Rules to maintain skin beautiful

by: Nia Amira Najwa binti Azmi

1. The Golden Rule To Maintain Skin Beautiful

Do: Ensure you generally remove your makeup previously hitting the sheets. The skin needs to breath overnight. Also, makeup keeps that, as abandoning it on medium-term obstructs the pores which may cause imperfections as well as clogged pores and it will cause your beautiful skin.Try not to have a makeup remover? Simply put some olive oil on a cotton cushion and tenderly back rub the oil onto your face to dispose of the makeup and dirt. Face to get rid of the makeup and dirt. It's golden rule to get and Maintain Beautiful and Glowing skin.

Try not to: Forget that exfoliation is indispensable. At least once or twice a week, exfoliate your skin to remove the layer of dead skin, sure to leave you with a more healthy glow and brighter skin. You can also apply a paste of walnut in powder form with yogurt to exfoliate your skin, as the antioxidants present in walnuts help remove dirt and promote radiant skin.

How to maintain skin beautiful?

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-Never forget to exfoliate your skin and remove the makeup before calling it a night.

2. Sun Effects on Healthy and Glowing Skin

Do: Apply sunscreen with SPF of at least 15 that blocks both UVA and UVB rays to stay the healthy skin and beautiful glowing looking skin. Since a lifetime of sun effect raise can cause wrinkles, age spots and other skin issues, you have to protect your skin from the sun effects rays. Sun Effects on Healthy and Glowing Skin

Try not to: Skip the sunscreen, whether it's cloudy or cold outside (no excuses). If you’re heading to a beach or around reflective surfaces like snow or ice, lather your skin up with some more sunscreen with SPF of at least 30.

How to maintain healthy and glowing skin?

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-Sunscreen with SPF of at least 15 that blocks both UVA and UVB rays.

3. Healthy Skin with Healthy Food

Do: Keep a note of what you put on your plate. Eat healthy foods with antioxidants to get glowing skin and healthy skin.Eat organic Foods.Eat fresh fruits, greens, sufficient protein and vitamins. A diet rich in vitamin C and low in fats and sugar promotes radiant skin. Consider a low-sugar diet, which can keep insulin levels down, allowing cells to maintain a healthy balance.

Try not to: Eat spicy and fermented foods, salt, citrus fruits, fried food. Instead favour blander foods such as rice, oatmeal and applesauce.

How to maintain the healthy skin and healthy food?

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-Fresh fruits and greens is what healthy skin needs.

4. Sweat It Out for Glowing And Youthfulness

Do: Exercise routinely. Running, jogging and yoga will give your body the important blood flow, and furthermore quicken the purging procedure of your whole body. You will see a sparkle all over subsequent to working out. Hustling against time? Simply take an energetic stroll around the square. 

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Gayle Forman, The Writer Of I Have Lost My Way

 by: Hanis Sophia 

 

Gayle Forman’s first YA novel in three years did not come easily. “I started and crashed on seven different projects,” she said. “It wasn’t that I didn’t have any ideas, it was just that everything I wrote was crap.”

Keep in mind that Forman’s standards for her own work may be pretty high. Best known for If I Stay (Dutton, 2009), which was adapted for a 2014 film starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Forman has more than 10 million books in print. 

Filled with doubt, however, she decided to confront her crisis head-on by writing a novel about being wracked by doubt. The result is I Have Lost My Way (Viking, Mar.), a story about three teens, each dealing with personal losses that have left them feeling completely unarmored. Freya, a singer on the cusp of a big breakout, has lost her father and her voice. Harun has lost the boy he loves. Nathaniel has lost everything. A freak accident in New York City’s Central Park brings them together.

Freya’s character is inspired by Forman’s own family. Like Freya, one of Forman’s daughters is of Ethiopian descent. While Forman’s daughter is adopted, Freya’s parents have split, her father returning to Addis Ababa, where he makes promises to visit that he doesn’t keep. Because she is a singer and a songwriter, Freya channels her sadness about this into song, which Forman, who admits to being “non-musical,” felt a compelling need to hear out loud. Luckily, her best friend is YA novelist Libba Bray, whose side hustle is lead singer of the band Tiger Beat.

