oh, by the way, Lumikki is calling out for you and doesn't understand. You weren't there today and she's looking for you. She's alone for there is no one to sleep by her side anymore. But lucky for her, she doesn't understand and in time will forget about you..



I wonder if my heart will ever mend
I just let you slip away
4 am forever

Remember Me And I Shall Live Forever

Thomas Young deciphered the first comprehensible word of the Rosetta Stone: Ptolemy. A name of Alexander the Great's general, Ptolemy. As we all know, the basis of understanding the ancient Egypt, was on that stone.

The French man, Champollion or something, whose name I can't even pronounce (or write) discovered the name Ramesses and finally cracked the code. He was awarded the first professure of egyptology in the world and he died knowing he would be remembered.

When you meet someone whose language you don't understand and who does not understand you, you exchange names and that's the beginning of understanding and friendship.

When a child is given a name, he or she becomes the part of the society.

When you are mentioned the name Alexander and if you're taught history, you know who it is that is spoken of.

Or Beethoven..

"Remember me for what I have done and I shall never die."

I've done nothing in my life, no useful theories, no beautiful composings, no literary works.

So I'll just leave a tomb stone behind me and in 200 years, someone will walk by and not even look at it..

It sucks to be a nobody.

"When in Rome, do as the Romans do"

Every time we travel somewhere we are warned not to do certain things. Such as show leg in public when visiting certain Islamic countries, show the bottoms of our feet to someone.. When we move to Egypt, we keep ourselves from breaking their laws and insulting their beliefs... In Saudi-Arabia, I would not dare show skin below my neck.

My country has been accepting immigrants in a rather minimal amount. We don't get much of the trouble as do countries like the UK, Sweden or France.. My country has to build mosques in order to help refugees to cohabilitate to the society (isn't that the way they are taught to keep to themselves instead of getting to know their new surroundings)... The immigrants who are coming here demand more monetary support, more places for them to hang out, more understanding, more.. more and more.. They are fed by taxpayers, their clothes are paid by taxpayers, their children are educated and then they go back to their own country. I reckon that's stealing. They get everything and give nothing in return. At least they should have the decency to try living here after they are given a life.

And we are blamed to be racist, stupid and unforgiving nation. In my country, most of the refugees drive better cars then half of the nation and they wear designer clothes. Let's face it, it's not the poorest and the ones most in danger who come here, since they wouldn't have any money to buy their flight in.. Still they demand... because they have "suffered". What, a flight here and the time bureucracy takes?

What about the crimes then? At one point, 46% of the refugees had committed a crime of some sort, most of them being stealing.. That's a big deal in a country where most of the crimes are committed by foreigners. And what do they get for committing crimes? A pat on the head and subtle "No, that's a bad boy"..

If it's true that homo sapiens sapiens came from africa, how come we are feeding them? How come our doctors are the best ones? How come we police the world? They have had more time to evolve, to make things, to invent things and still it's this way?

Yes, I'm a racist. But hold that anger of yours.. I want to explain myself.. I'm not a racist in the crude meaning of the word. My best friend was of korean descent. I had the biggest crush ever on an African born boy. The Palestinian boy in our school was the nicest ever.. Those days I was ashamed for the ones who were called racist. Until I realized what was really going on and how many things are *bleeped* up in the world..

My racism doesn't go to the extremes, though. I do approve taking in refugees. I do approve refugees being taught their own languages at our school. I do approve working or studying refugees who at least TRY to get into the society. That's not racism.

Here's the racist part: I do not approve crime committing, lazy, cheating, wife-beating dogs. I don't want them in my county and would send them back without a thought. But because of organizations such as Amnesty, they are kept here.

War is a good excuse to do stuff. "I come from the war zone I must be understood" When my country was in war, the people who fled were doing shitty jobs, trying not to step on anyone's toes and doing what they were told to do because they understood it's a different country and their ways must be respected... Most of them have grandchildren who don't know a word of their grandparents language. Most of them got education in their new country and stayed there as tax payers - as a part of the society..

