Insomnia.. :/

Hi readers! It's just been a month since my last post! I am not actually neglecting my blog this year! Well, actually it is because I am having a chill semester this time, so I have quite a lot of time for myself. I must say I don't actually like it (!!!) because it makes me lazy and actually messes up my sleeping pattern even worse than when I was busy. This is because I ended up wasting my time playing games to fill in the spare time, and when you play games, you usually end up sleeping late because you are so into the game. Now, even when I tried to sleep earlier (1 or 2 am is considered "early" to me now), I would be unable to sleep because my mind is still very much awake, thinking about games and things that have been going on in my life, which is what I wanted to share now.

As some of you readers might have known, I have been taking Chinese classes in my university, and it has become a habit of mine to put YouTube on autoplay playing Chinese songs whenever I am doing my Chinese revision/homework. I stumbled upon these 2 songs, 《等一个人》 and 《缺口》. Damn, I love those songs so much even though I don't understand most of the lyrics. I also loved their MVs, and some of the features in the MVs made me want to watch the movie. Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't the dude in bikini, but it was the name of the cafe 《等一个人咖啡》, as well as the barista. I found the barista looked really cool, and had an air of mystery about her. The name of the cafe also felt like it is loaded with meaning, so I did the only thing to do to find out and satisfy my curiosity. It is just one of those Chinese/Taiwanese romance comedy, to be honest, but some things said in the movie really hit home for me. So there's that.

When watching the movie, I also got to practice my Chinese listening skill, as well as noticing some of the sentence patterns I am studying right now. Since I found it useful and entertaining, I decided to watch another Taiwanese movie, 《我的少女时代》. Same genre, different execution, some things also hit home. So there's that.

Because of the movies, I got back into the mood to continue writing the supposed "My Seemingly Perfect Past Life" series, but when I went back to read the first part again, I don't remember why I told that story in the first place, and now I'm confused how I am supposed to continue from there lol, so currently it is still stuck as a draft. Don't expect it to come out anytime soon, not gonna give any promises or false hopes.

Another thing, I got addicted to Age of Empires III. You know, the game that came out about 8 years ago now (gasp). Some of my AoE3 playmates back in secondary are still around, and for some reason they started to play it again, so I joined them and got hooked. I even go so far as to watch videos of pro players playing just so that I can win against the Expert AI (still can't win them:( ).

Another, last thing I want to share. I have been seeing this financial advisor. So basically a friend of mine "leaked" my contacts to her, and I was stuck with her calling me persistently and to arrange a meeting with her and stuff. Since I can't find a way to get rid of her for good, I thought might as well hear what she had to say now and see if it is any good. As it turned out, I learned quite a bit about financial planning and stuff from her. I still don't trust her completely so I try not to make any deal with her, though I understand that she needs it to make money. So I guess you can say that I am currently getting financial literacy education for free from her. Maybe I will succumb and let her get a share of my money soon. We'll see. For the record, I don't plan to succumb just yet. Not any time soon.

That's all for now. Hopefully I will be able to sleep soon... This insomnia is torturing me mentally.. Physically I'm OK since my classes are all in the afternoon, so I can catch up with sleep in the morning, but I'd rather sleep and wake up 3-4 hours earlier than what I'm currently doing now...

All the best in your life's endeavours!

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