Exciting times and first snow!

Now my applications to univerisites are officially, paid, sent, done! Wow wow wow! Now I can say that this is really happening. There is no going back! All I need to do know is hope for the best and wait! :) I hope I will get offers soooon, because I hate waiting! Haha I'm sure the ones who have read my blog know that.

I guess I haven't told you that I booked flights back to England like ages ago? It was like two weeks after I came back from Oxford in August. This time though I'm going northern part of England, flying to Manchester and taking a train to Preston. Going to visit my friend there and see what the university life actually is in Britain. I need to prepare myself! ;) The best part is that Sara is going with me! I can't wait! So again my life is all about waiting. Waiting for that trip and waiting for offers from universities! Exciting times but also frustrating, because like I said I am not the most patient human being. I want it all here and now, at this second! Well, isn't it commonly said that great things are worth waiting?

Also, for some people really irritating, some really happy occasion occured! We got first snow today! Winter is officially coming and it's October! I am not the happiest about it, don't get me wrong, winter can be really beautiful, if there is lot's of snow. I just hate that roads get slippery and walking in heels can be quite a challenge! I never fall over, but many times it has been really close! Also it gets bloody cold here, like -30! How could someone be happy about that? Hopefully we will get lot's of snow though, then it won't be so bloody dark here. Christmas has to be white! Then I get to the real Christmas mood! Well this is a good start.

- lovesme xx

Dream the impossible to make it possible

At the moment I'm in a such a state of happiness I have never been. The happiness of believing yourself. Believing your dream could actually come true. Really.

I told you last time how I didn't want to go ahead of the things about getting in to uni. How my friends seem to be sure I will get in, but I wanted to just keep calm and just hope for the best, not to think ahead. I can't know the outcome, I can't predict it, even though I would be happy to be able to do so! Anything can happen, either negative or the most positive, fifty/fifty chance. 

An hour ago though, this sudden breeze of self-confidence embraced me. I read the first draft of the reference my English teacher had written for me for my application, and somehow her wonderful writing about me, how she's sure I am capable of successing my studies at university abroad. I know they always write the same stuff, but it really had a huge impact on me. It made me realise, for the first time, that it might actually maybe, possibly, be possible that I will get in. Wow. I can't truly describe this some kind of enlightenment I am having. This amount of belief in me. Anyway, I am still going to keep calm and not to get overly excited, I haven't got in yet - remember. Just to be able to actually really imagine it in my head now, me studying at university in Scotland is just, wow.  Because I have always believed, if you can dream impossible and big things. Just being able to imagine them in your head, and really believe in them, they are possible to make come true.

Speaking of impossible dreams, I just wrote some sort of poem about those and right after I had written it I listened to Taylor Swift's new song Starlight from her just today published album Red where she sings:

"like we dream impossible dreams
like starlight, starlight
like we dream impossible dreams
don't you see the starlight, starlight?
don't you dream impossible things?"

It was my first time listening to it. What are the odds that Taylor sings about exactly the same thing I had just written a minute ago? This must be some sort of karma! Haha. She reads my mind, really. I mean it and finds the words for me. Anyway, I absolutely love her new album, it gives me shivers, makes me cry, oh my god her lyrics. No words. She did it again, and even better. I'll get back to that loveliness, here is a part of it, the song I mentioned above. Enjoy, there's something wrong with you, if you don't.

- lovesme
 

Hard work pays off, or does it?

I can't believe It's been one month since my latest post. Time has gone so fast, I can't believe it! I can only say I'm sorry it's been so quiet here, but the whole month passed working on the personal statement I mentioned to you last time. I just haven't been able to focus on any other writing than the statement. It needed to be perfect, and I am such a perfectionist when writing so it took a month for me to finish it. At least I can say that I really worked hard on it, put my heart and soul to it. Hopefully all the hard work pays off as well.

