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Just a few weeks back, I had a chat with a group of friends who just finished their A Level Examinations. I realised that many of them have felt that planning their life is rather unnecessary. They questioned me, commented that life could not be planned. I was utterly shocked by that comment.

Without a plan life, we would be wandering aimlessly week by week, and get all upset and disappointed when we are not leading the life we hoped for. Hence, planning is essential.

Here, I have 5 reason why I believe it is essential:

1. Provides directions.

With a plan you will have a direction in life, allowing you to keep focus and spend time that benefits your future. Never leave your life up to chance. Be sure that YOU are the one controlling the steering wheels of your life.

2. A step closer to your DREAMS.

Have you ever felt that your dreams are "pie in the sky"? That's happens when your dreams are not planned. It motivates you and turn words into actions, pushing you closer to your dreams each day.

3. Clarify your most important Priorities.

Your teacher may have set certain priorities for you. So does your parents. But what about your own Priorities? Do you have any that you wish to achieve in limited time?

4. Balance your Life.

Sometimes we sacrifices our sleep to work, or even our family time. But are these sacrifices necessary? I would say NO. With a plan, you will be able to juggle between your work life and personal life.

5. Max up your time.

Have you ever wonder why are you failing your subjects? With a plan, you will be able to maximise your time spend. It allows you to stay focus and knowing when and what to do during that period of time.

Now you know that planning is important, so do start planning before the new year comes! Do stay tuned for my next post on how to do life planning and stand a chance to win a monthly planner!

Over the years, I have done countless of public speaking. I would have to admit that it is never easy to do so. Especially those, like me, who are not born with natural eloquence, public speaking can be nerve-racking. I truly understand the pain of being in front of a huge crowd.

Here are some ways that I acquire to calm my nerves:

1. Practice.

Many of us may already know practice makes perfect. However, every time we stand on stage to perform a speech we are always lacking of that element called Practice. It can be tough for ones with pack schedule to spare time to practice, but, it's essential if you wish to deliver a rousing presentation.

Usually, I would write down my speech rather than thinking through my head. Try to practice where you will be delivering your speech, and try out different positions such as standing, sitting, walking, with open arms, cross legs and so on. I believe that if I will be able to deliver my speech across even in these positions I am more or less comfortable with my speech.

The old school method: Record

It will be good if you are able to record your rehearsals, as listening to your recordings you will be able to spot your bad habits that you may be unaware of, and learn from your mistakes.

2. Attend Other Speeches.

This is the time where you can learn and get inspired on how others present their speech. You never know when you will be able to play off something the other speaker has spoke before. I first started with imitations, I imitated on how others present and slowly developed my own style of presentation.

3. Arrive Early.

It's normal for us to get nervous before the presentation, therefore, there is always a need for us to arrive early. This extra time will gives you enough time to chill yourself down and adapt to the surrounding before you get on stage!

4. Adjust To Your Surroundings.

Many of us would have forgotten that its very important for us. If you get comfy with your surroundings, you will get comfy during your presentations.

If you have the chance to do a run through, good for you. During the rehearsal, look out for the lightings, you wouldn't want lights shining into your eyes, or the microphones.

Lastly, look out for the seating arraignments and be aware of possible distractions.

5. Take in Deep Deep Breaths.

The reason why we tends to shiver or quiver during our speech is mainly due to the lack of oxygen. I will skip all the scientific part, such as the adrenaline and so on. The moral of the story is get oxygen to your brain and relaxes your body. COOL!

6. Put On a Big Big Smile!

Anxiety can be reduces by increasing our endorphins. The only way to do it, is to smile! Smiling not only calm yourself down it also exhibits confidence and enthusiasm to the crowd. However, never over do it.

7. Exercise.

Is it too much to ask you to exercise in the day prior to your presentation? I got the feeling I will be engulfed in rotten eggs. However, I do have my point. Exercise is a pre-peperation for you presentation, because exercise increases your endorphins too!

8. Give Your Speech Some Pauses!

It is definitely a common thing for us to rush through our speeches. I feel you, it's difficult to stand on stage. However, my experience told me that, rushing will not do any good to you. By rushing through your speech, you get even more nervous. Not only that, it portrays an unconfident look on you. I don't think anyone wish to be label as unconfident, do you?

So, don't be afraid to slow down or even pause between your speech. Some times these pauses can be used to emphasise certain points and better illustrate your message across.

9. Drink Water.

The common symptoms anxiety can bring is dry mouth. Dry mouth can results to tongue tight during presentation. In order to prevent such symptoms is to hydrate your mouth by drinking pure water! It has to be pure water!

