Sorry for a response after a long time. I finally managed to find out a way to commute from LRT/Buendia to Ayala Manila Bay (and back).
There are buses going to PITX passing by LRT/Buendia (and vice versa). You are dropped off near the commuter terminal area of the mall, and when going back, just cross the street at the intersection to catch a bus going the other way.
I hope this helps any other commuter with a similar problem.
Low salary, with great state of mental well-being. So long as my finances can still maintain that "great state of mental well-being."
But you know, there's a case to be made for enduring that high-salary, low-happiness lifestyle just for enough time to save up, and then switch to the low-salary, high-happiness life. I am not sure I can endure that though.
I was unaware of the flooding that Ondoy caused during its peak. Electricity wasn't cut off in our area either, internet connection was doing fine as well. It was only when I attempted to go out of the house to buy some food that I realized the damage it caused. No floods in our area, thankfully, but we're almost literally an island that day.
I should have been aware of the near-constant torrential rain all night and all throughout that morning though.
On a more practical sense, someone once told me that discipline and habit is far more important than motivation once things are properly rolling. Motivation might be the spark that gotten things rolling, but it's discipline and habit that keeps it going. (And that I ought to listen to that advice myself.)
However, in a more philosophical sense, I think accepting that you've lost your own spark and facing that very question “how does one be alive?” with the intent of reigniting that lost spark is pretty much facing the absurd. That facing that question every waking day of one's life, answering that question for every moment, is pretty much the point. Whether or not the answer makes sense (in the moment or otherwise) or not is irrelevant, because the value is not in the answer, but in the way we face it.
It could be that for today, I could face it by making a slight detour in my daily commute and allowing myself to get lost on the way home, for example. It could be that for some other day, just as an example, I could choose to face it by not wearing any underwear during a work zoom meeting, relishing on that danger of being exposed. Or it could be as trivial as making pancit by using spaghetti. Or making spaghetti by using pancit bihon. All trivial things in the big picture, but if it makes my day any little more tolerable, then so be it.
And is that a bad thing? The womb is a dark, warm, and comforting place. A place for us to get ready for the bright wide world outside.
Lemm.ee seems to be down right now.
That's my Subscriptions feed, sorted by hot. This is the only post that's about that orangered site.
PS: Oh, if you're wondering, yeah, that's from Lemm.ee I am using my lemmy.world account right now to make this comment though.
Personally, I find Anki reviews to be torturous and has always been the worst part of my routine, to the point of putting me off learning entirely.
I do agree that it is not for everyone, and is, frankly, an acquired taste. In my own experience, however, once you've made it a habit, it becomes a lot lighter, eventually becoming routine.
What I use it for is a bit different though: I don't use it for drilling. I find that learning stuff through Anki to be terrible, even though it is certainly possible. Rather, once I've already learned stuff, Anki would then come in to keep that information fresh, and refresh it if I happen to forget it. It doesn't mean that I won't forget what's in my cards--that's up to me to make sure that I do my reviews honestly, and even that's no guarantee. However, I think that with all that, I'd be able to retain most of what I've learned.
Anyways, yeah~ Thanks!
No problem. I'm also glad I am able to clear that up.
Yeah, that's also an option--and that's what I'm going to do by default. This thread is just me trying to ask around if anyone's interested.
Reddit has /r/Anki and /r/medicalschoolanki, the former of which has more general questions, and the latter is more specific to those who use Anki for their medical studies. I was thinking of at least replicating /r/Anki here but I'd love it for there to be a community here for those who use Anki for language-learning purposes. That community would form as a means to exchange information about best practices on how to use Anki for the purposes of language learning, sharing decks, etc.
I've received this message on my inbox just a few hours after deleting my posts (all of them) last night.
I'm just glad to know where they stand.
And yes, I know that a lot of people have unsavory views about that subreddit, but I guess there's just no accounting for taste.
Update. I asked a friend of mine to take a look at the Lemmy.world front page via his browser (vanilla Firefox) and it works as expected.
I also did an earlier test on a chromium browser and it also works as expected.
It might just be that my browser is breaking stuff, which I need to investigate deeper.
When trying to access Lemmy.world from the desktop, I see this blank-ish page (see attached screenshot). And whenever I try to click Subscribed, Local, or All, the same error message pops up on the lower-left-hand side of my screen:
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
I wonder if it's connected to the work our admins have been doing recently.
For disclosure, I am using LibreWolf and a userscript to make Lemmy pages look like old.reddit. I've turned off the userscript to check if the error disappears, but to no avail.
I may have missed more details that might be helpful, but I'm willing to give such details.
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My oldest account is at 9 years 10 months at the moment. Was a lurker for a time before that too. I haven't deleted my accounts out of concern of my comments reappearing, but I've kept any interaction with that site at a minimum.
Most of the time, I just check to see if any comments resurfaced, or if I've got a love letter from the admins. Neither has happened so far, but I'm not sure it won't happen. Until then, I will keep scrubbing my accounts.
I don't see myself returning there. I've lost any desire to do so, and my old, yet scrubbed accounts will serve as a reminder never to interact with that site ever again. Peek, if I must, but never interact.