The statement has really been the most vital text I had written. It's almost like my life depends on it, like, this is it, go and write the best you can that they understand they have to take you in as a student. That statement, those approximately 600 words I wrote, matter so much. I needed to squeeze all this enthusiasm and motivation of mine in 600 words! Trust me, that was pretty difficult because I have always so much to say, so I had to cut out lots of stuff! I am still thinking, did I mention all the things worth mentioning? Is the structure well done? Is the beginning eye catching? Well, I know I did a good job, because I had the best help I could get (thanks to lads in Preston <3).

This is like the most nerve racking time in my life, but in a good way. I haven't cared about something and worked this hard on anything in a while. The feeling of having finally found what I want to do in life and for what I'm ready to work hard on, is ecstatic. If I only get the chance to actually do it.

My friends seem to be so positive about my success, that I will get in. Everyone of them say the same. "You have worked so hard you will get in!" "You have wanted this for years and done everything you could, you'll get there!" I prefer not to go ahead of the things though, because I have learnt, sometimes hard work doesn't pay off. Everybody have encountered at least one this kind of person I am about to describe to you. The person, who somehow always seems to get her way to success even though she doesn't even make much an effort. She kind of just drifts to success when at the same time some people really work hard to get there.

So the unfairness of this is, why some people who couldn't care less, or at least are not ready to do much for anything, somehow happen to get the shot and the ones who really work their as**** off don't? Ok, It's not how it always goes. Hard work pays off in many cases, but not always. For example, what I have found out when following people applying to univerisities here in Finland. Many people who have studied months and months plus paid a lot of money for the preparation course for the entrance exams, didn't get a place, when this person who just went to the exam to "try it out" is now studying at the university.

Is it the careless way of life? Just going with the flow, not worrying too much that gets them to accomplish these goals they don't even have? They don't have a goal where to aim, they just "try everything out" and they end up somewhere. So should people like me, who just worked on a motivation letter for one month, take it more easy? Not to care so much. Will then the outcome be more pleasant? Well I know one thing, that too much stressing is not good, it can really affect your ability to do it. Like during my matriculation exams last year, I studied so hard. I was so stressed out I'm sure I have never been before. I worked hard but still, I only got average grades. When the people who said right before the exam they hardly studied, got the best grades. If I had chilled out more, could the exam results have been better? Maybe, but what is done is done, it went how it's meant to go, I did my best so it is enough. 

Isn't it better to accomplish something after doing all the hard work all the stress? You know you have done everything you possibly could. The outcome is what is is but you deserve it because you did your best. The ones who didn't give it much thought, will be thinking what if they had worked hard on it.

My point is though, like last year during examinations I am afraid my hard work won't pay off on this university application. My friend told me how one of her friend applied to university in Scotland, she just wrote the letter like in a day and now she studies at the University of Edinburgh. I spent ONE MONTH for writing that letter! So if she got in, I should get in as well right? Well it is not that black and white, but I have done my everything to get in, I know it. What if it's still not enough, and I don't get in? Well, I will be crushed, but the consolation is that everything goes as it's meant to be.

I know I did my everything,
I tried it out
I relished to opportunity
but it didn't work out.

It went how it was meant to go,
I did my best
so it is enough.

Then I won't be thinking in my rocking chair when I'm old that I never tried to get in university in Scotland! Hard work pays off, somehow. If you had worked hard on it, the outcome might not always be the best you think, but it is what is meant to be.  In my case though I really hope this university stuff works out the best, that I'll get accepted. Time will show how it goes, I'll wait for it eagerly.

lovesme xx

When it feels like nothing is happening

I know I promised to tell you about my trip this time, but as you can see, almost two weeks have passed since my latest post. I just haven't been able to write because I've been feeling I'm lost with this blog. Lately, I've written only because I've felt like I HAVE to post something. In the beginning I wrote for myself, wrote these posts that had a core, a simple thought, a message I wanted to send.  I've only been thinking what other people would like to read and lost my own vision what I want this blog to be like. This has become more like a diary-like and I don't like that. I want to give people something to think about not just to tell them about my life. Ok, this blog isn't called Esme loves for nothing. I also want to write about things that touch me somehow that have some kind of impact in my life, but I want to tell about them in a way that people can get something out of it as well. I might have only couple of readers but if at least few people get something out of my blog. something to think about, and find themselves saying "I know what she means." "I've felt the same way!" That is what I want to do with this blog, I think I just forgot it for a moment. Ok. sorry about opening up like this, I just had to! :D

So, I guess now it's time to give you something to think about.

