When you are bored... Play games/apps

Year 2 semester 1 is about to start~ And I've officially become a NEET (not in education, employment, or training) for the past week. So I've gone through a lot of apps in my spare time... As well as sleep 12 hours a day and spend the over 12 lying in bed when I had my period because it was so bad :'(
"It's so unfair why don't guys' balls fall off every month" is what I keep thinking ahahaha... No offence.

Anyway. If you are a NEET too, you can check out these awesome apps!

1. Colorfy: Coloring Book For Adults (Free)

Dammn cool you just color INSIDE the lines :)
Tbh I just downloaded it today and I spent so much time on it already....
Some of the drawings (colorings?) I did:

When your hair on point

Looks like a hippie cancer cell

Obviously I cannot goldfish

2. Broken Age ($$)

I love this game really. The story is interesting, the colors are awesome, and it's easy enough that you won't get stuck for a longgg time. I have no patience for normal RPG's, so if you are like me you should totally go try out Broken Age. Available on all platforms (I think).

3. Monument Valley ($$)

Simple, smooth design, great graphics, novel gameplay.

4. Deemo ($$)

Piano playing app that is designed dammnnn well. Deemo kinda reminds me of slenderman which does creep me out though. ):
I love all the songs composed by V.K.



5. The Battle Cats (Free)

CATS. BATTLING OTHER STUFF. Sold yet?



And a lot of other more mainstream apps like Legend of The Cryptids (awesome art, lots of boobs hahaha), The Sims Freeplay, Soda Crush, Hearthstone, Kim Kardashian Hollywood (they have nice clothes) etc etc.
Happy playing~

Some (Chinese) Life Hacks

Mosquito bites
Apply white vinegar on afflicted area. Vinegar neutralises the toxins that cause swelling and itching. The reddish bump should disappear in 10-20 minutes.
(Tried and proven.)

Bruises
Rub a (peeled) boiled egg repeatedly over bruised area. By magic, black spots will appear in the egg and bruising should reduce.
(I don't know how this works... This is something our mamas told us.) (By our, I mean me and my Chinese friends.)

Pimples
Use saline solutions to gently wipe your face (with cotton or a towel). It cleans better than pure water.
(Grandma wisdom.)

Wounds 
Buy hydrocolloid dressing, for example here, by DuoDERM. The dressing is a biodegradable and non-breathable (aka waterproof) type of plaster that you paste over more serious wounds. The dressing absorbs liquid and keeps the wound moist, but not wet, which facilitates healing.
(Tried and tested. Works amazing. My mom buys a lot of these every time we go to Taiwan. They're called 人工皮 in Chinese.)

Get rid of odours
Buy legit dried tea leaves (any type will do). Place them, dry, in places with odour such as shoes, water bottles, refrigerators... Or you could just make tea in your bottles and leave them overnight. The tea leaves get rid of the nasty odours plus they leave the nice tea smell behind. Lemon skins work too.
(Mom hacks.)

Mouthwash
Instead of buying commercial mouthwash that leave burning sensations, use salt water to rinse your mouth. Really salty water. Add as much salt as you want to water and rinse for about 5 minutes. Salt is a great bacteria killer. Please do not swallow the water.
(Mom hacks.)

Mouth Ulcers
Quick ways to get rid of ulcers:
1. Put salt on it. Immediate effect, but also extreme pain. Warning: ulcer may bleed.
2. Citrullus Degelatinatum/ Watermelon Frost(?) (西瓜霜). Get it at a local pharmacy. Medium effect, but not as painful. Have to reapply (I do it twice a day, but it's okay to use more).
(Mom hacks.)

Mosquito Repellent
Sesame oil. Mosquitos hate sesame oil. Dab some all over your skin and you should be rid of mosquitos for a while. Downside: you smell like 麻油鸡 (sesame oil chicken dish) in the meantime.
(Mom hacks.)

Study Music

I was looking through Youtube for some study music and I discovered this guy, Yiruma. Oh my gosh he's so good. I've already heard many of his compositions here and there (movie soundtracks, maybe?) but never a name.

This video here:

Also, I like to use rain sounds when I study to drown out the background noises. I use the Sleepmaker Rain Free app here (iOs). My favourite sound is the "Gentle...with distant thunder".

Enjoy and happy studying~

My finals are almost over! I hope to do module reviews for this and last semester... I got lazy and didn't do reviews last semester (eheheh..).

Downloading PSPP

Hey guys just wanted to write quick and easy instructions on how to download and work PSPP on Windows.

I have a statistics assignment due this Friday and SPSS is too $$ so the teachers recommended the free software PSPP that is capable of basic statistics functions. I struggled for 2 hours trying to work that thing. I'm using MacBook Air but I use Parallels for Windows 8.


DOWNLOADING

1. Go to https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html and download the latest version of PSPP. (The Mac download is too complicated so I went for Windows).

2. Save and run it.


HOW TO USE

The raw data they gave us was in the format of excel. Microsoft excel is not compatible with PSPP, sadly.

