Taking Stock: Summer Rain 2018

Bc it's been way too long since I did one of these and I love how I can get you up to speed real quick with them. Here we go:

Making: So much progress with my studying. I actually posted a video on my YouTube channel about how to study effectively this week.

Cooking/Baking: Banana pancakes and dessert french toast bc breakfast foods are my absolute favourites! Recipe anyone?

Drinking: Water (as per usual) and Loads of coffee bc it's that time again. 

Craving: I was craving donuts this morning but then I stuffed my face with them and I don't think I'll be doing that again in the next few days😷 (maybe in two😅)

Reading:  Praying For your future husband by Robin Jones Gunn and Tricia Goyer
Born a crime by Trevor Noah
(Send me a message if you'd like me to send you any of them)

Fourth Year!! |A Day in the Life of a Med Student| Med School Vlogs

Happy Saturday!

So sorry I've been so quiet on here but I got back into school last week and so much has happened since then. Will catch up with you all real soon. In the meantime, here's a sneak peak into what's going on in my life right now.

Bisous.

x

Taking Stock: Autumn/Winter 2017

My levels of slacking are unacceptable, I know.

Hopefully this will catch you up with all that's been going on in my life and keep you busy long enough to forget I was gone for so long. lol

Making: Progress with my Goals. Finally started my YouTube channel after
procrastinating for so long.

Cooking/Baking: Pinterest inspired recipes like that Butter Chicken I was craving

Drinking: Water (do I need to put that there any more? or can we assume that it's my staple now?) and Ginger and honey tea (for a change) 

Craving: A gourmet milkshake from the cake bar!

Reading:  I kissed Dating goodbye by Joshua harris
31 days of prayer for my future husband by Tiffany Langford
Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
(Send me a message if you'd like me to send you any of them)

Meet the Bloggers ft Chanda Mulenga

Brief Introduction

Long ago (not so long, just February 1995), the people of earth were blessed by the birth of a boy by the name of Chanda Mulenga (aka STC The Producer). I am that boy—well, man now. I am the firstborn and I have three siblings—two sisters and a brother. I enjoy reading, producing music, writing poetry, watching movies, hanging with friends and many other spontaneous miscellaneous things. It’s fun being a little random and/or unpredictable. I’m a Christian and I’m currently in my second year (2016) of study at The University of Zambia pursuing a degree in Computer Science.

Inspiration for Blogging

In all honesty I cannot really remember. I guess I can say some blogs that I read from inspired me and also I love being some kind of open book. Just leaving my random thoughts out there for people to learn from or get entertained. Another inspiration could be due to my composition lessons back in secondary school. My teachers of English really pushed me to develop my writing skills.

Feature Fridays:To grandma, with love.

By Chimwemwe Sakanjole.

Almost a year ago today(Oct/Nov 2015), I wrote my final 4th year exams📚. Within two weeks of being back home, I got my first paid job which started at the beginning of December. It was at a company I said I'd work for one day (power of the tongue)...

A few weeks later after I began, I got news that I would be graduating from uni with an Upper Second (i.e 2nd from distinction) Economics Honors Degree all by the grace of God 🙏🏽.
And merely two months into my new job, I got another job offer from a different company, one that I am currently working for.

God has been so good to me... 

Note to self

Wondering what I've been up to while I was away? Well....other than getting back into school after the long, long break. (more on that soon) I've been catching up with people I haven't seen in the longest time and reigniting old (and slightly new) friendships.

This last season  was one of learning from past mistakes and picking up new lessons. It was also about loving God, myself, my family and my friends. Come on now! God has let me longing for more and more!

I cannot wait to see what else He has in store for me!

Bisous

x

That New New thing

Happy FriYay!!

And a happy new month to all of you! *insert heart eyed emoji here*

There are so many reasons I'm excited about this new month. I've been waiting for it all year for starters, and there are so many things going on that I'll get to sharing with you soon. I just felt that i should share with you my excitement about this New month. Have I said New enough times now?  No? Good, cause I was just getting started. Haha!

Come on now! Those words are true and faithful! In the same way that the coming of the New Jerusalem is spoken about, I feel like God is starting something New in my life. And mannnn, does it feel awesome!

Yessssssssssssss!

Power of Make Up

Happy Throwback Thursday!!

Remember the time I did natural tag and had my best friend Mwaba answer all those questions? Then remember the time I did a make-up post myself?

