PLACES TO BRING YOUR KIDS DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

1) www.qianhu.com
2) www.science.edu.sg,
3) www.spm.org.sg
4) www.berriweks.com/penpals.html
5) www.emit.com

SINGAPORE MUSEUMS

Hello little friends,

Since School holidays are around the corner why not visit some of these museums physically or virtually with your parent.

Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts
Preservation of Monuments Board
Public Education
Museum Roundtable
yesterday.sg
Archives Online
ASK@NLB
Live.Life!@eCitizen
Singapore Family Tree
The Museum eGuide
Singapore Cultural Resources Online
Creative Talent Fund
Creative Business Fund

DANCING WITH THE DOG

Tired of walking your dog? How about some new trick for you pet like - DANCING??

www.dogdance.net
www.maryray.co.uk
www.caninefreestyle.com
www.worldcanine.freestyle.org
www.boogiewoogiebowwows.com

New Year New You (10 ways to reinvent yourself)

1) Reflect
Make a wish list & set SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely goals)

2) Refresh
Do one task at a time and learn to say “no” often

3) Resolve
Try to make new year resolution that are motivating, realistic, practical and from the heart.

4) Relate
Be assertive and look for win-win solution. Talk things over with people you trust

5) Reinvent
Make a list of your spending, your work, your lifestyle and skill sets. Try to upgrade and change it for the better

6) Reduce
You can reduce your chores by sharing, prioritising or finding helpers to assist you.

7) Reassess
Try to make your financial situation better when you reassess your income and expenditures.

8) Redeploy
Be active in networking, scanning newspaper, browsing through internet and flexible if your looking for a new job

9) Relax
Try yoga or other holistic meditations. Visualise yourself like shrugging your problems off physically.

10) Rebel
Lastly, try to embrace your eccentricities
Lastly, try to embrace your eccentricities and be true to yourself. If you are kooky so be it, if it makes you happier or healthier.

LAUGH AWAY THE BLUES

No joke, humour can help you see things in perspective. Learn how overcome negative encounters in their lives. To be successful at what you do, you have to adopt a healthy attitude.

You have to make yourself feel good
And once you do that, your life also becomes good.Studies have shown that laughter, humour, optimism and self-esteem can have positive results on health. Learn to develop the self-esteem required to laugh at our selves.

Optimism can be learned.
Be aware of your strengths and blessings. Comic vision can help people deal with stress, loss and other emotional problems.

Everything is a relationship, how you relate, how you make people feel.
Try to think of the two worst things that happened in their professional lives and write them. It will change your perception of the bad things that happened and are able to let go of the hurt attached to those events. Look instead at the decision they make about how they are going to engage those things - be it a work deadline or personal problem.

Itemising, prioritising and injecting laughter and action
in place of catastrophic thinking and worry. While you cannot change the reality, you can change the way you react to that reality and hence, the outcome. Reality doesn't care how you react and gives them a simple equation:
E + R = O (Event + Response = Outcome).

BOOST YOUR MEMORY

If you have forgotten some people’s names here are some tricks to help you out such as:
-Get the name right, listen, look and say the name to create a mental loop (fusing)
-Look for distinguishing feature on that person’s face
-Picture the person in a setting (eg.: Carol + Christmas = Christmas Carol)
-Rhyme the name (eg. Fancy Nancy)
-Break a long name down
-Make your association exotic & erotic(privately, of course)
-Read these websites for more tricks
www.memoryedge.om
www.worlmemorychampionship.com

THE FLUIDITY OF LIFE

There are many components in your blood cell namely
Red Blood Cell
White Blood Cell
Platelets
Plasma
Blood functions


And do you know your blood type?
A person with type A blood can donate to a person with Type A & AB
A person with type B blood can donate to a person with Type B & AB
A person with type AB blood can donate to a person with Type AB only
A person with type O blood can donate to a person with anyone

So who are the most generous type of people? Obviously people with blood type O : )