It's September. This is time for changes of people our age. Every year it happens. Many people move to another town and go to university. They start a new chapter in their lives. There's also people like me, who are not going. Don't get me wrong, I'm not even jealous of my friends in Finland who go university here. Because I don't even want to stay here. Still, what am I doing? Living with my parents and working in a supermarket. It's like my life isn't going anywhere new, It stays the same. I'd love to have some change too.

Well you know what they tend to say. It comes in seasons, there's the time when feels like nothing is happening to you, and everybody else's lives seem to be changing rapidly. Suddednly though, you notice It's totally the opposite and you're in the middle of all these big changes. So, I'm waiting when this period of silence turns into something exciting. Well, to be honest something is already happening and It could, if it goes well, turn out to be something extremely exciting and life changing. Ok, It's time to tell you, well pretty much all of my friends know anyway, so no point not to write about it.

I'm applying to university in Scotland to study English. That is what I'm working on now, trying to do my best in the application so I will get in. There's no entrance exams, but I need to write a personal statement, which is kind of motivation letter, where I need to tell why do I want to study my chosen subject and just mainly prove I'm motivated and worth taking in as a student. 

So yes, something is happening, my life is going somewhere. I've got plan and if I'm lucky and I'll get in, my life will go upside down! I will move to Scotland next year and start my new life there, and most probably will stay there for good. If I get in. Anyway, all that will happen next year. So what really got me anxious the other day was, am I gonna just work this whole year? Am I going to spend the whole year working and saving money for my uni studies that hopefully will start in next September? Well that would be sensible, wouldn't it? 

It seems like a waste though. Think about it, I have a year and I could do anything with it. Many people have gone to university but there's also people who have went to work as an au-pair in London or just went interrailing to Europe or something! Hang on, I did that last year? I did go to work in Oxford last year. Still, the world is calling me again. All the adventures that I haven't done yet. All the places I haven't seen, things I haven't done. Well, Hayley Taylor sings in her song Plans quite well:

we were gonna drive across the country
live in spain and italy
and we were gonna climb to the top of the eiffel tower
and stay up all night for the meteor showers

but we are still young enough
and we've still got time
it's not too late
to keep these plans we made
- Hayley Taylor

It's never too late. I'm soon 20 years old. I got plenty of time for my adventures I'd love to do. So, I might spend the year working, but It would do it for for my next adventure in Scotland. So, It wouldn't be waste. Not at all. So, if there's people who are feeling like me. Like their lives aren't going anywhere. That anything big isn't happening at the moment. Every day feels the same, just work and every day life. Well remember this.

It doesn't matter if anything big isn't happening now,

because something is always happening.

Life is always going on.

It's taking you somewhere

A new day always comes

with something bigger or smaller to happen

Every day is worth living and enjoying to the hilt

Never a waste

And some day 

when a  new day dawns again

It will bring you something big and life changing.

Just wait for it.
-lovesme

There's something to think about darlings

- lovesme xx

PS: Here is the Hayley Taylor's song Plans I quoted

Living for the moment

Im sorry I'm not writing until now. I've been ill the whole week and felt every possible way confused and afwul. I just wasn't able to write about this until now. So my week back home. What can I say? It was perfect. I was in this blur of happiness and confusion the whole time. I couldn't entirely understand the fact I was walking on my favorite streets again, sitting in my favorite pubs, seeing the people I've missed.

