Sunday. Aachen. it’s rainy again but it was quite sunny a few days ago

the Christmas break started and i was in my room for more than 40 hours and i thought today was still Saturday. silly me. started watching Halt And Catch Fire with class genius and made a lot of pancakes and cooked noodles too. my new place is cosy. feeling slightly under pressure because there are a lot to be done this holiday season. wish me luck. but somehow im still reading random things rather than doing productive work. smh.

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someone found some female remains at a supposedly male-only Geek mountain. what kind of stupid rule is that. people used to be so weird and dumb

the strange life and death of a genius programmer. stumbled upon a few articles about blockchain technology recently but was too tired or energyless to document it here but here is one.

here is another one about a cryptocurrency scam thing where the founder of the company allegedly faked his own death.

and now people want to exhume his body. hmmmmmmmmmm

Thursday. Aachen. It’s getting cold

really wanna do more reading 😦 

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so my German has gone bad lately so i read an article in German about this missing Irish girl who was found dead in Malaysia. been obsessed with this case and feeling very sad about it. RIP Nora.

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10 things to do to be super successful. erm okay.

i suspect that my deteriorated language skills lately has something to do with my injured right arm which hasn’t been fully functional for more than 3 months now. 

7 things people should do while being in college (university in most other places in the world). hmmmm would still have to do no2, 5, and 6. 

Wednesday.

woke up with allergies. i seem to have a lot of problems now

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history websites. weird that im interested in history now

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the mystery of a stolen painting that was found after the suspects have died

wow. so people don’t just use tax haven countries to avoid legal financial responsibilities but also environmental responsibilities. this is bad

“Contrary to the national football team, the German economy did not have a rude awakening at the start of the summer,” AND THEY SAY GERMANS HAVE NO HUMOUR. anyway i don’t understand 80% of the article because im economics-illiterate 

ahahahahaha wtf Paris

“Germans care about the environment about as much as their beer” so they’re running out of beer bottles

the physical and the mental are connected

Thursday, still in Yiwu

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who poisoned Zhu Ling? 

more on the case above

wtf China

don’t forget what happened to Alan Turing

on pronunciations of foreign words

guys who date older women

gossiping is good.

doing nothing while travelling. sometimes i just walk around aimlessly too in foreign lands because why not

14 Tweets über das WM-Aus des Deutschlands

das WM-Aus

Deutschlaaaaaaaand!

a scandal about how Russia won the bid to host the World Cup

wow how could people request for free stays at hotels like that???

i admit that i’m privileged enough to not have been poor. society should not use the word “poor” loosely, like how they use “OCD”. being broke is normal. [comic]

actually useful royal etiquette rules

the man who cracked the lottery

Wednesday, Yiwu, Feels like 45°C

befriended a Chinese and learnt some important tips on how to bargain

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an internet mystery has been solved. this pretty pointless article tells you everything with its title

the true cost of eating meat. spoiler alert: it’s more than just the money

very informational piece on what’s the problem with the future

how to be confrontational/negotiate

kinda useless article on how to increase web traffic

save the pasta water

have you heard of delusional disorder?

Asians are damn obsessed with fair skins aren’t we

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six things we’ll regret. well i guess im not doing any of these…