#3 Online Shopping ;)

What a great day today! I did my 3rd activity online today for EIR. It's an online shopping spree!! We were given a situation where we were given "$500 SGD" to spend on an online shopping spree and purchase items we have always wanted to buy! I'm beginning to find this CDS more and more interesting everyday. I often hear my friends complaining about their respective CDS and I'm sitting there all like "I'm so happy with my choice of CDS" :)

So anyway, lets get busy with the online shopping! Some people may say that $500 SGD is not enough for online shopping, but with all the things you can buy at a discounted price on Groupon Singapore, I think we can get a couple of good quality things! Yes, so I decided to pay a visit to http://www.groupon.sg/ :)

I was looking through the different deals and the first item that caught my eye was the 30 minutes flight simulation on Airbus A320! It had a 50% discount and I only had to pay $34.75. Therefore, I am left with approximately $465 for the rest of my online shopping.

I have always been interested in flying and my ambition is actually to be a pilot for SilkAir. Currently, SilkAir is the only Singapore-based airline that takes in women pilots. When I saw the advert for this deal, I was totally excited! I didn't even know that an experience like this is open to public. I've only experieced a flight simulation once, back when I was in the NCC Air Girls CCA in my secondary school. It was a really great experience, this would be the perfect opportunity to re-live my wonderful experience.

Alright, moving on to the next item I will be purchasing is a White Gold Plated Necklace. It will be a really sweet gift for my mother when I see her for her birthday. 

It costs around $35 SGD after discount as you can see in the picture above. Currently, I am left with $430 SGD to spend.

After spending some time in Groupon Singapore, I decided to go to http://www.alldealsasia.com/. I was looking through the different deals and something came to my mind when I saw a deal for the best ergonomic chair. My dad has always been complaining about his office chair in our house, this would be the perfect gift to get him on New Year's Eve so he would stop whining over the chair. Right now, I am left with $220 SGD.

So the next item I am going to purchase is a kit to tone my stomach area and get the perfectly nice women abs I have always wanted :) It costs around $193.70 SGD, which leaves me with approximately $26 SGD left.

With the $26 SGD, the last thing I am going to do is probably just get a good relaxing foot massage at La Beau. I have always wanted to try and have a massage at that place, but its expensive. Finally got a good deal of it on All Deals Asia (Singapore) :) After the 91% discount, the price for the massage is only $20, which then leaves me with approximately $6 SGD left.



I had a great time doing this activity! Goodbye for now :)

#2 Hobby/Skill:They say "Only you know what your good at"... Do I? ;)

Hello everyone! Its good to be back (although I've been gone for only a day haha) . Honestly, this is the first time I'm actually committed to writing and enjoying it, surprisingly. I used to own a blog a few years back, but things got out of hand so I decided to deactivate my blogger account. Well, let us not get into that matter now haha.

Anyway, yesterday's EIR lab session was fun. Miss Faridah briefed us about our E-learning week next week. We will be interacting with the Hong Kong PolyU students via SecondLife. It's a virtual world where we will be having conversations with our groupmates and the HKPolyU students. We will all be in Avatar form (our virtual characters and names). Our group will then decide on a certain state, such as Paris, to go to in SecondLife. I have a feeling that this would be a pretty interesting and unique experience as I have never (ever) registered or be in a virtual world game concept like this before. Besides the SecondLife briefing, we also ceated our first EIR blog.

Well, let me now get into the topic of my blog today. Most of you will be wondering what today's blogpost title actually mean. It's actually about a hobby or skill that I have. Some people once mentioned to me that "no one can tell you what your skill is except you because only you yourself know what exactly your good at". Well, that is absolutely true. Whether others notice or appreciate your skill is a whole other story. It's weird that I took quite some time to figure out what exactly my skill and passion is. Finally it hit me, my skill is actually inline skating! I was once in the Temasek Inline Skating team, however, I did not continue.I do my own practices at East Coast Park with my cousin.She will pick me up from home and we will take a drive to East Coast Park and practice different moves or try and skate as far as we can. I am not a professional, it is just a skill I acquire. The difference between inline skates and rollerblades is that inline skates have 2 to 5 polyurethane wheels which are arranged in a single line. This design creates greater speed and better maneuverability than roller blades.Below is a picture of a V500 inline skate.

