Christmas Music

Continuing on with the Christmas spirit, and since I'm  so obsessed with music, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of my favourite Christmas songs.
Bing Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling record artists of the 20th century, with over halff a billion records in circulation. The biggest hit, and my personal favourite, was his recording of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," which he introduced on a Christmas Day broadcast in 1941. The song still remains the best-selling single of all time.

White Christmas
Winter Wonderland
Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)

Frank Sinatra
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Silent Night

Elvis Presley
Blue Christmas
Here Comes Santa Claus

Please keep in mind that some of these songs aren't origianally written or performed by the artists, however, these are my favourite versions of the songs!
Hope you enjoyed!

Christmas 2012

    

Pepparkakshus

Glögg

Lussebullar

Today it's exactly 18 days until I go home and 28 days until Christmas!!

I don't think words can explain how excited I am to go home and celebrate Christmas with my family!

Hopefully, my mum and I can squeeze in a baking-day just before Christmas eve. Baking Lussebullar and Pepparkakor and other delicious pastries and food is one of my favourite things about Christmas.

Lussebulle or lussekatt are saffron buns made of a rich, sweet bun which is flavoured by saffron. The buns are baked into many traditional shaped, of which the ismplest if the reversed S-shape. they are traditionally eaten during Advent and especially on Lucia (St. Lucy's Day) on December 13th.

Glögg (mulled wine, or in German: Glühwein) is a beverage usually made of red wine (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) along with various spices such as cinnamon, cardamon, ginger, cloves and orange. It is usually served with raisins and almonds which you plop into the warm beverage. It is of course traditionally consumed around christmas, especially on Advent.

Music Monday #15

Skyfall - Adele

As always, the soundtracks to the Twilight Saga movies are amazing. Since I saw the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part 2 the soundtrack has been playing on my computer non stop!

Here are a few of my favourite:

Where I Come From - Passion Pit

Speak Up - POP ETC

A Thousand Years (part 2) - Christina Perri feat. Steve Kaze

Heart of Stone - Iko

If you want to listen to the whole soundtrack on YouTube click here!

Quirky Facts #4

- Every 60 seconds on Facebook: 510,000 comments are posted 293,000 statuses are updated 136,000 photos are uploaded
- If you take your age, multiply it by 7, then multiply it by 1443, the product repeats your age 3 times
- It takes eight minutes for sun light to reach us. This means that is the sun were to go black, it would take roughly ten minutes for us to know
- Saturn is more dense than water. Which means that if it was dropped into water it would float like an ice cube
- A black hole is the cold remnant of a former star and is so dense that no matter, not even light, is able to escape from its immense gravitational pull

Cheetah Shoes

                  

                  

Yo! Yesterday, my flatmates and I went to the cinema to watch the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part 2. Let me just start off by saying that I was shocked and then pleasantly surprised! I'm not going to spoil anything in case any of you haven't seen it, but if you've read the books and seen the other movies you should definitely see this one at some point :)
Enjoy your weekend xx

Quirky Facts #3

- Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass
- A tickle sensation is your body’s reflex warning to something that may potentially hurt you
- The only letter that doesn't appear in the Periodic Table is "J"
-  No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
-  By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand
-  Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world
-  Hawaii is moving 10.16 cm closer toward Japan every year
- Porcupines float on water
- Tigers not only have striped fur, but striped skin as well
- Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper
- Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel
- Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man

Music Monday #14

Borrowed from: orangemilkpeel.com

I Found You - The Wanted

Rest of My Life - Ludacris feat. Usher and David Guetta

Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars

Young Girl - Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars is another one of my favourite artists. His voice and his sound is magnificent; everytime I listen to his music this overwhelming feeling of happiness fills my body.
If you haven't already heard his album from 2010, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, go listen to it now and you will understand why I like him so much!
My favourite songs by Bruno Mars:
Marry You
It Will Rain
Count On Me
Somewhere in Brooklyn

Cheerio! x

Quirky Facts #2

- In space, astronauts can't cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
- South Korean superstar Psy now holds the record for the most liked video on YouTube with his hit "Gangnam Style"
- After only being in existence for 5 years, the iPhone is the second best selling product of all time. The first is the Rubik's Cube.
- In Japan there are square watermelons for the sake of more efficient stacking.
- The first YouTube video ever uploaded was on April 23rd 2005, by the user "jawed" The video is titled "Me at the zoo" and is 18 seconds long.

Something Different

Gamla Stan - Stockholm

There is some great music by Swedish artists. I made a list of some of my favourite songs for the moment. So if you are interested in listening to some Swedish hits, make sure to check them out! :D

Fallskärm - Timbuktu

Trumma Trumma - Den Svenska Björnstammen

När Jag Går Ner - Norlie & KKV

Ett Fel Närmare Rätt - Den Svenska Björnstammen

Vart Jag Mig i Världen Vänder - Den Svenska Björnstammen

Jag Kommer - Veronica Maggio

Gubben i Lådan - Daniel Adams Ray

Lilla Lady - Daniel Adams Ray

Resten Av Ditt Liv - Timbuktu

Här Kommer Natten - Miss Li

Tschüß xx

Life is easy if you wear a smile

Quirky Facts

Yo yo! Here are some quirky facts!