So how did I become a racist?
The change in me started happening when I happened to witness three somali boys attacking an old woman when I was 13. Adding, hearing two Iraqi guys conversing on what they could do to me because I'm a white, christian born woman thus worth nothing when I was 16. Or that turkish man offered a sum of money worth 100 euros to buy me for a night when I was visiting Turkey in 1994.. Or the fact that not having sex with a somali guy after he bought me a drink gave him right to call me a whore. My dislike over middle-Easterns rose, after reading books like Sold!, The Princess (Trilogy) etc. The last bit was seeing the movie Black Hawk Down. Though I realized it was just a movie and probably a bit one-sided story, I'll never forget the anger I felt that day walking out of the theatre. Or currently, hearing gay people being hung because of a misspelled line of code in their DNA.

Tell me.. why could a Roman woman in 100AC have a right to inherit her fortune, have a place in the society and her opinions heard and appreciated when an English woman didn't have the right to her own body in 1779? Or how did the Romans appreaciate and teach their children honest, truthful and able citizens without constant beating, but the English children didn't have value more than a dog sometimes in the 1700?

India's Pride(s)

Tell me,

Why in India, children born with diseases that cause malformation, are celebrated? Here they'd be hidden inside their homes and operated as soon as possible. In India, it seems to me, they are only operated if their condition causes them pain or difficulty of movement. Children born with too many legs and hands are worshipped as god-sent.

Though I'm heavily opposed to religions, this belief I like. They don't see the children as discusting and non-likeable because of how they are born, but believe they're given something special. A whole village gets famous thus being able to make money.

But why do these stories come out of India only? Are the only Shiva or whatsitsname -children born in India?

What I really don't want to know is how they deal with these children in the countries that do not support this belief (nor the health care system to try to fix them) ..?

Hans Zimmer Is My Musical God.. After Beethoven

I'm not sure if I have spoken of this earlier (and I'm too tired to actually check it), but Hans Zimmer's soundtrack for DaVinci Code (which I still haven't seen except the end) includes a song that stopped my life for the six minutes it runs. I was listening to the soundtrack from the beginning and paid no attention to it until that track came. It made me stop what I was doing and just listen. Then the music rose to the hights (I wish I knew the correct musical term for it), and out of nowhere, there were just tears coming out of my eyes. I didn't think of anything, but the tears just ran - and I just sat there in awe. That track has to be the best piece ever right behind Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. The latter has made me feel feelings stronger, but only once or twice in my life I have heard something that made me cry and Chevaliers De Sangreal did that.

Thank you Hans Zimmer for making this piece. I have heard others have felt it too and I've read that many think it's your best piece ever.

Good night.

EDIT: Apparently the correct term for pieces like Chevaliers De Sangreal would be "played appassionata"

EDIT 2: I knew I have liked the productions of Hans Zimmer for ages and my old Rain Man soundtrack proves it :)

EDIT 3: Should I really sit down and watch the movie for which it has been written?

EDIT 4: I still love this tune (which has made me teary too)

Rude Internet Part 2

Remember This Post?

Well, obviously someone from the forum (I spoke of) ended up in this blog. As a result, my account on that forum was suspended. I just had the best laugh ever. Touchy little people.. It's a shame I can't reply to all of the comments I received about myself there...

On a game mod forum (not Sims this time), I found probably the meanest person ever. Someone asked for level designing help and this person offered a very offensive answer that made me angry. Then I searched for all of his posts and found out that of the tens of posts he made, he had not made one nice one. It was all about mocking other people's thoughts, skills and suggestions. What does he gain from that? I don't understand.

I Think I Like Girls Too

Well, ONE girl.

Not like that. But close.

I was watching Inside the Actors Studio last night and Cate Blanchett was the guest. That episode was from 2003, but I suppose the data is still valid :p I can't believe how humble, funny and real she seems to be. If that's really what she's like in real life.. I mean WHOA.. If I was gay, I'd love her.

Let me answer the questionnaire too, since that's my favorite part of the IAS.

What's your favorite word? Twit

What's your least favorite word? Dynamic

What turns you on? A tall, handsome, dark haired, blue eyed, broad shouldered guy walking in highwater pants..

