A lot to say?

Good afternoon world.

I haven’t written in ages, and I don’t know if I want to continue with blogging or not. The advantages of it could be that I get to express myself, but at the same time why should you know what I think, do or feel? What happened to privacy? I think blogging has become too commercial and popular, and I don’t feel like supporting this kind of trend. So either I have to write about other subjects than what I do and how I feel, but would it then be me writing? And could I even write this? Such a paradox!

What could I then write about, if I don’t want to open myself completely to the surrounding world? Anne Holt said on Skavlan (2. October 2009) that she was an opponent towards honesty and that she liked to hide herself behind dishonesty and only open herself and be honest towards her closest friends and family. At the same time as I thought she was talking bullshit, I felt that there was some sense in it, and today I connected it to blogging.What she said was also some kind of paradox, because as she said she liked dishonesty she was being honest.

I think maybe that this will be one of my last posts in a while at least, until I feel like sharing some dishonesty. Because how could you tell between my honesty and dishonesty? How do you know me? I could be some completely different person than what you read here! Yes, Lillelord was revised two weeks ago.

What do you think? Is it honest to one self to being honest towards every Tom, Dick and Harry? Will it be destructive to yourself to play a role of someone else? How do we know who we really are? What defines us as individuals?

Big questions and no definite answers.

“I met Death today. We are playing chess.”

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Close Thoughts of the Third Kind

Astrid has a sweater with stripes. Orange and white. She is exhausted from writing stuff to people on Facebook. Tomorrow she’ll get up early because she’s going to work.

I am going to London on Monday

It’s not goodbye …

Yes, I changed the header again. I like this one better. What do you think of it?

Today was the last day of school before the summer holiday! Except for the normal summer holiday stuff, like bathing and stuff, I want to do a lot of these:

– Mountain trips (hiking) (Refer to previous post about destinations)

– Jogging (I’m thinking about doing a daily walk/jog to Brekkeheida…)

– Extended Essay

– History + Norwegian + the slightest of Chemistry and Physics

– Working on my own field, and helping my mum

– Climb with Ingrid

– Read a lot

– 1 week in London!

My sister and I on a hydro cycle in Bucharest (Bucuresti) last summer

In retrospect of this year it seems like this year has passed pretty fast! It feels so recent that I was at home packing down all my stuff. Do I miss home? Yes and no. I didn’t really feel home sick until this May, but then I missed Ørsta a lot. I miss my mum’s food, my friends (some of them at least:p), my family, my bed and the scenery. However, I like it here in Trondheim so I wouldn’t want to change back. I like the school, my class-mates and the independence. I find it scary to think of the fact that in one year (actually just 11 months! wtf!) we’ll be done with our exams, with IB, and with school (at least for a while)! Where will we all go? What will we all do? Questions of great importance! I’ll have to do a lot of thinking this summer, that’s for sure!

Have I gained something from this year? Except for some extra weight? Yes, what have I really learnt this year? [minus school stuff]

– It’s not as hard to get to know people as I thought

– That Astrid was responsible for most of the mess

– That I don’t need to watch TV

– That I don’t need meat for a meal to be proper dinner

– I have learnt to like a lot of food! Nuts, tomatoes, smoked salmon, kremost just to name a few!

– My body is more vulnerable than what I thought

– Probably more that I cannot think of now, and maybe some stuff I wouldn’t want to share?

What can I expect of next year? I must say I look forward to it! And not to be done, really :) Thanks to everyone in my class !

Have a nice summer holiday! I know I will :)

Au revoir! Auf Wiedersehen!

Bonkers

To clear things out, I don’t think there is such a thing called bad taste in music, because taste is personal, and how can anyone call a taste bad? I know that some of the music I listen to is characterized as bad-taste-music, but so what? The music makes me happy, sad or appeals to me – so then isn’t it good music to me?

Before I can begin my analysis on my taste in music, I would like to give a survey of my taste in music now and for the past years.  As most children I liked to watch “VG lista topp 20” and was probably influenced by this list to some extent. Therefore I would like Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and/or other artists. However, I would say that my siblings had greater effect upon me than this TV-show.

As my eldest sister, Ingeborg, listened to the 90s euro dance and recorded them on cassettes, which were later listened to by me and my other siblings. Among those, I especially liked  listening to Whigfield – Sexy Eyes [not this version though] in the evenings, and some other songs that I know I have on my computer now, but I cannot recall their names. Maybe som La Bouche? My eldest sister also had a CD by Twenty 4 Seven, which I often listened to whilst playing computer-games such as a game I called Huleboer which was insanely fun! :D

As a child I was really captivated by the CD cover! I imagined being the woman :p

I know the lyrics of these songs till this day! Songs I liked the most by them: Take Me Away, Slave To The Music [This song was particularly appreciated whilst playing Huleboer, the ahahnananannea sounds like something a caveman would say/sing!], Music Is My Life. Another example of this kind of music is 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor –  Come Take My Hand. I love listening and singing to those songs!

