Funny stuff you see in UK
Posted: May 19, 2012 Filed under: See | Tags: Aberdeen, Around the World, On the Road, Scotland 1 Comment »We have been laughing at the British product labels and descriptions the whole year I’ve been here in Aberdeen. Henri usually takes a picture and share’s them on Facebook, so I’ll post them here too:
Pork Faggots – You asked for it! Now with more sauce!
I bought these once, didn’t really read the product description as I thought they were just ordinary meatballs. Instead, their main ingredient is liver! When I was younger I always avoided liver in everything but now I’m cool with it. I even bought liver pate the other day.
Heinz’s Spotted Dick Pudding
This one also cracks me up everytime I see it. I don’t know if it’s because of the word “dick” or the fact that it’s also spotted. Haven’t tasted this one.
Midget Gems – They might be small, but they still taste great!
Sainsbury’s Basics is like a super cheap product line they sell only in Sainsbury’s. And they have hilarious packaging. They are like joking about not being a fancy brand. I have a Basics toilet cleaner that says: “Toilet Cleaner – cleans, no added promises”. Now these midget gems, I don’t know if I should feel a bit offended or not.
Henri with some Raspberry Screwballs
Screw…. balls… screwballs. I know, I’m 15.
Next there’s another Basics product:
Instant Mashed Potato Mix - less white, still alright
I think someone might actually feel offended by this! I thought it was funny!
In the end I’ll add another picture of me at TGI Fridays, I think I have been there like 10 times during my studies here. This one is from yesterday when we were eating there with Henri & Matti:
Me at Union Square’s TGIFridays eating a Wild Boar Burger!
Never had wild boar before, so I had to taste it! Didn’t really taste so different, I thought it might be more gamy, like rabbit or something like that but it was alright. Also I thought it would have been like a fillet but it was like a normal burger beef. It had sauteed apple slices which complemented the flavors quite well. I was joking that’s the boar that killed Robert Baratheon. LOL. Also, I really need a haircut. I’m like one of the Beatles soon.
After TGIFridays we went to the movies to see The Dictator, which in my opinions was a bit too much at some points. It was funny most of the time but I think there are some things you can’t really joke about, like rape victims committing suicide…
Flight tickets to Norway and Helsinki
Posted: May 11, 2012 Filed under: See | Tags: Aberdeen, Around the World, Home, On the Road, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Spring, Travel 2 Comments »I just booked flights back home. This time too I had to book the flights from British Airways because SAS doesn’t take my electric wheelchair on their flights from Aberdeen to Heathrow. I had a bit of a fight with them last year when I flew here with my manual and electric wheelchair. Luckily SAS refunded the tickets to me in the end. Anyway, it has been a great year here in Aberdeen and now it’s time to go home!
Oh god I love the bag. I bought it from Heathrow’s Harrods when I first came last September. I was feeling a bit glamorous with all that student loan on my bank account. It’s Marc Jacobs and I think it was something like £300 on discount. A bit annoying though, it has been darkening a bit in use and I once had a bit of an accident with it; I was driving from Sainbury’s with 5 bags of food and somehow the shoulder strap got under my front tire and I couldn’t stop in time, so I drove a 360 around and over it. Luckily my phone didn’t break. I hurt my leg too a bit because it got tangled in the bag and all my stuff flew around. Some lovely people came over and helped me. The bag got a lot of scratches, fortunately most in the back so you don’t really notice it.
I also booked the flights to Norway! I am going with my friend Noora to an OI Youth Camp in Norway in June! Never been to Norway before. So excited, I will be meeting some people I have only talked to online. I’ll post from there, I think the place will be amazing and hopefully the weather too.
I am flying home on the 22.5. and I will be in Finland approximately 15:15. I’m so happy I miss my friends and unlike almost everyone else here, I didn’t go home for the Easter holiday. Didn’t have the funds.
This is from one of our favorite bars here; the Bobbin:
Glasgow 2012
Posted: May 3, 2012 Filed under: See | Tags: Around the World, On the Road, Party On!, Scotland, Travel Leave a comment »I started to write this post already a week ago but I just forgot it somehow. It’s my 23rd birthday today! Anyways, this is the years first travel post! I was in Glasgow with my buddy Kim about a month ago for the first time! 
