S.O.A.P n° 1: "Cappuccino Break Lovers"

Ciao Everyone! As I wrote in one of my last posts, today [FINALLY] I'm starting the new serie BUT before I own you an apology because for my whole summer break I didn't update this blog at all so ... I'm really really sorry everyone!
When I wrote my last post I had just finished all my first year UNI exams and so right now I'm attending my second year (HEELP)!

As I said before I had this idea for a new series that I was still not sure how to name it but now I've got the idea of something like S.O.A.P. aka "Story Of A Pic" ... mmm I kind of like this name so YES! WHY NOT? I'm going to name this new series of posts S.O.A.P.

A LOT of my pics that I really love unfortunately don't make it to the final post or sometimes I take just one photo that I fall in love with but I end up thinking that it makes really no sense to post only that lonely one. I often take pics with my iPhone or with my Nikon D5300 and most of the time there's a story or feeling that NOW I want to share with you...write you the story behind it - the reason I wanted to capture that moment :)
So here for you guys... lets the party begin :)

S.O.A.P #1

I have a really nice relationship with my mom. She is almost like a best friend for me because we can really talk about anything, we go out whenever we can but at the same time when we fight we fight like wild animals like only a mother and a daughter ca do...hihihi

Well, these two pics where taken one and a half week before my exams started that means around the end of May. 

I study in a different city from where I actually live (Verona) so I had to move. By the way the city I moved to is called - in Italian - Padova but even known as Padua in English.        
For this reason now I live a bit far away from my parents so whenever my mom or dad get a bit of free time from their jobs they come to visit me even if they are exhausted, especially my mom!

From last year we have created this kind of new habit of finding a place to sit and enjoy some bakery and a cup of cappuccino or latte macchiato :) so we found this a.m.a.z.i.n.g place right in the center of Padova owned by a pretty famous pastry chef here in Italy called Chef Luigi Biasetto who owns 

CAFFÈ CAVOUR PADOVA

Piazza Cavour 8/9 - 35122 Padova (PD)!

Trust me, I'm a big foodie person - my dad is a chef so I grow up looooving food! - this place is the bomb in everything: in taste and calories too ;D 

It might be a bit price if you decide to sit and enjoy a good coffee and if you compare it to all the other caffeès existing here in Padova but no!! You must enjoy at least once in your life a place like that exactly like me and my mom do, without thinking of the bill. Then c'mon LOOK AT THOSE PICS!! THEY ARE PIECES OF ART!! Seriously D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S and worth to try!! 
If you don't won't to spend a few euros more than you usually do then you can take-away without any problem...that will cost much less! 

Let me know if you ever get the chance to go there and how was your experience :) 

This is the web site: http://www.pasticceriabiasetto.it/
This is the place : 

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"I Don't Know How To Title This Post" Post :)

WHAT?? Two posts on a row? 

Well yes you guys! I wanted to treat you with a last (the real last one) post about my Thailand trip! 
"What is this all about?" you may ask when I already said that THAT one was the last!

I forgot that quite a long time ago when I just came back to Italy (where I live) from that famous trip, I made two little videos using almost all the footage that I've taken during the time spent there! 

Yes, I created two videos because I've got a YouTube channel (HeyMelani) that this year I would really like it to be more active! So here for you guys the videos…just enjoy them and if you can just check out my channel :)
Byeee

 

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T H A I L A N D: Day 3

Hello there! How have you guys been? I know, it has been a long time since the last time I posted something but here a series of new photos from my trip to Bangkok :) 

The third day, I have to be honest, was the most beautiful day! We got to see one of the most amazing things in Thailand that is the stunning GRAND PALACE! The pic above is just a little sneak peek of the beauty of that place; it doesn't even show a third...what am I saying?  Not even one-eighth of its glory! I'm not kidding! 

There was just one strange thing, at least for me was strange and funny at the same time. When we went there I was wearing a cute and colorful dress without knowing that short things or anything that shows too much skin is banned! There's a logical reason for this and that's apart from the palace you even find the temple and so buddhist monks still live there!

Apparently I was the only one that did the same mistake because there's an official office that the guards send you to file up a documents and lends you a shirt and, if needed for the girls a long cloth as a skirt and for the boys a pair of typical thai baggy trousers…as you can see in the pics below :)

Guess what we did at night? Yes the usual and must walk in one of the many night markets existing in Bangkok for some gooood shopping or food sold there. Sooo relaxing and nice :)

There's something that I've been waiting to see and that is pretty disgusting for the European and I'm sure to many other people from all over the world but at the same time very fascinating. 

FINALLYY! I saw one of the most iconic and strange things of Asia… the famous fried insects! We were not able to go to see the market that sell all of those strange thing but we found a vendor that sold fried worms and grasshoppers. Yuck! :P :)

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T H A I L A N D: Day 1

Our hotel room!

Never seen a street like this!!

mmm yeeah! Not the best pic that you all have seen BUT HEY! I kind of like this pic :D

W-W-WHAT ARE THESE THIIIINGS??