The whole week I just tried to inhale it all in, like every day was my last there. I had waited to get back there so long. Just wanted to live every day fully. It's odd how they tend to say that you have to live like the day your'e living was your last. In England, for me, it's the easiest thing to do. Like Audrey Hepburn once said: "Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come....The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present- and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future."  In England, for me, neither tomorrow nor yesterday matters. It's just the moment, the day we're living that counts. All the people around you, the atmosphere you're in, the scents, the voices, everything around you.

Isn't that how we're supposed to live? Live for the moment and everything it has to offer. Live and make everything out of it. Like it  was the last thing you do.

I am the biggest anticipator ever. I think too much and always try to predict how things will go. So far from living for the moment, I know. In England though, I'm different, I go more with the flow. There I find no need to worry about future or past, because somehow I know everything is always going to be alright. Everything will go as It's meant to be.

Because I'm home. 
I am where I'm supposed to be
and It will take me wherever I'm supposed to go.

So the whole week I just lived day by day. Moment by moment. Treasuring everything in a way I've never had before. I loved every minute of it. Well not exactly, the walk we did on our last day before going to the bus station and getting in the bus to Heathrow. I didn't actually love it, the opposite actually. It. Was. Killing. Me.

The closer we got to the bus station, the less I could breathe. I couldn't understand I had just come back and now I have to leave again? It was worse I ever imagined it would. My insides crush in anxiety when thinking about it. Sitting in the bus to Heathrow I couldn't help crying. Tears were just drawing lines on my cheeks. They were sad tears indeed, but partly happy tears too. I had the best week. I was back home seven whole days. Just thinking about all the many new things we did during the week. Numerous of happy moments. I can't help smiling. We really got everything out of the time we had.

Yes, leaving again was killing me as predicted, but now I'm even more certain about the fact that the UK is the place I want to be. My motivation to get back there got even stronger, if that's even possible, and that is exactly what I needed right now. Soon It's finally time to start actually DOING something for my future. I'm going to tell you everything don't worry! Just be patient. Next time, I'll tell you about my trip!

Xxx esme

England calling! FINALLY!

FINALLY I can say that tomorrow at this hour me and Kisu are on our way to England. I'M SO HAPPY! AND SO EXCITED! I'm also a little nervous, I got  up before 9 a.m today and couldn't sleep no more. I never get up voluntarily before 9, unless I'm nervous about something. Tonight I'm not going to be able to sleep at all!

Oh my goodness. I had forgotten how difficult it is to choose outfits for a week. No, hang on, last time I did this I had to choose clothes for months!! So why this packing seems to be so hard this time? It's only a week.

Haha, trust me this is not the worst my room looked like. Anyway, I guess I sorted it all out. I've packed, so I'm all ready to go! Still have to do final check I have everything I need! You know the feeling when you feel like you have forgotten something important? I have it every time! Actually, I think the mainn problem of my packing is that I have so many clothes I love and I want to take all of them with me!! Even so, at this point I've tried to remind me that I will buy some clothes over there too. So I need to have room for them! River Island, Top Shop, Bershka, Forever 21... a shopper's heaven. :)

Oh wow, we have so many plans and only seven days time to do them all! I can't wait to see my friends, just to be in Oxford again and go to London again. Home sweet home. I've just smiled through the whole weekend. I can't believe this. :) Gonna tell you eeeverything when I'm back! ....If I ever do come back haha. ;)

Had a tea moment of my own the other day =) Mad Hatter tea!

Now I really gotta go and do the final luggage check. I'll see you when I get back.

Have a great week. I will have one for sure!

England calling!

- lovesme

the MDNA tour Helsinki 12.08.2012

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The waiting soon coming to an end

I just realised that It's already August 10th and I haven't written a single post this month, but ever since August started time has just flewn by! The day I've been waiting for since May is only over a week away. I'm going back England. Back home. Do you know the feeling when you've been waiting for something so much and when It's actually close to happen, you don't actually comprehend that it's really happening? You've been waiting so long and It just doesn't occur to you that the day will come that all the waiting will come to an end and the most anticipated thing happens!  Like me. I don't truly believe that on 20th I'll be back in England. I'm not going to believe it until I see it in my own eyes.

