Trip to Sweden part 3

I had to do more than one post about my trip because I have a lot of to say and a lot of pictures. This is the third and final post (Finally. I've made these posts for almost a month now lol. If you missed the first 2 posts, please check them out first from here and here.

After coming back to the ship from streets of Stockholm, we went to our cabin. I was tired after all that walking. After a while, we went to shop more to a Tax Free. Before we went to Sweden, we exchanged some euros to swedish crowns. So first of all, I wanted to use my cash crowns in Sweden and after use the rest of my cash in the ship. I bought few stuffs from there. I for example bought for my dog, Bruno, a Silja Seal toy. I had to buy it from a Tax Free because I didn't find any animal shop in Sweden. It was a little frustration because I tried to find an animal shop from Sweden very hard. I'm anyways happy with Silja Seal toy because it's cute and Bruno likes it a lot.

At some point we went to ship's deck. We walked around the entire ship. I can still feel the wind from there lol. The view was anyways beautiful.

We went for a while back to our cabin. There we just hanged out, drunk and chilled out while we played cards. At 7.30pm Gengis Van Gool had his amazing aerial acrobatics show Wheel of Death once again. We wanted to go to see that. At this time though, we were watching it from the other side which was a good variation.

The ship was in Mariehamn, Åland in the midnight. We went to watch it and get some pictures to the ship's deck. I was freezing but the view was really beautiful lol.



Our trip was almost over, so we wanted to go to party more. First of all, we went to that same bar where we were previously, Atlantis Palace. There was performing a band called Northern Lights. They presented some Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish hit songs along the years. We just listened their songs and chilled for a while. My friends even tried to dance little bit lol.

At some point we decided to go to check out one other bar also. It was called New York Club & Lounge. I liked it more. There was a lot of young people and the music was really loud. At some point I though that I'm losing my sight lol. We had a lot of fun and we danced like there is no tomorrow lol. We went back to our cabin at about 4.00am.

I couldn't sleep my beauty sleep at all in this trip lol. I was just able to sleep few hours. In the morning I was little tired but happy because I was finally able to go home and sleep more.

We arrived to Helsinki at 10.30am. My friends dad was picking us up from the port.

After all our little trip went so well. I want to go to Sweden again and be there longer. I also want to see my friends and family from there. Maybe that will happen in the short-term future, who knows. 

- Love, RN

Trip to Sweden part 2

I had to do more than one post about my trip because I have a lot of to say and a lot of pictures. This is the second post. If you missed the first one, please check it out first from here.



I didn't sleep well in the whole night. I still wasn't sleepy in a whole day which was a great thing. At some point in Stockholm I started to be little bit tired. We had a early waking-up because our breakfast was at 7.00am. There was available all kind of breakfast foods, for example eggs, bacon, bread, sausages, cereals, fresh fruits and all kind of different drinks. After eating we went back to our cabin to get ready. The ship came to port of Stockholm at 10.00am. We had to be back in the ship at 4.15pm.

The weather was actually pretty nice in Stockholm. We were prepared to a normal rain. We even had many umbrellas with us. But there was just a little drizzle all the time. It wasn't as bad as it could be which was really nice.

We had already thought about some places where we want to go and see. My friend also had an "old school" map where we were able to watch some subway stations and walking trails. First of all we walked to subway station which was quite close to the ship port. Near in the subway was two guys who wanted to ask some directions from us. They thought that we were local swedish people lol. First of all we went to Gamla Stan. 

From the subway station we had to walk little bit. I love those little swedish streets. We walked to a awesome shop called Science Fiction Bokhandeln AB. My friend like to read a lot of books, especially manga books. She had already looked up some informations about this awesome shop. That was the first shop where we came. We spent there a little (not that little lol) while. I absolutely loved all the little figures and stuff which there was. I only bought from there though a little Deadpool keychain. 

Randomly after shopping in the science fiction shop, we decided to visit in the Stockholm Palace (The Royal Palace) because it's a very known attraction. At first we didn't know why there was a lot of nicely dressed guards standing in front of the royal palace as well as a lot of polices. One street was closed too. We were really curious about what is going on there, so we decided to stand there for a while and wait if something will happen. 

The time was a little more than 12.00 in the afternoon. At first few police cars came. Then after police cars there was at least 50 riding polices. It was really cool. I still didn't know what is going on so I asked from a american couple from Ohio if they know something about this situation. I found out that the Canadian Prime Minister came to visit the royal couple and Sweden. The royal couple (King and Queen) had their own royal carriages. The queen came first, then the King and then the Canadian Prime Minister. It was really cool to see that all. I'm really glad because we decided to wait and see what's going on. It was worth it.

