Quote of the day

"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." Goethe

Todays favourite picture

Beautiful London! It's one of my favourite cities. How can you not like it? It has everything! And i'm returning in the end of january for a Explosions in the sky gig at Astoria, can't wait:)

I'm back (!) for good(?)

I have to admit this blog hasn't worked out the way I planned. It was originaly constructed so my friends back in Norway could stay tuned and updated on my life when I moved to England. What happened? I stopped blogging right before I moved over the pond.

I'm back in Norway for the Christmas holidays, after a very successful semester at University of East Anglia. I'm really enjoying my studies and I've settled in well in Norwich. I'm bored of Norway already, so I'm def looking forward to going back for next semester.

I'm guessing most people have seen my facebook pictures, but I'm gonna post a few pics here from the past semester anyway. Mostly to celebrate the re-birth of my enthusiasm for blogging!

xoxo

Quote of the day

"Is there no way out of the mind?" Sylvia Plath

Saturday night

Fun night in Trondheim! Some friend got together before we went out. Don't judge us, we were drunk!

Todays favourite picture

I admit it! I love Sienna Miller!! Her boho-chic style was awsome! Now she's more rock'n roll, but still cooler than you! hah

Language barrier

So I speak urdu, while most people speak chinese. Chinese people don't really understand urdu, and I can't say I understand much chinese yet. And when I finally think I do, I discover I don't. The thing is that it's really difficult, because not many people speak urdu. I've only met one person who does. My best friend Hjilde speaks japanese, but she still understands most of my urdu, and I understand almost all her japanese. And we agreed on that her boyfriend speaks chinese and a almost fluently japanese.

Difficult to understand? That's because you speak CHINESE!

OH YES!

After crying my bitter tears while realizing all tickets for the Foo Fighters tour in UK was sold out, I cannot even begin to describe how fantastic it felt to make the winning bid on two tickets, for the last concert in o2 in London the 18th of november, on ebay!! This will be the eternal sunshine in my black and depressed soul. Well, at least until november... and after the concert I'll probably be all high on Dave Grohl and his fantastic voice. And before I know it it's christmas, and I'm visiting all my friends in Oslo again, and voila...I got through the year being all happy and satisfied:D At least it sounds good in theory.... anyway, I get to see Foo Fighters live, so I don't really care about anything else at the moment:P

Todays favourite picture

Quote of the day

"This is not logical. It's love!!"Charlotte York

What a great day!

As the rain forced me to spend most of this stormy saturday inside, I crawled up in bed with my laptop, ready to surf the web.
I felt inspired to read more of Sylvia Plath's poetry after watching the BBC movie documentary about her earlier today. While reading several of her poetry I came over a link of poetry inspired by S.P. Several of Hughes poems were mentioned, not surprisingly, but to my pleasure I found a "new" poet named Anne Sexton. And I simply LOVED her work. So now I hope for yet another day with lots of rain so I can spend it surfing for more new poetry by this Anne Sexton!

www.sylviaplath.de/

I thought I'd finish with a Sexton quote:

"And opening my eyes I am afraid of courseto look--this inward look that society scorns--Still I search in these woods and find nothing worsethan myself, caught between the grapes and the thorns.”

Todays favourite picture

I "stole" this picture from a random myspace-profile. Probably wasn't his anway;P

Quote of the day

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

London Streetfashion

If you like www.oslostil.com you should really check out the streetstyle in London. London is basically one big meltingpot with all kinds of people from different cultures. I love it! The city has almost built it's own type of style and culture out of this. Be sure to check out the link and the pictures from London.

http://ftp2.dns-systems.net/~sams/LSF/new_map.html

Vacation vacation vacation

I've decided to catch up on my writing after a small "vacation". I haven't really had one, but I did have a break from all the writing and my much missed laptop! So now that my real vacation starts, I actually have time to write more here!

Todays favourite picture

How cozy is this? It's from a postcard I bought in Scotland ages ago. The house is adorable, like take out of a fairy tale.

