Quiz stolen from free_the_WM3, thanks :)

How spoiled are you? (each answer worth one point)

[x] Mother
[x] Father
[ ] Step-Father/adopted
[x]Step-Mother/adopted
[x]Step-Sister/adopted
[x] Step Brother/adopted
[ ] Brother
[ ] Brother In Law
[x] Sister
[ ] Sister In Law
[x] Half sister
[ ] Half brother
[ ] Nephew
[ ] Niece
[ ] Girlfriend
[ ] Boyfriend
[x] Cell phone
[x] Own Room
[ ] have/had a Swimming pool
[ ] Hot tub
[ ] Guest room
[x] Living Room
[ ] Game Room
[x] Computer
[x] TV
Total: 12

[x] Full size or bigger bed
[ ] More than 8 pairs of shoes
[ ] Sunglasses
[x] Watch
[x] MP3 Player/iPod that works well
[x] PS2 that works
[ ] Xbox that works
[x] Nintendo DS or PSP that works
[ ] Gameboy/ Advance
[ ] Gamecube
[ ] Wii
[x] Laptop
Total so far: 18

[ ] Basketball hoop
[ ] Air hockey table
[ ] Pool table
[ ] ping pong table
[ ] Fooseball table
Total so far: 18

[ ] Nightstand
[ ] Stereo in bedroom
[ ] DVD player in bedroom
Total so far: 18

[ ] Goes shopping at least once a day/every other day
[x] AIM/MSN
[x] Camera/ or on phone
Total so far: 20

[ ] Electric or gas scooter/4x4/motorcycle/car/go-cart
[x]guitar/drums/bass guitar
[ ] piano/Keyboard
[x] Any other instrument
[x] Been on a cruise
[x] Traveled out of the state
[ ] Had a personal trainer
[x] Expensive jewelery
[x] met a celeb or a singer/band
Total so far: 26

[ ] staightener/curling iron
[ ] Have been to a batting cage
[x] Have $100 on you right now
[ ] credit card or atm and or debit card or bank card
[ ] have/had a massive tv
[ ] mirror in your room
[ ] foxtel
[ ] foxtel in your room
[x] 3 or more bedrooms in your house
[ ] Been to Las Vegas
[ ] Been to the Bahamas
[ ] Been to Mexico
Total so far: 28

[x] Parents have a car
[ ] Have owned or own a Jet Ski/boat
[x] have owned or own skis/ snowboard.

[x] Camping
[ ] Been to 3+ states
[ ] 100+ buddies on facebook/myspace/aim/bebo
Total so far: 31

[x] Home cooked meal almost every day
[ ] been in a limo
[ ] Been in a helicopter
[x] Own/owended a camcorder
[x] Own a computer
Total so far: 34

1-22 = poor coon
23-33 = Average
34-44= upper cla.ss
45-up= rich brat

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Let's see if I manage to add a picture this time. I though this one was really funny :D We put this pic on our biology presentation on how the global warming affects the Arctic. In order to fit the context, I wrote the word "melting" in red on the sign. At least our presentation wasn't as boring as everyone else's :P

And finally a quote, let's have a very simple one by Francis Bacon: "Knowledge itself is power." Today in our Theory of Knowledge lesson we concluded that knowledge doesn't actually exist, which obviously strengthens that quote.

Hello everyone! :)

I'm sorry I haven't showed any signs of life lately. I've been quite busy with school and also I've been waiting for some of the bugs caused by the new layout to be sorted out (I had problems accessing the site in the first place on my laptop). It looks a bit better now so I'm going to try to be on as much as possible. And as it looks like this blogposting has been made a bit easier again, I was planning on starting the picture of the day thingy but I'm not able to add pictures; I am able to get the picture to appear on the screen when I create the entry as well as in the preview but when I try to submit the entry it says: Errors: Tag img may not have attribute title. Does anyone know how this can be solved? I thought also about sticking in a quote of the day whenever I can find an interesting one.

