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Welcome to The Insiter Monthly! Wow, a month in already! Sure time passes faster the longer you advance in your course. With freshers’ week done and dusted we have brought to you another mini-magazine, as we figured you’ve already read through our printed version of The Insiter. Also, this edition of The Insiter Monthly brings to a close the first series of this project. Bring on series 2!
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In this month’s article series you can start by reading some beauty hacks, for all of those who love make-up, provided by our very own Rebecca Vella, take a look at two vacancies by KONNEKT with many more on our website, and finally read Marylin Aquilina’s short story surrounding lost love (don’t worry - it’s a positive point of view this time). Bye Bye series 1! Nicole Borg Executive Editor
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Make-Up Hacks
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Vacancies from KONNEKT
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The First to Fall
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Writers
Johann Agius Kristina Saliba Manuel Xuereb Nicole Borg
Rebecca Vella Marylin Aquilina
Administrative Team Jessica Arena Cyreille Delmas Charlene Arapa Matthew Debattista Sara Ezabe Matthew Charles Zammit 2
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Media Team Nicole Borg Andrea Said Charles Mercieca Federico Barbaro Sant Daniel Galea St John
Cover Photo © Pascale Spiteri 2016
Magazine Design Pascale Spiteri Siobhan Vassallo
Lifestyle
make-up hacks rebecca vella Here are 10 beauty hacks that every makeup fanatic should know and use. 1. If you want your lipstick to last longer, just simply put a tissue over your lips, and dust them with translucent powder. The translucent powder will make your lips matte and waterproof. 2. If you want your lips to look more full and thick like Kylie’s, apply some light pencil in the centre of your lips. 3. Still struggling to achieve that perfect cat eye?! Buy a shadow shield or use a credit card to create a sharp perfect line. 4. Use white or nude eyeliner on your waterline to make your eyes look bigger and pop even more. 5. If sleeping wasn’t in your schedule for the past couple of days; first apply an orange concealer to cancel out the darkness, and then apply your concealer (2 shades lighter than your skin tone) and October 2016 |
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Review blend. 6. If your mascara is dry and flakey, you simply have to add a few drops of contact solution, and heat it up by rolling the closed tube of mascara between your hands. 7. Want to make your colourful shadows stand out even more?! Prime your eyelids with a white eyeliner or a white eye primer. 8. If you bought a foundation a few shades darker than your skin tone by accident, mix a few drops of foundation with a moisturiser to lighten it up.
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9. If you’ve run out of eyeliner, you can use mascara instead. Using an eyeliner brush, swipe a bit off the mascara wand, and use it to line the upper lashes. 10. Mix a few drops of peppermint oil with your lip gloss, to make your lips plumper. Peppermint oil makes your lips tingly which results into thicker lips.
Vacancies Review
Vacancies from konnekt Graphic Designer Our client, an internationally recognised brand, represented in 46 countries on 5 continents are currently in the process of opening their offices in Malta. They are looking to employ a Graphic Designer to join their team here in Malta. As a Graphic Designer your responsibilities will be: conceptualizing the graphic design process of a wide array of promotional material including brochures, posters and presentations, to generating websites. Other responsibilities include advertising material across all print and web channels as well as maintaining social media, to ensure that the promotional and advertising material is effective in meeting the company’s needs. The ideal candidate should be creative and results-driven and have an excellent command of Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign, 3D and video editing would also be advantageous. You also need to possess excellent communication and presentation skills, a good eye for detail as well as a high level of enthusiasm. You will be able to work under pressure within tight time-frames, be organised and possess an established portfolio of graphic design compositions. Customer Service Agent
Our client, a leading Internet Betting company is currently seeking to employ Danish or English speaking Customer Service Agents to join their Malta-based operation. October 2016 |
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Vacancies In this role you will be responsible for assisting and liaising with customers via telephone, live chat, e-mail and social media. You will be required to listen attentively to gather all relevant information in order to assess and determine possible causes and solutions whilst ensuring customer satisfaction throughout. You will need to ensure that clients’ requests are met and addressed within the Company’s framework of quality policies and standards. The role calls for a person holding a passion for customer service with excellent communication skills in English or Danish, both verbal and written. Previous experience working in a customer service set-up will be considered an asset. This role is on a shift basis between 6:30 am - 3:30 am including weekdays and weekends. If you are interested in this role, please apply directly through the KONNEKT website here or send a copy of your updated CV to careers@konnekt.com. For more vacancies check out www.theinsiter. org/vacancies.
