Note from Tine: Today’s guest post is by Ling who blogs at The Best Beauty Blog. I blogged a gentle reminder on making an appointment for a pap smear last year during the Cervical Cancer Awareness Week (if you haven’t made the appointment already, stop reading this, pick up the phone and do it NOW). This is very important for women, especially if you’re sexually active. What I didn’t know is that there are some things that you can do to prepare yourself for pap smears. I can’t think of a better person to tell you about than Ling. I wish I knew all these earlier; they would have made my pap smear appointments more comfortable and less awkward.

Enjoy!

© Medicare Local Central Adelaide and Hills

There are 3 incidences where women will cross their legs :-

1. After hearing a traumatic childbirth story { here’s mine! }
2. When they are pissed off and they’re not afraid to show it { note : arms will be folded too for maximum effect! }
3. When they’re sitting in the waiting room awaiting their turn for a pap smear

Love Hate them or hate them, pap smears are vital in early detection of cervical cancer.

All sexually activated (i.e. who have started having sex) women aged between 18 and 70 years should have a pap smear every 2 years.

Here are 6 things you should do to prepare you for a pap smear :-

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Note from Tine: As most of you already know, I’m currently away from home (who’d have thought? Eh? Eh? 😛 ). This week, I have a few guest contributors who will be sharing their insights with you regarding beauty, health and fashion. These are bloggers and friends whom I highly respect and I’m sure you’ll enjoy their posts as much as I do.

Without further ado, I’d like to introduce my first guest to BA. She needs no introduction because she’s probably talked to death here now. Welcome LeGeeque!

Sorry to interrupt the regular program you have with Tine. You’re stuck with the geek today! I’m passionate about all things so many things in the world, I wouldn’t know where to start! I love everything pretty, pretty-smelling, technology, leathers, shoes, silks, UI/UX techniques (I devise my own usability testing methodology for kicks and I subject my poor users to them, mwahhahahah), social media platforms and trends, coffees, fine wines, (Melburnian through and through yo) and finally, clean, slick Java codes make my heart flutter with excitement. Forget a cute guy. Give me a well-written, properly-commented chunk of codes, I’d marry the codes.

Thankfully for all of us, I’m not here to discuss the merits of well-written codes. I’m here to tell you this amazing serum I’ve discovered.

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© Sylwia Bartyzel

We’ve come to the final part of our week of the Travel Mini Series! I hope you’ve enjoyed the series as much as I’ve had writing it. Today, I’d like to share with you my top apps and tools for planning my travels.

I used to use Springpad heavily for planning my holidays and travels and I was devastated when they shut down. Unlike many of you who are fans of Evernote, I’m not. I couldn’t get it to work as well as Springpad because I don’t find it visual enough. Plus the thing that shits me the most is that in order to use the service offline, I have to subscribe to its premium service. With Springpad, I could access my contents offline.

Anyway, this isn’t a rant about the loss of Springpad or my dislike for Evernote. Since I had to let Springpad go, I had to search for other tools to allow me to plan my travels and holidays. After much searching, trials and errors, wasted money on apps that turned out to be duds, I finally found the ones that worked for me well.

Amongst these are also apps and websites that I’ve used for the last 5 years for my travel-planning. These have served me very well and if you’re looking for apps or tools to help you with your travel-planning, I hope these tools work for you as well as they did for me.

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