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  • A Reading Place

    Along one of my early morning runs, I chanced upon a girl reading a book along the Singapore River. A Caucasian lady, sitting on some of the cement benches, dressed for a holiday for sure. She sat there in the sun, with her sunglasses and in a sun dress, just enjoying the morning moment reading. I was running because I was quite free that day too, but I just felt very envious of her being able to read in the day like that.

    The skate morning I had a few days back was an attempt at something like that. I actually brought some of my morning routine things with me to do at the skate park, and read the Bible there. The sun was great, really bright actually. It was great.

    I used to read a lot when I was on my holidays when I was younger. As my hobbies started to grow, I would start to draw, or walk, or go shopping, instead of finding those moments to just sit down and read.

    I remember reading at Margaret River – in Perth, Australia. There were some books I had picked up at the airport, and I was reading them at the AirBnB or the motel that we were staying at. I was trying my best to rush and finish the book because it was so exciting. Then I picked up another few more books at some second hand stores as we drove along the different Western Australia.

    I hope in the coming years, I’ll learn how to pick up that habit again. I know that I’ve got more hobbies still, and more gadgets, and more things on my hands that just take away reading time. But I am still envious of that girl sitting along the Singapore river, reading in the sun on her holiday.

    Also I am on book 8/52 for my reading challenge this year. My hope is to make at least half way there this year. Last year I hit 10 books, and was deeply disappointed with my reading. I read fast, but not enough! Hopefully I clear some books during the coming trips, on budget airplane rides.

  • More thoughts on TikTok TED Talk

    One of the more interesting points that Shou Chew from TikTok expressed on the talk was about how the platform rewards those with talents.

    Initially, I thought this quite a lot of nonsense, especially because the kind of videos that get recommended to me for things like keyboards and the like, can actually be quite simple, and not very special. Or at least I struggle to see where the talent is.

    After some thinking through, I do think this is quite real. It does take quite a lot of video editing talent, to chop the videos up in an interesting enough way. I personally don’t have the skill or patience to edit videos in such a specific way. Most of my videos are as simple as possible, and made as quickly as I can. This follows the YouTube type of algorithm, where the consistency is key.

    But if TikTok does give value to the style of video editing, I think there really could be a lot done there. It does mean that I need to up my skills at video editing, and there’s a lot of work that goes in to listening to audio, or just finding the right amount of footage to make it work.

    I think that’s talent there, and maybe, just someday, I would have the talent to do the video editing that way. Maybe.

  • A Short Trip Away

    This very morning, I will be traveling to Vietnam for a family trip with my in-laws. I’m not too sure how good the WiFi will be so I decided to just write a whole bunch of scheduled posts just to be safe.

    About the trip:

    I’ve traveled to Vietnam once, maybe more than ten years ago. This was after my polytechnic school finished and before I enlisted into army. I went to Hanoi then, and I met some nice people, but overall, I was not extremely impressed with Vietnam.

    I’ve had friends visit the country since then for sure, and there’s a lot of Vietnamese food that I really like. But it’s the general population of the people that get to me I think. I might look a bit too Vietnamese, and get mistaken for a local that doesn’t know his way around. That’s gotten me in a bit of mix up quite often. Perhaps now with my in-laws around, that might change up a bit. They look a lot more Chinese than me.

    My father in law has been visiting Vietnam for the past few years. Before COVID, he went, and returned determined to bring us all there. Now with travel coming back to normal, he really wanted us to go as a family. We’ll be traveling together with one of Clarice’s uncles, and it’ll be interesting I think.

    I’m also excited to go, and sketch a bunch of things. I have heard and seen a few nice sketches of Vietnam, and I guess I’ll add to that collection of sketches too.