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AFTER  reading my last graphics post, I realised it was a tad bit short so I'll give you another one. :) If you'd like to see the other digital graphics post,  click here. I'll do this differently here; this time, I will list points and give examples after, instead of pairing the pictures and points. AND ALSO, AS I HAVE SAID, I AM NO PROFESSIONAL, I JUST LIKE GRAPHICS. DON'T ATTACK ME PLS. P O I N T S   T O   M A K E 1. Make text bold; you need to make sure you can see what your graphic is saying. 2. Keep it simple; by simple, I don't necessarily mean plain, I just mean that if you add too many bold patterns and colours and images, it will look too busy. 3. If it's something that you need to be noticed, like an ad or poster, try and use fonts that are trendy, because they would most likely be the most appealing. Here's a link to  some trendy fonts. 4. Fancy and/or kind-of-hard-to-read fonts should be left to titles only, becaus...

WOW  it has been such a long time. To be exact, about 3 months. I think. On to the topic of this post. So, there are loads of situations that you may get yourself into like a party or gathering, and sometimes you just don't feel like socialising therefore you don't want to go. It happens. Instead of hurting your friends' feelings by saying you don't want to go, here are some safe ways to get out of being a social human being. 1. My sister/brother/mother/father/relative is sick and I promised to take care of them. 2. I think I'm becoming sick. 3. There's a family thing I have to go to that day. 4. Something unexpected and super personal happened. (only works if it's last minute) 5. I have to study. 6. I have tuition/dance class/some other out of school activity 7. It's my rest day, I've been busy non stop this entire week. AND THAT IS ALL. But to be honest guys, please try not to lie. If it's a close friend, then you sh...

WOW long time no see! Now, as I have said in ALL my other recent blog posts, I have a life. Not an interesting one, but still. I have a life. So, I was busy. And sometimes I lack ideas of what to post, but now I have an idea! Yay me! I do use these hacks and they aren't for nothing, okay. Trust me. 1: Messy wires If you constantly have your wires all over the place, then take a small basket, box, shoebox, etc. and place all your wires in there! If you take a bigger box/basket, you can keep your devices in there too, so they don't just lay on your bed or take up space on your desk. 2: CONTAINERS! You know if you have a huge display shelf and you dump all your things there it'll look pretty messy. If you want your room to look tidy, use some containers on the shelf (it'll kind of act like a drawer) so it'll look neater! You can use the same concept for tidying the top of your drawers and such; just use shoeboxes or something. 3: Extra pillows/blank...

WOW throwback to my first ever post! But I must say, I'm quite bored myself. I think everyone gets bored once in a while. So here is my compilation of things to do when you're bored (instead of binge-watching Netflix and Youtube). 1. Organise Start to organise small things such as your pantry, desk, computer or wardrobe. It'll make you feel a lot better about yourself when you do something that benefits you in your spare time. 2. List Weirdly, I LOVE listing. From supplies I need for school to a wish list. And it's really fun, trust me. 3. Create Creative things are great to do when you're bored. It doesn't necessarily have to be drawing or painting, you can do things like creating posters, cards, a blog template (Wix is good) and much more! 4. Journal Start a journal! Write down your feelings, how your day went, and anything that you need to let out that you don't want to let out to a friend (hehe, sneaky). 5. Pinterest Browse Pinter...

DIDN'T you say you'd be on hiatus? Yes– THEN WHY ARE YOU POSTING?!! Okay, okay. I hear you. Now, hear me out. Because I'm on hiatus, I am making posts while I can before being away for like three months or so. NOW THAT I'VE EXPLAINED, DON'T KILL ME!!!!!! On to the actual topic~ ANOTHER SHORT STORY BASED ON A PHRASE! If you don't know what that is, look at my other post, titled (creatively)  THIS IS A NEW POST.  (<---there it is) AND THE PHRASE IS... [monochrome] [location] ...Okay. LET'S START! ••• Every day I walk down to my monochrome location. Nothing has changed for the past six years. I work a monochrome job in a monochrome location with my monochrome colleagues. But today, I have this feeling that something's different. And trust me, my instinct knows well if something's different in this monochrome town with my monochrome location and monochrome people. I think this change... is colour. ••• These monoch...