After seeing that all, we wanted to shop more. From Gamla Stan we walked to Norrmalm. There is a lot of shops and restaurants. While we were walking there, the weather became more drizzle.

At some point I bought really nice blue coloured headphones from a random small electronics shop. I don't remember it's name anymore. We found this really big, fancy and beautiful shopping center called NK, Nordiska Kompaniet. Everything was too expensive to our budget so we didn't buy anything.  

H&M is originally a swedish shop. So we absolutely had to shop in there too. I bought from there a cream lipstick from NYX Liquid Suede in a shade of LSCL 09, tea & cookies. I love this shade a lot. The tube of it, it's bigger than the previous ones.

My swedish friend recommended to me a Max Hamburgare fast food place so we had to check it out. I ordered a normal cheese burger meal with of course Coca-Cola. It was very cheap and delicious. Max Hamburgare is little bit like a Mcdonald's but with bigger meals lol. Next time when I'm going to Sweden I have to eat there again. 

After eating we went to some normal little food shops to buy something little. I bought some candy and water to home and for my little brother something also. When we were done with shops, we went to buy new subway tickets so we can go back to the ship. 

There was some other places too, like few museums where we wanted to go but there wasn't enough time for them. They was anyways little bit further away from the Stockholms ship port so we decided to not go there. 

We arrived to the port of Stockholm at about 3.00pm. So in the ship we were well in advance, one hour before we had to be there. The ship began to go back to Helsinki, Finland at 5.00pm. 

Once again this post will continue in the next, final post... Stay tuned for that. 

- Love, RN

Birthday Bebe-bagels

My mother have a birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! I LOVE YOU! We celebrated it earlier though. Usually me and mother do a cake together for every party or other fancy festive event. Plus the main cake, I'm usually doing something little like for example some cookies or pastries. I absolutely love to do them.

At this time I wanted to do Bebes. I was reading a finnish Pirkka magazine and I noticed the recipe from there. In now days, I always read the food recipes first lol. I never tried to make Bebes so I decided to do them. Before that though, a few funny (not that funny lol) facts. Bebe-bagels have been made since early 1900s. Bébé is a French bagel.

BEBES

INGREDIENTS:

BASE:

200 grams of butter

1,5 deciliters of sugar

1 egg

4,5 deciliters of flours

CREAM FILLING:

0,5 deciliters of sugar

1 tablespoon of potato flour

2 yolks

1,5 deciliters of cream

150 grams of butter

2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar

ICING:

about 4 deciliters of icing sugar

little bit red or red shades juice

2,5 tablespoons of hot water

little bit nonpareils

MANUFACTURING:

1.  Take all the necessary ingredients up to your kitchen's table so they are available whenever you need them. Wash your hands and just start to bake.

2. Put the oven up to the 175 degrees Celsius.

3. Start to bake the cereal base, whisking the sugar and butter until it's stiff foam. When the mixture is lighter foam, add the egg quickly. Add flours in four batch. Stir the mixture between each batch.

4. Divide the prepared dough suitable parts. According to the original recipe, you could make 24 bagels but I was just able to make about 17 bagels. Press the dough to anointed bagel casseroles bottom and sides. It took me a while to do that. I didn't think earlier that it could take that much time. As a bagel casseroles I used small rose-patterned silicone ones from Lidl, Finland.

5. Bake them in center of the oven at 175 degrees Celsius about 12 minutes or until the edges are golden. After baking, cool the bagels for a while. When they are almost cooled, remove them carefully from their bagel casseroles.

6. For the cream filling, stir the sugar, potato flours, yolks and cream among themselves in the saucepan. Do not let it boil. After cooling it little bit, put it to the fridge.

7. Whip the soft butter until it's stiff. Add to it the cold cream filling from the fridge and vanilla sugar. Make it smooth.

8. Fill the bagel bases with the filling cream. It is very important to make the top of the bagels flat and nice. Let the bagels solidify in the fridge.

9. Stir the hot water and icing sugar to a smooth mixture. Use little bit of red shade of juice to make the mixture light pink. Spread the icing to top of the bagels. Decorate them with nonparels. Keep the Bebes in the fridge. It would be nice to cover them with for example a plastic bag or tinfoil so they don't take any flavors of the fridge itselves.

10. Enjoy eating them with for example a nice cup of coffee.

These have many baking stages. After all, it was pretty easy to make them. And they are absolutely delicious.

