WE MADE IT!

I would like to start this post by saying - I can't believe it! I never thought Id be able to stick with this challenge and actually complete it! So thanks for sticking with me. And now lets move on to the last post of this challenge. Something/someone you miss: 'Being a kid'. I know I'm only 16 and legally I am still a kid - but let's face it, I'm not.

I miss being a kid. When everything was black or white. Where you could see the goodness in everything. When 'sorry' was meant something, and not just a word people used to get you out of their face. When 'please' and 'thank you' were enough. When school was fun and you looked forward to it. When people encouraged dreams and told you 'You can be anything you want.' When just a hug from your mum could cure anything at all. When everything was just a lot simpler.

I know I sound like a depressed teenager about now, but trust me when I say I'm actually in quite a good mood. I just miss being a kid, is all. :) I had a really fun childhood. I've met some amazing people. I've travelled and done some amazing stuff. I just wish I savored it more. But hey! - that's life.

Ancient greek day  - Year 4. 

Me and my asian friends - I still know most of them. Can you spot me? 

Now that this challenge is over I would like to tag anyone who would like to do this challenge. It's great fun, and is a great way to reminisce and reflect on everything. So if you decide to do this challenge let me know! I'll be sure read every post :)

Tomorrow night I'm going to Kuwait. So stay tuned to find out about my trip! Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow.

xxx

Smile and the world will smile with you :)

Hello everyone,

It's Day 29 ! We're almost there. :)

For some reason the picture didn't want to enlarge.  :S

I love this picture! This is my DofE team and we called ourselves 'The Unit'. We simply were the best! We finished first and the feeling was amazing! We pushed through the hardships and got past all the obstacles put in front of us and we made it! We ran through rain and hail to the finish point and we were rewarded with wooden spoons (I'll explain later) and soda! It was epic! (excuse the cheesy-ness.) Old friendships were mended, new friendships were made and I think it's safe to say that this experience will keep us friends for life. And of course our team would be nothing without our team leader! She honestly was just the best! She is an amazing, funny and extremely kind hearted person who cared and supported us no matter what happened. 

Before leaving on our trek we were each appointed one person in our team (yes we did pick names out of a hat) that we had to observe closely and present at our final dinner together. So after we arrived from our trek we were given wooden spoons that we had to design and decorate to give to our appointed team mate after the presentation. It was fun decorating the spoons but it was not fun having to present first. But, thanks to my amazing drama skills (I wish) I managed to pull through and get it done! 

Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow. 

xxx 

28

Day 28 - A picture of something you're afraid of.

If you've read some of my earlier posts you'll know by now that I'm afraid of animals. But that is not what I've chosen for todays post. (And Taylor if you're reading - no I'm not going to do the dark either.)  :P I've chosen something a little more meaningful. 'The Future'. It's quite a scary thought for an aspiring 16 year old. In a couple of months I have my GCSEs and then for the next two years I'll be doing IB and then hopefully I'll be off to University, that is if I don't fail my Ib course and my GCSEs. Then the fear of whether or not I'll be able to get a job! And it just goes on. You start to age and you worry if you've done enough in your life. Have you achieved everything you've wanted to achieve? Have you done everything you've wanted to do?  The future is quite a scary thing ; you never know what's in store for you, so you've got to make the most of it while you can. Quite philosophical there. ;P

So there you go! My biggest fear is The future.

I don't own this picture.  I found it on Google. :)

Until next time Amigos! 

From the other side of the rainbow.

xxx

Ma sœur

Hey guys,
Today I'm supposed to show you a picture of me with a family member so here's Introducing my sister :

Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow. 

xxx

Day 26

A picture of something that means a lot to you.

SLEEP!
Everyone who knows me, knows that I treasure my sleep! I can sleep whenever and wherever for however long - except on planes (unless of course i'm traveling business class) ;)

This picture was taken a while ago and I'm not sure who took it.

Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow.

xxx

Day 25.

Hello everyone!

Day 25- a picture of your day! As usual I have a couple of pictures for you :) These are all from today. Enjoy!

I made peach and mango Iced tea.

I read from both of these books. 

I painted and used my fingers to blend and my finger are now stained. 

I studied of course. 

