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introduction
People say being single is somehow lonely. Well, you are physically alone, but you should not be lonely. It is just how you react to your singlehood. It could actually be fun and take it as a challenge. Challenge to find yourself, understand and discover life out there. It’s a chance to get lost in adventures, take your time to find your significant other. Because when you have passed this stage, it does not come twice. So instead of keep yourself calm, just be brave and wild to face new experiences. Find things that you can do by yourself inside this book. Enhance your life, feel alive, get lost and find way back. Don’t worry, enjoy and cherish your single moment because being single is part of life -wait for it- journey! Your life journey.
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Cooking Ever cook yourself a proper meal from scratch? Research say that cooking is a life skill that anyone should be able to do. Search for some recipes of your favorite menus and try to cook your own! This is a life investment for your future life too. Who wouldn’t fall for someone who cooks well?
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“No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.” – Julia Child
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why cooking?
Satisfying
There is nothing taste like your own cooking. It tastes like you can’t find out there. If you can cook, you are able to satisfy every of your cravings. When you crave for something, simply find the recipe and start cooking!
Life investment
Everyone actually needs to learn the basic of cooking. It is a worth learning life skills, since you will explore different sides of cooking and give a lot benefits for you.
Togetherness
Gather around with relatives at home wouldn’t be that boring anymore. Bring the togetherness with your cooking skills and impress them with the taste.
Health
No more worries about what made your food because you made it yourself. You will be the one controlling the ingredients and make it even more nutritious than eating outside foods. So, healthier food for healthier body is a definite reward from learn to cook.
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Be a bookworm There should be times when you are lost in a book and imagining in there. Reading can helps lengthen attention span and ability to think clearly. It also does broaden your knowledge, well, based on what kind of book you read.
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“Reading a good book is like taking a journey.” – Emma Gulliford
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why reading?
Memory improvement
When you read a book, you will remember the storyline, characters and their personality. That helps you in training your memory, which will also strengthen existed memories.
Brain stimulation Reading is basically a sports for our brain. Helpful to keep it strong and healthy just like muscles and bones in our body.
Learn languages
Reading in another language that is not your native will certainly helps in learning. The more you read it, the more vocabularies and understanding you will get.
Concentration
You will immerse in the storyline, until it drives you to outside of the world. But when you snapped to life, it eases mind improvement in focus and concentration.
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Dramathon Drama or movie marathon all day. This should not be done so often but when needed; when you feel like self-healing with laughter and tears. Staring at your laptop or television catching up favorite shows, or watching new ones, may be a good idea.
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“Watching movies is like going to an amusement park.” – Darren Aronofsky
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why watching?
Spot details
When you try to watch your favorite movies for several times, you will start to spot the details in the movie. Something that will make yourself amazed for just realizing it.
Visual getaway
Watching movies is not just about the storyline or good-looking casts, but also the scenery shots. Even though it’s just inside a rectangle screen, the visuals are able to bring you into the movie and experience the beautiful view.
Emotion
There’s always a day when you wants to laugh so hard or maybe cry some tears. Playing movies probably the best way to relate those emotions.
Rest yourself
Watching only needs you to listen and look at the screen of your laptop or television. You are able to do that laying on the bed, inside warm blanket with fluffy pillows, enjoy the show and rest yourself after tiring day.
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Visit Museum Have a day full of knowledge by visiting a museum. Look for the exhibition that will pull a lot of your interest and do take note for a free entry! In case it might disappoint you in a certain way, at least it was a free trip that didn’t cost. Visit by yourself could give you a lot more time to read and understand every workds without worrying anyone get bored with it.
wait for it — visit museum
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“A visit to museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives.” – Maira Kalman
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why visit museum?
Life experience
Some people just prefer to spend money on trying new experience, than materials. Simply because new event will always liive in our mind and won’t ever expires.
Effective Learning
Visiting museum is an example of effective informal learning. With just a visit, you will form your own experience and read those that interest you.
Inspiring
Anyone in any field of work, will always be inspired by a visit to the museum. You get to feed your mind with histories and new knowledges that will broaden point of view.
New community
Museum is not just about the collections and exhibitions, but also about the people in the community. With just a visit, you are able to make new friends who happen to be interested in the same thing as you. And who knows if your future partner is one of them?
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Challenge Yourself Be as productive and adventurous as you could by challenging yourself, be it intellectually or mentally. Set up some new goals from something won’t cost like studying what you like at the library. Or something that cost you much such as travel alone, skydiving or hiking. Improve and inspire yourself to brave uncertainty in your life!
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“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.” – Cicely Tyson
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why challenge yourself?
Change
Be it intelectually or mentally, taking a challenge will change yourself to a better one. Surely to someone with broader perspective and practical knowledge.
