My alarm rudely awakens two hours later.  I grudgingly make my way to the bathroom, to prepare for another day.  My dad takes my brother and me to school then hurriedly leaves to his job as a hotel repairman.   After school, he takes us home.  With barely five minutes to rest, he changes his clothes and rushes out the door to his second job.  We exchange short goodbyes as he hurries to his second job at the hospital.

            I hear the familiar slam of my mom’s car door.  She walks in and plasters a smile onto her face even though I can clearly see the exhaustion hidden in her eyes.  Even though she just finished her 14-hour workday as an assembler at Balboa Instruments, she immediately starts to cook dinner and clean the house.  Afterwards, she goes to take a shower, the only time she has to rest. 

            At 11, my dad comes home.  His keys jingle as he fumbles in the dark, attempting to open the door.  I often see him ravenously gobbling his dinner.  Later, he is usually slumped in a kitchen chair, his eyes half-closed.  At moments like these, I begin to see how difficult his life is and appreciate how hard he works for our family.

                        “No matter what, you must study hard so you can go to college and earn a good living.  We don’t want you to have to live the way we do.”  My parents have repeated this to me ever since I was young.  Over the years, I have begun to realize that they are pushing me to study for my own good.  What I had deemed a pointless chore was actually loving encouragement, an attempt to help me escape my parents’ fate.  As immigrants from Vietnam, my parents did not have the opportunity to obtain college degrees.  I have realized that education is an essential component of success and hope to be able to live the successful, comfortable life they always pictured for me.

 I can’t pinpoint just one moment in my life that my parents have made sacrifices for me.   Even as I’m writing this, they are still doing all they can to ensure that I will have a bright future. With both my parents coming home late in the evening, I never really get to spend much time with them.  This is an unfortunate, but unchangeable aspect of my life. 

I have grown up and realized that life is full of harsh realities.  However, I’ve also realized that, with the diligence and persistence that I learned from my parents, I have the power to succeed.

Aziz Ansari (born February 23, 1983) is an American actor, writer, and stand-up comedian. He currently stars as Tom Haverford on the NBC show Parks and Recreation.

Ansari began his career performing standup comedy in New York City during the summer of 2001 while attending New York University. In 2007, he created and starred in the critically acclaimed MTV sketch comedy show Human Giant, which ran for two seasons. This led to acting roles in feature films including Funny People, I Love You, Man, and Observe and Report. In addition to his acting work, Ansari has continued to work as a standup comedian. He released his debut CD/DVD, entitled Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening’, in January 2010 on Comedy Central Records, and still tours nationally between acting commitments. In June 2010, he hosted the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. His next release is 30 Minutes or Less, co-starring Jesse Eisenberg, Nick Swardson and Danny McBride.

When can we find the time to Do the Fun Stuff:

1. Wake up 20 minutes early and spend time doing what you want to do. I like to write several times per day. When I can write for 10 minutes three times per day, I can have projects done on a regular basis.
2. Do what you love while you eat lunch. Brainstorm, plan, work out the details in the time it takes you to eat a meal.
3. At night after everyone else goes to bed. I get some of that planning and detail work done when the house is quiet and I can actually think for a change.

Why ten minutes?

1. It does not take long. You can get on with your day.
2. Sometimes that is all it takes to start a longer session. If you get on a roll and keep going, you will get even more done.
3. You force yourself to focus on what you are doing. There is no time to wonder off and forget what you were doing.

Do it everyday. Make it a habit. Make sure you do something everyday or you will skip your 10 minutes and you will start to loose great creative time.

Not infrequently and then trapped on the assumption that sex is a satisfactory quality or long lasting and high enough intensity. When in fact, old or not sex was not necessarily to be a measure or indicator of partner satisfaction in sex.

Questions about how long the ideal time to have sex is a debate. Regarding this one, experts in the United States revealed an interesting finding. According to the results of their research, the best sex should last between seven to 13 minutes, and even sex for three minutes was enough to be categorized.

The experts are taking those conclusions after holding a study of the origin pertisipan U.S. and Canada are taken randomly. This is the first research to reveal what is believed to experts about the ideal time in penetrative sex. This research is also intended to help rectify this assumption that many couples during sex should last long.

Published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine March 5, 2008, research revealed that in the eyes of participants, sex is ideal and the most satisfying last between seven to 13 minutes.

Also disclosed, intimate relationship that lasted for three to seven minutes of sex considered as sufficient. While less than three minutes is considered too short and categorized more than 13 minutes too long.

From the research also revealed the fact that the participants – especially Americans – expect penetrative sex to take place within 15 to 20 minutes, despite the fact that intimate relationship that lasted half the time.

Lead researcher Dr Eric Corty from the Behrend College in Pennsylvania, explains that this phenomenon indicates the maturity of the woman’s male partner after experiencing a ‘disappointment’ and ‘dissatisfaction’.

• In the fantasy model of male sexuality, a man described as having a large penis, erections are stronger and can sustain sexual activity all night, ° Dr Corty wrote.

