Just wondering if I should use this “blog” to start journaling, instead of trying to find a journal app that can be exported to WordPress.
Oh, just to share, this is taken by iPhone 16 Pro Max camera. No filters or post edit done. I think it’s not that bad eh?
So after about 7 days of usage, here are some thoughts on my iPhone 16 Pro Max after using Android for more than a decade.
Pros:
Cons:
My main gripe is still the keyboard. And that I don’t have the “Mark as Read” feature in notifications anymore.
But, there’s no best of both worlds… I can only continue to try and adapt…
Am I happy with the phone? Yes, despite all the gripes and cons that I was ranting about, it’s still a very good phone, more than enough for my usage, actually. Can’t wait to bring it with me for my JP travel this coming December!
Yup, it’s my sis’ birthday today! She was here with her family as my mom cooked her favourite dishes for her.
Apart from that… I just got my hands on a spanking new iPhone 16 Pro Max yesterday (day of launch!), and spent the whole of yesterday trying to set the phone up. I think it’s gonna be really hard to get use to it… but I guess eventually it’ll be fine. I’m liking the Face ID, but not a fan of having to unlock every time I need to take the public transport. Sigh.
The battery life is kinda impressive in a way though, though I see from YouTube tech reviewers’ testing was that it still performs worse than Samsung S24 Ultra… which is kinda sad though. Oh well.
The Spigen screen protector is easy to put on, but even though I specifically bought a Spigen hybrid case to match with it, the left bottom corner of the case still somehow pushed against the screen protector and can cause it to lift every now and then. Argh…
Ok enough ranting about this phone… I’m sure I’ll get used to everything at some point. Aye. Good luck to me!
Time to put aside Black Myth: Wukong for 2 weeks…. XD
今早发了blog post后，又去新航网站看了一圈，发现今天机票便宜了？少过1K啊！那我就不等ZipAir了，赶紧在新航订了票了，哈哈！然后又马上去Singlife买了旅游保险（就冲着他家的”Trip Cancellation for Any Reason”的clause，嘿嘿）…
机酒搞定！就等水戸那儿的酒店了~
啊啊啊啊，兴奋呀~
还有100天！就能回到日本了！虽然还有3个月… 好煎熬啊！
这几天打开了一年前做好的攻略，现在正好可以开始细节化整个行程了。我最喜欢的环节！哈哈哈哈~！
还有！就是！
我妈！竟然！真的真的！不反对我一个人去日本了!!!!!!!!!
之前我小心翼翼的提起的时候，她没说OK但也没像以前那样直接反对。我当时就觉得，欸，有戏?!
结果那晚我姐姐她们一家都在的时候，我又再提一次，我妈直接说“去吧去吧，我不管你了。“
啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！虽然感觉有一点点内疚（我妈其实不是控制欲强，只是真的不放心我一个人出国，所以她终于肯让步，一定是花了很多时间说服自己让我做我想做的事），但我还是太开心了！我好感动啊，一直在饭桌上跟她说谢谢，哈哈！
本来原计划是想着5月去看绣球花，但发现5月中旬也不是绣球花盛开的季节。看了很多报道，感觉春季的花很多都在4月中旬盛开啊…
所以最终决定了，就4月中旬去吧！搞不好可能还能看到一点樱花呢！这次的目标：看樱花，紫藤花，绣球花！所以我的行程大多数都是去花园，哈哈哈哈！
行程是定了，酒店也都定了（除了水戸的住宿还没订，因为JR METS没那么早开放reservations），就差个机票。新航看着有点贵啊… 我在考虑这次可能就等ZipAir吧。飞去东京的时候就坐商务舱（能平躺睡觉），回的时候经济舱就行了。希望机票快点release吧~！
然后呢，就是我明年11月的行程啦！虽然跟叶伟说好了，但…. 怎么说呢… 心里有点没底。就觉得他好像也没这么想跟我一起去吧…
也许… 我还是准备一个B计划吧，他如果真不想跟我去了，那我就自己去其他地方吧…
想换一换这个网站的template，却找不到一个喜欢或合适的。
想找点东西在上班的时候摸鱼，却发现还真的没什么好做的（只好在这儿打发时间）。
突然发现，原来打从心里反感一个人，是真的一句话都不想跟他说，回多一个字都嫌麻烦。
周末的三天假，重刷了许多老高视频。几个视频里一直提到，做人要有目标，不要颓废，要做出贡献。
嗯，很励志。但我就是不想。偏偏就在这时候有人要来作妖。
对对对，我不上进，不喜欢学新的知识，没对社会或国家做什么贡献。有时间休息我就是喜欢刷YouTube，看纪录片，看旅游视频，打游戏。
感觉就是在摆烂，在躺平。嗯，也确实是这样。没动力做任何事。
月薪足够养活自己。没有特别的喜好（除了打游戏以外），也不想找新的嗜好。
外头天气热，人多，所以也不想出外散步。没购物欲望，不想见朋友，只想一个人在家待着。
我觉得我这样真的还挺好的。
我就是不想做大家都觉得“应该”做的事。人生是我的，为什么我非得过的跟其他人一样呢？凭什么你说什么我就得听呢？不上进，在家刷视频就是颓废？那是你觉得，是你的事，你不这样做就好了呀，怎么手伸这么长，管起其他人来了？我就喜欢在家悠闲的刷视频，很舒心呀，怎么了，碍到你了吗？你周末行程安排的满满，就优越起来了？
嗯，rant over~
所以，conclusion：我想，与不想，都不关任何人的事。你少来沾边，谢谢。
（真的好想拉黑!!!!）
So… this week, ever since Monday, the rest of the team started discovering the mistakes made by Jane all these months, every day we encountered new mistakes by her, and… even our UK office is starting to raise questions regarding the reported figures pertaining to the vessels that she’s in charge of.
