VLOG: Paris - DAY 1 and DAY 2

Ciao you guys! How are you all doing? I've been busy with university work so excuse me if I didn't updated the blog! 🙏🏽 But here finally the first part of my vlog in Paris.
I actually edited and uploaded this one quite a long time ago on my YOUTUBE CHANNEL. But I wanted all you guys here to watch it too. So here for you without further interruptions, PART ONE

Hope you'll like it as much as I do! :D

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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je t'aime PARIS ● DAY 1

Good evening people! How is everyone doing? 

Today I'll show you a special place I visited last month for the first time ever! 

You might already know by now which place I'm talking about from the title of this post and, yes it's PARIIIIIIIS in FRANCE!!! 

Wow I still can't believe I went there. It still fells like I went there in my dreams! 

Last month I was able to visit this lovely city after my friend found and organized basically everything. 

I always wanted to go one day in the future but my friend, on the other side has been dying to go there since high school!

I think if you want to go or do something you should seriously sit down and just go for it! If you just keep on telling by words that you want or want to do or go somewhere, those words will remain just words you said to the air! So take your PC and start looking for flights and hotels or pick up your phone and call your trustworthy travel agency and look for good occasions!! Like Shia LaBeouf says: " JUST.DO.IT! " aahaha! :D

So after I said him that and a few days passed by when he called me and told me that he found everything and if I wanted to join him... well I immediately accepted!! 

I mean Paris is Paris and when the flight is cheap as well as the hotel - even a very good hotel close to the center - well! No one can refuse such a tempting offer!! 

On the 12th of November (2016) we woke up around 3a.m. because the flight was very early in the morning from Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport. 

The flight was very calm and from where we live here in Italy it takes less than 2 hours to go to Paris. 
As we arrived we were immediately welcomed from a gorgeous and super orange sunrise (as you can see in the pic above). From the small Beauvais-Tillé Airport in Paris we took a bus to the center and from the center, we managed to find an underground line that brought us right a few meters away from our hotel. 

We were staying at the lovelyCarlton's Hotel in Montmartre neighborhood.
Here is the website of the hotel: http://www.hotelcarltons.fr and the map down below, if you are interested as well for a place to stay while in Paris :)

After we checked-in our hotel, we officially started our advanceeer in Pariiis!! 

So, here fo you guys the pics of our FIRST DAY in PARIS! 

Stay tune because I'm going to show you day 2, day 3 and our final day 4! Thank you as always and ENJOYYYY!! 

Who knew Paris was so cold in November? I definitely didn't know that. For some strange reason I always thought France's weather was like Italy's but NO! Now I know and I should have know that even before because if you think about it, France is much up on the north unlike Italy! [I feel so dumb thinking about how ignorant I am sometimes!]

We were even unlucky during our staying there. We didn't have a single day without rain or a cloudy sky :( but, or well, we can't have everything from the life so let's just appreciate what we get and have got! :D

ahah!I was trying so hard and then my friend showed me the ultimate result...

Our first Croque Monsieur

Macarooooooons!!! 

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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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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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New Series

Ciao people! There is one thing that I wanted to do for a while now!

Well let me explain a bit...I always think that I don't update this blog enough or the way I want to. I want to post pics and videos of all the things I do, not only during a special occasion or when I travel but even normal life stuff too! Well...I know I didn't explain very well; explaining is really not my thing, I always try hard but I'm really bad in it.

In a few words what I want to say is that taking pics is really a huge part of who I am. It's really a big passion that I had since I was small and while maybe in the past I used to take pic only during spacial occasions, now growing up I started to appreciate little everyday things and started to want to save them for the time coming in pic form.

Because I love to save things as a memory, a few years ago I even created - we can say- an electronic dairy that anybody from all over the world can see. Even if I've lived almost for only 20 years (I'm 20 in October) I really have many many things to say! I swear in 20 years I have experienced and went through a lot of things!