Yesterday I looked through the pictures of my trips to England and I felt that those pictures have been taken in completely another life. It was the same when I was in England looking through pictures taken in Finland. It's like I have these two different lives. My life in Finland and my life in England. Two separate worlds. So I can't believe that in one week and two days I'll be back in England and in my another world again. The world I prefer. The world I love. I've been waiting for it so much. These recent months my life has been just about waiting and waiting the day to come. The day I'll get back home. Why is it so hard to believe that I'm going back?

Probably my favorite pic I've ever taken

I guesss It's simply just too good to be true. I'll get to see all my friends and the familiar places I haven't seen in ages! God, just the thought makes me smile. I can't believe it, I just can't! It's home. It's where I belong and going back there is almost like a dream come true. It's where I'd like to spend my every day not only just seven  days in a year. Yeah, that's the other thing. Only. Seven. Days. It doesn't even occur to me that I'm going back to England, so how am I supposed to realise after seven days that I have to come back to Finland? I've just adapted to the fact that I'm back home and then I have to leave again. Oh, what a turmoil I will have in my head. Well, I'm trying to not to think about it, not just yet. I'll just focus on making everything out of the time I have there.

Still can't get it in my head though. Going back home. Maybe next week it will hit me when I start packing! Soon this waiting will come to an end.
 
Another waiting will come to an end on Sunday! I can't believe this either. On Sunday me and Sara will be bouncing with this lady at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki:

Madonna

Now you see why I've waited August so much? ;)

Until next time darlings,
I promise it will be soon 

lovesme xxx

Careless and young, free as the birds that fly

I just had the best five days off ever! The weather was perfect and the best people to spend the days with! Ahh. Finally we've got some heat up here! I've had so much fun, here are the days in pictures!

Friday 27.07

On Friday barbecued with Sara and other mates and went out!

The must-take-ladies-room-pic

 Saturday 28.07.

Chilling, chilling and chilling.

Aaah this is what I call summer

Sunday 29.07

Spent the day with my mate Katja. Had a picnic on the dock, swimming, drinking, eating, girl talk of course! A perfect summer day. The heat was like a slap in the face. It was so stifling hot! No complaining though, this is what we've been waiting for! To have the real summer!

On the menú, sparkling wine, cider, strawberries with chocolate and grapes! yummyy

Katja's cat Timo

Monday 30.07

Had some quality time with my almost-Swiss friend Raija. We randomly decided to do a little roadtrip to this other town Lahti, which is like an hour away? Anyway, had a greeat time, took some pictures and just walked around talking about eeeverything! When we got back gome, we cooked and then had a real English five a clock's tea and right on England's time. ;) Baked cupcakes and all! Well.. actually Raija did all the work and I read the instructions. :D Thanks for the perfect day girl! Gonna miss you a lot!

Raija and me

I love this pic I took of her!

YUMMY

I know they look delicious.

Raija really made on effort to make the atmosphere just right! I love it how I have a friend I can do this kind of things with. :) The combination: Tea + a cupcake, there's nothing better!

After these days off I have plenty of energy to get back to work! Gosh I'm in high spirits! These days made me realize how wonderful and amazing people I have in my life. Plus, tomorrow is AUGUST 1th!!! Tomorrow, only 19 days and I'm going home! Next week is Madonna's gig! My insides are  throbbing with excitement! :))) 

In the end, a song that I found last week. English singer-songwriter Ben Howard's Old Pine. It's a perfect summer song that's why so suitable to attach here. The simple happiness in life. The beauty of summer. The beauty of life. You can feel it all in the song. There's also something so bittersweet in the lyrics. It always makes me smile though. It's so beautiful. I love the video!

"We slept like dogs down by the fire side
Awoke to the fog where all around us
The bloom of summertime

We stood
Steady as the stars in the woods
So happy-hearted
And the warmth rang true inside these bones
As the old pine fell we sang
Just to bless the morning.

Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags,
I've come to know the friends around you
Are all you'll always have
Smoke in my lungs, or the echoed stone
Careless and young, free as the birds that fly
With weightless souls now."

