14th Day!

Soo, after a long long time, the challenge is finally back. I had completed up to the 13th Day so now it's Day 14.
A picture of me and my family. No problem. :D

13th Day!

 A letter to someone who has hurt you recently:

Let me start by saying, I am not a hater by nature. I always see the good in people, (call me naive!) which is why I get so hurt and disappointed when someone betrays me. I don't know whether it's just that I am lucky or that my attitude towards life is good, but I don't have any one who I hate, just because they did something to hurt me.

Don't get me wrong, I did have my share of heartbreaks, cheaters, betrayals, let downs and bad luck. But since I don't waste my time and energy on being emotional over those negative things, I don't feel anything about those things. I guess I am good at moving on! :D

Sometimes some one tells me that people talked this or that about me, (very rarely! Around two or three times as far as I can remember! I try not to give people opportunities to talk bad stuff about me. I am usually nice and friendly to every one in general, but like they say, "you can't zip people up", "you can't keep everyone happy", "you can't make everyone like you!") but I don't give a second thought to that. I just have better things to do than try to defend myself infront of people who would judge me anyway~! :)

I guess what I am trying to say here is, I don't remember being hurt recently. For the past year, I have been in a stable relationship (no cheating from him!), I have friends and family who love me so much (no betrayals there!) and my life is beautiful! Sure it has it has it's ups and downs, but I do not remember any downs, because I don't concentrateon the bad stuff! So all in all, I am truly blessed and my life is awesome! Al hamdhulillahi! And I don not have anything to say to anybody who hurt me in the past because, honestly, "people change, people grow!" Even if they hurt you before, they might be regretting it now and forgiving makes you powerful! :)

Peace!

Bippity Boppity Boo! :D

I know, it's a weird title for a post! Well, this is just a random post, not connected or linked to any other post. So I was thinking of a random word to enhance the randomness of this post, and this was the first thing that came to my mind! Yeah, I AM a huge believer in fairytales ;) Like they say, you gotta dream it to achieve it! :D

Firstly, here's a little magic for all the wonderful readers, for being so awesome! We can all use some magic in our lives! :D

This is just to thank all my readers for your support, comments and suggestions. Your feedback is what inspires me! :D And I'm thanking you today specially because for the first time a post of mine has gotten more than 100 viewers and on last count, it has 180 views. Also, I had a count of 150 page views yesterday! It might not be a huge deal for the regular bloggers, but since I'm a total newbie here, and it has been exactly 1 month and 16 days since I started blogging, it means a lot to me~!

So once again, Thank You! And let me remind you again that I am so looking forward for your input on how to make my posts better! Much Love~! :D

Just Press Play!

Here is the collection for last week, and because I missed the deadline, I added some extra categories, as an apology! ;)

Happy listening! :D

The Motivational Song:
Firework- Katy Perry

The video and lyrics is just awesome (I specially liked the fireworks bursting out of them! :) )and the song is very sing-along-able! :D

"Do you know that there is till a chance for you,
Cuz there's a spark in you
You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine
Just own the night, like the fourth of July!"

"If you only knew what the future holds,
After a hurricane, comes a rainbow
Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed
So you could open the one that leads you to the perfect road!"

The Sad Song:
When You are gone- Avril lavigne

This is an all-time favourite. Eventhough I've heard it a million times, when I sing it or hear it, still brings me close to tears. The video is very touching, specially the part where the soldier leaves his pregnant wife to go fight in a war and the old lady dying, leaving her husband all alone!

"When you walk away I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?
When you are gone, the pieces of my heart are missing you
When you are gone, the face I came to know is missing too"

The Happy Song:
Love Story- Taylor Swift

This has been a favourite ever since I heard it-  the reason I started listening to Taylor Swift, literally!
When I sing the chorus, I can't help but smile. That warm, fuzzy feeling I get, it's awesome! The best part is:

"I got tired of waiting,
Wondering if you were ever coming around
My faith in you was fading

When I met you on the outskirts of town and I said,
Romeo, save me, I've been feeling so alone
I keep waiting for you, but you never come
Is this in my head? I don't know what to think

He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said (:D)
Marry me, Juliet
You'll never have to be alone
I love you and that's all I really know
I talked to your Dad, go pick out a white dress
It's a love story, baby, just say yes!"

