December 2024

This is it – the last chapter of 2024! This has been one of the most – if not the most – unusual years I have been through up to now. The year in which I took a leap of faith and decided to pursue my own agenda, rather than conforming to the conventional career development path. A lot has happened throughout this year; some were not so good, some could have been better, but still…

Reflecting on it, I might say that overall, I am heading in the right direction.

Now, where to begin?

December 2

The December JLPT test took place yesterday. I initially applied for it at the end of August, but then along the way, I figured that I might as well postpone it until July 2025 – due to other work, and due to being struck twice by some kind of brutal cold. After all, I don’t really need the N1 certificate right now, and there are many more things on the plate.

That said, I still felt a little bit awkward thinking about the fact that I had skipped the test – for the first time (after taking it two 2 times before).

Yesterday’s evening was a little bit not-so-productive. I ended up napping for the whole evening. For some reason, I often feel down on Sunday evening and just do not want to do anything. Strange – even though I do not have to go to work on Monday (for now).

Maybe it has to do with traveling from my hometown to Saigon. Maybe it’s because of the lack of streak in the morning. Anw, let’s see what I can do today.

There’s a gym session in the afternoon (seriously, why do I keep falling asleep after the recent gymming sessions? It has got to the point that I occasionally doubt if I should continue). Before then, I need to prepare the lesson plans for this evening’s 2 classes (and the 2 tomorrow – if possible).

Maybe I should tackle them all, so that I can have the energy and focus to deal with the November-December edition of this blog.

Whatever, let’s just keep moving.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

(09:30 AM GMT+7 – December 2, 2024)

November 3

Inochi mijikashi

koiseyo otome

akaki kuchibiru

asenu ma ni

atsuki chishi ono

hienu ma ni

asu no tsuki hi wa

nai mono o

(08:40 AM GMT+7 – December 3, 2024)

November 4

Yesterday, I felt as if I was about to be struck by a cold again. I decided to drink a lot of warm water and had soup instead of something solid; somehow, it seems that all signs of a cold have disappeared this morning. Phew! I’m tired of getting sick again.

There’s a gym session this afternoon; I suppose let’s try to do whatever I can with the edition this morning. All lesson plans today have been prepared, so… yeah!

Preparing for this edition has been stressing me out quite a lot – and also caused me to think quite a bit. I suppose let’s just try to tackle it bit by bit until it’s done someday (hopefully before Christmas).

Tenki ga totemo iikara, hajimemashou!

(09:00 AM GMT+7 – December 4, 2024)