Most of us absolutely love music. We are compelled by it. We are provoked by it. We are moved by it. We are inspired by it. We feel connected to it. It reflects something profound about who we are and our experience of the world.
If I asked you to tell me your favorite bands, musicians, or genres, most of you could quickly reply with a list of beloved artists. Our favorite singers captivate us with lyrics that have powerful messages and sounds that touch us in some special way. In fact, most of us have playlists for just about every situation and emotion in life: an energetic playlist for workouts; and an angry playlist that we reach for when we need to scream.
In these tough life moments, music can be a constructive way to express who you are and what you are feeling. If you are feeling particularly sad about a reality in your life, listen to a song that connects you to that emotion. If you are anxious, turn up the volume in your living room and dance around. If you are angry, grab a pillow and hit is as hard as you can while listening to your favorite lyrics
In conclusion, music is what help us to go through the down time of life. It helps us to remain calm, remain positive and keep trying your best.we often have a hard time expressing how we feel through words. The intellectual, verbal expression of feelings doesn't do justice to our experience of the emotion. Connecting to music is one effective way to become more honest about who you are, what you are really experiencing, and coping with negative emotion.
Sunday, 30 August 2015
Self Control
Self-control is what you build up, develop, create and learn by controlling your behavior repeatedly. We should regard self-control as a skill. It is not a character trait or a thing you have to have that lets you control your behavior.
If someone says, "I have no self-control over my gaming or smoking, or eating sweets or whatever," it might be asked, "Are you well practiced at resisting your urges or opportunities to use or to overeat the wrong things?" The answer would likely be, "No." This person is well practiced at giving in to those urges and opportunities to use.
Getting control over your urges and opportunities is like getting control over a bicycle or anything else. You're not going to start out as an expert. You will get control of it only by forcing yourself at first to act differently than you feel.And it may feel very difficult or strange. But by practicing over and over, you learn to ride the bike! So the reason people correctly "feel" that they don't have self-control is because they haven't been practicing what would give it to them. In this case, the skill is in resisting urges or opportunities to use.
In one famous study, children were left with a candy bar and told that if they didn't eat it they would get two candy bars. The children who resisted the temptation while alone were secretly observed using verbal self-reminders and distracting activities. Children who didn't resist were later able to do so after being taught new strategies for better self-control. Things like learning that urges are time-limited, and they will crest and subside if we stall and divert the thoughts to something else. We practice doing this in our group meetings to help you be prepared for when you are tempted.
Self control can be learned. 'There is a will, there is a way' There is always a way to control yourself, its just do you want to or not.
If someone says, "I have no self-control over my gaming or smoking, or eating sweets or whatever," it might be asked, "Are you well practiced at resisting your urges or opportunities to use or to overeat the wrong things?" The answer would likely be, "No." This person is well practiced at giving in to those urges and opportunities to use.
Getting control over your urges and opportunities is like getting control over a bicycle or anything else. You're not going to start out as an expert. You will get control of it only by forcing yourself at first to act differently than you feel.And it may feel very difficult or strange. But by practicing over and over, you learn to ride the bike! So the reason people correctly "feel" that they don't have self-control is because they haven't been practicing what would give it to them. In this case, the skill is in resisting urges or opportunities to use.
In one famous study, children were left with a candy bar and told that if they didn't eat it they would get two candy bars. The children who resisted the temptation while alone were secretly observed using verbal self-reminders and distracting activities. Children who didn't resist were later able to do so after being taught new strategies for better self-control. Things like learning that urges are time-limited, and they will crest and subside if we stall and divert the thoughts to something else. We practice doing this in our group meetings to help you be prepared for when you are tempted.
Self control can be learned. 'There is a will, there is a way' There is always a way to control yourself, its just do you want to or not.
Exams
Why do students hate exam?Exams reminds us of that horrifying experience of waking nights, pressurized atmosphere and books spread all around. The news of exams itself creates havoc in the mind of students. They are a part and parcel of our education. They are here to test what we know. While the criterion of ‘judging’ a student in itself is a defected idea, exams are here to stay. We often grumble about the exam and its origin.
