Author: Zooks

読み方は、Zooks（ズークス）。 2017年〜2019年（2年）：タリン大学に通った後、当初の予定通りに修士号を取得。 2018年～2020年（約2年半）：Timbeter勤務。 2021年1月からはエストニアの別の企業に勤めます。 卒業を機に（情報がごちゃまぜになって個人的に嫌なので）以前のサイトから移動しました。 学校に関することはそちらをまずご覧ください。 ご連絡はどちらからでも構いません。

Zooks Gets Mental. (8)

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Tere!

Although my condition got better I thought:

When being back in the office, I had to see the poisonous people, who made me afraid of working even after leaving the hospital. I was not ready for it.

After getting back in the office, I said

After getting my boss’s permission, I started working at part time, and tried to spend every day without talking with anyone as much as possible.

Aitäh! 🙂

Zooks Gets Mental. (7)

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So what did I do after having unfunny ideas?

Cocolyne who is one of my Estonian friends accompanied with me, and we went to the regional hospital in Tallinn.

(Praise me ‘cause I at least took such an action.)

After taking some psychological examination, the doctor told me that.

While staying in the hospital, I always thought like this. (Though I already recovered myself quite well when starting thinking of such a thing.)

Aitäh! 🙂

Zooks Gets Mental. (5)

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From the previous episode, I started thinking that Nemesia was not a good colleague. However, she is not the only one — I have another one who is my customer support manager, Datura.

When our boss assigned me for our company Twitter account:

“Please” is not a polite word depending on the context.

Also, when she said by herself that she would do a task which I asked but she hadn’t implemented for one week:

Let me know. (This means “why didn’t tell me if you are not able to do?”)

In addition, I always bring my own lunch, which everyone in the office knows. She sometimes asked me to go for lunch together when she had own, but

What’s the point to have lunch together? Then don’t ask me for it. Consider your colleague.

Such a person is my manager.

Aitäh! 🙂

Zooks Does 5 Quarantine Challenges in Estonia.

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Tere!

I know it’s still trendy but in Estonia the national quarantine period was over in the mid of May.

I thought:





I can’t go anywhere, which does not mean I cannot do anything!



Then I decided to implement some #quarantinechallenge . Mainly there are five things that I have done, but I didn’t intend to do five things. Coincidently I’d got five challenges.

A few of the challenges may be useful for you so perhaps it’s not senseless to read this article.

Table of Contents
1) Exercise x Pokemon GO
 2) Hobby x Skillshare
 3) Instagram x Trip
 4) Skype x Party
 5) Learning x Work

1) Exercise x Pokemon GO

To begin with, this is about Pokemon GO and some exercise. You may have noticed that the quarantine situation is unhealthy, but the thing is that in many counties it was allowed to take a walk. I started taking a walk a daily exercise.

A couple days later, I reinstalled the Pokemon GO app which I immediately uninstalled when it was released a few years ago. My challenge was basically: how many pokemons I could get during this quarantine.

I started this challenge on the 26th of March and finished on the 17th of May.

Here are several fundamental information.

Buddy: Ivysaur

Level: 24
Distance walked: 102.3km (according to the Japanese one)
Pokemon caught: 1,028
PokeStops visited: 503
Pokemon seen: 275
Pokemon caught for the Pokedex: 243
Gym badges: 6

The results about the battles are below.

By the way, you may wonder why I had a Russian-like name for the account. It’s an abbreviation of 

Anti CORONA Virus.

It’s trendy and matched with the purpose, isn’t it?


2) Hobby x Skillshare

The next one is Skillshare. The reason why I used this web service is because my friends — Masho — had a presentation video taken by Skillshare and shared it on her Facebook.

When going from the link that Masho shared on Facebook, it said that I could get two-free months on Skillshare. Therefore I registered and watched five videos including hers.

The genres that Skillshare has had vary from the hobby-level topic to the professional one and not only about art. The lectures are basically in English, and yet if the speaker’s mother tongue is not English, they sometimes have the scripts in their languages. 

During the quarantine, I watched: 

(I might write about my opinions on the details of those videos.)

The videos that I watched during this quarantine are all related to art (rather illustration?). This is because I wanted to enhance my skill while I couldn’t go anywhere. I told you in the beginning — “I can’t go anywhere, but it doesn’t mean I cannot do anything” –.

If you are interested in learning something on Skillshare, you also will get two-free months from here.

(If I remember correctly, you may need to register your bank card information, but given that you stop the subscription before the two months ends, they wouldn’t charge you. However, I remember that it was kind of complicated, so I recommend you to schedule it on your own planner like Google Calendar.)