10. Meet and Greet.

This tip may come into handy if you were to give a speech in publics rather than for school presentation. By chatting and understand your audience can give you extra points. They may give you some inspiration to weave into your speech and makes you seems more likeable and approachable too!

According to Isabel Briggs Myers, there are 16 types of personalities. It is said that one life and work is determined and sway by one's personalities. Many of us, like myself, are unsure of our own personality. I have been confused for years if I am an extrovert or introvert. And, I have found my answer using 16 Personalities.

Take the TEST.

You are required to finish up 4 pages of questions. You may think it too much, but I took less than 5 mins to complete.

An overview of your personality. You can keep a copy of your results by having them to send you an email.

INFP: Introvert, Intuitive, Feelings, Presopecting

A detailed Personality.

In fact, there are many Personality Test available on the internet. However, I prefer 16 Personalities. The very first reason is that the layout is appealing and looks credible. Second, they provide detailed explanations and insights of your personalities by providing a general analysis on your strengths and weaknesses, career path, friendship, relationship.

On the other hand, I feel that it can add more photos to enhance the overall layout. I tend to get a little exhausted reading words, being a pictorial person, I can understand better with illustrations. So, if you were to be like me, you will need to bear with the wordy results.

I do not know how accurate the test can be, however, I am pretty impressed the results given. Indeed, many identified personalities are true. But, I do not know how true or accurate are the suggestions or solution given by them. Hence, I suggest to treat this as a reference.

I would rate it 9/10. Pretty impressive.

I have already got my test. Judge it yourself!

Get your personality Tested today!

http://www.16personalities.com

Hey lovelies,

Before I start with my 9th series of Back To School, I have create a Facebook Page! So, please show me some love by liking my page okay? The Facebook gadget is on the right side! Thank you! With load of love and kisses! <3

I just wanna share with you guys on how I do my photoshop. Here are some of my works, it's original as well as it's final.

Before

After

Before

After

For Aspiring photographers or bloggers like me who loves to snap photos with their DSLR or Digital camera, basic knowledge on Photoshop can enhance your photos pretty well. I wouldn't say that I am a professional in photography or Photoshop editing, all I want is to share my little tricks and skills to achieve these looks.

First of all, I will start off with Brightness or Exposure.

This is to adjust the exposure. Exposure shifts the value for the entire photo.

This is to adjust the brightness. Brightness is different from Exposure, brightness increase the mid-tone.

Play with these two functions until you are satisfied with the brightness that you want to achieve. It can take some time for beginners. Not due to the fact that it is difficult to adjust, but not knowing whether the brightness is enough.

So tips from Wabbithan: Practice!

Secondly, my favourite step of the day. Adjusting the Contrast! I usually love my photos to be on high contrast. But, right now I am trying to explore on low contrast photos. It creates a pale, vintage feel.

If you realise when you rollover to the Brightness icon, it also comes with the option contrast. The fastest way for beginners to adjust their photos are to click onto the [Auto] button on the top right hand corner.

Another ways to adjust contrast is:

Click on the curves icon.

So at the preset there will be a list of options available for you to choose on. Unless you are keen in doing special form of photos, otherwise you can ignore Color Negative(RGB), Color Process and Negative(RGB).

You can play with other options, I would say this is slightly more difficult to handle. But like I said, you can just click on the [Auto] button, and Photoshop will do the work for you. If you would like to challenge yourself or be a little more adventurous, you could try shifting the dots and see what kind of effect you could achieve! :D

Next, if I would want to achieve some kind of vintage look. Cyan, lomo, Sepia and stuff like that. you could try this option as well:

This is a Photo Filter option.

And here are the options that you can choose from to create filters for your photos.

I ain't too sure if these gonna be helpful. Or should I do a Youtube Video on this? Maybe its clearer? do comment on the box below if you wish to have a Youtube Video on this! Hope you peeps love my mini tutorial on Photoshop!

Back To School Series

Hey Darlings,

It's lovely Sunday! It's the start of a brand new week. Looking through my scheduler there are endless things to complete, I wanna let out a heavy sigh. Do you think I would be able to manage? YES, of course I could. Not sure how I am able to do it? All you need to do is read on to find out how.

10 Time Management Tips from Wabbithan:

It's a MYTH!
Time management is just a myth! "You got to be kidding me!" NO I am not. No matter how well organised a person can be everyone shares the same amount of time we have and that will be 24 hours. Nothing more, Nothing less.

What are you WASTING on?
Where are you spending your time at? On netsurfing, making personal calls? You need to find out the very reason to why do you seem to have lesser time to use compared to others. With that you will be able to proceed to the next step.