To learn how to start skating is quite a difficult process for some people. You have to know your centre of gravity, balance yourself, stride and stop when your with your skates. The main key is courage and determination. It is perfectly normal if you keep on falling to the ground and scrape your skin. These things happen even after months of practice.

Firstly, you have to start by getting down on your hands and knees (just like a crawling position). Slowly raise your left leg followed by your right leg with both of your palms on the ground stabilizing you , similar to a frog position like the picture below.




After you get into this position, form a V-shape with your blades and slowly stand up.

This is a sample of how you should form a V-shape before standing up.

Once you've learn how to stabilize yourself when you get up, try lifting up one leg after the other and start stomping on the ground (at the same spot). This will help you fimiliarise yourself with your skates and also give you the confidence to push off and start skating. After your confident enough, you can start pushing off from one leg to another and start skating!! :) Skating is not something you can be good at within a day, it takes a lot of practice and falling down for you to learn. The trick is not giving up, once you fall, get back up and try it over and over again until you get the hang of it.

Tip:

-Do not straighten your leg when you skate, bend a little at your knee joint and push off with the leg that your more comfortable with (most of the time it's not your dominant leg).

-Once you feel like you are gonna fall, lean forward with your palms open and not backwards. This will lessen the pain and the injuries.

Have fun trying :)

#1 My very 1st EIR Blogpost- Self Introduction :)

Hello everyone!!


I'm Nadhirah, but most of the people I know call me 'Dhirah'. Guess it's because my name is either too long and has like three syllables or it is just hard for them to pronounce my whole name, haha but it's fine, I love that name and grew up hearing people calling me by that name :) I am from the Engineering School, Diploma in Integrated Facility Management. It's a combination of both the hospitality and aviation industry. If I'm not wrong, we are the first diploma to offer facility management in both the hospitality and aviation industry.


Now, lets move on to getting to know more of me :) I'm the type of person who is easy going, loves to laugh and loves people who can make me laugh. Honestly, I laugh at the most stupidest things, haha some people said that laughing adds like a year more to your lifespan. True or false? I've yet to find out. I love to travel around too, more for leisure and relaxation. sometimes for historical knowledge. For those of you who are interested in building up your knowledge in History, I recommend you to go to Turkey. There are many  UNESCO world heritage sites and historical ruins there that are preserved for tourists. Below is one of the photos I took with my phone of the ruins of the Library of Celsius in Turkey. It is pretty nice!

My favourite past time is downloading episodes of some American TV series (that has not yet been shown in Singapore) to my laptop and watching them. Some of the TV series I usually download are Glee, 90210 and Drop Dead Diva. That's a pretty boring past time for some people I guess haha. However, other than that, I do occasionally go to East Coast Park for rollerblading. I love rollerblading, it really trains and helps you define your thigh and calf muscles. So those are basically the 2 things I normally do during my past time. If I am bored or having horrible mood swings, I usually listen to my favourite singer, the one and only, Katy Perry. I really love all her songs and her new album "Teenage Dream". All her songs really speak to me and they have a really nice beat. I personally feel that she is a real artist, true to herself and her songs has a tad of some personal experience she has gone through.
                          



My favourite hangout place is actually at Arab St, which is located near Bugis MRT (just a five to ten minutes walk). Other than some of the Sheesha sessions I have with my friends, we also love the variety of food such as the Egyptian/Middle Eastern cuisine or local Singapore food there. If we are lucky, we get to catch the belly-dancing performances held every alternate Friday night at a restaurant there called Cafe Le Caire, it's a very interesting type of dance and the atmosphere is just so incredible. The best time to go there is at night, as most of the shops and activities there start in the evening. Below is a photo of me and my friends eating at Cafe Le Caire one evening during fasting month. Notice that its a different dining concept than other restaurants in Singapore. We, diners, get a unique experience of sitting on the floor and eating from low tables, similar to some of the concept of dining in Middle Eastern countries.
                              

The picture above is a snapshot I took with my phone of one of the belly-dancers, Asena :)

So that's pretty much me :) Stay tuned for more posts, but goodbye for now :)