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! 🙂
For the reasons mentioned previously, I came to feel not to want to go to the office.
Aitäh! 🙂
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:
Also, when she said by herself that she would do a task which I asked but she hadn’t implemented for one week:
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! 🙂
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
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?
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.)
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 🙂
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.
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.
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! 🙂
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.
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.
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.
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.
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! 🙂
Abelia was gone, and my former Russian classmate — Nemesia — joined our team.
If you already unfriended her, why would you care?
They are my good colleagues, don’t gossip about them.
I’m there not to listen to your complaints but to work.
Aitäh! 🙂
So what happened to Abelia who despised and tried to exploit her colleague…?
It’s said that she got physically damage, but she didn’t tell even our boss, and she was almost already fired actually.
Aitäh! 🙂
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.
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! 🙂
While even few of my friends knew, I was in the hospital for a while again owing to the mental issue. For this reason I decided to write and draw a diary about my hospitalisation! (Yay!!)
Nevertheless I used the word “diary”, it wouldn’t be just a daily report on hospitalisation.
It’s rather about causes, reasons and circumstances that I got mental.
Also, especially initial images don’t look good as I was not used to digital drawing, but it would be great if you enjoy reading itself.
Though I’m not sure until when I can continue this “picture diary”, have fun with my short stories that have only four frames each time!
Then, here we go — the first episode.
It takes about 40 minutes to go to the dorm at TTU from the centre, and the daily last bus departs before 0am, but she went home so even my flatmate said:
Why did she go home? There are still busses even after the film and it’s still attendable for the 8am class!?
Man, I don’t know. I’m not her.
Aitäh! 🙂
Recently I bought a new iPhone by selling the older one in Estonia. My friends know that I have had an iPhone whilst only friends in my hometown know that actually I have been an iPhone user since I was 14 or 15.
You may think:
Wow, she must be from a rich family.
But
I saved money by myself and bought an iPod.
When getting in high school, my mam bought a cell phone for me, with which I could only make calls, email or something like so-called SMS nowadays, having no internet.
As a second-year student in high school, my iPod was running out its storage, so I bought an iPod touch. My mam envied my new device so she bought an iPhone for herself. However, since finally (?) she thought that it was pitiful that I had no internet on the phone, she bought an iPhone 4s for me.
In two years I changed it to iPhone 5s, and due to the fact that in December 2016 I dropped my it in the toilet at the restaurant in Kyoto when drinking with my Irish friend (and I also washed it), I changed the device model again.
Since I already decided to leave Japan at that time, I wanted a phone with the SIM free and I bought one free-SIM iPhone. Nowadays it’s really difficult to live a life without a phone anyway, so I didn’t care about the model that much. Then when I was travelling in Germany with my friend, he found that my iPhone was not 6s that I had thought for a few years but 7 actually. The iPhone already had something wrong so I wanted a new one, and decided to buy it after saving enough amount of money by working as a freelancer.
One day I talked about such a story to my customer support Estonian colleague, who said:
Probably you can sell it at 100€ or something.
Really.
In Japan the system is completely different. Usually we buy SIM-locked phones at the phone carrier shop as those are cheaper and “sell” their older phone accordingly to the payment schedule of carriers that they have used. (It may sound complicated, and it is actually.) In other words, normally they don’t sell older phones at some device or telecommunication shops which are not phone carriers before buying new ones.
Then the colleague told me one store called Mobipunkt.
I contacted them by email in advance, and they said iPhone 7 could be sold at around 130€. However, I expected 100€ because my iPhone’s battery health was bad (81%), and the colouring was a bit faded.
In the end of April I got notified that the salary as a freelancer has been paid so next day I went to Mobipunkt in Linnahall. Nevertheless it was still during the quarantine period owing to COVID-19, as even such a shop seemed to be considered as a telecommunication service, the store was open. (That’s why I could decide to go there.)
When entering the inside of the store, only one staff member was there.
I told him that I wanted to sell the older device and buy a new one. He said the engineer would check the device, which would take five to ten minutes, which the time like I could see around the whole shop. In several minutes, the staff came back and told me the selling price. I agreed to the price and told him the type of model, the storage size and colour of the device that I wanted. He deducted the older device’s selling price from the new device price, which was the final price for me to pay.
I got a backup in the previous night and was ready for everything so basically that mentioned above was all. The price of iPhone 11 was 815€ and I could sell my iPhone 7 at 100€ so I paid 715€. You might want to pay on the installment plan, but I didn’t want to pay for the interest, for which reason I saved money.
I knew that there would be a new model from Apple, and yet I take photos with the camera of my phone, so whether there is a night mode in the camera was quite important. iPhone 11 Pro was too expensive and I really don’t like triple cameras. (It’s so creepy and disgusting.) That’s why I bought iPhone 11.
After the purchase, I went home and restored my backups, and changed the app store because I wanted to use SEB’s mobile banking app. (The app store change is not related to the device change but it was just a good timing for me.)
You might know that the phones available in Japan makes sounds when taking pictures, but this time it doesn’t (as it seems the device was from France?). Anyway, I feel so GOOD.
That’s all about the personally recent happiest story.
Aitäh! 🙂
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