The Post Break Up Song: 

It's alright, It's OK -Ashley Tisdale-

I really like this song, because it's about recovering from a break up. She knows she's strong and that she would survive. This song makes me smile! And the music is very head-nod-able! :D 

"No looking back

I wont regret, no

I will find my way

I'm broken

But I still have to say

It's alright, it's OK

I'm so much better without you

I won't be sorry

It's alright, OK

So don't you bother what I do

No matter what you say

I won't return

Our bridge has burned down

I'm stronger now"

The Sentimental Song:

I'll always remember you -Miley Cyrus/ Hannah Montana-

This song reminds me of school, all the friends and the fun we had together, specially in A'level. Being in the same class for almost 5years brought us closer than ever, and all the things we shared throughout the school life flashes infront of me when I hear this song. It makes me miss school! I sang part of this song at my graduation speech and those who were there would know that I was almost in tears when I finished. Yes, it makes me sentimental! 

"I always knew this day would come

We'd be standing one by one

With our future in our hands

So many dreams, so many plans

I always knew after all these years

There'd be laughter, there'd be tears

But never thought I'd walk away, 

With so much joy but so much pain

And it's so hard to say goodbye

But yesterday's gone, we gotta keep moving on

I'm so thankful for the moments

So glad I gotta know you

The times that we had, I'll keep like a photograph

And hold you in my heart forever

I'll always remember you!"

"Another chapter in the book

You can't go back, but you can look

And there we are on every page

Memories I'll always save

Up ahead on the open doors

Who knows what we're headed towards

I wish you love, I wish you luck

For you the world just opens up"

"Everyday that we had, all the good, all the bad, I'll keep them here inside

Yeah, one day we'll look back, we'll smile and we'll laugh

But right now we just cry

Cause it's so hard to say goodbye!"

The Medley:
Bruno Mars Medley- Victoria Justice & Max Schneider-

This is such an awesome medley of Bruno Mars songs! The way they change the songs from one to the other is so amazing, their voices are wonderful, and they are cute! And... you get it! ;) And of course all the credit goes to Potayto. He was the one who introduced medleys to me, and he suggested this one as the very first medley to be featured on my blog. :D Salute Potayto! xD

The Party Song:

Party Rock Anthem -LMFAO-

Love the music!!! And the part where they say, "Everyday I'm shuffling" and the music that follows!! Can't stand still when I hear the song! Shuffle people, Shuffle! :D

*Schyna shuffled away*

TV Series Obsession!

If you don't already know, I am totally addicted to TV series. No, not the over dramatic Hindi stuff that comes from Zee TV or such, but English series! I have lost count of the number of series I have watched and I thought it might be a good idea to write about them! :D

Well, I thought the 1st one should be something I so enjoyed watching and something which has already finished. ;) So here's one of my favourite TV series of all times, Chuck! It contains 5 seasons and the last episode of the last season was aired on 27th January 2012 (almost a year ago, so you might think, how outdated! But still, it totally makes up for it by the comedy and suspense! :D)

Season 1 (13 episodes):

Bryce Larkin, Chuck Bartowski (the lead)'s nemesis, sends an email to Chuck, which, when he opens does something to  him. That something? Downloading the whole of US governments spy secret (Intersect) into his brain! Because of the sensitivity of the information in the Intersect, CIA sends their agent Sarah Walker and NSA  sends John Casey to retrieve it! Season 1 shows how Chuck learns to use the Intersect to his advantage, and becoming a spy in the process. But he finds it hard that he has to keep his spy life a secret from his sister, Ellie, who he lives with and his best friend since childhood, Morgan. Because Sarah and Casey always have to be around Chuck, Casey's cover was an employee at the Buy More where, Chuck works as a part of the Nerd Herd, it's tech support team. Sarah's cover is being Chuck's girlfriend and towards the end of the season, both of them realise that their feelings for each other are more than just a cover. :D

Season 2 (22 episodes):

So Chuck and Sarah's asset-handler relationship gets more complicated as they fall for each other. Chuck is also struggling to keep his spy life away from his normal life, but it gets harder with time. Fulcrum, an organisation, is the main challenge for the spy trio and they try to bring down Fulcrum throughout the season. And imagine Chuck's shock, when he finds out that his ex girlfriend, Jill, who he reconnects with after several years, is a fulcrum agent! 