What turns you off? Arrogance

What sound or noise do you love? Distant thunder

What sound or noise do you hate? My mother's voice

What's your favorite curse word? Vittu (It's a finnish equivalent of cunt which I learned from one of J's friends)

What profession other than yours would you like to participate? I'd like to be a helicopter pilot.

What profession other than yours would you not like to participate? I'd never want to be a coroner..

If heaven excists, what would you like to hear God say to you at the pearly gates? You're not due yet. Go back.

Hottest Old Guys

Yet another list...

So, who are the hottest old guys on earth? Old meaning everything ten years older than me.

5. Ex-scissorhands, married-to-one-woman-for-ages, überboho

Johnny Depp

Who used to be the cutest guy on the planet. Before he got married, old and children.

4. Barely makes it to this list (is only ten years and a few days older than me so he is here)

Ewan McGregor

Whose Island I happen to like a lot. And the fact that he married a common girl.

3. This guy should have been Bond. But at least he's Boswell.

Clive Owen

There's that something in his look that makes your dreams nice and soft.

2. His name is Constantine... wait.. Neo.. no.. Johnny.. no..

Keanu Reeves

Number one choice for the number 99 movies. :) And Johnny Mnemonic was definitely, definitely not so uncool as everyone said.

1. Ex-alcoholic, ex-Dracula, ex-Sirius..

Gary Oldman

Check this video and weep. How can anyone look like that after 20 years of drinking?

The same guys all over again on my lists, eh?

But hey.. at least I dropped Gerard "Gerry" "I'm not Gay Gay" Butler after he sung a bit.

Oh and I saw the cutest movie year 2007 produced: The Water Horse: The Legend of the Deep
The ONLY thing that bothered me in that movie was the mother. I hate mothers. Especially mine. Eeew.

Happy Birthday Me!

Congrats on my 27th birthday.

It sucks to be old.

My life is gone, now I just might die since there is nothing more to see...

Just kidding.

I'm happy to share a birthday with Bruce Willis and Glenn Close!

In 1981, the most popular movie was Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Other films from that year: Chariots of Fire and Das Boot. That year US President Reagan was shot, the first launch of US Space Shuttle happened, AIDS was identified and IBM PC was introduced.

Three workers were killed and five injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia on 19th March 1981. That day, the US congress approved daylight-savings time in 1918. My hero, Minna Canth (a Finnish writer, thinker and the first Finnish author to describe women's position in the society) was born today in 188something.. (we also share a name)..

Today the weather is sunny and warm (the little snow we have is melting). I woke up at 11am just because I woke up. Don't remember the dream I had but I think it was pleasant.

I hope this day is a good one for someone :)

I Sleep With Neil Gaiman

I managed to get my hands on an unabridged recording of Stardust, written and read by Neil Gaiman. After that I haven't had trouble sleeping.

No, it's not boring. I just like his voice. It's soothing. Calm.

I've heard first 30 minutes of Stardust at least 20 times.

I think I like audiobooks. You can't miss a word or where you were. You just pause and go on again.
And the hands-free stuff with audiobooks, wow. I've learned to knit. :)

It's time for me and Neil Gaiman to go to bed. Nites.

Music Video With The Sims 2

I made this little sappy video for Lostprophets' 4am Forever. Sorry for stealing the song, guys!



This is for the boy who was my first love. He didn't have the courage to live his life. He drowned himself 11 years and a month ago today. Most of the things actually happened except that we never got married :)

Rude Internet

For four years,

I have not visited a forum that would have polite people on it.

Anything you say these days, someone soon says "Google it" or "read the f****n manual" or "get out of here n00b".. They obviously think they're so cool. I don't think it's cool. I never write offensive answers to someone's post. They didn't want to search, so they tried to get a straightforward answer. They don't need to be told to "Google it", they probably have heard it once or twice. Sometimes I don't bother googling it but go and seek for the answer. Maybe someone has a better answer that could be found on Google results?