As I said, I've been quite busy with the school but I don't find it that horrible because I usually quite enjoy working and all my subjects are very interesting. I especially enjoy Literature in which we are currently studying Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Selected poems by Sylvia Plath and The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington.

Oh yeah, I watched Ring Two the other day with my friend. I was surprised to find that it was as good as the first one (I tend to find sequels worse than the originals), in fact I could not decide which one I liked more. The scene with the deers was really fake though, we were laughing so much at that. My friend was also commenting on how car windows are not supposed to break in the way they did :P (he's a guy and obsessed with cars and bikes). For some reason I prefer watching horror movies with guys rather than girls because most girls overreact and start screaming and hiding behind your back which I find a bit annoying. My problem is that when watching films with friends, I often keep talking throughout the film commenting on stuff and some people find that annoying. :?

The next film I'm planning on seeing is The Exorcist. My mum gave me permission to watch it with a friend even though it's rated 18 as I convinced her that it is an 80s horror movie and that it can't be that scary compared to all the special effect stuff which teenagers are used to today (my mum tends to be quite strict with age limits). I watched a few clips of the film in YouTube and I did find it quite scary at the moment of watching. However, it did not have any longer time effect and I watched it all the time as a film (i.e. my imagination did not start running wild and thinking that a crazy girl will attack me from behind the next corner). The storyline and the film itself seem to be very good and I can see even after only seen a few clips, why it is considered to be the horrorfilm.

And the quote of the day would be...hmm...yeah, this is from The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington and the character is a 92-year-old woman called Marian: "My memory is full of all sorts of stuff which is not, perhaps, in chronological order, but there is still a lot of it."

I haven't been very active due to the fact that my school started on Monday. Already on the first week we've had a maths test and at least four bigger pieces of homework (I know this is nothing compared to the workload we're going to get when we get going properly). The schooldays are really long, the longest possible being from 9.00 to 16.30. We have a one-hour lunch break though and at least ten minute breaks between each lesson (the building is really big due to around 4000 students studying there, so you may well take 10 minutes to walk to your next room if it happens to be on the other side of the college).

Anyway, I didn't end up doing those subjects I originally chose because on the first day I found that the French-Italian combination was impossible (and they so couldn't inform me about that before...) so I decided to do History instead of Italian. Then, after a history lesson, I realised that my Psychology is clashing with the History. So I asked about that and I was told that Chemistry-Psychology-History combination is impossible. So to sort this problem out in the simplest way possible, I decided to switch from Chemistry to Biology. I liked the two of those equally much anyway so it didn't matter that much to me. Oh yeah, and today I found out that I'd been in the wrong maths set for the entire week. Apparently the maths staff had thought that a person in my name didn't exist or something. They never made the connection between my face and the name. :P It was quite funny actually.

Over all I've really enjoyed college so far; I've met lots of new people and I think I'm going to make many new friends on the longer run. :)

My ambidexterity training is going well and at the moment I'm able to write legibly with my right hand when I cut the speed to half that of my left. I've also tried to do as much stuff as possible the other way round to what I usually do. You have to concentrate on things you never actually think about, for example which hand you press the space bar with when typing, which hand you pick up things with, which hand you brush your hair with, which way you take CDs out of their cases etc.

I probably should start something regular like a countdown or quote of the day or something. I'm going to think of that for the next blog. The weather is very strange here: it was really cold in the morning, it was nice and warm in the early afternoon, it was just raining extremely heavily a minute ago and now it's nice and bright again :?

I reached the holy level 10 today and it's much cooler than being door number 2 :P

Well, I went for an induction day at my new school on Friday and I had such a good time. My school (Richmond College) is one of those few state schools giving the opportunity to do the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma and that's why I chose to go there. I'm not sure yet, whether I want to go to university in the UK or Finland so I want to keep my options open for the time being.I already made a few friends and I'm really looking forward to starting properly on Monday. My first lessons will be English and Chemistry. Apart from those I'm also studying Maths, French, Italian and Psychology.

