How to procrastinate like a pro

Needless to explain the picture below, considering the fact that I also, have an exam week right now...

(This is the first time I tried to do something artistic with my nails so nobody judge. thank you.)

Peace <3

Art and Ice hokey

BE PREPARED for a long long blog post.

First I would like to say that i've been super busy with stuff so I have not been able to post things that require posting, so here they all come in one post! I hope your week's been good and you're excited about the holidays starting soon! YEe !

First of all, something I had to tell you, and which I mentioned about in the last blog post; Noora and I had to prepare a TOK presentation (all the IB fellows out there - yee), and we decided to get creative and created a piece for it! We did make quite a mess...

But hey! It doesn't matter even though we did think, that if our art teacher (or any outsider) would be there to witness this incident, they wouldn't be too happy. Of course we did have one witness, Khoa. But he won't tell anyone:) muaha. We did have a lot of fun though!

Cleaning this up was alright because making the mess and on the side a piece of art (of course this could be questioned, considering our TOK question of "What makes abstract expressionism art?") with awesome people around, was all good:). but anyway, here's a picture of the outcome which doesn't really do justice to the piece...because it was presented in a much better during the presentation than the way it's shown here...

but to get some sort of an idea, boom:

Feel free to state your own opinion!!;) - is this art?

MOVING ON TO the next topic, which is the mother's day. It was the best in a long time, we went for a picnic to a forest and this is a small collection of the many pictures I took to resemble my feelings about the trip:

Simply amazing...

Then the last thing but definitely not the least.

I WENT FOR AN ICE HOKEY GAME with Keshia:).

And for people who don't know how much this World Cup means to finns, if you're a sri lankan or understand the concept of cricket in Sri Lanka, that's how big it is. We won last year and the boys as a hometeam this year are getting a lot of cheers and pressure :)

So the game I went to see was Kazakhstan vs. Finland.

The atmosphere was awesome and cheering with people in the actual arena was incredible :) the funny thing about this of course is, that I am a person who doesn't usually watch much sport games, but this has got me all caught up! Like today, when USA played against Finland (and for those who don't know, Finland won and USA left home:)) ...muaha.

Anyway, here are some pictures from the game:

That's pretty much what I had to say and show, it didn't turn out to be as long as I thought! Well, hope you enjoyed and feel free to comment (here, or perhaps inbox on facebook) on the concept of abstract expressionism or anything else. I'd like to hear some opinions:)

Good night and peace <3

Motivation problems?

Holaa everyone!

I have not posted in a long time because I knew what I wanted to post next but I cannot publish it before a certain date *wriggle wriggle* you shall find out what it is a little later, because this is not the post I am talking about:) Instead, I thought of talking about an issue that's probably relevant for most of us students (and perhaps also working people..?), or at least students are the ones I am talking to, because they're the ones I can relate to! whee. 

Yea I know what it feels like, when you get back home from school, you have a couple of essays to work on, a book to read that the teacher is pushing you to read. Oh also you're supposed to finish that freaking commentary on an art piece or newspaper article by tomorrow.. Then you decide to chat on facebook or watch TV only for a little while before getting onto work. That little while seems to magically change into three hours and oh gosh you also got to eat! then you realize you're way too tired to do anything and decide you'll go to sleep early. Instead, you might get caught up into reading a book (of course not the book you've told to read for school) or go back to playing games or chatting to friends or whatever. Soon, it's 11pm and one has still not done any work and is way too tired but can't be bothered to go to bed either. Sounds familiar? To me at least it does.

The problem with this is, everything just piles up. You've got to do it anyway, so why leave it till the last night  before the deadline?

"Oh but I really can't be bothered."

"Nobody else does it either."

"I am waiting for the great motivation!!!!!!!!" (<---that's me.)

REALITY CHECK. (Muahahha I feel like a mom) You only study for yourself. Your future is dependent on what you do now. If this does not motivate you, here comes my "Search for motivation and joy to study from here:" -list.

• First of all, figure out if that music on the background is ACTUALLY helping you study. I know some people that really enjoy having hard rock playing while they study, but I also know people who sort of pretend that the music helps them - it's actually just a distraction. As for me, some music helps, some distracts. 

Trrrr - dudu- tamtidam - didam trr (my attempt of a drum roll) The type of music that inspires me :

• Second of all, have something to drink next to you. It's scientifically proven that water is the best drink in order for the brain to function well. It's also great when you need some time to think, you just drink some water and the time use just seems very convenient;) I personally prefer tea (green tea best healthwise but any tea is great!) or coffee (also depends what time of the day it is:;))

• If you know that you work best in the night (like me), and that you'll have a long night working on an assignment, take a nap when you get home. This will be surprisingly helpful! If you don't mind working at any time of the day, get your work done when you get home and you'll have more free time in the night (or perhaps even get proper night sleep;))

• Working in a messy room makes everything harder. And I don't mean space-wise. "Oh I've got enough room on my table to lay my books on, that's cool right." is not the way to go. You will be surprised (me too, everytime I do this!) how it's easier to work in a clean room! BUT . be careful to not use this as an excuse to not do your work... Trust me I know how easy it is to talk yourself over the work by doing something ''more important'' such as cleaning your room because you suddenly got inspired to do it.

• Divide your workload into bits. Make a plan, and draw a little box at the end of every task, and when you have completed it, you may tick it! this is motivating as you little by little get to tick all the little boxes:)

• Change your environment-  If you find it hard to study at home, go to a library or some other place. Even outside, now that we've got awesome and warm spring weather what'd be nicer than working outdoors:) 

Here were some tips ! I have to listen to music to avoid other distractions, drink tea/coffee, have a clean room and divide my work to smaller portions if I by any chance want to get anything done at home. If these are not fulfilled, I must must must go somewhere else - usually the library, because as I get distracted easily, even if I do have access to the internet (which I usually have to because of my work), I'm simply too ashamed to for example go to Facebook. It's effective !  I hope this was any help, these are things that work for me I hope you got something out of it as well. 

Peace <3