Bring a SCHEDULER with you.
With a scheduler you will be able to note down whatever you need to complete within that week or even in that particular day. With that I believe you will be able to judge on what need to be completed for the day.

Honestly, scheduler has become one of my necessities . I will feel insecure if I were to leave my scheduler at home. With a scheduler I will be able to keep track of my week and maybe a week after. I like to do planning a week before.

Plan. Plan. Plan.
Start your day with a plan. It will only take you around 30 minutes to complete this daily planning. A 30 minutes in exchange for a productive day. Worth it? YES!

Tip: Don't start your day when your planning is not completed.

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Complete the IMPORTANT TASK First.

You will need to learn how to weigh the importance of what you are working on currently. To identify the most crucial task is the golden rule in Time Management.

FOCUS.
This may be a little hard to achieve. However, the best time management is to stay focus. Put all your distractions away. If there's is a need to switch off wifi or place a "Do not Disturb" at your door knob, please do so.

BLOCK off your SOCIAL MEDIA.
Your Facebook, Twitter, Istagram may be one of your distractions. Block off all these social media when you wish to get things done. This is my usual. Helps me a lot, I can stay focus for quite some time. No vibrations, no pop ups.

Learn to say "NO".
You have to know when to say no. Sometimes it will be good to have certain opportunity, however, be sure that you are able to handle. When it's time to decline you decline. Know what's more important.

I have to learn a lot from this point. I am always afraid to say no, why? Because, I am too afraid to decline others. However, I have come to learn that it would be better for me to say no if I could not handle. Because he or she will be able to find someone else to help them better.

Don't let the UNIMPORTANT DETAILS to drag you down.
We often get too carried away in finding flaws. However, it is not possible to have a 100% perfection. If you know that its already 98% perfect, then let it go.

I understand how it feels like to be 2% imperfect. As a perfectionist myself, I find it pretty guilty for that. However, if this 2% is not gonna affect the big picture then let it go.

Do something during WAITING TIME.
What's waiting time? It can be the time where you take your train ride, getting your food, waiting for the arrive of your bus. All this little bits of waiting time can turn into useful time slots to complete certain things.

For me, I usually would use this little gaps of waiting time do think through what have I not complete for the day, do a rough planning for my following day or even following week, on how to complete my assignments.

It's pretty useful, so don't look down on these little breathing gaps between your time.

Useful? Don't hesitate to share it with your friends! :D

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I have no idea why there are teens out there feeling depressed or upset over not being attached, not having a boyfriend. Come on, being attached doesn't make you a complete person. Be proud to be single, here are my 8 Reasons to why you shouldn't feel sad being single

Value-adding

Being attached requires time, a good relationship requires good investment. So why spend time thinking how you can invest when you can invest on yourself. Do something that is value adding to you.

You are not alone.

Keep that in your mind. You are never alone. There are people out there that are single just like you are. Majority of your friends may have been through relationships or already in a relationship, and you haven't even gotten your first. Please don't feel bad about that. You are not alone. I have many friends who have been single for their past 20 years. So what?

Making Plans just for yourself.

Yeap. The beauty of being single: you, yourself, and no one else. You don't have to constantly lookout for your other half's schedule. Accommodating with each other's schedule can be quite a tiring job, don't you think so?

You can have the bed all by yourself.

I wouldn't recommend couples to do this, unless you are old enough like 25 and above. Things may go very very wrong when couples share a bed. I don't really wish to bring in all the relationship politics discussion. But what I am trying to say here is, being single you can have your bed all by yourself. I don't like to share my bed with people. Cos my bed is pretty small.

Have your very own personal space.

Omg! I really do need this. I need personal space, like a lot. I really dislike it when anyone butt into my personal space. I can do whatever I want. I don't have to think about "will my boy get jealous if I were to text my best friend who happens to be a guy" that kind of thing. OMG! I have no idea why, but guys this days are petty, can they stop eating the vinegar? GOSH!!

Friends.

One of the best perks of being single is that you have plenty of time for your friends. I like that. This means I can hang out with my bitches, sing K from day till night. I love that.

Saving up.

Being single, means saving a lot more money with just having yourself to worry about. Saving up the trouble to please your other half by buying flowers, ties, eating out. You can just stay at home cook a nice meal for yourself. WOOHOO! These saved up money can also be used to travel overseas with your family or friends.

Eye candy the other gender all you want.

You can stare and hang out with the other gender without worrying about your other half being jealous or angry at you. This is the main reason why I love being single, single life offers you a variety of people you can choose to date and spend time with.

Lastly, bless others who are in the relationship. Be happy for your friends who are attached, and never feel depressed for being single. You don't lose out in any other ways. Life is all about give and take. If you wish to have a boyfriend, then you might not be able to get what you have being single.

