Goodbye 2009, welcome 2010!

This year, oh this year, has been the most memorable of my life. This far! :) So many reasons why, so many experiences... Seoul. Seoul, one of the greatest cities. One of the greatest places in my life. Helsinki, Seoul, Beijing, Busan, Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Saigon, Phnom Penh, Angkor Wat, Bangkok... and so many more... And the first year blogging. Thank you for reading! Love and much huggs! See you in the next decade, next year 2010! :)

My facebook statuses. 2009. But 2010 will be even more awesome! <3: Anna and Antti

Argh!

I feel so frustrated!! Because I have nothing for the coming spring! You know, I thought it would be all wonderful and stress free to have no idea about tomorrow, to be 'free like a bird'... But guess what, I'm not free like a bird! Because I have an apartment, which I can't afford to rent, if I don't have a job! And I sound like a bored-ass middle aged woman who stresses-over-everything, never leaves her house, eats frozen food, doesn't get laid and lives with her 51 cats. Well... you get my point! I'm frustrated!

I'm like, Yo destiny! Could you like.. snap your fingers and you know, get it over with? I mean get me a job! But nooo... My child, this is the real world now, nothing comes for free. The only available job I can offer you right now is a position called 'hunchback CV typer'. Your main responsibilities will be submitting internship applications to companies and listening to the delicate sound of nothing when your applications go straight to the junk mail box. The compensation for this highly rewarding job will be a beautifully wrapped fart.

Thanks destiny... I guess I have no choise but to take your offer. But you know, I do know that you don't always get what you want. And I know that there are so much bigger problems in this world. But this is a big problem for me... Ahh... Maybe one day I will look back at this day with a smile on my face, thinking that "back then I had no idea about the coolest thing about to happen!...". But I'm not smiling now. And I feel a bit bad because I feel like I can't talk to anyone about this, because I hate complaining. So instead I write it here. Sorry! But anyway, thanks for "listening".

Searching for my future

My life right now is at a crossroads. Well actually there are no roads to be seen... There is a path behind me, where I came from, but ahead of me, I don't see a way. As I already wrote earlier, my plans went on until Christmas. That is, until the semester was over. And it's over now. And now I don't know what's gonna happen next.

I always like to think that life is an adventure! It is,, but right now there is a moment when I just don't know what the next adventure is gonna be. It's like in a book, when one chapter ends and the next one is full of new challenges, but I'm not on the next page yet. If I was the reader I could just turn the page, but I'm the stupid character who needs to find the way herself...

If this was Sims (the video game), I would now turn and lift my face to look at the camera and I would wave my hand to the player. "Hey, what's going on? What am I supposed to do now??" But again there's no point in waving around. I need to find the way myself.

And I will do it!

Precisely 6 months ago I left Seoul, and I wrote things like I don't wanna lose myself into the career tube and I wanna do things that I want, not what I'm supposed to want. And that's still true.

But for now, happy Christmas to everyone! <3

Music all around me

I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes... that song just started to play in my head while I wrote the heading :)

Today I was at my friend's place and we played guitar and sang. We already have a couple of songs we made ourselves! Hahaa yay :D Now I need to work on some lyrics to one song. ;)

And after that I went to see a Christmas concert by a singing group called Nuu. They we're so good. Thanks girls, the concert was amazing!

Mystery musicians...

More goodbyes and even more stuff

When the exchange students left they had a lot of stuff they couldn't take with them, so they gave them to me.

Thanks Edi for the blanket and the kitchen stuff, I already used the pots and the pans! :) Thanks Foziya for the mirror! And thanks Joshi for the bag full of everything! The wig is the best! :) And last but not least, thank you Daniel for the blueberry soup. :)

And Foziya, the bracelets are beautiful! Thank you! I'm gonna miss you, I wanna see you again soon. Perhaps in Asia! ;)

So many goodbyes

This fall I was a lot with exchange students, because we had the same courses. And the thing with the exchange students of course is that they at one point go back home. It was today.

We went to take Edi to the bus. We had coffee together and also said goodbye to the people we don't see here anymore.

Masha, Christian, Joshi, me, Sergio, Edi and his at least 30 kilos of luggage. ;)

Edi wanted to have his last coffee and donuts at Arnolds.

Masha, Christian and Joshi.

Sari and Edi.

Jacqueline, Joshi, Claudia, Christian and Seura-Sari in frozen Helsinki. ;)

Bye, bye... Hope to see you all again soon! :)

Chuck

Once again, it's all about Chuck Norris!

"There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live."

"There are no steroids in baseball, only players Chuck Norris has breathed on."

"When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris."

I think I have a caffeine overdose! Too much coffee! Help me!

School is over

Today I slept until 4.30 in the afternoon, and I woke up when my friend called me. I guess otherwise I would have slept until the evening. I guess my body knows I don't "have" to wake up, so I obviously don't.

