My Second Blog Award!

First of all, thanks so much to everyone who nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award! 


1) Atmika - Books are my Best Friend
2) Sarah   - Lace and Lavender
3) Christa - Chrissy's Chatter
4) Sarah   - Three Cats and a Girl

Here are the Versatile Blogger Award rules:
1. Nominate 5 fellow bloggers who are relatively new to blogging.
2. Let the nominated bloggers know they have been nominated for the award.
3. Share 7 random facts about youself.
4. Thank the blogger who has nominated you.
5. Add the Versatile picture to your post.

My 7 Random facts are:
1. My favourite colour is purple.
2. I can't quite decide whether I prefer smooth or crunchy peanut butter, so I eat both!
3. I drink jasmine tea in the mornings. 
4. I like whiskey with ginger beer. 
5. One day I'd like to have a house big enough to have a 'reading room' in it: comfy armchairs, an open fire and rows upon rows of books!
6. When my school friends and I were choosing animal nicknames, mine was giraffe because I'm so tall! 
7. I do a good job of pretending I'm organised, but actually I'm not! 

My 5 Nominations go to:
1. Grace  - Olive Branches Don't Grow on Trees
2. Sherri  - Fik(tish)uhs
3. Bella    - Bella Hart Books
4. Soma   - Insomnia of Books
5. Jessica - Booked Up

My first blog award!!

I have been nominated for my first blog award! And twice in the same week: super duper!! This award is a great way for bloggers to support other upcoming bloggers (with fewer than 200 followers). Liebster means dearest, beloved and favourite. Thanks so much to Emily Yu and Penny Freeman for the nomination and various visits to and comments on my blog. 

Here's what you have to do:
1) Post 5 facts about yourself
2) Answer 5 questions the tagger has asked
3) Tag 5 other people (link them to your post)
4) Give them 5 questions to answer
5) Tell them they've been tagged
6) No tags back!

In a Dim Sum restaurant 

5 Facts about me
1) I love coffee and chocolate, preferably together. 
2) I love the beach, even more in the winter than in the summer.
3) I love travelling and seeing new places. So far I've been to over 20 countries in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. 
4) At the moment I'm living in Hong Kong where I work as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language as well as blogging and writing. 
5) My current project is to write one piece of Flash Fiction (fewer than 500 words) per day. On Fridays I post 'the best of the week' onto my blog: Friday Flash Fiction. 



Since I've been tagged twice, it's only fair to answer both sets of questions. 

Emily Yu's blog - Anything in
Fantasy

5 of Emily Yu's questions:
1) What are your favourite TV series? List 4: 
- Grey's Anatomy, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Damages.
2) What are 3 most swoon-worthy characters? 
- Mr Darcy (Colin Firth in Pride & Prejudice), 
- Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling in The Notebook), 
- Count Laszlo de Almásy (Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient)
3) How many books are in your TBR pile? Far too many! 
4) What is your favourite single book? List 4: 
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 
- A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve, 
- Rosie by Anne Lamott, 
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
5) What is your favourite food? Anything Italian.

Penny Freeman - Perpetual
Chaos of a Wandering Mind

Penny Freeman's 5 questions:
1) How many blogs do you own and what made you decide to start blogging? I started on travelpod (Living, Loving and Writing in Hong Kong), but when I got married I wanted to change my name and couldn't. So, I decided to start again on blogspot.
2) What is the cause dearest to your heart? Unfortunately I know too many people who've lost loved ones to cancer, so finding a cure for that is important. I also support Oxfam. 
3) What are you most passionate about? Love. For my family, my friends, writing, reading, travelling, eating...so many things! 
4) Who are your heroes? My mum and sister, but also anybody who has achieved anything against the odds. Michael J. Fox's book, A Lucky Man, is a true inspiration. Eddie Izzard's Marathon Challenge was incredible. 
5) What do you want to be remembered for? For being kind, helpful, supportive, insightful and loving. If I happen to write some bestsellers too, that would be great! 


Tag 5 other people 
1) Caitlin  - The Y.A. Bookworm Blogger
2) Sarah - Three Cats and a Girl
3) Ixachel - Futuresfading
4) Ara - My Book and My Coffee
5) Jill Marie - Little Hyuts


Give them 5 questions to answer
1) Have you always considered yourself a creative person? 
2) Who has been an inspiration to you in your life and work? 
3) Name 3 things you'd like to achieve in life. 
4) If you could travel anywhere in the world (no money, time, visa restraints), where would you go?
5) Do you think the world of art will drastically change in the next 50 years?