We stayed at a hostel called the Eurohostel on 318 Clyde Street.
Though I do have to say that it was more of a cheap hotel room experience than a raunchy 14-bed dorm one. But it was relatively cheap! Like £40 a night if I remember right. We had a double room with a tv! And a shower (which was more like pressure washer attached to the ceiling). Some pictures from our hotel rooms window:
Downstairs there was a nice bar that served food as well called Mint&Lime. I really liked the mojitos, though the cute bartender he isn’t the best mojito maker! I think I had a lasagne. It tasted a bit like a microwave dish but I guess that’s what you get for £4 (?).
Kim eating something, I don’t remember anymore what.
Later we were at the Polo Lounge, which was quite a cool gay bar on 84 Wilson Street. The upstairs was more like a relaxed place to have a few drinks and talk with people, the drinks were a lot more expensive upstairs. Well we dragged our party animal butts downstairs to the club! It was great! We went there twice during our trip. On the second time I left early, I got a bit tired! I’m old now!
One evening we dined out in a fancy turkish restaurant Anatolia on 140 St. Vincent Street. The food was great, we ordered some mixed grill dish for two. It had meat and chicken over a bed of delicious veggies and couscous. It was really good! 
Haha you can see the guy in the kitchen in the background. The previous night we had been at our friend Mira’s place on White Street. I had a bit too much to drink I guess, so I ended up throwing up in the kitchen sink, picture of Mira and me on the counter follows:
So, that was a bit embarrassing.
Overall opinion on Glasgow, I really liked it more than Edinburgh. Though I have been only once in Edinburgh when we went to vote in the presidential elections this year. I just felt Glasgow was a bit more edgy. And there was a hell of a less stairs. Compared to Aberdeen there was actually less accessible curbs and a lot less curb ramps, or maybe I’m just getting so familiar with this city that I remember what road to take to make the journey with least steps and most smooth curbs. I loved the feeling of a big city. Oh how I miss Helsinki. I will be there soon!
Happy birthday for me!
PS. the flights to Barcelona have been booked! We are leaving on 10.8. to our trip across Europe!
Search terms that made people end up here
Posted: April 26, 2012 Filed under: Talk | Tags: Blog, Social media, Trends Leave a comment »Seriously what’s up with people. I cracked when I saw that someone googled “scandinavian boobs” and ended up to my blog today. A few selected all time favorites:
- aberdeen university ladies hockey club
- broken wheelchair
- little girl in wheelchair
- men wearing navel nipples pierced
- kumpula intiankatu (ehhh I live there)
- people getting hit by loch ness monster in a boat
- pyörätuolilla erasmus blogi
- mtv3 chat 2011 rantalentis
- conditional offer aberdeen international relations
- fits suitcase girl (Is somebody going to kidnap me???)
- espoo stolen bras
- high school seniors with nipple piercing
- vessa wheelchairs
- osteogenesis imperfecta red eyes
- mole in a wheelchair
Seriously, there was 19 times “nipple” 
Am I a nipple-centric blogger?
Next August – Interrail
Posted: April 25, 2012 Filed under: Talk | Tags: Around the World, On the Road, Party On!, Travel Leave a comment »It is always a blast to travel with Eric, and now we decided to make a grand tour next August. We are not sure how we can get vacation from our jobs, so we are only taking the shortest 10-day Interrail pass. It means that during the 10 days, you can travel 5 days anywhere in Europe. I’m not really concerned about if the trains will be accessible or not, because I am going with my manual wheelchair and I am quite flexible. I can climb short stairs and Eric is a skilled pusher.
