累与忙 Tired and Busy

Previously, I've attended a seminar with a few people from my company. (Now Ex company)
之前我与我的同事参加了一个研讨会
It's my first time being in a Chinese Seminar and that Seminar
那是我第一次参加一个纯华语研讨会而那个研讨会
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BLOW 零
MY  我
MIND 震惊

Why is it mind blowing?
为何震惊?
I realized that
因为我发现
1. I am really not used to listening to someone speak full Mandarin close to 8 hours
第一 我不是很习惯长时间听着别人用标准华语交谈 （虽然中间是有休息时间。)
(Although we had breaks in between)
2. Our standard of Chinese in Singapore is so low
新加坡的华文程度好差。
Idioms are used widely in the seminar.
研讨会用了很多个成语....
In Singapore, idioms are seldom used in daily conversation so the number of idioms we know are quite limited.
在新加坡，我们很少会在日常生活中使用成语 所以我们懂的成语有限。  

3. I suck at writing Chinese.
我不太会写华文字

They didn't allow us to take any video / voice recording. 研讨会是不应许录音/录像的
Notes are allowed but I didn't really take notes at the first part of the seminar
可以写笔记但是我在前半段的诗句没有写笔记
(Was sitting in front and feels awkward cause no one from my table was taking any notes)
（因为我坐在最前面. 同桌的都没有在写笔记 所以也不好意思写） 

However, I started taking notes after the break.
但是我在第一个休息时间后就有开始写笔记
Notes of points I feel that is relevant to me.
写下的都是我觉得我能用到的重点
I have the notes somewhere but....
I don't have it with me right now.
But, points that I feel are relevant is still clear in my mind so there is no need to refer to notes.

One of the biggest take away is the meaning behind why you are tired / busy.
You see,
We could be tired at working.
or We could be busy working.
But being busy does not equate to being tired.
Also, being tired does not equate to being busy.
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post up till now was written and saved as draft on 20 October 2019.
It's been 1 year since I started the draft for this post so I shall finish up the post.

The reason why we are tired is because we don't have drive and motivation to complete the task.
We don't like the things we are doing and is not doing anything to make it better.

How about the reasons we are busy?
It is because we seek shortcuts or we didn't put in 100% into the task
As a result, there is a need to make amendments to it. 
We will need to spend more time to make amendments to it compared to doing it right the first time.

If more than 1 task need to be amended, less time is left for yourself. Hence it is always better to try and get things done right the first time instead of finding shortcuts.

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There are more things that they cover in the seminar.
(Not relating to tired and busy but more on how to be more successful in building your company). 
I still have the points but I think I'm either going to share it on another blog post when I have the time, Or I will just not post it at all.

Although I said I should be studying, but up till now I still have not studied and will be BUSY because I chose to slack off and spend time on watching videos (People playing among us, Blackpink performing, scrolling Facebook feeds and playing MapleSEA!)

Then I also had to catch up on work matters as there are important matters to tend to at work which I have not done. so now I'm just going to head over and study before I fail super badly at my test again.
Shall see when I have the time to post again :D


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