Sleepy and annoyed

Kitty decided to wake me up at 4am this morning, wanting food. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD 😩 We bought a new brand of cat food, and Little Miss Fusspot doesn’t like it. The food in her bowl was pretty much untouched from the night before, and I didn’t want her to get used to being fed at 4am in the morning! So I didn’t give in, and I showed her the way to her existing food. She ate a little bit of it, but she’s still obviously not impressed with it. So she woke me up again at 7am. OMG. Needless to say, I had a pretty crap night’s sleep 😔 And annoyed that we’re basically wasting food and money 😔

And when I finally got up, I discover that we have no more milk. Argh! I like having milk in my coffee, so I decided to walk to a nearby cafe and have my morning coffee there today.

I read more of Benny Lewis’ book Fluent in 3 Months while drinking my coffee. He’s motivating me to practise my speaking more. So I’m trying to log into the Tandem app on a daily basis now and make sure I send a few voice messages to different people, to continue practising speaking full sentences in Chinese. Some people also send back voice messages in Chinese, so I also get some listening practice with native speakers talking – and I get to hit “play” as many times as I need to! 😂 So good 👍 They’re currently talking quite slow, so it’d be good if I can get to a point when they don’t have to do that for me anymore. That’d be so awesome. I think tomorrow we can send voice messages in English, so it’ll be my turn to help them 😊

So despite a crappy night’s sleep and the lack of milk in the fridge, it still turned out to be quite a good day 😊

Asian dramas and languages

I came across this on Twitter today, which I really needed to see. I’ve been mentioning my shite trading the last few days, and I’ve been feeling rather dejected with my recent results. So seeing this has actually perked me up a little. Maybe I should make a printout of this and paste it up on the wall, so I can see it every day… 😊

I finished my current Korean drama today, Devilish Joy. I really enjoyed the last episode – in complete contrast to the very first one! The first episode was so bad that I actually gave up on the series initially, but then decided to give it a second chance, as I couldn’t find anything else better to watch. I’m so glad I gave it a second chance, as every subsequent episode was way better than that first one! 😂

But now I am back to feeling empty again, with no Asian drama to keep me entertained. I would like to watch a Chinese drama next, to help me with my listening skills. But it’s only the Korean dramas that are luring me in! Damn, why are their dramas so good?!? 😆

I’m reading Benny Lewis’ Fluent in 3 Months, it’s my non-fiction book at the moment. It’s given me a few tips so far, and is motivating me to push on with my Mandarin. In fact, it’s making me want to venture into Korean and Cantonese now as well! The former because of all these Korean dramas that I’m watching at the moment 😊 and the latter because we’re currently living in a Cantonese speaking city. And of course continue to improve on my existing Japanese knowledge. Never mind the fact that these three languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) are notoriously the hardest to learn (along with Arabic) for a native English speaker 🤣🤣 Of all the languages in the world, why do my target ones have to fall into this hard basket?!? 😩 So let me continue reading his book and see what other tips he has about learning foreign languages…