Fishes

I won the award foooor WORST BLOGGER EVER :( 

I'm really sorry for my hopeless job with my blog, but seriously I didn't have time! I was busy with my university application that by the way is the most difficult, strange a-a-and aaah seriously all the procedure is online so you have to follow what they say but! IT'S IMPOSSIBLEE!!! 

Anyways we are not here to talk about my problems so here guys to all of you, who follow me or bump into my blog, some of the pics that I took the first day we landed in Thailand! 

We arrived more or less in the afternoon. While we were still in the airport I realized a really reeally terrible thing: I completely forgot my photo camera's battery and battery charger!! X.X in Sri Lanka!! OMG . . . like seriusly?? This is so typical from me and as a cliché my mom freaked out! 

So we went to the hotel and then went out looking around for a place where we could find something, 'cause I couldn't be in a place that I've dreamed for my entire life and not be able to take pics! That was IMPOSSIBLE! 

Cutting short a long story we found a very big shopping mall close to out hotel and found everything we...mmm... I needed :D

  

Everything we saw while we were walking was soo exciting and soooo beautiful! I REALLY FELT IN LOVE WITH THAILAND!

Anyways, today I showed you the pics of the first day so stay tuned to my blog because I'm going to post more pics about my trip!

THANK YOU and A TON OF KISSES

Melani

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WARNING!!

HI THERE!! I'm really sorry for not having written anything for so long, but ... you know: D it was holiday time!

For this last reason, even if a bit late (uuups), I want to wish you

MERRY CHRISTMAS & A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I had Christmas break from school so I spent my time in two amazing countries with my mum and do not worry I will write in the coming weeks. It has been two crazy and amazing weeks with my lovely family!

Soooo...watch out! I will post about my travels very soon!

Byeeeeee!

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GETTING CRAZY!!

OMG ≧_≦  

I'm really getting crazy!! On the 4th of December (2013) my mum left! ╥﹏╥ 

No...She didn't left leaving me and my dad forever alone! ahaha! 

She left for SRI LANKAAA!! And I'm sooo jealoooous ╥﹏╥ I haven't been there since December 2010 and I miss my whole family there! That's because only my dad and my mommy emigrated to Italy (dad almost 30 years ago and mom almost 20). So sometimes this fact is very annoying when it's Summer, Christmas time, Halloween or even Easter!

BUT! On the 18th of this month I'M GOOOOING THERE!! And I really can't wait! I have so many things to do or see.

This year will be great fun 'cause only me and my mom are staying there while my dad is not coming because of his work. It's difficult for us going all together, the reason is that we get more tired then the entire working year because everybody want us for dinners, lunches or for anything else. So we run...like really running everywhere!!! 

And I can wait 'cause we are going to Thailand tooooo!! 

So I hope this week flights away as soon as possible!!

Let's keep our fingers crossed...at least mine!! 

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New new and NEWWW!!

Check it out!   

Hi!! If you hadn't realized yet I LOVE YOUTUBE! in these last couple months I especially love editing and uploading videos ! It makes me feel creative and it push me to discover the world, capture everything and upload it to my channel!

If you didn't know the link for my channel (HeyMelani) is: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXW2loGbOOGJUXCXVKxe32g

This week I upload 3 videos and the liks are:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3YDBTxmCYg
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBUvrkLjVpw
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHhxpZ7_vJs

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I'm COMPLETE!

I'm finally complete! I already started school almost one month ago but...that's not the reason why I'm complete; the real reason is that two days before I started school (10th of September 2013) my mum finally bought me a thing that I was craving for a reeally long time and dreaming since I can't even remember! It's a thing that I always saw on those american movies...and...it's a POLAROID! 

Yes! One of those photo cameras that prints wide away! Like... "Click"...2 seconds later...."Gneeee"...and the photo comes out from a small hole! So amaziiiing! 

I'm in love! ❤️  It's such a funky and fun thing and it's even very very easy to use. Mine is not reaally a polaroid, it's a FujiFilm Instax mini 7S color?? CHOCOO! Yes I bought it in that color and here for you my choco polaroid and the first pic that I took:

YAAAY!

1st PIC!!

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Neeew!

Here guys my FIRST VIDEO EVER ON YOUTUBE!! 

This is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2eZ3497juE

or you can watch it even here down below! Don't forget to leave any comment or just thumb-up this video and if you want to subscribe too!  

 

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Kids of Africa!

One of the most beautiful thing that we saw in Tanzania since the first day we land there were...THE KIDS!! 

Yes they were the sweetest thing ever on earth because when we used to pass on the street the first day on the bus they waved us with a huge smile on the face without even knowing who we were or where we were coming from! Or even when we used to pass with our jeep true the small villages or anywhere we went...they always waved the hands and screamed a loud "CIAOO!" 

For us it was really surprising because if you go around here in Italy waving, smiling and saying "hi" to every one that you don't know they would probably call the police! No, noot reeeally the police...maybe someone...but the people around you would surely think that you are crazy or have some mental problems for smiling so much like we did in Tanzania! 

Not only the kids were waving us but even adults used to wave as too! Exactly like the kids...but without screaming "CIAOO!" :D

Here some of the pics that I took of the kids of our village and around where we went! (The kids were... EVERYWHERE... and... EVERY TIIIME! Like little... frogs!)

 

 

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