Month: November 2015

I was invited to attend the Dutch Caribbean Book Club

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Hello everyone! Once again it is Friday! And as much as I would just absolutely love to sleep and spend the whole day in my bed for the weekend, it won’t go the way as I want it to this time around. That is due to having to do school assignments, my internship duties which I didn’t get the chance to complete them all today (although I stayed pretty late in the office trying to complete some of it) as well as an event that I was invited to attend for tomorrow afternoon… So I’ll be quite preoccupied to say the least.

Anyway, the event that I was invited to attend and that I agreed to willing is called the Dutch Caribbean Book Club. This is, you can call, somewhat of a compensation for not getting the chance to promote my poetry book, I’m Only Human, because of some unforeseen circumstances some weeks back during the DC Pearls event that I was nominated for. Continue reading →

Lost at Sea.

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Hello everyone! It’s Wednesday again and another eek of my Opinion Wednesdays. We are also halfway through the week again, thank Goodness! I can do with some more sleep 😛

Anyway, I wanted to  ask how many of you have heard of the man who was lost at seas for 14 months? I came across a news article some weeks back that talked about a man called José Salvador Alvarenga, who disappeared off the coast of Mexico after going to fish with one other companion, on his small fishing boat. Then weather turned for the worse. I am not sure how he withstood being alone for so long without going half crazy, but he did. This guy had drifted on his boat for 438 days while catching birds, fish and turtles with his bare hands and eating them raw. Continue reading →

Michiko to Hatchin is a must watch anime!

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Hello everyone! Just as slowly the weekend came, the same way it left… Not! It went way too quickly to be enjoyed properly! (Sign) Anyway as short as it was I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless. I enjoyed it sleeping 😀

Anyway, I haven’t posted on Sundays in a while but today is my Things that I love and/ or What I’m doing with my life Sundays. Today I would like to talk about the latter, Things that I love, one of which is anime.

Last week after scrolling through my Facebook news feed I came across a clip of Michiko to Hatchin, that was posted in an Anime group, which piqued my interest. It is such a … I don’t want to say the word bad-ass, but it was very bad-ass! I loved every minute of that anime. Besides being bad-ass it was also sweet and realistic (although it was notalways realistic). This anime is marked as a josei, adventure and action. Josei genre meaning that it is usually created by women and aimed to a demographic audience of young adults and older women and includes mature content. Continue reading →

Bleeding Heart

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Hello everyone! Happy Friday!! I’m sure most of you must be ecstatic that it is Friday. I sure am 😀 Tomorrow I can sleep until all hours of the day without a care in the world, lol.

Anyway, some of you may already know the drill. Today is my Writing Related Fridays and I just wanted to share a poem with you all, after all I haven’t posted any poems in a while. This poem is also taken from my poetry book, I’m Only Human. So if you are interested you can purchase it  here on Amazon. Please, give a girl some support, lol. Continue reading →

Hypocrisy at its Best

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Hello everyone! How are you all? I do hope fine. I am doing well. I just cannot take the hypocrisy of this world. Are you wondering hat I am talking about?

Well, as I can imagine everyone, all over the world, is aware of the infamous Paris attack that occurred in the evening of last week Friday. It is quite a tragedy and I am sad for the innocent people that died that day and their loved ones that were left behind after their deaths because of some despicable individuals and ISIS. No person deserves to be killed in that manner no matter if it were in Paris or if it were in an other country.

Furthermore, since the attack, every newspaper and news station have been doing daily broad-castings on the happenings in France. Facebook even got involved by allowing people to show their support by (temporarily) implementing a function to change one’s profile picture to the French flag. Continue reading →

23rd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards

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Hello, Everyone! I just wanted to show you all what I received yesterday evening after I finished my internship. I sent a copy of  my poetry book to be judged for a self publishing book award at the beginning of the year and this is what I was sent back yesterday. I think the results are not bad for a first time author that I am, considering that I was contending with other self published authors sending there work and it was well over 2000 entrees. I am an amateur, a novice and yet received somewhat favourable results. (Although, for the grammar section I guess I was being marked using American English. I try to write in British English though I am not certain how much I achieve that, lol) So in a way, I am a little proud but it makes me realise that I still have a long way to go.

Being a writer means that you are always trying to improve your writing skills, your technique, your grammar and English, your characters, your story and the list goes on. As a writer you never come to the end of improving your skills. You always need to improve yourself. Even if you reach to Bestseller status, you will need improvement because people will also start having even higher expectations of you than a regular writer. Continue reading →