I thought I’d make a list of  some…

I thought I’d make a list of  some of the songs that I’ve come to have some attachment to, some are summer hits some are kinda old:

1) International love (a tribute to our blog <3!)

2) Give me everything tonight

3) What you waiting for ? (colby and mizz)

4) Combat baby

4)  Scary Ghosts and Nice Sprites

5) A little Bit

6) Insomnia (Jason Derulo)

7) Me love you long time

8) Party rock anthem

9) Where them girls at?

10) 1901

11) Last Friday Night (TGIF)

12) Just can’t get enough

13) Young, wild and free (wiz)

14) Superbass

15) Triple double

That’s all I can think of for now, most of the tracks are the overplayed ones at parties which you just cant hate but love

So its been 2 months since I’ve been…

So its been 2 months since I’ve been back to the motherland and its almost time to head back!

While complaining about having to go back to another semester of books and writing, one of the best advice I got from my friend when I first got back was to get married. We laughed b/c shes happily engaged and the thought did cross my mind, “wouldn’t it be easier to just get married, quit school, have adorable (hopefully) children and pursue what i love w/o an overrated college degree?” But the reality is I’m nowhere near able to engage in such a huge commitment as I have so much more growing to do. I guess only some of us can be so lucky . But anyhoooo, I’m Buddhist by the way, my mother’s adopted son (a monk) had stopped by so I dug up some of my astrological readings done at birth and asked him to translate it. The tradition in Bhutan is to get a “Ke Tshe” done when a baby is born to foresee any turmoils and to advise religious rituals (to the parents) to prevent possible danger to their kid’s life. So it turns out that if I were to become religious later in life OR become a nun, I’ll lead a very prosperous and successful life when I’m reborn. I used to make jokes about becoming a nun b/c there was a nunnery right above my best friend’s house but I never knew it was a potential path written down in my birth. Now here comes the funny part, my dad’s friend had done numerology readings for my sisters and I.. and in that reading it predicted my marriage age to be 19, 21-22… I’m going to be celebrating my 2nd annual 21st in November and I’m very single so the odds are pretty obvious lol.

Of course, while I do have faith in my religion I don’t blindly follow my faith… I just thought it was hilarious and kinda eerie because of the accurateness of my personality and the trials and tribulations I’ve faced. Maybe I’ll post the numerology reading on the blog since thats in English, the other one is sanskrit so that’ll be a tough one to deal with. That might be lil egocentric but it’ll be interesting to share with people who are into that kinda stuff

On a random note, as usual, here are my adorbs nephews who are making it unbearable to leave day by day. Both are spitting images of their madres. They insisted on clipping their lil sister’s bows on their heads ^^ :

Most recent photos of us

‘Twas the weekend of finals and the only club in Amherst had just opened that week in April. I think this was the las time the four of us got to take our foursome photos (Excluding the group shot with the guys and helen and suet the day of my flight out). Sharons left us for Korea but we still have hope that she will return very VERY VERY soon. Ashleys going to be in NYC, Aileen will hopefully be in NYC, and I will also be in NYC, hopefully, after I graduate in December.

I apologize for the inconsistency in my editing. Its late and my wifi is kinda crap.

15 days till I’m with half the familia…

15 days till I’m with half the familia!! Annnd the countdown to humidity begins…

So as we stress about finals and some of us freak out about the immediate future aka post grad dilemmas, here are some tips from a blogpost to optimize your performance and stay somewhat sane in case you don’t want to go through the whole article :

1) Expose yourself to repeated, productive stressors just beyond your comfort zone, with non-stressed recovery periods

Dienstbier’s article suggests that toughening in one area of stress will carry over into other areas. He offers aerobic exercise as an example of a productive stress activity that can help condition the body’s stress responses. When those responses become conditioned, they will affect the body’s response to many different kinds of stressors.

2) Separate creative and complex processes from performance pressures

He said that while straight-forward decisions are best left to traditional pros and cons, the best way to make a creative or cognitively complex decision is to “distract yourself with something else, and then come back to the problem.” Creativity and complex decisions are the realm of the subconscious mind. “While we have been distracted,” Brooks tells us, “your unconscious [mind] has been filtering it all, and will come to the right decision.” — thats what I do!
Rather than introducing incentives, pressures or deadlines, we need a non-stressed, pleasantly distracted environment to give our subconscious minds room to work on more complex and creative problems. Therefore, when one receives a project, it’s best to think about it immediately and deeply, so as to give the subconscious mind time to ruminate before deadlines come due.

3) Manage your own expectations — a huge problem of mine

Most of the pressure that inhibits us is self-pressure, and if we think about it, only a small fraction of that self-pressure is justified in order to motivate the results we want. The rest just gets in our way.

4) Ease up on the melodrama and the over-analyzing –
Melodramatic thinking and mental chatter form a feedback loop with stress triggers. If you’re psyched out about something, your body will release stress hormones. When you feel the effect of the stress hormones, you have a constant, nagging reminder that you don’t feel right, which further psyches you out.

5) Now that you’ve learned all these details, forget them

Some years ago, a Princeton psychologist named Sam Glucksberg brought a group of test subjects into a room. In the room was a table positioned against a wall. On the table was a book of matches, a box of thumbtacks, and a candle. “Your job,” Glucksberg told his subjects, “is to attach the candle to the wall in such a way that when it’s lit, the wax will not drip onto the table. I will be timing you, and I will use your results to establish averag … Read More

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