Chuck comes to know that Orion headed the whole Intersect project and that he knows more about the Intersect than any other human being, including how to rid Chuck of the one in his brain! Orion turns out to be Chuck's father who was kidnapped by Fulcrum to invent a new and better Intersect, but Chuck, Sarah and Casey rescues him from them and Steve/Orion removes the Intersect in his son's head. General Beckman offered Chuck a position in the new team working on the new Intersect project and he refuses. Casey gets promoted to Colonel, but his special forces has a traitor, a member of The Ring, another villainous organisation. Chuck finds himself in the Intersect room with a dying Bryce, who asks him to destroy the new Intersect before it falls into the wrong hands. Chuck does so, but before he did, he downloaded the new Intersect to save Sarah and Casey from their captives.

Season 3 (19 episodes):

The new Intersect gave Chuck so many new abilities, but he has to train real hard in order to make sure he can count on those abilities in the spy world. He fails his attempt to become a real spy when he flunks spy school. The problem is, Chuck can't "flash" (use the Intersect) if he gets too emotional, and his relationship with Sarah goes downhill making him plenty emotional. A ring agent mistakes Chuck's brother-in-law Devon for Chuck, the world-class spy, and things get pretty intense until Chuck finally decides to reveal his true identity to The Ring operative. Shaw (another CIA agent who knows a lot about The Ring) and Sarah are together and Chuck has the help of Devon, Morgan and Casey to win her back. But Shaw is taken to The Ring HQ and there he learns that Sarah killed his wife, as her final test. Shaw goes rogue and tries to kill Sarah, but Chuck shoots him before that. Sarah and Chuck decide to date even though both of them are spies, fully aware of the risks. Morgan joins the Team Burtowski :D Steve, Chuck's dad returns and he comes to know that Chuck downloaded Intersect v2.0 and that some glitches in it is causing mental deterioration. Steve gave Chuck The Governor, a device which would prevent the new Intersect's negative side-effects. The Ring wants The Governor for their Intersect, Shaw. The Ring has infiltrated CIA and NSA and Ellie, chuck's sister comes to know about Chuck's spy life. Team Burtowski capture the Elders- Ring leaders- and exposed  Shaw. Shaw kills Steve and fights with Chuck- two Intersects fighting, and Chuck wins! 

Season 4 (24 episodes): 

Chuck starts the search for his mother, Mary Burtowski, who is also a known CIA operative who has gone underground. He starts investigating Volkoff Industries. Ellie digs into her family's past while Chuck tries to prove his mother's innocence. Sarah goes undercover at Vlolkoff, hoping to rescue Chuck's mother. Chuck and Morgan plot to bring down Volkoff. Casey gets to know his daughter, Alex, better. Alex goes into a relationship with Morgan. Chuck and Sarah are to get married, but before that, he has to put his own life on the line for her!

Season 5 (13 episodes):

Chuck and Sarah start a new private spy organisation called Carmichael  Industries and buy Buy More. Morgan accidentally downloads the new Intersect just when Chuck gets rid of the one in his brain. Shaw escapes from prison, kidnaps Sarah and forces Chuck to steal Intersect 3.0 from CIA. Just as Morgan got rid of the Intersect, Sarah is forced to download it in an emergency. The same Intersect that erased almost half of Morgan's brain. Chuck fears for Sarah's life. So he gives her a different pair of sunglasses and has the Intersect removed from her, but it was too late. She lost all the memories of ever having loved Chuck, let alone be married to him. Ellie tells Chuck that the Intersect can reprogram Sarah's memories. In the process to defuse a bomb general Beckman is sitting on, Chuck has to download the Intersect. Chuck takes Sarah to the beach they both went after his first mission. He told Sarah that Morgan had this crazy theory that if he kissed her, she would remember everything. And then they kiss! And thus ends the Awesome series! :D

Go ahead! Start watching it! :D Happy Series Watching! xD

Once upon a time!

Since I am totally new here and you might not know me that well, I think it's best to write about myself and the community I'm in, with the people around me, so that when I write about other things like the issues in our community that I'm concerned with, you would have a better understanding of the situation.

So tonight I want to write about a very special person in my life. I know I haven't even mentioned him in my previous posts but that is because I was thinking of writing one big post about him, and just him. ;)

He knew me ever since I was a young girl. He recalls me as this small girl  with two braids. It's funny how he remembers me at such a young age because I have no recollection of him except for this one time when we debated together, and I was about 13 then. Ofcourse I knew he existed, because he was the older son of one of our teachers. 

I chatted with him from facebook a long time back, maybe in 2008 or something (According to him! Again, I have no memories of those days, which I now find very weird. Now I'm like, I wish I knew back then that he would be this special to me, so that I can remember everything about him.) And then we chatted on and off, just two acquaintances finding out what's up and how life is. 

