Category: Virtual Coffeehouse (Page 6 of 8)

These past few weeks made me feel more carefree in the sense that I can be at home… which sounds bizarre and crazy…I know. This was because I barely had enough time for myself when I was occupied with work and school. However, I came to realize that I really miss being able to sleep in and spending time with my family. My father and I started to binge watch shows. Sometimes, I would even pull an all nighter by myself watching twenty to thirty episodes. Our favorites one so far are called High and Low and Flying Tiger. 

Some days I would even watch Chloe Ting’s workout videos on youtube to get me back in shape. It’s a great way to feel somewhat productive. A weird obsession I am enjoying recently is making a bucket list for my friends and I. It seems to be one of the best ways to cope and be excited about the future. I miss my parent’s home cooked meals. We also decide to make our favorite dessert to eat that consists of small white tapioca and condensed milk.  I even started to drink matcha latte… a little way too much… I guess you can say I have an addiction now. It’s super good! Overall, I hope to find more ways to be productive at home, while cherishing these moments with my family.

These past few weeks, I was able to spend more quality time with my family. Since the lockdown, we started our own mini baking class with interesting recipes we discovered online. There have been some failures but also many successful ones. The most popular appetizers the whole house agreed on were the pork steam buns and cheese fried dumplings we had made. 

Recently, my sister and I finally decided to rebuild the 1,000 pieces of puzzles that have been sitting on top of our bookshelf, collecting dust over the past years. I also began writing a story with my friends and learning Japanese with them just for fun. I’m slowly adjusting to this situation. If I’m not doing assignments and homework, I’ll be on zoom/facetime with my friends or hang out with my parents.

   The idea of staying home for months does not excite in general. But in every circumstance, one should find a bright side to stay positive and upright. I found myself to be a very active individual who always enjoys being on the go. Realizing that the pandemic is no joke to people. I happily decided to hold my family and myself in self-quarantine. Even though I’m still grieving on seeing my friends, I choose to stay home to protect my loved ones in any case scenario and recommend them to do the same. Staying in quarantine was a lot more rough and complicated experience, in the beginning, I even remember catching myself releasing one small tear from all the stress I was experiencing with, especially from school assignments.

      As of right now, quarantine has been going steady for a while. I have enough time to finish all my assignments, plan and organize my tasks and other things as having everything done on time seems to work out for me. Also, I can spend more time with my pet cat, he finally gets enough attention and gets to spend more time playing when everyone is home. There is now a plenty of time to keep up with my hobbies, like drawing, I drew a really cool illustration, of xxxtentacion (music artist) that passed away a few years ago, as a Simpson character. I am very satisfied that I can keep up with a daily morning jogs now that the weather allows me to do so. Lastly, I am happy I am able to spend a value of time with my family, we have never spent so much time together.

At first, it was hard to adjust to everything but once I started to get used to our situation, I’ve been able to do many new activities. In the past few weeks, I started exercising and doing yoga. I started going to the gym before the COVID, so I was mad at the fact that I couldn’t go anymore, but my sisters and I have decided to work out and do yoga every day because we can’t just be lying or sitting down every day. It can also be very depressing and it can mess up someone’s mental health. It’s very important for everyone to be active and since we can’t go out and walk, we decided to do this instead. 

Another activity that I’ve done was spending more time with my family and praying. We’ve been watching movies and playing board games. We’ve watched many comedy movies and my sisters, my mom, and I have watched romantic movies, not my dad, he doesn’t like romantic movies lol. We’ve also played Jenga, dominoes, connect four, monopoly, and bingo. My family and I have started praying in the past few weeks, we’ve prayed for the people who have COVID and for people that don’t have it. We pray that everyone who has it gets better and that the worst doesn’t happen and we pray that the people who don’t have it, don’t get it and if they do get it, that they catch it quickly before it gets severe.

There’s a lot of new activities that I explored and discovered with my family at home after the spread of COVID 19. More time is available for family members and classwork。 One interesting thing that happened at home was that my whole family started playing this App game called hay day。It‘s a very interesting and relaxing farming type game. In the game, you can experience being a farmer， and manage everything on your farm in a relaxing and comfortable tone. This game is really helpful in a way that brought the relationships families tighter at a soft comfortable pace.

Moving to my next favorite topic, Food! It’s always a mouth-watering issue when it comes down to delicious food. Luckily, my parents are excellent chefs when it comes to techniques for operating with food. simple techniques like boiling, cooking, steaming,  baking, frying are combined to create beautiful and delicious food. Of course, the most important of all, the taste is always exceeding my expectations when my mom comes in cook. One of my favorite dishes, fried eggplant fish, which is also one of my moms best product. It is the best in the sweet，sour， and a little spicy taste due to the richness of the seasoned and flavored fish, and eggplant that has gone through first steaming then fry along with the seasoned fish and then combined with special homemade sauce. Overall, time at home is very valuable and precious when you really enjoy it. 

