ÄOM-päivä / Say no to buying day

Friday, November 27, 2009

ÄOM-päivä / Say no to buying day

"I bought it so that I would have something as nice as my friends' have"

"I bought it so I could relax"

"I bought it because I had a bad day"

"I bought it because it was on sale&q…
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A green step for Helsinki: Solaris Urbino

A green step for Helsinki: Solaris Urbino

Today I got to try a new treat - the hybrid bus called Solaris Urbino. Helsinki has engaged a new try by borrowing hybrid buses from Poland. The reasoning behind this trial is the metropolitan area's need for low-em…
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A turning point

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

A turning point

Yeah! Helsinki has been elected the world's design capital in 2012! Finally our beautiful city will be acknowledged for its sense of design!

The design capitals have been chosen every second year by the Internation…
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Finding my sense of taste: Chocolate festival & Ladies' dinner

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Finding my sense of taste: Chocolate festival & Ladies' dinner

Ladies' dinner 

Last Friday, I and three of my classmates were in for a treat - we went to an annual ladies' dinner which offered both good fun and entertainment. It was held within the legendary walls of Nyland…
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The emotional language

Saturday, November 21, 2009

The emotional language

Not so long ago, I posted an insert on my blog talking about the problems we Swedish speaking Finns are incountering in today's Finland. Funnily enough, today again this topic has come up. It's amazing how langu…
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Trash treasures

Friday, November 13, 2009

Trash treasures

Someone's trash is somebody's treasure.
Yesterday I saw that one of my acquaintances had made an interesting documentary film. She introduced it to me on Facebook. It seems she has done a documentary film about …
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Fighting for an identity

Fighting for an identity

Yesterday, the topic of the day among all Swedish speaking Finns, to which I happily belong, was the news about one of our major TV channel announcing that they might close down the only channel in Swedish if cuts are n…
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Choo heaven!

Choo heaven!

My holy house of fashion, H&M that is, has done it again. Contradicting our traditional way of looking at fashion, they continue to smur the line between reasonable priced clothing and high fashion. Their newest att…
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Slow relationship

Slow relationship

In a world of slow movement, slow travel, slow food etc. it's about time somebody combatted against fast relationships as well. I've been going through a very rough period in my life, almost losing my faith in w…
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Painting my windows

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Painting my windows

It's funny how spontaneous actions surprise you sometimes. Late Tuesday evening I was up writing on msn with one of my friends and he invited me to a musical evening on Wednesday. One of his friends plays acoustic m…
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