3) Instagram x Trip

This is, technically speaking, not anything that I did during the quarantine but something that gave me a few ideas so I share this.

I have two purposes on my Instagram:

1. Let the audience enjoy the pictures of what I saw, which are retouched as precisely as possible and;

2. Let them enjoy 9 coloured and maximised pictures that make a national flag of the visited countries on my instagram profile page.

Some of you might remember that I was supposed to travel in March, but COVID-19 forced me to postpone it. For this reason, I decided to post older pictures of two countries as the instagram trips. On these trips I “went” to Latvia and Ireland.

I posted pictures on Instagram randomly while you may see the Estonian flag version at some point already. If you are looking forward to seeing different flag versions, just try to keep being updated with my travel plans 🙂


4) Skype x Party

In Japan, Zoom party was slightly buzzed. You might not use Skype anymore, and yet you should have an account because Skype is still useful and in a sense necessary in business. Also Skype was initially developed here in Estonia!

My friends and I had an online party, and we knew that we could use facebook for a real talk, but we chose Skype. We did the online party twice in total.

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Moreover, I personally achieved one goal that was to drink Corona beer during the quarantine. I know it’s stupid but I enjoyed myself. Otherwise, I just opened a bottle of Jameson and drank it half by myself.

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5) Learning x Work

This is also nothing particularly done during this quarantine, and yet I literally felt that it was very important. 

You may know that social media is usually casual, but you may not have any idea about Twitter in Japan. A number of business people have accounts and are quite active, posting useful information. In my opinion, those who are sales people, marketers or designers are main users, though probably because I follow such types of people more than other types.

On Twitter second by second you can get helpful information. It may be owned media such as company blogs or may be the third platform to share information like note. 

I always bookmarked interesting tweets and even after reading the posts, if I felt it interesting and useful, I sent the tweet links to Slack or Discord (as references).

In business I believe that the developing ability is one of the most important essences. If you just follow what written there with your eyes, you cannot gain it as your own knowledge. The more you consider how to adjust the idea to your business, the more you will grow up. (At least I believe such)

That’s all what I did during the quarantine. How was it? Is there anything interesting or that you may want to try in the near future?

Leave the comments and make me happy!

Aitäh! 🙂

Zooks Requests Norwegian Air Shuttle Full Refunds.

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It’s been a while to post something new here, and yet the topic is still related to COVID-19.

Many of my friends know that I do like One Direction, and I was supposed to go to Harry Styles’s concert in May in Oslo. 

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However, he rescheduled the concert due to COVID-19 and the new date is in February in 2021! I had to change or cancel the flights according to this change. This time I was going to fly with Norwegian Air Shuttle.

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Norwegian Air Shuttle is a Norwegian LCC, which one of my American friends hates. Norwegian Air Shuttle had a few options for the passengers due to COVID-19 at that time: either to request full refund as Norwegian Air Shuttle’s Cash Points or to change the flights.

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As mentioned, the new date of Harry Styles’s concert in Oslo is in February 2021. I had no idea what would happen in this time so I requested Norwegian Air Shuttle CashPoints as full refund of the flight tickets.

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I applied for it in the beginning of April. Since this time the reason was COVID-19, I had to user Norwegian Air Shuttle’s special webpage.








But







Nothing happened for a while.







In two weeks after requesting Norwegian Air Shuttle the refund, I contacted them. They told me to send the CashPoins reward number which is different from the regular Norwegian Air Shuttle account number (membership).

I sent it to them.







But




Nothing happened again for a while.








I had waited for Norwegian Air Shuttle’s reply for another week. Then I contacted them again, who told me to send them the flight reference number as well.













Mate, you didn’t mention such a thing on the website.











I told them the reference number and had waited for one month. Norwegian Air Shuttle finally gave me the CashPoints as the full refund in the beginning of June.








It took two months.







It was the full refund, and yet it was in CashPoints, so I feel that I will have to pay a bit more when booking flights next time in CashPoints. On the other hand, I would say it was still better than nothing.

Last not but least, I personally feel that this sort of loss does not have a huge impact on my wallet or bank account or any financial side because we pay for the flight tickets way before the event would be occurred.

Though I had to cancel the flights, Harry Styles’s decision was wise.

Aitäh! 🙂

Zooks Gets Mental. (2)

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Previously, Abelia went home in the middle of the film while we were watching with my flatmates.

You may wonder how it is relevant to my mental health.

You will see.

The worst picture by the way.

These are her reactions when I wanted to practise my Spanish with my Customer Support manager but I couldn’t understand, and when I said that it had been taking time to translate at the general meeting in the office.

Some people say I have a friendly looking, which often let people underestimate me.

Aitäh! 🙂