SEX AND THE CITY<3

SATC is truely the best show there's ever been on tv! No one has made me laugh as hard and cry as much as my favourite four girls from New York City. Whenever I'm bored I grab one of the dvds and have a "Sex and the city"-marathon. It's fun and sad, but also really smart. Carrie Bradshaw is a true rolemodel and SATC is a religion to worship!

Quote of the day

"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength."

Todays favourite picture

It's just so cute and funny:P

"Love/hate me"

I did it again, took on the bets (defied the odds)
I risked my heart,
Stood there emotionally blotted in front of you
This is me naked, can you love this person?

The pain from my last scar
Its still there
Yet I’m standing here again,
How many times must one person strip down?

After all those wounds
They make me think

All those restless night
Bleeding
Crying

Repeating

What if it is me?
Am I the person who keeps hurting myself?
Is it me who can’t love that person
Emotionally blotted
Naked, in the mirror?

Quote of the day

"Love me when I deserve it the least, because that's when I need it most."

Next year I tell you...

I have to admit I've missed going away on vacation this summer. I have a lot of friends travelling to all the corners of the world the past two months, while I've been stuck here at home working! I know I get to move to England in September, but still... it's not the same! Going the whole summer without being able to travel abroad has made me determined to go away for a few weeks during summer next year! I'd like to go backpacking, and if I can afford it, I'd like to go somewhere in Africa. I've been browsing http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ the last couple of days, and decided to go to either the part south or west of zahara. South Africa and Cape Town is very appealing, but I've already been there, and would therefor like to go somewhere else. Both Namibia and Angola sounds interesting, so I'll probably spend the next week reading about possible adventures for my trip!:D

Todays favourite picture

Ok, we can all see that it's not taken by professional, but I like it:)

"Stille" by Grethe R- Thomsen

Har vi mon allerede talt for meget -
vi, som kan sige alt
med vore øjne?
Min ven - jeg har en angst for ord.
Imellem os skal allting
alltid være stille.

Love wins another battle....

Last saturday I attended another wedding. It was another friend from high school, Marianne, who got married to her boyfriend Johannes in a church on Averøya. A beautiful cermony, sunny weather and most importantly; lots of cake:D

Fjordpeople

I just got back home from the mountains when I decided to spend the evening out on the sea with Jenny and Helene:)

Quote of the day

"All in all, I still think adults in general are stupid." -Arne Næss

Todays favourite picture

The best festival in norway

Tourists often imagine Norway as a country with deep dark forests with lots of trolls surrounded by great mountains. When you visit Storåsfestivalen in Trøndelag, you get the feeling you are surrouded by an environment like that. Lots of great music, friendly people and beautiful scenery. Definitely worth visiting. Last weekend in July people! www.storaasfestivalen.no

Quote of the day

"You can either ride change or change rides you"

Mr and Mrs Marthinsen

Attended my first wedding ever yesterday. My friend, Kristin, got married in Aure.

Useful information:)

For all you people who still haven't figured out where University of East Anglia is, here's a map! It's located right outside Norwich, a city of approximately 130 000 inhabitants. And I've been told it's about an hour and a half with train to London. So hello Morten:D

Now there's no excuses for not visiting next year...:P

Dear Diary...

Today has been such a weird day. Only a month ago I had no problems what so ever with my messy work routines. Acutally I haven't had any routines or any rythmn at all, when it comes to sleeping, over the last year. I've always been able to sleep whenever I want aswell. It seems like I've used up those days when everything was that simple... Lately I haven't been able to sleep at all, and it's affecting EVERYTHING! Basically I'm not functioning at all. I am tired when I get back from work, but I can't seem to get enough sleep. I just lay in my bed, tired and exhausted.
I started work at 5.30 this morning, so I went to bed at 23 pm last night. Sadly I didn't get any sleep at all last night. Not only is it boring to just lay there for hours, but at work I transform into a zombie because of my lack of sleep.
I had an appointment with the hairdresser after work today (wedding on saturday) but I had to cancel to go home and get some rest. How sad is that?
My doctor gave me some sleepingpills but I had a bad reaction and can't use them ever again. So I'm very frustrated at the moment. I'm not really sure what to do since I feel like I've tried everything. Any advice?

