April 19, 2015

A Taste of Culture

Yesterday, I was at Tampere Hall listening to the Gala concert of "International Leevi Madetoja Male Voice Choir Competition".

The International Leevi Madetoja Male Voice Choir Competition was held for the sixth time in April 2015 in Tampere, Finland. It is the only choir competition in the Nordic countries which is solely for male voices.



I started to get ready early and took a bus to downtown and went to my dad’s to watch the rest of a Finnish hockey game, while drinking a glass of sparkling wine. After that we took a taxi to the Tampere Hall and arrived there in good time.


We found good seats and the concert started right on time. Before the main performances there was a boy choir “Pirkanpojat” singing.




At the beginning there were 35 men’s choirs around Finland – that’s 1200 singers. There were nine men’s choirs left in the Gala concert. Really all except one male choir were performing a cappella – it was a nice change, because without music you really hear the singing!


After all the performances, there was a prize ceremony and after that, all of the male singers rose up and sang two songs, and the last song was “Finlandia” hymn which, to me, crowned the whole Gala concert perfectly! 


After the concert I looked behind my back and saw the Tampere Hall in the light of a setting sun. The concert was really excellent! I love a bit of culture in my life every now and then... 

April 5, 2015

Happy Easter!

I don’t know why, but Easter is one of the ”holidays” I wait the most! I guess all the good childhood memories about egg hunting and eating candy until I felt sick, comes into my head.


We planted some grass for our cats way before Easter – Tiny couldn’t care less but Lara was crazy about it, even before it started to grow... Oh, the joy when she finally got to it! This is just one way of showing how diverse and different cats can be!


Like during all holidays and days alike, I like to bake and make food.


I baked vegan peach-quark buns – something I’ve had in mind for a long time, but I had never baked before. And they turned out perfect! I couldn’t have been happier!


For dinner I made my traditional Easter seitan roast with spicy oven-roasted vegetables. The picture isn’t the best, but at least there’s a picture...

I hope you have had a great Easter and you’ve eaten yourselves as full as I have, ha!


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