Friday Five 17-July02020
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elusivek1. What's the difference between patience and procrastination?
Well obviously, procrastination is just leaving things that should be done for later doing. Patience is having the grit to endure something for a long period of time. I surely do not have the patience seeing people procrastinate about stuff then running to someone else for help.
2. Have you ever forgotten an important date or event?
Well, just yesterday, I totally forgot I made dinner plans with friends. It was hardly important, but I had forgotten nonetheless. It's a bit hard for me to forget about an important date or event as I input stuff into my calendar... For yesterday, I admit I was feeling so lazy I hardly took my phone out to check the calendar.
3. Do you become impatient when you have to wait in a long line?
I'm OK with waiting in the line for stuff. It'll eventually get to me. I have a patience for that. What I don't have patience for is man-made errors, like the other time I was waiting to get my passport renewed (not this year, this year was a breeze, it was my passport renewal 5 years ago). The reception collected the applications and would pile them one atop the other. She would then take the applications into a second room. I'd assume when she put them down she should flip them over so the sequence continues (the first application received is the bottommost, so she flips the stack over so the first application is on top). But no. Smart lady puts them as-is, so those who were latest in submitting the application got called in first.
When she brought in the second batch of applications, one would think she would smartly put them under the existing pile, but no, she put the new batch on top of the old pile..... so the first application is forever on the bottom. I was 6th in line, so I was wondering why the people that came in at 20-something were already getting called in. They figured it out, and finally, after sitting there for 3 hours I got it done.
(for comparison, this year, it took me less than 15 minutes)
4. Do you want to accomplish many things in your life or do you want to take it easy?
It's good to keep busy and have stuff to do. But I am also a firm believer of downtime when needed.
5. Do you know someone who is always busy?
There's this lady at work that is forever busy. Good for her. I like staying busy but I also won't go looking for trouble to be piled on my plate.
Well obviously, procrastination is just leaving things that should be done for later doing. Patience is having the grit to endure something for a long period of time. I surely do not have the patience seeing people procrastinate about stuff then running to someone else for help.
2. Have you ever forgotten an important date or event?
Well, just yesterday, I totally forgot I made dinner plans with friends. It was hardly important, but I had forgotten nonetheless. It's a bit hard for me to forget about an important date or event as I input stuff into my calendar... For yesterday, I admit I was feeling so lazy I hardly took my phone out to check the calendar.
3. Do you become impatient when you have to wait in a long line?
I'm OK with waiting in the line for stuff. It'll eventually get to me. I have a patience for that. What I don't have patience for is man-made errors, like the other time I was waiting to get my passport renewed (not this year, this year was a breeze, it was my passport renewal 5 years ago). The reception collected the applications and would pile them one atop the other. She would then take the applications into a second room. I'd assume when she put them down she should flip them over so the sequence continues (the first application received is the bottommost, so she flips the stack over so the first application is on top). But no. Smart lady puts them as-is, so those who were latest in submitting the application got called in first.
When she brought in the second batch of applications, one would think she would smartly put them under the existing pile, but no, she put the new batch on top of the old pile..... so the first application is forever on the bottom. I was 6th in line, so I was wondering why the people that came in at 20-something were already getting called in. They figured it out, and finally, after sitting there for 3 hours I got it done.
(for comparison, this year, it took me less than 15 minutes)
4. Do you want to accomplish many things in your life or do you want to take it easy?
It's good to keep busy and have stuff to do. But I am also a firm believer of downtime when needed.
5. Do you know someone who is always busy?
There's this lady at work that is forever busy. Good for her. I like staying busy but I also won't go looking for trouble to be piled on my plate.
