Study Tips

Hey guys!!!!

Its has been almost 3 months since I last posted anything, and I apologise. I have been really busy recently, and simply didn't have the time to write anything. But I'm back now, and I'll be back with a bang!

Now in today's post, I'll be talking about how to study! Okayy, I'm not the most qualified person in the world to talk about it, but I did graduate Primary School with a PSLE aggregate of 253. And I survived Secondary One education  relatively unscratched.

Since its the June holidays, I figured that this would be a good time to learn some new study tips, and maybe even change your game plan for the next semester.

Please do search around a little more for more tips, and find the one that really suits you best. I'm still searching too.

Tip No. 1: Find a good study spot.

Now this is really important since you will be spending quite a bit of time at your study spot reviewing your textbooks, notes, and god-knows-what-you-have, everyday. The location could be anywhere, really. It could be the Starbucks cafe near your house, it could be your school/ neighbourhood library, it could be a park, it could be your friend's house, but most of the time, it should be your own home, or more specifically, your room/ study room. Some people may have a study room in their home, but otherwise, your room works well too. Make sure that you are comfortable wherever you are.

For me, my study spot is a study room in my house, with the air-conditioning on and preferably a cup of hot drink by my side.

Tip No. 2: Determine if you can and/or want to work with music.

This is really not a one rule for all, because everyone is different. If you need music, do choose classical music, as it is said that classical music works best for studying. Sources may include: Mozart, Beethoven, studymusicproject (youtube). Don't worry if you don't know any good sources, just go to youtube, and search for 'best study music'. You will be literally SPOILT for choses, and eventually, you will find your favourite.

For me, I can't study with music. I get distracted too easily. But if I am at Starbucks, I am perfectly fine with the music there. Weird huh.

Tip No. 3: Don't be afraid to talk to your teachers.

I'll admit that the first time you walk up to try and ask for help can be scary. But you can always send an email instead. Often, your teacher's email can be found on your school's website. Most teachers are very willing to help you, and would be willing to meet you during the holidays, after school or during recess to clarify your doubts. Don't worry about teachers

For me, I belong to the group who can get the courage to talk to teachers. Just like, recently, I met with my History teacher for consultation on how to improve my History results and he gave me really good tips.

Tip No. 4: Know when your productive time is.

Some people study better in the day, some in the dead of the night. Find out when your own is.

For me, I study best in the morning, when it is quietest. But it's damn hard for me to wake up early in the morning. Frustrating huh?

Tip No. 5: Study everyday.

Okay, I know this is cliché, but do your revision regularly. Half an hour daily would probably be good enough for a normal school day, but as it gets closer to exams do increase that time period.

Tips No. 6: Do NOT, and I mean DO NOT... CRAM.

Cramming does NOT work. It'll just make your brain too tired on the day of exams.

Tip No. 7: Stay organised.

Write To-Do Lists, keep a bullet journal, file papers in different files, use a wall planner to block out study time, note down due dates, exam dates ect. This will save you a lot of time since it is less likely that you lose your materials and have to waste precious time finding them.

Tip No. 8: Look after yourself.

Now you can't study when you're sick, can you? So drink plenty of water, avoid too much fried food, or gorging yourself on sugary snacks.

Tip No. 9: Discover your learning style, and how to best make use of the advantages.

Contrary to popular belief, there are more than the commonly seen visual, kinetic and auditory learners. Find your style, and rock it from there.

Tip No. 10: Don't try to study 24/7, reward yourself.

You heard it, don't study too hard. You still need to find a balance between being a good student and having a life. Go out for an hour or so to exercise, catch a movie occasionally, watch TV, eat ice-cream. Relax every once in a while. But don't overdo this step and end up slacking, please.

Tip No. 11: Make your own study materials.

This way, you are actually doing twice the revision, once when you are making them, and once when you are doing your revision.

Now, this is not all, just a short compilation of  what I have came across in the past. Do do more research if you need more help. But that is not an excuse to slack off, okay?



Peacing out,
~jessykeejiayi><

Dedictating his lifetime to Singapore and to us

Hi again readers,

I believe that many of you have heard the sad news. If you have not, I am sorry I have to bring to you this message.

Our founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, has passed on as of 23/03/2015, 03:18(Singapore time).

He was known as a charging lion, a father. The Cambridge educated man devoted his whole life to the building of the nation. In his hands, his leadership, we developed from a third-world nation, into a first-world country.

He worked hard, thinking of ways to improve the conditions in Singapore. His perseverance, his determination, his passion, his dedication has brought us to where

"I've spent a whole lifetime building this nation, and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is gonna knock it down."

This  is by far, my favourite quote of Mr Lee. Indeed, he spent his whole life building our country, from being our very 1st Prime Minister, to being a Minister Mentor, the 91-year-old continued serving the nation. He was in charge of Tanjong Pajar GRC for more than a decade.

He started the bilingual education system, which allowed us to be able to fluent in both languages, which in turn, allowed us to be able to carve our career in both ENglish and CHinese countries. Yet, we have people like Amos Yee being ungrateful.

