Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
10 Toxic People You Shouldn't Bring With You Into The New Year
Can you believe that it’s already December? This year has flown by in the blink of an eye and we’re on the verge of yet another year — a year full of possibility.
What you will accomplish next year greatly depends on the people you surround yourself with. Or, in other words, it greatly depends on which people you decide not to surround yourself with.
When bringing in the new year, be sure not to bring all your garbage with you. Leave these toxic individuals in 2014; you’ll feel much lighter, allowing you to get a great running start on the year to come.
To be fair, everyone uses everyone — and usually it’s OK. We interact with others because we find that it will benefit us in some way. If we didn’t believe it would, then we wouldn’t find sufficient reason to interact with them.
Sometimes we find people in our lives who use us in ways that end up hurting us. Most people will use us and by doing so, either maintain or improve our wellbeing.
Then you have those toxic individuals who use you and leave you worse off, sucking you dry and feeding off you like a parasite.
These sorts of people have no place in your life; don’t bring them into 2015.
Every respectful person deserves to be respected in return; that’s how respect works. If you find that you have a person or people in your life who have difficulty giving you the respect you give them, tell them to buzz off.
Have enough respect for yourself to never allow others to disrespect you and remain a part of your life.
People can be silly sometimes. The people we keep a part of our lives are the people we care about — or at least, that ought to be the case. Some of these individuals, sadly, end up hurting us and causing us pain.
The problem is that when others cause us pain, we’re reminded of how much those people mean to us. If they could hurt us emotionally, we must care for them and what they think of us a great deal — so we allow them to remain a part of our lives.
Often, we’ll even allow these individuals to take up more room. People hurt other people — it’s just the way the world works. But if you have someone in your life who can’t manage to stop hurting you, do yourself a favor and cut that person off.
Pain is only good if it teaches you a lesson. In this case, the lesson is to stop allowing others to use you as a punching bag.
Everyone lies. In fact, within the first few minutes of meeting a new person, that person is likely to lie to you a handful of times. Most lies are harmless, but that all changes when the people who are lying to you are the people you trust.
Fill your life with trustworthy people and you’ll be far better off. You can find lies just about anywhere. Finding the truth, on the other hand, is much more rare.
These are the scum of the scum, cowards that don’t have the guts to speak their minds. These individuals enjoy pretending to be your friend while telling the rest of the world that you’re a piece of sh*t.
These people will ruin your reputation and, as most of us now know, reputation matters a whole lot in the world we live in. Only idiots would start a new year with these sorts of individuals in their life.
We’ve all had people in our lives who act like our friends only when it’s convenient for them.
These toxic individuals are “pseudo friends” — a lot of fun to hang out with, and more than willing to accept help, but when you need their help they’re miraculously nowhere to be found.
These individuals are especially toxic because they give you the illusion of a safety net. You think you can lean on them for support, but when you reach for their shoulder, you fall over and hit the ground.
Life is only interesting and exciting if it’s constantly progressing. Only when we’re constantly moving forward, constantly improving ourselves and our surroundings, are we able to find contentment and happiness.
Most people always manage to keep people in their lives who are holding on to the life you once had.
You have worked hard to progress and make changes, but these individuals prefer life the way it used to be, and do their best to bring you back to the cave you just crawled out of.
Be wary of these folks, they’re often difficult to pinpoint and always manage to revert the progress you worked so hard to make.
There’s a fact to life that I’ve grown to accept over the past few years — a fact that isn’t especially pleasant, but nonetheless necessary to accept as truth: Many people in your life, the people you call friends, shouldn’t be a part of your life.
As time passes, we change as individuals. Our hopes and goals change, often leaving the relationships we have in place outdated.
Many of the people in your life likely don’t want to live the life you’re building for yourself. Because they’re egocentric, they’ll do their best to create their version of their ideal life and drag you into it.
Most times, people fail to create the life of their dreams because they surround themselves with people aiming for something entirely different.
If your goals aren’t aligned, your lives aren’t either.
Everything in life is limited. Resources are limited. Time is limited. Space is limited. What you can accomplish within a lifetime is limited. We can’t, and never will be able to, have it all.
This is why you have to be very careful with not only what you choose to do, but with whom you choose to do it with.
You can only maintain a handful of strong relationships at any given time — you just don’t have the time, energy or mental focus to handle more.
