Versatile Blogger Award

A new blogger award! I was nominated by the awesome people that is Haley and Carina from My Addiction Books & Jayne from Booking Awesome. Thanks so much for nominating me!

Rules:

1. Thank the person who nominated you and include a link back to their post

2. Select 15 blogs/bloggers that you've recently discovered or follow regularly and that you think are excellent

3. Let them know they've been nominated (be sure to send them a link for the post)

4. Tell your nominees 7 things about yourself.

1. To start from the basic, I am an Indonesian girl living in Texas, a girl of two siblings, and a girl of black hair.

2. My favorite animals are cats.

3. I (well, my family) used to have 4 cats in Indonesia before we left them for US. One day, a black cat followed my maid inside the house after she took out the trash. We ignored it, of course, until it became a she who was pregnant and about to give birth soon. So, we gave her a home in our garage so that she can have her kittens. One day after I came back from school my mom told me that she (the cat, not my mom :P) had 3 kittens. We couldn't play with them until the 3rd week, when we let them free inside the house. After that, I played with them and watched them grow. It was so heartbreaking to leave them. More so when the phone where I had pictures of them when haywire and deleted everything. Including the pictures.

4. I lived in Australia for two years when I was in preschool, and one of the only thing I could vividly remember that at school, we had nap time. Amazing, right? We would have blankets at school and just took a nap. I miss those days.

5. I have glasses, and my friends asks why I don't change to contacts, but to be truthful, I am scared of them. The only reason is that when I was about 8 (or was it 10?), I was in a McDonald restroom, and I saw somebody putting theirs on. Me being so young, I thought that the lady was poking her eyes. I didn't even know what contacts were. It was a very traumatizing experience.

6. My obsession with BTVS started when I saw Buzzfeed's post of Beginner's Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I saw this really awesome picture that perfectly depicts my road to obsession. I'll link it here. Anyways I'm in the beginning of season 6 (and 3 for Angel).

7. I am obsessed with quotes. You probably already know it, but it's true. I have a board in Pinterest that has 400+ quotes and it's s little bit ridiculous, but who cares!

I nominate (I'm just going to do 4):
Anna from Unqenchable Reads
Jasmen from This Girl Reads a Alot
Amber from Books of Amber
Katie from Kittens and Books

Okay! That's it for today. It's good to be back in the blogging routine. Thanks for reading!

Update

Hi people! I'm back! First of all I want to say that I'm sorry for the abrupt hiatus. I don't really have a good reason except for school, puzzles, and my growing obsession of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I'm on season 6 of Buffy and 2 on Angel). I'm planning to do some posts on that if I find something I want to talk about. For the bookish things, I don't think I'll do book reviews anymore. I'll just do collective mini reviews and things. I also want to start doing a series of posts about my favorite things from Pinterest, because I have A LOT of those. The posts that I am working on is about my Completed Series and Versatille Blogger Award (btw, thanks so much for the nominations) posts . For how often I post, I'll try to do one every week and I'm open to any suggestions of what I should do. See you soon!

Day 6 - New Years Blogsolutions

Hi guys! This is Day 6 of the My Year in Books week! Today's topic is Blogsolutions, which is basically our blog-ish resolutions. It's all the things that we want to do regarding our blogs. Let's just jump into it!

1. Learn HTML to make a blog template

I've been wanting to change my blog template since I started, but I haven't been able to do it. I want to change that.

2. Post frequently (once every week at least)

To avoid irregular posting, I've decided to set the goal of one post per week.
3. Consistently do monthly TBR and Wrap-Ups
I'm not entirely sure why I stopped doing this, but I want to start again. It's a great way to see which books you read when

4. Do book reviews for all of my 5-star books to come.

The initial goal for setting up this blog was to record my thoughts about the books I read, so...

5. Better quality book reviews

Again, I feel like my book reviews can use some improvements.

6. Get 5000 pageviews and 50 followers

I'm currently on 2400-ish pageviews and 15 followers (from both google+bloglovin)

7. Do more original posts!

8. Discover more blogs!

And that is it! It is almost nearing the end of the end of the My Year In Books week! What did you think of it? Liked it? Hated it? And what are some of your blogsolutions? Tell me in the comments below.

Day 5 - New Years Readsolutions

Hi guys! This is the LAST DAY of the Winter Re-Read-a-Thon (Get those wrap-ups ready!) and Day 5 of the My Year in Books week! Today we are going to talk about our readsolutions, which is basically your resolutions for reading for the year of 2015. I want to set those challenges, step out of my comfort zone, and of course, READ MORE! Always.

1. Read 100 books (or more!)

I'm just going to set up a fairly easy goal for next year because there's going to be a lot going on.

2. Finish all the series that I've already started in 2014:

Lux by Jennifer L. Armentrout (3 more books)

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (1 more book)

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (1 more book)

3. Start and finish 8 series

There are some amazing series out there that I really want to get to, hence the challenge.

4. Start reading classics

I haven't read ANY classics, and I want to change that.

5. Read 10 nonfiction books

In an effort for me to try to expand my reading taste, I will hopefully be reading some awesome nonfics.

6. Read 10 graphic novels

I read a total of 1 graphic novels and I actually enjoyed how the pictures enhanced my reading experience.

7. Read more diversely!

And that is it! What are some of your readsolutions? And how are you doing in the Winter Re-Read-a-Thon? Tell me in the comments below.

Day 4 - Best of 2014

Hi guys! This is Day 11 of the Winter Re-Read-a-Thon and Day 4 of the My Year in Books week AND the FIRST DAY OF 2015!! HAPPY NEW YEAR, you guys! To start this post, I would like to share you guys two quotes that I found on pinterest:

Music/songs

Sam Smith

You Are My Everything by Glenn Fredly

My Everything by Ariana Grande

If You're Not the One by Daniel Bedingfield

-Blogs/ Booktube

Peruseproject

Katytastic

Ariel Bisset

-Random

Finding Goodreads

-Moments

The news that I'm visiting Indonesia next year (whoop whoop!)

Video chatting with families and friends who are back in Indonesia :)

I know this is a really short post, but I just wanted to appreciate all the non-bookish things that happened in 2014. Well, that's it for today, I'll see you tomorrow fpr another one!