- Ben Howard - Old Pine

The part in the song "Careless and young, free as the birds that fly With weightless souls now" is my favorite. It makes me think of my friend Raija, me and other young people like us. 

Living the period of life where you can do anything you want with your lives. 

So careless, young and free. 

So eager to inhale the life, 

to find the dreams you want to make come true, 

to find the place where you belong to. 

To find the adventures you're supposed to encounter 

and the loves that are meant to be.

To find the life you want to live. 

The world is calling us.

That's what it brings to my mind. The beauty of summer, the beauty of life and what it's like to be young in the world. We are like these birds that fly forward in their lives, young, wild and free.

That's all for now. Enjoy the beauty of summer and being young!

- lovesme xx

Bizarre sleepwalking

The most bizarre thing in a while happened last night! I was very weary so went to bed early, fell asleep quickly. Next, I gradually woke up standing in my room, in a pile of my stuff that used to be on my bookcase. My mom and brother came to my room panicking that what the hell happened. I had no clue! I just stood there still somewhere in between sleeping and being awake. I came to a conclusion though, that apparently I must have tried to turn over my bookcase in my sleep. Pretty well succeeded also, because of all the stuff piled on the floor.

Still thinking that how am I able to do that? The bookcase is not the lightest thing to turn over, and only thing I remember about my dream I saw while all this happened is that there was this handle I needed to pull, so I guess I pulled the bookcase in reality? Somehow? :D It's frightening that you do something in your sleep and then you wake up and you have no idea what happened. Why am I standing and not lying in my bed? Why all the stuff from bookshelves are on the floor? The subconscious living its' own life clearly. :D The most bizarre feeling. This is how it all looked liked.

The bookcase yesterday night after the bizarre sleep walking, some stuff already back on the shelves but as you can see still lot's of it on the floor. In the pile there's nearly 140 DVDs, dozens of books, two boxes of stuff and to my lovely surprise also my systems camera under EVERYTHING. Fortunately no damage happened to it or anything else.

The bookcase this morning after cleaning everything up. This is how it looked before as well.

I've done sleepwalking before. One time I was at Sara's. We were sleeping and suddenly I'm shaking her to wake up and just say panicking and checking the mattress. "Sara Sara Sara there's something wrong with the mattress." That time too, I gradually started realising that I'm up and talking nonsense. :D The kind of bizarre unconciousness that you don't know are you in your sleep or in reality is not fun. The last night's walking though was the most extreme thing I've ever done in my sleep. Hopefully anything more extreme won't happen ever! :D

Maybe tonight I can sleep properly through the night.

lovesme xx

A movie euphoria

The feeling after the end when you see the end credits rolling down and ýou just sit there. Your mind has gone blank. You just feel the happy tears running down your face. You can't help it. You're smiling and crying because the movie was just so bloody phenomenal. You're just so happy. You might also want to stand up and clap your hands until they hurt, no matter were you in your living room or movie theater. The movie gave you millions of shivers. Dozens of oh wow moments. Couple of moments of surprise. These are the most precious movie moments. When they did it all right. You're in movie euphoria.

Only three movies have made such a powerful impact in me. First time was when watching Titanic for the first time, the second was watching The Lord of the Rings the Return of the King. Last Saturday I had the third time after watching this:

The Dark Knight Rises

Why do I get so emotional by a movie? I just love movies. I'ts the same when you're listening to your favorite song that means a lot to you, for example. You might get shivers, or cry, or just smile because it's so good and it makes you feel so much. It's the same thing with great films. Ok, some people might think that I'm weird, but I'm sure at least true movie geeks gets this. I can't explain it. When there's so many people from different areas of art such as directors, writers, composers and actors etc. and they make everything right, together. The story, the world, the characters, the visual effects, the music and so on, it all goes perfectly together. They got all the parts together to build a perfect puzzle. To build a masterpiece. After seeing such brilliant work being made, you're just happy because it was so great. You're speechless. You're in movie euphoria.

