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Love.

It's something you have to experience before you know what they talk about. It's true when they say love isn't always like a dream. It's not all roses, kisses and smiles. Love hurts. When you see your loved one hurt, it's physical pain you feel. You feel uncertain at times. Not knowing what will happen in the future scares you.

But it's also true when they say love is all you need. Love makes you feel alive. It's easier to conquer almost anything when you have that someone to rely on. Time flies by when you're with them. You can't believe your luck, what have you done to deserve such devotion?


It's realistic love that makes my day. I don't care about the roses and romantic poems, they're nice but discussing the menú of the day, philosophical questions or simply how our day has been is perfect. All I need is him. The one who makes me happier than anyone.

Don't let go

What a summer. Have to admit that I was going to write a bit more often, but my parents dragged me to our summer house - and obviously we didn't have internet connection over there. Anyway, I still had a great summer!

First of all, I loved the weather. Finnish summer is typically rather cold and rainy, but not this time. The heat lasted for weeks and it was almost like being in another country, like I said, we aren't used to weather like this.

Secondly, my taste of music has been extremely weird this summer. I normally listen to The Script, Copeland, Amy MacDonald or 30 Seconds to Mars... or anything really, but not the mainstream music. However, I kept listening to Taio Cruz's "Break Your Heart", Adam Lambert's "If I Had You" or Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" over and over again. And I don't even like those songs? I guess it's just that they're great 'background music', you don't really have to pay attention to songs like that, you just listen.

Oh, there's one thing I'll never forget: I recorded my first song ever! I went to this art camp in the beginning of August and some guys there wrote the 'theme song' of the camp. And they wanted me to sing it. :) It was a great experience and I was really excited after it - and it doesn's sound bad at all!

I also travelled quite a lot, around Finland though. I visited cities I've never been to before, which was nice, and we even went to Tallinn for a day. For those who haven't been to Tallinn (the capital of Estonia), go there as soon as you can. It's a beautiful city, one of my favourites.

Even though I enjoyed this summer, I don't mind going back to school tomorrow. It'll be nice to see friends again, remember what day it is and know you're learning something new every day. I know I'll be complaining about the piles of homework and stress after a few months, but oh well. Right now I miss the daily routines and want them back.

Wish you a good year, good to be back again!

Valitsen yhden meren ja oudon veneen

I found this song from Spotify last night and listened to it a few times wondering why it sounded so familiar. I had never listened to Johanna Kurkela before and didn't even like any other songs from her newest album, but this one was really beautiful. Then I noticed it sounded a bit like a Nightwish song and reminded me of The Islander and Creek Mary's Blood. Why? My question was answered when I googled "Satojen merien näkijä": the writer of the song is Tuomas Holopainen. As I did some more research I also found out that Kurkela has recorded two songs with Sonata Arctica; No Dream Can Heal A Broken Heart and Deathaura, both from The Days Of Grays.

Haha no wonder I liked it so much, Holopainen is a great artist and I admire him, and I've heard Kurkela sing on Sonata Arctica's album. Now I just need chords for this song but can't find them anywhere... Oh well, I'll come up with something. Wonder if anyone else likes this song, it's one of my favourites at the moment.

Tiia

Your hopes, your dreams, your everything

Summer summer summer! Again. The year has gone by so fast, I can still remember the things that happened last summer and now I have 2 weeks of school left... and then, freedom! Thought I'd post some of last summer's photos here, just to go share, so here's the Epic Summer vol 1 :

partying, put on some make-up and go!

jump! sunny days and no worries ♥

exploring, the higher you climb, the more you see.

fell in love with travelling, London and Edinburgh ♥

yes, I like trees, but the point here is having fun!

+ friends

+ msn all night long

+ random things

I ♥ SUMMER

I'm sure this one will be just as epic as last year, maybe even better!

