My new Image v.0.2

Busy day. I came up with my personal image, went to MRI and attended a fancy marketing event.

As I was sitting and listening three panelist talking about the digital world and how the business has developed during the last 10 years I started thinking. That happens quite often these days. I was surrounded by people with nice suites and skirts and haircuts...

My appearance? I came there straight from MRI. My hair was greasy and I wasn't at my freshest since I had been lying in a really claustrophobic tube for 30 minutes without moving a muscle. It's not like laying in sofa and enjoying a little time of from the rest of the world, trust me!

First they injected my shoulder full of some radiation stuff and they told me to lay down and not move at all during the magnetic photo session. They asked if I wanted to listen to some music inside the tube but I declined since I really didn't want to associate my favorite music with an experience that could be quite awful. Well actually I didn't want music because wanted this experience to be “pure” without any distractions.

It was an interesting experience. They gave me these headphones to protect my ears because of the noise. And indeed I needed them because the noise was really something straight from Star Trek. Huge pounding noise. Big bangs: BANG BANG BANG and then some noise that sounded like rifle bullets hitting the machine with a really rapid pace. At some point I realized that every muscle in my body was really tense. When I realized this I couldn't really relax anymore because that would have resulted into moving my body and moving was not allowed.

So after 30 minutes of tensing my muscles I was sweating a bit. The lady said that the photos were very good. I think she referred to the quality of the photos not to the quality of my shoulder that isn't working properly.

So I went straight to this fancy happening feeling not so fresh, "not properly" dressed with a greasy hair. You know what? It didn't bother me a bit. It was fun to see everyone wearing black as I had my orange North Face GoreTex jacket and my woolen winter gap on. When the panel ended me and my work mates started talking about facebook and came up with a concept of Cockbook and laughed our asses of.

When we were leaving I found a lollipop from my pocket. I opened it and stuck it in my mouth. At that point a friend of mine mentioned that it might not be good for my image. I told her I really don't care about my image because I don't want one.

That was the moment when I realized that I guess everyone has to have an image. If it's so then my image will be this:

I don't care what you think of me. I don't care what you think of my clothes, I don't care if you laugh at my hair and I really don't care if some finds it ridiculous that I'm wearing a winter hat and I'm eating a lollipop inside a fancy bar full of cool advertisement and marketing folks. I actually enjoy if they feel uncomfortable around me and they think I should be thrown out.

This doesn't mean that I'll tell everyone to F** off if they don't like me. On the contrary I'm trying to keep my own identity intact because I've already seen what the desire for money and power does to people in business world. It's a whole other topic and I don't want to go to it just yet.

I think I have issues with authorities and that is a problem in Finland. People here look up to authorities such as bosses, police and politicians. I look up to people that are smarter than me. I don't respect anyone because of some hierarchy system that is thought to us. I respect people not titles. Sorry boss, police officers and Presidents.

My new image isn't bullet proof. Nothing is. I did think about few lines I wrote on this post and I EVEN re-wrote few lines and added this sentence at the end.

So please don't judge me because of this post. Words are just letters and in my next post I'll rearrange them. If you do judge me, well...

I wonder what brand describes the best my “I don't care” attitude and image? FCUK, Quicksilver, Burton, North Face??

You know what! I really don't care!

Food wasting

Interesting article:Half of all food is wasted.

Many of my friends while eating leave the plate unfinished if they are full. I always try to eat everything no matter what. This action of my friends of course isn't going to destroy the world but in some way it shows that people think differently about food.

I've been thought not to waste food so I try to do my best.

I'm just waiting for the day when this food wasting is really going to stop because as long as fast food places such as McDonald's etc. are allowed to throw away perfectly good food because it's been on the counter for more than 4 minutes (don't know the exact time), no major change is going to happen.

Same goes for grocery stores that throw away perfectly good vegetables, fruits and other food just because the the product isn't "pretty" anymore or the date has expired.

I just think there is something wrong with the food system we have at the moment. I don't know exactly how to make it better but for all I care all the so called fast food places could be turned into slow food restaurants where everything that goes bad in 4 minutes isn't ready before ordering.

By the way: Next time when buying a Big Mac with Coke acknowledge the fact that it takes 250 liters of fresh water to make one liter of Coke.

Cold doesn't stop anything

A Lucid Dream

Movements of the future are.. .

This whole “we can't do that because that would be just stupid” attitude for me is really old fashioned way of thinking. What are some really old habits that people don't seem to get rid of? Armies, bombs, gasoline, gold and diamond rings...