- Love, RN

Trip to Sweden part 1

I've been sick lately so I haven't been posting anything in a while but now I'm back. On February 19th to 21st in 2017 I was in a cruise to Sweden in Silja Serenade with my 2 best girl friends. I have never been in Sweden or in a cruise so this was my very first time.

The ship to Sweden left at 5.00pm. My friend and her father was picking me up from our yard on the afternoon. We wanted to be in Helsinki well in advance so we have enough time to buy some snacks to the ship. First we went to a normal food shop where I bought some bananas, cookies and water. After that we went to MacDonalds. We arrived to self-check-in seasonably. There was a lot of people and I didn't think earlier that there could be that full and crowded.

We made it to the ship from the check-in. When we arrived to the ship, the ship's captain welcomed us. In the Promenade floor there was playing right away a trio band called Ree Train. In the ship we had a small cabin. It was clean and very intimate. There was beds for four, a television, a table, a window to outside and a very small bathroom and shower place. I suffer sometimes from a small panic attack in small places. At some point I was about to have one because our cabin was that small lol.

After being for few hours in the cabin we went to check out ship's stores. I foud from there few nice things but almost everything was very expensive and I didn't want to buy anything. Instead in Taxfree for example cigarrettes, snuff and alcohol was very cheap and I bought them from there as souvenirs to my family. After shopping we went back to our cabin to chill and get ready for the night. We also played with cards.

The main performer of the evening was at 7.30pm. It was an aerial acrobatics show Wheel of Death from a Swiss Gengis Van Gool. It was very cool and exciting. First of all he was walking inside of the big weel. Then after he jumped into the innel of the weel. He took his jacket and tie off and played with them. Then he took his skipping rope from his back pocket and started to jump with it while the weel was rotating. I was little bit scared for him lol.

After the dangerous show we went to a bar called Atlantis Palace. There was going on a Grand Opening show. We listened that while we drank one drinks. After that we went to the Casino and tried few games. No-one won anything though.

About in the midnight we went back to our cabin's beds to sleep because we had a pretty early wake-up in the next morning in Sweden.

This post will continue in the next post... Stay tuned for that.

- Love, RN

Valentine's day Tiramisú

Usually every year me and my mom have done some kind of cake or at least some baking for Valentine's day. In this year we had so much things to do. My mom was really busy so I had to do it all by myself. I didn't mind it but I love to bake with her.

We've read few different recipes how to make a tiramisú but we've done it always with our own way. Today I want to share this recipe, which enables I did this tiramisú yesterday. Before that though, a few funny facts. Tiramisú is an italian word meaning "raise me" which means like cheer me up. The name refers to an effect of caffeine which has been used as a spice. Another funny fact is that this is my first recipe post in my blog.

TIRAMISÚ

INGREDIENTS:

2 package (400 grams) of Savoiardi biscuits (Ladyfingers)

About 6 deciliters of strong cold coffee

1 package (400 grams) of mascarpone

5  deciliters of whipped cream 

5 tablespoons of caster sugar 

2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar

1 package (330 grams) of apricot marmalade

DECORATIONS:

little bit of dark chocolate 

10 pink meringue balls

2 raspberry pastries 

MANUFACTURING:

1. Take all the necessary ingredients up to your kitchen's table so they are available whenever you need them. Wash your hands and just start to bake. 

2. Make about 6 deciliters of strong coffee. When the coffee is ready, move it to a hot-proof dish and let it cool. First of all I cooled it in a hot-proof dish in a cool water-filled vessel sink. When it wasn't hot anymore I put it in the fridge. 

3. Whip the cream until it's stiff. Add both of the sugars during the whipping and finally after that add the mascarpone. With mascarpone the mixture becomes thick and it would be little bit hard to mix it. However, make it smooth.  

4. Dip about half of the biscuits into a strong cold coffee one by one. If you want you can add little bit sugar into the coffee but it's not necessary. Pile the dipped biscuits to entire surface of a large dish side by side so the whole bottom is covered. 

5. Add first into the dipped biscuits layer half of the apricot marmalade (about 165 grams) and after about half of the whipped cream (2 and half deciliters). 

6. Dip the rest of the biscuits into a strong cold coffee one by one and pile the dipped biscuits. Then add rest of the apricot marmalade and the rest of the whipped cream. After all, make the topping look beautiful and flatted. 

7.  Grate a bit of the dark chocolate. Split the middle the raspberry pastries. Arrange them in the middle of the cake. Then arrange the meringue balls around them. And finally, springle the chocolate so the whole white whipped cream bottom is covered. 

8. Let the tiramisú retreat in the fridge to a next day. It's more tasty then. And just enjoy it with for example  a nice cup of coffee. 