Moral of the story: Cherish what you have now.

Back To School Series

In a blink of an eye, we have reach the 3rd quarter of 2014. Can you believe it? Soon enough, 2015 will be round the corner. I usually have this feeling of tiredness and sianess, with the increase of no motivation in me when the we reach the 3rd quarter of the year. This happens to me whenever my new year's resolution ain't as per what I wanted, or things have gone really bad over the months. Resulting the lost of motivation in myself, and stop working towards what I wanted.

However, this is the time where bad situation can get over turned. Working hard a little more can make a whole difference to our fruitful 4th quarter of the year. But how are we going to keep our engine moving?

These are some of the methods that I find it useful for me, no harm trying for you though. :D

1. Spot the ISSUE.

To be able to identify the issue that prevented your motivation, productivity level to drop, is one of the utmost important step in being positive towards your work. Usually, people will ask you to forget and let go of the problems that you are facing, well, that's not gonna help in making you feel better. Because, avoiding problems may create a greater after math.

The solution:
Approach the issue and view in a different way first by finding the reason why you are feeling so negative, here are some questions that you can ask yourself.

Why am I feeling Negative?
What makes this things goes wrong?
Are there any ways to make it better?
Was it due to certain side factors that have affected my performance?

Source: http://wishfulinspiration.com/tag/problem/

These are just some example question. List a series of questions on a paper and answer them truthfully. Sorting out your distorted feelings or confused mind can make you feel less negative over time.

2. ADJUST your mood and thinking towards the negative situation.

Negative thought can worsen the way you are going to view the situation that you are in right now. The only way to change your negative thoughts into positive ones is change the way you think. This may start out a little harder for those who are a newbie to optimism.

If one were to maximise the negative thoughts, one can never get positive. So here are some scenarios for you.

First scenario:
Getting back your assignment and you have gotten an C. I know this is a pretty bad results, but how can you be optimistic about it? First you can start thinking about why have you gotten a C. If the reasons were you didn't put in enough effort, or you ain't sure what that topic is all about. Then the second thing you have to do is reason out why have you not put in enough effort, or if you are unsure of that topic go study it. Right after think about now I learn a new thing, this result make me understand my topic better than anyone else.

Second scenario:
Not being able to have you lunch because you couldn't finish up your assignment, or you are stuck in the printing shop. I dislike the feeling of being hungry, being angry with yourself over not having to finish your assignment on time, doesn't do any better to having a filled tummy. What you can do is, "If I can finish this up in 5 mins time, I will be able to grab a sandwich from the Canteen!" this can help your productivity to increase, and you won't feel any worse after that!

3. ADJUST your behaviour.

This can get pretty hard for non born optimist. Like what a Chinese Proverb says :助人为快乐之本 ( Helping others is the key to happiness). I totally agree with it. Staying positive is not just about you, it will be easier to stay positive in a group. So that first thing you can do is to influence others to be positive like you. Therefore, start off with helping out others.

For example: Taking the initiatives to load the printer, to clean the tables, to smile or greet your colleagues or classmates.

With that, people will appreciate your doings, and these praises and appreciation can keep your day happy and upright.

It will also be good if you could be able to share your negative thoughts with your close friends, since friends are the ones that is your emotional support. I always feel better when I were to converse with my friends about the worries, fears that I have. They will be able to praise you and look at the better side.

4. INFLUENCE others.

I believe that being in a optimistic group can make your life happier. Even if you were to be in an unfortunate situation, you will still have this group of optimistic friends out there to guide you out of your negative thoughts.

This is not something that can happen over night. It takes time to influence other. But if you need to influence others to be an optimist, you will have to be a role model of an optimist.

However if you are not able influence others to be optimistic you can try step 5.

5. Hang out with OPTIMIST.

I am pretty sure there will be friends out there that are born nature optimist. Hang out with these friends. Optimist will be willing to hear your negative thoughts, cause they do not wish themselves to think pessimistic when time comes. Thus, they will guide you out of your negative thoughts.

Not to be afraid to share your negative thoughts with them. Cause by spitting out your negative thought to an Optimist, you not only soothe the negative thoughts. An optimist can give your suggestion on thinking positive.

6. Take the FIRST STEP.

Lastly, this is another important step to stay positive towards the world. You need to be able to take the initiatives to take step out your comfort zone. The determination in being positive then can change your pessimistic behaviour into an optimistic ones.

So here are the 6 steps that I truly helped me in staying positive even at the lowest point of my life. Hope all these works well like how it works for me. :D All the best to the ones that are focusing on your major exams! Jiayous!

