A touch of colour

Hola!

So today I'm going to let you have a bit more of a peek into my life and I'm going to share some pics of my bedroom, and some ways I use one recurring colour in different parts of my room. Does that news not just make your day? Probably not. 

But anyway, welcome!

So I have one wall of my room painted a deep plum sort of colour while the others are white, as I like my room to have a lot of natural light during the day and the white reflects that well. But I also like to carry the plum colour through other parts of my bedroom, like through the blinds, but also just little touches of it here and there.

I found this pretty hanging thing at a market, and I absolutely love it because not only is it the right colour but also music is such a big part of my life, and there's no harm in showing that off in my bedroom!

And conveniently I also found these cute little pegs at a completely different market, but they match perfectly. I just stuck these above my keyboard.

I also carry the colour through into my bathroom a little.

oh hai

My dog being a cutie.

Even through the bits and bobs around my room I carry the colour through - basically if I see anything this colour I just get it for my bedroom!

And of course, a nice warm blanket that I can snuggle up in during winter. And drink tea. Lots of tea.

So there you have it, my plum-themed bedroom! That sounds rather strange. But yeah, I hope you enjoyed this blogpost! I don't really do these sort of advice-y, 'how-to' kind of posts often, mostly because I'm rubbish at giving advice and prefer to just write about anything haha!

Anyway, let me know if you like these sorts of things, and if you have any cool ways to 'personalise' your bedroom.

À bientôt!

Salutations

Yes, it has now been over a month since I last wrote a blogpost. Time flies!

The last time I had such a big gap between posting was over my last holidays, and I've just been on holiday again for three weeks and am now back at school as of tuesday. I am sensing a pattern here... it would seem I only blog when I'm at school, which makes absolutely no sense. Or perfect sense, if you take into account the fact that I am an epic procrastinator.

But anyway, I do have some news. Over these three weeks of freedom I have not been entirely inert, and I actually finished a book, something I am extremely proud of because I am absolutely terrible at finishing stuff! Granted, it's quite short, but it is my baby nonetheless. You can find it on wattpad riiiiight HERE, although not all the chapters are up just yet, but I'm posting one every couple of days so they'll all be up soon!

Erm, what else. I have a very busy term coming up, mostly with musical things, as well as academics. The saddest part is all you northern hemisphere people are having a lovely long summer holiday, and down here we're at school and it is absolutely freezing. But it's okay, because I have tea. Tea is the solution to everything.

Another pro of living up there in the northern hemisphere: you can currently walk into a cinema and watch Ant-Man. I CANNOT. IT IS NOT OUT IN SOUTH AFRICA UNTIL THE 31ST. This is very saddening because I am dying to see it and it is so difficult to avoid spoilers (especially when I follow about 200 marvel accounts on instagram) and everyone is saying that it's amazing and I just really want to see it. In a week tomorrow I can, but that just seems like so far away. Sigh.

Anyway, I think I'll shut up now because I've probably been rambling on for long enough. This was kind of just a life update kinda thing I guess, with a little sneaky self-promotion (heheh). But I should probably go and do something productive now. Like eat dinner.

So goodbye for now, and in apology for my lack of creative ideas / posting at all, here is a picture I took of an adorable dog I met when I was on holiday.

You're welcome.

Walkies

Bonjour!

So the other day I went on a long dog walk with my family, and brought along my camera so I could snap a few pictures. The forest we went to was absolutely beautiful and I just love the trees because they're so tall and grand, and despite the fact that it is now winter down here in the southern hemisphere, it was a lovely sunny day.

I love dog walks, because not only are they a great way to clear your head and get a bit of exercise, but I always find that they but me in such a good mood. My dog always just looks so happy when we go out for 'walkies', and it's impossible to be sad when your dog is smiling at you!

But yeah, I thought I'd just share a few of the pictures I took on here. Enjoy!

Meet my crazy sister!

Me trying to experiment with taking cool photos.

She found a stick. She wouldn't part with it.

Et voila, my family dog walk in pictures. Isn't the last one so cute! I just love her.

Anyway that's all for today, so see you again soon!

Current Favourites: Films

Hello there!

So today I thought I'd just share a few of my current favourite films - subject to change, but I do have a few that I am absolutely loving at the moment. I just love sitting down and watching a movie, being completely immersed into another world and experiencing everything the characters are seeing and feeling up close. It's just so magical!