“I’ve had songs in my books before but there was something about this one that I really wanted to hear it. So I called Libba, who is crazy busy, and asked her what was possible,” Forman said. “Could we make it into a real song?”

Forman initially thought Bray would do the vocals but instead they recruited Sasha Abner, a 13-year-old friend of Forman’s oldest daughter, Willa. Forman had first heard Abner sing when she and Willa attended Abner’s bat mitzvah. “Like Freya,” Forman said, “she was born singing.” She sent Abner a copy of the book, and the lyrics of an Ethiopian lullaby that forms the song’s refrain. Bray followed up to do the arrangement, Facetiming with Abner before they met in the studio so she could make sure the song was in the correct key.

Abner, an uncommonly poised eighth grader, said it was the coolest experience of her life, amplified by how much affinity she felt for Freya’s character.

“It’s a little uncanny how very similar my story is to Freya’s,” said Abner. “The Little White Dress is about her relationship with her father, who she feels like she has lost. I lost my father to cancer at age nine so I really identified with what she was feeling. It felt true to me what she was singing about.”

The song, which can be heard here, turned out so well that it inspired another idea. Forman is recruiting teen artists and performers to appear on tour with her, soliciting artwork based on quotes from the book, asking aspiring actors and actresses to read dramatic passages, or to sing Freya’s songs. The tour kicks off in New York City on March 27—daughter Willa has been drafted to emcee the event—and makes stops in Grand Rapids, Mich., Salt Lake City, San Diego, and Philadelphia. Interested teens can register here to perform or make an artistic contribution

“The YouTube/Instagram generation really wants to be part of the show,” Forman said. “Book tours can be really boring. Sometimes the people who turn out are adults who are interested in writing or publishing. But for the teens who turn out, this is a way they can participate.”

 

 

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The Biggest Kpop Tours of All Time

 Written by Nanthini Suresh

All Kpop concerts and tours have been canceled due to COVID-19. This means Kpop fans will not get to see their favorite Kpop groups live for quite some time. This includes fan “meet and greet” events. Fans can now only support their favorite Kpop groups via online or streaming channels. We are sure Kpop concerts and tours will come back and will be stronger than ever before. However, during this time Kpop entertainment companies will need to get creative to keep Kpop fans engaged. Once Kpop moves over to virtual tours, millions of fans from around the world will be putting on their VR headsets to see their favorite groups perform. Times are changing and the Kpop industry will change as well.  For now, let us look back at some of the biggest Kpop tours of all time from the highest grossing concert and attendees.

1.       Big Bang – Made World Tour

Big Bang’s biggest tour of all time was the Made World Tour is also the biggest Kpop Tour of all time. This was their 2nd worldwide concert. The tour began in April 2015 and finished in March 2016. The tour visited an astonishing 15 countries including China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Mexico, and the United States just to name a few. In total, the tour was attended by over 1.5 million fans. They did 66 shows which is still a record for the most shows by a Kpop group during a tour

2.       BTS – World Tour: Love Yourself 

The World Tour: Love Yourself by BTS is one of the biggest Kpop tours of all time. It was the 3rd worldwide tour by BTS and promoted their Love Yourself series. The tour began in August of 2018 and visited 12 countries such as South Korea, Japan, United States, Canada, UK, France, Netherlands, Germany, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand. The tour ended less than a year later in April of 2019. When they performed in the UK, they were able to sell out Wembley Stadium two times (120,000 tickets sold). They were able to do 42 shows and brought in over 1 million fans. The tour generated over $71 million dollars in ticket sales. This tour does not include the Speak Yourself Tour, if it was it would be the #1 biggest Kpop tour of all time. 

3.    Big Bang – 0.TO.10 Tour

0.TO.10 was the 10th concert tour by Big Bang and it celebrated their 10th anniversary. The tour included visits to Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong. The tour started in July 2016 and lasted until January 2017. They held 24 concerts in 6 cities and sold over 1.1 million tickets.