It was pretty easy to make it. The recipe was easy and I think it's easy to follow it. I hoped you liked it and let me know if you tried to make it. 

- Love, RN

Adult's friend-book

Happy Valentine's day everyone! When I was younger I had a friends book. There wasn't that many posts, I just needed to have it because everyone else had it too. I have seen few bloggers doing this kind of post. So I decided to do it as well but with my own twist. I was thinking some questions and googling them as well and here they are.

What is your name: Ramona Nyman

What is your nickname: Rampe, Ramsu, Ramos

When were you born: On 5th September on 1998, so I'm 18 years old now.

Where you lived when you was a kid? I was born in Lohja but my parents lived at that time in a town called Espoo in Southern Finland. I lived in Espoo one year before my parents decided to move to Lohja in 2000.

Where do you live now? I live in Southern Finland in small town called Lohja.

Where do you want to be living in the future? Even though I like to live in here Finland, I want to see the world. So I would like to live in the future in either Canada, USA or in one of the latin americans country.

What was your dream profession (job) when you was a kid: a police officer or an secret agent, a doctor (surgeon) or an animal attendant.

What is your profession (job) now? At the moment I'm studying counting business in my third and final year. After graduating from this vocational school, I would like to still study more either business or English at least.

What hobbies you had when you was a kid? When I was younger I liked to try new things. I for example danced hip hop and rumbita. I also rode with a horse. Since I was very young and able to hold a pen in my hand, my mom allowed me to draw. So since I was about under one years old, I have drawn.. I'm still drawing in now days.

What hobbies do you have now? I'm singing and listening music, drawing, writing this blog and sometimes I like to go to the gym.

What would you do if you could get more hours in the day? I will either do more my daily things like for example this blog or just simply relax, stress less and just enjoy with my family and friends.

What kind of music did you like when you was a kid? I've been absolutely loving rap, hip hop music always. When I was really small and we were in a car with family, my older brother used to listen to rap. He listened to a finnish rap artist called Pikku G. From these times, I remember a song called Jake.

I had an very old CD-player when I was a kid. With it I usually listened music. I had my dad's very old CD and from there I remember a song called Danny - Kesäkatu.

What kind of music do you like now? In now days I've listened rap, hip hop, reggae, reggaeton and cumbia. I'm listening that much music so I don't really have a favourite one but I've listened a song called Ride Out from Kid Ink, Tyga, Wale, Rich Homie Quan lately. It's part of the official Fast 7 music videos and songs.

What is the most embarrassing television show that you are watching? Well I don't watch that much TV anymore. I have so much other things going on right now. But I've watched before Teen Mom original and UK.

What makes you always cry? I absolutely love dogs, especially my dog Bruno of course. I don't know why but always when I watch some dog rescue videos from Youtube my eyes get wet.

What was your favorite toy when you was a kid? My absolutely favourite toy was Aladdin's Palace. At some point I lost it and didn't see it again. But I will always remember it.

What is your favorite toy now? My "favourite toy" now is probably my phone. I'm playing with it may hours in a day. I can't image a day without it.

What is the wisdom that you have learned so far? Each event have it's own purpose.

- Love, RN

January favourites

January is already behind us. So it's time to look back and see what favourites I had in this month.

I got as a Christmas present few makeup things that I'm loving. First one is my The Blushed Nudes® Eye Shadow Palette from Maybelline, New York. The palette consisting of twelve expertly curated eyeshadow shades, all in neutral tones. The emphasis here is on the blushed aspect, mostly meaning that these shades have more rose and pink tones to them. This palette is extremely similar to Urban Decay’s Naked 3 Palette, which is primarily cool and rosy toned like this one. I love a lot rose gold and I have been using this palette almost every day in my daily makeup. As you can probably see from my palettes look. The most to my movable eyelid I have been using the rose gold shade. I have been doing my eyeliner with the darkest sparkling black shade. And to inner corners of my eyes I have been using one of the lightest pink shade. I got it as a early Christmas present box where was also a Last Sensational black mascara from also Maybelline, New York. It wasn't really expensive with the mascara on the box. The whole box cost only 21,90 € (euro). 

Next product is Lingerie Liquid Lipstick from NYX in a shade of  06 - Push-Up. I like to wear a lot nude shades in my lips in now days so this shade is just perfect for me. It's a very light lipstick which gives an elegant plush with matte finish. It's coating the curves of my lips with irresistibly creamy but at the same time a light colour. I have been putting sometimes two coats of it and it's been a bit darker colour.

