General wondering [music]

The feeling of your own bed, hot shower and proper food after 4 nights of camping is ridiculously amazing. Something I learnt (or rather, got reminded of) ; appreciate the freaking luxury we have!!!

That's that.

Midsummer conference was better than good, I can only wonder how it didn't rain until the last day :o
All that happened there, just makes me think how amazing our God is.

Anyway, the shot of reality suddenly broke through my head yesterday - Monday morning. Even though I did get ten hours of sleep I was exhausted, almost fell asleep on the chair I was working on. Today was much better! :)

We are heading towards my main point of this blog post, which is related to work though. Dam daum duuu.

I was listening to the radio and I heard something about Jukka Poika (for those who don't know, he's a finnish reggae artist), and I all of a sudden remembered the first song I ever heard from him:

It made me wonder, that when I heard about this dude, to be honest I thought he was just a joke, which this song of course is:D (Im sorry you non finnish speakers you wont be able to understand, hold on we're moving on to something you'll be able to know better).

Okay so.

Why are there artists, that have become famous with a certain song, but when you actually research them further, the songs they did when they were less known, were better. And, no one knows about those songs! I've got you an example.

Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against this song:

I especially do appreciate their hot moves.

But hey, ladies and gentlemen who didn't know this, from the same artist:

(In my opinion I'd much rather listen to this second one...Check them out on youtube anyway, they have many songs similar to this if you liked it:) ... they should pay me for advertisement.) and I don't know why this is highlighed in white I can't fix it because there is no transparent background:O

Now this is just general wondering, I'm no music critique, but to me this sort of shows some kind of level of music we are appreciating today..?

That techno crap. or whatever.

No actually I do listen to those songs too, but it does make me sad to see all this computer made music (GENERAL wondering not just donkeyboy) take over the actual instrument music.

Anyway, there was the thought for the day:)
Peace <3

Glimpse of holidays and Konffa

One does not simply mistake this as an instagram photo taken
with iPhone, which it turned out looking like.

Hoi!

It's been ages since I last posted. That is because I've been superbusy with work and seeing friends, and surprise surprise I haven't spent much of my nights at the computer:--) That should be crystal clear, I mean, look at the weather!!! Amazing..

Though it's summer and holidays, we as IB students have got a research essay to work on, which I actually should be doing as I write this.

Okay so the big news is that I'm leaving to Sri Lanka, my second home, in 23 days!! I've been talking to some of the closest friends I can't wait to meet, and they unfortunately or fortunately I don't know, add into my previously existing ENTHUSIASM. I am SUPER excited!!! In the middle of all this excitement, I've been doing some painting...:)

One thing about me and my works; I never like to plan too much. I just go for it, get my starting point from somewhere (a picture in this case), but I never plan it out with a pencil etc. Even if it sounds weird, I like the process to be there, even if it cannot be seen. When painting with paints (usually acrylic for me), the previous paint layer can be covered, but it's still there. This fascinates me. I'll show you an example (I should have started taking photos from the very beginning..sorry.)

Okay so I am very very impatient with my paintings, and even this was made to the third step from these photos on the first night, another night I just made some small adjustments..
That's also probably the truth behind me not drawing with a pencil too much... requires a loot of patience..:(
I give my respect to at least one friend I know that really takes time to make his drawings perfect no matter how long it takes!

BUT MORE EXCITING THINGS ARE HAPPENING!!!

The MidSummer confrerence is starting next week!! The "Juhannuskonffa" :) If you're going, what do you wait from it? I know what I do... I shall get to that once I've shortly explained what this awesome summer thingy is ! For those who don't know, it's held in Keuruu (<33), in Iso Kirja. It starts on the 20th of June, and lasts from that Wednesday till Sunday. It's full of awesome services for all ages, good food (the pizza and pancakes are a must). Now everybody google where it is because I'm not sure what the address is, and I shall see you there.

http://www.isokirja.fi/konferenssikeskus/juhannuskonferenssi_2012/

So what do I wait from it?

• Walking across the field and spotting friends I haven't seen in a long time
• Going for pizza with a bunch of people
• Going around the booths and getting stuck talking to people
• Sit around and be lazy on the field
• Sense and enjoy the atmosphere, simply amazing
• Make new friends!

The smell of sausages and pizza in a slightly cold summer night, when it doesn't get dark at all is just remarkable.

I'll see you there, peace <3

Summer and Jelly Dreams

Aloha dear friend.

By looking outside at the moment, is hard to fully understand that the summer holidays started. Luckily we can recall the warm weathers from about a week ago, drag them into our mind and simply have a little imagination play and everything seems much better.

Today when I was going to a graduation party of a friend of mine, something happened when I sat down to the comfortable seats of the train - we were speeding up and suddenly a guy bumped into the train, against the very window I was seated next to ! I could literally see his facial expression of horror!!! So we stopped, and people started screaming that he got ran over. What went through my mind? I thought, if that dude died (because it was a pretty hard hit) I could have been the only one who saw his face for the last time when he was alive. Luckily after a while the staff informed that nothing too serious happened.