Exam time is a headache for us. The onset of the exam creates a boring and melancholic atmosphere in our study room. The fact that we just have to sit on books, learn and revise ignites our hatred towards exams. We have to eat exam, drink exam, and live exam.
The notion of exam is associated with a lot of pressure from all side. The constant peer pressure and parental pressure combines together and burdens the students. There is so much made out of this whole idea of examination that we perceive exam as a war where we are more or less without weapons.
Our never ending expectation happens to exists in the exams also. We all know no matter how much we study, our results are not going to satisfy our so-called high expectations. We aspire to get better and better but what happens is the pretty opposite. We are well acquainted with the feeling of remorse and distress when these expectations are not met.
Exam time is a headache for us. The onset of the exam creates a boring and melancholic atmosphere in our study room. The fact that we just have to sit on books, learn and revise ignites our hatred towards exams. We have to eat exam, drink exam, and live exam.
The notion of exam is associated with a lot of pressure from all side. The constant peer pressure and parental pressure combines together and burdens the students. There is so much made out of this whole idea of examination that we perceive exam as a war where we are more or less without weapons.
Our never ending expectation happens to exists in the exams also. We all know no matter how much we study, our results are not going to satisfy our so-called high expectations. We aspire to get better and better but what happens is the pretty opposite. We are well acquainted with the feeling of remorse and distress when these expectations are not met.
Literature
The novel I have chosen is ‘Step by Wicked Step’ written by Anne Fine. Colin and Claudia are the two characters I have chosen to compare.
Colin and Claudia come $rom broken or separated $amilies. They both have step parents. Colin’s mother has left his biological father and lives with Jack. Jack is the only ‘Father’ Figure Colin ever knew. 'However" Colin’s mum leaves Jack after a while. This causes him to miss Jack so badly that it hurts.On the other hand Claudia’s Father has left her mother for another woman" Stella. She feels disloyal to her mum whenever she has a good time with her father and Stella. Both Colin and Claudia really want their parents to restore friendly relations between them.
However,, Colin and Claudia are markedly different individuals. They deal with the changes in their respective families differently, Colin is portrayed as a boy always pining for his ‘father’ even after five whole years. Howeve,r Claudia become
hostile towards the new lady in her life" Stella" disregarding all the latter’s efforts to warm up to her.
Even though they experience broken family relationships and and it difficult to accept changes the way Colin and Claudia accept new additional members of the family is different. They have different views in accepting reality and this has made the story more inspiring and colourful.
Colin and Claudia come $rom broken or separated $amilies. They both have step parents. Colin’s mother has left his biological father and lives with Jack. Jack is the only ‘Father’ Figure Colin ever knew. 'However" Colin’s mum leaves Jack after a while. This causes him to miss Jack so badly that it hurts.On the other hand Claudia’s Father has left her mother for another woman" Stella. She feels disloyal to her mum whenever she has a good time with her father and Stella. Both Colin and Claudia really want their parents to restore friendly relations between them.
However,, Colin and Claudia are markedly different individuals. They deal with the changes in their respective families differently, Colin is portrayed as a boy always pining for his ‘father’ even after five whole years. Howeve,r Claudia become
hostile towards the new lady in her life" Stella" disregarding all the latter’s efforts to warm up to her.
Even though they experience broken family relationships and and it difficult to accept changes the way Colin and Claudia accept new additional members of the family is different. They have different views in accepting reality and this has made the story more inspiring and colourful.
Literature
Based on the novel "Step by Wicked Step", a character that has changed due to certain events in Colin.
Firstly, Colin became an unhappy and lonely boy. He had to join a new school when his mother moved out of their home with him. " I had to start at another school,..."
Secondly, Colin becomes a dreamy boy which causes him to have less focus in school. He would hum their favorite song and stay awake for hours talking to his dad, pretending he was there. "I still lay awake for hours every night."
Lastly, Colin became resourceful. Colin tries to save money. He does three paper rounds to earn money to search for his dad when he is older. "I even do three paper rounds,... Enough to go back and find him..."
In conclusion, Colin responded negatively to the changes in life. After a while, he decided to do something worthy to search for his dad which made him optimistic, resourceful and patient.
Firstly, Colin became an unhappy and lonely boy. He had to join a new school when his mother moved out of their home with him. " I had to start at another school,..."