In my opinion, Titanic, The Return of The King and now The Dark Knight Rises are perfect examples of this. It makes me so happy that in the world where so many horrible things happen, there's still people who can make something so beautiful and spectacular to the world. And they just make them just for the love's sake, the love for films.

Of course this is only my opinion. I'm crazy about films. I love love love loooove them. These movies got me in movie euphoria. I think they're masterpieces. I think those three are now the best I've seen on the screen. I'm sure there's others who think so too, but some people might not. I have to say though, Titanic and The Return of The King both won 11 Oscars, that tells something.

Ok, and now I have to say something about the source of my latest movie euphoria: The Dark Knight Rises. If you haven't seen it yet, don't read forward. Ok, The Dark Knight was just brilliant, we all know that. We will never forget Heath Ledger's thorough performance as Joker.

I was afraid The Dark Knight Rises would be bad. I had waited for it so long. My hopes were so high so I was scared I would be disappointed. I didn't think I could ever say this, but I think the Dark Knight Rises was at least as good as The Dark Knight. OH MY GOD IT WAS PHENOMENAL. A huge thank you for Christopher Nolan for making the best conclusion for the trilogy ever. Thank you thank you thank you. They could have not done it better. Despite the small details that bothered me a little, it was perfect, P-E-R-F-E-C-T.

I don't remember when was the last time that I would have been moving so nervously in my chair that much. The suspense grew stronger and stronger and lasted till the end.The characters, wow. Firstly, The Batman. Can it be possible that I was attracted to him? That costume looked so HOT. And the big black thing he was flying, there's nothing cooler! :D Secondly, Bane. OH MY GOD, he's to most brutal and ruthless character ever and I mean really. I'm sure the biggest bodybuilders would have been afraid of him! Tom Hardy did great. Thirdly, the Catwoman, usually looking so innocent with her bambi eyes, Anne Hathaway got the foxy, seductive twist in the character. Respect for Catwoman doing all the jumps and fights with high heels! Haha ;D Also Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Blake, he was the only hope we had! He was great. Everything was great. Sorry about this, just lost for words. :D

Bane

Catwoman

Simply, the Dark Knight Rises met my exceptations and more. It might be the movie of the year. It looked great. It sounded great ( Hans Zimmer<3). It was just WOW. This is film making at its' best. This is a great example of the building all the parts together to make a perfect puzzle. Promise me each and every one of you who reads this, go and see it, if you still haven't. You have to see it. I'm still high in this.

I love the part in the trailer when Catwoman says "My mother warned me about getting in the cars with strange men." And Batman says: "This isn't a car" :D COOL OR WHAT.

Enough of this perfection,

lovesme xx

Work, waiting and some celebrating!

My life currently: work and waiting

Well it feels like it! Seriously, in a long while there hasn't been a morning without thinking "one day closer to my trip to England" Today exactly one month and I'm going to Oxford <3 ONE MONTH, FOUR WEEKS, 31 DAYS!!! I HATE WAITING. I'm the most impatient person ever. Could it just be August 1th  already? Then my trip is only couple of weeks away. Well actually, when it's August 1th I start counting down the days to the Madonna gig first. The gig is August 12th. When the gig is over only one more week!!!! This waiting is killing meeeeeee.

It's an awful thing to wait for something this much, because then I can't truly focus on the present much. We should enjoy the moment we're living and not the moments that will happen in near future. BUT I CAN'T HELP IT. I'm going HOME, after months and months of waiting and waiting and WAITING. I can't think about anything else! :D (Ok, I'm also thinking about that Madonna gig. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT EITHER!) But I'll promise one thing, on August 20th, when I sit in that plane to London Heathrow, I promise you guys from that moment on, this girl is only living in the moment. ;)

The other thing why it's afwul to wait for something this much. You know what they say, when you wait for something fun, the time goes so slow. INDEED!

I just had two days off. Yesterday we celebrated Kisu's 20th birthday a bit! The weather was perfect, food was good and best of all I had the most fabulous people to hang out with. I guess there's no better way of spending a day off. Check out the pictures of the day.