Bye!

BACK TO SCHOOL SERIES

Ello peeps! Wabbithan has been real busy lately with school and assignments. Being in the second year of poly really makes me wanna scream at my top of my lungs, it's hectic! Yes! It is. So I am really sorry if I have been missing for weeks. And for those who are waiting for the contest to come, do give me some time, it will be out soon. And a sneak preview, the prize is gonna be a $10 worth of Starbucks card! Hooray!

Okay, so in this series of BACK TO SCHOOL, dear Wabbithan is gonna resolve the problems of getting fonts. Designers know the pain of having lack of fonts, lack of brushes and so on. Lately I have been pestered by friends, juniors, classmates about fonatics (is there such a word? okay whatever). I wasn't really annoyed by it, but I hated it so much to repeat myself like 10 thousand times, so here I will give a general tip to everyone on where can you get fonts you like. Yes! fonts!

Finding fonts isn't that hard, yes it takes time, but it's all worth it when you are in need of them! So here, I would recommend a few font websites where you can download free and awesome fonts! Excited?

1001font.com

According to them they should have 1001 fonts available for you to download, but I ain't sure how many are there cos I didn't go and count. you can try counting and tell me how many fonts they have? hahaha.

If you ain't sure about how the outcome would look like using one of the fonts you can actually type the word in the your text box, and then you can view how your outcome would be. How awesome right! Eliminated the time and your brain cells to imagine how it would look like!

losttype.com
One of my favourite font websites! You will know why I love them until you check them out! Hahaha. Well, if you love old school fonts like I do, you will love this! Cos those font are supposedly some fonts that people don't used these days. that's why is called LOST TYPE!

Dafont.com

Some of you may have already heard of this website. But for the sake of those who don't, let me just give you a brief on it.

Dafont is attractive in a way that they have thousand of fonts for you to choose, literally.

And it has been categorise into different types of fonts, like dingbats, san-serif, serif, old school, fancy, calligraphy and more!

Dafont does not just stop at where it is. It is always updating its fonts, so you can never get a stagnant font design in this awesome website.

openfontlibrary.org

Since you can have library for books and why not have a library just for fonts! These fonts are being packed up in the shelves neatly. You can look for them through the catalogue. OR you can just browse through all types of fonts it can have for you. How awesome right!

Fontastic.me

I love this website the most. Cause you can create your icon using this website! Which means, this is a good news for designers, we can save the trouble of opening up our Photoshop to edit the colours of the icon or having trouble making a new icon. This website has all it got! Don't get scared over the login in and sign up. its all free!

What's more you can actually customised your very own icon! how cool and great is that right!

For more updates of fonts you can follow my board on Pinterest! There will be a regular updates of fonts up there. :D

I hope all these give helps you loads. Fonts don't come by easily, you need to search for them all the time okay. Take your time in doing all the research you can. Enjoy your weekends~ Love this post, share it with your friends!

For customised blog post do email me at zelenelmt@gmail.com~ :D

BACK TO SCHOOL SERIES

Back to school series is back again~ Are u missing this series? Well, School has started last week right? Maybe not. Haha, lucky me starts school tomorrow. Cos last week was actually an orientation week for my faculty, so what happens is that the year 2 doesn't have to go to school for the first week! Yippeee to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences! :D

But oh hey, school starts tomorrow.. *clap clap* Back to reality, no more sleeping till late afternoons, or watch romantic Korean drama series at 3a.m. in the morning. Even though, I have an extra week of holiday, my school starts off horribly with a test. Oh great, a test on the first day of school, how nice would that be arh? Not at all lah.

So for newbies who still can't get use to the life of waking up early at 6a.m. or having the perks of studying of focusing. Here are some tips for you.

I am really sure that everyone has the problem of waking up like @##OF*_dajkf! early in the morning lah.

So tip number one to FIX YOUR SCREWED UP BODY CLOCK.

YES, like many of you I have the problem of waking up early enough.

1. Getting up early. (LIKE DUH! I ALSO KNOW!) Although its like a duh, but that's the only solution to fix your damn screwed up body clock. Waking up early will make you sleep earlier in the night, continue it for a few days, and there you will be able to wake up early enough.

2. However waking up early is not enough. After you woke up do exposed yourself to SUNLIGHT! This allows your body to be aware that its daytime, and its time to wake-y wake-y~

3. If caffeine works for you, then very well. Drink a cup of coffee or tea, to keep yourself awake in the morning. So you can push yourself into the night. :D (But this doesn't work for Wabbithan, cos caffeine doesn't take effect on her D:)

4. You may need to have a complicated relationship with your bed for a few days. Get as far as from your bed if you are not gonna sleep. Generally, for me, whenever I am doing my stuff on the bed, I will tend to nua (relax).