If you’re filling your life with half-assed individuals, you’re bound to create a half-assed life. If someone isn’t adding to your life, then, by default, they’re taking away from it.
Leave them in 2014 and build a better inner circle.
When bringing in the new year, be sure not to bring all your garbage with you. Leave these toxic individuals in 2014; you’ll feel much lighter, allowing you to get a great running start on the year to come.
1. The people who make your life more stressful.
Stress isn’t necessarily a bad thing — in fact, it’s what you make it out to be. If you believe stress is bad for you, then it will be bad for you. If you use stress as the motivator it is, to motivate you to act, then stress can actually be rather healthy.
However, you should aim to only be stressed by situations and not by people. If you have people in your life who are constantly managing to stress you out, that’s your mind telling you — and trying to motivate you — to remove them from your life.
Life is stressful as it is. You don’t need someone making it more so.
Stress isn’t necessarily a bad thing — in fact, it’s what you make it out to be. If you believe stress is bad for you, then it will be bad for you. If you use stress as the motivator it is, to motivate you to act, then stress can actually be rather healthy.
However, you should aim to only be stressed by situations and not by people. If you have people in your life who are constantly managing to stress you out, that’s your mind telling you — and trying to motivate you — to remove them from your life.
Life is stressful as it is. You don’t need someone making it more so.
2. The people who use you.
To be fair, everyone uses everyone — and usually it’s OK. We interact with others because we find that it will benefit us in some way. If we didn’t believe it would, then we wouldn’t find sufficient reason to interact with them.
Sometimes we find people in our lives who use us in ways that end up hurting us. Most people will use us and by doing so, either maintain or improve our wellbeing.
Then you have those toxic individuals who use you and leave you worse off, sucking you dry and feeding off you like a parasite.
These sorts of people have no place in your life; don’t bring them into 2015.
3. The people who don’t respect you.
Every respectful person deserves to be respected in return; that’s how respect works. If you find that you have a person or people in your life who have difficulty giving you the respect you give them, tell them to buzz off.
Have enough respect for yourself to never allow others to disrespect you and remain a part of your life.
4. The people who always manage to hurt you.
People can be silly sometimes. The people we keep a part of our lives are the people we care about — or at least, that ought to be the case. Some of these individuals, sadly, end up hurting us and causing us pain.
The problem is that when others cause us pain, we’re reminded of how much those people mean to us. If they could hurt us emotionally, we must care for them and what they think of us a great deal — so we allow them to remain a part of our lives.
Often, we’ll even allow these individuals to take up more room. People hurt other people — it’s just the way the world works. But if you have someone in your life who can’t manage to stop hurting you, do yourself a favor and cut that person off.
Pain is only good if it teaches you a lesson. In this case, the lesson is to stop allowing others to use you as a punching bag.
5. The people who can’t seem to stop lying to you.
Everyone lies. In fact, within the first few minutes of meeting a new person, that person is likely to lie to you a handful of times. Most lies are harmless, but that all changes when the people who are lying to you are the people you trust.
Fill your life with trustworthy people and you’ll be far better off. You can find lies just about anywhere. Finding the truth, on the other hand, is much more rare.
6. The people who smile to your face and then insult you behind your back.
These are the scum of the scum, cowards that don’t have the guts to speak their minds. These individuals enjoy pretending to be your friend while telling the rest of the world that you’re a piece of sh*t.
These people will ruin your reputation and, as most of us now know, reputation matters a whole lot in the world we live in. Only idiots would start a new year with these sorts of individuals in their life.
7. The people who don’t care about you, but love to pretend they do.
We’ve all had people in our lives who act like our friends only when it’s convenient for them.
These toxic individuals are “pseudo friends” — a lot of fun to hang out with, and more than willing to accept help, but when you need their help they’re miraculously nowhere to be found.
These individuals are especially toxic because they give you the illusion of a safety net. You think you can lean on them for support, but when you reach for their shoulder, you fall over and hit the ground.
8. The people who drag you back into your old lifestyle.
Life is only interesting and exciting if it’s constantly progressing. Only when we’re constantly moving forward, constantly improving ourselves and our surroundings, are we able to find contentment and happiness.
Most people always manage to keep people in their lives who are holding on to the life you once had.
