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Ciao everyone! How are you all doing this weekend? :D
Mine is all about going out with a friend, relaxing and looking after myself by going to the gym and eating healthy (at least I'm trying my best!).


I'm writing this post to let you all know that I want to be more active on this blog. I know, I've said this a million times before on my old posts but this time I'm really working hard to improve who I am and what I do. 
I started this blog and my youtube channel age ago because I really loved the idea of sharing my adventures, the creativity that I have inside of me, the passion for technology, the things I do and the thoughts that my head is always full of. 
Even though I went trough same hard years that made me neglect many things, I never forgot this online space that I opened when I had the urge to scream to the Earth how beautiful actually this Life is.

So I'M BACK once again to scream because even though I shut myself, I never stoped collecting great memories with family and friends at home or around the world. 
So stay tune for my next posts because while I was absent here, I actually visited different countries here in Europe and eat way too much. You might have seen some glimpses on my instagram and if you didn't, make sure to follow me on it (INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/_melanihe_).  

Anyway thank you always for sticking with me and love you guys very much!

KIssxKiss
Melani 

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Much Needed Time Off

Ciao people! I know, first of all I want to start by apologizing for disappearing for such a long time. It was never my intention to be so not consistent into updating the blog page that I started ages ago with such a passion for it.
I won't lie, I did go through a very hard time once I started university some year ago and that had repercussions on the rest of my life till last year, when I finally reach out for help. 

If you are new to my page I would like to introduce myself once again. Hi! My name is Melani and I was born and raised in Italy even though both of my parents are from the beautiful Sri Lanka, ranked top county for travel in 2019 by Lonely Planet magazine!! 😁

Since I was a kid I always had this sense of wanting to get to know things. To explore and get to know everything that was around me, never just to ignore and go on. I've always been a curious girl with the passion of books and the outside world, curious of technology that during my childhood was having an actual boom; what was new one day, right the next one was old news. 
Some times even too mature for her age. 
A determined girl willing to show how powerful and capable she was, maybe because being born in a country where everyone is visibly different from you, we were often not very looked upon. For that reason I was never able to stepped on someone. My nature is more of a listener and a silent fighter for what I want to achieve and show! 
I always believed into having a good education, on studying and working hard in school thanks especially to my Mom. I always did great and the hard work always payed off. But on my last year of high school I was so tired that I though of having a gap year before starting university. Unfortunately, for many reasons that I don't want to explain now, I didn't get the chance and went straight into university after passing the exam for Biomedical Engineering. I always wanted to be a doctor (ahah very asian of me 😂) but after not passing the exam, I tried for my other big passion, engineering and as I said before I passed into a course that I thought was the perfect balance between my two big loves: medicine and computer science engineering. At the same time during that year I discovered how I loved photography and writing. That's the time I started this blog probably pushed by the need of freeing my mind on such a stressful time of my life...and that was is!  I was actually very happy at the time but life hits you and it hit me quite hard.

My first year of uni went by so quickly. Officially adulting far from home and far from my parent for the first time, I was not happy with my choices.
 But I didn't know how to tell someone. I was disappointed of myself for thinking such things and almost ashamed for wanting to change uni course after working so hard to get into it and always being such a clever kid. 

That's the biggest mistake that us humans do! We are too hard on us and that's not good at all. We are not perfect machines, so we are allowed to make mistakes! It's totally normal. At 18/19 years all we might have is an idea of what we want to be growing up or what we want to do in life. But it doesn't mean that if that target doesn't go as planed then you are done forever. You MUST keep calm and reach out for help if you feel like you lost yourself, because you are just 18/19 and till that age you were always helped somehow from your parents. So put aside your ego and get help because our parents will do anything, they always did till at that age. If you can't reach out for your parents then ask help from a friend, a counselor, a teacher...a adult!! 

It took me quite a while before I understood that. So last year I was helped from my parents once I put aside my fear of telling them on how I was feeling and what was going on with me. I left Biomedical Engineering and tried another test for Computer Science Engineering and I did pass for it!! So now I'm on my second year ☺️

It's not easy at all to start all over again. Trust me, it's not at all so if you are in a same situation as mine don't give up but keep pushing it, because hard work is always paid off at the end!
 Just remember to be sincere to yourself. If you feel something, listen to it and don't be scared to talk with anyone. We didn't come on this world alone, so we are not alone once we are here 💐

Let's look after each other. Mental health is important. I am important, you are important, we all are important!  If I did it, you all can do it too.

Much love from a very happy Melani. Thank you to all of those who have helped me to get back on track and work on being always the better version of myself! 
LOVE YOU MAMMA AND PAPA' and thank you all for sticking around even when I was absent. Stay tune for my journey...the journey of life!

Cheers for this blog and the future blog post I'm already working on! 
CIAOOO! 

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20!!!!! OH MY!

OH MY!! Right in this moment - well not exactly now but a few moments before starting to write this post- I'm hiding my face behind both of my hands. "Oh my" are the two words I can't stop repeating in my head because in one minute (yes! Right now it's the 19th of October, time 23:59) I'm turning 20 TWENTY TWENTY TWENTYYYYYY! o.0

I've got a lot of mixed feelings in this moment: I'm happy because my new three crazy and lovely roommates that I'm with, stayed up till now just to jump in my room and shout at might night the traditional "Happy Birthday" song for me when they usually are already snoring in bed! If only you could see the huge smile crossing my face now! :D I can't be more grateful for this little gesture ♥  

At the same time when I think about the fact that I just turned twenty and that my teenage life is over . . . WOW! I can't believe it! Ahaha!! I can start laughing hysterically because the fact that when you turn 20 you are officially in adulthood! I don't know, it's like everyone, from now on will treat you in a different way. I really don't know what I'm saying I guess it's just that I get a tiny bit scared thinking of the future from now on and I'll repeat FROM NOW THAT I'M 20!! 

I have so many things that I want to achieve, that I want to explore, know, do, go... a lot of things and as I said before I'm happy, scared, nervous....think of and emotion and I'm feeling it! 

I guess this is the magic of being young, of being TWENTY NOW!

THANK YOU EVERYONE IN MY LIFE FOR GIVING ME ALL THE LOVE AND THE STRENGTH! THANK YOU TO EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING THAT I GOT TO KNOW IN THIS 20 YEARS, FOR TALKING TO ME AND GOT TO KNOW ME AND MADE ME THE PERSON I'M TODAY! AND FINALLY BUT NOT LEAST THANK YOU MAMMA (mom) AND PAPÀ (dad) FOR GIVING ME LIFE! 

I hope to keep on living happily like I did always in this 20 years of living! THANK YOU TO ALL THE BIRTHDAY WISHES! 

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A Weekend in Switzerland

Good evening everyone! Here in Italy it's 10 p.m. and for the fact that for today I have finished studying, right now I'm feeling bored so I am writing this post about my last week relaxing weekend! 

Well, I've got two best friends. One of these two has a house (where he goes for the holidays) in the beautiful city of Lugano in Switzerland (a city very closed to the Italian border) and since we became very close friends (that is for almost 5 years) he always invited me at his place but never got the chance to actually go! 

Now that I'm in uni, I've got more free time and because here in Italy we have 5 days of Easter holiday I decided to make it a 7 days holiday [hihi] and from April 10th to the 12 I went to visit him! FINALLY :)

So of course I took my photo camera with me and captured everything I could from the little beautiful cities we went to visit near Lugano.

ENJOY! 

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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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