5. If you are a late sleeper like I am, I would suggest you to force yourself onto the bed. Relax yourself. And sleep. If this still doesn't work for you, you could head down to the gym and do some exercise, make your body a bit more tired than usual, don't over exhaust your body. Cos you will end up waking late again.

Is this your definition of study? Honestly speaking, that kinda fits my definition of study. I have problem with focusing for more than 30 minutes, unless I love the subject or I am interested in the topic. (This is commonly seen in most of us right? nod if you agrees) OH well, you maybe thinking, okay why u should heed my tips if I can't even focus!

Then I would say, I have been through it and I have overcome this stage where I got distracted while I am studying. So Here, I shall give you some of my tips on HOW I OVERCOME ALL THE DISTRACTIONS AND FOCUS FOR MORE THAN 30 MINUTES? My longest record was 2.5hours straight. I was shock when I did it. I am still trying to break this record.

1. Find you study spot. I think I mentioned this in one of the post. Yeap. I did. In my very first Back To School Series. To add on from there, I really do feel that study spot is the most important thing ever. You can boost your concentration if you get the nice and sweet study spot. As for me, I cannot concentrate if there are people talking right beside me and I need light music (preferably cafe music) in order to focus. In my previous post I did say that I chose a noisy area to study, cos I can't hear specific talking. They are just mumbles. I am pretty fine with that. SO, do find you study spot.

2. Set objectives. Do set a goal for yourself when you are doing your work. Setting a goal allows you to concentrate more, you will have the urge to finish what you have set at the start of your studying process.

3. Get away from your distractions. IF your phone is a distraction to you, turn it into airplane mode, or throw it into your bag, or you can even throw it somewhere far from you. However, if you are outside studying with your friend, ask your friend to keep your phone away for you. This pretty much works for me :D. But for many poly students the main concern is actually the laptop isn't it? Yes, laptops can excess to more social media websites compared to phone. What I would suggest is not to have any social media tabs on your window.

4.Change topic. Studying the same thing over and over again will bore you. Yes, it will bore me, so I think it does the same to you. Changing topic allows you to keep your mind afresh. And with a change your mind will not get bored.

5. Give yourself 5minutes breaks. One will not be able to work without breaks, therefore breaks are essentials in between studies. However, don't give yourself 5 minutes breaks every now and then. This will need to go back to point 2 Setting objectives, give yourself breaks only after you finish a topic or 10 questions. Or even every 40 minutes. Because I have a short attention span, I usually gives myself 1 minutes break every 20 minute. and a 5 minute break after an hour. Yeap.

But at times, I don't really need that 1 minutes break every 20minute. Cos I would push myself to reach the an hour 5 minute break.

These are not just the things that poly students have to get use to.. There are so many things that students need to get use to. Getting use to not having enough time to go shopping, or meeting up with friends. Maintaining a friendship is like a whole lot of difficulties when you get to meet so many new friend in poly. In addition with piled up of assignments, where got time to shop for new clothes lah! If you are wondering how to, you can read them up on my previous back to school series, and Guide one maintaining Awesome Friendship!

Hope all this helps. :D

Question to ask me? Email me at zelenelmt@gmail.com or Ask.fm!

Photos credit: Tumblr.

BACK TO SCHOOL SERIES

Looking at my dear scheduler, I got the urge to cry, time really do fly. It's already the last week of my holiday, and soon I will start off with a brand new year as a year 2 student. A brand new class with many people that I have never known of. Having to be separated with my good old buddies, felt like one piece of me was gone. But what to do, this is called life. Life is always full of unfairness. So all I can do now, is to charge myself up with many many clothes, and read up my for my modules before everything starts. Cos I am very sure, my year two is gonna be a hectic one. Shopping and working are going to be two big problems for me.

So here is my solution for all that -- online shopping!

Do you have terrible experience with online shopping? I do, so its best to MASTER THE ART OF ONLINE SHOPPING~

1. Do take some time looking through different kinds of size charts. There are many different kinds of region size labelling.

2. Kindly do a measurement of yourself. For tops and dress, do measurements on your bust, chest, waist, and the length of your upper body, arms. For skirts, and short, do measure your hips, thighs, length of your legs.The more measurements you have the better you can visualise how your top is going to be like, and how comfortable you can get in that measurement.

Hervintagestore provides model stat's. Check out their clothing too~

3. There is a purpose to have a real life model. Do take the model's stat's into consideration when buying clothes. Most blogshops will provide shoppers with the models stats, having that, shopper are able to have better sense in choosing clothing's that suits them.