All these songs had a some kind of renaissance for me when I got my own computer [Autumn, 10th grade. 2006!] and started to download music by myself. And now I can listen to those songs and sing a long and not mind :) So I still like them!

As a child I was quite a fan of the semi-Norwegian band Aqua! On a CD a got from Ingeborg for Christmas in 2000 (or before?) it was almost only Aqua songs! But, there was also one song that I really liked, but more because of the music video! Era – Ameno. I wanted to be the woman there, just like I wanted to be the woman in the TV-series Sinbad!

The woman in the video reminded me of Maeve

From 7th grade up till 11th grade [2003-2007], my taste in music was mostly influenced by what my brother listened to in his room. Because of his loud speakers the whole house could hear what he listened to, which was in fact when I think back upon it, kinda nice :) Well, in this period there was a lot of trance, techno and country – all of great importance within the Råne culture. (Råne = hogging, as my eldest sister baptised the verb in English) To mention a few of the songs I listened to in this period where I was influenced by my brother: Günther – Ding Dong Song, Groove Coverage – Poison [bad version], Cascada – Miracle, Gigi d’Agostino – L’Amour Toujours [which I still find great!] And all of their other songs. This is also why I know the lyrics of these songs. Is that common? I mean, not to know lyrics of songs, but to know lyrics that you learnt years ago? In another genre, bands like Iron Maiden, Alan Jackson, Vassendgutane and more were heard from my brother’s room.

Another fascinating CD cover!

When I got my own computer in 10th grade, and could finally download my own music, I started to some degree listen to other music. However, I would still download songs that I could hear from my brother’s room – cause they were so catchy! For instance: ATC – It Goes Around The World.

For the class trip in 10th grade to Scarborough I had put on a lot of Marilyn Manson on my mp3-player, to the astonishment of my class-mates. After that trip I was called Devil in our class, for some bizarre reason that belongs in a different story than this one.

Is this me?

If I was to characterize my taste in music, I would say that I find a lot of different genres good, and that I like a lot of different music, but that I’m most frequent within the whole trance-techno-dance region.  However, I think it’s difficult to classify genres, cause there are so many of them and a lot of songs belong to many. This makes the definition of a genre somewhat diffuse to me. What I do know, is that I’m not a particular fan of jazz [though it would probably work in some situations] A good beat, most often displayed by some good old bass, is a must for me.

So why I’m I such a big fan of beat and bass? To some degree I thing it’s from my upbringing, but I also think it got to do with what I use music the most for:

– To make me happy! When I put on some beat I start singing and swirling around in somekind of dance, and then suddenly my worries are gone! :D

– Dancing. Well, can’t say I’m a dancer – more of a jumper and then bass fits perfectly :)

– Jogging. PUSH! PUSH! PUSH! JUMP! JUMP! JUMP! RUN! RUN! RUN! To the beat of the bass! Yes, bass-music like this one gives me that extra push to finish the last hill of my jogging route and use up the last pieces of ATP!

Not me, but it illustrates my point :p

Another aspect in my taste in music, is that I don’t like bands – I like songs. This means that I don’t have a favourite band or artist, but that I like some songs of most artists. Bruce Springsteen, Iron Maiden, Röyksopp, Franz Ferdinand, The Stranglers, Michael Jackson, Eurovision songs, you name an artist or a band and I’ll bet that I would like at least one song of him/her/them!

Bonkers, yeah, why is this blogpost called bonkers? One of the songs I’ve been listening to since this weekend. I love how the base builds itself up, but the singing isn’t the best…  I guess Armand Van Helden is responsible for the good parts of this song!

Bonkers: (Slang) mentally unbalanced; mad; crazy.

This last half-year or year I’ve been greatly influenced by the radio! Every morning I wake up to the sounds of NRK P3. Ronny Brede Aas and Torfinn Borkhus are the best! I love their voices and dialects ♥. ANYWAY, the music on P3 nowadays is really.. hmm.. here comes my lack of ability to characterize genres… independent rock, soft-rock, pop, electro.. HELP!?? Well, songs like Chairlift – Bruises.. arose my attention from listening to the radio :)

A song that has really cheered me up for the past week has been: Pjanoo! I like the running of the cowboy as well!

Who would hesitate a piece of this smoking hunk?

With this I say Good Night, and I hope that I’ve made my taste in music somewhat clearer to you. If you’re still uncertain about something, or want me to clearify anything – don’t hesitate to ask! By the way, if you’ve read all this I would like you to comment – cause believe me – then you’re probably the most devoted and dedicated reader of this blog and THAT should be awarded!

