Olenko kertonut kuinka pahasti olen koukussa Sinkkuelämään… Samanthan rivouksista sekä Carrien romanttisistä mietteistä ei saa ikinä tarpeekseen!
Have I ever mentioned that I am crazy about Sex in the city? I just can’t get enough of Samanthas dirty-talk & Carries deep, romantic contemplations!
Carrie Bradshaw: Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.
Ja niin kuin yleensäkin, tänä wiikendinä ei jäädä himaan nyhväämään, vaan suunnataan ekaks fiilistelemään Ibiza Housea Sofa Lounge Baariin, jonka jälkeen Ahmet pistää tanssilattian kuumaksi sen seteillä Playgroundissa ja Aftereissä! Hoppaaa! U gotta love partying! ;-)
Seuraava biisi on avan loistava, ja mun korvissa erinomainen klassikko. Tää oli sen verran kova hitti Ausseissa, ja ehkä täälläkin, ja paljon fiiliksiä on jäänyt mieleen tän biisin ansiosta.
GNARLS BARKLEY — CRAZY
Mä oon funtsinnut usein, että kuinka tärkeä osa mun elämää musiikki on. Todella tärkeä! Mä muistan päiviä, kun oon ollut ihan alla päin, ja yksinkertaisesti, joku biisi on pelastanut fiiliksen, ja päivä on rullannut siitä eteenpäin aivan loistavasti. Joku tarttuva biitti — ei enempää tarvitsekaan!
Biiseillä on myös tapana saada mut itkemään. Viimeisimmästä kerrasta ei ole edes niin kauan aikaa, kun rupesin vaivihkaa pyyhkimään yhtä krokotiilin kyyneltä metrossa matkalla treeneihin. No joo. Sattuu ja tapahtuu, ja fiilistelemisessä ei ole mitään väärää. Hah! Ehkä sitten ens kerralla treeneihin matkalle jotain rytmikkäämpää!
Gnarls Barkley — Crazy I remember when
I remember I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that place
Even your emotions had an echo
In so much space
And when you're out there
Without care
Yeah, I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much
Mmm!
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Possibly [radio version]
probably [album version]
And I hope that you are having the time of your life
But think twice, that's my only advice
Mmmm
Come on now, who do you
Who do you, who do you, who do you think you are?
Ha ha ha, bless your soul
You really think you're in control?
Well,
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
Just like me
My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinking, I wanna be like them
Mhmmmm
Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
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Last November, Ahmet Sendil’s visit to UG club Playground, Helsinki, was a great success. The crowd wanted more, and now they are getting it. It is time for the round two, tomorrow night, on Friday 21.1 — Ahmet is back.
This is the man who brought electronic music in the limelight in Turkey back in the days. Ahmet has been in business for almost 20 years now, starting in 1989, back home in Turkey and slowly expanding his scene around the globe. Istanbul’s Ahmet has established his own record labels M-Vitamine and Bosphorus Underground that are very popular today, and started releasing music in 2007.
Now, as the result, Ahmet is one of the most respected DJ’s of minimal house music genre. With remarkable minimal music, he definitely has his own style. Like he says:”Anyone who listens to my new tracks on Beatport could say, yes, that’s Ahmet. I name it ‘sexy happy minimal’”. And I can’t but agree!
Some of my favorite tracks and remixes by Ahmet:
‘Istandam’
‘Vicious games’
‘Adelante’
‘Feels like I’m dancing'
'Bye bye my brain’
‘Don’t get lost'
Muistin juuri nähneeni kivan diilin päästä testaamaan hotjoogaa. Eli diili ois sellainen, että pääsee reenaa joogaa viikon ajaksi ja koko lysti maksaisi vain 25e — eli ihan mielettömän edullinen! Itse ainakin meen testaamaan hotjoogaa, nyt kun ulkona on vielä tällainen loska-paskakeli valloillaan!
This is me last summer. Don’t even ask how I got myself twisted like that! That’s not due to yoga, that’s for sure, coz’ I wasn’t even doing yoga then…
http://www.yoganordic.fi/fin/
And here’s the studio itself — looks nice! Here you can train yoga for one week with one-off promotion offer at 25e.
Olen miettinyt, kummalla kielellä kirjoittaisin mielummin englanniksi vai suomeksi? Onhan myös se vaihtoehto, että voisin kääntää jokaisen postaukseni kummallekin kielelle, mutta tietäen minkälaisia “puhe”- ja kirjoitusripuleita joskus saan, se ei ehkä olisi kaikista optimaalisin vaihtoehto. Eräs teistä ehdotti, että kirjoittaisin mielummin suomeksi, kun kerran näillä kulmilla hengailen, ja näin se olisi helpompaa lukijoille. Niinpä pari viimeisintä postausta ovatkin suomeksi. Koitan kääntää englanniksi aina välillä tärkeimmät jutut, ja jatkaa ainakin jonkin aikaa kirjoittaa suomeksi — odotellessa teidän ihanien palautetta!