Anyway, let's get on. 

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Okay, this is basically my all-time favourite film. I absolutely love everything Marvel, but for some reason this is just my favourite film of all of them. It's just so clever - which is a massive turn on for me in a film - and it's got extremely sad parts as well as some hilarious parts, which I also absolutely love. Plus it's got Scarlett Johansson, who I adore!

2. Saving Mr Banks

I re-watched this film the other day and I was reminded just how good it is! It's perfectly balanced between the sort of 'current' plot line and the flashback plot line, and again, it's just extremely cleverly done. Plus the acting is amazing - and also, the story is just so interesting, especially as it's based on a true one! I'll admit, I cry a lot while watching this film!

3. Les Miserables

Les Mis is just a must watch, no matter what sort of films you like, in my opinion. It's just so well done, and of course, the songs can never get old! A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to see it on stage in London - which was absolutely amazing - and I think that the film really does do it justice. I cried in this one too!

4. Divergent

At the moment, this is one of my absolute favourite films, and I swear it just gets better every time I watch it! I also think Insurgent is just as good - if not better - and I can't wait until it comes out on DVD! Tris is one of my all-time favourite characters and I just love her in both movies - and Shailene Woodley's acting is just amazing. I feel like I've used that word far too many times in this blogpost. But yeah, I'm absolutely loving Divergent right now! I also cried way too much in this one... this seems to be a recurring occurrence in films I love.


So there you have it, a few of my current favourite films. Let me know if you too love any of these films so we can cry over them together, or any of your favourite films that you think I should watch! Like I said, I just love watching films and it's my absolute dream to write music for them one day!

That's all from me. Adios!

My biggest pet peeve

Helloooooooo! Not sure why there are quite so many 'o's there. But anyway.

So, believe it or not, I am actually quite a cynical person - as much as I try to be positive about everything, and usually it works out. Except, it seems, when I'm at school. I just seem to get super frustrated with absolutely everything and everyone. Like, all the time. 

And one of my biggest pet peeves is people walking slowly in the corridors.

It's the stupidest thing, in all honesty. But I just get SO ANNOYED when I'm stuck behind someone who is being a tortoise, or worse, a group of people who take up the entire width of the corridor and then decide to amble along, chatting away and completely ignoring everything around them. And I'm just behind them like:

Would you be so kind as to MOVE OUT OF THE WAY?

But, of course, I am far too awkward to ever say anything so I just have to try and squeeze past them if I can find a space - usually resulting in me getting squashed against a wall/tripping over something/walking from side to side looking like an idiot. 

Which is just wonderful.

But wait, it gets worse. Then the people decide to just stop. Just stop, right in the middle of the corridor, chatting away or on their phones and completely oblivious to the fact that they are blocking THE ENTIRE CORRIDOR. Just why? And again, I have to try and squeeze past them somehow, again, resulting in me getting squashed and looking like an idiot.

I always make sure to 'accidentally' bump into them as I pass though.

Hehe.

Anyway there you have it. So if you ever want to annoy me just walk really slowly in front of me in a narrow corridor! (Please don't.) I don't know why I get so annoyed by this, it's actually really bad haha! But I can't help it, it's just so frustrating!

Do you have any major pet peeves? Do you also get annoyed with people walking slowly in the corridor? Let me know in the comments!

Oh, and would you like to hear about more of my pet peeves? Because I have quite a few...

Maybe not such a good idea.

But yeah, bye!

P.S. Sorry about the pointless rant, I just had to get it off my chest haha!

Book of the month | April

Yes, it's that time of the month (no not that time) for me to share my favourite book for April! I realise I missed out March, but I was so busy that I just didn't really have the chance. But better late than never, right?

Anyway, let's get on with it. So for April the book I recommend reading is... (drumroll please)

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce.

Now, I have read this book multiple times and I am absolutely in love with it. It is a book about werewolves, which I know is rather a cliche, overused and generally abused (especially in fanfiction) topic, but this book is different because it is extremely cleverly done. (Also the girl doesn't fall in love with the werewolf). Obviously I won't give anything away, but there are lots of clues and hints to the sort of climax of the book which I really picked up on when I read it the second, third and fourth (etc.) time, which made me want to squeal when I could see the link to the future event. In fact, the book has many of these 'squeal' moments: as in, a huge plot twist or a sudden realisation when everything clicks into place and makes perfect sense - I think that these are what really makes a book great, and if that is so then this book is flipping amazing. 