And I blogged :) 

As you can see I've had quite an odd day today. And tonight I watched women in black with my friend Amy, It was probably one of the scariest movies I've ever seen and I can't decide if the play was scarier or if the movie was scarier :)
Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow. 

xxx

serious case of the blues :(

Day 24

If I could change one thing in this world, it would be unhappiness. I know you'll be thinking that there are more important things to achieve like world peace, but without happiness life sucks. I once stumbled upon this quote by one Dennis Prager  "Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared." It's true. Think of all the times you've been unhappy. And then think how many of those times were you upset because of something serious? Something that deserves unhappiness or grief. When you really think about it you'll realize that somewhere in the world there is always someone who has it worse than you. Anyone can feel unhappy at times and it can drive people to do the worst things. Imagine life without unhappiness. Imagine if the world was just made up of rainbows and butterflies.

Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow.

xxx

My Sister's Keeper

Hello again everyone!


Day 23 - favorite book! I am such a book worm, so I absolutely love todays challenge. (I sound like such a geek!) I have so many favorites and it upsets me to have to choose just one. I love reading great big romantic novels that have me either crying with joy or crying out of sadness. I love those books that just grab you and never let go! I'm a sucker for romance yet I can still sit and enjoy some sort of crime book that has deaths and medical terms. Some of my favorite authors include: Stephanie Meyer, J.K Rowling, Nora Roberts, Nicholas Sparks and Jodi Picoult. I could go on but the list would be endless. :)


So, getting back to todays challenge... my favorite book would have to be 'My sister's keeper - Jodi Picoult.' While reading this book I was an emotional wreck! I can't exactly remember how long it took me to read this book but I can assure you it took me quite a while because I had to stop so many times just to cry. I read the end of this book on a plane and on this plane I was sitting next to this very kind old lady. When I read the ending I just couldn't control myself. I cried and sobbed like a baby. Yup! In public - on a crowded plane AND I had the aisle seat. I honestly couldn't control myself, and to be completely honest I didn't realize I was 'properly' crying because I was so upset! The kind lady next to me just put her  hand on my shoulder and passed me a tissue. I had a really good cry and then fell asleep.


I have never been able to bring myself to read that book again because I just got so attached to it the first time and I don't want to read it again and ... ruin it? I've never been that emotional while reading a book before and I must say I love it when a book can do something like that to you! 


So here it is 'My sister's keeper - Jodi Picoult.' :

And - I'm not a fan of the movie. :S 

Since we're talking about books, I'd like to add that in the future I might do book reviews. Since I do read a lot why not let you all in on how much I either enjoyed the book or how much I hated the book :) Books that I'm sure I will do a review on in the future include: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The mortal instruments series and Songs of the Humpback whale. SO look out for these reviews! Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow. 

xxx

Day 22

Day 22 - something you wish you were better at. 

Everyone who knows me will get this one straight away as I complain about this frequently. Of course it's sport! My lack of athletic ability really amuses my family as they're all quite the opposite. It's not that I dislike sport and it's not that i'm too lazy to do any sport. I'm just extremely clumsy and my hand-eye/ foot-eye? coordination is terrible! I really wish I was better at sport so I could be part of a school team, but unfortunately that will never happen. Last year I joined the netball team for the 'Sri Lankan club' - as i'm a Sri Lankan- and in the first 2 minutes of my first game ever, I fell and hurt my knee so bad that I still have the scar (and I don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon). Since that incident the team was quite reluctant to let me play - ever again. Sadly I was only allowed to play when they really had no other choice. :'( So when the season was over , boy was I relieved! 0.0  I believe throughout my childhood I have been trying to find my place in some sport or the other and of course, I've been failing over and over again. The one sport that I don't completely suck at, is Badminton.

So there you go ... Sport is not my 'thang' and it upsets me sometimes as I'm frequently making a fool out of myself in the compulsory Physical Education classes at school. :'(  I wish I was better at sport and I wish I was more athletic. 

Me applauding someone else's athletic abilities  - sports day! 

Did I mention that I also joined the running club? But let me clarify that I only joined to get fit as there was no exercise in my life, what so ever! If you can't see me, I'm the one sitting down (on the chairs) on the far left. 

 Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow. 

xxx

Vignt et un

Bonjour!
It's day 21 and I'm feeling quite french-tastic! I would do the whole post in French but then it would take a lot longer and if you aren't a French lover like me you'd have to google translate :S but I might save that idea for a future post! :)

So getting back on track ... In Todays post I'm supposed to tell you about something that I would like to forget. I like to keep this blog positive and somewhere that both you and I can come to get away from the negativity! So even though there are a lot of things I could tell you about today most of them are quite personal and also quite negative. Therefore today I shall tell you about one of my many freak accidents! If you're not one for gory details ... don't worry there won't be too much!

So this freak accident I think happened a couple years ago? My cousins had come to visit and we decided to go visit the beach. On the way there we saw a couple of men with about 15 quad bikes. that they were renting out. As always, I got all excited and said we had to go rent a couple ! So of course we went over and rented a couple of quad bikes for an hour or so. All was fine in the beginning! We were riding away into the distance, racing each other and swerving around each other! It was great fun! Until my breaks decided to stop working just before I was about to ride over a hill- thing! So I went over the hill in full speed flying and landed under my bike! After I was retrieved from under the bike I started to feel the pain. The whole left side of my body was scratched and bruised and cut! I still have some scars to this day! It hurt so much! Every part of my body felt like it was on fire! Of course I was then taken to the hospital and then they cleaned and dressed my wounds which hurt even more! It felt like they were cleaning my wounds with acid! I cried and screamed - and no I'm not ashamed of it because it hurt!!!!!

It probably took about a month and a half for all the wounds to heal and during the healing process I was so thankful that I was alive! However I did hate looking in the mirror. I would avoid mirrors and hated the way I looked, I was worried that my face would be left with scars! It was defiantly a terrible time for me and thinking about it just makes me shiver. But of course that doesn't stop me from riding quad bikes or doing other activities, as such. I'm sure there are a lot of people that couldn't stomach the idea of getting back on a quad bike after an accident like this ... but I just love riding quad bikes. :D

This picture is from google.

I didn't have any pictures of me falling or even the scars because I didn't want to be photographed at that time. So the picture above is the best I could come up with. 

Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow. 

xxx

Dream Land...

Day 20 somewhere I'd like to go:

I'm quite a traveller. I love to travel (minus the plane rides). ;) I've already been to quite a lot of places but my dream destination remains un visited. And of course this mysterious dream land is New York! I'm a city person. I love the hustle and bustle, the shopping sprees and magnificent season sales, the crowded mobs of tourists clutching their overpriced purchases and snapping photos. I love it all.

Other places on the list are: Japan, Egypt, Paris(I've been here however would love to go again), Bora Bora, Barcelona, Maui, Peurto Rico, Budapest, Prague, Puerto Vallarta,  Aruba and many many more! 

Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow.

xxx

Cher, Mon amour ....

Hello there everyone,


it is day 19 today and I shall show you a picture and a letter. I haven't really gotten many letters and sadly enough all letters that I have received I have managed to misplace. However, I do have an excuse! (as sad as that may make me sound.) I moved houses and everyone knows you loose stuff when you move! *cue awkward laugh*


SO- i've decided to take a different approach!  I shall post a picture of me and write a letter to my future self ( me at 21) I will then put a note in my phone to remind me in 5years to come bAck and read this. Sound good? :) Here goes:


Dear future self,


hopefully by now you're in university and maybe with a little luck enjoying it too? God knows high school was never your thing so hopefully uni is better!  exercise and sporting activities were never our forté so ... hopefully by now you've worked out that you need some form of exercise in your life so hopefully you're doing something!!!! Hopefully the traveling has begun. your skin is even better and you glow more and more every passing day, you started carrying yourself the way you should. Be thankful for you life and everything you have, and know God loves you! And find somebody else to love you too.  :) 


18-12-2012 Living room. 
-Thasneem xxx

Hope you enjoyed this! Until next time Amigos! 

From the other side of the rainbow. 

xxx 

Look at me I'm a fairy!

Hey everyone,

It's day 18 and today I shall show you a picture of when I was small. Enjoy! :)

This picture was take quite a while back. I think I might've been in year 2? or possibly lower? Any way I was dressed as a fairy I believe, and this play was based on that story about the fairies that all come and bless this child and they all give this child one special trait or gift or something and blah blah blah (I have no idea! If you happen to know the story i'm talking about do leave a comment :) I would love to know.)  Anyway ... strangely enough I remember the dress rehearsal! My mum came to watch me and I got all nervous and when it was my turn to say my one awesome line I couldn't remember it so I just stood there till someone realized I was not going to say my line. It's quite ironic how I'm now a GCSE drama student. :S No pressure - at all. ;) 

Until next time Amigos! 

