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"You are not born for yourself but for the world."

Ever heard of the saying, “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me”?

 

Well that’s exactly how I feel when someone stands there and lies to my face.

 

Girls here’s something for you, when a special person (Oh is that your boyfriend you’re thinking about?) looks you straight in your eyes when you ask “where were you last night, you didn’t reply to my text?” and they say “I was sleeping, too exhausted from school, you know”, well no you don’t know and guess what they are lying to you big time. He is so desperate that you believe in his lie that they will stare into your eyes to see if you’re buying their story. Girls don’t be fooled by his sweet words and get trapped in the web of falsehoods. (Boys don’t be insulted, but now you know where to look when you’re being interrogated. A tip for you is to look relaxed and to stare at anything else. Now don’t be rude by not making eye contact at all.)

 

Okay secondly, look at their micro-expressions (the facial expressions that flash on a person's face for a fraction of a second and reveal the person's true emotion, underneath the lie). This is a harder method of detecting a lie, but like the good nosy teenagers that 99.9% of us are then we will see the lie coming from miles away. The following picture shows the change of facial expressions.

10 ways to spot if somebody is....

LYING!

Another sign is the level of fidgeting.

 

Hey, for example when a teacher asks “Jack how dare you copy from Jill, give me one good reason,” and Jack replies “But, but, I… didn’t…Sir.”

 

LIE again, I guarantee you that if he had a tree next to him then the poor little tree would have had all of the leaves ripped off it as  liars either fidget with their own body or with random things around them.

Lastly observe the person’s throat.

 

Lying causes some people’s bodies to increase production of adrenaline, which gets saliva pumping and then creates very little.

 

Whilst the the saliva level increases, the person will constantly be gulping or swallowing. When there is little saliva the person will tend to clear their throat.

 

Be a nice person and ask “Got a little something stuck in your throat, need some water?” (I’m sure they will even start to sweat by this point).

Now fellow students, you now know how to detect a lie.

 

But please don’t go all crazy on people and start saying that everyone around you is lying.

by Arianny Cruise Wilkins on 18/11/2013

How to get a good night's sleep...

by Arianny Cruise Wilkins on 14/01/2014

This year’s festive season is here and Christmas is just around the corner. I think that many of you are so excited to celebrate it with your friends and family that sleeping might be hard to come by lately. Now, sleep is important because, on that special night, we wouldn’t want to interrupt Santa when he is putting presents under our Christmas tree (don’t roll your eyes at this, guys! Santa still exists for many people, so let’s not kill their joy).

 

First, you might want to consider changing the colour of your walls. Research shows that people who sleep in a room with blue walls get the longest sleep of, approximately, eight hours (I can be all scientific and explain why but I wouldn’t want to bore you). However, blue is not the only colour that will help you get a full night’s sleep, yellow will too! (I really don’t like that colour, but my quilt has yellow and blue square patterns on it). Green is also suitable and, guess what, my quilt also has green squares and I, indeed, get long hours of sleep (especially now, during the holidays, when I can sleep for like 11 hours!).

Now, this goes to the poor souls out there that only get around five to six hours of sleep every night. I know this might shock a lot of people, but purple walls are the recipe for a disastrous sleep (although purple is said to stimulate creativity). Chuck brown and grey out of the window, as well. They are way too depressing and, please, if any of you are considering painting your walls or purchasing curtains that are either red or orange, then I’m assuming that all of you just want to be vampires and stay awake the whole night.

 

Are you having nightmares? It’s alright, don’t cry. I think I have the solution. If dream catchers don’t work (and I know that it might have worked for Bella Swan, but then again, werewolves and vampires do not yet surround us) I have heard that gems/crystals such as a black tourmaline, smoky quartz, or amethyst will chase away any nightmare. If that doesn’t work, then a rose quartz under your pillow might help. There are other crystals out there that are lovely to have as decorations, while each one of them bring along remedies for your problems.

 

How to exercise in your bedroom...

by Arianny Cruise Wilkins on 20/02/2014

I am tired of hearing people say “I want to exercise but there is no space in the hour” or “The fitness trail is so far away… maybe tomorrow.”

 

No people, exercising is important and if you can’t do it for whatever excuse, well guess what, we are going to exercise, like the title says, in our bedroom (WOOP WOOP).

 

Now, even if you find yourself in a tight space, you have to warm up your body as we don’t want any injuries happening. First things first, you can run or skip on the spot, whichever one suits you.

 

Before you even warm up, wear something comfortable (and I don’t mean an oversized T-shirt, which will absorb all the sweat, making it even more strenuous for you). Wear something with a thin fabric – girls, sports bras are good and boys, you might as well do it without a shirt. I know that not all of us are comfortable with having our stomach out but hey, it’s your room. Apart from your walls, no one else is going to see you!

As we can’t run or sprint in our room (Why? Because you’ll break something), we must do a suitable exercise, such as sit ups. They are painful, I must admit, but I’m sure that to some of you out there it’s a piece of cake.

 

If you are a beginner at sit ups then don’t look horizontally because you’ll sprain your neck instead of working out your abs.

 

Always look diagonally at a point in the ceiling and, just in case, put weights on your feet so that you don’t lift them up.

Other great ways of working out are by doing planks, pushups and lifting weights.

 

Personally, I hate pushups and it’s not because they are tiring – it’s because I can’t do them without falling on my jaw, so be careful.

 

Lastly, try yoga to slow down your heart rate and feel relaxed.

 

If you are like me, without patience for yoga, try doing it anyway because then you will be doing a proper work out.

"We are not born for ourselves but for the world."

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