 Typical me

Birthday girl! <3 love you

As you can see, the weather was perfect! This is what I call summer!

We had dinner at Gastropub Alex!

The pub looked like a real English pub! Me likey

Laura, me and Sara, my ladies <3 love you

LOOK WHAT STUNNERS I BOUGHT! It was love at first sight

I enjoyed my days off but now it's time to get ready for work. The next six days I'm going to spend working. So my life is pretty much just work and waiting for the next six days. Well days will go faster at least when working. Hopefully.

Until next time,

lovesme xxxx

PS: Tomorrow one waiting will come to an end, going to see The Dark Night Rises in cinema. The Dark Knight was and still is bloody spectacular, let's see is the sequel going to be too.

Summer chilling

I'm having five days off now, still one and a half to go, and I just had the best three days in a while. Nothing huge or mindblowing happened, just had some quality time with Sara. It's been a long while that I've had this relaxing but fun days! Laughed my head off millions of times. Ate good. Shopped. Took many pictures. Enjoyed summer. Just summer chilling chilling chilling. Ah.

Sunday 8.7

There's no better way of spending Sunday morning than lying on the beach with your best friend, getting tanned and doing some girl talk!

One of the best things in summer: strawberries with melted white chocolate <3 FOODGASM + watching a film This Means War where man candys Chris Pine and Tom Hardy are dressing like below. AAAH and for the record, Tom Hardy is mine. haha

Monday 9.7

On Monday we went to Helsinki to do some bargain hunting! ;)

 

Monday's outfit: the very much loved high-waisted shorts and the top GinaTricot, the belt Primark, the apple of my eye watch DKNY

I LOOOVED THAT ZARA DRESS, but.. in the picture it looks like that it fits perfectly, but surprisingly me being A-cup kinda girl, the strapless dress didn't stay on properly. Pity. Cause as you can see, that dress was a stunner!

We grabbed a bite at Vapiano. Sara had read about it in a blog so we decided to try it out! Vapiano is a German fresh casual restaurant chain offering Italian food. There are 97 restaurants all over the world, so go and find out whether there's one nearby you http://www.vapiano.com/ ! The biggest difference to other casual restaurants is that at Vapiano they have pasta and pizza bar, where you go and order the food. Then you wait and watch when the food is being made, like drinks in a normal bar! That was something new but definitely worth going! The chicken pasta we had was muy muy delicioso and the bill wasn't too heavy for our wallets either.

It was fun while it lasted. The day didn't go as we planned. It was around 3 p.m at H&M on the way to the counter when Sara couldn't find her wallet and we never found it! The pic above was taken at Lindex like 15 minutes earlier when she couldn't find it and in the pic the creme-white wallet is still in her bag! So we came into a conclusion that someone must haven taken it. Sara's bank cards, driver's license etc. all gone. So naturally we lost our mood for shopping and went back home. WHOEVER IT WAS WHO TOOK IT, THANKS FOR RUINING OUR DAY! asshole... Who does that? Seriously, I just don't get it why someone would do that. Well life's a bitch and the world is full of crack maniacs who need money and other desperate poor people so no can do. I still hope the wallet would have dropped or something and some descent citizen would take it to the police station. Never going to happen? Who knows, I always try to stay positive and hope for the best.

Tuesday 10.7

After sleeping in we just spent couple of hours taking photos and chilling at a terrace.
I love these two I took of Sara!

Tuesday's outfit: the shirt was bargain find from Helsinki Lindex, denim shorts River Island, gladiators Tapas Shoes

I have still one and a half days off left. So I'll go and... CHILL. It's pretty dull weather so I think I'll just go and start Candace Bushnell's latest Summer in the City. You never get tired of reading about the most famous New Yorkers! See ya later xxx

- lovesme

PS: I'm sure you noticed the change in the blog's look again. This one is going to last, I promise. Simple but stylish and girly, that's how I like it. ;)