1. Download LibreOffice.

2. Use LibreOffice to open the .xls / .xlsx file.

3. Save file as .ods / .csv format.

4. Open PSPP and choose "Import file..", "all files" and click on your above saved file.

5. VOILA!

Note: Microsoft's version of .csv is not compatible with PSPP and it'll just end up with only one line of data.


I did a test independent sampling test and it worked fine. Okay fellow PL2131 students! Let's work hard for our assignment! (If you have any clue what to do please help I'm so lost...)

GUYS.

Singapore Airlines is having a HUGE SALE ERMAGAWD HUGE GRAB IT PEOPLE.
(From Singapore only I think)

It only costs $500++ to travel to Taipei which is cheaper than Scoot the budget airlines ARE YOU KIDDING ME I LOVE SIA. Hands down best air service ever. (I fly a lot. Trust me. *winks*)

$1,600+ per pax for a one-way trip from Singapore to AMERICA!! My parents suddenly want to go America now. XD

I'VE BEEN PRAYING FOR SIA SALE FOR GOD KNOWS HOW LONG THANK YOU LORD THANK YOU I LOVE SINGAPORE AIRLINES!! *Sorry for the caps. I'm really excited. I'm high maintenance and am so sick of taking budget.*

I'm always the one in the airplane who gets the dirty seat (who knows spilt what on the seat & they couldn't clean it up in time so they just put a blanket over the seat for me to sit on. True story from Vietnam Airlines Jan 2015) and the dirty table (split coffee I hope) and is stuck between at least two babies. I have terrible airplane luck.

Okie bye enjoy your non-budget-flight holidays!

Update: Apparently there are a lot of limitations to the sale that my Dad didn't read and just upped and bought 4 tickets.

1. Sale ends 31st March and you have to use the tickets this year
2. Maximum 7-day travel
3. Can only travel with more than 2 people at the same time (same flights)

Which is the complete opposite of what my family wanted... Basically we spent $2000++ to enjoy a plane ride and nothing else much. Ugh.

Interesting Hair Observation + Filler Girlfriend

Hi guys~ So 3 months ago I dyed my hair dark red-purple-brown colour (it was dark purple on the packaging though) and now the colour has faded to a lighter brown. My roots are completely black so the distinction between the dyed and undyed parts are pretty obvious.

When the hairs drop I realised something: the hairs that drop nowadays have a very small black part as compared to the hairs still hanging on to my scalp. That means that three months ago, a little while after I first dyed my hair, the singular hair follicle had already decided that "NO I AIN'T GONNA GROW NO MORE" but hung on until 3 months later before it finally dropped.

The time difference between growth stump (does that equate to follicle death? Idk.) and hair fall can range from a few days to a few months like wow. Ahahaha just a really random observation that intrigued me. It's like the hair had already decided a few months ago that it was gonna drop. So no matter what kind of shampoo you use (hair fall etc) cannot really do much to change the follicle's mind I guess. Maybe the shampoo causes the hair to hang on longer. Who knows (well, scientists do).

ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ  .....awkward transition...  ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

Anyway. My friend recently entered this "labelled-casual-but-acts-committed" relationship with a guy who broke up with his fiance just a few months ago. He kept saying they were casual but he acted like her boyfriend and he kept giving mixed signals and really confused her. He liked to cuddle and they met up more than once a week and chat every single day... They both admitted to feelings for the other but he had a lot of excuses to keep the relationship casual. Casual my ass. She was confused and undecided for many months because she really liked him but knew that the 'relationship' would never go anywhere... She finally decided to limit their interactions and PUT THAT GUY IN HIS PLACE. You go, girl.

Anyway she sent me a webpage that perfectly described their relationship and I wanna share with all of you.

Source: http://www.doctornerdlove.com/2014/05/maintain-casual-relationship/

Girls. Guys. Don't become someone's Filler okay. You're worth way more than that. *sentimental me coming through MOVE* My friend made the choice to be able to tell the guy, "I'm no a la carte. I'm all or nothing."

She seems a lot happier once she got through that. This is something you have to work through yourself, because a few months back when she told me and her other friends about this guy, we all thought that she should dump his ass but she was the one who could make the final call. Only her. The most we could do was support whatever decision she made and let her rant. (It was really interesting to me, like a serial drama. xD)

(づ￣ ³￣)づ  ...come lemme give you xoxo HAHA...  (づ￣ ³￣)づ

Alright that's all I have to say. BUH BYE GUYS.

〜(￣▽￣〜)(〜￣▽￣)〜  ...do da wave... PARTAY GUYS!

Okay bye.

ヾ(＠＾▽＾＠)  *waves*   ...I love japanese emoticons... ヾ(＠＾▽＾＠) 

Happy Valentine's Day

Hey there fellow internet users~
Happy belated ♥ Valentine's Day ♥!

(I swear I've been so busy this week and my only free day was Valentine's Day..)

(Also I get more excited about Friday the 13th [nice ring to it, huh] than valentine's xD #singlepeopleproblems)

Sources: http://www.sherv.net/valentine.heart.love-emoticon-6200.html (top)

http://www.symbols-n-emoticons.com/2013/02/happy-valentines-day.html (bottom)