How to Save £ pounds as a Student in London

I have been doing many research to save £s this holiday.

In order to do so I splurge on certain websites and promotions just to find out for myself if it works.

Topcashback

I found this website called Top Cash Back. Apparently if I click through them to the companies I usually purchase my products from such as skype, ebay, tesco, comets...etc I will get cash back from them and the cash back I've accumulated I could change my cash backs to amazon voucher's or into my paypal. *please support me!* :) click here! if you are planning to join that I may get 10£ cash back. (it is a link that verify my recommendation)

Giffgaff

I also change from orange mobile network to Giffgaff mobile network( been using it for 3 months now) . It is a very good mobile network to go with because they use O2 satellites which is the best coverage in UK ( so good that sometimes when I'm lifts and car parks, lower ground floor I get signal too...). More over with their 10£ a month Goodie Bag I receive 250mins, unlimited text and unlimited internet!

If you do plan to try, make sure you click through my link to order a sim card so that you get free 5£ credit in your sim card. It's true! my sister activated hers and we both got 5£ each in our giffgaff account. I wish somebody recommended the sim card to me that I could have got 5£ when I join but I didn't. sobs ='(

skype

I also learned that I could call 0845 numbers for free through skype-to-go option, I bought a 400mins 3.99/month. which safes me money when I have to call those big companies to solve any banking matters or bills.

Student Beans website

I got a couple of freebies from student Beans website too. Remember having my first box of Graze delivered to my door step for FREE ! Then immediately cancelling my future order so that I had their free trial offer.

Phoenixs Student Software

I also got a little crazy by buying original student software instead of downloading torrent now. So proud of myself ! I want to continue buying genuine software but so far windows 7 ultimate was the crazies I've done and could afford. So, after doing my research I found out that the software prices in Phoenixs is much better than software4students by a couple of quids. Hope I will be able to purchase adobe premium student edition in the future after saving enough £399 instead of thousands of ££s (non-student edition).

That's all for now. Hope I can share more saving tips that I have found out as a student here in London.

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Cool Little New Invention

This is the trouble with me. I love to go green and paperless, shifting from hard copy to soft copy for everything. However somehow somethings seems to make more sense when it's in your hands...or something beautiful you dont wish that it's only in your phone or your hard disc.

Hello Little Printer, available 2012 from BERG on Vimeo.

returning to the old hobby

I stop gardening in Malaysia ever since being so busy with activities and kakak yati left for indonesia.

Now because of the basil animation project I have bought a pot of basil plant from Sainsbury and it has been giving me basil for more than 3 rounds of pruning.

because of that I have been buying vegetables from pots mostly herbs and one of them is my mint plant. This plants are very peculiar especially growing them indoor. Some weeks it just looks like its going to die and is ready to be chucked in the bin but all of sudden it starts to bloom. (I'm so happy at the thought of that)

My sister has caught my strange behavior of talking to the plants these days before going to college. I think I have started to grow fond of them ;). muaks muaks.

My lecturer who found out about the basil project also contributed his germinated basil seeds from his garden to my care. So funny and kind of him. Look at how much the seedling grew!

I'm so proud of this special purple basil. It smells different from the sweet basil leafs, a stronger pungent I would say, like hacks sweet (haha). I hope the cold won't disturb it. I have been opening the windows just for them despite of my allergic to cold wind. Hopefully the sun ray helps.

the body needs to rant about something amazing!

The past one or two weeks had become something like a trial period again.

After the trip to Sunningdale, I caught the most severe cold I had since coming to London. It could be Hay-fever, since I did quite a lot of nature walks, or it could just be bugs I caught from the children (hahaha) or not enough rest, thinking too much bout work or dressing too little :P. I don’t know. However, it was a real testingtime as I seek God for strength and healing. I didn’t miss a single day of my classes and tutorials during my illness, praise the Lord!

I am constantly monitoring my punctuality and attendance. Somehow I feel a great need to change in this factor. God did help me in a way, because I was ill I slept almost immediately after arriving home, taking my medication and changing into my pyjamas. Dush! I had around 11hours of sleep, 7pm until 5am ( more cough syrup and toilet runs in between.) that caused me to leave my house 7am an hour earlier for my class, which starts at 9am... and that was for two days! didn't count the first day where I fought and won the battle to go for a half day class. Amazingly, in the midst of this illness, he thought me to be a good student. Perhaps this trial was really to help me not to boast and continue to be faithful in Him. :D He supplies all strength.

I did something crazy on face book today. One of the results of my exploration has caused me to post this here. This was a blog post from a sister whom I did not know was in Christ as well. It is really touching but in a way funny to me.

A RELUCTANT CONVERT

October 13th, 2010 § 1 Comment

“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”

- C.S. Lewis

How ever far we try to run, one day we’ll have to kneel in acknowledgment of God because everything simply points to that. It all comes back to Him in the end.

I really like the way C.S. Lewis spoken about himself as the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England when that night he knelt and prayed, admitting that God was God. Couldn't help but to laugh for a couple of seconds as it does make me ponder if this was me as well...

Friend

friend

   [frend] Show IPA

–noun

1.

a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.

2.

a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter: friends ofthe Boston Symphony.

3.

a person who is on good terms with another; a person whois not hostile: Who goes there? Friend or foe?

4.

a member of the same nation, party, etc.

5.

( initial capital letter ) a member of the Religious Society offriends; a Quaker.

Excuse my finding to search definitions of the word 'friend'. The word 'friend' has been unconsciously coined into my vocabulary since a child. Many may have a recognition our parents telling us "go, go play with some of your friends" or "say hi to your friend who and who" when we were a little child.

A 'friend' I often didn't see the pain of migrating, the thought of loosing friends. I mean with the internet we could chat with anyone over online messengers such as skype or MSN. We could even stay in touch with social networks, facebook etc. Why worry?

Another reason I wanted to bring the attention of 'friend' to myself was having thousands of friends in Facebook. I wonder what is the logic behind thousand of friends when I only have a pair of hands, eyes, ears and only 1 mouth. Do people these days have quality friends? I strongly suggest that Facebook could help us not misused our terms. I can understand that we add people as our friends for the convenient of connection, to keep in touch with people we met over parties or social events. However, it makes the word 'friend' so vague.

In my humble experience, a friend does act as a supporter or assistance in my life. A friend is indeed attached through feelings of affection and personal regard. So in my deepest gratitude to those who have supported me through thick and thin. A big thank you. I wish there would be a simplest way of repayment which is to be a good friend in return but unfortunately most of the time I could not do. Only I can trust is be blessed! :0)

Autumn Frenzy in 2010

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