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Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11:34Holiday
It's a public holiday today, on a Wednesday, which is nice. Work for 2 days, get a break, work for another 2 days, and it's the weekend.
Though they "Why is it a public holiday" is a more interesting question.
Yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival, where the Moon is at its roundest in the whole year. There's also another fold tale that I'm lazy to search and write about, so... Anyway. We eat moon cakes, which is a disgustingly sweet and heavy thing made of lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk. There's a supposed savory option which is made of nuts and maybe pork. This year I've received 2 hampers of mooncakes and they were all the *NEW* and *STYLISH* concoctions of new businesses. After eating those new creations, I have to say I'd much rather eat the disgustingly sweet traditionals LOL.
Anyway, the tradition is... you go home and visit family (much like the Chinese New Year) and play with paper lanterns, eat mooncakes, look at the moon, some people cook up candle wax, but to this date I still have no idea why they do this. Anyway, all these festivities are celebrated at night, so usually businesses close up early, and I also got to leave work at 4pm.
The public holiday today is officially called the "Day-after Mid Autumn Festival". Yes. The holiday is because, you have stayed up late last night to look at the moon. So it's a holiday today. I personally think it's a ridiculous holiday LOL. It's not like people nowadays sleep early anyway. But who am I to challenge a public holiday?
Shopping
I'm going to have to reign in my shopping these days. I did pretty well last month, but once I saw I had so little expenses last month, and then I had an idea to check on fountain pens on Taobao, and I went on a mini spree. These are all my fountain pens (less 1, which is at work). The pens on the left are 100% authentic and bought over the years. The pens on the right are recent Taobao buys so their authenticity can be disputed haha. I have to learn how to write with these pens, as I think I hold the pen wrong and I damage the paper more than I write. But I was just told in a Facebook group that it could be the ink. Anyway, I'll practice writing lighter.
With the calligraphy pen the bleed is terrible, and I was convinced it was because I press in too hard and scratched the paper, but I'm told it's the ink (Montegrappa). So I guess I'll have to wash that off and then try another ink.
And then these are art/dib pens that I have no idea how to use. It's almost like I have to dip my pen in ink for every word I write. A bit tedious.
Talking about stupid Taobao buys, I found a store that sells certain Japanese import products. I guess you can think of them as some sort of forwarder or group shoppers. Anyway, these are amaizing designs for pen pouches or makeup bags. I laughed so much. I especially liked the Moses one, but the Noah one is interesting too. Not to worry, I did not buy any of that crap.
Habit Tracking
I admittedly bought one too many of the Hobonichi Weeks (might have mentioned about them here and there sometimes). So I'm trying to use one of them as a habit tracker. The conundrum is, in order to successfully use it as a habit tracker, I have to get into the habit of tracking habits. LOL. And I didn't want to wait until 2022 because I sort of am convinced that I'll forget about it. So I've repurposed the few pages in front. It looks terrible because I simply used white out, but once the "proper" weeks start (last week of November), then the pages would look better.
Reading
Oh, this reminds me I have to write that review for the Megumi Hayashibara book I read. Thanks to that book, I was informed about the existence of the English translations of the Slayers series. I have the full set Chinese version sitting on my shelf. I've read the first book in Chinese. It's not that it's boring, it's just reading in Chinese takes so much effort for me... so now that there's an English version, here I go!
It's a public holiday today, on a Wednesday, which is nice. Work for 2 days, get a break, work for another 2 days, and it's the weekend.
Though they "Why is it a public holiday" is a more interesting question.
Yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival, where the Moon is at its roundest in the whole year. There's also another fold tale that I'm lazy to search and write about, so... Anyway. We eat moon cakes, which is a disgustingly sweet and heavy thing made of lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk. There's a supposed savory option which is made of nuts and maybe pork. This year I've received 2 hampers of mooncakes and they were all the *NEW* and *STYLISH* concoctions of new businesses. After eating those new creations, I have to say I'd much rather eat the disgustingly sweet traditionals LOL.Anyway, the tradition is... you go home and visit family (much like the Chinese New Year) and play with paper lanterns, eat mooncakes, look at the moon, some people cook up candle wax, but to this date I still have no idea why they do this. Anyway, all these festivities are celebrated at night, so usually businesses close up early, and I also got to leave work at 4pm.
The public holiday today is officially called the "Day-after Mid Autumn Festival". Yes. The holiday is because, you have stayed up late last night to look at the moon. So it's a holiday today. I personally think it's a ridiculous holiday LOL. It's not like people nowadays sleep early anyway. But who am I to challenge a public holiday?
Shopping
I'm going to have to reign in my shopping these days. I did pretty well last month, but once I saw I had so little expenses last month, and then I had an idea to check on fountain pens on Taobao, and I went on a mini spree. These are all my fountain pens (less 1, which is at work). The pens on the left are 100% authentic and bought over the years. The pens on the right are recent Taobao buys so their authenticity can be disputed haha. I have to learn how to write with these pens, as I think I hold the pen wrong and I damage the paper more than I write. But I was just told in a Facebook group that it could be the ink. Anyway, I'll practice writing lighter.
With the calligraphy pen the bleed is terrible, and I was convinced it was because I press in too hard and scratched the paper, but I'm told it's the ink (Montegrappa). So I guess I'll have to wash that off and then try another ink.
And then these are art/dib pens that I have no idea how to use. It's almost like I have to dip my pen in ink for every word I write. A bit tedious.
Talking about stupid Taobao buys, I found a store that sells certain Japanese import products. I guess you can think of them as some sort of forwarder or group shoppers. Anyway, these are amaizing designs for pen pouches or makeup bags. I laughed so much. I especially liked the Moses one, but the Noah one is interesting too. Not to worry, I did not buy any of that crap.
Habit Tracking
I admittedly bought one too many of the Hobonichi Weeks (might have mentioned about them here and there sometimes). So I'm trying to use one of them as a habit tracker. The conundrum is, in order to successfully use it as a habit tracker, I have to get into the habit of tracking habits. LOL. And I didn't want to wait until 2022 because I sort of am convinced that I'll forget about it. So I've repurposed the few pages in front. It looks terrible because I simply used white out, but once the "proper" weeks start (last week of November), then the pages would look better.
Reading
Oh, this reminds me I have to write that review for the Megumi Hayashibara book I read. Thanks to that book, I was informed about the existence of the English translations of the Slayers series. I have the full set Chinese version sitting on my shelf. I've read the first book in Chinese. It's not that it's boring, it's just reading in Chinese takes so much effort for me... so now that there's an English version, here I go!