OKAY, HI. Today I am going to help you guys in making digital graphics, posters and cards. BUT PLEASE BEWARE I AM NO PROFESSIONAL. I JUST LIKE GRAPHIC DESIGN. I'll be using Canva for everything here if you're wondering. ~ Right, let's begin. I will give you some examples that I have created and point out the details. Here I have made a card. Now, here are points to take: • Text is in the centre, bold and clear. • Confetti in the background so it's more interesting. • Not too busy or hectic. Here I have made a poster. Points to take: • Image as background instead of plain colour. • white boxes for text (slightly transparent so the image in the background can peek through). • Fonts compliment each other. • Colours compliment each other. • Common theme Finally, here I've made a wallpaper/desktop picture. Points to take: • The little images in the background are all PNG or have a white background. ...

HONESTLY, the last time I posted was maybe two or three months ago? I won't lie. It's been a while. Not only that, but I haven't any inspiration to write either. BUT HEY, I'M BACK. That being said, I'll be on hiatus, meaning I'll not be blogging for quite a while, for the same reason I've been gone. Now, on to the actual topic; hair. I have monstrous, frizzy, long, straight, tangled, not very thick messy hair. It takes me up to fifteen minutes to finish brushing my wet hair. So I thought I'd spare you guys some tips on how to manage hair like mine. 1: CONSTANTLY brush it. I know it may be trouble some but it really helps from saving your hair from being Tangela after not brushing it for a while. 2: Brushing technique. It is easier to rid of tangles if you brush the tips of your hair first, then work upwards until you reach your roots. 3: DO NOT PULL. When your hair is tangled, I know that it's very frustrating to brush therefore you...

HELLO once again. I'm bored. Time for more bad puns, eh? Also all jokes go to their rightful owners. :) 1: Me. [ok I already made that joke – wait, my parents did.] 2: You. [this is ALSO from my other post, be more original.] 3: Us. [stop... just stop.] 4: Astronomers got tired of watching the moon rotate around the earth for 24 hours, so they just called it a day. 5: What did the buffalo say to his son when he was going to college? Bison. 6: Rick Astley will let you borrow any of his Pixar collection DVDs but he will never give you Up. [THAT ONE'S FOR YOU TOBY] 7: Life without Pepe is memeingless. 8: What did the cell say to his sister when she stepped on his foot? Mitosis. [HAHAHAHHA NERD JOKES] 9: I don't trust stairs because they're always up to something. 10: A crazy wife tells her husband moose are falling from the sky. The husband says, it's reindeer. [HAHAH OMG I JUST CAN'T] 11: Thank you, my arms, for always being ...

A/N: This was written for English class. The same English class as Annie. So if you've seen her blog (Annie's English Story), it's the same class. OK SO NOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT (even though you didn't have to know) HERE WE GO... ••• 2 o'clock: strong moonlight, few stars. My feet dangled from the edge of the rooftop. Although I sat here every night, there seemed to always be something new to notice. This has always been my safe spot, my comfort zone. Being here, fifty feet above plain buildings and empty roads, it was special to me. It gives me a break from my hectic life in the orphanage. It's always been me, myself and I– "Delilah?" A curious voice from behind me spoke. "Lincoln?" I asked back. It is quite unusual for someone else to be up here and not have jumped off yet. Without warning, I shuddered at the orphans who I have watched take their lives. "Delilah? Are you going to jump too? Like Jon and Khat? Please don't, I ...