Okay, I got a few of my friends commenting on the fact that I decided to rearrange my bookcase so that all the books are the "wrong" way round, in other words that the titles are readable from right to left rather than left to right. I did this after I noticed that I tend to prefer looking books that way and after I had turned around one shelf, I realised that I liked having my books this way round much more so I turned them all that way. My friends did not seem to find my left-handedness a reason enough to do this. I started thinking about why would a preference like that have anything to do with you handedness in the first place. The thing, which also confused me was that I'm not even totally left handed and I do most things right handed so why would I like ordering my books like that (especially because I often feel quite strongly about stuff being the right way round and in the right place).

These are the things I always do left handed: writing, drawing, colouring in little details, playing cards (and dealing them), eating with a spoon (or a fork alone).

These are things that I don't particularly have a preference of hand: using the mouse on a computer, brushing my teeth, holding knife and fork, using an eraser, colouring in/painting larger areas, bouncing a basketball.

All other things I can think of right now, I do in the right handed way including most sports and playing all instruments.

Personally I was thinking whether I really can be considered left handed because I do much more things the right handed way. I also thought that I could maybe try and train myself to become ambidextrous (i.e. to use both of my hands equally well). It seems like an interesting experiment to do next (after finishing my nail growing experiment about a month ago).

The questions of today would be these: Are you left- or right-handed? Are there any things that you do the opposite way? :)

So I watched Ring today. It was scary as my friends had promised (I'm one of the people who cover their eyes with their hands and then look in between the fingers anyway so I saw the whole film :P) but as a film it was amazingly good actually. I liked the ending, it wasn't that kind of and-they-lived-happily-ever-after type thing but it had a good plot twist and it had lots of material to discuss afterwards. The storyline was good, I don't think I figured out any of the things before they did actually and that's always a good sign. :)

Then the quiz. Thanks to karlmeszaros for letting me steal this quz from his blog (I only changed 2 questions). If anyone else has a nice quiz for me to steal and complete, I'm very happy to do that :)

1. What is the last movie you saw? Ring, which I watched today.

2. Have you had braces? No

3. Could you live without a computer? No way!

4. What book are you currently reading? Watching the English by Kate Fox as well as a Finnish translation of a German book called Der Schwarm by Frank Schätzing.

5. Do you drink enough water? No, I have to admit that I very rarely drink any water at all apart from when it's really hot. I don't like it that much because it doesn't taste anything.

6. Do you wear shoes in the house or take them off? Take them off (I'd get killed by my stepdad if I didn't ;))

7. What are your favorite fruits? Apples

8. What are the top 3 places in the world you would like to visit? New Zealand, Iceland and Canada

9. Are you photogenic? No, although I'd love to be.

10. Do you dream in color or black and white? Colour

11. Why do you take surveys? So that people would find out pointless fact about me (and also I enjoy answering them).

12. Do you drink alcohol? No (doesn't taste nice)

13. What is the most beautiful language? I could start giving a lecture here about how this question is too vague and that there are different ways in which a language can be beautiful but I'm just going to say English (very beautiful pronunciation and it has a very rich vocabulary).

14. Do you like being kissed when you are asleep? How would I know, you're in a subconscious state when sleeping so logically you won't feel it.

15. What do you like most: Sunrise or Sunset? Sunset, you don't have to wake up incredibly early to see that.

16. Do you want to live until you're 100 yrs old? If I get to be healthy, then yes.

17. Is a flat stomach important to you? No, I couldn't care less.

18. How tall are you? I don't know exactly because it's ages since I've last been measured but I'd say about 165 cm.

19. When watching scary movies are the lights on or off? On (when watching any movie, I get headache otherwise)

20. Do you believe in magic? No, but I'd love it if magic existed.

21. Do you believe in ghosts? Not anymore, I used to though.

22. Do you like to watch cartoons? I liked them lots when I was younger but now Ii find most of them slightly boring.

23. At what age did you find out that Santa Claus wasn't real? I can't remember exactly, it was quite early though because my parents were very bad at acting and I've always been quite a scientific person (how could one person possibly go to every single house in the world in one night?)

