liztai

liztai, 10 hours ago to random

yay my fancy motorised stand up table will arrive this Monday!

liztai, 1 day ago to chinese

Hey Chinese-language friends!

So I wrote a funny sentence the other day:

我找红线 。可是我有黑线。不好啊！

Apparently 黑线 (black thread) is a colloquial expression that means "a feeling of speechlessness or frustration" and when I looked up Pleco, it says that it has something to do with the Cultural Revolution. Man, I went to deep places with that sentence lol.

Asking Chinese Mastodon - does black thread really mean this in the Chinese context?

1/2

#Chinese #Mandarin #LanguageLearning

liztai, 1 day ago to random

Sometimes I get frustrated. The world is running out of oil, the climate is topsy turvy, and we're doing our best to prevent mass-adoption of green tech because, capitalism (or some shit like that). Meanwhile, let's wage war against one another because there are elections to be won/territories and wealth to grab. URGH.

Can humanity evolve out of our caveman instincts or something?

liztai, 2 days ago to random

The cutest boyband ever! If only they weren't trying so hard to kill each other 😆

PS: Found this on Twitter. Couldn't get this out of my mind cos they look so cute in this clip! I am taking my time with #JoyOfLife2. Only at episode 2 and this is because I rewatched the episodes twice haha. JOL has such intricately written plots you really need to pay attention!

#Cdrama #Cdramas

Video of 5 men

liztai, 2 days ago to random

I am a very light sleeper. I wake up at the slightest sound. It is both fortunate and unfortunate.

I once woke up to the soft plop of a cockroach landing on my pillow.

Still not sure if that is classified under "fortunate" or "unfortunate".

liztai, 2 days ago to chinese

I've been a little suspicious that almost everything I wrote in Chinese, ChatGPT said was 👍 .
However, today my faith was reaffirmed when ChatGPT corrected me when I wrote 我出家。

ChatGPT: "出家" usually means to become a monk or nun, which might not be the intended meaning.

Bwahaha. Would've made an interesting diary entry though.

But what's encouraging though is that I seemed to have internalised Chinese grammar ... mostly.

#Mandarin #Chinese #Learning #LearningLanguages #LearningChinese

liztai, 2 days ago to tech

When Iived in Australia, I realised that we Malaysians had access to more advanced tech. Our laptops, smartphones etc were more advanced.
When I was a journalist who would travel overseas to interview people - Asian journalists always had the slickest voice recorders. We were using MP3 recorders while the Western journos were still using tape.
I don't think it's because we r smarter; I think we dare to copy & improve while co's in the West are more protective & possessive of their #tech. 1/2

liztai, 3 days ago to random

Me complaining about slow #JoyOfLife2 2-episode-per-day uploads when I used to endure 2 episodes per week for #Kdramas

#Cdramas #Cdrama

liztai, 3 days ago to webnovels

Somebody shared the #JoyOfLife novel, translated into English (her pet project) in epub.

I was bracing myself to read it on the web. I tend to compile the reads into an epub for my own personal consumption as I don't really enjoy reading things on the web. Fansubbers don't like people scrapping their stuff and resharing (for obvious reasons) but as this is from the translator herself, I think it's safe to share.

#WebNovels #CDrama #CDramas

https://mydramalist.com/discussions/joy-of-life-season-2/125595-joy-of-life-novel-epub-format?page=last&p=3056001#p3056001

liztai, 4 days ago to random

The freedom to be able to walk and shop in places without worrying about a shooting is something Malaysians take for granted. I cannot imagine living with that kind of possibility in my life. You know what else we take for granted? The fact that Malaysia is free of most natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanoes and such.

liztai, 5 days ago to random

Darn I have just completed what I have put off for months - clear the many bags of "stuff" in my home office and finally made it decent 🤣
Also assembled the side cabinet for the study and the rack for the kitchen. Also planted a few Brazilian spinach shoots.

I feel terribly productive today. 💪

liztai, 6 days ago to GenX

How feral were Gen X kids?

Well, I taught my younger sister to jump off the second floor of the house to land in the couch below. I mean sure, just an inch off target and there's be a few broken bones. But hey we survived.

The couch didn't.

Ok, so I claim my feral badge, I think I totally earned it.

#GenX

liztai, 7 days ago to random

Gave in and just ordered a standing desk with those fancy buttons where you can raise the thing. And I ordered a LONG table, just like how I like it. I like to scatter all my things when I work lol

liztai, 8 days ago to random

The channels I get my geopolitical insights and news from. Now you can decide whether to like or hate me or funnel me in the right political box 🤣

Jokes aside, I try my best to get perspectives from around the world. I used to have an African alt media channel I followed but lost it 😭

https://raindrop.io/liztai/geopolitcs-and-news-44049445

liztai, 8 days ago to random

Squee! Just witnessed the sunbird parents teaching their little chick how to fly. So the three birds were flying here and there in my balcony. Only managed to capture a pic of the chick on the shelf. Isn't it cute and fluffy??

liztai, 8 days ago to random

Coworking at a fancy coworking space today ✌️

liztai, 9 days ago to ADHD

There's nothing more exciting to an ADHD brain ...
than a new unnecessary project.

#ADHD

liztai, 9 days ago to random

When gen z complains about us Gen X-ers, we don't care. But we

liztai, 11 days ago to random

I was cancelled before the word even became a thing. It definitely changes you in a big way. For one, you realise the world is not black & white, and you see the irritational reactions of those who hold deep ideological beliefs when you decide to leave/change it. It's very much tribal. And you also get more empathatic to both sides of an ideology because you were once one of them. You also end up very allergic to triablism & tribal attitudes of all kind.

liztai, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to Malaysia

This one is made from solid titanium implanted with chips that will not only hang clothes for you but will do your math homework

(About us400)

#Malaysia #TootSEA #southeastasia #IAmObviouslyJustaPoorPleb

liztai, 13 days ago to television

Very few horror movies scare me.

This scared the shit out of me ☠️

#Exhuma #Kdrama #Movie

liztai, 13 days ago to ADHD

So happy I took the time to learn #Dataview. It's going to be revolutionary for my vault. It'll help me create main topic pages to keep track of my notes. I used to manually link every note to a "MOC" but I kept forgetting and found it tedious. This is going to be a "leave it and let grow" thing, and it suits my #ADHD brain immensely lol.
And how great it is that the
#Obsidian anticipated our annoyance with YAML and come up with the properties feature? Genius.

liztai, 13 days ago to random

Not that YAML is difficult to learn, but it's written by a fusspot. :blobfoxcomputer:

liztai, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

Weekend Tales #5 My ambition is to have an unextraordinary life

No fancy corporate titles, giant mansions or flashy paychecks for me.

#Gardening #Malaysia #Pandemic #Simplicity #Life #Blogging

http://elizabethtai.com/2024/05/10/weekend-tales-5-my-ambition-is-to-have-an-unextraordinary-life/

liztai, 14 days ago to random

I have resigned myself to learn how to use Dataview even tho I hate YAML with a passion 🥴

#Obsidian