Thursday, May 20, 2010

Exam Naps


Hello to all my readers!
Yes, indeed it has been a long time since I have last blogged. My humble apologies, I have chosen to write about something which I have been fascinated by, Power Napping.

As boring as it may sound, power napping has proven to be quite successful and I can vouch for it as a trialed and tested testimony. With exams lingering in the air, I haven’t managed to get much sleep or as much as I regularly do. This has resulted in me being really tired and lacking productivity as a further result. So after realizing this was an epic problem, I decided to do some research and thus came across power napping.
Power napping often has a negative perception about it. It is often assumed that it will not work for people so they chose to ignore the great potentials which it
contains.

So how does it work you ask?

Well, Power napping is a short nap, of 20-30 minutes. It is imperative that one does not sleep beyond that else disaster could be guaranteed. To ensure this I highly recommend that you get someone to wake you up or set an alarm that will.

•At first you will find it difficult to wake up and might even feel drowsy for the first 5 minutes however, a good shower or rinse of the face can change this phase faster. You will be amazed by the results at how fresh you feel as well as your mind.

•Some things to remember when trying this out..

•You may not fall asleep like when you are deep sleeping, it takes practice to eventually fall asleep. This however does not matter, keep your eyes closed and try to encourage deep breathing.

•Try power napping in a bed and make the room as dark as possible, else wear a blindfold to simulate the darkness.
•Avoid caffeine. It will keep you up.


I highly recommend this to the youth studying during exams; it will help and will result in productivity. As the cliché adverts would say, “Go on try it, if it worked for me, it will work for you”.

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Human Rights Day


Today marks an important day in the history of South Africa.


On your desk calendar at work or in your diary it probably says "Human Rights Day". What does this actually mean and what actually happened on this day? Well today , Fifty years back, the oppressed people under the Apartheid regime decided to rise up against Government.


How you may ask? During Apartheid in South Africa non-white people who were living in and around towns and cities were permitted to carry a pass on them. This was a law and if one was caught without a "pass" one would be arrested or evicted out of the city.

So, people decided to go to the police stations with their pass and ask to be arrested. The ideology was that the prisons would be so full that the system would actually result in chaos. One Hundred and eighty people were injured in a protest at Sharpville-Gauteng and an estimate of sixty-seven people killed. Here are some of the rights these people were fighting for and are included in our "Bill of rights".
  • Equality (Section 9)
  • Human dignity (Section 10)
  • Freedom of expression (Section 16)
  • Assembly, demonstration, picket and petition (Section 17)
  • Freedom of association (Section 18) and
  • Freedom of movement and residence (Section 21).


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