4. Some clothing's have a smaller cutting, this happens to me a lot of time while doing online shopping. What seems to be UK4 became UK2. In order to prevent things like that to happen, do ask for more measurements from the owner of the blogshop. If it's a well known brand, do check out their designer's size chart, or do some research on their sizing. I am sure it not that hard to get the sizing information.

5. Sign up for Newsletter. Like many of you, I dislike the spamming of newsletter from various online shopping websites. However, I wouldn't want to miss out any promotion codes or sales that they are having. So I do have a love-hate relationship with newsletter.

6. Create an account. I have countless of online shopping accounts, why? Upon creating an account, I will be able to drop items that I can't buy at that moment into the wishlist category. Save up the time in finding them again the next time when I am ready for those clothes.

Next, I got con many many times while doing online shopping. I have got dealer who went MIA (a very common thing), mailed to the wrong address and denied for a refund, insisted that they didn't receive any payment, the clothing was in bad shape, etc etc. After series of different types of conning, I hereby made a notebook of my very own online shopping safety guide.

To be honest, anything can be fake online, even reviews, but as a shopper myself there are certain things that I will be careful of when doing online shopping.

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1. Careful with your particulars. Most online shopping websites would ask for your house address, your credit card number and so on. Often, I will feel reluctant to give them my particulars. I am fortunate enough that I stayed in a safe housing area with a security guard. As for Credit card number, I would prefer to use a third party called the PayPal. PayPal is my best friend, I shop using PayPal especially under the circumstances where I was forced to give my credit card number.

2. Try to do meetups if possible. I love meet ups. why?

I get to see my dear dealer's face, knowing that I will be able to track the dealer down if anything goes wrong.
I can check my product before handling over my money.
I can be sure that it is a one for one product exchange, I won't be afraid that the dealer will con my money.

3. Ask for proof. Get proof for almost everything, especially for blogshops and instashops. I find this an essential step. This is to make sure that your products are correct, its sent out, its has been mailed to the correct address. Of course, as a shopper yourself, do provide proof that you have transferred your money by capturing the receipt.

4. Be friendly. If you are going to request for many many different kinds of things, please be friendly. They don't have to provide you these information. Be nice to your dealer, and they will be willing to be nice back to you. Even if your dealer is being rude and unfriendly, still, be nice to them. Cause you wouldn't want them to send you clothing which are in bad shape and so on. Never offend your dealer.

If you are having trouble on what to buy, or on budget but wanna shop, read this for some tips in customising your shopping budget. I am sure with these tips you will be able to get a whole lota of goods before school starts~

BYE BI~

BACK TO SCHOOL SERIES

Yes, it's another back to school series! This is applicable to anyone who is a shopaholic! My friends once said this to me:"wa, you can dress whatever you like in POLY? that's damn cool lah!" you know what my dear friends out there, dressing up in poly is rather tiring okay? The first problem we have is " hmmm, what to dress today? What classes do I have? Long sleeves or not?" Yeap, dressing has become our everyday trouble.

So, before poly life starts its time to stock up some clothes! Stock it up stock it up~ :D

Why Set Clothing Budget?

Clothes are our daily necessities, we can't leave the house without clothes.
It helps with purchasing decision. One of my favourite reasons why we need clothing budget. If you have $100 to spend, then you can view potential purchases as a piece of that pie. In my opinion, being a well-dressed person needs to be a smart shopper, so one will be able to have many clothing but at a cheap cheap price~

How To Set Clothing Budget?

Your income aka pocket money. Well, for me, I will set aside 20-40% of my income to my spendings, which includes of food, transport. If there are remaining left then I will spend them on my other stuff such as stationary, clothing, shoes, etc. But if I really do need clothing, then I will set my 8-10% of my spending money for my clothing. That's pretty much amazing you see.
Your financial goals. Are you saving up for overseas trip or to get your favourite gadget, or it can be clothing as well. If so, you could actually, set your spendings a little lower, eat at home, or bring your own lunch box to school. Others could be set budget to your every day meals, like every meal should not be more than $4? Yeap. This pretty much helps me in getting whatever I want.
Your shopping habits. Another factor to consider - do you tend to shop often, or only a couple times a year? For someone who shops often, I like to suggest a monthly clothing budget. If you tend to shop in one or two big chunks every year or when you have a big life event such as a new job, a clothing budget just for your shopping trip might be a better route.

