Sunshine Blogger Award! #2

    Hey guys! I'm back with another award post! I love doing these awards so so much, because I get to answer some cool questions. 

    You guys know the drill.

    First off, thank you to Wendy Murphy of myorganiclifejourney.com/ for nominating me for this award. Wendy is an amazing, experienced blogger. She started blogging about a year and a half ago, so she's still quite new, but you really can't tell with her writing style and her posts in general, about topics ranging from travel experiences to delicious recipes. Overall, she blogs about healthy living which is an extremely important subject. Again, I'm so grateful that she nominated me. Go check her out!

    On to some rules!

1. Thank the blogger who nominated you for the award, and provide a link to their blog.
2. Answer the 11 questions the blogger asked you.
3. Nominate 11 new bloggers to receive the award.
4. Ask your nominees 11 questions.
5. List the rules and the Sunshine Blogger Award logo in your post.

​    Here are the questions I was asked:

1. What things are you most grateful for in your life?
2. What is the story behind your blog's name?
3. What food could you not live without?
4. How has blogging changed your life?
5. What are 3 random facts about yourself?
6. What do you hope to accomplish in 2018?
7. What do you do for writer's block?
8. What is your favorite place that you have visited?
9. How did you meet your best friend?
10. Do you consider yourself a creative person?
11. Do you believe there is someone out there for everyone?

    And here are my answers!

1. I am so grateful obviously for my family and my friends. I'm also grateful for microwaves, toilets, phones, and that animals exist.
2. "Hellamel" basically consists of my pseudonym and the word "hell" used as a modifier to Mel, so it's in the form of "hella". I have no idea why I decided to create my blog name like that. It was kind of an impulsive decision if you ask me. 
3. My favorite food would have to be bun bo hue. If you don't know what that is, it's a vietnamese noodle soup served usually at pho restaurants, which I think more people are familiar with what "pho" is because it's a lot more popular. Bun bo hue contains a very spicy, aromatic soup, complemented with thicker vermicelli noodles and a variety of beef and pork cuts. It's AMAZING, especially when you squeeze in some lime to enhance the flavor of the soup. I could eat this everyday.
4. It has definitely taken up a lot of time so far, the two months I've been blogging. But that really doesn't matter because I love doing it, and by starting a blog I've also met some incredible fellow bloggers within the blogging community that I really appreciate.
5. I love pigeons! So much so that whenever I see one (which is really not often at all) I just have to take a picture of it on snapchat and send it as my streaks for the day. Another fact would be that I have never tried a Pop Tart before. Finally, I absolutely hate taking pictures of myself and with others. If you shove a camera at my face, I will literally run away. I just hate cameras.
6. I hope to keep updating this blog and maybe even take it somewhere. 
7. I go to other people's posts for inspiration. More than often that I'd like to admit, I don't know what to write about for a week's post. I like to read what other bloggers are posting about, and I'll usually have an idea or at least a sense of what to write about next. It just gives me some much needed inspiration.
8. I am absolutely in love with Japan. I went there the summer of 2016. My family and I actually had a little road trip in Asia; we visited Japan and Hong Kong! It was my fourth time visiting Hong Kong (I have family there) but it was my first time traveling to Japan. My mom had actually went to Japan many times before I did; it's her favorite place to visit. I can safely say that after spending a week in the country, I grew incredibly fond of it as well. I might have to dedicate a post or two in the future to my time in Japan; I have quite a few pictures from my trip there. I did so much, including feeding deer at an actual park dedicated to the activity, visiting a cup noodle museum and personalizing my own cup noodles, and trying out a different ramen restaurant practically everyday during our time there.
9. I met my best friend in elementary school, specifically during second grade when she was the new student at our school. I befriended her and we clicked instantly. 10 years later, and we're still a pair!
10. I do consider myself as a pretty creative person, although I don't always believe it. I'm very interested in graphic design, and whenever I'm working on a project, I'm sometimes surprised by the ideas I come up with midway through. It's like I start off with an idea that's okay, and I work on that idea, and halfway in the project, I receive a breakthrough. I doubt myself at the start because I never come up with great ideas at the beginning; great ideas come to me when I have put in some work first. When I finish the project and I'm happy with the end result, I always feel so refreshed and satisfied, and my confidence improves as well with each time.
11. I don't know the answer to this question, mostly because I'm still young and I have never really thought about matters like this. For example, I don't think about questions like "do you believe in fate" or "do you believe in true love". It just messes with me too much and is honestly painful for my brain to think about, LOL!

    Onto my nominees:

1. https://samanthastyles.blog/
2. innerpieces.blog/
3. https://blushandbrewsblog.wordpress.com/
4. https://linktr.ee/balanceddonna
5. https://lefemmesoul.com/
6. https://winterlucymunday.wordpress.com/
7. https://survivingmillennial.com/
8. https://justgeorgej.wordpress.com/
9. https://onelongclimb.wordpress.com/
10. http://www.godzgracegirl.com/
11. https://f00dventures.wordpress.com/

    My questions for you:

1. What's your favorite restaurant?
   
2. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
   
3. You can only eat one thing for the rest of your life. What is it?
   
4. You can only listen to one song for the rest of your life. What is it?
   
5. What are your favorite hobbies?
   
6. Why do you blog?
   
7. If you had to choose between feeling hungry all the time or feeling sleepy all the time, which one would you choose and why?
   
8. Tell us one of your pet peeves.
   
9. What are the best and worst purchases you've ever made?
10. If you had to choose a new name for yourself, what would it be and why?
11. What body part would you not mind losing?

    And I'm done! For everyone who read this, I hope you enjoyed. And for my nominees, have fun with the questions!
    
    Happy Sunday!