Next one is Lovely perfume by Sarah Jessica Parker. My mom bought it for me on Christmas. It's really soft but at the same time a bit sharp. So just few spray of it will be enough. It opens with soft citruses (nectarine and bergamot) and woody (rosewood notes, with a touch of lavender. I have been using it a lot.

Here in Finland is still very cold weather and my nordic face is not liking it at all. The skin on my legs and hands have been very dry. After a hot shower I must have been using some moisturizing body lotion. I'm a big fan of Playboy stuff and I have been absolutely loving this Playboy VIP moisturizing body lotion.  The scent of it, it's really great and the cream is not too heavy. It's very light and it's been really good to spread it. It also have been giving to my skin some sparkles which I'm loving too.

Next favourite is Mansester's new album Maskin alta and especially a song from it called Katso mua (Look at me). You can find that song on Spotify as well as the whole album. I like it a lot and that's why I recommend you all to listen it.

Here is a link to Spotify: http://bit.ly/maskinaltaspotify

I haven't been watching that much movies but the movies I have been watching and liking are A dog walker's Christmas tale (Oh yes I watch Christmas movies through the whole year) and One for the money. I also have been watching little bit Bill Burr's stand-up show which my friend recommended to me. It's really funny. It's one of the Netflix's original things.

I listen a lot of music daily and in this month I have been listening the most songs called Don Omar - Los Bandoleros, Mansesteri - Katso mua, Maanes - Calor and Zack Knight - Enemy.

These was all my favourites from this month. Of course there is some other products, music and other stuff which I have been liking but these I wanted to take in this post. I will be doing this kind of post in every month.

- Love, RN

Good night -routines

It's been awhile since I did a post about my morning routines. So in this post I will share my night routines even though I don't really have any actual night routines. But like this I usually spend my nights before the Sandman has given to me enough "sleeping sand" and I feel sleepy.

Let's start with a fact that I'm usually going to bed really late. I should sleep about eight hours in a night but I'm just sleeping about five or six hours. I know it's not enough for me. But on weekends and day offs I'm trying to sleep the missing hours back. My sleeping habits are messed up and I can't get any sleep early in the night.

In the early evening I'm starting to get more relaxed. I for example watch some Youtube videos, write a blog and just be with Bruno.

Later when I feel little hungry I'm going to eat a supper. In the evenings, before bed it's important to eat a light supper. I'm usually just taking a yogurt, bread and a some fruit, a banana or an apple. After eating I'm going out with Bruno and then I'm brushing his fur. I'm doing that every day because by doing it I'm avoiding tangles which he sometimes have in his long haired fur.

Then it's time to go to take a hot relaxing shower. Usually I'm there about 10 - 15 minutes. I need to take a shower once in a day. Otherwise I will feel that my hairs are not clean. I shouldn't wash my hairs every day but I just need to do it anyways. After taking my shower I'm just taking care of my face and skin. I have some routines for them also and I will be sharing it all later.

Then in my night clothes (sometimes pyjama) I'm on my phone, checking my social medias (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ramona.nyman/ , Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFIkWq2x0Z5p7SABt9dvzRg and Snapchat: ramonanyman). I'm also just watching some videos and different tv shows via my phone. I have noticed that watching videos make me sleepy. I don't know why though.

I'm not usually going to bed if I don't feel sleepy. But if the clock is too much I have to. At about 00.00 - 1.00am I'm putting my phone off and I'm starting to sleep.

- Love, RN 

Mansesteri - Maskin alta (Under the mask) album review

I will be making two of these posts, one in Finnish and the other in English. This is an English album review of Mansester's new album "Maskin alta". Check the Finnish version if it's better for you. Enjoy!

This post has been made in cooperation with Mansesteri.

Mansesteri is a hip hop group from Tampere, Finland. The members are Mc Mane, Vainis (Vainoharha) and their DJ, DJ Kalu. They have already 6 albums. Two of them are Gigstape-albums rechargeable from Online. In early of this year 2017, on 31th January, they will realize a new long play album called "Maskin alta" to a Levykauppa Äx (Record Store Äx), Spotify and to their own web page. They asked me to do an album review of their new long play album and tell my own opinion about it and the songs.

When I first heard the songs, I seat in peace, I put my earphones to my ears and with closed eyes I focused strictly and listened to the whole album. As a result of the first listening time, was a full paper of notes and good feelings. From the albums tracklist you can find party music as well as more deep, a story telling material. Already from the beginning I liked the most songs called  Katso mua (Look at me) and Pintaa syvempään (To the deeper surface) ft. Assi Ilona. I have been listening a lot also a globally known song which have more than over two million listening times on Spotify called Saravon Pekka ft. TFC & S011.