Maybe in the future I will even talk more - on my YouTube channel - or write more about me so that you all can understand who and how I became the person I am today :)

BUT ANYWAYS NOW ... I think I wrote a lot but still didn't explained anything :/ grr...What I want to do from today on is to post more of the pics I take and write the story behind them! I take a lot of pics but never post them or went I write a blog post a lot of pics don't make it to the final post so from today on I'm going to post one by one all of my pics maybe - who knows - everyday! 

I really hope that you'll appreciate how I see the world through my iPhone 4S and Nikon D5300 lens :)

BYEEE

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My Home Town!

So...Hello there! Long time no see - long -long time no seee! 

Ok well sorry for that but these day freaking BIG BANG (if you don't know them you guys should check them out! I LOVE THEM!) - a very popular Korean pop Idol group - came out last week with a new album and I LOVE THE SONGS!!! I'm pretty obsessed with them, listening to the songs 24/7 :D

Anyways last week here in Italy like anywhere in the world - I think- was a holiday, the 1st of May holiday ... Labor Day holiday! For that reason I got the chance to go home from Uni after 2 weeks! 

Now, I live 5 km away from a very beautiful little town called Lazise, that is exactly attached to the biggest/largest lake here in Italy: Lake Garda!
That little and very touristic town used to be my home town. I was born and raised there till the age of 10 when we moved to our very own house at Castelnuovo del Garda :( 

For that special occasion at Lazise there was a fair with little stalls full of anything: food, jewelries, staff for the house, wines...literally anything! So I went to see how all of this was and of course you already know my game :)) I brought with me my photo camera and took a bit of pics of my old lovely little town LAZISE!

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A Special Day

We all know which day is today! Right? You might now answer me "the 10th of May 2015" but no! Today it's not any simple and hot day of May, today is MOTHER'S DAY! 

There shouldn't be just one day to remember that your mum is special, that she has always been there for you on bad or good situations or to gift her with some flowers and chocolate! 
Mums must be celebrated and appreciated in any possible way every single day of your existence because if you- as I do- are alive and breathing in this world is thanks to our own mother (and obviously with a tiny help of your dad! SCIENCE . . . OR BIOLOGY)!

We are humans, we tend to forget the important things! I do to, sometimes I forget to show my mum appreciation for her hard work and every single thing she does for me! So it's good that in the world that we are living there is a day in which every single son and daughter can make there mother feel like the only remaining woman on Earth! 

So, YOU - or who ever is reading this - GO RIGHT NOW TO YOUR MOM, HUG HER LIKE YOU NEVER DID BEFORE AND KISS HER TILL SHE DOESN'T FEEL HER CHEEKS ANYMORE AND TELL HER HOW MANY TIMES YOU WANT ' I LOVE YOU MOM! '. If you have fight with her, just forget about it and make her a coffee or a the or take her out and to anything! Because that's what she has been doing it for her whole life ... ANYTHING FOR YOU! :)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOMMY! YOU'RE THE BEST MOM I COULD EVER ASK ♥ LOVE YOU!!

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Obviously

First of all . . . HELLO every one! As always after a trip I have to create a video with all the little clips that I've taken with my camera :) Recently I went for a weekend to the beautiful Switzerland to meet a friend.
 So here for you guys the video that I have upload on my YouTube channel called HeyMelani! Hope you all will enjoy it and make sure to share or leave a comment or anything :D 

Byeee and subscriiibe! 

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WATCH IT!

Hello there! How have you all been? 

In Italy the rain has finally stopped to fall and spring is showing its best! It's so sunny and warm that a lot of students in my dorm are playing football and rugby right now as I'm writing this post!

Last week I published a post about my trip in London and there were a looot of pics! Now, during that trip I didn't take only photos but I shot some videos too and with all the footage I was able to create a cute little video that I loaded on my YouTube channel (HeyMelani) so here down below my video! ENJOYYY :)

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Verona

Verona Porta Nuova Station

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