Well, that was short-lived. My last post was 17 days ago. Maybe the fact that I made an actual blog post made this too high-effort. If it wasn’t for Jherzey reminding me about my website, I probably wouldn’t have started again. Here we go…
The past 2 weeks was consumed by tons of distractions, with no opportunity to get bored. I binge-watched Over Run Over on YouTube, and once that was done, binge-watched Trauma Code on Netflix. Then I started playing Half Sword. I have sunk into a new low when it comes to boredom by actually playing video games. I say every day “tomorrow I’ll get it together”, and I don’t ðŸ˜1.
I do have some good news though. I’ve been doing flashcards so consistently, that I’ve finally reviewed all cards the in base deck and have started adding more cards. We’ve also started planning out new features for CitySync so I will have to grind hard this month.
EDIT: It might be too early to celebrate since I still suck at Cantonese. I tested my dim sum knowledge with Jesse, and I tried to say the word for sesame balls (ç…Žå †). I accidentally flipped the initials and said din1 zeoi1 instead of zin1 deoi12.
She did say it’s better to embarass myself in front of her than look dumb in Hong Kong, though, and I think it’s very effective. I don’t think I’ll forget ç…Žå † anymore.
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BTW today marks 10 years since I’ve arrived in Canada. Maybe today will be my last day to make excuses. ↩︎
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My thought process was crazy, though. I’ve always called “sesame ball” as buchi. I didn’t even know the English word for it until yesterday. But I did know that it’s JÄ«an duÄ« in Standard Chinese. Like come on, it was already pretty close in pronunciation and I still didn’t make that connection in my head ðŸ˜. It really is true that when in battle, only what you truly know comes out. ↩︎