Tiia

I Just Need You Now

I hate arguing. I mean I don't know about you, but shouting and all that has always made me feel very uncomfortable. And some people actually enjoy it... I don't get that.
I understand that everyone can be annoying sometimes and we all have bad days, I also know some arguments are inevitable. E.g. with your friends, if you've known them for years it's rather strange if you've never had a single argument.

And I think you're supposed to fight with your siblings and parents, my sister and I used to yell at each other all the time when we were younger. These days we rarely argue but when we do, we say things that would make anyone else cry and truly hate us. But we're sisters and know that the other barely knows what she's saying and definitely doesn't mean any of it.

For me it's different with friends though, I know arguing is a part of every friendship but I still hate it. Granted, I can be mean if I'm in the mood and if you manage to piss me off then I will be pissed off. But I envy those who can argue and not cry at the same time because I'm usually the first one sobbing.
Especially if it's my dad I'm fighting with (just a random note lol). All he needs to do is raise his voice a little bit and I burst into tears... That's probably because we both hate arguing so much, and I guess it's better to end it quickly.

Oh and when it comes to apologizing and making up after the fight, my friends know I'm far from unforgiving. Actually, I'm just not capable of hating anyone for longer than 15 minutes. I'm a crappy sulker and it's pretty easy to make me smile/laugh.

Have been listening to this song all afternoon, enjoy.



Tiia

That song playing in your head over and over again

Right so I haven't updated my blog in a month, apologies for that. I've been so busy doing nothing that I couldn't be bothered to sit down even for a few minutes and write a short post. There you go, the truth. For some reason I always end up doing nothing yet there're so many things I should do.

To be fair though, I did choose classes for next year and it looks like I'll be studying maths (advanced mathematics.. ugh), history and languages, Spanish, English, Swedish and Finnish. Fun... No but seriously, those are pretty much the subjects I'm interested in, except for maths. I love history and have always been good at learning languages. Hmh so I know what my favourite subjects are but I still have no idea what to do after high school. 

I mean yes I've been thinking about going to England for a year but what will I do after that? Yes, uni is an obvious option and that's where I'll go but, and this is the main question, what do I want to be when I grow up? What should I do, where should I go? I had a perfect plan but it doesn't work anymore so I'll have to come up with something else. But what? What what what? Haven't got a clue. 

Oh well, I have two years, no, three years to decide so I'm not going to panic.. yet.

Besides it's sunny outside and I'm going for a walk. Summer will be here soon, can you believe it? Eeee only a month of school left and then, Epic Summer vol 2, can't wait!

Tiia 

Vacuum On The Dancefloor

First things first; the title of today's post. My sister and I have been listening to Cascada and my sister decided to sing along to Evacuate The Dancefloor... She simply misheard the lyrics and now it's Vacuum On The Dancefloor. Works for me though, after all we have been cleaning up the house and dancing.


There's something about sunny days. That's why I love spring, the winter in Finland is long, so after all that snow and endless darkness a bit of sunlight makes everyone happier. Sunny days, sunny days, it's a sunny day today. That's great, because it means I'm having a good day.


This morning wasn't so great to be honest, I woke up just to notice I had the headache from hell. It took a couple of hours until I was able to do anything. But other than that today has been great. Like I said, I've been dancing around the house and everybody knows that's fun. I played the piano and sang with my sister, she played the guitar and you should hear us, we make a great duet! I love having a musical family.


Also, I'm making a list of places I need to visit. You know, I have a plan: I'll travel around the world when I've finished high school/sixth form, whatever you want to call it. So far I have these countries on my list:
England
Scotland
Italy
Germany
France
Spain
Israel
Belgium
Norway
China
Japan
Australia
USA
Malaysia
Canada

Sounds good, eh? Oh and for the record, I am not planning to visit all these places right after finishing school, unfortunately I'm not a millionaire. But they're on my list so I'll visit them some day! 

Right, time for a walk. Enjoy your holidays!

Tiia