FOO FIGHTERS

I LOVE music, it's such a big part of my life, and I find it very hard to pick out one or two favourite artists/bands since I like so many different styles and types of music.
But Foo Fighters have been a favourite for a long time now, and I have all their cds (never get tired of their songs). Dave Grohl is a god in my eyes! Some of my favourite FF songs are; Everlong, Walking After You and All My Life. Check them out!;P

"the perks of being a wallflower"

I just finished reading a book called "The perks of being a wallflower" and I thought I'd write a bit about it here. It was surprisingly good, at least I thought so because I felt I could relate to a lot in it.
Basically it's about a boy, Charlie, and his life. He's american, he is a freshment on high school, and he is a smart and special boy ith strong emotional instincts. The book is published like lots of letters, or more like a diary where Charlie describes each day that goes by. It's a funny but yet serious book, and it's not too difficult to read. I really recommend it:)

"WOMAN"

I search for your bottom, but I never reach the sand
The brightest day can still not reveal your truth
It continues to blind me
From the truth which lies behind that cutting horizon
It is still oh so pale and clear
And in it I see the same reflection every day
The image of a young woman, searching
The life she wants to reveal, is right there for her to see
Truth seeking she hunts it down,
Only to find a piece of the broken glass who once reflected her true being

Great painter, tragic life

To be honest I'm not that updated in the world of art, but I have managed to learn something throughout the years my mum spent forcing me and my brother to different museums and exhibitions. To me it's not about who can paint the prettiest sunset or getting the details right. It'm more about an expression and being able to portrait a certain mood or an emotion. The norwegian painter Edvard Munch (I'm sure most people have seen his "Scream") has somehow managed to do that. Everytime I look at one of his pictures it really gives me a strong understanding of what he was trying to portrait painting it. When I lived in Oslo there was nothing better than spending a rainy sunday in the Munch museum. I know he is world famous and stuff, but I really think he is underestimated anyway. Most people have only seen one or two pictures of him. I've seen most of them and I think they all have the same standard. I really love his work. It's amazing how simple, but yet so difficult it can be to express something as simple as one single feeling with colours. If you haven't seen any of his stuff I'd recommend you to check it out. http://www.edvardmunch.com/

Quote of the day

"Perfect is boring."

Inspiration...?

Here's another piece made by my friend Åse.

"Mirror" by Sylvia Plath

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
What ever you see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful---
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Quote of the day

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

Mahatma Ghandi

The creative one - a source of inspiration

One of the persons in my life I consider to be in my inner circle is my fabulous friend Åse. We haven't acutally know eachother for that long, met at RFHS in 2005, but it feels like we've been friends for ages, and she is one of the few persons who knows everything there is to know about me. She is currently sutdying Art History at the university of Oslo, and is very inspirational and creative. She's been painting and creating art for a while now, and I have to say I'm quite proud of her:)

I <3 norwegian ELLE

People can say whatever they want, but I love reading glossy magazines. I buy at least 5 of them every month, and one of my favourites is the norwegian edition of ELLE. The magazines main target is norwegian women with a certain interest for style, beauty and fashion (of course) like any other glossy magazine, but their articles have something extra, something leaving you behind just wanting to read on and fall deeper into their fantstic world of fashion! And I share their idea of how a woman can read ELLE and love shopping, give money to charity AND be interested in politics. I don't like people who put me into a cathegory because I buy ELLE every month, or because I have a liberal political point of view. I don't think anyone fit into these stereotypes. I believe a woman can be a fashionista AND a politician at the same time. These interests are only two fragments that together with many other creates the person you are. HAH:)

Life-changing decisions? No thanks!

