5 Easy Ways to Beat Exam Stress

Bello!!

How are you guys doing? ^_^

Today, I just want to share a little on handling exam stress! I know exams are coming up and you may be experiencing some headaches, a little stomach discomfort on and off, insomnia etc. Exam anxiety is about having excessive worry about upcoming exams, combating with the fear of being evaluated, experiencing fear about the exam consequences. Exam stress and anxiety can be caused by your daily activity! If you are having inadequate rest, not having proper nutrition, not scheduling available time, these could be the factors that are contributing to your anxiety and fear.

Believe in yourself! and let's just share 5 ways that you can do today on coping your exam stress!

1. Good sleep = good exam

Sleep is extremely important prior to your exam. It allows your brain to take enough rest so that it can perform better and allows you to be more focus during the real battle in the exam hall. Insomnia can be caused by stress and anxiety of exam. If you are experiencing insomnia, try to drink warm water or milk prior to sleep, plays soft background music, switch off all lights in your bedroom before you go to bed. Sleeps comfy on your bed and imagine that you are relaxing your body step by step from head, shoulder, chest, and then leg and lastly to your feet. Focus on your breathing. If sleep struggles continue, talk them over with your doctor.

2. Exercise and physical activity

Sitting all day long on your desk with all your books and notes might burn you out even faster. Walk or cycle 15 minutes around your house will help to improve your concentration. You can also play sport such as swimming, football or dancing at least twice a week. Exercise can help boost energy levels, clear the mind and relieve stress. This works amazingly!

3. Eating healthy

Always take balanced diet especially during exam period because you wouldn't want to fall sick during this critical period, PLUS it will make you feel well during exam periods. Try not to skip your breakfast as it might affect your concentration when you are doing revision or during exam. Also, avoid high-fat or high-sugar content food which may cause you to be irritable and moody.

4. Understand your concentration span

Make sure you take breaks in between your revision period. Choose a study place with minimum distractions. If you find it difficult to concentrate with your bed beside you, go to other places such as library or university study corner. Remember, 'Don't try to be perfect'! Keep things in balance. Aim to do your best but do bear in mind that we can't be perfect all of the time. For low achievers, concentrate on master the basic first.

5. Plan ahead

Try to plan your study plan and revision time by drawing up a timetable. This is SO SO important! Prioritize the workload and give your best concentration time to the toughest subject. Take steps to overcome problems. Then also include time for you to repeat your learnt work so the recall in exam is easy. Work not repeated or revised is easily forgotten. Remember to do past year papers if it is available from your library! Practice makes perfect and you wouldn't want to ignore that. 

Lastly, plan a small treat for yourself when exams are over! This will help to prepare yourself better for the next time when you are sitting for an exam again! Remember, don't keep things bottled up. If you feel like you are not able to cope with the anxiety or stress, talk to someone you trust and who will be supportive for you. This is a great way to alleviate stress and worry.

Good luck guys! All the best for your exam ^_^

That feeling you get after finishing your last exam... ... 

如果有梦想，就要勇敢去实现

如果有梦想，就要勇敢去实现。

从前我总有好多梦想，但是碍于自己的害怕，惰性，总是像乌龟一样，在追求自己梦想的道路上慢慢，慢慢的前行。直到步入社会之后，才真正的变得更加珍惜 “有梦想这回事是多么值得开心，多么值得为它而努力啊！”

大学毕业之后，在偶然的机会之下得到了教课的机会。回想当时还在茫然自己的前途，事业该走的方向，还有自己之前常常优柔寡断，裹足不前而失去种种机会的后悔，我鼓起了勇气，下定决心要勇敢的踏出自己的安全区，接受新挑战。当时的想法就是不管进步快或慢，只要天天学习，一步一步慢慢走就好，尽力放胆去做吧。

如今时隔也一年多了，看着学生们慢慢的进步，学习新事物之后的改变，心里有种莫名的成就感。纵使常常搞得喉咙痛，也常常被气得火冒三丈，看到成绩表，看到他们渐渐培养正确的学习态度，这一切还是很值得的。

或许这就是教育的力量。或许这就是教育者的满足感。我算不上一个称职的教育者，但在迈向这个方向的路上所遇到的人事物，我仍然深深地被震撼到了。

以往所不敢做的事，如今已看见这颗小树慢慢萌芽了。我期待这个未来，希望看见它茁壮成长。如果你也有梦想，不要害怕，不要担心，勇敢地往前冲吧！

Jung In's and Kang Gary's Inspirations

Kang Gary!! Ahh!! Kang Gary never fail to impress me with his determination and talent ^_^ I love reading his story and what he shares with his fans, and of course his kindness and effort in playing his role to motivate as much people around the world as possible. Perhaps he didn't say it out, but I'm sure there are many people who are inspired by him, at least I'm one of them ^_^ For instance, one of the greatest challenge in life is to learn to be friend with loneliness. Gary taught us not to be afraid of being lonely, and it is essential in life that sometimes we make a little time just for ourselves, to spend time alone to reflect ourselves and to work hard towards our goals. In my opinion, that's just one of the reason why Gary is so charming to many.

Jung In is another favorite singer of mine. I got to know her through Leessang after listening to their songs. Jung In appears in many of Leessang's songs and they are all very close friends. She looks like a blur girl sometimes (you can watch her appearances in some of the Korea's Variety Shows, is so cute, haha! especially when she is with her boyfriend lol!), but when it comes to singing, she is definitely one of the best. Her unique voice I would say, is what makes her stand out from the crowd.

