Hi,
to everyone reading this blog(yeah I know there's someone reading this)
Haven't been writing in a while, life's been hard on me and had to take a timeout of everything for a while. But now I'm back stronger and ready to face challenges this year 2009.
Before the year 2008 came to an end, we started getting news of an economic depression. Actually I think many analysts had been predicting it to happen in the near future. Myself being some sort of an analyst too, in October 2007, I predicted it to happen within the next two years and so it did.
I think this time, comparing to the last depression in 1990-1993, the economical damage will be less severe. At least here in Finland. Actually I just heard from a Russian friend of mine that in there they are talking about "the depression going over Finland like a breeze of air". That may be for Finland, but I can't say the same for Iceland or the United States. Anyway, thousands of people are getting fired, banks are in crisis and so and so...
What can we people do about it? Nothing. But for some depression offers possibilities. If you have stocked up some money in your stockings on the high season before depression, you better invest. Wether it be stocks from stock exchange, house or something else that makes your money grow several percentages per year, DO IT NOW. It maybe already a little late.
What do we gain from depression? Well at least the interest rates have gone down. So all of you with big loans may feel a lot of ease because now you are paying maybe more loan than interests.
Okay, enough about depression. What else has happened? Well things more personally related the Älä syytä mua/Don't blame me - campaign. It has been steadily growing and now is hitting over 3000 Facebook-members in the Finnish Facebook-group. We are opening an english support group so that this thing/idea will go global.
I've been also contacted by a TV-channel from the United Kingdom. They would like me to write about their TV-show called YearDot. I will post a separate post of them, so keep on readin'
Well, that's it for this time.
-Mr. A
tiistai 17. helmikuuta 2009
tiistai 28. lokakuuta 2008
Älä syytä mua
There's this great new campaign in Facebook called Älä syytä mua. Anyone can join now that over a 100 persons have joined. The goal is to raise money for young peoples mental health services in Finland. This is a great time to do it to start preventing school shootings in the future.
Join in from all around the world and spread the word about the power of social gatherings to do good. I hope we get 10 000 people and raise 1 million euros for this. But that is only a fool's hope. A dream that would be impossible to happen.
-Mr. A
Join in from all around the world and spread the word about the power of social gatherings to do good. I hope we get 10 000 people and raise 1 million euros for this. But that is only a fool's hope. A dream that would be impossible to happen.
-Mr. A
lauantai 25. lokakuuta 2008
This is the YCPA!
25.10.2008 I give birth to this phenomena. It weights about as much as a feather and is 4cm tall. The birth was early, or maybe a little late. But the time is now. The time is now.
YCPA stands for four things: youthness, creativity, passion and ambition. Four characteristic features that the writer of this blog possesses. Same goes for the people this writer admires.
The goal of this project is to be a venue. Today there is only me. Tomorrow there is only me. Maybe next week theres still just me. But after that I plan to have the interest of the YCPA people to become a new group of revolutional thinkers. And that is politically, economically, creatively and in all way of the system, the society, the whatever realities there are in the world.
So before I even start to tell what this is really about, I invite all people to read my writings and imagine themselves a part of the YCPA. But YOU must have these qualities. It doesn't mean you have to be young, youth in heart is more important.
But I will start this by telling a litte about myself. I am soon turning 24. I am a student of everything. I must know everything about my interests. But in school I study advertising and business communication.
Currently I am a freelancer. I could say that I am a freelancer of Marketing. Especially Internet Marketing. This is one of the reasons that I started this blog was to implement my marketing skills on a fairly new type of IM. At least what comes to business, and business in Finland. There we go, now you now that I am writing from Finland. But am I Finnish? Well you can all wonder that and pick up the clues of my life as we go. If that's what you're into.
But I hope that you're into something more then me. I am just a one man army. Army of Me. Hopefully the YCPA will be an army of many in the distant future. And now I got carried away with other things as in this paragraph I was supposed to tell about how I spend my time outside school and work. I do creative things. I have been singing always. When I was about 11 I started to play the bass. And in the same time I also took myself, or my father took me, to Martial Arts, back then it was Karate. And later Kickboxing, different styles of Gung Fu, Capoeira and Hapkido. The last one is propably the most useful and versatile form of Martial Arts in my experience. Very practical.
As that paragraph stretched a little bit, I better make a new one. So after I started bass and MA, I started taking lessons in classical singing at the age of 15. Four years went and my teacher wanted to make a professional out of me. I also did some drums on the way as my dear brother has always been playing drums. And tried some pop singing too but it wasn't enough of a challenge. Let's hop in to the time capsule and fly off to when I was ten and sitting in my fathers Mercedes 508D. The car was in front of a school of dance, one of the rare schools of new age dance schools of disco dancing. My father promised to buy me the biggest Lego-castle we could find if I went in. I didn't do it. And I regret it. I am also slightly bitter as my father didn't force me. Because my brother had the privilege of being forced to play drums since the age of 5. And I had not. But I was always the more difficult one, the more stubborn. So now, 14 years since that chance to become a dancer, I have embarked on a voyage of new creativity. It was a weekend workshop with Greg Campbell Jr and he made me a dance monster. For hours we trained in the art of locking and popping.
