at a lunch restaurant near office (its nickname is ‘healthy
restaurant’ among my colleagues), i found an original moomin picture
book in swedish! it felt quite strange to see untainted,
pre-japanimation era moomin illustrations in the land where these
hippo creatures were reborn to look overly cuter than they should. how
did this book end up here? (i didn’t look in particular, but i haven’t
seen this in finland either)
Its been ages since i read a korean design magazine. Interesting. However i spotted lots of spelling errors- not sure if its because korean is my mother tongue, or because the magazine doesnt proof-read for these mistakes.
a british author who just published a book titled ‘house of orphans’.
obviously the story is set in Finland.
she lived in finland in her 20’s (now she’s 50 something) teaching
english for two years. excerpts of her description of finland from
guardian:
“brief, astonishingly beautiful baltic summers, and sombre baltic
winters. the world becomes completely frozen and shut up. people’s
faces seem blank, till in spring they grow more expressive”
“even city-centered people want to return to nature. summer cottages
aren’t only for the rich, and people have the right to roam, to pick
berries and gather mushrooms. that closeness to the natural world is
very precious.”
well described.
The main theme is the evolution of ramen as ‘young’ food with relatively short history.
Quite below the average level of 5-yo finnish child’s language proficiency, but still i gotta aim a bit higher in my cultivation of finnish local knowledge than buying well known finnish goods. Thanks for the thoughtful choice, (finnish) mom!