Tästä päivästä ei voi muuta sanoa, kuin että täysin nappiin mennyt päivä. Ihan aamusta lähtien! Päädyttiin eilen, pitämään pientä tyttöjen iltaa, tai pikemminki viikonlopun jälkeisen ahdistuksen pelastusoperaatiota viinin kera… tehosi varsin hyvin! Seuraavana aamuna kolme ihanaa söivät kiirehtimättä tunnin mittaisen ja todella maukkaan aamupalan, ja purkasivat viimeiset tipat wiikendin ahdingosta pois, mikä on ihan luksusta näin keskellä viikkoa.
Tottakai päivä ilman edes pientä takapakkia, ei ole omansa… Käytiin kyselemässä kadonnutta luuriani, eikä sitä tietenkään löytynyt. Voi itku! Mutta kappas vain, sinä hetkenä siellä löytötavaratoimistossa ei sitten tehnytkään mieli itkeä, vaan itkun sijaan nousi hymy korviin asti — sen verran kuumat kundit siellä oli jeesaamassa meitä! Nyt tiedetään minne mennä varmasti käymään, jos muulloinkin häviää jotain… Mitä turhaan soitella tavaroitten perään ja kuluttaa puhelinlaskua, kun voi käydä paikan päälläkin. ;-)
Sen jälkeen vuorossa oli kumisaappaitten metsästys, mikä meni ihan mönkään. Eipä löytynyt mitään kivoja, niin päädyin tilaamaan Brandosilta nämä, mustissa ja beigessä väreissä. Luulen päätyväni kuitenkin pitämään mustat...
Aikaisemmassa postauksessa hehkutin tulevista Upcider Olohuoneen bileistä Motelletissä (Annankatu 10), jotka järjestettiin 17.12.10, ja tässä olisi sitten snadi katsaus illasta, hyvin ajoissa postattuna… Aina ei vaan valitettavasti ehdi.
Keikkaa siellä heitti The Giant Leap, Kim Herold, Laura Närhi, Jussu Pöyhönen ja Kristiina Wheeler. Tunnelma oli, juuri niin kuin luvattiin, tiivis. Päästiin kylläkin fiilistelemään Sinin kanssa vasta viimeisillä biiseillä, kun ollaan sen verran kuuluisia meidän ‘näyttävistä sisääntuloista’ — eli toisin sanoen mä saavun joka paikkaan enemmän tai vähemmän myöhässä, ja jos Sinin kanssa ollaan liikenteessä yhdessä, niin ei toivoakaan ajoissa saapumisesta. Sentään saatiin pari valokuvaa ja tietysti janon tyydytettyä Upciderin sidukoilla.
Tässä ovat tyypit kenelle muun muassa kuuluu kiitos näistä bileistä…
Minä ja Jussu Pöyhönen ihan häkeltyneenä!
Sinitys ja The Giant Leapin, Sebastian Rejman… valitettavasti ei saatu muita poikia kiinni kuvattavaksi, mutta tässäkin riitti katseltavaa ;-)
Ja vilahdus Motelletin tunnelmasta, ja Laura Närhistä.
Löysin vahingossa erään Nooran blogin, jossa on meneillään kilpailu älyttömän ihanista ITSETEHDYISTÄ pannoista! Toivotaan, että onni suosii ja saan yhden tuollaisen päähäni lopputalveksi! Säkin voit osallistua ;-) Aikaa on sunnuntaihin asti, ja säännöt löytyy tuolta:
Tänään on sweetsweet Sinisimpukan syndet! Kivaa ohjelmaa tiedossa, jopa sellaista, mistä Sini ei ehkä tiedä ;) Mut viralliset vietot ovat Bistro del Marissa porukalla illastamassa, ja Tigeriin jatkamaan juhlii! Hoppaaa!
My sweetest Sini has found something I have totally forgotten about. My blog I have been writing in Australia — that unsuccessful triumph, I mean. Three, or so, entries in total, that seem to be written centuries ago from now! I even mentioned Grant Roff, from Bond University, and suddenly remember so much of Australia. Especially Melbourne, where I spent my last three years of my life in Aussie-land.
RMIT University - Melbourne Central (Picture borrowed from connect.in.com)
Flinders Street Station’s - Central area (Picture borrowed)
Chess on Swanston Street walking district (Picture borrowed from streetsblog.org)
Melbourne City Skyline (Picture borrowed from streetsblog.com)
Melbourne’s Skyline - view from Docklands if I’m right… (Picture borrowed)
Maybe just a bit, a little hint, I do miss Melbs. It’s small alleys where I used to get lost for hours and hours just on purpose for fun. I loved the fact that they are so European & mysteriously hidden in the midst of the city.
I walked past those alleys stopping at some cozy random coffee shops, for a fresh sushi-roll or a smoothie. I remember one coffee-shop in particular, it served minimum of ten different soups and other organic foods, I loved to try. Melburnians love organic food, and they’re forerunners in that field, so all what they had there was competely new to even the foodie from Finland like me. We didn’t have so many kinds of delicacies.
