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After approximately 9 months of this pandemic, I can honestly say it has forced me to develop myself in quite a few ways.
The first thing I got into was cooking. The inability to hit up my usual restaurants really motivated me to learn how to cook all my favourite asian dishes (especially HK cafe favs!). I'm too lazy to upload the photos but I made a buttload of delicious things!
Once summer rolled around, I got lazy about cooking and didn't feel like sweating in the kitchen. I turned my attention towards home decor instead. Honestly, I have never in my life put so much effort into making any place I've lived in look nice or trendy. It was kind of a nice distraction to spend time at Ikea, local furniture stores and online sites like wayfair etc. A big one here is actually FB Marketplace surprisingly. It's been pretty addictive looking for great deals on the second hand market. I guess that goes back to my previous experience working at Value Village. Quite glad I did though because it really makes a noticeable difference to make a place your own.
Naturally, home decor goes hand in hand with house plants. Other than looking nice and adding to the decor I had already, keeping plants at home is proven to improve air quality as well as your mental health/mood. I initially had a single bamboo plant and have now grown my collection to about 15 plants. Again, addictive and fun to find good deals on plants using FB marketplace as well as hitting up local stores for these. There's something about taking care of plants and watching them grow that's actually kinda cool.
Perhaps it's also worth mentioning that the pandemic really motivated me to stay informed. For years now, I have mostly ignored the news since I haven't paid for cable in probably a decade now. I also ignored it because of all the stupid, irrelevant news that gets covered. I really had to struggle for awhile as to where to get my information from as well as decipher which sources were actually correct.
Anyways, despite all the shit that has happened this year I can honestly say that I have been able to create a positive experience out of it and I hope others have been able to as well. Keep your heads up RS. Things will get better soon I hope.
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