Watching These YouTubers Changed My Life
7.24.2016
This post initially was about my favourite YouTubers in 2016. I'm updating this in 2020 and I see that I no longer watch the majority of the YouTubers I previously mentioned here. Instead, I'm just gonna show the YouTubers I watched all the time in 2016 that have totally changed my life, helped me cope with life in 2016. You may count this one of my fangirl moments but I truly appreciate these YouTubers' videos. Previously mentioned YouTubers were Colleen Ballinger, Aspyn Ovard, MayBaby, LaurDIY and Gadis TV.
01. COLLEEN BALLINGER
I still watch her videos in 2020. I don't watch her Miranda videos very often anymore. I cried in class while watching her giving birth video and watching Erik treats her as precious as she is always makes me so happy. She's the reason I start my own journey to love myself better, the way she treats her family taught me how to treat mine, she taught me to have no prejudice against anyone no matter what their gender, race, skin colour, sexuality or whatever and her wonderful self inspires me to be wonderful as well.
02. CONAN GRAY
If you tell me in 2016 that he would be big as he is right now, I'll totally believe you. I have no single artsy bone in my body but seeing him always makes me want to explore my nonexistent artsy side. What I love the most about him is that despite that his personality doesn't fit the gender stereotype, he's perfectly comfortable being the person that he is. He inspired me to be myself and explore the parts in me I didn't know existed. His singing is also stunning.
03. HAILEY IN BOOKLAND
Hailey was the first Booktuber I followed and back then I didn't think that watching her videos would change my life so much but if you go to my Goodreads page, you'll see that most of the books I read are the ones that were recommended by her. Her videos helped me a lot when I started reading again and I cannot thank her more for that.
04. LAURDIY
I watched her videos even before she dated Alex and I haven't watched her latest videos but her DIY videos helped me a lot in coping with some of the things in my life back then. I watched other DIY videos but I mostly followed her DIY videos for my own projects. Her tips for anxiety also helped me a lot. I don't do many DIY anymore these days but many things have changed since then and she is one of the YouTubers I want to thank if I ever have the chance to.
Recipe: Roti Naan Cheese
7.16.2016
6. Salt (as much as you want)
7. 100 ml of warm fresh milk
8. Mozzarella cheese
STEPS:
1. Mix yeast with 1 spoon of white sugar and some warm water. Leave it for a while until the mixture becomes foamy.
2. Mix flour, oil, 1 spoon of sugar, salt and baking powder. Mix and squeeze the dough together.
3. Pour the warm milk little by little accordingly until the dough is not sticky.
4. Keep kneading the dough even if it's too soft.
5. Put a bowl filled with dough at a hot place to make sure it expands quickly. Leave it for 30 minutes or more.
6. Make circles using the dough and sprinkle some flour. Leave it for 10 minutes and cover the container filled with the little circle doughs with a cloth.
7. Flatten the dough.
8. Put cheese as much as you want.
9. Cover the dough again.
10. Flatten the dough again softly and carefully so that the cheese won't spill.
11. Heat up the non-stick pan and use a minimum amount of fire.
12. Put the flattened dough on the non-stick pan and cover with a lid.
Credit to Resepi Sedap from Facebook. I haven't tried it yet but soon I will, Insha Allah.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini | Book Review
7.08.2016
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Genre: Adult, Historical, Literary, Fiction
Pages: 419
Goodreads rating: 4.37
Publication: 2008 by Bloomsbury
Reading format: Paperback
Standalone/Series: Standalone
Review type: Non-spoilery
review
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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
And teach me this story does. Here goes the most powerful, heartwrenching, emotional and infuriating story I've read of all time. I will probably think about this book from time to time. My friend suggested this book to me and even lend her own precious copy to me for about a month, the very same friend who lent her copy of The Kite Runner last year. May Allah bless her for letting me read this beautifully heartbreaking story sets in the world that although painted by Hosseini, is very much real. Mariam and Laila of this book don't exist in real life, but thinking just how many women out there who went through what they did, and still going through the same thing really, really break my heart.
If I thought The Kite Runner made me cry in the way that any book never did, this book beats it. In this book, we were introduced to two women, each from a generation apart and very different background; Mariam from the countryside living in a kolba with her verbally abusive mother, a non-existent father whose only friend was an old man who taught her to read the Quran and there was Laila, a girl who grew up in a comfortable home with a complete set of parents and a boy who loved her more than a friend. Both of these women came together under the worst circumstance ever. We see these two women who were strangers to each other became closer and closer, forming friendship and bond over the struggles they needed to get through. They found love and strength through each other; a very heartwarming one, even at the worst time.
Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.
It angers me seeing how badly inhumane they were treated. I was never interested in learning about Afghanistan or the country's history but I finished reading this as a whole new person with these new pieces of knowledge and many terrifying scenes painted in my mind. Despite already reading Jean Sasson's For the Love of a Son and Hosseini's previous work, The Kite Runner, which angers me a lot, I still grow angrier, thinking of how many women suffered the very same thing Mariam and Laila did. I'm angry at all the Rasheeds, who make the lives of some women a living hell.
Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.
Although my review might not do full justice for this book, it is indeed one of the best books I ever read. Mariam and Laila's story is important and should be known by everyone and I suggest you read it too.
You should read this if you're interested in: Khaled Hosseini's books, the life of the people during the rise of the Taliban, friendship and love between two women.
July Favorite Playlist
7.04.2016
July had been better but my emotional phase hasn't really passed. Here are some songs that help me get through life so far.
Alone Again
When Gilbert O'Sullivan sang "To think that only yesterday, I was cheerful, bright and gay. Looking forward to who wouldn't do the role I was about to play. But as if to knock me down, reality came around and without so much as a mere touch cut me into little pieces" my heart breaks too.
Fire 'N Rain
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
Me too.
Song Cry
Every rose needs the rain sometimes
I wrote this in my journal a few weeks back and personally, for me, this line from the song is somehow cheering me.
Drops Of Jupiter
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| Because some good old song is the gold. |
Six Feet Under
If our grave was watered by the rain
Would roses bloom?
Could roses bloom
Again?
Breakeven (pretty much all The Script's songs)
Well, The Script is one of my favourite bands and all of their songs are lyrically and musically amazing.
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