¨ Apparently, many men and women still held fantasy. The results of this research, by providing a realistic model rather than fantasy, it is useful to treat patients with sexual dysfunction. With the publication of a wider, this result can also be used to prevent sexual dysfunction,

So I no longer dream of a successful game of love that pain all night! If you want to take into consideration what experts say, the clock on the bedside table and sits down to 7.5 and / or put you 13 minutes to ring. The important thing is not to exceed this time, because you risk that you qualify couples parties too long “to sex.

But I wonder who is counting their sex? Maybe just the brilliant scientists!

Fine
This is the word a woman uses at the end of any argument in which she
feels she is right about but needs to shut you up. Never use “fine” to
describe how a woman looks. This will cause you to have one of those
arguments.

Five Minutes
This is really half an hour. It is equivalent to the same “five minutes”
that a football game is going to last before you take out the garbage.

Nothing
This really means, “You’d never understand.” “Nothing” is usually
accompanied by a woman’s desire to turn you inside out, upside-down, and
backwards. “Nothing” is often said prior to an argument that will last
“Five Minutes” and will end with the word “Fine.”

Go Ahead (with normal eyebrows) 

This means, “I give up” or “do what you want because I don’t care.” You
will get the “Go Ahead” with raised eyebrows in just a few minutes,
followed by “Nothing” and “Fine” and she will talk to you in about “Five
Minutes” when she cools off.

That’s Okay

This is one of the most dangerous statements a woman can say to a man.
“That’s Okay,” means that she wants to think long and hard before paying
you retributions for whatever it is that you have done. “That’s Okay” is
often used with the word “Fine” and used in conjunction with the raised
Eyebrow “Go Ahead.” At some point in the near future when she has plotted
and planned, you are going to be in some mighty big trouble.

Please Do
This is not a statement, it is an offer. A woman is giving you the chance to
come up with whatever excuse or reason you have for doing whatever it is
that you have done. You have a fair chance to tell the truth, so be careful
and you shouldn’t get a “That’s Okay.”

Thanks a lot
This is much different than “Thanks.” A woman will say, “Thanks a lot”
when she is really ticked off at you. It signifies that you have hurt her in
some callous way, and will be followed by the “Loud Sigh.” Be careful not
to ask what is wrong after the “Loud Sigh,” as she will only tell you
“Nothing.” 

When you think about it we spend an awful amount of time waiting for things, whether it is waiting for the train, waiting for a page to load, waiting on hold, waiting in a queue. Everyday there is a chance that you have been waiting for something.

Wouldn’t it be good if we never have to wait? Then we could reclaim those few precious minutes of our lives that we never get back! Surely with all the technology around there must be a way of cutting out the waiting times, well I don’t want to disappoint you so let me tell you some ways to save yourself a little bit of time.

Gethuman.com

This is a genius website that will help you spend less time selecting option 1 – 1000 on the endless supply of phone menu’s that we have to go through whenever we call a company. Just search the company you want and which country it is in and hopefully they will have what you are looking for! It will tell you the exact buttons to push to get through to a person so that you don’t have to get confused between all the options. Unfortunately you may still have to spend some time waiting to speak to a human, but at least you would have saved time choosing options.

Transport updates

If you are using public transport then make sure before you leave the house to check the website to see if there are any delays, therefore you will know if you are going to have extra time. Also check traffic report websites, this way you can decide to go a different way if you think you are going to be stuck waiting.

Choose less popular restaurants.

As we all know its the popular ones that you need to wait for your table in, unless you have the pre-sight to book ahead. So why not try some other restaurants? You will save waiting time and might even find a new favourite.

Make your own lunch.

Fed up with spending half your lunch break waiting in a queue for food, then make your own, saves time and money!

Shop online!

How big do you think the queues are right now, how big were they before Christmas?  How much easier it would be if we could just order things and have them delivered. Oh yeah, we can! Wouldn’t it be even better if we could order it gift-wrapped and then we wouldn’t have to do it. Oh yeah, on a lot of sites you can!

If you have enough money ….

Hire a private jet! You wont have to wait in line with people at the airport as you will be the only one on the flight! Also if you have the money a private helicopter will get you to places faster than a car, you just may need to find a place to land, could be the same as looking for a space in a car park!

Above all make up your mind to have a max time that you will wait, decide that you will not spend more than X amount of minutes before leaving. So if that means that friend who is always late will have to track you down, so what, she wasted your time, waste some of hers!

Decide today that you are going to start creating more free time by doing less waiting, and enjoy your free time!

What I do is when I have work to do at home is finish half of it, take a 20 minute break, talk to anyone around, friends… eat a donut, maybe take a little walk and then get back to work. If you sit in one place for too long you’re more likely to become upset and well, your bottom might start hurting.

Another really good way is to say to yourself, give yourself a reasonable amount of time and say, I’m going to finish my work by 7’o clock, maybe an hour to do it all and then you have a whole night on your hand. Sounds great? Well it has to be done with concentration, you can’t just loosen up and waste by thinking about that you’re going to do in that free night while you’re still working till 7. You have to be concentrated and when your work is finished, order some pizza and watch T.V, or something healthy as well, like nachos covered in cheese, onions, bits of potato salad, salsa, and maybe some hot peppers depending on your tasting style.