You have worked hard to progress and make changes, but these individuals prefer life the way it used to be, and do their best to bring you back to the cave you just crawled out of.
Be wary of these folks, they’re often difficult to pinpoint and always manage to revert the progress you worked so hard to make.
9. The people who hold you back.
There’s a fact to life that I’ve grown to accept over the past few years — a fact that isn’t especially pleasant, but nonetheless necessary to accept as truth: Many people in your life, the people you call friends, shouldn’t be a part of your life.
As time passes, we change as individuals. Our hopes and goals change, often leaving the relationships we have in place outdated.
Many of the people in your life likely don’t want to live the life you’re building for yourself. Because they’re egocentric, they’ll do their best to create their version of their ideal life and drag you into it.
Most times, people fail to create the life of their dreams because they surround themselves with people aiming for something entirely different.
If your goals aren’t aligned, your lives aren’t either.
10. The people just taking up space.
Everything in life is limited. Resources are limited. Time is limited. Space is limited. What you can accomplish within a lifetime is limited. We can’t, and never will be able to, have it all.
This is why you have to be very careful with not only what you choose to do, but with whom you choose to do it with.
You can only maintain a handful of strong relationships at any given time — you just don’t have the time, energy or mental focus to handle more.
If you’re filling your life with half-assed individuals, you’re bound to create a half-assed life. If someone isn’t adding to your life, then, by default, they’re taking away from it.
Leave them in 2014 and build a better inner circle.
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Buying.
I have a really bad sweet tooth.
It's getting from worse to something disastrous.
I must, need and want to stop eating cupcakes and chocolates and sweets.
And everything nice.
*sighs heavily*
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
All About Me.. err no.. All About That Bass.
Because you know
I'm all about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass
'Bout that bass
Yeah, it's pretty clear, I ain't no size two
But I can shake it, shake it
Like I'm supposed to do
'Cause I got that boom boom that all the boys chase
And all the right junk in all the right places
I see the magazine workin' that Photoshop
We know that shit ain't real
C'mon now, make it stop
If you got beauty, beauty, just raise 'em up
'Cause every inch of you is perfect
From the bottom to the top
Yeah, my mama she told me don't worry about your size
She says, "Boys like a little more booty to hold at night."
You know I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll
So if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along
Because you know I'm
All about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass
'Bout that bass
Hey!
I'm bringing booty back
Go ahead and tell them skinny bitches that
No, I'm just playing. I know you think you're fat
But I'm here to tell ya
Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top
Yeah my mama she told me don't worry about your size
She says, "Boys like a little more booty to hold at night."
You know I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll
So if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along
Because you know I'm
All about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble
I'm all about that bass
'Bout that bass
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Women
Woman,
When thy forget
Thy tongues kill surely than the serpent's bite
Thy looks are deadlier than Medusa's eyes
Thy swaying gait puts the swaddling duck to hiding
Thy dressing up is a dressing down of decency
Thy shrieking laughter rang louder than the mocking hyenas
What a shame even if thy didn't know not!
Woman,
Lest thy forget
Thy came from Adam's ribs - near to his heart
Thy perfected Adam in the already perfect Jannah
Thy soft hands cradle the goodness, the evils of the world
Thy gentle gaze can break the most hardened heart
Thy words, once truly spoken, can win wars without battles
Thy art the harbour for weary ships to anchor -
The fountain of solace
The river from which serenity flows
The garment made to clothe Man's honour
and a catalyst to Man's humanity
For this is thy fitrah
This is thy destiny...
When thy forget
Thy tongues kill surely than the serpent's bite
Thy looks are deadlier than Medusa's eyes
Thy swaying gait puts the swaddling duck to hiding
Thy dressing up is a dressing down of decency
Thy shrieking laughter rang louder than the mocking hyenas
What a shame even if thy didn't know not!
Woman,
Lest thy forget
Thy came from Adam's ribs - near to his heart
Thy perfected Adam in the already perfect Jannah
Thy soft hands cradle the goodness, the evils of the world
Thy gentle gaze can break the most hardened heart
Thy words, once truly spoken, can win wars without battles
Thy art the harbour for weary ships to anchor -
The fountain of solace
The river from which serenity flows
The garment made to clothe Man's honour
and a catalyst to Man's humanity
For this is thy fitrah
This is thy destiny...
Monday, 3 November 2014
Thursday, 23 October 2014
A post.
