quarantine haul

hello :I I hope you guys are staying safe during these trying times with covid-19 🙂 todays post is all about the things I have bought throughout quarantine 🙂 so grab a cup of tea and read

Zulilly

• Art Supply Basics | 24-Piece Acrylic Paint Set
• Darice | Satin 34-Piece Acrylic Paint Pot Set

Amazon

• Champion Men’s Jersey Short With Pockets, Oxford Grey. (GIFTED as present)
• POP! The Mandalorian – Baby Yoda The Child Vinyl Figure. (GIFTED as present)
• AoMoon Star Labs Sweatshirt Crewneck (GIFTED as present)
• Champion Men’s Classic Jersey Tee. (GIFTED as present)
• SKOLOO Electronic Screen Touch Stylus
• The Story of a Brief Marriage (GIFTED as present)
• DUO Brush-On StripLash Adhesive. (GIFTED as present)
• Guissi Dotted Notebook A5 Leather Journal. (GIFTED as present)
• Magnetic Eyelashes With Eyeliner. (GIFTED as present)
• Marvel’s Spider-Man: Game of the Year Edition – PlayStation 4 (GIFTED as present)
• Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! – EBOOK
• Slammed: A Novel – EBOOK
• Vertical Plastic Palette Organizer (GIFTED as present)
• So. Many. Stickers.: 2,500 Little Stickers for Your Big Life. ((GIFTED as present)
• Maybelline New York Fit Me Matte (GIFTED as present)
• You Are a Badass®. ((GIFTED as present)
• Acrylic Drawers (GIFTED as present)
• Pilot FriXion Clicker Erasable Gel Pens (GIFTED as present)

Mrs.Penguin

• Personalized Tie Knot Initial Bracelet X2 (GIFTED as present)
• Personalized Heart Initial Ring X (GIFTED as present)

ColourPop

• Making Mauves (GIFTED to someone)
• Baby Got Peach (GIFTED to someone)
• Nude Mood. (GIFTED to someone)
• Uh-Huh Honey (GIFTED to someone)
• Mint To Be (GIFTED to someone)
• Just My Luck (GIFTED to someone)
• Orange You Glad (GIFTED to someone)
• Strawberry Shake (GIFTED to someone)

Birthday Presents (gifted to me)

• Crayola 93 pack of Pencil Crayons
• Kindle Ereader
• Fake Desk Succulent
• Acrylic Drawers (I design 3 drawer)
• Brookeside Chocolate Covered Açai Berries. (Costco bulk bag)
• 7 succulents

What have you bought this quarantine ?

-XOXO chana

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may playlist

hola amigos, today im back with a new post. This will showcase my may playlist so that you guys can get a sense of what i’ve been listening to in quarantine. Without further ado, here is my playlist:

• Somebody Else – Jonny Brenns
• La La Land (Acoustic) – Bryce Vine
• Baby – Logic
• Deep Pockets – Drake
• Hold It Together – Shessi Sandu
• Hurt Enough – Sal Houdini
• Lonely Star – Oh Wonder
• New Phone, Who’s This. – Chris Lane
• Forgive – gnash
• FUYL – Anjulie
• The Phantom, Vol. 1 – GhostboyRJ (album)
• Hungover and I miss u – gnash
• Fishin’ – Chris Lane
• Blue Jeans – Jonny Brenns
• I Keep Falling – Sal Houdini
• Never Enough – Logic
• I Like It When You Love Me – Oh Wonder
• It’s You – Ali gatie
• Losin Control – Russ
• Tell Me Now – Sal Houdini
• Growing Pains III – Logic
• Stars – Jonny Brenns
• Slow Dance – AJ Mitchell & Ava Max

what have you been listening to?

-XOXO chana

may favourites

Guess whose back, – back again :). Todays post is going to be all about my favourites both this month and throughout the quarantine. so go grab a big ol’ cup of tea and enjoy!

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Technology and Apps

• Rakuten Kobo

Service to purchase books and ebooks. And read free samples and books !

• I-Pad Second Generation and Stylus Pen

Perfect for being on the go and planning digitally. I have been loving hand writing notes, and doing portraits. Apps I have been using are google drive, google docs, wordpress and notes.

• Good Notes

Perfect for taking digital notes and drawing 🙂

Content Creators

• KOKES

Recently, my brother started a new venture and creates youtube videos. I love seeing my brother be passionate about something and his love for editing. Be sure to check him out ! Support the Bales family! It was my brothers birthday on May 29 – so if you can please go subscribe, life and comment. Let’s run those views up. His most recent video: : NBA 2K20 1v1 wager.

• Sharif Rams

My brothers friend Sharif – whose more like family to the Bales Family. Be sure to check him out for a laugh and subscribe. He films vlogs, challenges, reaction videos and more. His most recent video: a vlog – I Got Hit my Rocks + Special Announcement

• Its’sGenicaJegan

My brothers friend from uni and a friend I met through instagram. She’s a multi-talented indiviudal : photography, MUAH, content creator, and influencer in the making. Special projects are in the works.

• Vithu Bala

Content creator, Youtuber and Freelance makeup artist in the GTA. Go check out her insta and subscribe to her youtube channel. Her most recent video: Bala’s Tea in Nighty

Podcasts

• Lost Yutes

A video podcast coming your way in 2020. Keep your eyes open and ready for this fire podcast thats in the works

Scents

• Coconut Milk Mango perfume

From Indigo / Chapters – such a sweet and subtle scents thats not too over powering.