24. Do you write poems? No, one of the only things I've never enjoyed writing.

25. Do you snore? No.

26. Do you sleep most on your back, front or sides? Sides, but also on the back quite a lot.

27. Would you rather have a poodle or a Rottweiler? Neither but if I had to choose it would be a Rottweiler.

28. Are you basically a happy person? Yeah, I think so.

29. Are you tired? No, not at the moment.

30. Did you drink anything with caffeine? Very rarely.

31. How do you take your coffee? I don't drink coffee.

32. How many landlines/cell phones do you have in your house? One landline, 6 mobiles (counting only those that are in use).

33. Do you get along with your parents? Yeah.

34. Do you smoke? No, I can't even stand the smell.

35. Do you have a kitty? No.

36. Have you ever had a birthday party? Yeah, when I was younger, the last one must have been when I turned 14.

37. What do you do when you're sad? Go somewhere I can be alone, sometimes I cry as well.

38. What do you need most now? Sleep (I woke up early this morning)

39. What song are you listening to now? All By Myself by Celine Dion

40. What are you craving right now? Some sleep

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P.S. Why on earth is Level 9 called Door Number 2? I preferred being Super-friend :P

Hi everyone!

I'm blogging of pure boredom now. I'm still on holiday, I'm not going to school until next Friday even if I'd have been very ready to go back about two weeks ago. I've done so little over the past two weeks, here are the highlights:

Last Wednesday I had college (=high school in America) enrolment where I got officially accepted to the courses I wanted to do. I was also given an ID card with a terrible photo of me. I probably should lose it on purpose so that I could get a new card with a better picture :P

On Friday I played tennis with my boyfriend and our other friend. Actually I wasn't planning on playing at all because I thought that they're probably both really good and I hadn't played in ages so I said to them that I'll just watch. But the minute they started playing I realised that they were both kind of bad so I joined in and after warming up a bit, I was better than either of them. :D

Today I went cycling with my mum. It had been raining in the morning but when we left it was sunny and it didn't look like it'd rain again so we cycled quite far and when we were halfway back, it obviously started to rain really heavily and there was lightning as well. When we finally got home we completely soaked and literally dripping water (and of course I was wearing trousers which are see-through when wet :S).

I am aware that I probably should do a quiz on here because people don't know much about me. I just really can't be bothered to make one up. Does anyone have a quiz I could possibly steal? I'd be very grateful :)

I hope everyone has had a good weekend and I wish luck to all of those who have already started school and work (you lucky bastards :P).

I finished Breaking Dawn today and it was one of the best books I've ever read (a fairly strong statement from me as I read a lot). It jumped very high on the list of my favourite books (Lord of the Rings is my absolute favourite of all time but I can imagine the Twilight series right after it). I couldn't put the book down and my home :P

Anyway, there was so much happening and lots of vampire stuff was going on (I'm facinated by vampires, one reason why I originally decided to read Twilight). It was well structured, there were so many unexpected twists in the plot (the plot was complicated enough to keep the story interesting but it never became completely incomprehensible) and many new interesting characters were introduced. I literally got goosebumps and times and it made me laugh out loud (I think it's amazing how a writer can achieve that level of involvement from a reader). I was empathizing with the characters and lived in their world.

It feels good to finally know the complete story about Bella and Edward and I can make comparisons between all the books. This would be my order of preference starting with my favourite:

Breaking Dawn - for reasons mentionned above, emotionally strong so it made you really feel something

Twilight - the first book of the series is always good and fresh, interesting introduction to the supernatural world, good structure, makes you thirsty for more.

Eclipse - too much focus on Jacob/Bella relationship but the ending is thrilling.