4.    TVXQ – “Begin Again” Tour 

This was TVXQ’s biggest tour of all time. The tour began in November 2017 and lasted until January of 2018. They were able to bring in over 1 million fans from their 20 shows. 

5.     TVXQ – “Time” Tour

This was TVXQ’s 2nd biggest tour. It was for their 6th album “Time”. The tour took place in Japan and took place in 5 major concert domes. This included the Nissan Stadium which is Japan’s largest seated stadium. They did 18 shows and sold over 890,000 tickets.

6.     Big Bang – “Alive” Tour 

The 5th concert tour by Big Bang was their 3rd biggest. The Alive Tour spanned 4 continents (Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. The tour started in March of 2012 and finished in January of 2013. During this time they performed in 48 shows with 41 taking place in Asia. The tour sold over 800,000 tickets and played a major role in bringing Big Bang to the global audience.

7.    Big Bang – Japan Dome Tour

The Japan Dome Tour was the 4th concert tour by Big Bang in Japan. The tour went to Japan’s six major concert domes. This tour started in November of 2013 and finished in January of 2014. The tour was only held in Japan and involved 16 shows. Big Bang was able to sell over 770,000 tickets for this massive tour. 

8.   Big Bang – “Last Dance” Tour 

The “Last Dance” Tour was the 6th concert tour in Japan by Big Bang. The tour started in November of 2017 and lasted until December 31, 2017. The final concert was held in Seoul. This tour did not have T.O.P. who was doing his mandatory military service which started in 2017. Despite this, the tour was able to bring in over 760,000 fans during their 16 show tour.

9.   TVXQ – “With” Tour

The “With” Tour was one of the biggest tours in Japan. It was to support their 8th Japanese studio album With. It was also to celebrate TVXQ’s 10th anniversary in Japan. The tour went from February of 2015 to April of 2015. They were able to bring over 750,000 fans in only 16 shows in Japan. The tour was a huge success because fans knew that this would be their last tour before going into their mandatory military service

 10.   EXO – EXO Planet 2 

The largest tour by EXO was from March 2015 to March 2016. It was a year-long tour that saw them perform in 12 countries and in 25 cities. These cities included 20 in Asia and 5 in the United States. The tour set a world record by selling out all 5 days in less than a second. The tour saw them perform their three famous albums Exodus, Love Me Right, and Sing for You. In total, the tour brought in over 740,000 fans. In addition, EXO concerts showcase some of the best Kpop fandom lightstick shows of all time. 

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Do You Think A Degree Decides Your Life?

 

By: Megat Harris Iskandar

 

Logically, what do you all think that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg have in common with each other? Ok, aside from the fact that they are all rich entrepreneurs? Actually, they are all dropouts in college. Most people will also know this, as they are usually referred to as demonstrating that we don’t really need to be a degree holder to be successful in life.

Generaly not everyone leaving school becomes a billionaire and you should not have to be on par with these people in order that they’re being treated as “successful.” I believe, however that degrees are not essential to the overall success.

First and foremost, there are professions in which you don’t even need university degrees. Currently, having a degree would still never ensure success. For instance, you choose to be an actor or an athlete with ability and talent not your level of education.   Leonardo DiCaprio has just graduated high school, but he ultimately wins an Oscar anyway. Also, perfect 10 Nadia Comaneci still has nothing to do with her degree in the Olympic Gymnastics Competition, but she has everything to do with her skill and her limitless hours of practices.

The current era, however, brought several new jobs with no higher education. Although ten years ago, people never realised that “vlogging”, making videos and uploading them online would be an avenue for their potential career. Most vloggers are now paying for the bills they post content on YouTube alone. Honestly, this degree doesn’t have any sort of impact on your renown. 

I realize that getting a degree would not contribute to a promising career as someone who recently applied for internship. Some employers place higher value for experience which may include volunteering, job experience or else the basic experience of life. I’m pretty much sure that people can do well even without a degree but with a combination of talent, hard work and luck.

As a conclusion, I personally believe that they’re definitely going to have varying degrees of achievement, but the same can be claimed for individuals who have graduated from university.

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