So today when I got home from the graduation party, I got very inspired by the funky light patterns (and my new dress) coming from outside... That should explain the pictures below. (Later on I added some more light because it was getting dark outside muahah.)

I was going through my mom's computer and found my Gimp2-drawn images from about two years back:D! 

I decided to show them to you... I have no idea why but maybe this will inspire you to do something like this as well (It indeed is fun I shall explain how I did these because muahah I cheated a little)

So what I did was, I had a picture (this is the cheating part) of my friend and my mom as one layer in Gimp2 (which is like Photoshop, a little more limited maybe but easier to use. It's free for downloading and preeetty cool;)). I added a layer on top of that and made it transparent, so I could draw ''on'' the picture (even though it actually does nothing to the original picture, just to the layer on top of it so when you hide the actual photo you can just see the outlines).

I should probably try this again and hope it'd turn out a little better than these:D but of course when you got just rough outlines like this and all, you could start the shading and other cool stuff to make it look like it took a little more than... very little time. 

I know I'm jumping from a thing to another, please forgive me. But I've got a picture to show you (surprise surprise): 

It's in finnish (duh) and it says "Food not weapons" which I find quite inspiring.

This is of course a typical hippie peace protest :) No wait why a ''hippie protest'' why does everything to do with peace have to be associated with hippies? Isn't the worldpeace everyone's issue and target (i certainly would wish it was, apparently not looking at the news...) Do you need to be a hippie to want world peace? (nononononoonooo)

(but all the hippies out there I like you:))

 .....just throwing a thought into the athmosphere dam-dum-daaa-dadadaa. That was a drumroll. 

Anyway,

peace! 

and have a great great start of holiday and do not let the weather disturb the fun okay :)

How to procrastinate like a pro

Needless to explain the picture below, considering the fact that I also, have an exam week right now...

(This is the first time I tried to do something artistic with my nails so nobody judge. thank you.)

Peace <3

Art and Ice hokey

BE PREPARED for a long long blog post.

First I would like to say that i've been super busy with stuff so I have not been able to post things that require posting, so here they all come in one post! I hope your week's been good and you're excited about the holidays starting soon! YEe !

First of all, something I had to tell you, and which I mentioned about in the last blog post; Noora and I had to prepare a TOK presentation (all the IB fellows out there - yee), and we decided to get creative and created a piece for it! We did make quite a mess...

But hey! It doesn't matter even though we did think, that if our art teacher (or any outsider) would be there to witness this incident, they wouldn't be too happy. Of course we did have one witness, Khoa. But he won't tell anyone:) muaha. We did have a lot of fun though!

Cleaning this up was alright because making the mess and on the side a piece of art (of course this could be questioned, considering our TOK question of "What makes abstract expressionism art?") with awesome people around, was all good:). but anyway, here's a picture of the outcome which doesn't really do justice to the piece...because it was presented in a much better during the presentation than the way it's shown here...

but to get some sort of an idea, boom:

Feel free to state your own opinion!!;) - is this art?

MOVING ON TO the next topic, which is the mother's day. It was the best in a long time, we went for a picnic to a forest and this is a small collection of the many pictures I took to resemble my feelings about the trip:

Simply amazing...

Then the last thing but definitely not the least.

I WENT FOR AN ICE HOKEY GAME with Keshia:).

And for people who don't know how much this World Cup means to finns, if you're a sri lankan or understand the concept of cricket in Sri Lanka, that's how big it is. We won last year and the boys as a hometeam this year are getting a lot of cheers and pressure :)

So the game I went to see was Kazakhstan vs. Finland.

The atmosphere was awesome and cheering with people in the actual arena was incredible :) the funny thing about this of course is, that I am a person who doesn't usually watch much sport games, but this has got me all caught up! Like today, when USA played against Finland (and for those who don't know, Finland won and USA left home:)) ...muaha.

Anyway, here are some pictures from the game:

That's pretty much what I had to say and show, it didn't turn out to be as long as I thought! Well, hope you enjoyed and feel free to comment (here, or perhaps inbox on facebook) on the concept of abstract expressionism or anything else. I'd like to hear some opinions:)

Good night and peace <3

Motivation problems?

Holaa everyone!

I have not posted in a long time because I knew what I wanted to post next but I cannot publish it before a certain date *wriggle wriggle* you shall find out what it is a little later, because this is not the post I am talking about:) Instead, I thought of talking about an issue that's probably relevant for most of us students (and perhaps also working people..?), or at least students are the ones I am talking to, because they're the ones I can relate to! whee. 