From the other side of the rainbow.

xxx

Stress Stress and even more Stress...

Hello there everyone,
It's day17? and today i'm required to show you a picture of something that has had a huge impact on my life lately. As you all probably know I am currently in year 11 (grade10?) and that means GCSEs right round the corner. Just thinking about them gets my heart pounding and my mind racing. (wooo a little poetic there!! ) I'm not very good in panic mode i was just not built for it i suppose. During exams i'm always nervous. The weeks prior to the exams - while spent studying - i will most likely be fighting a cold or a sore throat. The stress just always gets to me and i'm hopeless at controlling it. Obviously being nervous before an exam is not the best as it gets the adrenaline going that causes stupid mistakes and all your knowledge goes flying out the window! It's like you came into the exam without any revision done.
SO what was the point of all this rambling ??? Oh yes...GCSEs!!!!! I suppose they've been the one thing that has really made a huge impact on my life lately.

I'm not quite sure how to show you a picture of GCSEs, so this is the best I could come up with:

Once again all pictures were taken off Google. :) Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow.

xxx

Inspire me :)

Hey there everyone, 


It's time for day 16 and today I'm required to show you someone who inspires me. Turns out I have quite a lengthy list of , so I've decided (as usual) to share a couple with you and no surprise ... My list starts of with Mark Zuckerberg: 

 I love Facebook. My whole life depends on Facebook! It's how I get my gossip, it's how I stay in contact with people and more importantly it's how I remember peoples birthdays -which makes me sound like a terrible person, but i'm sorry i'm just terrible with dates and that is the reason I dropped History when I got the chance! So sue me for being a terrible friend or cousin - it's not going to change me. Any who ... Back on to Zuckerberg. He really is quite an awesome guy. I don't really care for the movie - it quite honestly bored me to death but still I think that it's amazing that this one genius continues to change the way we live, communicate, and interact. It really amazes me how one person could have so much vision and passion to leave whatever they're doing and pursue their dream. For those of you who don't know, Zuckerberg left HARVARD!!!!! That's right - HARVARD! Getting into Harvard would honestly be an achievement and quite honestly is maybe a 'dream' (and will only stay a dream) of mine and then to leave? It sure takes guts and passion to do something like that- especially in this world where qualifications and education is all this world seems to drive on (that is if you want to be successful and not living off the streets or with your parents.) 
So that concludes the first person on my list and on we go to the second and possibly the last one I'm going to talk about in detail (as i'm running short on time , I apologize). 




Now second place is a tie. I have two people that fit into second place - and most of you will want to kill me for comparing these two people, as most of you will like one or the other and won't think the other deserves to be put next to the other. (That's a lot of 'other'! And I'm not even quite sure if that makes much sense! :S Sorry for the rambling!) But I on the other hand love them both and enjoy both of their creations equally and honestly couldn't imagine my life without them as they've been my sources of entertainment for quite a while and still are at times. Anyways ... these two people happen to be : J.K Rowling and Stephanie Meyer. (Sorry again for those of you who are gaping at the screen wishing you could put a bullet through my head, right now). 


SO, J.K Rowling  which all of you must know is the author of the Harry Potter series. Harry potter is quite possibly one the greatest series in the world! I will admit I haven't read all the books - but I assure you I will do so , sometime before I die. ;) But while reading the ones I did manage to read , I must say it was hard to put down. I didn't want to sleep, eat, shower, leave the house, go to school ... DO ANYTHING! I just wanted the world to stop until I was finished reading! And I found my self in the same situation while reading Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series. From the wizards , spells and the magical world to the vampires, werwolves and love triangles - I found myself trapped in an imaginary world that I couldn't come out of. It was magical. All of it - was just magical! I cried when dobby died and I cried when Edward left. I danced with joy when Voldermort was killed and when Bella, Edward , Jacob and Renesmee were going to be able to have a happy ending after all. I loved every part of it all and I wouldn't have it any other way. And I have yet to come across another book or series that can give me so much joy as these two series have. 