I said I never write offensive stuff on any forums, but today I made an exception. I have probably found the most obnoxious forum filled with matter-of-fact adults who think they know everything, thus being able to be rude to anyone who doesn't read every topic and every post, like they do. I even strutted a lie or two just to see if they catch it and WHOAA.. I already received an answer calling me "poor rich girl". Now that they "know" I'm a spoiled daddy's girl, they seem to have even more right "putting me to my place". One woman even felt the spike when I wrote I hope they don't have kids if their parents are like that. She got very upset explaining she has taught her kids to do their own research. I didn't bother to tell her that I've done my share of research and I actually do that, but this was a matter of a thing I needed to be done for me because I can't. Not finding information. It's hilarious, actually. I think most of the people on that forum are Americans. The Americans I know, are not like that. They are calm, polite, patient and are not so willing to make their own appearance bigger. The rest of them.. well, world politics is a very good indicator for the state of the rest.

I won't tell which forum, I think they know who they are.

I've been doing my own research on forums and according to my findings, the Northen Americans are the rudest (yes, even Canadians). Then there's - of course - the Finns (who are very rude, use bad language and spoil most of the online games), then I'd vote for Germans (who are the rudest online players) and then probably the French. Indonesian people (though there's a signigiciant lack of language skills), are usually very nice and patient. The British have gone up on this list a great deal, maybe because their new found anonymity (freedom) is the "in thing" today.

Misunderstandings are a common thing. For an example, a friend of mine went on a forum and wrote about his teachers. What he wrote, was very comprehensible to himself, but as he later found out, someone had misunderstood the point in the message and he got hundreds of angry replies.

The funny thing when going through the forums is the noticeable un-willingless to help anybody. Or even try. I have been a regular visitor on a Swedish The Sims 2 - board and have noticed that if someone is in very desperate need of information, most of them use "Go Google you noob and stop wasting our time". Would it be easier to actually use that time that was spent on that sentence, to answer the question? I have probably written the same answer 300 times last year, but I don't mind. I like to share my information or at least try look for the answer. It will teach them to help others as well. At least it helps to prod them to the right direction.

As most of the few people who read this blog, know, that I'm not into religions and stuff, but there's one thing about the Bible that I look up to, and it's "Do onto others as you would want done onto you".

It's today's adults that grow up tomorrows' kids - and what will they end like if their parents forget the rule of being patient and polite? At this moment, I'm glad I'm not here to see the next century, when there has been a couple of rude and selfish generations.

Lostprophets Makes Me Sad

I often have spoken about songs having a big effect on me. Here's one.

LostProphets - 4am Forever.

I heard it only two days ago for the first time (where the hell have I been- again?) and it just makes me so sad every time. I couldn't give a rat's ass about the lyrics as usual, but there's something in this song.. Here's a pretty nice piano interpretation of the piece (although in some parts, he just messed it up):



I like this piece very much, because nobody sings in it. Singing (often with no-existent talent) ruins most of the songs..

I've never been a good song explainer and when I try, I usually get it wrong. How would I explain this, though? His friend died and he's trying to tell it's important to keep your friends close in case it's over some day. For his friend, it's 4 am forever. The music video, however, states that it's about his and his girlfriend's break-up. But since I'm so sick and tired of those themes, I'd like it NOT to be like that.

.. and by the way.. It's my 27th birthday in seven days.

Things In Movies I Want

House

The house I'd like to have is the beach house in Nanny Diaries. From the inside, though, I'd make it look more classy rather than sea-ish.

Car

The Aston Martin in Casino Royale. Pearl Blue and chrome rims. Yum. Yum yum.

Jewelry

Elizabeth wears her necklace while deciding what to wear for meeting Raleigh to listen to his story. I'd sell my (worthless) mother for that necklace.

Weapons

The two Desert Eagles the ultimately cool Yun-Fat Chow uses in Bulletproof Monk (without actually firing bullets) and Jessica Biel's character weapons in Blade: Trinity.

Sidekick

Foxy Cleopatra of Goldmember

Is Everyone Pregnant?

Has anyone done research on Hollywood baby boom effect on normal people? Do these booms increase teenage pregnancies? Do they produce more abortions?