SADLY, the end of this relaxing holiday is coming to an end. Now, as students, we have to get used to sleeping and waking up early and putting our brain to good use.  It has been a glorious 1 and a half months of summer, but I wish it'd last forever. BUT, I am not going back to school immediately (lucky me)! I'll have to go to Singapore tomorrow and when I come back, I must attend some family matters. SO YAY!! But school isn't that bad. School is good. School means we'll have a brighter future (for most). So don't be sad, just get up and deal with it, because everyone has to. (*starts singing*  we're all in this together ) I won't be posting as much (even though I don't post that much to begin with lol) so in the mean time, read Jess' posts, or XY's. Or Toby's. Or Annie's. Or basically anyone else's from the #AWESOME squad. I have posted loads of things to do when you are bored. So if you don't know what to do, read ...

AS with all the other #AWESOME bloggers, I too will explain my lack of posts. It is summer, although summer is ending. I can't use the computer very often because I don't have my own (I use my brother's) I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO POST. But, I do now. So I baked some cookies earlier and I nearly messed everything up. So, I want to save you guys from making the same mistakes I did. 1: Constantly check the recipe thoroughly. What I did not do that you should do is constantly check the recipe. After each step. Take your time so that you do not mix the flour and sugar (idiot me did exactly that). If you did make the 'mixing flour and sugar' mistake (when making cookies, I don't know if it works for cakes) do not fear, for I saved myself from making this an epic fail by using brown sugar. Luckily, I had not yet put the brown sugar into the dry ingredients, so I mixed that with the butter instead of white sugar. it also creates a very nic...

HELLO once again. Today I am going to do something new. You realise that most of my recent blogs are all a surprise (as I never tell what I'm doing in the title). This is an experiment to see how many people will click on a post without knowing its content (well, other than knowing it'll be #AWESOME). If you're reading this then CONGRATS! Thanks for putting up with my unbelievable and kinda stupid content. Eh. SO FINALLY I SHALL REVEAL WHAT I AM DOING... SHORT STORIES BASED ON A RANDOM PHRASE.  As its name states, I will pick random words and write a short story out of those words. Sounds exciting? Great! If not, well... too bad (but please read it still lol). The Random Word Generator shall be my best friend. THE WORDS TODAY ARE... *drumroll* [twentieth] [telescope] THE TWENTIETH TELESCOPE Navy blue roamed the giant landscape that is the sky. Stars glistened, Janice listened. Very faintly she heard the crash of waves surrounding her. But that isn't wh...

NOW I'm just lazy to come up with titles. But if I got you, then... I dunno. On to the actual thing I was talking about. Let's play a game. Well, really I'm playing a game. I don't think you'd get involved by writing comments so instead, the ol' random word generator. You can use this story and try it with friends too. You may be slightly confused by what I'm saying. Let me clarify what we're doing, if you haven't already guessed – MAD LIBS! Also, in case you didn't already know, mad libs is where a story is written with blank spaces left that will change the plot. I'll show you this picture as an example: Got it? Now I'll come up with a story first using a random word generator to come up with the story. Word(s): [grey] [orb] Well, I guess I'll be writing a story about a grey orb. Once, in a/an [adjective, e.g. small, mystical] village, there was a [building, e.g. apartment, cottage].   It was hidden in the sense wher...

HA. Got you. If you're reading this you've fallen for my bait. And you don't know what this blog is even about. Well, you're about to find out. Firstly, I'm so sorry I haven't been posting. School and Hari Raya have gotten the best of me. SO, this blog is about... HOW TO READ SHAKESPEARE PROPERLY. BUT WAIT!!!! Before you click away, please trust me that although I'm a boring person, my writing is not as boring. WHY EXACTLY IS THIS IMPORTANT/USEFUL, you may ask . Well, this is definitely either going to impress your peers/family, or make them laugh. Or, improve your oral examinations. Without further ado, this is how to read Shakespeare properly (or read aloud well in general). 1. USE AN EMOTIVE TONE. Read as though you are the character, that you share his/her feelings. 2. USE AN AGE-APPROPRIATE AND GENDER-APPROPRIATE VOICE. Making sure you don't talk like a kid whilst reading as an adult is important. Adjust your voice to go deeper/h...