Now we both have some friends in Spain, Eric’s relatives live in Northern Italy and I have a friend in Pisa, so we are probably going to start with Barcelona and Valencia. Then I think we might take the coastal route to Italy, or by a boat or plane to Rome or something, which ever is the cheapest and fastest. I think we might take a normal train to Valencia and take a Ryanair to Rome and start the Interrail pass from there, instead of using the precious days in Spain. I am so excited, because I haven’t been to the Mediterranean and we will be there in August! It will be warm and wonderful. And seeing friends will be so awesome, because they know the best places in town! I think I’m going to love it. After Italy, I am still unsure. After that we don’t really have anything must-see. We already saw Berlin, though we could do it again in summertime.
If we go east, there is close by Zagreb in Croatia and Trieste in Slovenia, which both might be cool places to see and cheap to roam. And up from them would be Budapest in Hungary and Wien in Austria and Praha in Czech Republic. I would gladly go all the way down to Greece or all the way east to Bulgaria. But we do have a final destination in a totally opposite direction; London. But we might have time for Trieste and Zagreb… And Berlin.
If we go west, we could see the coast of France! Monaco, Nice… And then we could see the French countryside, Geneve and end up in Paris. From Paris we could easily take a train to Belgium and the Netherlands. I have already seen and experienced the wonders of Amsterdam but Eric hasn’t, and I wouldn’t mind experiencing Amsterdam again in the Summer. It was such an amazing city and I think last time when I was there with Kim, we didn’t really take it all in because we slept so late and it was dark and cold and rainy when we finally got out of our hotel room. And I’d like to see the hostel culture there too, last time I was in Amsterdam, we we’re in a bit more fancy hotel.
From there it’s easy to go to London in short notice. Of course we could go to London earlier, because there’s still so much to see in that city and I haven’t been there in August really. The reason we are going there for last is the South West 4 festival in Clapham Common. It has some names I know, like Eric Prydz, Skrillex, Knife Party, Paul Van Dyk and Benny Benassi. I am a bit scared already because I’m going to be on my manual and I really don’t like being in thick crowds with it. I was in Ruisrock with it and I had a cast on my leg but I bet this time there will be a lot more people. I hope there’s going to be some wheelchair platform. My friends live right next to the park and they’ve asked me to come there and it is going to be so awesome! I really do love London.
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
Posted: April 24, 2012 Filed under: quotes | Tags: Quote Leave a comment »– Oscar Wilde in Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young (1894).
Berlin 2011
Posted: January 24, 2012 Filed under: See | Tags: Around the World, Berlin, On the Road, Travel, Winter 4 Comments »The previous post was about my trip to Amsterdam with Kim. Kim was here in Aberdeen for my last week here before the holidays and we went through Heathrow to Amsterdam on the 15th December. Well, my friend Eric informed me that there’s flights from Helsinki to Berlin for 140€. Because I had already booked the flights from Amsterdam to Helsinki, it was only logical that I went to Helsinki for one night, and left to Berlin on the next day. Got home on the 22nd of December I think…? It was a pretty cool trip, both of them were. I really need to re-visit both of them on summer time too. And now some pics.
Yes, we had Gluhwein on Alexanderplatz. I bought that dead animal hanging around my neck from Stiefelkombinat, it was a really cool vintage store in Prenzlauer Berg.
I have some pics from there too:
A creepy toy… It had green snake eyes… ??
As you can see they had quite an impressive amount of retro stuff there. Absolutely a must-visit in Berlin in my opinion. They had two stores next to each other, the other one had mainly women’s clothes, accessories and shoes! The fur pile was awesome to scavenger. As you can guess, the prices were a bit high, but hey, how unique?
Some random pics from our last day in the centrum:
Next we have the Fernsehturm Berlin, the television tower, which is probably one of the most famous landmarks in Berlin. You can see it from almost everywhere. I thought it was hypnotizing.
Didn’t get a good pic because the weather was a bit foggy, but anyway…
I have so many pics from Berlin!
We were staying at the Generator Hostel, which was awesome! Really cheap. We booked the rooms from a mixed dorm for 8 if I remember correctly. Instead, the lady in the reception gave us a private room WITH OWN SHOWER AND A TOILET, for the same price. Probably she thought it might be easier with the wheelchair and so on. The place was fantastically accessible. The breakfast was included in the price!! And it was very very good!
… and it had a nice bar!
