Diary

🕒 13:58 | Exhausted Last night, I scolded Huan again. She mistakenly thought a 12-year-old girl was a single mother; I felt her perception of reality was way off. I made her stay up late again, and now I feel a bit guilty about it. 📝 Obsidian & Neovim I ran into an error with my Obsidian template in Neovim. It took a long time to troubleshoot and fix. 🍕 The Buffet Experience Jian messaged me this afternoon saying he was coming to Southgate Mall to hang out. We decided to grab a box of buns and then head to a buffet. ...

🕒 10:04 | Social Overload There are several new faces in the office today. When I went to get some water, a fellow compatriot—the one who helped us find chairs at lunch the other day—started talking to me and asked to add me on WeChat. I felt a bit uncomfortable; I’m not really interested in joining or forming these kinds of social groups. There is also a new Chinese girl in the office sitting right behind me. I haven’t spoken to her yet. There are just too many people this term for my liking. ...

I hate Thursdays; three courses let me so tired. I tried to integrate obsidian into Lazyvim. On a side note, I forgot cook last night, so I had to buy a hunch today. A very small bowl dishes cost me 14 CAD. So crazy. Good night. This journal is wrote by Lazyvim, cool!

10:25 Learning English I should study English at home rather than in the office, I think. I need to write more journals. 14:16 Vimium Vimium is a browser extension that can make using a browser like Vim. 15:58 Safety Training Finished the Safety Training online course, and then I could start doing the lab soon, hopefully. 16:10 About Polishing Today I learned a very important concept – about polishing. At the stage of writing, don’t worry about the format and the grammar issues. ...

I had two classes today that went until 2 PM. I was extremely tired all day because I didn’t sleep well. At lunch, I thought about eating early since I had class soon. I mentioned this to Chathuranga, and he said he wanted to eat now too. Well, that made our group too big and we couldn’t all sit together. It was pretty awkward.

Chathuranga is back and brought us gifts - fridge magnets and jasmine tea. Very nice. We had lunch together at noon. Our regular group meeting at noon was uneventful. Started learning about Typst and FEM, then began studying VIM. After dinner at home, continued learning VIM. This editor is incredibly difficult to use.

Gemini gave me some great advice while I was learning Neovim. It made a very good point: 13:33 “For beginners, ‘over-intelligent’ tools are often the biggest obstacle to learning.” Since I am using a “cleaned-up” tutorial, I shouldn’t obsess over the missing ‘X’ in the exercise. The core purpose of Lesson 1.4 is simply to learn how to use i to append missing characters. As long as I identify where a line is missing text and manually complete it, I’ve achieved the goal of the exercise. ...