An Extreme Case of Examaphobia

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It feels so good to smush a pillow into my face and scream. Just scream. Just scream all my frustrations about the upcoming mid-year exams. I hope I don’t get a migraine tomorrow because I need to be my best! Tomorrow I’ll be sitting in the examination hall for 2 hours. Not only will my arm ache and my head burst but my butt will be sore. Looking forward to that...

Putting all that aside, I look relax and calm. Right now, I’m just letting all those history dates seep deep into my brain. Everyone gets examaphobia before any test or exam, they are bound to. As an expert of examaphobia* here are a couple of tips:

*        Smushing a pillow into your face and screaming is proved beneficial as it lets go of all your frustration. An alternative method is punching something (not someone).

*         Relax your brain. There is in fact a life outside of studying. Your teachers didn’t want you to attack yourself day by day with facts, numbers and whatnot. Remember that an exam is testing what you understand not what you know. So go outside and tame a rabid squirrel like I did... or something.

*       Study in the sunlight. It will not only increase brain productivity. 

Bonus: If you are a vampire it will make you sparkle and look good**.

*       Eat brain food such as ice cream, biscuits and sugar cookies. Just don’t get distracted by all this goodness.

*        It also helps to study much before the exam date. It’s best if you start a month before.

There you go, my tips for a good exam.

Well got to go, I've got a date with a history book. 

Wish me luck,

Ni sa

* I’m not an examaphobia expert, but these are real good tips

** This does not happen in reality. I don’t believe in this. Besides, who would want a vampire that looks like a disco ball all day long?

All the Roads' a Circus

Yes, it's true the roads are filled with stuntmen (and women). I live in Chandigarh, a town in North India and it's a common site. And yes, they are licensed to drive.

If you've never been to India and are absolutely baffled by this natural phenomena then let me get a picture into your head: 

The roads are lined with trash and dirt. There are street cleaners that sweep the dirt off the walking paths but for some reason they just leave that pile of dirt there. It's just there to be exposed to the winds and then they are blown over again, destined to litter over the paths again and again. Cars rule the roads. And when I say rule I literally mean rule. Sure they have laws but everyone seems to bend those laws. One way roads are filled with cars going the opposite directions. During traffic jams its perfectly OK to go out of your car and get stuff from your trunk. No one seems to complain when you go over the road divider.

Not in Chandigarh.... but somewhere in India

Got a picture in your head? Let's move on shall we? 

I ask myself at times, How is it possible they have a driver's permit? 

Then another question immediately pops up, Who licensed their driving license? Do they know how to drive? Safely? 

The most probable answer would be NO. Comforting isn't it? (Sarcasm) 

But considering all this for some bizarre reason my car is somewhat untouchable. Sure it has a few scratches, went for a bumper change once and had to get its side view mirrors replaced.... it's still untouchable. When we go around roundabouts usually the buses would look like they're attacking us and when you look out the window they would be just all in your face. They're just a metre away from you. Though don't worry your car is untouchable.

If you would look at the walking path beside you there is a probable chance there would be a small car going over it. Do they understand that it's a pedestrian walking path not some alternative road way? Even if you are in a hurry, that is no excuse to use the pedestrian walking path as your speed way. It's not safe. At all.

Want to cross the road? I suggest you avoid that at all cost.

I could go on but my fingers are getting tired.

So now do you see why all the road's a circus?

Ni sa

DIY: Rose Clip

On my last post I posted a picture of a rose garden and I got really inspired. After several tries I found an easy way to make a rose clip. It'll probably only take you 30 minutes or less. 

1. Scissors

2. Small scrap of green paper (trust me you won't need alot since it's only for the leaves)

3. Tissue paper ( or any other thin, tissue like paper E.g. kite paper) in the colour of your choice 

4. Old bobby pin 

5. Glue stick

6. All purpose glue

7. Stapler

8. Pencil

9. (Not shown) A small piece of card-stock or thick paper (Don't use normal printer paper it won't be strong enough)

Steps: 

(Click on the pictures to enlarge them)

Step 1 First you fold the tissue paper in half several times. I recommend folding it over 4 times as I did here as it will create enough flower cut-outs. If you do more than 4 folds it will be harder to cut the flower out. 

Then you draw a flower in any size you want. I suggest drawing a small flower as it will make a delicate rose. Make sure you don't draw the flower too big or too small or else it'll look awkward on your head.  Here I drew a four petal flower because it's easier to cut out. Next, you cut the flower out. If you have a flower hole puncher big enough, you can hole punch the tissue paper instead of drawing and cutting.