- Open up a browser, go to Google.com, type "tilt" in the search bar, click search, and the web page will literally tilt sideways!
- The 2008 Summer Olympics was the most watched television broadcast, getting 4.7 billion individual views. That is over 70% of the entire worlds population.
- You can't find any addresses in North Korea on Google Maps.
- "Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX on March 8th, 1969.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At worlds End cost over $300 million to produce, making it the most expensive film ever.
- If you stood on the moon with a gun and fired a bullet at the horizon, it would travel all the way around the moon and hit you in the back of the head.
- If you wanted to meet each person on earth for 1 second, it would take you 221 years to meet everyone.
- There's an alien hidden in every South Park episode.
- The girl who voiced Lilo in "Lilo & Stich" was also Samara from the "Ring"

:D

MTV EMA's 2012 Frankfurt

On Sunday the 11th of November, the MTV Europe Music Awards took place in Frankfurt, Germany. The host for this years EMA's was Heidi Klum. I love watching MTV's music awards, but sadly I couldn't watch it this year because I don't have a TV in my flat.
Here are the nominees and winners for the 16 different categories:
Best Song
Carly Rae Jepsen "Call Me Maybe"
Fun. feat. Janelle Monáe "We Are Young"
Gotye feat. Kimbra "Somebody That I Used To Know"
Pitbull feat. Chris Brown "International Love"
Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris "We Found Love"
Winner:  "Call Me Maybe" Carly Rae Jepsen

Best Live
Green Day
Jay-Z & Kanye West
Lady Gaga
Muse
Taylor Swift
Winner: Taylor Swift

Best Pop
Justin Bieber
Katy Perry
No Doubt
Rihanna
Taylor Swift
Winner: Justin Bieber

Best New
Carly Rae Jepsen
Fun.
Lana Del Rey
One Direction
Rita Ora
Winner: One Direction

Best Female
Katy Perry
Nicki Minaj
P!nk
Rihanna
Taylor Swift
Winner: Taylor Swift

Best Male
Flo Rida
Jay-Z
Justin Bieber
Kanye West
Pitbull
Winner: Justin Bieber

Best Hip Hop
Drake
Jay-Z & Kanye West
Nas
Nicki Minaj
Rick Ross
Winner: Nicki Minaj

Best Rock
Coldplay
Green Day
The Killers
Linkin Park
Muse
Winner: Linkin Park

Best Alternative
The Arctic Monkeys
The Black Keys
Florence + The Machine
Jack White
Lana Del Rey
Winner: Lana Del Rey

Best World Stage
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
B.O.B
Evanescence
Flo Rida
Jason Derulo
Joe Jonas
Justin Bieber
Kasabian
Ke$ha
LMFAO
Maroon 5
Nelly Furtado
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sean Paul
Snoop Dogg
Snow Patrol
Taylor Swift
Winner: Justin Bieber

Best Look
A$AP Rocky
Jack White
Nicki Minaj
Rihanna
Taylor Swift
Winner: Taylor Swift

Best Electronic
Avicii
Calvin Harris
David Guetta
Skrillex
Swedish House Mafia
Winner: David Guetta

Best Push
Carly Rae Jepsen
Conor Maynard
Foster The People
Fun.
Gotye
Lana Del Rey
Mac Miller
Michael Kiwanuka
Of Monsters and Men
Rebecca Ferguson
Rita Ora
Winner: Carly Rae Jepsen

Biggest Fans
Justin Bieber
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
One Direction
Rihanna
Winner: One Direction

Best Video (this category was not open for voting.)
Katy Perry "Wide Awake"
Lady Gaga "Marry The Night"
M.I.A "Bad Girls"
Psy "Gangnam Style"
Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris "We Found Love"
Winner: Psy "Gangnam Style"

Worldwide Act
Han Geng
Ahmed Soultan
Restart
Dima Bilan
Rihanna
Winner: Han Geng

Even though this wasn't a category I though it would be a nice thing to know. Late Whitney Houston won an award for "Global Icon"

Music Monday #13

Below are some old songs, and some new. Hope you enjoy!

Beneath Your Beautiful - Labrinth

Only Love - Ben Howard

9000 Days - Overtone, Yollandi Nortjie

Boris - BOY

Skin - BOY

Only You - Ellie Goulding

Cozy Saturday

This week has been a hectic week for me, full of lectures, tutorials and essay writing. On Monday I have three big essays to submit for my three different courses! :/ But I didn't want the blog to suffer, so I put this outfit together earlier this week so I would have something to post :)
Enjoy your weekend! xx

If Only Summer Were Here On My Doorstep

If only, if only..
Here's a little summer-y outfit I put together. It isn't really appropriate for the weather here, but I can always dream right?
Enjoy :)

Music Monday #12

You all know what happens on Mondays! MUSIC MONDAY! Whoo :D
If you click on the links below it will take you right to the songs on YouTube! ENJOY

No Interruption - Hoodie Allen

Carry On - Fun.

All Alone - Fun.

You Are Not a Robot - Hoodie Allen