Sticking On To Your Clothing Budget

Keep track of your clothing budget. Its best to write down your spending each day. Its really difficult to keep track without writing them down. And by writing them down, you will be able to compare your spendings monthly, weekly, or even daily.
Carry over. If you have a monthly clothing budget, don't ever pressure yourself to spend it that same month; I definitely don't recommend a "use it or loose it" mentality. If you want to save up for something big, then carry over the budget you didn't use from the previous months. Or do what I do and save some of your budget for the best times of year to score great deals - right after Christmas, and in late June/early July (when the clothing seasons change).
Return overages. Let's face it, sometimes our eyes are bigger than our wallets. No biggie. Whenever this happens to me, I go through my purchases that month and pick a few things to return. If I really, really love them, then I take them out of next month's budget, or I simply go back and buy them next month.

This is like the number one tip I can give you when spending. Definitely the best ever way to keep track of your own spendings, and be able to get more then your think..:D

BACK TO SCHOOL SERIES

I know this doesn't really apply to most students in SINGAPORE, cause many of you are in the midst of school term. But hey! I am not the most students in Singapore. Well, in polytechnic this is when school is starting soon. Freshies listen up, in school will start in less than a month and you guys will be attending orientation real soon! Are you even prepared for a new form of lifestyle?

So here are some survival tips for you!

Join Camps!
Camps like Freshman Orientation Camp and Faculty Camp can mean a lot to you. By making new friends, you can adapt to a new environment more easily because friends will be there as an emotional support for you. It will be nice if you could be acquainted with the seniors from your course you are in, seniors will be able to give you insider information and provide you tips for your modules.

Poly is a place where you widen your connection of people, so make as many friends as you can, cause you dunno when you will need them.

Read GUIDE: Managing friendship if you need help in making friends and maintaining existing friendship!

Getting Prepared!
Similar to Universities, there will not be any spoon feeding in polytechnics. Everything is about self-studying, do research and more research. This may sound scary to you if you are clueless about what is going on for you module. So what you need to do is be prepared before school starts. Read up on relevant modules will give you a head start on what going on for your modules, this will help you better understand in class.

Do not slack off your First Year!
The very first mistake that everyone thinks about poly is that: YOU CAN SLACK! If you think that poly is a place where you can slack for all three years you are damn wrong. The thing in poly is that everything counts, your GPA is determined by how well you have done throughout the 3 years for all your modules. If you slack off in year one, you will have a great time for the next two years working real hard to pull your GPA up to 4.0.

REAL FRIENDS!
Many times your hear people saying that its difficult to find friends in poly. Cause people in poly back stabs each others, are fake, two face and what so ever. Well, don't be naive. Its really common to see these people everywhere not just poly. But what you need is real friends, these group of people allow you to rely on them, will lend you their notes when you lost or missed lessons, will give you a helping hand when your GPA falls, and will never leave you at all cost.

And I am really blessed to have them in my life. <3

Control yourself
Is all about self control in poly life. Is true that your lecturers don't care about whatever you are doing in class. However, this just means that no one is gonna be by your side nagging at you for homework, to wake up anymore. So, it all about self-control

Don't be shy. Just ask
Its all about taking the initiative in poly, need to clear any doubts, just ask. Lecturers are not gonna spoon feed you, if you have any question don't be shy. You paid school fees, so use your lecturers to the maximum!

Find your STUDY SPOT
Yes, you need to find a study spot in school. Cos sometimes students in poly have long breaks in between lessons. And these breaks can be as long as 3-4hours long or even longer. So its very important to find the right study spot. As a Ngee Ann student, I chose Makan Place. Yes, its true that its hard to find seat during lunch hours and is freaking noisy. But I can get all necessities like food, water and even electricity for my coms and phone.

These are just some of my tips lah. if you need more tips do check out these website for poly survival guides~

http://heardatdmc.blogspot.sg/2013/01/5-tips-to-surviving-your-poly-life.html
http://heardatdmc.blogspot.sg/2013/01/tips-to-surviving-in-singapore_7.html

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1. Provides directions.

2. A step closer to your DREAMS.

3. Clarify your most important Priorities.

4. Balance your Life.

5. Max up your time.

1. Practice.

2. Attend Other Speeches.

3. Arrive Early.

4. Adjust To Your Surroundings.

5. Take in Deep Deep Breaths.

6. Put On a Big Big Smile!

7. Exercise.

8. Give Your Speech Some Pauses!

9. Drink Water.

10. Meet and Greet.

Take the TEST.

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If you are having trouble on what to buy, or on budget but wanna shop, read this for some tips in customising your shopping budget. I am sure with these tips you will be able to get a whole lota of goods before school starts~

Why Set Clothing Budget?

How To Set Clothing Budget?

Sticking On To Your Clothing Budget

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