I have been away from desk for quite long. And I'm expecting to be away again some time next week or the week after. So there goes my beautiful intention of trying to get back at blogging. Huhu.
Well, I ever think of stopping going online and move forward but reading other people's established blog makes me feel small.
As if my life is so not the very interesting like them.
What's with selfies at the places they visited, or had lunch/dinner at, or whatever they got on their birthdays.
Don't they ever think by doing that can make someone feel sad because they're quite unfortunate to not be able to have the luxuries in life? Cheh cheh.
Okay now I'm feeling like a spoiled girl.
Maybe I should sweet talk Mr.Mr into buying that Asus laptop soon.
For the goodness of everyone.
Especially me. Heh.
And by the way, I just wanted to say if only I wasn't so stupid previously, I would have had a good life and good money to spend like everyone else. Hah.
Now I'm having good money too but it will take time to build back what I lost.
InshaaAllah halal thoyyiban.
Okay peepos. Adios.
Til next post.
Well, I ever think of stopping going online and move forward but reading other people's established blog makes me feel small.
As if my life is so not the very interesting like them.
What's with selfies at the places they visited, or had lunch/dinner at, or whatever they got on their birthdays.
Don't they ever think by doing that can make someone feel sad because they're quite unfortunate to not be able to have the luxuries in life? Cheh cheh.
Okay now I'm feeling like a spoiled girl.
Maybe I should sweet talk Mr.Mr into buying that Asus laptop soon.
For the goodness of everyone.
Especially me. Heh.
And by the way, I just wanted to say if only I wasn't so stupid previously, I would have had a good life and good money to spend like everyone else. Hah.
Now I'm having good money too but it will take time to build back what I lost.
InshaaAllah halal thoyyiban.
Okay peepos. Adios.
Til next post.
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Time
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Kennedy
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button screenplay
“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
― George Harrison
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
― Denis Waitley
Credits to: Good Reads
― Rose Kennedy
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button screenplay
“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
― George Harrison
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
― Denis Waitley
Credits to: Good Reads
Thursday, 18 September 2014
Lelaki Idaman
Seorang lelaki yang aku idamkan
Ialah seorang buta, bisu, bakhil dan papa…
Biarlah dia seorang yang buta
Buta, kerana matanya sunyi daripada melihat perkara-perkara maksiat dan lagha
Kerana matanya terpelihara daripada memandang aurat wanita ajnabi
Asalkan kedua matanya terang dalam memerhatikan keagungan ciptaan Allah
Asalkan dia celik dalam melihat kesengsaraan umat Islam di Palestin, Gaza, Bosnia dan seumpamanya.
Biarlah dia seorang bisu
Bisu, bisu daripada pujuk rayu yang boleh menggoncang keimanan
Bisu daripada mengungkapkan ucapan yang boleh meracun fikiran
Bisu daripada perkataan yang bisa mendatangkan kekufuran
Asalkan bibirnya sentiasa basah mengingat Tuhan
Asalkan lidahnya tidak pernah lekang dari membaca Al-Quran
Asalkan dia petah membangkang kemungkaran
Dan lantang menyuarakan kebenaran.
Lelaki yang aku idamkan ialah seorang yang bakhil
Bakhil, bakhil dalam memberi senyuman
Pada wanita yang bukan mahramnya
Bakhil dalam meluangkan masa bertemu janji dengan wanita ajnabi yang boleh dinikahinya
Bakhil untuk menghabiskan wang hanya kerana seorang wanita yang tidak sepatutnya
Tetapi dia begitu pemurah meluangkan masanya untuk beribadah kepada Khaliqnya
Dia begitu pemurah untuk mempertahankan aqidahnya
Pemurah dalam memberi nasihat dan teguran
Sehingga dia sanggup menggadaikan hartanya
Bahkan nyawanya sendiri untuk melihat kalimah LAILAHAILALLAH
Kembali megah di muka bumi.
Lelaki yang aku idamkan adalah seorang yang papa
Papa, papa dalam melakukan perkara maksiat
Papa dalam ilmu-ilmu yang tak berfaedah dan bermanfaat
Papa memiliki akhlak mazmumah
Tapi dia cukup kaya dalam pelbagai ilmu pengetahuan
Dia begitu kaya memiliki ketinggian akhlak dan budi pekerti yang mulia
Dia begitu kaya dengan sifat sabar dalam mengharungi tribulasi kehidupannya
Dan dia seorang yang kaya dalam membina jati diri
Dia mahu menjadi seorang syuhada
Yang syahid di jalan Maha Esa.