Yea I know what it feels like, when you get back home from school, you have a couple of essays to work on, a book to read that the teacher is pushing you to read. Oh also you're supposed to finish that freaking commentary on an art piece or newspaper article by tomorrow.. Then you decide to chat on facebook or watch TV only for a little while before getting onto work. That little while seems to magically change into three hours and oh gosh you also got to eat! then you realize you're way too tired to do anything and decide you'll go to sleep early. Instead, you might get caught up into reading a book (of course not the book you've told to read for school) or go back to playing games or chatting to friends or whatever. Soon, it's 11pm and one has still not done any work and is way too tired but can't be bothered to go to bed either. Sounds familiar? To me at least it does.

The problem with this is, everything just piles up. You've got to do it anyway, so why leave it till the last night  before the deadline?

"Oh but I really can't be bothered."

"Nobody else does it either."

"I am waiting for the great motivation!!!!!!!!" (<---that's me.)

REALITY CHECK. (Muahahha I feel like a mom) You only study for yourself. Your future is dependent on what you do now. If this does not motivate you, here comes my "Search for motivation and joy to study from here:" -list.

• First of all, figure out if that music on the background is ACTUALLY helping you study. I know some people that really enjoy having hard rock playing while they study, but I also know people who sort of pretend that the music helps them - it's actually just a distraction. As for me, some music helps, some distracts. 

Trrrr - dudu- tamtidam - didam trr (my attempt of a drum roll) The type of music that inspires me :

• Second of all, have something to drink next to you. It's scientifically proven that water is the best drink in order for the brain to function well. It's also great when you need some time to think, you just drink some water and the time use just seems very convenient;) I personally prefer tea (green tea best healthwise but any tea is great!) or coffee (also depends what time of the day it is:;))

• If you know that you work best in the night (like me), and that you'll have a long night working on an assignment, take a nap when you get home. This will be surprisingly helpful! If you don't mind working at any time of the day, get your work done when you get home and you'll have more free time in the night (or perhaps even get proper night sleep;))

• Working in a messy room makes everything harder. And I don't mean space-wise. "Oh I've got enough room on my table to lay my books on, that's cool right." is not the way to go. You will be surprised (me too, everytime I do this!) how it's easier to work in a clean room! BUT . be careful to not use this as an excuse to not do your work... Trust me I know how easy it is to talk yourself over the work by doing something ''more important'' such as cleaning your room because you suddenly got inspired to do it.

• Divide your workload into bits. Make a plan, and draw a little box at the end of every task, and when you have completed it, you may tick it! this is motivating as you little by little get to tick all the little boxes:)

• Change your environment-  If you find it hard to study at home, go to a library or some other place. Even outside, now that we've got awesome and warm spring weather what'd be nicer than working outdoors:) 

Here were some tips ! I have to listen to music to avoid other distractions, drink tea/coffee, have a clean room and divide my work to smaller portions if I by any chance want to get anything done at home. If these are not fulfilled, I must must must go somewhere else - usually the library, because as I get distracted easily, even if I do have access to the internet (which I usually have to because of my work), I'm simply too ashamed to for example go to Facebook. It's effective !  I hope this was any help, these are things that work for me I hope you got something out of it as well. 

Peace <3

#12

 THIS IS THE TAIL OF CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW.

   

                            

Shadows are fascinating. You can do so much with such a simple thing. Like this picture above, for example. Those parts are cropped from photos I thought were failures. I don't know about you, but to me it looks pretty cool. If this was to be taken further, I'd love to paint that exact same thing, but paint in its in-perfection of course would give it a whole new level.

Hmm maybe I shall do that sometime...

Hey soon it's the labours day ! Everyone excited and fully booked for it? I know I'm not.. Tomorrow I've got great plans to go to the library for the whole day. Got to love this: ) but no I am not skipping school in order to be able to study in a library -(which sort of would make sense)- but because we were at school on one Saturday and now we've got the free day back:) whee ! Anyway, it's weird how everyone's up for the labors day... I never remembered it was such a big deal in Finland. :o Like, when I go to the center of Helsinki people are all dressed up and stuff.. It's sort of cool :)

Jellyfish 8--)

Got no special plans for Tuesday... except going for a picnic with my brother and his wife :) which of course is exciting, since I haven't done that in a long time mainly because of the snow (duh) and in SL it was too hot and not much spaces to spread a guilt and be in a quiet place anyway. But on Tuesday many people will be picnicking anyway so probably won't be that peaceful:D anyway - awesome.

I'd love to climb on a tree right now with a friend and drink some tea and eat carrots and cucumber.

As it can probably be concluded from these pictures in this blog, I've lately been very fascinated about capturing water. Water - as everyone probably knows - moves fast when thrown:) Making the movement stop and see the features, movements and shapes the water creates while flying across is something gorgeous which cannot be seen with a naked eye.

So this is what I did today..

You have no idea how long that took to get the water with the CD. Of course with an awesome and irreplacaple help of Minttu we could somehow pull it off but it was not easy:D But hey, at least we had fun even though we sort of got wet and maybe perhaps possibly gained weird looks as this process took place in the middle of a road:)

HAVE A NICE LABORS DAY or as finns call it VAPPU, peace :)