In Melb nothing really was too far away, and you never really got bored over there, or lacked an entertainment, as there was always something going on. A night out could happen every night. The best days where spent shopping on Chapel St, getting ur hair n nails done, having a dinner at some sushiplace & heading to some posh club according to the week day n what was on at that day.
Ohh those lil’ adventures!
A few days ago, I’ve got invitation to the nightclub mogul Seppo “Sedu" Koskinen’s newly opening club, Velvet Nightclub. Sedu is running the show in this town, by far, owning majority of the places on surface in every city of Finland plus Estonia’s capital.
Sedu’s lightning speed of taking over new places, and stringing them to his pearl necklace extension, is impressive. But it is about the time for some freshness for the town’s old favorites, too. The Tiger is getting awfully old and boring. The reason being, its well past it’s 8-year old restaurant life-cycle — simply passé. People are still going there, but for no better option, as well as on certain special events. But, nevertheless, from what I hear, Velvet came out of the blue, and has lots of expectations and is awaited surprise…
The Nightclub Velvet is ready to roll on this Friday, tonight. The place is also already Sedu’s, not so long been operated Jazz club Birdland’s premises, according to Kauppalehti. Well, only for the time being Birdland is having a break, until it’ll find a new home in close distance. Eventually, Birdland will also open it’s doors, have its program renewed n’ all that jazz done.
What the future brings and when we’ll hear jazz there again, I personally haven’t got a chance to hear it even once yet, anyway. Let’s wait for jazz… But more than that for tonight! Bluff or Hit? Who cares — it’s Friday! Hopppaaaa!
(Borrowed logos)
CORRECTION:
My friend mentioned to me about a mistake here regarding the time that the Tiger has been open in Kampinkeskus. To make a correction, after the Lux has been closed down, new Tiger has opened it doors in March 2009. My writing is a bit misleading here as I mention the Tiger’s over 8-year existence. However, the Tiger nightclub concept has existed since 2000, occasionally renaming itself drastically from Tiikeri to The Tiger, and changed a place.
I promised that I wouldn’t make any New Year’s resolutions, or any kind of promises this year. Instead I’d just do everything extemporaneously… well… as per usual happens to happen in my life. However, somethings just must be planned. Like the battle for oh-so-long waited place at the Helsinki School of Economics, that has now joined forces with few other universities and has been renamed as Aalto University. That place is one reason I’d left to Australia in a first place, and spent there almost five years, and one of the reasons I am now here without any plans to leave anywhere else, before I get my piece of education.
With that thought, and all pumped up and motivated, I’m heading out to the cultural trip to the National Library of Finland. Now for the first time this spring… and hopefully not last… Maybe appearance of historical building & aesthetical surroundings will make me stay glued to the chair, and nose dug deep into the books. Just let’s not try to make any bad decisions this year, shall I, that would be resolution enough for 2011. I’ll do my best to try & stay focused on ‘good-stuff'!
And after all that hard work, I am intending to do, I can show myself some gratitude, and maybe go on a lil’ party trip to… perhaps Ibiza ;-) Or if Ibiza just isn’t gonna work out, then the Loveboat instead, like the last year! Ohh that boat trip was a killer! Now, let’s stop dreaming, and start working… shall we ;-)
I have three words to say about this year’s celebration — three day party-carnage!
By the way, I did choose the gold cocktail dress by Guess for the first night out, even though you can’t see it very well from these pics.
First, we had pre-party drinks at Sini’s, and reminisced a year gone by, had lots of different cheeses and wine, salads, vodka and what not.
The girls (and one girls' boy) and I dipped our melted horse-shoe tins in water. Like it is used to do traditionally on Finnish NYEs. Here you can see the process itself.
The outcome I could see from my tin is a heart in the middle and two people holding champagne flutes. Sini got a star and a bowing or glancing up girl, I guess, depending on your view-point. And Iina got apparently a tin sculpture that promises lots of money. What can you see? Others tin pictures unfortunately I don’t have.
We even had time to play with ideas of what the coming year might bring for us. I had a bromance with minimal teddy, and Artur decided to play a role of the Cupid.
Against our better judgement, we simply couldn’t follow through all of our plans. We skipped the NYE Vesa-Matti Loiri’s concert and the fireworks, what a shame — NOT. I had enough fireworks past year anyway, I’m sure I can take it a bit easier this year without too many explosions & still not feeling too bored.
So, the next stop was Clinic’s NYE @ the Fredan Tivoli, the club was pumping, and included the most prominent Finnish artists of the electronic music — Super8 & Tab, Orkidea, Orion, Milla Lehto, Paul Easy, Flink and Visions Collective to mention almost but not all. Behind all of this successful event is events management company Clinic and Marko Kantola.
Here’s wrap up video made of the night at the Clinic.
