Friday Five Double 14-April-2023

[elusivek]

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1. What fandom(s) do you follow on LiveJournal or Dreamwidth?
Not anymore. I mean, I probably am still in the I assume now-dead communities on LJ. I think I started out stalking one of the HP fanfic communities.

2. Where else do you follow those fandoms?
Once in a while when I feel like reading I go on AO3. Long time ago I was on Fanfiction.net, but the search and sorting function there is just not intuitive.

3. Have you ever met up with fannish friends?
Not really. I used to have an email penfriend that was into anime as well. She's German and Hong Kong Chinese mix (I forget whom of her parents were German and HK Chinese). One time she went to Hong Kong for a visit, so I went to Hong Kong to meet up. We walked a lot LOL. As many email penfriends go, we soon lost contact. I still have access to that email inbox but I don't even remember her name. But our topics of "conversation" was never solely fandom. It was more about being culturally mixed and how weird it was one way or another.

4. When there's a question on a 'find a fic' community, are you likely to help find the fic or do you hope someone else will know it?
I'm not proficient enough in any fandoms to be able to help LOL.

5. Did you customize/tweak your LJ or DW home page or are you using one of the basic options?
Yeah both LJ and DW is customized one way or another.


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1. How’s your water intake?
I'd say pretty good. I try to take 2L of water daily, and reminding myself to drink water even when I'm not thirsty. Then just yesterday I saw a video/reel/skit on either Facebook or IG that some doctor or another questions whether "don't you trust your kidneys? Why are you drinking water when you are not thirsty?" so I'm wondering... if that was a wrong thought all along. If I only drink water when I'm thirsty, I can practically go a whole day without drinking water.

2. What do you eat specifically for its health benefits?
Dunno. Carrots for the eyes? But then again FB or IG had some post saying that it's all fake and that it was just a wartime marketing thing? Is everything I've learnt before just lies?

3. What do you avoid specifically because it’s unhealthy?
Weeeeellllllll, as the Chinese would say, fried/deep-fried/spicey things are 熱氣 "yeet hey" literally "hot air" and that's what give rise to pimples, sore throats, coughs, etc. So yeah, I try to avoid those. But I can also never abstain from nice crunchy french fries or chips or snackoos. So. I try.

4. What foods or beverages put you in a good mood?
I don't particularly know... I don't know, candy? Sweet things? Chocolate? I have a stack of kit kats in the office as pick-me-up but I hardly go to them either.

5. What are your favorite cookie, pie, and pastry?
There's this cookie store in Taiwan that has so-far the best cookies I've ever had (the Mrs. Fields type of cookies). But I don't even know what that shop is called, I need to ask my friend before I go to Taiwan (if I'm going). As for pie... hm... there is this Hongkie Chinese type of Chicken Pie 雞批 but it's on the fatty side. And finally pastry, I'm a sucker for a good cinnamon roll. Would you believe if if I saw there's virtually no real cinnamon rolls in bakeries here? It's only in recent years, since IKEA has opened in town that some bakeries, and small artisan bakeries at that, are starting to include cinnamon rolls in their menu.

On that note, even donuts, there are no real donuts here. The only donuts you will see here is in a local bakery chain called Maxim's, and it's just a plain donut covered in regular white sugar (not even powdered sugar). Krispy Creme and/or Mister Donut? None of that here. 

Comments

[jo]

so I'm wondering... if that was a wrong thought all along.

It is a myth that people need/should drink 8 cups/2L of water a day. Maybe the video you saw was Dr. Jen Gunter's (https://youtu.be/i0h7N1ukZ4A)? Anyway, if you google, there are loads of articles from major news sources confirming that it's a myth (New York Times, CBC, CNN, Washington Post, etc.)