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My Life Goals

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Hello everyone!  Believe it or not, it is already MARCH.  Sheessh! Time do flies so fast! So, on today's post right here, let's talk about 'life goals'. So basically life goals are something that people set themselves and work hard to achieve. These goals could be something you personally want to attain in life so that at the end of the day, you yourself can reflect back on what you have been working on and it shall keep you motivated.  Today, I would like to share to all of you my top 3 life goals that I would want to accomplish in life ( apart from losing weight) .  So, basically ; My first life goals is to be an Educator. I would love to share all the knowledge that I have and making learning fun! Second, I would like to travel the world! Experience the diversity that world has to offer and experience all sorts of different culture.  Third, I would want to be financially stable and buy my own house! (I know money can...

The Power of Women's Anger | Soraya Chemaly

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Hi! So for this week, I've decided to listen to a podcast on Ted Talks Daily  delivered by Soraya Chemaly  where she explains about the POWER OF WOMEN'S ANGER  So first, lets start off with the definition of anger given by the speaker. She mentions that anger is a  Human emotions, whether good or bad. It warns us of threat, insult, indignity and harm.   And truth be told,  girls and women are mainly taught that their anger is better left unvoiced .  It is almost like it has been gendered/categorized by who knows who, that explains that : 1. If you are a man, then it is okay to let out your anger. 2. You are expected to penalized anger if you are a woman.  3. If you're a white man and you let out your anger, then it proves that you have civic virtues. 4. However, if you're a black man, if you let out your anger, you will be labeled as criminal.  In the talk, the speaker mentioned about how her own mother h...

Podcast

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Hi everyone! Basically today, I would like to share to you on a website which is called Podbay.fm  and is designed to be the best podcast listening experience on the Web and what more important is, it can be instantly accessible. So, the first step is :  You can just click to the link down below, and it will bring you directly to the web http://podbay.fm/ Next, click on browse! You can find various topic that you are passionate about!  Chances are you will find a podcast that will truly inspire you are extremely high, so keep searching! There are various of topics that you can explore, my favourite would be, no doubt (comedy, education and tv series!) Trust me the choice are endless. So, you can stay educated and informed and in the same time learn new things in your areas of interest or hobbies.   Optimize Your Time Listen to podcasts while walking, driving, commuting, or working out! Get inspired!...

Chinese New Year!

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For this week, we don't have any class due to Chinese new year. Therefore, instead of updating what we have learnt in class. I will share a little bit about Chinese New Year. This year, will be the year of Earth Pig! Chinese New Year is a time for families to be together. Wherever they are, people are expected to be home to celebrate the festival with their families.The New Year's Eve dinner is called 'reunion dinner', and is believed to be the most important meal of the year. Like usual, there will be a lot of fireworks during chinese new year's eve. Talking about that, it reminds me about the legend of Nian, where it basically explains on why the Chinese will light up fireworks during Chinese new year's eve! According to Chinese mythology there was a horrible beast called Nian which lived on the mountains.  Towards the end of Winter when there was nothing to eat, Nian would come on the first day of New Year to the villages to eat livestock, crop...

Pros & Cons of Blogging

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It really brought me back to the memory lane. When I used to be an active blogger (which was probably 10-11 years ago) when blogs is just another diary. Place to express feelings. Share the unforgettable moments and ups and down in life. But as years pass by. The reality of social media came along, where sharing the bad side of life would be considered as flaws instead of living the reality and people judge EVERY-SINGLE-WORD that you write and I guess on that time, people opinion matters.. For this week's update, let's take a look on; Like every social medium that we currently have, blogs also have its pro's and con's that user or even readers need to be aware of.  First, let us talk about the   pros Improving your writing skills and style Ability to make you a master in a chosen subject Help us to easily share the contents in the blog with social media Help you to increase your knowledge in different fields Blogging changed my way of thinking and att...