Tuesday 17 June 2014

Odd Superstitions: A weird way to cure hiccup.

Hello my pulchritudinous readers!

I don't know if I am the only one, but there are many said cures of curing hiccups. Some seem to make sense, but there are some out there that don't quite make sense.

I know several hiccup cures like drinking water, holding your breath, holding your breath and swallowing etc.

There is this one hiccup cure that my dad has recently showed me when I got hiccups (when I get them, I usually get them throughout the whole day), and I found it super odd, but what's weirder is that it works on me...

What my dad told me to do is get a bowl or plate of some sort, hold it and using a cutlery or your fingers, hit it a couple of times at the base, and voila, the hiccup is gone.

Does that make sense? No? Okay then...

Weird, I know. But also effective for me. I tested it out throughout the day and it worked like a charm. Me and my sister are still trying to figure out what is it behind the whole bowl thing that stops the hiccup but it does somehow. My great grandfather taught it to my dad and my dad taught it to me, and now I am sharing it with you guys (well, at least whoever who reads it...)

Well that is it. Are there any weird ways you know that actually helps cure hiccups for you? Comment it down below! I would love to read them.

xx,
Khatie

Monday 9 June 2014

Tips for decorating/furnishing in a small bedroom

Hello my pulchritudinous readers!

Today's post will be about a topic that I don't think I have covered yet which would be home and decor. Small bedrooms. Some of you lucky things out there might not need to face the dilemma of having a tiny bedroom, but others might be like me -- they get stuck with a bedroom the size of a nutshell. I am not trying to sound bratty or anything but I can honestly say that I spent weeks trying to figure out how to fit both a bed and a desk in my room with storage without having it come in the way of either my built in closet or my door or both. My room is a 2.9 meter by 2.9 meter room with a built in closet (sliding door ones), so safe to say it is a bit of a squish. Like aforementioned, I am not trying to be a brat of anything of that sort because I understand that for me to be able to have a stable roof over my head is a blessing on its own. Enough of my blabber, lets get on to the main point!

To start off with, let me just put this out there:
If you have not already figured, I am not in anyway professional in this department, I am speaking from personal experience if you would call it. I never really got a chance to have a big room, much less to myself, so these are just some things that I have collected over the years (gosh, that made me sound wise)

ANYWAY, lets move on, shall we?



1) Avoid painting dark colours.

This is fully up to you to pick your own colour, but with dark colours it somehow makes it feel like it is a smaller, more confined space. Using light 'variations' I guess of your intended colour would be a good choice. For example: instead of a midnight blue use a lighter blue instead. I find that using lighter colours help make the room feel more spacious. Another way that might help if you really like a specific colour is maybe paint only one or two of the walls in your room and leave the rest white or a similarly light colour.



2) Avoid overcrowding your room.

Get only what you need and try to reduce the amount of unnecessary furniture in your room and use hidden spaces wisely. With smaller rooms, it is slightly more difficult to furnish our rooms like we see in magazines and on the internet or catalogs. Ditch the blanket chest or the dressing table and try to incorporate them into one, like instead of storing your winter coats or your doona in the blanket chest, put it in storage boxes and under your bed and instead of having a separate dressing table and study table, try having only one and create a multipurpose dressing table and desk area.


3) Keep the decor simple

Decorating your room is a good way of self expression. It is great if you want to have your room be unique and fit your style, but sometimes we tend to overdo it. We see things on the internet and go like 'Oh, I want that, that, that and that in my room', but when it comes down to putting it into your own room, it ends up looking too BAM, and sure, it will look nice in the picture, but keep in mind the results probably won't come out the same in your room. Keeping it simple could help with making it feel less stuffy as opposed to having lots of decor, like wall full of paintings, bed full of pillows etc.



4) Try to stick to a colour scheme.

For some people this may be hard, but sticking to a colour scheme can sometimes help.
What I would suggest is find a main colour -- this would be the colour the sort of ties the whole room together and is like the name suggests, the main colour. Then get up to 3 accent colours -- these would be the ones to add some different colours and to allow you to incorporate more colours in as opposed to having only a one colour room theme. (Using colour palettes may be helpful with deciding which colours go best with each other! You can find these online -- some paint brands have simulations where you can virtually test the paint colours out!)

I hope this helps you guys with your rooms/future rooms, and this is it for now.

Adios!

xx,
K



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Tuesday 3 June 2014

Wake by Lisa McMann

Hiya my pulchritudinous readers. I know it has been a while but things are pretty busy with school so do bear with me. Holidays are coming soon so that would probably mean more books and more reviews YAY. Enjoy!

Rating: 2.5/5 stars 

For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.

She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control.

Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant....

So, as mentioned in the synopsis, this book revolves around Janie and her very special 'talent', shall we call it? She gets sucked into peoples dream -- and not by will! She realised her little 'talent' when she as a child. While other children her age are having fun at sleepovers -- she can't do that -- unless, of course she doesn't mind being sucked into and invading others dream while she is there. She can never dream a dream that belongs to herself, so what happens when she starts being a participant in them? Read the book to find out.

What I liked about this book:

Obviously one of the main things I look for in a book would be the concept of the story. I liked how in the story, instead of just plain text and paragraphs, she groups them in time, sorta like a chronological timeline, if you may. That was one of the first books I have ever read that have done that and I found that it was fun to have a change like that for once. It was refreshing. Like most of my favourite books, this one has a dash of romance in between that I really like. 

What I felt needed some improvement:

Although it had a great concept, I can't help but feel that at some points of the book I felt a little bored. The story base has so much potential and expansion opportunity that I felt rather disappointed. 

So there ya have it, short and sweet ;) 
I might consider reading the next book, but that is not definite. 

xx,
Khatie