liztai, 8 months ago to instagramreality

In a recent podcast, @pluralistic & said he writes a lot cos it's a way to deal with the anxiety he gets about things.
I can relate. I have a lot of thoughts rattling in my head all the time. If I don't externalise them into words, I get overwhelmed, anxious & can't sleep, so I often share them on #socialmedia first because it's quick. Later, I will flesh them out into a #blog post or a #journal entry.
#Writing this way is a form of selfcare.

#WritingCommunity #blogging

liztai, 7 months ago to random

@loke they probably thought our trains have holes on the floors for toilets

liztai, 10 months ago to productivity

Looking for tips about weekly reviews. They are essential for me to ramp up for the new working week but for some reason I've been avoiding them.
Do you do weekly reviews and what do you do to ensure you do them? ;D

#Productivity #Obsidian #GTD #Planning

liztai, 6 months ago to Malaysia

I know cultural appropriation is a biggie in the #UnitedStates
But as a person who comes from a country where people happily culturally appropriates from each other, and who descended from who people who culturally appropriated & married into British, Chinese and Malay culture ... I never understood the rage around it in the US.
A quick reminder that the world may look at some issues very differently :)

#Malaysia #Malaysians #TootSEA

liztai, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to BBC

What newspaper/news channel is good or bad?
When #BBC joined #Mastodon recently, I saw much moralisation around it. Personally, I think BBC's journalism standards have dropped a lot, but this is true around the world as #SocialMedia puts pressure on media outlets to prize popularity & clickbait over real journalism. That said, no media is ever unbiased. I was a world news editor for a national paper for many years and had the pleasure to 1/3

liztai, 5 months ago to random

From MyDramaList's 2023 year summary. This is actually a good reflection of my taste in dramas. (Note the lack of romance dramas lol and lots of wuxias & thrillers hehe.) And apparently 90% of my dramas are rated 7 or 8, and about 8% or so are 9.

#KDramas #CDramas #KDrama #CDrama

liztai, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Cinema

An interesting conversation hosted by @geraineon on Mastodon yesterday got me thinking about racism, bias and cringe-worthy depictions of foreign nations in Hollywood and other entertainment.

#MysteriousLotusCasebook #Cinema #Film #Entertainment

http://elizabethtai.com/2023/10/24/racism-bias-in-entertainment/

liztai, 4 months ago to tv

A #Cdrama that most Chinese folks around the world would know would be Journey to the West (1986).

My dad would tape every episode into VHS and us kids would replay the drama over and over again. It was a sad day when the VHS tapes ended up having mold growing in them, rendering them unwatchable.

Journey to the West is a “shen mo” - a Chinese fantasy genre that revolves around Chinese mythological characters.

#Cdramas #TV #China

liztai, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to tv

Lol guess who is not sleeping cos she wants to watch all kast 6 episodes of #AJourneyToLove 😂

Ps: I am watching it without subs and it's an interesting experience. I understand about 80%. Maybe I should do this more often 🤔

#Cdramas #CDrama #TV #Entertainment

https://dramatea88.wordpress.com/2023/12/08/a-journey-to-love-review/

liztai, 7 months ago to Hair

I got the wavy hair gene from my mum's side, where almost everyone has wavy/curly hair. My curls are not as prominent, but some days it just decides "I am gonna be crazy today!"
My #hair only got like this after puberty, and before that it was typical ramrod straight and my mum would give me the China doll hairstyle (which I loathed).
Since most Chinese had straight hair this made me even more confused about my already salad cultural roots & feel less #Chinese.

#China #Culture

liztai, 11 months ago to Malaysia

There's something very annoying about those travel/expat videos that announce to the world that #Malaysia is "cheap" and "affordable". I get that it's true for them, but it comes from a position of privilege - they often earn in US dollars, for one.
The reality for most #Malaysians is very different.
I don't really know why it annoys me though. :blobfoxgooglyconfused:

#Travel #TootSEA

liztai, 9 months ago to tech

I really like #DayOne as a journaling app. But the fact that my very sensitive info is out there in a server thousands of miles away and subject to a company's policy makes me nervous.
That's why I prefer to journal in #Obsidian because it is local-first

"... local-first aims to bring all the advantages of the cloud—ubiquity, sync, and collaborative working, but without the cloud's problems."

