How to Stop Hitting the Snooze Button

I've mentioned my difficulties in waking up recently and someone responded to it by sending me this link on how to overcome this dilemma. Although, I do think half of the points are ridiculously unpractical giving my current living situation, I found this article highly amusing and emitted about two gallons of laughing gas. Hehee.

Anyway, here goes..

1. Set a timer so that a bright light turns on simultaneously with your alarm. When the light hits your face, you'll be less likely to fall asleep, even if you keep your eyes closed.
2. Consider setting an outdoor-rated timer which turns a space heater on in your bedroom, for about an hour before you want to wake up. Waking up to temperature stimulus is much gentler on your neurovascular system, and you may find that you'll even want to bounce out of bed and start your day under extra-warm conditions.
3. If you drink coffee, get a coffee pot with a timer. Prepare it before going to bed, set it for 30 minutes before your alarm and not only will your coffee be ready when you get up, the smell of the freshly brewed coffee may help you to get out of bed.
4. Put your alarm clock on the other side of the room. You have no choice but to answer it, and before you know it, you will be out of your bed. Works best if you share your home with others so you must answer to not annoy them.
5. Set a second alarm on your cell phone, computer, another alarm clock, or whatever you can hear from wherever you need to put it. Place the other alarm by your coffee pot, in the bathroom, downstairs, in the hall, or whatever works in your home. Then set it for 5 minutes after the first alarm on your regular alarm clock. When you wake up, you will know that you need to go and shut off the second alarm, before it also goes off.
   
6. If all else fails, lock the alarm clock in a box with a combination lock and attach the internal clock speaker to an external stereo speaker. That way you’ll have to turn on the light and work out the combination before you can turn it off.
   
   
7. Consider super gluing your snooze button in order to make it impossible to use. Be careful not to destroy your alarm clock though! (May have unintended effect of encouraging use of the button that completely turns off the alarm)
8. Setting your alarm for the last possible second before you have to scramble to get to work (or whatever) can help break the snooze habit.
9. You can also invest in a flying or moving alarm clock that you have to find or fetch to turn off!

Number 4 is unseemly possible because my roommate would probably set fire on my underwear drawer when I'm in classes. Number six and seven got me laughing until I nearly peed in my pants. Number 5 never works. I have about three alarms set on a daily basis and they're all located in opposite ends of my side of the room. And the one in red is something I would like to try out.

There's Been a Death In My Block

I heard a few girls screaming and some pretty loud cina conversation going on outside. Twenty minutes later, this was what that was left along with an empty can of Shieldtox lying not too far away. Brutal.

Fulfilled

As of today, at 3pm, I am thoroughly done with mid terms and assignments. Or so I thought. Because as of right now, I am diligently waiting for the PLUS Express 2008 annual report to load on the Bursa Saham site. Sigh. Sucky broadband connection kat hostel can make people bleed through the eyes from waiting okay.

*when is something ever nothing?

Arghgh I should be nerding with Econs now instead of listening to all these soppy korean songs I suddenly find liking in. So gay. OH MY BUDDHA. But what to do, Si Eden gave me 2gb of songs two weeks ago and I just recently find time to explore :( and I am still playing that song on repeat. It's the 4th day already. Siaooo.

Excerpts

Hello world. I hope you spend one good week salivating on my forbidden ramlee snack everytime you click on Making A Mountain Out of A Molehill url because everyone should head out and grab one so I don't feel like a whale on my own. :)

Some filli falla to make the post look longer than it really is..

• Waking up hasn’t been easy.
• Mr Soo, if you’re chance upon this blogpost, I’m sorry. Never will I again.
• Camp is next weekend. And honestly, I can’t wait to get away from college and talk/ breath/do non-college things. I’m actually looking forward to meditation sessions cos there’s so much negativity in my system that I’d like to live without.
• I was studying the other evening and normally I’d ignore my phone but this text caught my attention ‘I realise how being an October baby must make you feel. After all, there are not many 1990 born younger than you are. I understand that you are deprived of the opportunity of labelling people budak and which in turn result in me being a victim of your budak-branding..’ and with much absurdity, the text message ended with a severe threat that I should prevail from labelling that individual budak from then on.
• Until further notice, I shall not chop off my hair or be tempted to.
• Happy Birthday Mei mei. I hope the choc cheese mousse was to your liking (:
•  And oh, life sucks. But I'm sure you knew that already.