Does it make you wonder what are their inspirations then, which makes them produce such good music which inspire and heal the many of us??

Watch what they say below: Enjoy!!

*If you need subtitle, turn on the CC button on right bottom, the english subtitles will appear.

Kang Gary Jjang!! Jung In fighting!!

Love,

Ching Yee

Staying positive

Dreams

A lot of times we have a lot of internal conversations within ourselves and it determine our actions. What do I want to do, how am I going to do it, when am I doing it, is that possible? Shall I do it? Or maybe most of the time you would say, "well, maybe I'll try". In this society, people is always flooded with a lot of negative thoughts and negative ideas. They tend to imagine a lot of situations that might happen, which in reality, maybe most of the time just 1 out of 1 million situations will actually happen. Whenever a problem or a situation is throw to them, first thing they do is to reject, or I would rather say keeping themselves in their comfortable zone. Sometimes, even when they are just being honest to themselves. For example a friend of mine actually wants to be a pilot. This dream/goal that he created himself in his mind, surprisingly is something which himself can't even handle it.

When I talk to him, he isn't quite happy about his current life. He said he wants to do something he likes, something which he is really passionate for. This is the first time I'm seeing him being really honest to himself. In fact, he is actually troubled with this. He doesn't know how to be a pilot, what does a pilot looks like, what does a pilot do? All he knows is that he is hoping to be a pilot. So I ask him, you should be really happy that you know what your goal is but why are you unhappy? So he answered, I'm hoping somebody will give me a chance to help me do what I want to do, hopefully someday I will be able to realize my dream.

What is holding you back?

The question now is, what is holding you back? Why must you wait till someday sometime somebody will give you a chance to help you do what you would like to do? Can't you start it today? Can't you do it yourself? Can't you create a chance for yourself? What if the "chance" that you are talking about never come? We need to be motivated in order to keep ourselves going in life. We are kind of like on a balance with positive and negative attitudes on both ends. If we are not staying positive, not only it won't be balance, we would also fall on the negative side right to the bottom. 

Change your mindset

Not telling all these because I went to a motivational talk today, but because I realized that when I changed my mindset, nothing from the surrounding changes but everything looks different and better. Like attracts like, perhaps this is what people call The Law of Attraction, and when you are genuinely happy and positive, people around you start to be positive as well. I actually saw this book in Popular bookstore "The Law of Attraction", maybe can check it out if you are interested. I don't really believe in this, I tend to think it is more like an action and result, when you do something good, something else that is good will return, vice versa. I've been through a "depression" state for the past six months or so. I was not depressed until the state that you feel like commit suicide but that was the period where I spent most of my time watching drama, crying when I'm alone, not knowing what to do, don't want to go out of house and complaining everything under the sun to my bf. I've always been thinking that I have treated people well, and I even do more than what a friend should do for them most of the time, I treat them like my family. Why is it when I'm sad, when I'm unhappy, these people are not around? At the end of the day, I realized that people can say many things for you, they can do many things for you, but because of your mindset, you can't see anything they are doing. You think they ignore you, they forget you, because you perceive it, because you think that's the way they are. Hence, that is how you feel. 

I'm a lot happier now ever since I started to change my mindset and keep myself staying positive. In fact, I was having a really unlucky day last week, met a minor accident but paying more than what I should be paying due to various reasons, first time losing my parking ticket for the entire university life, having some problems with an event held in uni, spent two hours going back home due to a heavy jam etc, and it all happened on the SAME day. If these were to happen during my "depression" period, I couldn't imagine how would have I reacted. I was telling myself that everything is gonna be alright and things will work out just fine. I won't lie to you that I did have a little breakdown in between but it was still all good. Thanks to my bf as well for kept me company.

Only you can control your mindset, you choose to be happy or unhappy. You live your own life, you are responsible for it, and you choose the way you want to live it. 

Setting your goals

Setting your goals is important. You must know what you want to do, who you want to be, how you want to live your life. The most scary thing in the world is to be honest to yourself. We always tend to think too much about what others say, what others think, be bothered about what others do and not listening to the real voices within ourselves. It doesn't really matter whether you know how to achieve your goals, because if you do, you would have done it, right? Setting your goals and knowing it clearly in your mind helps you to find out how you want to do it. When I wanted to start up my online business, I told myself I want to do it, but I don't know how and I don't know what I need to do. But because I see this goal so clearly in my mind, I know exactly what I need for. I need a blog, a social networking platform, some website design knowledge and most importantly, some capital. I wasn't too sure where should I get my capital from, I do not want to spend more of my parents money, they are already paying a lot for my tuition fees and I was lost but I was determined. I planned out a rough amount of money I needed to start the business and I started to save my pocket money for this. There were things came in between and I finally setup the business. However, the capital wasn't not enough if it is just based on my savings. So on one random day, I went to several job hunting websites and I only searched for jobs that are able to pay for the amount I needed for my business. I was just trying my luck. Thank God for blessing me and I found a job which pays me just enough the amount that I needed to sustain my business and what more is that it is a social networking company. It helps me in a great way as I was able to contribute to the company based on the research which I've done while I'm doing my online business and things that I learnt from the company correlates with my business. That works just perfectly fine for me.

So, if you have a dream, take a piece of paper write it down, plan for it and get resources that you need. Start doing it! When you change your mindset to be positive and determined, nothing can stops you and I guarantee you will be amazed how far you can actually achieve and be able to see beyond the possibilities.