The end of the year｜Let's go and cherish

I feel like someone who likes to taste delicious food everywhere. Whenever I swipe a food post shared by others on social media platforms, I always take a screenshot or keep it in a memo, so that I can come to eat at any time when I pass by the area where the food is located. To record and share the delicious taste is the original motivation of writing on the online platform.

However, the thoughts that have only been in my mind for a long time are mostly after entering the store, the meal is served, the mobile phone "eats first" (photographing), and the delicious entrance, after meditating on small thoughts in my heart, it is gone.

Until the beginning of the year, after returning from a trip to Tainan across the youth, I sorted out the list of stores I wrote down on my mobile phone when I was on the road, and was surprised that I had tasted about 20 kinds of delicious food in just three days and two nights. Noodles, shortbread in the Narcissus Palace Market, Fusheng No. kueh, Jinde Spring Rolls, Jipin Shrimp Rice, Fook Kee Meatballs, Du Xiaoyue Danzai Noodles..., which is equivalent to nearly 6 to 7 meals a day.

"The bowl of kueh is very solid, different from the soft and soft QQ I have eaten before, and it has a lot of ingredients, and the shrimp is a bonus";

"The head of the spaghetti soup is kombu, you won't be thirsty when you drink it, and instead of hot pot ingredients, it's fried pork slices";

"Fook Kee Meatballs, I like the skin of it, it's a texture I haven't eaten before, it's not the kind of fried QQ, you have to bite a little harder, but it's already steamed very soft, similar to carrot cake, but better than radish The cake is softer";

Reading the little thoughts I jot down after my first taste at the time, I thought - "Then try to turn them into an article".

Therefore, there are articles related to Tainan cuisine such as " Delicious Anytime (Food) - Tainan Series Xujia Meatballs ", " Delicious Anytime - Cuisine (Tainan) is at the corner, life choices are also " and other articles related to Tainan cuisine, although the content was initially published The platform is not in Matt City, but the subsequent impact of continuous writing in Matt City has really changed too many individuals. I won’t go into details here. Those who are interested can read this article .

Originally, the starting point of writing was to record and share the delicious tastes I tasted, and then I imagined that I could become a food blog. If I am lucky enough to have a small business, I can eat all the delicious food in restaurants or daily snacks "for free". In Matt City, in addition to writing about delicious food, daily life, and sharing the experience of books read, etc., at the same time, through participating in various themes of community activities, I was able to re-organize the relevant process that I have gone through so far.

Recently, I have been saying to myself the words "U never Know" intentionally or unintentionally, and there is more than one thing that has affected me this year ; Choose one for the topic , It's gonna be "Writing and Reading in Matt City" .

I don't know if at the beginning of the year, influenced by the accidental discovery of a high-quality store ( Pinju Coffee ), the number of books read this year has silently increased to double digits. At the speed of flipping through books in the old days, the number of times of renting is at least 3 to 5 times. It takes time to complete the book, and the loan period is calculated as 1 month as a reference. Even if the beginning of the two-digit number is "1" and the end is "zero", it is still a "suck" for myself.

After making a detailed reading list, I found that the types of topics involved are different from those in the past. It is no longer limited to literary works or travel narratives. Instead, there are more books on personal growth, inner exploration and speculation. "Silently expand the reading of different types of books. Habit" can be described as "this year has made a change" thing.

He shared that in the process of applying for a job, Xu was unable to enter the company of his choice because his language skills were not up to standard, so he wanted to strengthen his English ability. And since I started the one-character book of "7,000 Words in Pockets" many years ago, it is still implemented intermittently, but it is always the learning mentality of "fishing in three days and drying the net in two days".

One of the plans for next year , "Adjust your mentality to learn English well" , the benchmarks for "learning well" are " Listening : When watching English speech videos online, listen to and understand the main points of the speech without subtitles", " Reading : When reading the content of English articles" , can gradually reduce the frequency of looking up vocabulary while turning pages in the past", and " Speak : When you need to talk in English, you can deal with it calmly".

• What to do: listen more, see more, talk more.
  For example, after finishing the book of "Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns", the function should be greatly increased.

After graduation, I officially entered the first job in the workplace. It is now the sixth year. I even chatted with friends and felt that I was quite "Amazing". Compared with my classmates in the same class, I can stay in the same workplace for so long. almost infrequently. Of course, this is due to its origin. Due to the relationship between the construction industry, the completion of engineering projects can take two years and three years (more than one year), so these years of struggling in this field have only experienced two projects. execution.

Although the nature of the project is different (building a house or building a bridge), the execution mode is the same. Realizing this, it is not difficult to imagine how the third case will start and end in the future. So, I have the second plan for next year , "Switching the workplace/field" .

• What to do: Self-improvement, maintaining "flexibility"
  As the saying goes, "A fish is not a pond without fat", but in today's social environment, it is not necessarily applicable; whether it is good or bad after changing the workplace, you can't control, but what you can master is how to "add value" to yourself, and you can be more selective in your choices. Flexibility, not waiting to be chosen.

The third plan for next year , "Take care of yourself" , for no particular reason.

• what to do:
  Keep going / explore / discover / eat food / learn / read / laugh / feel / travel / walk around / try new things...and breathe.

In the early summer of 2021, during the level 3 alert period in Taiwan, the pause button was pressed almost everywhere in the business premises, and the fitness center was no exception. Because of the habit of continuous regular exercise, I suddenly felt overwhelmed by the momentary "inability to exercise".

I remember flashing in my mind at that time - "Where do you want to exercise when the fitness center is not open?", and also specially spared a circle of nearby parks to find out if there is a suitable place to exercise, but the park has also been blocked.

However, under the circumstance of limited exercising outside, I was able to start to try and enjoy the experience of exercising at home. Finally, I was able to hold the fitness center to reopen with the yoga mats and online HIIT/TABATA teaching videos obtained during the socialization. .

Occasionally mentioning this, I can't help but think of the line in "Jurassic Park" "Life will find it's way out", which seems to be fully applicable here.

I hope that 2022 will be like this, and do it and cherish it.

The same screening: 📚Little sharing of book list

"Seeing | Ten Years of China's Seeing and Thinking", Chai Jing "Writing to My Unique Self | In My Name", Zhang Manjuan "Taking Over the Family", Maiko Seto "Infinite Game", Simon Sinek
"Modern Love Story," Daniel Jones (editor)
"The Crocodile That Dies in 100 Days", Yuki Kikuchi, "The Latte Factor | The Smallest and Strongest Habit to Get Rich", David Bach & John David Mann
"The greatest achievement in life is to be yourself", Zeng Baoyi, "The Mentality of Getting Rich | 20 Financial Lessons on Wealth, Greed and Happiness", Morgan Housel
The Beauty of Angkor, Jiang Xun