Next, you will re-stack the flower cut-outs randomly. This means that you don't have to stack them perfectly one on top of another. We do this to create dimension to the rose later on. After this you staple the flower in a criss-cross way as shown in the picture.  

Step 2 Take the card-stock and cut 2 small square pieces. Make sure that each piece is the same size as the flower you just cut out.  Then you slide one piece into the bobby pin making sure that the top part of the bobby pin is facing you. The top part of the bobby pin is where the rose will be placed. 

Then you take the other piece of square card-stock and apply all purpose glue to it. Now, making sure that the top part of the bobby pin is facing you, you paste the second piece of card-stock on top of the other piece of card-stock. This is where you will stick the rose you will make later on.

Step 3 You take the piece of green paper and draw two leaves for the rose. Remember that these leaves should be proportionate to the flower. 

The bottom part of the bobby pin is the side where the bottom of the rose will be, that is the side that's not the top part. Then taking the bobby pin making sure that it the bottom part of the bobby pin is facing you, you glue the card-stock with a glue stick. Next, you stick the leaves you made on to the card-stock. 

Step 4 Take the flower cut-out and scrunch it, starting from the top layer of the flower cut-outs. Scrunching basically means using all four fingers + one thumb of one hand and bring the flower petals together and "creasing" it. You keep doing this until you reach the bottom few layers. Do not scrunch these layers as they will be the outermost layers of the rose. Now you see that you've turned those layers of flower cut-outs into layers of your rose! After scrunching you have turned your flower into a rose! 

Then taking the bobby pin making sure the top part is facing you apply a little bit of all purpose glue to the card-stock. Then you simply paste the rose on to the card-stock. Violà! There you have it. 

I hope you had fun making it and I hope you've understood my instructions. Don't forget to personalize the clip maybe add glitter or whatnot, experiment with different materials. Just following Step 3 you can paste anything to a clip. 

Please comment below if there's anything you didn't understand or you want me to make more of these types of posts.

Ni sa

Slap on a smile

Happy Friday Everyone! Don't you love the feeling of making it through another week? I feel a sense of accomplishment like when you finally tackle that tangle of necklaces. Here's some things that are making me smile today...

Roses in the morning light (Source)

I love bright open spaces, especially gardens. Magical gardens full of blooming flowers. If you've ever read The Secret Garden you'll know what I mean. I love roses, especially lovely pink ones. They look so delicate in the morning light. 

Cute! (Source)

I really LOVE this bow bun and it's actually looks easy to do. Unfortunately, my hair is too silky smooth and thin to do the bow. Sigh. I'll stick to my braids and buns. 

Beautifully True.



Excuse me, can I please have 8 flavours of ice cream one a cone please? How do they even do that? Putting 8 scoops of ice cream is not easy. To be honest, I can only manage 2 perfect lopsided scoops of  ice cream on top of each other... sometimes  rarely. Otherwise they fuse together.

Which picture makes you smile the most?

Ni sa

L is for Leprosy

That pirate monkey with the hideous face scared me. Badly. Yeah, I'm talking about the pirate monkey, Captain Gutt, from Ice Age 4. Really who's idea was it to name a ruthless, not-so-blood-thirsty monkey, Gutt? Putting him aside, the movie was hilarious! Manny and his friends are separated from the other animals when the landmass they were living on splits. Manny and his friends are floating on a large chunk of ice when they captured by the pirate gang headed by ugly Captain Gutt. I started laughing around here since this was around when the jokes started rolling.

Here's a two of my favourite scenes:

• Scene: Manny, Sid, Diego and Granny are on a large ice ship back home

Manny: I think Diego has a problem with L...

Sid: L for Leprosy!

Manny (with a fail face on): No... it starts with a L, four letter word, ends with E...

Sid: L for LICE!

Manny: Diego has a problem with LOVE! 

• Scene: Scrat ( the squirrel) on ice going through an area full of Sirens. Sirens are sea nymphs that attract sailors with their singing and by changing shape according to your desire. They then eat you.

Scrats' following map that leads him to a pile full of acorns

Siren changes shape to Scratte, pretty female squirrel

Scratte (Siren): Oh Scrat! Come here boy! (smirks)

Scrat is allured by Scratte's voice turns around

Scratte: Come here!

Scrat turns back around, digusted as he sees Scratte

Siren turns into acorn

Scrat sees acorn, rushes to it and starts eating it 

Siren turns back to normal with head stuck in Scrat's mouth

Other Sirens start beating Scrat up

It's a fun movie that you should definitely see.

Ni sa