I will start this review right away from the albums cover. It's really unique, different and a thought-provoking. With a mask everything will be and may look normal, but then under the mask can be found the reality which can be even crazy. Jesse Lehtinen as known as Vainis rapped in his sentences in the opening song Katso mua (Look at me) (freely translated) "I will hide my face so I will not see anything anymore and for the first time I'm the real me.". It is bringing together exactly those thoughts where we live without a mask and where we are truly ourselves without a risk that we will have something to lose. It's chorus also supports exactly what you can find from under the mask in a fine eloquent way (freely translated) "Look at me now, through the flash of lightning. Under the mask can be found the same fragile human. When the lights are not shining anymore, no shackles in the legs. You can see it on your face, that you don't have nothing to lose." In the last years shows it was the whole gigs opening song. It's little dark and deep but the beat is immersively rock-style. It would be easy to perhaps sing or dance along with it. 

The whole album contains 17 songs and three bonus tracks. 

1. Katso mua (Look at me) 

2. Downshiftataan (Let's Downshift) ft. Juju

3. CVII

4. Legenda (Legend) 

5. Kuumottaa (Feels hot) 

6. Pahat Pojat (Bad Boys) ft. Läski Salonen ja Sarkastinen 

7. ARB

8. HippihoppiRokkari (A Hippie, Hoppie, Rocker)

9. Kermaa (Cream) 

10. Pintaa syvempään (To the deeper surface) ft. Assi Ilona 

11. Déjà-Vu 

12. Personal Trainer ft. Melu

13. Prinsessoja ja putkimiehiä (Princesses and plumbers)

14. Manifesti (Manifesto)

15. Aitoo paskaa (Real Shit) ft. Sarkastinen, Methodi ja Aladdin 

16. Ennen valopilkkuu (Before the bright spot) ft. Mitja Lepistö 

17. Oliko Wörttii? (Was it worth it?)

    BONUS: 

-  Taka-Töölö Remix ft. Henriquez, Pasanen, Zankie & Sarkastinen

- Ykköset (Number Ones) ft. Costello Hautamäki ja Jussi Aaltonen

- Saravon Pekka ft. TFC & S011 

The song Downshiftataan (Let's Downshift) ft. Juju is a relaxed song. It's easy to sing along with it. According to Markus Savolainen as known as Mc Mane's words (freely translated) "Simplicity beautiful. Sometimes it is good to slow down with your "foot on the gas so you can keep in speed." are telling that sometimes it's good to just simple things, relax and think what is important. Otherwise you won't keep up and the going is not that good anymore. And Déjà-Vu is a party song. The beat is very good and speedy. 

Pintaa syvempään (To the deeper surface) ft. Assi Ilona is equality, bullying and discrimination resist song. According to MC Mane's interview to the FUM (Finnish Urban Media) he said that "We all have some kind of personal experiences about being harassed, bullied" which is true. I believe that to all of us is pretty easy to identify to the theme and message of the song. Many people is touched by this song and it raise us up to the important things. Bullying, discrimination, humans judgement, equality and wishing it to everyone and depression are in now days pretty much present all the time. 

(Freely translated) "More valuable than gold is inside of the humans. Every person is beautiful, I hanging on to it. People judge and only sees the scars. But they don't ask what for they are. They see a beast but not the heart in it's chest. They don't see an angel, just sparkle on the top. They see the marks in our hands only as a bad thing, they don't respect the stories behind them. Don't let people overwhelm you, even they judge. I believe in you, I believe to a better tomorrow." Mc Mane's words in the first song makes me think about my own ways to handle people.Other people's condemnation is not right. When the song have a lot of different things, different layers and feelings, the music have a gripping surface. In this song there is a lot of those gripping surfaces. 

The whole album contents points in its entirety is a brave telling about what you can find under the mask and in the deeper surface with a rock-style. To balance to the album's deeper essence, there is also relaxed, immersive, danceable party songs. Maskin alta (Under the mask) is a uniform masterpiece from after many years and a lot of experience. 

I liked the whole album and it's songs a lot. I recommend everyone to listen and buy this album. The price of the album is only like about 10,00€ (euro) and it contains from the whole money enjoyable music. 

You can order the album directly from the link down below from Mansester's own web page, 

http://mansesteri.com/levytilaus-maskin-alta/

Ps. It was worth it!

- Love, RN

Mansesteri - Maskin alta levyarvostelu

I will be making two of these posts, one in Finnish and the other in English. This is an Finnish album review of Mansester's new album "Maskin alta". Check the English version if it's better for you. Enjoy!