#Tech #LocalFirst #Software

https://www.lifewire.com/local-first-computing-7570378

liztai, 10 months ago to twitter

You go to sleep and when you wake up #Twitter is an alphabet?

liztai, 10 months ago to PersonalFinance

Starting to wonder if there's even a #personalfinance community on Mastodon.

Hellooooo

#Finance #Money

liztai, 1 year ago to thailand

City I dislike: #Beijing
City I think is overrated: #Bangkok
City I like: #London
City I love: #Seoul
City I most feel myself in: #Penang
City I still need to visit: #Paris
I dream of living in: #Melbourne

How about you?

#Travel #Countries #MYToots #Malaysia

liztai, 7 months ago to random

Ok I'm so WTF with what @skinnylatte said here that I had to add an anecdote of my own. When I lived in Australia, most Aussies (sorry, the white ones, got to be specific) kept saying how good my English was. I explained that English IS my first language, followed by 3 others. I think they couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that a non-White person could have English as their first language. I speak in a neutral accent so that could also be another reason.

https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/111371789106127552

liztai, 9 months ago to Cat

I know I post a lot of cute photos of #ApriCat. I don't want to give you the impression I'm the best #cat mum ever.
I'll be honest: The transition to having Apri around has been quite a challenge for me. Like, I didn't know that post-cat-adoption blues is a THING. And boy do I have it bad.
I play up to 2-3 hours a day with her, and even that's not enough. And then there's the random play bites and ambushes, which I know...

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

liztai, 9 months ago to apple

"It's totally OK to buy the new iPhone every year" - if you are swimming in money, sure! But I never understood this mentality. 80% of the phones were hand me downs from my dad who buys smartphones like I buy cat litter.
Personally, I just dont want to add more trash to the rubbish heap. Second, there's this thing called money...

#Apple #Tech

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/01/annual-iphone-upgrades/

liztai, 7 months ago to magASEAN

Mum not only made me chicken soup (silver pot) but gave me a care package cos I am recovering from Covid. 🥰

#MakanApaToday

Care package with biscuits, fruits and coffee

liztai, 3 months ago to mastodon

On being Chinese but not quite Chinese enough. Ie, what it's like being a "banana".

This is usually for my blog subscribers, but I've made it available for #Mastodon peeps for a few days. ;)

#Culture #Chinese #Languages #Mandarin

http://elizabethtai.com/2024/02/24/hello-from-a-banana/

liztai, 8 months ago to mastodon

Question: I hear that search is now supported in the latest #Mastodon release. Does it depends on your instance, whether it has the latest one?

liztai, 8 months ago to productivity

Why productivity hacks do not work for women - cos they are written a lot of times by men who have women to take care of childcare and other chores!

But seriously, I know some men do contribute to household chores. But unfortunately, at least in Asia, the burden is still heavily on women.

#productivity

https://womaning.substack.com/p/why-productivity-hacks-do-not-work

liztai, 7 months ago to magASEAN

#MakanApaToday prepared something simple tonight.

This is just a typical meal most of us would eat for lunch or dinner - rice, one meat and veg dish.

Malaysia # Malaysian #Food

liztai, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

Tempted to stop using #Obsidian as a task manager for work and use #Todoist or heck, Jira. But I like how I can connect my project notes with my tasks in Obsidian. Just that as a task manager, it isn't as robust as it should be.

#Tech #PKM #ProjectManagement

liztai, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Bro: How did you come up with my name?
Dad: It was the only name I could think of at that time.
Bro: ...
Dad: What? They only gave me 5 minutes to fill in the name part of the birth cert.

I swear this is so classic Asian parents 🤣 Super unromantic to a fault 🤣