Sometimes life can get really difficult. Especially if you have a big lifechanging decision to make. There are som much you need to think through and evaluate to make sure you make the right choice. But is there always a right and a wrong decision?
I mean, no matter what you want in life, there's always something you chose not to do. If you chose to focus on your education in stead of settling down and getting a "safe job" right after high school, people wont blame you for making the wrong choice in life. But sometimes a decision can be right for one person, and totally wrong for another.
For instance, take my friend, Mari, who I went to high school with. She's getting married with her boyfriend in july this summer. She's only 21 years old, but totally convinced that it's the right thing to do. The weird thing is, I agree with her. If someone however would ask me when I plan to get married I'd probably start laughing or just say "I'm not sure if I ever will".
Mari and me have developed in two different directions since high school. None of them could be considered wrong. The society expect certain things of us today, and to be honest I feel the pressure. The media is pushing down the age-limit for when you have to reach success in life. All the time I hear girl my age saying they want to finish their masters, build a career, get married AND have children before they reach their 30s! Is this really a realistic goal?
I guess the answer to that is too individual to answer. What I do know is that the picture media often make, does not include everyone in the phrame. That's why I've decided that the wisest thing for me would be not to try to fit into it, because I never will, but to make my own phrame for the future.
Where do I see myself, and what do I want for myself? It's a difficult question to answer even without including other people's ecpectations of me. It will take time, and I'm going to get frustrated at several points, but I am certain that I can build the road in front of me as I'm walking it! I've chosen to focus on my career as I feel I'm ready to start study, and I don't feel ready at all to settle down with a husband and kids. And I've chosen to study Development Studies as I know it's a subject that I'm interested in, and at the same time it gives me a lot of options when it comes to jobs and my masters. When it comes to age-limit... well, I don't have one. I figure I'll take my time, and everything else will come to me eventually, when I'm ready:)

Joni Mitchell - singer, songwriter, painter

One of my absolute favourite artists is the legendary songwriter Joni Mitchell. Her lyrics are so beautiful, and really refelcts a realistic image of how life can turn out sometimes. I think it's a combination of good lyrics and relaxing and harmonic melodies that have made people continously buying her music. If you haven't heard her yet you should check out some of her songs. I'd recommend "Send in the clowns", "Woodstock" and "Both Sides Now". If you like her music you should also browse through http://jonimitchell.com/ to learn more about this woman and her work!

University of East Anglia

The university I've been accepted to in England is University of East Anglia, or just UEA as most people like to call it. I'v never actually visited the campus, but I've talked to a lot of norwegian alumnis who all recommend it. It's located in Norfolk, by the ocean, about an hour outside of London. There are about 14 000 other students who go there, and 2000 of them are international students like me:) I've been accepted to their School of Development Studies, on a course called International Development with Overseas Experience. Basically it's regular Development Studies (Utviklingsstudier on norwegian) with one semester overseas at a different uni or working as an intern for an organization.

Quote of the day

"Never say no to an experience"

I <3 Sienna Miller

Celebrity bloggers can write whatever they want, but I still LOVE Sienna Miller and her fantastic style. Her style is individual and not like everyone elses. She also wears second hand and vintage, and can really pull off mis-matching! Who are the bloggers to judge her anyway? Like PerezHilton haven't been around the block. Fuckings Paris Hilton- groupie...

Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain

If you haven't seen it yet... you just have to watch it!

Norwegian streetstyle

One of the websites I visit daily is the norwegian streetstyle site http://www.oslostil.com/

"Oslostil aims to show that style inspiration can be found on the streets as well as in expensive glossy magazines. We think that the best interpretations of contemporary fashion are done by ordinary people, and we like to think that what we document on these pages is something that in the future will be seen as the looks of the early 21st century. "

Definitely worth looking into:)

There's a first time for everything

So it's finally happening. I've managed to createmy very own blog! To be honest I'm not very updated when it comes to blogging, and I'm not really sure what's normal, and what's not normal to write about. But I figure it will come to me eventually.
Anyway, this is my very own site, and I plan to write about everyday things in my life. Mostly to update people (not that it's THAT exciting and important) but also to create a more resonable hobby for myself besides sneaking around on Myspace and Facebook! So welcome to my world:)