Postaus on tehty yhteistyössä Mansesterin kanssa.

Mansesteri on tamperelainen hip hop -yhtye. Sen jäseniin kuuluvat Mc Mane, Vainis (Vainoharha) ja heidän DJ, DJ Kalu. Levyjä heillä on jo ennestään kuusi kappaletta, joista kaksi on Internetistä ladattavia Gigstape -levyjä. Heiltä tulee nyt alkuvuodesta 31.1.2017 levykauppa Äxään, Spotifyyn ja heidän omalle verkkosivulle myyntiin ilmestyvä uusi pitkäsoitto, joka kantaa nimeä Maskin alta. He pyysivät minua tekemään uudesta pitkäsoitostaan levyarvostelun ja kertomaan oman mielipiteeni levystä ja sen kappaleista.

Kun sain kappaleet ensi kertaa kuunteluun, istuin rauhassa, laitoin kuulokkeet korvilleni ja silmät kiinni tiukasti keskittyen kuuntelin koko levyn läpi. Ensimmäisen kuuntelukerran tuloksena oli paperillinen muistiinpanoja ja hyviä fiiliksiä. Levyn kappale listalta löytyy niin sopivia biletys-biisejä kuin myös syvällisempää, tarinaa kertovaa materiaalia. Jo alusta asti pidin eniten kappaleista Katso mua ja Pintaa syvempään ft. Assi Ilona. Luukutuksessa on myös ollut paljon jo yli kaksi miljoonaa kuuntelukertaa Spotifyssa saanut, maailmallakin tunnettu Saravon Pekka ft. TFC & S011.

Aloitan arvostelun heti levyn kansikuvasta. Se on oikein omaperäinen, erilainen ja ajatuksia herättävä. Ikään kuin maskin kanssa saattaa näyttää siltä, että kaikki olisi hyvin ja normaalisti, mutta maskin alta löytyykin se todellisuus, joka voi olla jopa hullu. Vainiksen eli Jesse Lehtisen räppäämät lauseet levyn aloittavassa kappaleessa Katso mua "Peitän kasvoni, etten enää näkis mitään, ja ensimmäistä kertaa olen todellinen minä." kiteyttää mielestäni juuri niitä ajatuksia yhteen, joissa eletään ilma maskia ja ollaan todellisesti, aidosti omia itsejämme ilman, että olisi jotain menetettävää. Sen kertosäe tukee myös juurikin sitä, mitä maskin alta löytyy hienon kaunopuheiseen tyyliin "Katso mua nytten, läpi salaman välähdysten. Maskin alta löytyy sama hauras ihminen. Kun valot enää ei loista, ei kahleit jaloissa. Sen näkee kasvoista, ettei oo enää menetettävää." Jo viime vuoden keikoilla se oli koko keikan aloittava kappale. Se on hieman synkkä ja syvällinen, mutta tausta on mukaansa tempaavan rock-henkinen, jonka mukana on helppo vaikkapa laulaa ja tanssia.

Levy sisältää yhteensä 17 kappaletta ja kolme bonus biisiä.

1. Katso mua

2. Downshiftataan ft. Juju

3. CVII

4. Legenda

5. Kuumottaa

6. Pahat Pojat ft. Läski Salonen ja Sarkastinen

7. ARB

8. HippihoppiRokkari

9. Kermaa

10. Pintaa syvempään ft. Assi Ilona

11. Déjà-Vu 

12. Personal Trainer ft. Melu

13. Prinsessoja ja putkimiehiä

14. Manifesti

15. Aitoo paskaa ft. Sarkastinen, Methodi ja Aladdin 

16. Ennen valopilkkuu ft. Mitja Lepistö 

17. Oliko Wörttii? 

    BONUKSET: 

-  Taka-Töölö Remix ft. Henriquez, Pasanen, Zankie & Sarkastinen

- Ykköset ft. Costello Hautamäki ja Jussi Aaltonen

- Saravon Pekka ft. TFC & S011 

Kappale Downshiftataan ft. Juju on rento biisi, jonka mukana on hyvä laulaa kertosäettä. Markus Savolaisen eli MC Manen sanat "Yksinkertaisuus on kaunista. Välillä paree himmaa kaasujalkaa, jotta pysyy vauhdissa." mielestäni kertovat siitä, että välillä on hyvä yksinkertaistaa asioita, rentoutua ja miettiä mikä on tärkeintä. Muuten ei pysy vauhdissa eikä meno ole välttämättä yhtä kivaa. Déjà-Vu taas on biletykseen sopiva kappale. Sen tausta on todella hyvä ja vauhdikas. 