Feel alive
Doing extreme sports sounds so nerve-wracking, but that’s the perfect chance for you to feel alive. Trying skydive or hiking let you sense and adore the world in a new perspective.
Shape yourself
There isn’t always someone who will cook for you, except your parents or loved ones. As we get older, you will tend to do things by yourself and give yourself a sense of self-sufficiency.
New experience
Life can’t only be about daily work and continuous schedule. Sometime it needs something new that leaves you new experience to remember next.
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Shopping When you shop alone, you don’t have to feel guilty for taking so much time for a decision. You can walk around the store as much as you wish without having someone following around. But research say that having a friend or family when shopping will improve bonding experience and reduce stress level.
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“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness, simply don’t know where to shop.” – Blair Waldorf
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why shopping?
Follow the trend
Whether you actually go shopping or just eyeing the window, it will give you a glimpse of what’s trending in fashion. The upcoming styles for ladies and huge promotions.
Exercise
Walk around the store, bring heavy shopping bags, and standing to queue on the cashier. Those are unconcious exercise you just did while shopping. That’s another reason why shopping is good for health, but not good for your wallet.
Mood up
Everyone knows that shopping makes you happier, whenever your mood is good or bad. It just boost your mood up. Probably because you get to have something new to wear.
Self-achievement
There is this joyful feeling when you have been eyeing for a certain product, and finally get it after saving up. It is like successfully reaches the top of mountain.
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Feast Take a group of your friends to come along for one day culinary adventure. Stop worrying about gaining weight for a while and have a good feast. Eat really a lot. Get a savoury appetizer to start your feast, choose a guaranteed-satisfaction meal for the main, then have a sweet dessert for a best closure.
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“It’s not just about the food, but also who you eat with.” – Anonymous
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why feast?
Be adventurous
Life is not just about your local foods and its fruits and vegetables. When you go out there and find new edible thing, don’t be afraid to try it. Even if it’s a scorpion or bugs!
Signature spices
You shouldn’t miss any cuisines you found on your overseas trip. Even if it’s the same dish you have tried before, you still need to try it when it is in another country. Each spices taste just different!
Grow with taste
Some say people has more experience as they get older, and taste bud is certainly included. We can’t always eat only familar things, like what we eat since kids.
Surprise
There’s only two possibilites in trying new foods, just fine or exceptionally delicious like you’ve never tried before. Well, when the suprise turns bad, it could be the most horrible taste ever.
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Girls Outing They are the ones who have seen you at your best and worst. They speak frankly about you and they won’t judge. The girls will make a different laughter with gossips, crazy dances, and even stupid jokes that only you guys know. Even if you are with someone, that doesn’t mean you don’t need them.
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“People call it girls night, I call it a therapy.” – Unknown
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why girls outing?
Balanced love life
When you are attached to someone, it doesn’t mean life is only about you and him. Having girls outing will make you feel refresh and confident because your partner trusts you.
Catching up
Going out with your clique isn’t always every weekend because everyone is busy. When spare time comes, an outing is definitely the best time to catch up what’s happening in life.
Escape
Sweet escape from busy week and annoying boss. Night out is the best thing to free and relief yourself from the stress, with drinks, dances, and laughters.
Being you
Sometimes going out with friends from work needs you to be someone else. Going with the girls who have seen your inside and outside could never been greater. Since they know every bit of yourself.
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Hibernate Turn off your phone and any alarms you usually set for the morning. Sleep early and wake up automatically as if your body has been fully charged. When work has take over your life, have a very good deep sleep and pleasant dream is really necessary. At least for once a month, hibernate yourself may help to start a fresh week.
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“Sleep is the best meditation.” – Dalai Lama
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why hibernate?
Good mood
Definitely. After a very tiring and endless work on the previous day, deep sleep will make your following day fresh. Start your day with happy mood and no eye bags.
Skin health
People thought acne and skin condition are affected by surroundings, such as pollution. Have not enough sleep is also actually one of the reason. Good sleep helps your skin to breathe and keep themselves smooth.
Weight control
One of the reason of weight gain is lack of sleeping. Have a consistent sleeping for several hours may help to control weight gain.
Productivity
Sleeping is important for our brain function. When you have enough good sleep, you’ll feel fresh on the following day. That improve your problem solving skills and work performance.
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Special thanks to these superb people for helping me making this publication: My lecturer; Tan Yee Noh Leong Poh Chou
Lovely classmates; My oxygen tank; Fara Shamara Felicia Tanjaya Christie Gabriella Chrestella Janice Andreas Krisanto Bryan Halim Nur Muhammad Hasif Yufandri Yapola
and never ending support from my family. Couldn’t imagine how would this book turn out without them.
Wait For It Š 2016 by Adelia Giovani Jahya All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
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