Forty-nine today! Other than celebrating by doing all the nationalistic things like eating, shopping, and movie-watching, brainstorming for 50th celebration ideas, indulging in a staycation, it’s also a good time to think about the ways in which you can rebalance your work and life.
Here are 4 ideas to get you started:
1. Make use of technology
Smart phones and tablets aren’t just for surfing the net, checking email and facebook, messaging, reading, and playing games. They’re also good platforms for helping us keep diaries about how much we sleep, whether we’re getting our daily recommended allowance of vitamins and fruits and veggies, and for tracking our thoughts and emotions. Apple recommends these apps to help us stay fit and maintain healthy eating, while Google has a list of 10 free health and fitness apps. And these mental health apps (mostly free) come highly recommended by PsychCentral.
2. Use household shortcuts
There are ways to get the house cleaned without spending the whole weekend on it. Unless you enjoy it, that is. If not, these life hack websites have good solutions for tidying, cooking, and other household chores. And here’s a few more.
3. Get a hobby
One way to ensure guarantee that you get off work on time is to have a hobby. There is research evidence to support it: Employees with a creative hobby are more productive at work than peers without one. Try light painting (night photography) with the fireworks on display this Saturday at the Esplanade or Clifford Pier: Nat Geo has useful tips. Here’s a list of useful websites for those relocating to Singapore, and some recreation resources for those looking for something different. Secret Singapore also has ideas for those wanting to try something really new.
4. Spend time with family and friends
Out of ideas of what to do on the weekend? Tired of meeting friends over brunch and high tea? Try an activity instead. There’s lots going on in the coming months!
- Creative horticulture is on display this month at the Singapore Garden Festival.
- Be a culture vulture and roam the streets during the Singapore Night Festival.
- Join in the mid-autumn festivities in Chinatown (there’s a late night walk too).
- Pack your picnic for the International Kite Festival at the end of the month.
- Tackle your claustrophobia at Comex (anything for a good laptop deal!).
- Sentosa showcases an international buskers festival in early September.
- while F1 races light up the city area over a mid-September weekend.
- Marina Bay Sands plays host to the World Architecture Festival in early October.
- The mid-October da:ns festival celebrates traditional and contemporary dance.
- Walk off your food tasting at the Asia Pacific Food Expo in late November.
- And technies can get ready to jostle for good deals at SITEX in November.
