Opiskelen tällä hetkellä omaksi nautinnokseni taidehistoriaa Helsingin Yliopistossa. Taidehistoria on tieteenalana valtavan kiehtova ja moniulotteinen, kuin tumma samettiverho antaen eri vivahteita eri valoissa. Kauppatieteistä poiketen taidehistoria tarjoaa sitä opiskeleville rikkaampaa ja monitieteellisempää alustaa. Olen täysin lumoutunut! Taidehistorian kursseilla tehdään usein ekskursioita läheisiin museoihin ja näyttelyihin. Taiteesta oppii huomattavan paljon syvällisemmin kuin pääsee alkuperäiselle lähteelle eikä […]
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The Red Lips of Empowerment – thoughts on gender and race in Finland
“I cannot understand Finnish women!”, exclaimed my long-time Iranian friend, Negin. “All the women here are trying to be like men. They walk so fast with long bulky strides, wear mostly dark colors, don’t have much makeup and talk with much lower voices. I cannot understand this! I feel that women should be able to […]
The Equality Manifesto
I recently read the intriguing book The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate E. Pickett. The book gave me new insights about quality of life, consumerism, trust and equality – or the lack of it. Why some countries differ in their levels of trust, mental […]
Eläinfilosofiasta – miksi olen vegaani
Onko oikeutta käyttää eläimiä tavoilla, joilla ihmisten kohdalla pidetään sopimattomana? Mietin tässä yksi päivä arvojani mussuttaessani Kismet-patukkaa, jonka olin ostanut hirveässä pikkunälässä kaupan viime-hetken-viettelys-hyllyltä. Kolmisen vuotta sitten ajauduin veganismin syrjäiselle, mutta alati kasvavalle, saarelle pitkälti läheisten ystävieni vanavedessä. Vegaaninen identiteettini vahvistui jokaisen luetun kirjan, artikkelin ja tutkimuksen myötä. Kun isäni joutui äkkinäiseen avosydänleikkaukseen tukkiutuneen verisuonen […]
Fesenjan – welcoming changes
Now I know there has been some time since I last wrote anything here, but that doesn’t mean I quit. A lot has changed during these past months. Some changes have been new and exciting, like getting started in a new university and moving to a new apartment, and some just horrifyingly sad (two of […]
Pomegranate – the magic fruit
O.O I’m truly in awe. I put my nerdy groove on and hopped over to read some scientific reviews and articles about pomegranates. And what I read, it pom-wow-granated me. I didn’t expect all the benefits I read to be 100% accurate in the non-scientific articles, but here I was bombarded with scientifically proven evidence […]
ESHKENEH / The warm, delicious and humble start
I love, adore, crave for beginnings like someone would crave for chocolate. But beginnings are what I’m almost compulsively obsessed with. May it be the first pages of a newly started book, the first weeks of a savvy workout program, or a course of a somewhat interesting topic, I live for those first moments when […]
Kirjaihastus: Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure–your perfection–is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter […]
What the froth has taught me.
How I learned that making mistakes is the way to success. Creating just the right kind of froth for a coffee is a strenuous thing. It takes hours upon hours and numerous painstaking trials to learn how to make a cappuccino froth with just the right thickness, gloss and warmth. Then you’ve got to learn […]
BOOK REVIEW Metamorphosis: How and why we change by Polly Morland
Book on How and why we change by Polly Morland Metamorphosis This book is a real gem. Its a binding of different stories on change that are written almost lyrically. Like a cup of steaming soy vanilla latte, I sipped through this book, enjoying its stories, moments and inspirations. It is not for someone looking […]