In the past few weeks，I had plenty of time to play a game which I always don‘t have time to play，the “Death Stranding”. This game is from my favorite game producer Hideo Kojima. I am fan of his Metal Gear series game. Before I stat to play Death Stranding，one thing I remember is Hideo Kojima said even himself don’t what type of game this is，but it is about connecting between person to person. I did not get how can a game connect person to person. In the game player play a role as a postman to deliver all kind of order to the personspread all around the United State due to a disaster called “Death Stranding”,and connect them in to a quantum network called “Chiral Network”，in order to rebuild the United State. The game is great in all kind of way，picture quality，music，player interaction. The end of the game I am still thinking the original question what make us connect tougher, and I have the answer now，thanks the quarantine experience in past few weeks.

One key point to understand the connection is in the player interaction. In the game you need to build your own road to reach your destination，there are always trouble when you building your own road，you might not well prepared for the new journey，not enough material to build your road facility，running out of ammunition in a battle. When you are in a crisis you might always find other facility built by other player or the ammunition，material share by them to help you finish your journey. This is one way to connect by give a hand for the person in crisis. The facility you built also will help other player come to the same place，help and support each other for，the same goal connect all the player tougher.

I think it is too long for a post，so I just stop here.

        Throughout these few weeks, I started to realize or find good things about staying in the house all day. Starting with the online classes, I feel like I have more time to finish work then before. Normally, some of these assignments would have been due in 2 days or less. So now, I get more time to really sit down and think how to get the assignment done. Then it is the professors I have, that really made the class schedule more flexible, so I appreciate that the times for class is something I can manage. I miss chilling with my friends, but with video games and Face time, we can still talk. With that realization, I see more then ever how beneficial technology can be especially during these circumstances. 

          This prompt for the coffeehouse came at good time, because last week, I finally got in to racing games. Racing games was something I never played at all, I wasn’t really interested. So since Dirt Rally 2.0 was free this month with the P.S plus subscription, I got the chance to try it, and I actually enjoyed playing it. The funny part about it is  that it isn’t consider one of  the best racing games to play according to my friends. So if I like that game, most likely I would like the other ones that reign on top, like Need For Speed or Gran Turismo. Ultimately, these past weeks have been quite chill, I got into something new, and end up enjoying it. 

These days provide us with a chance to spend more time with our families to chat and get together. Usually because everyone needs to work and go to school, so there is less chance to get together. In the past week, something bad happened in my family, which affected the family’s mood and other aspects. So in order to “heal”ourselves means to divert attention. In the evening, we decided to play poker cards to relax and relieve tension. Because people tend to be sentimental and think more at night. After a few days of observation, I could feel that my family would be more relaxed and smiling during the poker game. 

Many people say that when you are un a bad mood, eating sweets will make you happy. So my younger sister and I decided to make a three-flavored melaleuca layer cake (and invited my family to participate in the process of making it). Although sweet food can’t really relieve us from the negative emotions caused by the occurrence of that bad thing, we still enjoy the process of making the melaleuca layer cake. Hope everyone and their family are doing well and stay safe.

In the past few weeks, I enjoyed what this quarantine has made me realize. I realized how much I had taken life for granted. We all take life for granted and don’t even realize it. Walking through the park, going out to eat with friends, shopping, and the list goes on. We didn’t appreciate life enough. Life goes by so fast that we don’t capture the beauty of it all.

When this is all over, we should enjoy each day as if it’s our last. Being more productive with our days. No matter how big or little it is, just do it and enjoy it. This quarantine sucks, but it has made us realize a lot. Other than that, I’ve enjoyed sleeping whenever, especially with my sleeping schedule being messed up. At this point, the day and time doesn’t even exist. We’re letting time fly by until we can be set free again. Hope everyone is safe and healthy.

I believe the situation has become a general well being emergency. It began in china, then made its way to the United states and now we are the #1 country who is doing the worst.Up until this point, we’ve gone through nearly 30 days amidst the scourge . The emergency has carried a great deal of bother to individuals’ lives, and even achieved a negative effect. To start with, schools, restaurants and all non essential businesses have been shut down to diminish the spread of the infection. The episode of the emergency implies these areas are especially helpless against business misfortunes. Second, numerous individuals have lost their positions in light of the emergency and many have been applying for unemployment. This implies these individuals have no money related assets during this period. Also, there is no assurance that the proprietor will revive after the episode. Thirdly, it has welcomed a pessimistic impact on individuals’ instruction. In spite of the fact that we have separation learning, it is a troublesome thing .After the Corona-virus has hit New York City, it has been influencing everybody’s very own lives with most individuals remaining at home from work and school. The COVID-19 moved the entire training framework, from in-person meetings to remote classes and lectures. When remote classes first began, it was a difficult and confusing time for teachers and students. Generally, just adjusting to the whole idea of remote classes was difficult. In class we were able to actively listen and ask questions but being remote makes that difficult because online programs such as zoom can buffer or have audio problems. Also, I feel I am more productive at school then at home. I also prefer separating my home life and school life. But, now I can not do that which is disappointing. I feel it has been a lot more challenging than actual class.