Secondly, Colin becomes a dreamy boy which causes him to have less focus in school. He would hum their favorite song and stay awake for hours talking to his dad, pretending he was there. "I still lay awake for hours every night."
Lastly, Colin became resourceful. Colin tries to save money. He does three paper rounds to earn money to search for his dad when he is older. "I even do three paper rounds,... Enough to go back and find him..."
In conclusion, Colin responded negatively to the changes in life. After a while, he decided to do something worthy to search for his dad which made him optimistic, resourceful and patient.
Nemo
I decided to re-watch one of the greatest disney movies there is... NEMO
the story is about A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo. After he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. So, while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbor. While the two are doing this, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to Sydney Harbor to live their lives free again.
Cloud Cookie
Coud Cookie! What is a Cloud cookie? Is it a cookie shaped like a cloud or is a cloud shaped like a cookie? Actually according to google its a cloud shaped cookie cutter! But today I am not here to talk a bout a random cookie cutter however if I had to choose I will never choose a cloud shape who does not like a heart shaped cookie cutter when its in your choices. Ok, back to the point what cloud cookie am I talking about?
I am actually talking about a cloud that shapes like a cookie. Why am I talking about a cloud cookie. Because today when I was in the car I saw a lot of clouds and start to imagine stuff and then suddenly I saw this random round shaped cloud that looked like a cookie. I was confused as why the first thing that came to my mind is a cookie, is it because I am hungry, or is it because I have a sudden craving for cookies.And based on that I figured, wow our thoughts or very much affected by our feelings or emotions if I was not hungry at that time andat that exact moment I would not have thought of that cookie and would not have wrote this weird topic.
This proves that emotions cause us to think differently, when you are angry you always see things negatively and will 'salt' on everything everyone does. Furthermore, this is also can be further proven as when we hate someone we hate everything they do even though we know its right.This is just a few example of our brains prioritize emotions over pure thoughts
In conclusion, we should always keep a positive state of mind so we will be more happy and more wanting to do whatever we are doing.-Inspired by cloud cookie
I am actually talking about a cloud that shapes like a cookie. Why am I talking about a cloud cookie. Because today when I was in the car I saw a lot of clouds and start to imagine stuff and then suddenly I saw this random round shaped cloud that looked like a cookie. I was confused as why the first thing that came to my mind is a cookie, is it because I am hungry, or is it because I have a sudden craving for cookies.And based on that I figured, wow our thoughts or very much affected by our feelings or emotions if I was not hungry at that time andat that exact moment I would not have thought of that cookie and would not have wrote this weird topic.
This proves that emotions cause us to think differently, when you are angry you always see things negatively and will 'salt' on everything everyone does. Furthermore, this is also can be further proven as when we hate someone we hate everything they do even though we know its right.This is just a few example of our brains prioritize emotions over pure thoughts
In conclusion, we should always keep a positive state of mind so we will be more happy and more wanting to do whatever we are doing.-Inspired by cloud cookie
More movies!!!- Now you see me
Small-time magicians Daniel Atlas, Merritt McKinney, Henley Reeves and Jack Wilder are invited to attend a meeting in a weird apartment. One year later they reappear as The Four Horsemen in a show in Las Vegas sponsored by the millionaire Arthur Tressler and they heist a bank in Paris from the stage and distribute the money to the audience. The FBI agent Dylan Rhodes is assigned to the case and Interpol sends agent Alma Dray to be his partner. Dylan and Alma are completely lost in the investigation and the exposer of illusionists Thaddeus Bradley gives hints about illusion. When the Four Horsemen steal the bank account of Arthur Tressler during a show in New Orleans, Dylan and Alma believe that these heists are only distraction for a huge scheme but they are never sure about of what is true and what is illusion.
Saturday, 1 August 2015
Question 2012
Based on the novel “Step by Wicked Step” by Anne Fine, an event that makes me angry is how Pixie’s father reacted when Pixie was having a quarrel with her step mother, Lucy.
First off, Pixie’s father reacted childishly when he finds out that Pixie and Lucy were quarrelling. For instance, when he went in to the room where Lucy and Pixie were quarrelling, instead of trying to solve the tension between them, after saying “Whoops!” he leaves the room. When the tension between them has been solved, he comes in the room saying “Are you scrappers ready for a cup of tea?”. This childish act by the father leaves me angry.