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Features Short Stories
The First to Fall It started with an instant risk: you being the first to fall. At first, I didn’t even realise you were doing so because it was a turbulent sky in a dark May and so was my heart, in its normality, failing to navigate through the confused labyrinth of thoughts that my brain failed to control. But noticing you fall startled me – it didn’t freak me out nor scare me, but it did feed my curiosity. Although I did not know where we would end up, I still wanted to join you. So I closed my eyes and leapt into your atmosphere. I squeezed your hand as we descended through June, through the forces of exam stress, workload and last-minute studying coming our way – yet somehow, we didn’t let each other blur out of sight. We spent our time making up inside jokes that strangers would never get, and we bonded over common joys, bad puns and food – doing spontaneous and unusual things which felt so right. However, the most surprising part of it all was that free-falling felt different to
Marylin Aquilina what my physics teachers taught me at school, because nothing – not even one sabotaging thought – was acting upon me. So we shared; we laughed; we held each other; we kissed, not allowing an ounce of gravity seep into the ambience we moulded together. Being someone who experiences constant adrenaline rushes, free-falling with you was the epitome of serenity! It wasn’t an intense rollercoaster ride, nor was it a perfect dream, but I did not faint from anxiety. Instead I floated from cloud one to cloud nine in awe of you, and for the first time I felt safe within danger – I felt calm within mayhem. July came in a flash and even though we had to be apart for a while, I kept in touch with you amidst the distance. For the next 19 days, I was prepared to send paragraphs to you through satellite connections across approximately 1151 miles. And in doing so, I suddenly flew up above the stratosphere thinking of you. I sketched blueprints of what life could be with you, petrified that my feelings for you were shifting but still October 2016 |
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craving to see you again and dive into the ocean with you in hopes to sink into the beauty of your underworld. Finally the time had come to latch on to you again – but you were unresponsive. I found out that you invited gravity to part our ways. You were the first to land on the ground, and seeing your feelings drift away, I lost my balance. A few hours later I woke up to the sound of reality, finding myself below a rocky landslide. There was no one around but my own bruised heart questioning what went wrong with us. Why did such an adventure together end so soon? Why did I draw too many constellations of hope for us every night before tucking myself to sleep? Why did you leave, when you were the first person I refused myself to hold back from? When you were the one to see beyond my frizzy hair, tooth-crooked, goofy self and call me beautiful; the first to finally succeed in making a very neurotic me feel calm in spite of the chaos I thought I had stirring up in my life! Why did you decide to land first, when you were the first to fall - for me?! I’d be lying if I said that none of this mattered to me. I’d also be lying if I stated it was the easiest thing to let go of what we had because it surely wasn’t: it still isn’t – it still matters to me! However, in the presence of tears and anger and hopelessness, I can’t stop being grateful for you! Being mad at you or bitter towards your decisions is futile, for what you’ve left me with is more precious and life changing than words could describe. The time we spent together is now a reminder that sharing is beautiful and something which one should never be afraid of. I make use of the care you gave 8
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me to love myself more and spread the wings I didn’t know I have. I’m still weary to take flight but when I do, I’ll soar higher than any other eagle and break through every rainfall, every hailstorm and every hurricane coming my way. Every now and then I think about the last time I held you: my head being cradled in your chest, your heart making music to my ears, the same moment a rush of glee inhaled my lungs and painted a smile on my face. Do know that it was your beating heart which helped me breathe again after years
on end feeling suffocated in my cynical worry. Furthermore, you are still wrapped up in my thoughts, even after having to lose all that you meant to me. It’s because you are the first boy I allowed myself to truly fall for, and you’ve pushed me to grow into someone I never thought I’d be. A girl who had been locked up in my dreams since forever is now living freely since you’ve bailed her out of that wishful prison cell. And yes, she sometimes still struggles not to listen to the thoughts echoing disruption in the walls of her mind, but she now peeks out as I glance at my own reflection, her eyes gleaming faithfully for what the future has up its sleeves. She is now learning how to move forward without letting all of this weigh on her shoulders, so instead she
uses it as a pedestal to stand taller, to show everyone her strength and beauty! I had no idea that such an instant risk could unfold itself into a bitter-sweet melody, but it doesn’t make it any less worthwhile to listen to. This has been the first one I’ve composed, and you couldn’t have been a better person to create this beautiful short lived harmony with. You were the boon I had been anticipating my whole life – thank you for finally coming true!
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