 FIRST ONE TO COMMENT GETS A PRIZE!

Dub Be Good To Me

First of all, does anyone know how wordpress finds out how many visits I have a day? Do they count multiple times? Or is it per IP-address? Is it per browser? HOW? I want to know because if they count multiple times, then I know that I am repsonsible for most of the visits, but if it’s not I had quite many readers yesterday. It said 91 views for yesterday! I find it scary in a way if it’s the latter theory, because then it means that I have some readers who I don’t know are, but at the same time, this is nice. Once again I’m being indecisive about my feelings. You should get used to it if you plan to read this blog often. :p

Secondly, what’s meant by “top search”?? It confuses me, because now it says that the top searches are: tiesto, ivar aasen, tiësto, jeanette, “and me” swim. WTF? I figured this top search was the most searched on in the small searching rectangle in the upmost right corner, but seriously? Who has been searching for tiesto? ivar aasen? tiësto? (again!) ?? Does anyone use that search engine anyway?

The reason for this post's title. Randomness in Winamp.

Ok, when that’s said, I’ll just list up some future post plans, so you have something to look forward to! (hehe) [no SIGNIFICANT order] {Look I follow your suggestions!}  :

¤  Analysing my taste in music

¤  Film review on Hallam Foe. I just need to see the film first :P

¤  Wine gum

¤   Invertebrates

¤  Some paintings that I like

Evaluation

Hello!

Now I’ve had this blog for nearly 5 months and I feel like getting some feedback!

What do you think of:

– The lay-out

– The content

What would you like me to write about?

Other comments?

Zum Beispiel kann ich am Deutsch schreiben. Was finden Sie? :)

Choco Loco!

The Chocolate Party took place on the 30th of May, so a little more than a week ago. It was a very nice gathering, and the weather was extremely nice! I also got a lot of left-overs.. The White Chocolate Fondue I finished within a week.. It was just so tempting standing in front of me inside the fridge. The White Chocolate Nemesis failed cake I had eaten a lot of on the Friday before the party, and I really thought that no one would like it, cause it was kinda icky. BUT Mizuki liked it! :D Hmmm.. Well I finished that “soup” on the Pentecost Monday :) Moreover, I had quite a bit of the Brownie Cheese Cake left.. I ate a lot of whilst watching Hitch (On the Sunday) The rest I cut into pieces and froze, then I can just take one piece out :)

The Choclote Fondue (the vegan one) me and Hanne Mari finished on Saturday before we had to bike down to the cinema –> Star Trek. The only chocolate-related products I haven’t told the story of now, are all the small stuff. Like the Chocolate Pieces (White Chocolate, White Chocolate with hazels, Dark Chocolate with almonds and cherry) the Bailey’s Truffles, The Chocolate circles (?), the Snickers Bomb, The Freia Påske Eggs, and some Ferrero Rocher Charmini had brought. Everything except for the Ferrero Rocher, I brought to school last week.. We didn’t finish all the Chocolate Circles and pieces. Tomorrow I’ll bring the Ferrero Rocher.

Here is a picture taken from Kat’s facebook showing the table with most of the delicious chocolate products, she added a lot more nice pictures, so I would definitely recommend to visit her page if you have the opportunity :)

In addition to what I had made, Anders made a flourless cake, May a cookie-chocolate-tart and Jakob an extensive chocolate cake.It presumably contained 17 000 kcal! These cakes the people (luckily!) brought back home!

One of the favourites of the night of Chocolate, was  the Snickers Bomb/Snickers cake, and I got many requests for the recipe. First I would like to thank my mum for providing the recipe. She’s a great cook, and I can’t wait till I go home for the Summer to help her in cooking and learn, because I haven’t really been interested before.

The following recipe contains bad English! I found it really hard to translate a Norwegian recipe. If you have any corrections, please don’t hesitate to tell me, so that I can improve it for other potential readers, though I doubt there are many people reading this blog :p

The recipe is ridiculously easy, so try to make these tasty goodies:)

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SNICKERS BOMB

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 dl light syrup.  (= 350 g)
• 2 1/2 dl sugar
• 1 dl coconut flakes (kokosmasse)
• 1 jar of peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanillapowder
• Cornflakes (as much as possible)

Procedure:

1. Heat syrup, sugar and peanut butter gently
2. Mix the rest in.
3. Pour over a pan and press it to fit. (Hell masse over i ei 1/2 skuffe og trykk ut)

Topping:

• 2 bars “kokesjokolade” ( = 200 g chocolate)
• 2 table spoons “Delfiafett” (coco nut fat) [the top one in this photo]

Heat gently (preferrably in a bowl in water, “vannbad”)  and pour over cake.

Leave it in the refriegrator until hard, or a couple of hours.  Ready to be cut into pieces! I experienced that it would be best to take it out and leave it for a while before cutting, so that the chocolate topping didn’t break.

