Apparently when Christmas is coming, normal postcards cease to be. I mean how difficult would you think finding normal postcards for cheap be in a city with 99 P Store and Poundland, dozen different places specialized in cards and at least 50 newsagents? And no regular postcards for reasonable price... meh.
*goes to student union to steal promotional purposes cards*

After some conversations and a whole lot of studio practise (=in studio mind is free so studio means thinking) I've come to a conclusions that I find interesting.
1. When I lived in Finland I was a countryside girl, and what countryside girls do is countryside work. Picking berries, helping with the potato-field, help clean the house, and that sort of things. When I moved to England, I had to adjust to urban life in Coventry.
2. Gautam is from (New?) Delhi. That is a huge city. So he lived an urban life in India, and as far as I can tell, a fairly rich life. When he moved to England, he had to adjust to a small-town life, and also he had to start working very hard to stay in university, because he is an overseas student (I am not, I'm an EU-student, cheaper and easier for me).

So we both had to adjust, but when you consider it, I basically took a step up, and he took a step down, in a sort of social ladder.

This I gathered from a conversation we had. He is always very tired after his work - and he should be, his job is awful. I was very tired the other night and said so, and he said something like "now you know what it's like to be tired." In my head I went "excuse me? I do know what it's like to be tired, it's not the first time you know!" and I said that in a milder, un-angry tone. He said ok, and explained that it is the first time to be tired for him, that he was never tired in India because he doesn't have to walk anywhere there or sweep the floor or wash utensils or anything like that. I was very surprised and thought "hmm? So in their family they make the mother to do all that? Or is it just that he doesn't help?" so I asked him "who does that in your house then?". He explained that they have a maid who does that.


On a sidenote, there has been another 'clash' with indian people. When it was late sunday evening after a movie, my roommate Isabel said that she was very tired, and that she didn't want to be rude but could everyone go home. And Rajat said "we are leaving anyway" in a way that Isabel misunderstood as very patronizing. She thought he meant that they would only leave at their own will, that it doesn't matter what she or I think about them staying, when he just meant to say that she wasn't being rude and that she shouldn't worry about that.

Interesting.
I really like having indian people as friends because the culture is so different. It's fascinating, in some ways it's challenging for my intellect... I get other sort of thinking than this jammed, sceptic western way that is forced upon everyone in Finland. Same with my chinese friends.

God, I never thought I'd say the following sentence.







I'm not going to say the sentence because I refuse it to be true. Actually it's not true at all, I just wanted to put in my diary because it would be pretty funny, but then again, here are people who might read it who know the person in question and might take it seriously. So it's not really true, it's just something that you can say to shock people and then tell the story behind it, that makes it very un-shocking when you find out the facts, kinda like tabloid headlines, have you noticed? They always exaggerate, the real story is never as good as the headline implies. It's part of their selling strategy... Gee, now that I've taken all this time to talk about how it's not true, you'd think I could say it out loud, don't you, or more like type it out loud, heh. I think I'll go on a bit longer, then hide the sentence in the text, so those people who I know don't really care to read much, would miss the actual sentence, but how do I know that the people who know the person in question are those un-reading people?

Ok, desicionary: I'm not saying the sentence.

So I took a fake IQ test. Result:

Congratulations, Inari!
Your IQ score is 129

This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.

Your Intellectual Type is Insightful Linguist. This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. And that's just some of what we know about you from your test results.

http://community.webshots.com/scripts/controlPanel.fcgi

http://musicindiaonline.com/l/17/m/actors.447/

A thing I find curious:

The first person I kissed properly, was from Australia.
My first real boyfriend is from India.



I've had crushes on Finnish boys but it seems that I just can't get it on with Finnish guys. How odd.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not


How true is this!

http://www.travlang.com/languages/index.html

Time for a diary entry with all the good qualities of an "oh-how-life-sucks" -entry:

The monday noticed iippo around four. She went home and because she had agreed with her roommate, she started to move the beds and the furniture to different places so that both laptops could get internet access. In the middle of the job, with both beds moving, she had a spaz. "I don't need to change stuff, we already have plugs near everything we need!" So she moved everything back to their original places. Then she realised that it's not about the electric plugs, but the phoneline plugs. So she moved the beds again. After having done that, her friend Nabil came to visit her. He played the good song on the laptop (Mahi Ve) and he had brought chocolate chip cookies. Everything seemed nice. Iippo started to go through her papers and diary, and to her horror she noticed that the rent is due this week Friday. So she hustled herself and her friend out of the room and out of the house. Then she noticed that her keys were in the locked room, so even if she'd ring the bell and get one of those cold british people to open the door, she'd still have to wait for her roommate to open the bedroom door. She wasn't due for another hour. Around then her friend noticed that he had left his phone inside. So they agreed to go to the bank and come back after roommate was home. They walked to the bank and to her absolute joy, she noticed that the bank had closed. Thye agreed to go to an open access internet room to spend time.