Rip Mr Lee Kuan Yew and may you rest in peace.

Peacing Out,

~jessykeejiayi><

Neighbour Rivalry?

Hey guys,

Welcome to another blog post by me. Today's topic is as you can see, is neighbour rivalry. Now this is a story based on a true story.

Scenario
Now we have a housewife. As a housewife, of course she has to do the laundry, right? So when she hangs out the wet clothes to dry, guess what, her hands slipped and she dropped the bamboo pole together with the clothes. Seeing this, she panicked. She went straight out, and bought a box of chocolates. After that, she went down to her neighbour, offered the box of chocolates to them, and apologised, afeter taking back her bamboo pole.

Now, a couple of months later, the wind blew on of the bamboo poles down to the same neighbour''s house, and this time, the housewife got her husband to go down to retreive the bamboo pole because she was busy. The neighbour scolded the husband. Unfairness starts here right?

The husband is good-natured, and doesn't tell the housewife, but she can tell something is wrong.

When a bamboo pole appeared at the drying corner of the neighbour's house a few months later, the neighbour immediately assumed that it belonged to the housewife. They came up and confronted the housewife. After checking, the housewife told the neighbour that the bamboo pole did not belonged to her. And guess what the neighbour said, "After studying the bamboo pole of several possible household, the bamboo pole looked like it is yours."

*Disclaimer: If the situation sounds like what you have done to your neighbour, but you do not know me personally, then I am not talking about you. If you do know me or my relatives, then I don't know, deal with it, and improve your EQ, for goodness sake.*

Okay, guys, so what are your views on this? The neighbour is obviously too much, right? I mean, using basic common sense, why would anyone want to drop the bamboo pole down to you, purposely? And if you read carefully, everytime the bamboo pole dropped down, the family or the housewife would go down personally to take it, not wait for the neighbour to bring it up right? So what does this tell you about the neighbour? Do you readers also see something weird, why does the neighbour need to go from door to door to check whose bamboo pole is it? Why can't they just put it outside their house, or wait for someone to come collect it? They were obviously looking for a fight.

More than 80% of Singaporeans lived in HDB flats, which is actually a lot. Living in a HDB flat has its perks, like kids being more sociable, aunties are able to gossip with friends, and the family is able to join tours to neighbouring countries together. But what if one has neighbours who are unreasonable?

This would result in unhappiness in the neighbourhood. As neighbours, should we not be looking out for one another? Why make life difficult for each other? This I do not understand.

Well, just a little food for thought, if you have any stories of neighbours being either horrid or really nice to you, let me know in the comments section down below.

Peacing out,
~jessykeejiayi><

Update on my life

Heyy guys,

I needed a little break from revision for my Literature paper tomorrow so I thought, why not do an update on my life for you guys, so let's go. P.S. Wishing you guys a very happy Chinese New Year, and have a great year ahead! Have a great March!

20 facts:

1. My hobby has always been reading, but now I have another one- BLOGGING!
2. My aim has always been to get straight As, and this year, it is to try to get at least an A2 for all my subjects.
3. I do own pets, 2 little terrapins and I hope to be able to rear them till they grow up to be really old.
4. My birthday is on the 1st day of the second half of the year- 16th June.
5. I am a Snake born during the Gemini period.
6. I still have no idea what subject combination I want to choose at the end of this year.
7. I really want to do my parents proud by doing very well academically and in the future.
8. I am in love with my CCA- Multimedia Club.
9. Photography has been a favourite pastime.
10. My favourite colour is Sky Blue.
11. I like watching Youtube videos.
12. I watched Jack Neo's films growing up, and they are all awesome.
13. My idea of a perfect day would be a rainy day, where I would curl up indoors with a good book and a cup of Hot Chocolate or a Hot Green Tea Latte.
14. I like designing but I can't draw.
15. I would like to take a designing or event organising course in polytechnic when I graduate form Secondary School.
16. I am totally not a fan of being compared to others, I am me, my imperfections.
17. I know I don't have any right to give people advise, but what I can do is lend you a listening year and give you some options to help you through your difficult times.
18. I really look forward to the time where I would be 16 so I can go out and work part-time during the holidays.
19. I don't listen to songs I don't understand, like K/J- Pop, I listen to Chinese, English, and some Hokkien songs.
20. I will try to make my posts grammatically correct, so please correct me if I am wrong.

Right, so that is 20 facts about me, I will want to have a Q&A post soon, so leave me comments down below and I'll answer them when I get enough questions, deal?

Sorry for the blur pic, it wasn't this blur when I downloaded it

Peacing out
~jessykeejiayi><

A Not So Joyous Chinese New Year

Hi faithful readers,

This year, we student have a super long Chinese New Year break because of weekends, and this may be a good news for most, to those who do not have to cram visiting tens of relatives in just 2 days. But for me personally, this has to be one of the bleakest Chinese New Year, for that matter, one of the worst start to the year I have ever had.