The first club we went to was SO36, which was quite cool. Some people were smoking weed on the dancefloor. In the smoking room there were posters from all the gigs held there and we were quite surprised that Eläkeläiset had performed there.
I have no idea what is going on with the boobs but what ever!
One day we were eating in an Italian restaurant somewhere near Prenzlauer Berg I think.
I didn’t like the food, I didn’t like the wines. Even the water was bad.
Of course we visited the Kreuzberg area too, we went to a German market and had a nice coffee break in Bagels Coffee Culture on Mehringdamm 66. After that we went to SchwuZ, which was across the road. It was a nice gay bar, a bit quiet on the night went there but still. Adorably dim, I couldn’t get any good pics and it would have been embarrassing to shoot with lightning…
Obviously we were also in Schöneberg, which is quite the equivalent of Marais in Paris, the gay district. We were on a bad time, almost everything was closed, because it was so near to Christmas and we were out there on a Wednesday night if I remember right. Finally we ended up in Eldorado, which was quite … interesting:
There was a guy sleeping on the sofa under the palm tree. There was maybe a handful of people besides us.
Because it was a slight dissappointment, we got a cab and asked to drive us to the most popular nightclub that’s open today. So we ended up in Cookies. Wow, their site is quite cool. Anyway, a nice big night club with young people.
I was slightly tired and lost Eric at some point so I just fled with a taxi to our hostel. Eric came few hours later with the tram.
I asked some of my friends who have been or lived in Berlin about stuff we should do and my friend Marko said we should try some African restaurants because they are really good down there. In Finland there’s practically none.
So we went to the Nil, a sudanese restaurant in Friedrichshain:
I had some chicken and sweet potato chips. The sauce is peanut butter sauce. It was yummy! And cheap too! The place was quite small, like one table in the whole place. I had Wostok with my food.
We were shopping too quite a lot in Friedrichshain. There’s a lot of vintage fashion stores, like Trash-schick. I bought a black dress with sequin top but it was too long for me, so I have to shorten it out a bit. I was supposed to wear it in dtm on the New Years eve but I didn’t get it fixed in time. 
Anyway, that was the Berlin trip. I missed the flight to there AND out of there, so it really hit my budget quite hard. STUPIDSTUPIDSTUPID ME.
There’s our flights, I was supposed to fly in the morning but I slept. Idiot. There’s Eric’s flight 14:35 to Riga and from there to Helsinki and mine on 14:55 straight to Helsinki…
Next time, I’m going to take only straight flights and in the after-noon…
Amsterdam 2011
Posted: January 24, 2012 Filed under: See | Tags: Amsterdam, Around the World, On the Road, Travel 4 Comments »I know, it’s a bit late to post about this but I just wanted to share some of the pics I took when we were exploring Amsterdam with Kim:
… We thought that was funny; Paskamers. Paska = Shit in Finnish…
We ordered some food from our hotel’s room service. Was awesome, I think it was beef carpaccio and salmon ceviché. I don’t remember what we had for main course but it was really good anyway. We were staying at the Albus, which was a great price quality combination for us. Near the centrum and very posh. I like both, cheap hostels and nice hotels!
We were at a british styled pub called Old Bell Engelse Pub.
We had a super nice dinner at a Portuguese restaurant.
From the red lights street:
We partied here:
like this:
On the last day:
I really loved Amsterdam, we did some crazy things I probably should not tell everyone on a public blog, but you get the idea. Nothing illegal… 
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred
Posted: January 21, 2012 Filed under: See | Tags: Blog, Cooking Leave a comment »I made this list that some other bloggers have done before…
It’s from here: http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk/archives/399
Here’s what to do:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn or Head Cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam Chowder in Sourdough Bowl
33. Salted Lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a Fat Cigar
37. Clotted Cream Tea
38. Vodka Jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis (soon intend to!!!)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang Souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom Yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. 3 Michelin Star Tasting Menu (My dream…)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose Harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole Poblano
96. Bagel and Lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
Well, not that many things I wouldn’t eat… 27/100, what a disappointment. I hope I can make it to over 37 within a year. Now that’s a challenge.
