Monday, October 09, 2006
Fall-asleep-in-the-sun-day
I took a few pictures of flowers for my mother before I fell asleep in the sun before going to work on Saturday...
I was meant to be studying the my tests this week, but... well, sunny days... what to do? The park was just more inviting than the library!
Pretty flowers in the little park on spring street near parliament house...
A more close up view of ... what are these flowers called?
this palm trees holds a lot of fond memories... Daeshy know what I'm talking about...
OK, this may be weird... but I just had to take a picture of my lunch before it all disappeared into my tummy... it was an ABSOLUTELY delicious oregano bread from this lebanese bakery near Daeshy's place... if you have a chance, go and find some, first thing in the morning so it's fresh, on Hope street, near the train tracks!
Later on in the day, after waking up in the previous park, I decided to walk around to the other side of parliament house to sit in the park with the fountain... so that the little sprays of water from the wind might keep me awake... there were a lot of weddings going on, including one that somehow reminded me of the movie "my big fat greek wedding"... I kept wondering how sweaty the bride must have been feeling... *ouch*
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On another note....
My tenant in Helsinki didn't pay his rent... so I did some internet stalking, and here's what I discovered:
He's an evangelical christian immigrant-hating fanatic from Kuopio who plays indoor hockey and was (in 2004 atleast) engaged to another evangelical christian (who I haven't internet stalked, so I don't know whether she hates immigrants or not too). He's signed a petition demanding more money for students (who get around $650 worth of money per month) from the Finnish government and has some sort of interest in archeology.
This is the site the site where I found this guy's views:
Mulla taasen oo mitää maahanmuuttajia vastaan jos ne tekis töitä ja eläsivät suomen lakien mukaan.. ne elävät meijän vero rahoilla joka en mielellään kato sormien välistä.
This translates roughly into "I wouldn't have anything against immigrants if they would only do some work and live according to Finnish laws. They live off our tax money which I really don't want to see slipping through my fingers."
The good news is, he got severely slammed by two other commentators. One asked pointedly how he had come to the conclusion that all immigrants were as he described... and mentioned that many of them are valuable contributers to society - like doctors and entrepeneurs... whilst another asked whether law-abiding, tax-paying immigrants should demand that all welfare-case Nazi Finns should be deported from Finland by that same logic!
Go society! Some progress is being made against the kind of LOSER I have living in my house right now!
Too bad Finnish law prevents me from randomly giving this guy the boot from the apartment.
Ok... now some of you are thinking ... erm... Fon's a bit freaky... why the hell did she just research her tenant in Finland?
Honestly? I just wanted to know who lives in my apartment... I was thinking, well, if the person is a student, too, I understand if rent is late... I won't be annoyed.
But I CANNOT STAND IDIOTS LIKE THAT.
I hate prejudiced people. They piss me off. If there is anything that will get me in a foul mood is when I encounter prejudice.
And that's all in light of a conversation I had with Daeshy last night... about Europe, and the potentiality of going there some time. He was saying that with the exception of England, most of Europe is extremely racist. I was trying to defend them, saying that with the EU, we are seeing some very progressive policies taking shape, and development will be fast... but then I realised at one stage that there is a point to what he was saying. No matter how people in educated western countries pretend that they are too intelligent to be 'racist', it's there. Like in the attitude of this idiot. "I don't mind immigrants - if only they would do some work..." What a gross overgeneralisation! And OH MY GOD how often I've heard similar comments... the underlying attitude is this: Those poor people want to come here and take our money.
Get a real education, guys!
Another good point Daeshy made: It's not that there is no racism in places like England, America and Australia - it's just that they're a long way ahead in dealing with it! And now, they are atleast able to talk about it publicly, instead of hiding it under the surface.
There's my little vent over and done with... I've got to give a presentation on aboriginal language noun-class morphology tomorrow (WTF??!)
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