Wellll...... for some reason no one believes that I like/wear make up. Which confuses us both. Lol. She's the reason I like it so much *points finger* and according to her, I spend more time doing mine than she does. Lies and deception! haha, okay...maybe there's a little truth in it.

Milestones,Motivational Mondays and other stories

Happy Monday!

Mid month already right??? I can't believe the month is flying by so quickly and we're fast approaching the next one. *gasp*!

Sooooooooo you know how I've been MIA? Well....drumroll please?
I'm soo excited to announce that the blog has gotten to a whopping 5000 views! *squeels*

WHAT???!!

COME ON NOW!!!

LOOK AT GOD!

You guys have been absolutely amazing and the response these last couple of months has been astounding. We were literally at 1K at the beginning of this year. And 2.5K a few seconds ago. Tjo! So thank you. Just thank you. And to show my appreciation I'm announcing:

A 5K Giveaway!!

 

The instructions are pretty simple:

☆Follow us both on blogglovin'

☆Follow our instagrams: @mwapsy @temzie4sho

☆Follow our blogs

☆Follow Afropop on fb

☆share the poster up on your social media with the hashtag #5kGiveAway

☆And leave a comment below letting us know why you think you should win.

Competition ends 30th June and the winner of the Bible to be announced on 2 July! Note that this is open to international viewers as well! So get to it!

Stay tuned for more!! And go check out AfroJungle for a feature I did in the Motivational Monday segment ;)

Bisous!

x

Feature Fridays

Happy FriYay!

I know I've been a lot quiet this month, I hope you'll forgive me, but I've been pretty busy and I'm planing great things for the blog. More on that on Monday though.

Today's Feature Friday is one of my high school friends, such a star and a fellow sister in Christ. I was so hyped when I found out she was blogging hey. It was so fun to reconnect and start encouraging each other once more. She's alway been a little crazy (see picture below. lol) and a tech lover(our computer studies class was hilarious!) and this is cleary translated in her creative blog; It's got some amazing segments that I absolutely love! Like the Motivational Monday and the Foodie Friday ones. But enough from me, here she is

Feature Fridays: We're together-together

By Chitalu Lamba on chich058.wordpress.com

I’ll be honest: I don’t think I’ve ever been around people that are so in love. So much peace and freedom and happiness in one place at the same time. Well today I did, and it was marvelous, I only was aware of what I had been round hours later.

Two people enjoying each other’s company so much, caring for each other. Cinderella and her Prince Charming the night they danced at the ball. That magical feeling, I could feel between these two. *sigh* 😊, it’s left sparkles in me ❤.

They thought together… I bet even their heartbeats were in sync.

They told a very long story ❤

I don’t think there’s a picture or words that could help you fully understand, but be around two people in love and you will know…😏😊

Personality Traits

Happy Choose Day!

Do you ever wonder why it is you're best friends with the people that you are? Or if you know your best friends that well? Or just if you and your friends are really that similar? I did. And when my sister Chipundu introduced my sisters and I to the 16 personalities quiz I knew this was how I could finally find out. I watched a video clip from a segment of The Real 😍 that said, " at any given time a person has up to five best friends." And I felt like that was so true! Why? Because there are five people in my life that I know are going to weather the storms with me 😄

So on Sunday night and the whole of yesterday I introduced my friends to the personality quiz, asked them to take it and let me know their results. Pretty simple right? Well that's what I thought, turned out I was wrong 😂 The quiz claimed to be about ten minutes long and the results pretty accurate. Most of them did it without a problem and I was so excited to see what personality they'd gotten (and if I was right when I assigned each one of them a personality type). I did have to convince 3 out of 5 of my best friends though *cough cough* Chimy, Fwaya & Grace* that it was crucial that they take it. I may have resulted to blackmail 😂😂 but that's okay, it got the job done. Lol. 😉

How to: Banana muffins :)

Happy "throwback" Thursday!

So as you know I've been trying out various banana themed recipes over the last couple of weeks. Why? Because bananas are thebomb.com and for some reason I've had a couple of "too ripe" bananas on my hands lately. So rather than let them go to waste, I've been getting creative and trying out a bunch of recipes. My family know not to toss them out now. lol.

The other week I tried out a, wait for it: flourless, vegan, banana muffin recipe.
Yes guys, me! *round of applause*
I was convinced it was going to be bland and dull, but boy was I wrong! Just goes to show that you should never judge a recipe by it's name. *see what I did there?*
Plus it was really special making these because the name "banana muffins" reminds me of the girls in my cell group back in Cape Town. I love those women.

