Today is November 13, 2024. I've gone to bed late these two days, probably because of the tea. I drank Lapsang Souchong and tangerine peel tea yesterday, and Oolong honey tea and tangerine peel tea today. This might have caused insomnia and impaired my memory, which is likely due to lack of sleep.
Yesterday, after posting a blog on Xiaoyuzhou, it was nearly 12 o'clock, but I was still wide - awake. So I went to Bilibili to watch childhood cartoons, such as Ultraman, The Adventures of Shuke and Beita, The Mole, The Adventures of La Ta Da Wang, City Hunter, Popeye, Little Smarty, Tom and Jerry, Blue Mouse and Big Face Cat, Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny, etc. I screened and collected about seven or eight of them for future relaxation. As a result, I didn't go to bed until 2:30, and I wasn't sleepy at all at that time. I felt like I could stay up all night. I don't know what happened.
In the morning, I set the alarm for 8:30, but I got up at around 9:30 or even nearly 10 o'clock. I suddenly remembered Jin Pangzi, the Chinese lecturer who begs in the US. People call him the gold - medal lecturer as a nickname. Actually, he's a beggar. I heard a colleague mention him before. His catchphrase is "Brothers, we got food again today". I watched his videos until after 11 o'clock, and then I went out to eat stir - fried pork with green beans at Huang Dama's Barrel Rice. I didn't have breakfast today, and I haven't had it for two or three days.
In the afternoon, during my rest, I got up at around 3 o'clock and listened to Lora's English podcast on Xiaoyuzhou. Around 3:30, close to 4 o'clock, I started to study. From 4 o'clock to 6 o'clock, I studied oral English, mainly the simple English expressions in Cocoshe. I studied about five or six of those videos. Because during the study, I often associated with other usages and had to use Doubao to translate (as there are no subtitles in the videos) and practice along with them, so it took a long time.
After that, it was almost 7 o'clock after I finished cleaning the fan, and then I went out to eat. I'm using the fan now, and the wind is really strong. It's really different after cleaning. Moreover, I had a great sense of accomplishment when cleaning the fan. I was very focused at that time, just like in a state of flow.
After coming back from dinner, I watched the video of the special - invited actor Wang Er's life in Hengdian. I almost finished watching it. I also watched an analysis video of the latest political news in Germany (written by Lu Kaiwen). I was going to watch the latest episode of the seventh season of "Natsume's Book of Friends", but I just browsed through it and didn't watch it. At noon, I also read the Weibo article of Demon Daddy, which is about the reasons why people know they should study hard but don't. It's been a fulfilling day.
Today, I also received a courier, which was the teaching materials for the English teacher qualification certificate exam that I bought. Oh my god! The teaching materials that came as a set with it were really terrible. However, the exercise questions had already updated the content for the second half of 2024. But as for the teaching materials themselves, the simplification was really exaggerated. Compared with the teaching materials that I bought by myself, they were reduced by nearly 100 pages. And they were all black-and-white copies without any color. Many details in many places were just so-so. Sure enough, free things are different. I guess they were rushed to be printed out in November in order to sell courses and give away teaching materials to make money. What a damn capitalism!
At around 8 o'clock, close to 9 o'clock, I started to study English again. When I relaxed, I watched the original English version of the Popeye cartoon (without subtitles) again. By looking at the signs in it and using Doubao for voice recognition of the lines, I learned word, grammar, and sentence collocations. It's very useful. Doubao is really powerful. Then I continued to study the Cocoshe videos. I just finished them. The current progress is the 120th video. Today is the 13th. Logically, I should have reached the 130th. I need to work harder. Now I plan to do the second 20 - by - 6 stretch of today. After that, I'll wash my head and take a bath before going to bed. I may or may not watch the latest episode of "Natsume's Book of Friends" before going to bed, depending on how I feel.