Pintaa syvempään ft. Assi Ilona on tasa-arvoa sekä kiusaamista ja syrjimistä vastustava kappale. Mc Manen FUM:ille (Finnish Urban Media) antamassa haastattelussa hän sanoi, että "Meillä kaikilla on henkilökohtaisiakin kokemuksia kiusattuna olemisesta", mikä on totta. Uskon, että kappaleen aiheeseen ja sanomaan on melkein kaikkien helppoakin helpompi samaistua. Kappale koskettaa monia ja nostaa meidät tärkeiden asioiden äärelle. Kiusaaminen, syrjintä, ihmisten tuomitseminen, tasa-arvo ja sen hakeminen kaikille ja masennus ovat nykypäivänä esillä paljonkin.

"Kultaakin kalliimpaa on ihmisillä sisäl. Jokainen ihminen on kaunis, kiinni siitä pidän. Ihmiset tuomitsee ja näkee pelkät arvet. Muttei kysy, et onks ne mitä varten. Ne näkee pedon, muttei sydäntä sen rinnassa. Ei näe enkelii, vaan pelkkää kiiltoo pinnassa. Ne näkee leimat meidän käsissä vaan pahana, ei kunnioita tarinoita niiden takana. Älä anna ihmisten musertaa, vaik ne tuomitsee. Mä uskon suhun, mä uskon parempaan huomiseen." Mc Manen ensimmäisessä kappaleessa sanomat asiat antavat aihetta miettiä omaa suhtautumista muihin enemmän. Toisten ihmisten tuomitseminen on väärin. Kun kappaleessa on paljon erilaisia asioita, eri kerroksia ja tunteita, musiikissa on tarttumapintaa. Tästä kappaleesta näitä tarttumapintoja löytyy runsaasti.  

Levy sisällölliseltä kokonaisuudeltaan on rohkeaa kerrontaa siitä, mitä maskin alta ja pintaa syvemmältä voikaan löytyä rock-henkisyyden merkeissä. Vastapainoksi levyn syvälliseen olemukseen, levyltä löytyy myös rentoa ja bile-meiningillä mukaansatempaavia, tanssittavia kappaleita. Maskin alta on yhtenäinen mestariteos monen vuoden ja kokemusten jälkeen.

Tykkäsin levystä ja sen kappaleista paljon. Suosittelen kaikkia kuuntelemaan ja ostamaan sen. Levyn hinta on noin 10,00€ luokkaa ja se sisältää koko rahan edestä nautinnollista musiikkia.

Levyn voi tilata suoraan alla olevasta linkistä Mansesterin omalla verkkosivulla,
http://mansesteri.com/levytilaus-maskin-alta/

Ps. No olihan se nyt wörttii!

- Love, RN

Good morning - routines

I'm a girl who likes to plan things out and know what will happen next in my daily school or work days schedule. So now when my school and work have begun again, I have some routines for the mornings and evenings. I have some routines because with them I will not be that late. In the weekends and breaks I just go with the flow and situations. I will share my weekly morning routines in this post.

I have to wake up at least one hour before I have to leave the house so I have enough time to get ready. Usually my school is starting at 8 o'clock and because of that I have been waking up at about 6.30am. I'm sometimes snoozing my morning alarm from 6.15am every 10 minutes until the time is about 6.40am and I have to wake up. Few seconds after waking up I'm just thinking how sleepy I am lol. Then I make my bed look nice again. It's making me feel better for some reason.

Usually at this point Bruno have heard me and wants to give me morning kisses. In the mornings we have no lights on and because of that Bruno was ones standing at the door of my room being afraid of me lol. I had to calm him down and give him few extra kisses lol. After that will be the time to go to bathroom to brush my teeths and change my clothes. Sometimes when I remember I'm picking up my clothes before sleep but not always because I will be too sleepy already.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day so I'm trying my best to have a good one. Usually I'm having a vanilla yogurt with an healthy grain mixture (oats, wheat, barley and rye), 2 cucumber, cheese and ham breads and a fresh glass of a fruit juice. I make these in the previous night so I have more time in the morning. I'm trying to have my breakfast in 10 minutes and after I'm running to do my makeup.

Of course it would be nice to do my whole makeup routine but especially in the school mornings I'm just trying to cover my black eye circles and spots and look nice lol. After doing my makeup I'm brushing my hairs and putting them nicely but fast because at this point it's getting late already and I have to go to school. Sometimes I arrive at school at 7.45am and sometimes at 7.55am, it depends on how fast I have been and what kind of traffic is.

I need to make more these routine posts in the future.

- Love, RN