Snowflake Challenge #4

Challenge #4

In your own space, create some goals. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I had good intentions to set some New Year's Resolutions but the first full week back at work has been a struggle so I haven't done very well.

So, let's try again starting from Monday. Things I would like to achieve:

1. Practice Mandarin every day. I don't have the lofty goal of becoming fluent but it would be nice to get to the point where I can understand at least some of what they're saying in all the dramas I'm watching. I have a couple of apps on my phone to learn Mandarin and my parents got me a book and CD for my birthday in September which I haven't even opened yet.

2. Write at least 500 words per day. I miss writing, but when I try I get distracted by social media a lot. I'm very aware that my writing was at its best when I was doing it every day so I want to try and get back to that. I'm sure I can manage to avoid looking at Twitter or Discord for an hour.

I think I'm just going to stick to those two in order to make it achievable.

Fandom Alphabet: L

L: Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves.
This works out nicely actually because I've been wanting to talk about Ye Zun for a while now and hadn't got around to it. I was going to do a Twitter thread but I'll talk about him here instead. What I have to say covers all of Guardian right through to the finale so I'm going to put it behind a cut in case there is anyone avoiding spoilers.

( Why do I like Ye Zun? )