How to: Banana Split and other stories

Happy hump day!!

Don't you just love getting to the middle of the week? It means the weekend is just around the corner 😆🙌💃. So speaking of weekend, happy belated Labour/May day to you all.🎊🎉 I hope you enjoyed the gift that was a long weekend. I already alluded to the fact that I did in my last post.

So what did I get up to?☺ Well I had a bomb wash day on Friday with my new haul of Dr. Miracles products💇, then I had a lazy Saturday and baked🍰, so I was in my happy place😊. On Sunday I went to church and got refreshed🙌 (hearing the gospel message is always amazing), did my cousin Chacha's yarn braids while we watched a lot of t.v. and cooked up a storm🍜🍝🍲. Finally on Monday, after doing the cutest Princess Elsa themed cake🎂, I went on a road trip with some of the youth from our bible class and had the most amazing time👭. Can you say full weekend?

Most Likely To tag

Happy Choose Day!

It's May already! *gasp* Like, I'm not even going to say that line that you know I like to use, but, serioulsy though? I was only just getting used to it being April. Lol. Hope you had a lovely long weekend? I know I did. Will tell you all about it tomorrow.

In the meantime, I thought you'd like to get to know some of my crazy family. Go family! Whoop, Whoop! Lol, you can take a sneak peak into my life and see why I am the way I am. Whenever I feel like I'm a crazy, I take a look at these guys and automatically console myself. Haha! In the spirit of loving tags, here we go!

From top left: Kalusha, Natasha, Me (obvs lol), Chipundu, Musonda, Chitambo

Note to Self

Happy Friday!

This was my mood a couple of weekends ago:

Lesson learnt!

Lol! But seriously though. *straight face*

Got an exciting week in store for you! Be on the lookout *winks*

Have a lovely weekend!

Bisous

x

Sweater Weather Tag ft Grace K

Happy "hump" day lovelies!

So as you know I'm a dedicated YouTube watcher. And I don't mean the search for a random video kind, I'm a real deal subbie. I follow various YouTubers on their channels and wait to get notified about new videos. I love vlogs, hair, make-up and food tutorials. The one thing I especially love is the Tags! And I've been wanting to do some for a while, but as I'm not venturing off into the Vlogsphere any time soon, I decided I'd start some up here :)

How appropriate is it to have the first one be a #SweaterWeather tag? If you've read my Taking stock Autumn 2016 post you'll know how much I love this time of year. And I met someone who's equally excited about it, my (in another life) twin *cheesing* So grab whatever hot drink you fancy and enjoy the read.

By Grace Kubikisha
Favourite candle scent?
I love the smell of vanilla-caramel and autumn leaves. I love the smell of pine in the woods; it's very calming and has an air of serendipity that allows me to escape to an intangible place that transcends physical domain. I call this place "Ëranudiamopolis" my place, my secret place.

I Am A Zed Blogger Challenge : How To Survive In The Jungle

Ola!

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently joined the #IAmAZedBlogger Challenge because I am just that; a loud proud Zambian blogger hoping to make my mark and have my little voice heard.

This Month's post is titled "How To Survive In The Jungle" and it came with this little quote,

"Africa is not for sissies, but if you make it here you can make it anywhere."

I believe that is so true and while it may be applied to many areas of life, my challenge today is to let you all know how I make that quote work for me in the big bad blogsphere.

*roaring in the distance*

While trying to navigate my way through this "Jungle" I've picked up a few survival tools that newbies and seasoned explorers alike may find useful.

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Taking stock Autumn 2016

Hello lovelies!

Source

*shocked face emoji* Is it seriously April already? I feel like I only just put up that Hello March picture a few days ago. Where's the time flying to you guys? *sigh*

So it's Autumn!!! I actually miss being in Cape Town around the time of year. Not for the ugly weather change; who misses the cold, wet rain? Not this girl! I miss it for all the lovely colours of the leaves and the few flowers that are still around. My walks home were the best at this time of year. That, and over sized sweater and scarf weather, Yes? *Hi5 emoji*

Winter's coming here too and the rainy days are getting a little more spread out. We're in the second quarter of the year and I thought it would be best to do another one of these, just to keep on track yeah?

Note to self

The following post may seem funny but it's not. *straight face* These are real concerns. Lol

Sincerely,
Confused foodie.

P.S If you haven't already, go check out my feature on Esther's blog here. And incase you missed it, check out the feature she did in the Meet the bloggers series here.

Have an amazing weekend!

Bisous

x