New Moon - started of far too slowly and not that much happened over all, it did speed up towards the end though, for some reason I found the storyline slightly confusing.

And for those people who have not read the series yet, I strongly recommend it :)

Hey everyone!

So I got my GCSE results this morning and I was very happy with them. There was nothing that I would have been really disappointed with. I got four A*:s, six A:s and one B.

I was very surprised to get an A* in music because I thought I'd done average and I wouldn't have been disappointed to get a B (I was predicted an A but the exam was quite difficult). The other A*s were in Additional science, French and Media studies. The B was in Drama (we had an incredibly harsh examiner, even the best people in my year only got A:s). I'm very happy of my English grade because I've only been living in the UK for two years and I still managed to get to the top end of the scale on British standards.

Tomorrow I'm going shopping with my mum (I know this sounds very glamorous :P but the good thing is that mum will pay for everything). We're going to buy some clothes for me (as we are not required to wear school uniform in college anymore) and I'm also going to make mum buy Breaking Dawn because I just finished Eclipse today and I'm dying to know how everything ends :P There are so many loose threads to be tied in the last book. I enjoyed Eclipse although it was slightly slow at some points. I found myself skipping unnecessary description and dialogue because I just wanted to know how it ended :oops: but I forced myself to go back and read the whole book properly. I'm not going to put any details about the book in here because I know that not everyone have read it. I still like Twilight best out of the three I've read, New Moon was the worst (it was soooo slow in the beginning, very basic "middle of the series" book, which is just used for building up). Which one do you guys like the best and which do you think is the worst?

Hi everyone!

I'm now an editor of the Los Serranos show guide (after being a trusted contributor for a few days)! Well, of course it isn't visited much as it's shown in very few countries, none of them English-speaking as far as I know. It's a very popular show in Finland, though, and it's one of my personal favourites.

I also reached level six, so now I'm a Small Wonder :) In fact, I'm about a quarter through that level already.

Anyway, I haven't been up to much over the last weeks of my summer holidays. I'm starting college next term and I'm really looking forward to it. Yeah, I know I could be considered a geek but I love learning new stuff and of course the higher up you go, the more interesting stuff gets. I'm getting the results of my GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) exams on Thursday (21st) but I'm not really worried as I didn't do that badly in the exams. In fact, I wouldn't mind if I never got to know what I got. For me that is done and dusted.

I went to the cinema with my boyfriend on Monday and when we got there, he asked what I wanted to see. I'd heard that The Dark Knight was supposed to be quite good so I suggested that. He looked at me weirdly and asked whether I'm absolutely sure. I looked back at him irritatedly and asked whether he was suggesting that I wouldn't want to see that film because I was a girl. He nodded realising too late that that was exactly what I hated to hear. I literally dragged him down to the ticket office and assured him that that is absolutley what we are going to see :P I don't like hearing any statements, which have the reason "because you're a girl" at the end.
The film was good, although I wasn't following the events all the time, there was so much happening and without subtitles I was slightly lost. Heath Ledger's performance was amazing, though. It's so sad that he died. Still, the main thing which ruined my cinema experience was the incredibly uncomfortable seats and the sounds, which were far too loud. My ears were aching afterwards (my ears are quite sensitive, though, sometimes I can't even tolerate normal concerts :?). Not very good first impression of the UK cinemas. I might just stick to the ones in Finland.

Have a good end of the week! :)

This is a random video we did with my friends a few weeks back at my friend's summer cottage. We just finished editing it today. It doesn't perhaps make that much sense in English but please comment anyway. Basically it's about these three extremely dumb Finnish people who speak English very badly (and mix it with Finnish and Swedish).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ2VUUn_V_I

Oh yeah, and I'm the blonde one in there by the way. I'm slightly scared how easily we managed to mess up everything perfectly well (the whole thing is improvised) so that we really seem dumb. Perhaps we are dumber than we think we are :D