Another thing I love about Sisters Red is that even though there are only really three major characters: the two sisters, Scarlett and Rosie, and their friend Silas, there is never a dull moment and the intricate plot means that there doesn't need to be a huge amount of characters - instead the focus is on the individual development of these three people. The point of view switches between the two sisters every chapter, which I really like because it means you can see an event in one person's perspective that the other person is not a part of, giving you a broader look on the plot, and you can also see the same event from two different perspectives, which is always interesting. Scarlett and Rosie have a very strong relationship and I love how you can see how certain events make them react to one another in different ways in each of their perspectives, because really they are very different people. But I'm not going to go to deep into it because I don't want to spoil it if you do end up reading the book!

In addition, the author Jackson Pearce is awesome in my opinion, and has written loads of other young adult books which I have not yet read, but they are somewhere on my long list of books to read because they all look just as great as Sisters Red was!

Overall, the book is extremely cleverly done and I just love that Jackson Pearce was able to take a well-known and sometimes cliche topic and make it her own, and make it smart. Honestly this is one of my all-time favourite books and I actually want to read it again as I'm writing about it now!

Please do let me know if you have read or decide to read this book after reading this, and also feel free to suggest any other book you would recommend in the comments!

And that's all from me. Megan out. 

Problems with being a writer

Hello! So, you may or may not know but I adore writing - but of course, writing comes with a curse. There are some things that you just can’t get out of, and if you are a writer, or any sort of creative person actually, you will probably relate to some of these. 

Or maybe you won’t relate at all because I’m just strange.

Well, let’s find out!

1. You get amazing ideas at extremely inconvenient times

I’m sure this has happened to us all. There you are, lying in bed on the verge of sleep, when pop! a new story idea comes into your mind, and you know that it could be fantastic. But you’re all snuggled up under your duvet in the dark, and the mere thought of getting up and writing this idea down makes you retreat further into your cocoon. You tell yourself it’s fine, this idea is so great that you’re sure you’ll remember it in the morning.

But of course, you don’t.

Or worse, you’re writing a maths exam, you’re mind begins to wander - because let’s face it, no one wants to think about maths for a long period of time - and before you know it you have a whole book, characters, plot and all, planned out in your head, and you want to start writing it now. But then you are brought back to the harsh reality of the maths exam in front of you, so you focus on that until you can finally leave and by then, of course, everything is forgotten. Just like that.

Or maybe you’re just studying for a test the next day and you suddenly have a great idea for a blogpost, so you switch on your computer and start writing in the spur of the moment, and before you know it there’s no time left to study and you fail the test the next day. 

Which, coincidentally, is what is going to happen to me tomorrow.

Oh dear.

2. Your fingers don’t move fast enough for your mind

Sometimes you’re ideas for what you’re writing are just so darn great that you fingers literally can’t type out all the words at the rate your mind is rushing ahead. There you are, writing about that girl meeting that guy - let’s just say - but in your head you’re thinking about what they’re going to say to each other the next day when they meet again. 

Of course, you don’t want to forget that because you know that it is just so hilariously funny and you are an absolute genius, so you press enter a few times and quickly write that little section out (or perhaps not so quickly) and then you come back to what you were originally writing and you’ve completely forgotten what you were on about.

Yes, this has happened to me multiple times.

3. You’re always thinking of something new to write

Now, this one doesn't sound so bad does it?

Well, it can be. 

You see, as much as you’d love to believe you can, you can’t write six novels at once. I don’t know if this is the same for everyone but I am absolutely terrible at finishing things, and I have so many ideas for stories I want to write but I just can’t write them all. As soon as I get to about six chapters of one, I think of another idea and start planning that like crazy, often mapping out the entire plot of the novel. And very quickly I write out the first few chapters, and then I sort of slow down a bit and then suddenly I have another idea so I put all of my energy into that… and so the cycle continues.

Does this happen to everyone, or is it just me?

I don’t know, but I dream about one day finishing a book. Writing that last sentence that ends it all off, and just thinking I’ve done it.

One day.

Well that’s all for now, I may do a Part 2 thing of this in the future, who knows? But for now I bid thee farewell, so enjoy your day/evening/night and make sure to pop in again soon!

작별 인사

[that’s korean for goodbye, I google translated it]