And then, yesterday she got to know one of our IT lads was very unhappy with her.
And then… she started crying. Just because she learnt that the IT lads weren’t happy with her.
I mean… seriously?
Sigh…
It’s extremely tiring and mentally exhausting to deal with her, especially when she has clinical history of depression and her sensitivity can shoot through the roof at times.
Today I looked at the queries sent over by UK team, and told her to investigate and respond to UK team accordingly. She didn’t even try her hands at it, and she simply just asked me “I don’t know how to check…”
She’s not new in this role………. what did she meant by she don’t know how to check? Goodness me…
OK, never mind, I took a deep breath and explained to her which account code to take a look, find out where’s the discrepancies and gave a few examples which could be possible reasons why the discrepancies happened.
I then asked, “do you understand what I’m saying?”
She nodded her head.
Then I told her “OK, now you tell me how you’re going to check this discrepancy.”
Then she just looked at me blankly. Um, hello, didn’t you say you understood what I was saying?!
I could feel my blood pressure rising. It’s fine, I still can hold it in, no prob. I repeated all over again, and asked her “do you understand now?” Then she said “uh, I think so.. ” So I left it at that. I don’t want to kill myself by asking her to repeat what I was saying…
In the end, even though I left her to her own devices, I ended up checking for her as well, because I’m very sure she won’t be able to find out what’s wrong exactly with her numbers. So I spotted her mistakes, asked her to come over to my desk, and I just pointed out where her mistakes were, and even told her what she needed to do, and how she should draft her email in response to UK team’s queries, and going forward what she needs to take note of when working on monthly closing.
And guess what? She just started crying again. Geez…
救命啊, can someone teach me how to handle such subordinate? I didn’t even raise my voice leh, hello? 搞得我一度自我怀疑，是不是我说话太冲？是不是我语气不好？是不是我太凶了？怎么纠正她一件事情她就哭了呢？被拧开的水龙头吗？一哭还不会停了？
心真的好累…
It’s been a while since I feel weekend’s too short!
Even though I was just sitting in front of the PC for two days as usual, time flew past so quickly for the past weekend.
Let’s see. I was busy playing PoE 3.25 Settlers of Kalgur expansion, and this new league mechanic is all about building towns and resources (something that I really hate), but this whole town building experience is rather linear and I don’t need to worry too much about thinking what to expand/upgrade first. Basically I just upgrade whenever I have the resources, while keeping in mind to put aside some resources for shipping (a really good way to collect uniques!)
And then, I finally registered a MeWatch account, and I found myself playing PoE on one monitor while following the Paris 2024 action on the other, lol. And because I was a little too mesmerized by the Artistic Gymnastics qualifiers, my whole PoE progress was rather slow… :D Two days flew by and I haven’t even finish campaign omg… >__<
Ah well, I’m not in a hurry anyway. League has just started, there’s plenty of time to play this league. Maybe with this new league mechanic I can also play the league a little longer than previous leagues. It’s so interesting to send shipment over to other Kalgur ports and waiting to see what rewards will be sent back.
Last night after the Artistic Gymnastics qualifier 2 ended, I was thinking perhaps I should go to bed already. But Ye Wei was telling me how nail biting Archery’s QF was… so out of curiosity I switched to the Archery channel to take a look (I’ve never watched Archery events before). He patiently gave me a brief explanation on the bow the competitors are using and for some weird reason I continued to watch the event (even though I wasn’t interested in Archery) and stayed up all the way to watch the gold medal match.
It’s been a while since I last watched any kind of tournaments while discussing/chatting with someone about the games in real time, be it sports or esports events. It’s nice to experience it again – to the point where I didn’t mind sacrificing some of my sleep time. :D
New week! I’ve already completed my Bulkers’ Jul-24 closing… now I’m just waiting for Tankers numbers to be listed before providing the analytics for my 3 tanker vessels, and then I’m good!
To-do for the rest of August:-
加油！It’ll be December soon!