And after that I have been waiting for a chance to start dancing hiphop on a weekly basis. In the meantime and even as a more interesting form of dance I found out that one of my friends is open to start teaching modern dance. This young man is currently a student of dance at the most renowed place in Finland to make himself a professional dancer one day. So every week we have a session, and next week will be something like our seventh session so far. I have never enjoyed a more free and natural way of expressing myself than dancing with my teacher. As moving is the most natural thing for a human being... So let's dance everyone!
Well that's about me. I hope the clever ones skipped all that nonsense and started from this chapter of my YCPA project. Well as I told earlier, YCPA is, and will be a phenomena, if not in public eyes, then in the hearts of the YCPA people. The main thing is that YCPA people stay anynomous. I want everyone to wonder who we are. And only the ones who know us really well can identify us from our introductions.
What do the YCPA people do? Firstly, they explore. They must explore the world as a natural part of their day. And secondly, write about it. In the YCPA way. Preferably more about others and other things than themselves. Through their own eyes. They must comment, make conversation, make a noise and most importantly feel that it is from their heart that this genuine text comes from. No matter if no soul in this world or any other ever read it.
Actually I'm not afraid that not a single human eye capture my thoughts. The YCPA serve their own community. Well ok it is a little hard to join this thing without at least reading this first post. But I hope that the 24th post might be from someone else than me. I need the YCPA souls to join my cause to help themselves become more, better, faster and everything their ambitions drive them to become in the future. Maybe even make a change.
This is the YCPA.
- Mr. A
YCPA stands for four things: youthness, creativity, passion and ambition. Four characteristic features that the writer of this blog possesses. Same goes for the people this writer admires.
The goal of this project is to be a venue. Today there is only me. Tomorrow there is only me. Maybe next week theres still just me. But after that I plan to have the interest of the YCPA people to become a new group of revolutional thinkers. And that is politically, economically, creatively and in all way of the system, the society, the whatever realities there are in the world.
So before I even start to tell what this is really about, I invite all people to read my writings and imagine themselves a part of the YCPA. But YOU must have these qualities. It doesn't mean you have to be young, youth in heart is more important.
But I will start this by telling a litte about myself. I am soon turning 24. I am a student of everything. I must know everything about my interests. But in school I study advertising and business communication.
Currently I am a freelancer. I could say that I am a freelancer of Marketing. Especially Internet Marketing. This is one of the reasons that I started this blog was to implement my marketing skills on a fairly new type of IM. At least what comes to business, and business in Finland. There we go, now you now that I am writing from Finland. But am I Finnish? Well you can all wonder that and pick up the clues of my life as we go. If that's what you're into.
But I hope that you're into something more then me. I am just a one man army. Army of Me. Hopefully the YCPA will be an army of many in the distant future. And now I got carried away with other things as in this paragraph I was supposed to tell about how I spend my time outside school and work. I do creative things. I have been singing always. When I was about 11 I started to play the bass. And in the same time I also took myself, or my father took me, to Martial Arts, back then it was Karate. And later Kickboxing, different styles of Gung Fu, Capoeira and Hapkido. The last one is propably the most useful and versatile form of Martial Arts in my experience. Very practical.
As that paragraph stretched a little bit, I better make a new one. So after I started bass and MA, I started taking lessons in classical singing at the age of 15. Four years went and my teacher wanted to make a professional out of me. I also did some drums on the way as my dear brother has always been playing drums. And tried some pop singing too but it wasn't enough of a challenge. Let's hop in to the time capsule and fly off to when I was ten and sitting in my fathers Mercedes 508D. The car was in front of a school of dance, one of the rare schools of new age dance schools of disco dancing. My father promised to buy me the biggest Lego-castle we could find if I went in. I didn't do it. And I regret it. I am also slightly bitter as my father didn't force me. Because my brother had the privilege of being forced to play drums since the age of 5. And I had not. But I was always the more difficult one, the more stubborn. So now, 14 years since that chance to become a dancer, I have embarked on a voyage of new creativity. It was a weekend workshop with Greg Campbell Jr and he made me a dance monster. For hours we trained in the art of locking and popping.
And after that I have been waiting for a chance to start dancing hiphop on a weekly basis. In the meantime and even as a more interesting form of dance I found out that one of my friends is open to start teaching modern dance. This young man is currently a student of dance at the most renowed place in Finland to make himself a professional dancer one day. So every week we have a session, and next week will be something like our seventh session so far. I have never enjoyed a more free and natural way of expressing myself than dancing with my teacher. As moving is the most natural thing for a human being... So let's dance everyone!
Well that's about me. I hope the clever ones skipped all that nonsense and started from this chapter of my YCPA project. Well as I told earlier, YCPA is, and will be a phenomena, if not in public eyes, then in the hearts of the YCPA people. The main thing is that YCPA people stay anynomous. I want everyone to wonder who we are. And only the ones who know us really well can identify us from our introductions.
What do the YCPA people do? Firstly, they explore. They must explore the world as a natural part of their day. And secondly, write about it. In the YCPA way. Preferably more about others and other things than themselves. Through their own eyes. They must comment, make conversation, make a noise and most importantly feel that it is from their heart that this genuine text comes from. No matter if no soul in this world or any other ever read it.
Actually I'm not afraid that not a single human eye capture my thoughts. The YCPA serve their own community. Well ok it is a little hard to join this thing without at least reading this first post. But I hope that the 24th post might be from someone else than me. I need the YCPA souls to join my cause to help themselves become more, better, faster and everything their ambitions drive them to become in the future. Maybe even make a change.
This is the YCPA.
- Mr. A
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