I would write more but I gotta go to bed. G'night!

A bit of a Christmas feeling...

I just saw 'A Christmas Carol'. Okay, I'm not that kind of person who goes crazy for Christmas, but that movie made me feel like celebrating it. Not because I would want to please some Christmas spirits or whatever, but because it's nice to have snow falling down from the sky, hear Christmas songs being sung and get together with family and friends.

By the way, we watched the movie in 3D, which was pretty cool. Especially in the scenes where the camera was "flying" over the city, it felt pretty real and almost as if you were flying there yourself. Awesome.

It is absolutely freezing outside. Even though its nice to have proper winter, I would be completely satisfied with a bit less. I mean, okay, it's -10 °C but the icy wind makes it feel so much colder...

Now I have one more exam to do this semester. It's tomorrow (actually today), so better start reading now. Cya! :)

The concert was, ahh, great

Yay! We had our Christmas concert! It went well! And my solo even better :D It felt great to sing it!

It has once again been a great time in Grex. Can't wait to see all of you again! But now until that, Happy Christmas, Grex!

And thanks, Linda for the rose! It's beautiful. :)

Excited for tomorrow

Tomorrow's gonna be my choir's Christmas Concert. I'm excited! But also a bit nervous... Because I'm singing a solo... :)

I sing in a choir called Grex Musicus.
You should check out our website! (it's also in english.) It's a mixed choir with a lot of young people, mostly students studying music or (like me) something else from business administration to technical engineering and social sciences. Even though singing in a choir might sound lame, it's a really fun hobby! :) It's nice to get together, sing together and work out challenging new songs.

These couple of past days I've been feeling a bit ill... I don't want to get sick! So I've been medicating myself and trying to rest as much as possible. And boy, have I been tired. I mean, this morning the weirdest thing happened. I was asleep and dreaming, and suddenly there was a really annoying sound in my dream. I remember dreaming that I was trying to track the source if the sound and get rid of it, but nothing I did helped. So I was basically freaking out in my dream. And by the way this dream went on for quite a while.

Anyway... I then slowly woke up and heard the alarm clock ringing. You know the most annoying sound ever: didididi, didididi, didididi. I checked the time, and the alarm had been on for 15 minutes. 15 minutes! How is that even possible?

Well, I guess I should be heading to bed... All excited and nervous about tomorrow... how will I ever be able to fall asleep?

Thanks Edi! :)

My friend Edi wrote like the coolest-post-eva-! to his blog. Go check it out at Edi's Suomi Uutiset!

Yo! Snaptz it! :)

Bye bye blond

I felt like it was time for something new and different.. something else than blond.

I like blond color, and I think it also suits me. But you need to be dying your hair all the time if it's not your natural color. And because I thought that it was time for something else, I dyed my hair.

I have always liked to do new stuff with my hair. It's so boring to be in the comfort zone and not to try anything different. A couple of years ago I had a small crisis and decided that all the regular hair cuts suck. So I searched the Internet and discovered that the coolest hair styles are on Final Fantasy characters! I then got a haircut similar to one character's: I had long hair on one side and short on the other side. That was cool! :)

Now I didn't do anything very special. Just changed the color a little bit.

Tadaa!

P.S. I'm not quite sure why I wrote this post. Probably I was just escaping my school work, and desperately trying to make up anything else to do... :)

Busy bee

Busy, busy, busy... Reports, presentations, work, concerts... But luckily only two weeks to go! After that I can finally rest! Ahh, yesterday night I was was up until 3.30 am working on some stuff for school. And now I'm sure that I'll just roll around in my bed for hours before I fall asleep, because it's hard to shake off the stress in a situation like this...

But I'm taking it as easy as possible. And even it might sound somewhat crazy, I think I'm going to miss this. I mean studying. It has been a great semester, taking all the courses I like and working in the best team ever! (Oh yeah, Snaptz!) After these two weeks the semester is over, and I'm done with my courses, and my Snaptz team goes back home to Austria, Germany and Slovenia. :(

Then I have my internship and bachelor thesis to do. And after that I wanna study more. Don't want to start the rest of my life yet!

Well, to be honest, my plans only reach as far as this Christmas. Which is like three weeks away. After that life is a mystery. But I like that, living life like an adventure! You never know what tomorrow brings! I honestly don't know... :) No, wait, I do. Tomorrow I have to go to work. Boring.

Well, good night then. I will try to get my mind off of everything I have been thinking the whole day today and everything I should be doing tomorrow. At least I'm listening to good music, 4 Hero!

Sweet dreams!

Mailmen ruin this world!

Is the purpose of Christmas to accelerate the global warming?? Or perhaps increase the amount of forest demolished? Judging by the amount of ads thrusting through my mailbox e v e r y day now before Christmas, the answer is: yes. No offence to the mailmen. But now on my door it says: no ads, thank you.