Secondly, Pixie’s father thinks unrealistically about the problems in his household. For instance, Lucy states that Pixie’s father wants it both ways and doesn’t think realistically. “Then there’s your dad, he wants it both ways too.” Pixie’s father also wants to create a happy family without helping resolve the tension between Pixie, Lucy, Hetty and Sophie as he does not dare to speak to any of them to resolve it. This is due to the ignorance of the father of the problems present in the family revolving around them which he then proceeds to blame Lucy about it. “Pixie’s father hasn’t got the guts to speak to either of you about the things that make life difficult for Sophie, Hetty and me, then all of a sudden it’s as if I am the problem, not you three!”
Thirdly, Pixie’s father acted selfishly towards the problems between his new family and Pixie. Pixie’s father did not bother helping any of his family members resolve their problems between them by staying out of things and only appearing when the trouble was over. “I think she was fed up with him forever staying out of things, and not facing up to what was bothering everyone, and only creeping in when he thought the trouble was over, and it was safe.” He also didn’t stand up for Pixie or Lucy when they needed it and went on it live his own selfish life without noticing things. “He could have stuck up for me when I was right (and maybe even for Lucy when I was wrong). But instead he just got on with his own selfish, quiet life, pretending he didn't notice things, or leaving them for Lucy, and never trying to sort out any of the horrible, horrible mess he'd made by changing all our lives forever.”
In conclusion, I am angry at how Pixie’s father reacted so immaturely and selfishly when it comes to his family’s problems. Pixie’s father should have helped them solve it by reaching out to them and understanding how both sides felt about each other. Instead, he decided to fold his arms and play it safe until the problem resolves itself. In the end, he was the one that caused the problems that arose between the two families. This attitude by Pixie’s father should change and he should be courageous to step up for either side of his family when they are right and help them be closer to each other.
First off, Pixie’s father reacted childishly when he finds out that Pixie and Lucy were quarrelling. For instance, when he went in to the room where Lucy and Pixie were quarrelling, instead of trying to solve the tension between them, after saying “Whoops!” he leaves the room. When the tension between them has been solved, he comes in the room saying “Are you scrappers ready for a cup of tea?”. This childish act by the father leaves me angry.
Secondly, Pixie’s father thinks unrealistically about the problems in his household. For instance, Lucy states that Pixie’s father wants it both ways and doesn’t think realistically. “Then there’s your dad, he wants it both ways too.” Pixie’s father also wants to create a happy family without helping resolve the tension between Pixie, Lucy, Hetty and Sophie as he does not dare to speak to any of them to resolve it. This is due to the ignorance of the father of the problems present in the family revolving around them which he then proceeds to blame Lucy about it. “Pixie’s father hasn’t got the guts to speak to either of you about the things that make life difficult for Sophie, Hetty and me, then all of a sudden it’s as if I am the problem, not you three!”
Thirdly, Pixie’s father acted selfishly towards the problems between his new family and Pixie. Pixie’s father did not bother helping any of his family members resolve their problems between them by staying out of things and only appearing when the trouble was over. “I think she was fed up with him forever staying out of things, and not facing up to what was bothering everyone, and only creeping in when he thought the trouble was over, and it was safe.” He also didn’t stand up for Pixie or Lucy when they needed it and went on it live his own selfish life without noticing things. “He could have stuck up for me when I was right (and maybe even for Lucy when I was wrong). But instead he just got on with his own selfish, quiet life, pretending he didn't notice things, or leaving them for Lucy, and never trying to sort out any of the horrible, horrible mess he'd made by changing all our lives forever.”
In conclusion, I am angry at how Pixie’s father reacted so immaturely and selfishly when it comes to his family’s problems. Pixie’s father should have helped them solve it by reaching out to them and understanding how both sides felt about each other. Instead, he decided to fold his arms and play it safe until the problem resolves itself. In the end, he was the one that caused the problems that arose between the two families. This attitude by Pixie’s father should change and he should be courageous to step up for either side of his family when they are right and help them be closer to each other.
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