Before I start my topic today, just want to play a small game with you: Is your smartphone your slave or your master? Are you.....
* Constantly checking your smart phone device for emails, whatsapps, facebook news feed etc.
* Looking at your phone first thing in the morning or last thing at night.
* Feeling naked or that something is missing if you left your phone at home one day by mistake.
* Spending hours in a coffee shop or some other establishment that has wifi and losing complete track of time and of reality.
* Having a panic attack if your phone has 20% battery or less.
Having all of the symptoms above? Haha I believe everyone must be smiling to themselves now. We must all admit that we live in times where smart phones and tablets have us too preoccupied to stop and appreciate life's small joys. While the speed of life increases, we complain there is less and less time to enjoy the moment that we are in.
But I am sure you have heard of the #100happydays challenge! If you see your friends crazily spamming you with photos on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter everyday - you know they took up this challenge. It challenges participants to pause just once a day and snap a photo of something that makes them happy. Participants then share their daily delights on social medias in order to spread the joy and hopefully make another person happy, if just for a moment.
Basically I achieved all of them! ......except the last one hahaha. *failed*
Dmitry Golubnichy, the founder of this challenge says, "I believe that being happy is a choice and everyone can be happy just by appreciating little things in life one has instead of engaging in the constant chase for ever rising internal & external expectations, which leaves no time for being happy."
How?
There are three ways to get involved in the challenge:
1. If you're an Instagram, Facebook or Twitter user with no problem letting everyone know you're playing the game, you simply post your gleeful pic along with the hashtag #100happydays.
2. If instead you want to post the pics but aren't keen on telling eveyone why, you may come up with your own hashtag to share your pictures with and let the organizers know that it's code for the challenge to limit publicity.
3. Finally, you can even just email them your pictures.
Just to share with you some of My Happy Moments! #eunicehappydiary
My first happy day! #day1
Met up with an old friend and her bf and we went iceskating at Sunway.
It was my first time and I laughed so hard, despite falling for so many times!
#day20
Happy time with the horsiee!
#day21
Broga Hill - checked!
#day22
CNY visiting with my uni mates!
#day24
A small good deed. :)
#day26
Friend's little thought brighten up my day!
#day31
A simple yet satisfying meal.
#day34
White Coat Ceremony 2014
''I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.'' - The Hippocratic Oath
#day37
''Let It Go''
After nearly 2 months of practice, my beloved sign language team and I!
#day39
.....Or even an icecream in a hot afternoon can cheer me up!
#day42
Be grateful for friend who is willing to take unglam selfie with you hahahaha.
#day50
Attended an orchestral concert for the first time.
#day49
Another first time!
First time being a runway model for university talent show.
''20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.''
#day69
Not forgetting the sisters who complete my life.
Or the days that you get to dress up nicely, and friends who can take nice #ootd photos....
#day19
#day71
Love the place? Read my dining experience
here for more beautiful shots!
#day79
#day82
Case based learning presentation.
Relief and satisfaction are the two words I could think of to sum up the presentation.
Definitely a good learning experience.
#day86
Chilling in a cafe.
#day95
Hahaha. Okay.
Even during the 2 weeks of study week, I managed to post some random stuffs to make myself happy.
Be it an inspiring quote or my everyday midnight snacks (Oh no did I just say everyday?)
For more of my happy moments, you can follow me on my Instagram
@eunicethammm or search for my customised hashtag #eunicehappydiary. Hehe.
In fact, people have been telling me that I look happier than before and that I seem to have gotten my life together. I smile and tell them, yes I am.
I am at the happiest I can be at this moment. I have a great & supportive family, friends are there for me when I need them. I am studying a course that I really love and passionate about, and most important of all, I am in good health. Lots of exciting plans for my future and I know I am on the right path towards my dream. I wake up everyday looking forward to what's gonna happen on that day. What is there not to be happy about? Life is good!
Be grateful!
Interestingly, the simple sounding experiment has a failure rate of 71 percent. *Feeling proud to be the minority hahaha* Most of those who give up say they lack the time to get involved. 'These people simply did not have time to be happy, say the organizers. 'Do you?'
So, can you be happy for 100 days in a row? Take up the #100happydays challenge and spread the happiness! Share your stories with me and stand a chance to win a mysterious gift prepared by me, one and only in this world! :)
3. Comment below this post by completing this sentence: ''Happiness is.......'' and provide me with your email address! (so that I can contact you if you are the winner!)
Looking forward to everyone's definition of happiness! :)
I love my collage of 100 happy moments! Do you?
Have a good day!
xoxo, Eunice.