CATS. Cats are cool. Cooler than cucumbers, I'd say! But that's just my opinion. So, let me justify my opinion. Firstly, CATS ARE REALLY CUTE. REALLY REALLY CUTE. They're even cute when they're older, not just when they're kittens (well, corgis are cute too, but...)! JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THIS MUNCHKINNNNNNNNNNN!!! OH MY LORD THIS IS JUST – EEEEEKKKK! As you can see, I'm *totally* not obsessed with cats... Secondly, you have to work for their attention. And once you do, your cat will forever be loyal. It will always love you. Thirdly, they don't excrete on your lawn! They excrete in a litter box and usually they will hide their excretion within the sand-thing in the litter box. WAY easier to clean up. If you don't like cats, you just haven't found your cat! And in that case, here are some cats!!! SO CUTE! OK BYE NOW, HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS OVERLOAD OF KAWAIINESS!!! ~ e l i y a

READERS, help us. We haven't got many ideas left for this blog. Please, suggest things you would like to read. In the meantime, here's a short story and more bad puns! Yay! *sighs* what am I doing with my life... She ran and ran until she could no longer. Heavily panting, she glanced backwards and realised her troubles were no longer chasing her. However, awaiting in front of her was a labyrinth. A labyrinth with a mossy, illegible name carved in the front of a stone arc. Tangled vines of rumours and secrets graced the walls. She cautiously stepped into the maze, the wind blowing her auburn locks behind her.  She strolled through the twists and turns, her worries and concerns presented in front of her, as if to tell her that they want to stay important in her life. As she braved further, a fog of things she didn’t want to remember but could never forget hazed her vision. “Please don’t hurt me…” she kept on whispering to herself, tears slowly falling down her freckled...

FIRST of all, please note that the word 'obsession' is used in a less serious context, rather than not being able to stop thinking about something insanely. In this case, I just mean things that I really like. You may have noticed Beyourself_xy's posts and Jess' posts are much more interesting than mine. Well, you have permission to click away. But my posts will be more like lists, because I'm not a very good blog writer. I'm not much of a comedian either. Oh well, I'll try my best. Before we get started, let's procrastinate. Wanna hear a pun? Well I'm going to tell you some anyway, whether you like it or not. Don't fart in an Apple store because they don't have Windows. Yesterday, I almost drowned in the pool. It was a breathtaking experience. Simba was walking really slowly so I asked him to Mufasa. *Knee slaps* *wheezes* Come on, you know those were good. Okay, two more. I always wear two pants when I go golfing, just i...

HELLO, BOOKWORMS! (Well, you're still welcome if you aren't a bookworm.) You have probably swam your way through more books than necessary, and now, you need more! Or maybe, you just haven't found the right book to fall in love with. Well, this may be where you find your true love (I am really bad at writing blurbs/brief summaries. Maybe you should search up the book lol.) 1. Wonder [R.J. Palacio] This book is simply amazing. It's about a boy called Auggie who has deformities on his face. He is being moved to public school, from being homeschooled. He gets bullied, as he thought he would, but things take a surprising turn... 2. Salvage [Keren David] The plot to this story is awesome! This is about Cass and Aidan – siblings – who are separated at a young age and adopted into different families. They both lead very incomparable lives – one raised into a posh family, and another left unadopted, to care for himself once he was of age. Cass sets out to find her older...

EVERYONE gets bored. You aren't human if you forever are entertained. Now, how do you satisfy your boredom? Here are some ways to keep you entertained (for lazy people, probably including you *smirks*). #1 [INTERNET] Go on 9gag. This website, if you haven't heard of it, is the jackpot of memes. It is sure to keep you entertained! This is safe for everyone if you turn on a 'not safe for work' notification. There may be will be a little swearing, but not that much anyway. #2 Write Many people (including myself) love writing. This doesn't specify. Writing can be from writing short stories to practising calligraphy or hand-lettering! #3 Draw/Paint Again, many people (including myself), are fond of drawing and painting. Not only will you practise your artistic skill, but this will also relax you and calm you down. You don't even have to draw or paint a certain object or person, just scribble your life away! #4 Sudoku Maybe you don't even rea...