Episode description
Have you ever missed the bus, arrived late in a meeting or even missed the chance to submit your project on it's deadline because you woke up late?
For me, I experienced all of those from highschool until I started working. And to tell you, it's really frustrating waking up not at the exact hour you are expecting yourself to be awake. I even blame my alarm all the time for not ringing loudly and not doing its job to wake me up but my mom slapped me with the truth that it's me whose the problem not my alarm.
She said that the entire neighborhood was awaken by my alarm and yet I'm still sleeping safe and sound(she's always exaggerating the story). She even said that I woke up but immediately hit the snooze button. But I promise, I can't remember doing that.
So I said. I need to find the highest quality alarm app that can wake me up as if my house is on fire. So I came across ALARMY. Sounds intersting right. As what I mentioned before, I am an aspiring soldier and this one was very catchy for me.
So let me explain how it works. This app is known as "The Most Annoying App to Get You Out of Bed in the Morning". Why?
It's because, it will never stop ringing until you do the challenge that you have chosen or set the night before you go to sleep. It has a variety of challenges that you will enjoy. Some of them are answering mathematical problems, doing an activity like singing or saying something, and even taking a picture of an object.
I remember trying this app when I was working in the night shift at Fitslanguage. I usually set this alarm to wake myself up early in the morning since I tend to sleep in the office after my shift at 5:00 am. But... here's the crazy thing. I chose the challenge of taking a picture and I chose the picture of the sticker under the tables that we have in the other room of the academy.
One morning, my alarm rung. It was so loud. By the way, I forgot to tell you that the only way to stop it is to do the challenge. Even if you turn off your phone or reduce the volume the sound will still be the same. Same volume and same noise.
So going back to the story, I have to run to the other room as fast as I could because the other teachers were still sleeping. Unfortunately, the room is locked every morning so I have to go back to get the key. And unluckily, I have 25 keys to choose from. Still, I was able to open the door, go under the table and take a picture of the sticker as my challenge to make the annoying sound stop.
I was just catching my breath and laughed at myself for the crazy 15 minutes of my life. I can't even go back to sleep because of that since I even had my morning exercise and my energy was all pumped up.
But this just taught me a good lesson. I was able to be more alert and can wake up easily at the hour I expected even when I am just using a normal alarm app now.
It even gave me the opportunity to finish a lot of tasks on time because I woke up early as expected. As they say, "The early bird catches the worm". So I highly recommend you to download this handy app if you have problems waking up on time or if you are up for challenges.
So, mind if you share some helpful apps that you have installed on your phone or even the ones that were very handy for you? I can try them as well.
Since we talked about challenges in my app. I also challenge you... not to take a photo but to incorporate these vocabulary in your story.
1. HANDY - convenient to handle or use; useful.
2. Up for something - to be willing or ready to do something.