Guess what I’m watching right now

Even though it’s incredibly sexist this is one of my favourite movies ever. Maybe it’s the music…

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Award time

Oh, I got an award from the lovely Emma- and now, of course, I have to put her blog on my blogroll. She’s a cousin’s cousin, related to fam Haglund and is actually moving to Helsinki quite soon. So there’s that – and now I have to give the award to some other people. Five [...]

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Speaking of chocolate

Today I dissected fly wings. Aren’t they beautiful, a real work of art!
My dear colleague Mari has started to empty her cupboards of all her chocolate. As she’s originally from Estonia she travels there quite often to visit relatives and every time she comes back she brings with her a box of chocolate. Obviously a [...]

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Another Galler ad!

I’m a target of Internet advertisement, or rather you, dear reader, are But I don’t mind Chris’ comment at all (even though I thought the “without alcohol” thing was a bit much), because it’s absolutely true – Galler’s chocolate is one of the best things out there!
And as you can see from the [...]

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Viikki church

Ok, so you know that you are in Finland when someone lyrically describes a church as being “like a sauna” – AND everyone listening gives out a happy sigh of recognition.
But I get the point. It’s not only that the church in Viikki is built entirely out of wood that gives it this atmosphere. For a Finn the sauna is [...]

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Ah, chocolate!

I’m trying not to get my hopes up, but it’s not working very well – I can’t wait for Zhao to come back from Belgium as he promised me to buy my favourite chocolate!
I cannot say that I’m a chocolate connoisseur, and the fact that my favourite chocolate can be bought in any Belgian supermarket [...]

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Action 08

The annual Action festival was this weekend and approximately 300 youths gathered each evening to listen to music and the word of God at our church. I thought it went really well, but don’t take my word for it, since I was the head coordinator of the thing I basically ran around like a headless chicken for [...]

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Late Father’s day card

Happy Father’s day!!
To my dad who is responsible for half of all that’s good in me. Including my good looks… 

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Halleluja

This weekend we opened our church after a one year long renovation. It has taken a lot of money but I think the greatest sacrifice has been all the time that the board members have put into this work. Planning and organizing the whole thing, making the tough decisions and still having another job to go [...]

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