Persoalannya...
Masih adakah lelaki idaman itu?
Ialah seorang buta, bisu, bakhil dan papa…
Biarlah dia seorang yang buta
Buta, kerana matanya sunyi daripada melihat perkara-perkara maksiat dan lagha
Kerana matanya terpelihara daripada memandang aurat wanita ajnabi
Asalkan kedua matanya terang dalam memerhatikan keagungan ciptaan Allah
Asalkan dia celik dalam melihat kesengsaraan umat Islam di Palestin, Gaza, Bosnia dan seumpamanya.
Biarlah dia seorang bisu
Bisu, bisu daripada pujuk rayu yang boleh menggoncang keimanan
Bisu daripada mengungkapkan ucapan yang boleh meracun fikiran
Bisu daripada perkataan yang bisa mendatangkan kekufuran
Asalkan bibirnya sentiasa basah mengingat Tuhan
Asalkan lidahnya tidak pernah lekang dari membaca Al-Quran
Asalkan dia petah membangkang kemungkaran
Dan lantang menyuarakan kebenaran.
Lelaki yang aku idamkan ialah seorang yang bakhil
Bakhil, bakhil dalam memberi senyuman
Pada wanita yang bukan mahramnya
Bakhil dalam meluangkan masa bertemu janji dengan wanita ajnabi yang boleh dinikahinya
Bakhil untuk menghabiskan wang hanya kerana seorang wanita yang tidak sepatutnya
Tetapi dia begitu pemurah meluangkan masanya untuk beribadah kepada Khaliqnya
Dia begitu pemurah untuk mempertahankan aqidahnya
Pemurah dalam memberi nasihat dan teguran
Sehingga dia sanggup menggadaikan hartanya
Bahkan nyawanya sendiri untuk melihat kalimah LAILAHAILALLAH
Kembali megah di muka bumi.
Lelaki yang aku idamkan adalah seorang yang papa
Papa, papa dalam melakukan perkara maksiat
Papa dalam ilmu-ilmu yang tak berfaedah dan bermanfaat
Papa memiliki akhlak mazmumah
Tapi dia cukup kaya dalam pelbagai ilmu pengetahuan
Dia begitu kaya memiliki ketinggian akhlak dan budi pekerti yang mulia
Dia begitu kaya dengan sifat sabar dalam mengharungi tribulasi kehidupannya
Dan dia seorang yang kaya dalam membina jati diri
Dia mahu menjadi seorang syuhada
Yang syahid di jalan Maha Esa.
Persoalannya...
Masih adakah lelaki idaman itu?
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
8 ways of saving few bucks in supermarket.
The supermarket is like a den of deception. Let your guard down and you end up leaving with $300 worth of frozen pizza and a stack of magazines about home improvement. Here’s how to beat the supermarket at its own game and make big savings on your grocery bill.
1. Don’t Buy the First Thing You See
Nothing you see in the supermarket is there by chance. If you’re looking for milk, the first carton you see, placed at eye-level, is usually the most expensive. Cheaper brands are placed on shelves so high you need to throw rocks at them to get them down, or so low you have to crawl on your belly like a snake.
And if you end up loading up on tooth-decaying sweets while waiting in line at the check-out counter, know that you didn’t “just happen” to see them there.
(am: i'm super guilty on this part. hahaa!)
(am: i'm super guilty on this part. hahaa!)
2. Avoid Processed Foods, Even on Sale
Processed foods like instant curry powder, breakfast cereal and pre-made salad dressing tend to be more expensive than the DIY version, so even if they’re on sale they can still increase your costs. Making a simple salad dressing out of extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice is cheaper than anything sold by Heinz.
(am: almost all my dressings are from Heinz :p)
(am: almost all my dressings are from Heinz :p)
3. Make a List and Stick to It
The supermarket is not a bookstore, so don’t go in hoping to browse. The only recipe that is good for is a recipe for disaster (and overspending). Make a list beforehand and then make a beeline for what you need. That way, if you enter with the intention of buying tomatoes you exit with tomatoes instead of tomato-flavoured chewing gum and magazines for tomato lovers.