SO a big thank you to Mark Zuckerberg, J.K.Rowling and Stephanie Meyer.  You've all done an amazing job - and I applaud you! :) 


Of course there are many other people, dead and living who inspire me too. But I figure this post is quite long already and if I were to go on, you'd all switch off and hate me for it, so for now I'm going to stick with these three. :) So I hope you enjoyed this post and it's quite possibly my longest post yet, so I'm quite excited and proud. Also I'd like to add, I'm sure most of you know or have realized this 30 day challenge has really been a challenge and also has been getting quite boring for me - but saying that -  I quite enjoyed writing this post, so I apologize for some of the previous posts that haven't really been quite interesting or personal as this one. But I appreciate your patience and your loyalty :D 
Until next time Amigos! 

From the other side of the rainbow.

xxx

Happy Valentines Day!

Hello everyone,

This post is not part of the 30 day challenge. :) I would just like say a very Happy Valentines day to everyone reading! When looking up the definition of love this is what I found: a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend. And I agree. In my opinion Valentines day is not just to be shared between couples but with everyone you love, this could be friends, family and blog followers :)  SO to all my friends, family and blog followers : I love you all and I hope you're having a great Valentines day, wherever you are. :) If any of you haven't got a valentine today and would like one : I'm here for you :) Happy Valentines day ;) <3

All pictures above were taken from google images. I do not own them :) Until next time Amigos! 

From the other side of the rainbow. 

xxx

Things to do before I die ...

Hello everyone,

It's day 15 and today i'm required to show you a picture of something I want to do before I die. If you've read Day 1 you'll know that I have a bucket list. This bucket list is a little book filled with things I want to do before I die, so I thought why not share some with you?

1.Be a part of a flash mob.

21. Send a message in a bottle.

26.Experiance the Tomatina festival in Spain. 

42.Learn to make my own candles.

Flash mob. 

Messsage in a bottle.

candles.  

Tomatina festival.

All pictures above were take from google images. I don't own any of them. :) Until next time Amigos! 

From the other side of the rainbow.

xxx

14

Hey there guys,

It's day 14 Aujourd'hui ! And today I must show you someone I could never imagine my life without. And this post is going to be a little repetitive I'm afraid. :S Of course it's going to be my family, but note there certainly are a couple of friends who I can't imagine my life without - and they know who they are;) .  My family is always there - mainly because I live with them - and even though we have have had our bad times, we've definitely had twice as many good times. So here is 'ma famille'.  :) These pictures were all taken on the same night - on photo booth. I apologize for the effects and bad quality but I thought these pictures would be better than formal boring pictures ;) I'm sure at least one of them will crack you up. :)

I hope these pictures brought a smile to your faces :) And I hope you enjoyed this post! :) Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow.

xxx

Florence and The Machine, anyone?

Hey there everyone!

Day 13 today and It's time to show you my favorite band or artist. HERE YOU GO:

I don't have a real reason. There's just nothing, not to like. :D My favorite song by Florence and The machine would have to be: No Light, No Light. Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow. 

xxx

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

Hey there everyone, 


it's day 12 today and finding something I love turned out to be quite a task so I shall share with you a couple of things I love...


I love family and friends.I love the movies I love you man, devil wears prada, Juno, Mean girls and many many other. I love my phone,and my iPod . I love Ritz crackers and cheerios. I love to wear comfy shoes. I love my camera. I love elephants,. I love the color yellow. I love playing tag like a little kid. I love board games and card games. I love avocado juice. I love acting like a complete dork with my friends. I love sweatshirts. I love pictures. I love going to amusement parks. I love music. I love spending time outside. I love snow and leaves in Autumn. I love glitter. I love fire. I love food. I love baking. I love birthday cakes. I love min-chocolate chip ice cream and my mint-chocolate candle. I love my Mac book pro and photo booth. I love stamps and stickers. I like lists. I like paint. I love skipping ropes. I love my Just-beats. I love Justin Bieber, One direction, the backstreet boys and britney spears (my guilty pleasures) hahaha! I love babies.  I love Chai tea. I love coffee.  I love paper crafts. I Love gum. I love junk food. I love happy endings. I love sleeping. I love flash mobs. I love , LOVE. 

and the list is endless...

And that's it for today, thanks for stopping by! Until next time Amigos!

From the other side of the rainbow.

xxx