• Lavender Essiential Oil

Music

• The Phantom – GhostboyRJ
• Supermarket – Logic
• Hold it Together – Shessi Sandu
• Dark Lane Demo Tapes – Drake

Movies and TV shows

• Never Have I Ever
• Sweet Magnolias

What have you guys been loving ?

-XOXO chana

he said she said

they tell her to move on

they say he’s 

a cheater 

but they don’t know him

like she does 

___________________________

She misses 

those stolen glances 

his eyes 

his smile 

his hugs 

those study dates 

___________________________

he once used to call her

with endearing terms 

now he calls her 

crazy 

mental 

psycho

delusional 

-XOXO chana

apologies

when I was losing my mind 

going stir crazy 

stuck in the house 

you told me you would be there for me 

if I needed anything 

you would help 

yet 6 months down the line

history was repeating its self 

and you,

stood there and lied to my face 

told me you didn’t know who I was talking about 

said I should move on —-

I am not stupid 

I caught on very quick 

I noticed the small things 

I many have anxiety and depression 

But my memory is sharp 

I write everything down

to show y’all once all the lies end 

even when I call you out on the lies

you switch the conversation

you smirk

you smile 

you laugh 

y’all are playing with my life

as if I am a puppet 

I am still waiting on a 

sincere apology 

-XOXO chana

you said

you said

you would be there for me

you said

you wouldnt hurt me

you said

you would protect me at all costs

you said

that you would be consistent

you said that

you were in it for the long haul

yet —-

you aren’t here

right when I need you most

____________________________

was I wrong to trust you ?

was I just another piece on your chess board ?

was it all just a game for you ?

was it my anxiety that pushed you away ?

was my actions the cause of this ?

-XOXO chana

eelam

the history of my people

runs in my veins

the stories of inhumane acts

run like a film roll in my head

the legacy of my family & tamils

keeps me going

everything I do is to honour

my blood

the history of tamils

sometimes keeps me up at night

2009 ,

haunts me

my appama and ammama missing in times of crisis

my uncle bombed to death

my aunt left widowed

how do they sleep at night

knowing they took the lives of

hundreds of thousand innocent lives

the war left

thousands of my people

displaced

killed

missing

murdered

sexually assaulted

kidnapped

dead

bombed

raped

how did they get away

with the numerous

war crimes

-XOXO chana

darkest days

even on my darkest

I still speak about you

with endearing terms

and spill my heart out

to anyone willing to listen

they say –

If he were the one

he would have ;

stayed

been present

consisten

they call you:

a wastebucket

a fuc boi

toxic

an ass

a cheat –

but I know

in my soul and with everyinch of my heart

the mistakes we were were pure and out of innocence

I need time to grow and bloosom

but I still have faith in

you & us

even when your actions and words tell me otherwise

I miss the old you – the real you

-XOXO chana

acknowledging my privilege

This was a post that I found on my Facebook timeline and this really resonated with me – so I wanted to share it on my blog as well. Acknowledging your privilege is sooo important especially with the systematic inequalities currently found in the education, health sector, and other notable institutions. If you can please post this on your blog- show young Black individuals that we are with them and that their voices are heard. I know what it’s like to feel like no one was there for you in times of hardship. Especially with the Sri Lankan civil war – no nations stood behind Tamil. Tamils, as people, were left to fend for themselves and this is what created the LTTE. During the war – nations deemed it as a terrorist group but in actuality it was one of the few militant groups that was created to fight for Tamil Eelam – independence and wishes to become a separate entity from the rest of Sri Lanka. Now, 11 years after the end of the civil war, Canada has recognized that LTTE was in fact NOT a terrorist group – instead it was a militant group fighting for the atrocities done by the President at the time and the Sri Lankan army (Singhalese individuals).

Hello! My name is Archana Baleswaran. I have privilege as a Tamil individual because I can do all of these things without thinking twice:

I can go birding (#ChristianCooper)
I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery)
I can relax in the comfort of my own home (#BothemSean & #AtatianaJefferson)
I can ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell & #RenishaMcBride)
I can have a cellphone (#StephonClark)
I can leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards)
I can play loud music (#JordanDavis)
I can sell CDs (#AltonSterling)
I can sleep (#AiyanaJones)
I can walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown)
I can play cops and robbers (#TamirRice)
I can walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin)
I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (#SeanBell)
I can party on New Years (#OscarGrant)
I can get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland)
I can lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile)
I can break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones)
I can shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford)
I can have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher)
I can read a book in my own car (#KeithScott)
I can be a 10yr old walking with my grandfather (#CliffordGlover)
I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese)
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans)
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood)
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo)
I can run (#WalterScott)
I can breathe (#EricGarner)
I can live (#FreddieGray)
I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED (#GeorgeFloyd)

White privilege is real.

Take a minute to consider a Black person’s experience today.

Take another minute to consider the constant and legitimate fear of a Black person’s parents / families / communities / loved ones that their son, brother, sister, daughter, cousin, teacher, student, partner, mentor, mother, father or friend could be murdered any day, for any reason or non-reason, under the egregious auspices of “law enforcement,” while simply trying to live their life in the United States of America.

#BlackLivesMatter

-XOXO chana

Birth Month – Jolly June

Soo, to celebrate my birthday, I will be attempting to post every day in the month of june. I have already planned everything out and it will encompass a variety of posts – lifestyle, university, advice, question tags, behind the scenes – the series, digital portraits, taking the plunge into becoming a non profit organization and more.

I hope you enjoy this ! Hopefully I dont forget about this 🙂

– XOXO chana