The only reason you should deviate from what’s on your list is if you find a genuine deal. For example, if you want to get broccoli but cauliflower is on sale, get whatever’s cheaper.
4. Use a Basket Instead of a Shopping Cart
This may seem a little weird, but psychology plays a huge factor even when it comes to grocery shopping. A basket can contain fewer unnecessary purchases and gets heavy so quickly you are forced to just take what you need and leave or risk getting rushed to the hospital with a hernia.
(am: the reason why I don't carry $1 or the new 50 cents coins)
(am: the reason why I don't carry $1 or the new 50 cents coins)
5. Buy in Bulk When There’s a Sale
Sales items can be tricky, as you could later find yourself sitting at home wondering how you feel about eating Frosties every day for the rest of your life. But if toilet paper goes on sale, buying in bulk can help you lock in that price for the next couple of months.
6. Remember That Not All Supermarkets are Created Equal
If you’re a truly obsessive saver, make a note of all the prices of the products you usually buy at different supermarkets in your neighbourhood so you know what’s cheapest where. Or you could just make the effort to travel an extra 2 minutes to ValueDollar, which as we discovered some time back on Moneysmart is cheaper than virtually everywhere else.
7. Use the Right Credit Card
Many credit cards offer cash rebates on grocery spend at selected supermarkets, however there is often a minimum amount you must spend each month to qualify for the rebates. If your credit card requires you to spend at least $500 each month to qualify for the rebates but you only spend $300 in a month, buy $300 worth of vouchers before the month is up and then use them the next month. If you’re having trouble finding out which credit card suits your lifestyle best, we’ve done the hard work for you at MoneySmart’s Credit Cards section.
(am: CC is a killer. i'd rather stick to my PAssion POSB Debit Card :D)
(am: CC is a killer. i'd rather stick to my PAssion POSB Debit Card :D)
8. Buy at the Right Time
There are certain items that regularly and predictably go on sale, so it makes more sense to buy them when they are cheaper. If you buy sushi or fresh bread at the supermarket, wait until they go on sale at night before buying. Certain non-perishable items like pasta and canned tuna go on sale periodically, so wait until they do and then stock up.
(am: Hei Sushi fans, almost 9pm everynight @ IMM Hei Sushi kiosk, the sushis will be screaming "pick me! devour me!" in their plastic covers as they go on sales for 50% off total bill. i'm not kidding bruh.)
(am: Hei Sushi fans, almost 9pm everynight @ IMM Hei Sushi kiosk, the sushis will be screaming "pick me! devour me!" in their plastic covers as they go on sales for 50% off total bill. i'm not kidding bruh.)
- credits: The post 8 Ways To Shave $100 Off Your Monthly Grocery Bill appeared first on the MoneySmart blog.
Saturday, 13 September 2014
Friday, 12 September 2014
Happiness
Everyone deserves to be happy.
I have every rights to be happy too, but why am I still looking back and somehow stop moving forward?
"Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources. Various research groups, including positive psychology, endeavor to apply the scientific method to answer questions about what "happiness" is, and how it might be attained."
Maybe, I am just not paying enough attention to things around me.
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I have every rights to be happy too, but why am I still looking back and somehow stop moving forward?
"Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources. Various research groups, including positive psychology, endeavor to apply the scientific method to answer questions about what "happiness" is, and how it might be attained."
Maybe, I am just not paying enough attention to things around me.
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Ten Commandments for Services
1. Speak to people - there is
nothing as nice as a cheerful word of greetings.
2. Smile at people - it takes 72 muscles to frown and only 14 to smile.
3. Call people by name - the sweetest music to anyone's ear is the sound of his/her own name.
4. Be friendly and helpful - if you want to have friends, be friendly.
5. Be cordial - speak and act as if everything you do were a real pleasure.
6. Be genuinely interested in people - you can like everyone if you try.
7. Be generous with praise - cautions with criticism.
8. Be considerate of the feelings of others - it will be appreciated.
9. Be thoughtful of the opinion of others - there are three sides to a controversy: yours, the other person's and the right one.
10. Be alert to give service - what counts most in life is what we do for others.
Friday, 5 September 2014
Believe
"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
:)
This is the first. Thinking of moving here permanently. Still contemplating though.
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