Cate Blanchett
Jessica Alba
Halle Berry
Nicole Kidman
The other Nicole
Angelina Jolie
Tori "Eeew" Spelling (and they call Rumer Willis potatohead)

Already popped:
Jennifer Lopez
Salma Hayek
Christina Aguilera
Keri Russel

Three Reasons (+) For anyone NOT To Have Kids

Take a peek at Jurassic Park. Or the annoying kid in War of the Worlds. Or that kid in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. If that would've been my kid, I would've given her up for adoption in a second.

Kids are annoying, stupid, stubborn, stupid and did I already mention stupid? Not to forget how much it costs to raise one child. I could surely use the 129k to something much more fun and use. The terrible part is that that these movies portray the kids in real life. They really are that awful.

I'm sorry for my parents having to put up with me. Well, basically I'm sorry for all the parents.
That's one mistake you can't undo.

I'm So Bored

I've been sick and now I'm bored. I haven't been able to do anything nice for the past week and it's killing me. For the last nine days, I've been out for 30 minutes. Isn't that weird. Happy I'm not claustrophobic.

I want out. I want to go for a walk. I want to go to class. I want to go clubbing.. anything, basically.

Subject change:

I wonder if Jared Leto really is as much a dick as Perez Hilton paints him to be.

I found this interesting site, Dose.

A Good Day

The sun was shining from a clear blue sky, the wind blew softly and I woke up happy.

I don't even understand why, but today was a particulary fine day.

I also watched Anna and the King, Down With Love, The Island and three episodes of "The Nanny" on youtube.

And I wrote a good deal of my short story (which isn't so short in its 38 pages, though) and I noticed I had lost 2 inches from my hip and 3 from my waist. Without dieting.

Poor Guy..

"omg.....i think i've found my one true love....*sigh** omg he's so freaking HOTTTTT!"

I read this hearbreaking line in a comment for this video on You Tube. I was searching for the annoying Nanny (I don't remember her name) series and I wound up with this one (having Chris Evans on it)

Poor Chris Evans. I wonder how many love letters he receives. And how many he actually answers to. Why do these girls spend time dreaming of him? Don't they know he farts and burbs just like anyone? Don't they know that he dated Jessica Biel? Only one of 1000 of his fans (or less) would measure up to Jessica Biel.

It's funny how the fan stuff comes around.. thinking they know someone from reading stuff on the Internet or seeing some interviews. How can one be IN LOVE with someone they have never met? I know that a good looking guy might cause some day dreaming, but not love, I'm sure.

I have never been a real fan type though I used to pretend being fan because my friends were. I never had the droolers for NKOTB. I claimed to be a Tom Cruise fan, but I never really liked him but I knew a boy that had a crush on me hated him... I have had countless dreams of Ewan McGregor and Jensen Ackles, but I couldn't care a bite if they were standing next to me in line (because I'd be out of my league ;))

I used to be a X-Files fan, does that count?

Jessica Alba & Tarzan

I didn't even realize Jessica Alba is of anything else than "white" descent until I read she said "Don't call me latina". I always thought latina is something you call a woman of full latin born parentage, but one can be wrong only for so many times ;)

I saw Silver Surfer today, by the way. How does it seem to me that Chris Evans is not much of an actor? But I suppose good looks override the disability to say your lines without sounding as if you were reading them from a paper.. I don't mind, don't get offended. I've always preferred the talkers in my relationships, but for a guy who looks like that, I wouldn't mind if we couldn't create a decent conversation.

The weather has been weird today. First, it was raining. Then the wind rose. Then it was snowing. Then a blinding sunshine from a clear blue sky, then some more snow and now it's just a clear blue sky again. It should be 20 degrees (centigrade) BELOW and we're getting pollen warnings. How creepy is this?

OH, hey, I just had the brainstorm of my life.

I wish they'd remake Tarzan. The animals - of course - could be CGI.

Jane could be Jessica Alba and Tarzan (of course) Chris Evans. And the voices.. The elephant could be the guy who played opposite Heigl in Knocked up, the chubby one. The panther should be Christopher Lee, the mother could be Queen Latifah and the leader ape could be Robert DeNiro.

Good idea, eh?