To start things of, my great-grandmother passed away a couple of days into the new year. She had a 7-day funeral and I went straight there after school everyday. During that hectic 1-week, home was as good as a hotel, I only went back to sleep.

5 weeks later, my grandmother was admitted into the ICU and passed away a few days later. She had a 5-day funeral and this time, I attended it full-day. I skipped the entire week of school, and had a friend send me my homework, which I rushed out on the weekends. Home was again a hotel, and I realised what a big part of my life my grandmother was. The paragraphs below are dedicated to her, a wonderful, noble woman.


我亲爱的阿嫲，你过得怎样？在极乐世的生活好吗？我真的真的好想你。我想念你在家里做事时的背影，我很想念你在厨房的背影。那是我从电梯大堂跑到你家是一定会看见的背影。我想念你泡给我的米洛。只有你会把牛奶加进我的米路，使其如此甜。我想念你炒的炒饭-它有它特殊的味道，也许这就是你炒饭时放的爱。我想念你的咖喱。我总是说，对于我们在外面买的咖喱，我将咖喱倒在饭上。但是，对于由你煮咖喱，我会舀一碗，并里面添加一些饭。您的咖喱是永远不会太辣，但你曾经告诉我，你会很早很早起来，为了就是做全家庭喜爱的咖喱，有时甚至像这么凌晨4点这么早。那真的辛苦你了。现在，你终于可以好好休息。即使是你在家里较健康是的日子，你不会休息太久。就算您累到能在椅子上打瞌睡，您也不会放心地去小睡一会儿。
我真后悔没有把我的童年花在和你在一起的时光，但已经过去了，现在也没有办法改变。我很喜欢陪您去看牙医。我对让你跌倒的那时感到很内疚。我应该更好的照顾您。妈妈是对的，我笨，没用脑。我应该在你身后，帮助你，直到您安全地在德士里。有多少次，我发现自己希望我能有多一个品尝你的炒饭，咖喱的机会。多 少次，我发现自己希望我能与你只有多一天，无论是在医院还是在家里还是在你最爱的四马路逛街，陪伴着你。不管做什么，可以是最简单的事情- 在不晓得你知不知道我在你的身边时抚摸着你的手。 在隔离病房的那两天，当我不知道你是否知道我在那里抚摸着你的时候，那痛苦是非笔墨可形容的。但是，比什么是更痛苦的是不能够触碰到你，不能够看到你的本人，不能够和你谈心。阿嫲，我非常向你。但我知道如果我崩溃的话，您会担心，担心我，担心妈妈。所以我不会让你担心， 我会把思念隐藏起来，即使这意味着我会在睡前自己小声地哭我也会把思念隐藏起来。我不会在别人面前哭，不会让您或他们担心我。阿嫲，我非常爱你。
但愿我来世还能做你的孙女儿。

永远爱你，思念你的孙女，
佳怡


My beloved 阿嫲,

How are you? How's life in the world of eternal happiness? I really really miss you.

I miss the view of you doing stuff at home, I miss seeing your back in the kitchen whenever I run to your house from the lift lobby.

I miss the milo you make for me. Only you would add condense milk in my milo, making it so sweet.

I miss your fried rice-- it has a special taste in it, maybe it is the love you put in when cooking.

I miss your curry. I always say that for curry we buy outside, I will drizzle curry over the rice. But for the curry cooked by you, I will scoop a bowl of it and add some rice inside. Your curry is never too spicy, but you once told me that you will wake up so so early in order to cook the curry loved by the family, like 4am. It was really hard on you. Now, you can finally rest well.

Even in the days at home when you will healthier, you wouldn't want to rest for too long, even when you were so tired you would fall asleep sitting on a chair, just because you wanted to cook for the family, even though you would never get to eat the nice, hot food that we eat. you always eat the cold leftovers, but didn't mind at all.

I really regret not spending my childhood with you, but what has passed cannot be helped. I enjoyed accompanying you to the dentist. I feel so guilty for letting you fall that once. I should have taken better care of you. Mummy is right, I don't use my brain enough. I should have been behind you to help you get in the cab.

How many times have I found myself wishing I could have one more taste of your fried rice, your curry. How many times have I found myself wishing I could have just one more day with you, whether in hospital or not, doing a simple thing like stroking your hand, not even knowing whether you knew I was there, that was painful.

But what's more painful is not being able to touch you, not being able to see you in person, not being able to talk to you.

阿嫲, I miss you so much it hurts. But I know it will hurt you even more if I collapse on Mummy. She misses you so much as well. So I will hide it, even if it means I have to cry myself to sleep so I won't cry in front of others.

阿嫲, I love you so much.
I want to be your grandchild again in my next life, and the life after that, and the one after that, and for ever and ever.

Forever loving and missing you,
JiaYi


Guys, as you probably can tell by now, I really miss my 阿嫲. I probably won't blog for a while for now, what with school work, tests, common tests and CCA on top of nursing my broken heart. So so long for now guys, and I'm sorry.

Peacing out,
~jessykeejiayi><