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Today I went for a jog up around Estenstadmarka. I want to jog every day now! But I have to be careful to not overexert my knees :( Lately I’ve been going to Pirbadet (oftently misunderstood as Papirbadet, because I say: “Ej ska på Pirbadet” which sounds like: “Ej ska papirbadet”. DIGRESSION) with Irina and we’ve been very good swimmers. Approx. 1 hour of hardcore-swimming every time (twice for me).

My quiche is just done now, so I am going to taste it and leave it for tomorrow. Whilst tasting I’ll reply on Ingrid’s e-mail and then go to bed.

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND MAY YOUR DREAMS BE SUGARLY, CHOCOLATELY SWEET!

Far out relatives? Carrots becoming dogs and light-bulbs’ lives.

I’m being a good girl and doing my history. Result:

Neville Chamberlain’s half-brother.. Striking similarities with… SUPERMAN:

høhøhøhøh. Reincarnation!

Ingrid

Eg følte for å skrive om Ingrid. Vonleg gjev ho meg lov til det :)

Eg har kjent Ingrid sidan hausten 2008 då vi byrja i same klasse på Volda vidaregåande. Eller, vi “kjente” kvarandre på ein måte frå før av fordi vi:

1. Hadde gått i parallellklasse på ungdomsskulen
2. Astrid (systra mi) og Malin (syskenbornet til Ingrid) var gode venar, så vi visste ein del om kvarandre frå før av.

Ingrid er vel kanskje den av dei heimanfrå (Ørsta og omegn) som eg har vorte betre kjent med ved å vere vekke heimanfrå. Det starta vel faktsik med e-post! Førre sumar når eg var på interrail saman med Astrid sendte eg mail til venane mine, og når sant skal seiast så var Ingrid den som var flinkast og flittigast til å svare! Tusen takk for det! Hehe, det byrja kanskje med eit par avsnitt, men etterkvart som vi hadde sendt ei stund vart det superlange mailar! Vi held enno fram med dette, og eg ventar i spaning kvar gong eg opnar innboksa for å sjekke om det er frå Ingrid eg har fått mail. Blir vanlegvis litt vonbroten om det ikkje er frå henne, men så blir eg òg veldig glad når der er frå henne :)

I år føler eg òg at eg har vorte endå betre kjent med henne, dette treng sjølvsagt ikkje å vere på grunn av at eg bur i Trondheim, for kven veit kva som hadde skjedd viss eg enno gjekk i Volda? Men likevel :)

I den siste tida har eg i tillegg byrja å beundre Ingrid. Ho er liksom så ekte og tru mot seg sjølv. Kanskje det er fordi eg gjerne skulle vore lik henne på dette punktet, for når sant skal seiast så føler eg meg av og til som ein veldig falsk person – og det gjev meg inga god kjensle! Men Ingrid er annaleis, ho snakkar så direkte ut og ein får inntrykk av at ho alltid vil fortelje det HO meiner og ikkje det andre vil ho skal meine! Dessutan fungerer samtalen vår veldig godt – det blir flyt sjølv når vi pratar på telefon, og då skulle ein “eigentleg” tru at det skulle vere noko stotrandes i starten sidan vi ikkje ser kvarandre så ofte lenger, men slik er det altså ikkje!

Ingrid – du er ein god person!

Skidagen Våren 2008

Ingrid kan smile og Ingrid kan le,

Eg vonar at ingen vil ta frå ho det :)

Nynorsk

Ivar Aasen (1813 – 1896)

Det er så lenge sidan eg har høyrt om han at eg hugsa ikkje alle desse småfakta om han: faren døydde, ingen venar -> las mykje. Så eg var inn på Wikipedia si side om Ivar Aasen, og trist nok så hadde Wikipedia bokmål meir enn den nynorske. Triste saker!

Han såg litt trist ut på biletet, spesielt augo. Eg undrar på om han var lukkeleg. Han har eit visst preg av nisse over seg òg.

Kanskje dette vil muntra han opp: Eg har avgjort at eg skal skrive gamalmodig nynorsk på alle stilar i kjømda.

Noko som kanskje vil forbetre meg: Eg skal byrje å skrive om læringsrike ting på bloggen. Til dømes i historie, kanskje det vil hjelpe meg å lære det betre. Dessutan vil tekstane mine då vere lagra her slik at eg før eksamen neste år kan berre sjå på alle historie-postane. Ikkje dumt!

Til sist vil eg seie at eg skal i kjømda skrive ei liste over ord eg lærer meg. Kanskje dette òg vil hjelpe.

Mellombels får ei liste med nynorske ord eg liker duge:

1. Lagnad
2. Løyndom og røyndom
3. Venleik
4. Einsemd
5. Samrøde