Blog everyday in February Challenge
Happy Friday everyone! I'm both happy yet sad that today is Friday... I'm happy for the weekend, but I'm sad my one week off from school is quickly coming to an end!
Its okay, because today I am linking up with Bailey from Anchored in Love for the Blog Everyday in February Challenge! It is day 21 with just a few days left! Join in on the fun!
So here is today's prompt:
"The meaning of HOME."
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Being in my second year of university, my parents have somewhat gave me more freedom than I had back in high school. Although I am still living at home, this freedom gives me the opportunity to find myself and find out what the heck I want for my future. So as I am growing up, I begin to see and interpret everything differently than I once did.
Home can have multiple meanings to anyone and everyone. We all interpret things differently based on our experiences. Home can be a literal meaning to some, while others have more of a symbolic interpretation to what they consider home.
So what is my meaning of home?
To me, home is a safe place - a feeling of both happiness and comfort. Home is a place with a sense of belonging - it is good to know there are others who care and love for you, and that you are not by yourself. Home is with the people whom I love and truly care about.
People often say, "there is no place like home", which I completely agree. We like feeling of being safe, and we like feeling of knowing that we belong and we are apart of a group of people who want us in their lives.
In light of my new love for typography, I drew this out for today's topic!
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What is your meaning of home?
Its already Wednesday... my week off from school is going a little faster then I wanted... sigh!
Its okay, because today I am linking up with Bailey from Anchored in Love for the Blog Everyday in February Challenge! Although I missed the first half of the prompts, I'm always up for blogging challenges whenever I come across one!
So here is today's prompt:
"Little Known Facts About You"
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1. I am shy. Yes believe it or not, I am absolutely the shyest person you'll ever meet. I am able to put up this front that I am so confident and that I don't care what others think, but deep down, I am terrified of being the centre of attention and just being over the top. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-social, I have tons of friends. And I guess it is because I feed off their energy, I'm able to step out of my comfort zone here and there!
2. I worry a lot. No one really knows this about me because I am really good at looking well composed whenever I am in an extremely stressful position. But I am always worrying ... literally about everything and anything. If we are walking into a midterm that I know I am not well prepared for, you will never know how worried I am because I always have a calm face.
3. I am an emotional person. No one really knows that every hurtful thing someone says to me can make me cry for hours about it. Like in number 1, I am so good at hiding my real facial emotions that everyone thinks I'm such a strong person. But I'm not. I hate confrontation and whenever someone says something mean to me, or about me; I'm able to make it look like I care.... but really I do
4. I am a junior black belt. Surprise to hear this? I'm sure you are. I'm not one to share my achievements and accomplishments easily. I always feel like if I do, I am being a show off... so I never really tell people anything about my past. But yes, I am a junior black belt in karate since I was 16 years old. I don't practice karate no more because of an incident, but I do wish I could have continued on to achieve my black belt.
5. I am actually 5'1. Yeah... I'm short. I lie to people telling them I'm taller than I really am (even my drivers licence), but I'm actually one of the shortest in my family.
6. I am a mixed child. I am half Sri Lankan and half Filipina. Yes, I know.. sometimes its hard to believe that I can be half brown because I look so Asian. But its always a mystery to others when it comes to my background. I'm a really shy person, so I don't ever show off a lot about myself. I'm not saying that I'm not proud of my heritage, but I just never give myself to chance to tell others.
7. I love languages! Although I can fluently speak English and no other languages, I am absolutely in love with the other languages that are out there. I've been studying french my entire life through school, so I can fairly say that I know enough to be understood, and understand others, but I cannot confidently say that I am fluent in French. I wish I was, but growing up I never had the opportunity to grasp onto learning languages easily. I can understand Tamil and Tagalog 100% (my fathers and mothers languages), but I am unfortunately unable to speak them.
Well there you go. These are just some of the little known facts about me. I'll make another list another day if I am able to come up with more to share with you all! Have a great Wednesday!
Happy Sunday Everyone!
I am linking up with Bailey from Anchored in Love for the Blog Everyday in February Challenge! Although I missed the first half of the prompts, I'm always up for blogging challenges whenever I come across one!
So here is today's prompt:
"A Hard Lesson Learnt"
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I'll get straight into it... A hard lesson I had to learn, at such a young age, was not to trust anybody. And when I say anybody, I mean anybody... not even family. Wait what... family? Yes... family.