I've been a vegetarian that eats fish for almost a year (what ever the right term is). (Why? I don't think the Earth can support 6-10 billion meat eaters.) so I started thinking about the whole thing. Let's start with war. It's an age old way of expanding or keeping our own territories. It's been in fashion since the stone age and for my taste it's starting be a thing of the past.

The world is rapidly turning into this one unified place that we as a movement call globalisation. It has it's ups and downs put eventually it will diminish borders like it's already done in Europe. We can now move freely, use the same currency and even cross-border shopping is a reality thanks to Amazon and eBay.

So as the world is getting smaller independence of nations is becoming irrelevant. We are not defending anymore our countries but our ideologies and larger cultures such as communism, capitalism, freedom of speech etc. The future isn't in independence but in movements. China is no longer a communist country but a mixture of many things. It's a country that isn't fighting with other countries anymore, but it's fighting with it's self. Young generation wants consume and party all day long when the old folks want things to be the same, meaning the family values and traditions (not the spying and torture and other human right issues).

Inside the nation is were the modern battles are fought. Of course there are these countries that still rely on good old methods of controlling their citizens when fighting abroad. They praise certain gods or make people think that everything they do they do it for their great nation and their wonderful citizens.

I mentioned that different movements are the future but nationalism isn't one of those. It's a nice thing but when you use that feeling to death and destruction it's not that nice..

Movements have to start from somewhere. For example most of us want a world without wars and killing. What does that kind of movement need? I'll tell you what it doesn't need. It doesn't need armies. Solution: Let's not join the army. I didn't think it that way when as a kid (18 years old) I had the choice between army or voluntary work for 12 months. Nowadays I've been thinking about resigning from the army, if it's somehow possible.

Russia attacked Georgia or Georgia attacked Russia. How ever it went now Finnish people are AGAIN talking about joining NATO. Wouldn't it be much cheaper to just destroy all our tanks and machine guns and destroy the whole Finnish army? Since no one in public dares to think that Russia is a threat to us where do we need our army?

Wouldn't it be cool if Finland was the first real nation (Monaco, Vatican and Andorra are not real countries to me) who dismantled it's army? That would really be the movement of the future. I know it sounds stupid but can you imagine the worlds first vegetarian who said to his/her friends that he/she doesn't eat meat because it's against his/her values and moral?

Boys night out

Tonight I decided to break out from the normal routines. We drank some really expensive champagne and saw the elite girls of the city. It all started fine when I talked to some girls on behalf of my friends and at the end we ended up dancing with the girls on the dance floor without any shoes or socks.

I did my best to convince one of the girls that she looked liked one hollywood star. She actually did so It wasn't new to her so I told her she had something in common with Jessica Alba (I wish). Eventually her humor ran out and I decided to move on.

Next I met this really nice looking girl that had traveled around the world. She was really interested about our company but I couldn't tell anything. She was quite interested of me since she spent like 2 hours with me when she could have danced or gone to home.

Finally we had to leave the disco and at the door she met her friend, Jenni Dahlman (wife of Kimi Räikkönen the F1 driver) and after that it was all gone. I was like air so I decided to walk home (45min). Still I really enjoyed the night.

Now it's 5.10 a.m so I think I have to go to sleep.

a hug idea

I saw this video and remembered that our marketing team at work made posters that say: "Marketing team offers free hugs."
It's kind of lame so I made this t-shirt

I'll wear it at work tomorrow and then let you know what happened. Might be that I'll become the joke of the company but I don't care. There are few good looking girls so I'm willing to take the risk.

NEXT DAY:
Well I got hugs from almost all the nice girls and my boss after I signed my contract (not with my blood unlike I thought). Rest of the gang didn't seem to pay any attention. I'll wear it every week until they start to give me hugs automatically. It might take a while since we are in Finland...

New chapter

Lately I've kept myself busy by writing only to myself. I don't know why that is. I hardly post any of those writing. Like now, I don't have anything in my mind that would suite the style of my blog, what ever that style is... Probably that is the problem. I'm stuck with a certain style. I've forgotten that the whole point of blogging is that I can write what ever I feel like.

At first I did that. I wrote what ever came to my mind. Nowadays I'm trying too hard to influence 'something'. I'm trying to lead my thoughts and other peoples thought as well to a certain direction. Since I don't know what is that direction the idea loses it's point.

This might be the end of one chapter. I'm not going to stop writing but I might start a new blog or at least forget my own style since I don't want to have my own style.



I've always been hungry but I've forgotten how to be foolish (actually I like more of the word impulsive).


It' time to get down to the basics. "This is not the end this is the beginning of something new." I wonder who said that...

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