Friday, April 8, 2016

The Choice is Yours - Bird videos


If there is something in the world that everyone loves, those certainly are funny animals. I bet all those funny and fluffy cuties can make everyone smile. Personally, I love everything regarding to birds. They act like they are 5-year old kids: they are messy, noisy and demand to be entertained. However, in my opinion, there are nothing like birds. Although dogs can be cute and cats can be funny, birds are both of those at the same time.

Below are my favorite picture/video/gif regarding to birds. Link to the short video is here.


                                   english-finnish vocabulary

                   mammal - nisäkäs     /     avian - lintu       /       beak - nokka
                   talon - kynsi      /      aviary - lintuhuone      /      cage - häkki
                   wing - siipi     /      to screech - kirkua      /     feather - sulka
                   branch - orsi      /      flock - parvi       /      to peck - nokkia
                   nest - pesä       /      tame - kesy       /       mate - kumppani
 
                 
     
                 

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Reading a novel - Alice in Wonderland

This is a book I absolutely looove. Alice in Wonderland is a classic, surely known by everybody. It is a story about a girl named Alice, who falls in a rabbit-hole and discovers a peculiar world where reside talking animals, living playing cards and snappy royalty.

         I chose this book because I love riddles, illogicality and funny conversations, which this book offers a plenty. The Queen of Hearts was my favorite character as I really loved every scene with her, especially when she hastily ordered to behead everyone without a good reason.

         The plot wasn't really so strong in this one. In my opinion, there wasn't really anything major going on. The book centered around the conversations and weird details happening around.

         I usually hate endings where everything is just a dream, but this one was just alright. Everything in the book seemed so out of this world, so the whole thing coming out to be just a dream of a little girl didn't really bother me at all.

         I would recommend this book to everyone, young and old, boys and girls. There wasn't a moment when I was bored reading this book, There is always happening something unexpecting always keeping the reader on toes.

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

My song - Bad Apple




Originally, Bad Apple was a song in the Touhou Project game Lotus Land Story, released on 1998. This version was sung by a Japanese singer Nomico on 2007. It became popular as late as 2009 though, when the black-and-white video presenting silhouettes of Touhou's characters was released.

The lyrics in the song are actually really deep, containing a lot of symbolism as they seem to revolve around "black and white". The lyrics tell about sadness, insecurity, tiredness and depression. The original song, however, wasn't as depressing as this one. The name of the song could be related to the phrase "bad apple", but is likely just a coincidence knowing how creator of the original work makes up all kinds of weird names for his songs. 

I chose this song because I love the rhythm, lyrics and the game this was made from. Although this song is sad and a little bit depressing, it's a beautiful piece of work which manages to put feelings into words if I am ever feeling down.