What happens on the next episode:
-She will get hit by a car
-She'll be fined for something university related
-She can't get her account number in time.
-She finds her boyfriend in the arms of another girl
-She gets hit by a doubledecker
-She gets kicked out of BarrasLane and University
-She misses the plane home
-Her homecountry goes through a revolution and she is no longer a citizen of any country

http://mp.sigh.org/manga/pt.html

http://www.ukindia.com/zhin001.htm

1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?
2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
6. Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
7. Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
8. Why do "tug" boats push their barges?
9. Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?
10. Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?
11. Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"?
12. Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?
13. Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites! ?
14. Why do "overlook" & "oversee" mean opposite things?
15. Why is "phonics" not spelled the way it sounds?
16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?
17. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
19. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
20. Why is bra singular and panties plural?
21. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?
22. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?
23. How come abbreviated is such a long word?
24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?
25. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
26. Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one?
27. Christmas is weird. What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks
28. Why is 'flammable' and 'inflammable' the same thing?

European communications.

The European Union commisioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short)

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also the hard "c" will be replaced with"k". Not only will this klear up Konfusion, but typewriters Kan have one less letter.

There will be growing pulik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like"fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.

In the third year, pulik akseptanse of the new spelling Kan be expekted to reach the stage where more Komplicsted changes are possible.

Goverments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a teterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the forth year, peopl wil bereseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v".

During ze ifz year, ze unesesary "o" Kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations og leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.

Ze Drem vil finali Kum tru.

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I did a quiz and:

http://lucid.lunacy.nu/quiz/pirates.html

If I was a profession I'd be: a gardener
If I was a country I'd be: in real financial troubles
If I was a ocean or body of water I'd be: A river
If I was a piece of candy I'd be: Chocklad written like that
If I was a famous building or piece of architecture I'd be: Taj Mahal
If I was a store I'd be: The three Broomsticks
If I was a brand of shoe I'd be: Doc Martin's
If I was a bad habit I'd be: watching too much tv
If I was a swear word I'd be: Postipankki
If I was a ice cream flavour I'd be: that tiger thingie... with orange
If I was a disease I'd be: Kuppa
If I was a board game I'd be: Camelgame
If I was a cardgame I'd be: CRIBBAGE!
If I was a feeling I'd be: Obsession
If I was a president I'd be: surprised
If I was a war I'd be: dying
If I was a city I'd be: Cannock ;P silve
If I was a colour I'd be: Blue
If I was a celebrity I'd be: David Boreanaz's well-known painter wife
If I was a movie I'd be: Nightmare Before Christmas or fight Club
If I was a brand of toothpaste: Pepsodent Kids
If I was a company I'd be: IP Productions
If I was a currency I'd be: spent
If I were a month, I'd be: JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneandJuly
AugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberdee-de-deed-deeDecember
If I were a day of the week, I'd be: SUNDAY
If I were a time of day, I'd be: Evening
If I were a planet, I'd be: Mars
If I were a sea animal, I'd be: Sea turtle called Crush
If I were a direction, I'd be: which way
If I were a piece of furniture, I'd be: antique
If I were a sin, I'd be: Sloth
If I were a liquid, I'd be: soup
If I were a tree, I'd be: Orangetree
If I were a bird, I'd be: Cuckoo
If I were a tool, I'd be: rather a hammer than a nail
If I were a flower/plant, I'd be: orangetree
If I were a kind of weather, I'd be: Little windy
If I were a musical instrument, I'd be: Sitar
If I were an animal, I'd be: a frog
If I were a vegetable, I'd be: carrot
If I were a sound, I'd be: whale being spoken
If I were an element, I'd be: water
If I were a car, I'd be: Aston Martin
If I were a song, I'd be: In the Castle of the mountain King by Edvard Krieg
If I were a book, I'd be: Harry Potter book
If I were a food, I'd be: something called... bouillabaisse
If I were a material, I'd be: rock
If I were a taste, I'd be: too sweet
If I were a word, I'd be: Plurpsis
If I were a body part, I'd be: Legs
If I were a facial expression, I'd be: confused
If I were a shape, I'd be: a circle of course - it's perfect like i am
If I were a number, I'd be: 123,456,789
If I were a poem, I'd be: The poem in iippo by Lewis Carroll
If I were a Kitchen Utensil, I'd be: toaster
If I were one of the four Hobbits, I'd be: pippin
If I were a decade, I'd be: 1920's
If I were a weapon, I'd be: a pointy stick (whoo Areena5)
If I were a Beatle, I'd be: yoko
If I were a style of music, I'd be: Adult Pop/rock
If I were a type of hat, I'd be: on somebody's head!
If I were a mode of transport, I'd be: taxi
If I were a Charlie's Angel, I'd be: Lucy Liu
If I were a Saint, I'd be: Simon
If I were a Book in the Bible, I'd be: John
If I were a building material, I'd be: worried that wasps might nest in me
If I were a hair colour, I'd be: blonde with blonde streaks XD
If I were a Weather Man/ Woman, I'd be: The frostman
If I were a type of fish, I'd be: Marlin
If I were a TV channel, I'd be: SubTV
If I were an animal, I'd be: Maki
If I were an art medium, I'd be: pencil
If I were a film, I'd be: Fight Club or Nightmare Before Christmas
If I were a DIY programme, I'd be: more confused than i am of this question
If I were Thelma or Louise, I'd be: seen that film, which i haven't