A few years ago when I was at summer camp, a long way from home, I called home to check up on my family to let them know how things were going. No one was home but my sister, so she answered the phone and told me the most devastating news... Earlier that day, we received a yellow envelope with no return address. Inside this yellow mysterious envelop, were pictures of Neisha and her boyfriend!
Scary isn't it? And my sister was telling me how she phoned my cousin Neisha to tell her, and she was terrified because apparently my household wasn't the only ones who received her pictures. Turned out, family in another city received her pictures to... I was freaking out wondering what was going on... but the real question was; who sent these photos.
The rest of the summer was bad. Neisha was lucky enough to at least hide away in France, since she had already purchased a ticket months in advanced. But the rest of the summer, Ashley and I were here constantly scared to figure out what will we receive next in the mail.
One day, Neisha finally got a hold of my sister and I, and she expressed that she was pissed because she thought that we sent the photos around to family. I was so appalled and shocked wondering why she would even accuse us of sending those photos around... In a few of her photos, I was in them to, with some random guy... So I tried explaining to her that if I were to send photos, I wouldn't include photos of myself.
Anyways, one random day, we went to Neisha's place. Us three, plus Neisha brother, were in a room... quiet. We didn't say much to each other. Then all of a sudden we hear my dad yell, "VANESSA, ASHLEY, NEISHA... COME HERE NOW!" Uh oh... when we went to the room the adults were in, there laying on the bed were pictures of me and Ashley with guys... WTF was going on? Apparently our pictures were sent to some houses too....
I think that was when Neisha realized that we didn't send her photos around, because why would we send our own photos to get in trouble with?
Worst we ever... both Neisha and I were allowed to have a sweet 16, and we were on total lock down. I remember going to school with so much anxiety about another envelop with pictures coming in the mail. I was just mortified.
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A year or so later, my cousins, lets call them Nivi and Shari, came forward to Neisha and told her the entire truth... and how it was them and their mother who sent it around to all our family members. YES, I said it correctly, OUR COUSINS and AUNT sent our photos around.
So not only did Neisha and I have to bare with the embarrassment of our entire family looking down upon us like we were a bunch of slut, but our parents.... our parents couldn't even look at us becuas ether were just so disappointed in us.
All because of what? Rumour has it that my aunt didn't want Neisha and I to focus in school so we wouldn't get accepted into university... but who knows. All I know was that my own blood went behind my back, and my privacy and sent MY personal photos. Like they literally took the time to go to walmart and make copies after copies of our pictures, and took the time to mail it out... that's real dedication to bring down their own family members.
So until this day, its hard to trust anybody, including family. I can't even feel safe posting up pictures on instagram without thinking another family member is going to save the photo and send it around the world. I'm so afraid to even accept cousins to follow me on instagram, and be my friend on Facebook.
This is why I have yet to post up a picture of Jay and I here. I am just afraid that someone, or even family, will go behind my back, and take my pictures and send them off for everyone to see.
Crazy isn't it... how the people you love and take care of, can do such horrible things... So I had to learn, be careful what you say, and what you post online; you can't trust nobody in the real world; not even so called family.
It's Saturday, and I am pretty much spent my morning browsing through other blogs. It's always fun to see what others blog about, and just finding other blogs that really interest me.
Anyways, so I somehow came across Bailey from Anchored in Love. As I was going through some of her posts, I realized that she was hosting a Blog Everyday in February Challenge! Although I missed the first half of the prompts, I'm always up for blogging challenges whenever I come across one!
So here I am, linking up for the first time with Bailey! Today's prompt:
"A Big Dream"
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I personally tend to dream big about anything and everything. Whenever I have an aspiration, I make a big deal out of it, and tend to have my imagination run wild with just one thought! But today's prompt, I wanted to think and blog something realistically.
So whats a big dream of mine?
One day, I would absolutely love it, if I got married at my church. I call it my church because I literally grew up in this community, received blessing here from my first baptism to my confirmation.
So it would be amazing to just get married in my church. My community will be apart of it, and better yet, my alter server friends can alter serve in the ceremony, and our long time friend, Manny, can play the piano as I walk down the aisle.
It's a big dream, but I am most certain that Jay will agree to anything I want for our wedding day, when he soon decides to propose.... But one thing at a time!
Whats your big dream? Leave a comment below, or join in on the blogging challenge and leave your post link below as well!
Happy Saturday!