The first memory I have of chatting with him is when I was an A'level Chemistry teacher at GNAEC last year. (I accepted the post as a special favour to the Principal, the day after my graduation, since it was such an honour.) I was in Male' and it was mid September. I had gone to Male' for two days to sit my IELTS exam. He was in Sri Lanka. When he knew that I was a teacher, he was teasing me about it, saying I'm a cheater :P He then asked me to go to Lanka and I told him that I wish I could and that was it.

Again, after some time, we chatted on facebook again. This time he told me that he was doing degree, Bachelor of (a mouthful, which I didn't really get :P)  something and that he had classes just on the weekends. I told him that I wished I could have classes like that, that it must be so easy for him. I actually asked him to switch places with me and let me go to college instead of him because I was just so bored of staying at home, doing nothing. Then he told me about all his Master's degree options and asked me what I think was the best one. I went through the list and realized to my dismay that I had no clue as to what any of them on the list was about, so I gave him the names of some programs that sounded kinda cool, but I did tell him that I actually had no idea what it was all about. He understood that I was just a very naive person who had no clue as to the horrors of the big cruel world :P

In January, I was heartbroken over a messy break up. I had lost my faith in himanity and all that is good. Mind you, I wasn't suicidal, but I was pretty down. He chatted with me and I chatted back. I put him in the friend zone because he never asked for more, and my heart was still under construction for me to think about another relationship. We talked and I felt OK. He gave me his LK number and I remember thinking, why should I bother remembering this number? It's not like I'm gonna call him from all the way here, and anyway, it's just soo long. But I remember that it had lots of 7s and 4s. Little did I know that that would be the first LK number that I would always remember ;)

Then came a blow that knocked me down so hard that I almost didn't want to get back up. I came to know that my most recent ex boyfriend, MR got back together with his ex girl friend and that everything that I thought we had between us was a lie. I so badly needed someone to talk to. It was then that I called him. Yes, all the way to Sri Lanka, I called him, twice. But later I came to know that he was sleeping. Then I was forced to call a less recent ex boyfriend of mine, MM who had been begging me to get back with him for a long time. We talked and I told him that if he wants me back, he will have to call me atleast once a day, that he shouldn't lose his temper with me at small things, and everything I learned from our relationship before. This time I knew what I wanted and I wasn't going to settle for less. I was lonely and depressed, I got back together with MM.

The next morning I told him what happened and how I was in a relationship with an ex, which was something I told myself I wouldn't do, and in the sunny morning, the action seemed so foolish. I was in a hard-to-please mode and it didn't help that he paid more attention to me than my own boyfriend did. He was always on the phone with me (via Skype) while my bf couldn't call me even once a day. He wrote me poems, deep ones. He dedicated songs to me, and every night he stayed with me on Skype till I fell asleep. Therefore it was no surprise to me that I realised my relationship was a mistake and that he should have been the one I was with.

I confronted my bf about the deal we had, about him paying more attention to me, but he couldn't hold up his end of the deal. When he hadn't called me even once for three consecutive days, I decided to break it off. "Another guy is begging for her attantion while you are ignoring her!" The phrase I saw from facebook stuck in my mind. I knew he was the "other" guy.

After I broke up with MM, I told him about it and he proposed to me, then and there. He made me happy, he treated me the way I wanted to be treated and he loved me. I saw no reason not to accept his proposal. Even though I didn't love him then, I did like him, a lot! And I knew that if we gave it time, I would fall for  him, so deeply, which I did ;) Well, the deciding factor was, I had a nightmare. I had fallen asleep with Skype video call on, and connected to him. When I woke up, I was so scared (yeah, that happens to me!). It was 2am, but I didn't know what else to do and I called him. I saw him on Skype, waking up when the phone rang. I told him I was so frightened. Then he got up, talked to me, on and on till I felt better, and he stayed awake till I fell asleep. Isn't that the sweetest? And when I told him the next morning that I felt bad about waking him up in the middle of the night, his reaction made me realise that I was the luckiest girl alive, to get such a caring, sweet guy. He made it sound like it was OK for me to call him any time, and told me that he would be there for me whenever I needed him, even if it was in the middle of the night. :D

So we went into a relationship. He called me his princess, (still does!), and he treated and still treats me like one. That was the beginning of my fairytale with my prince Charming, my story with my Mr.Right! 

This is the part where I say, "And we lived happily ever after"! ( we still are living happily ;) )xD