“ Deep work is not some nostalgic affectation of writers and early-twentieth-century philosophers. It’s instead a skill that has a great value today” ― Cal newportIn the age where short form content reigns, there are studies which reported that the average person's attention span is also shorter. It’s ironic that the tools that we have today which are supposed to be helpful have become a double edged sword. Our culture is also overdosed with productivity know-how and content that is actually another set of distraction on its own. While it’s nice to know more about how to maximize productivity, I think the most important of them all is deep work, just as Cal Newport mentioned in his book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

The horrible week was here!One of the things about being a woman is that it’s a lot harder to workout during certain period in the month. While I did my best to consistently workout, I had insane cravings that I tried to curb but failed. During this time, it was also the time when my sleep was all over the place, I felt a little bloated too and what I was eating wasn’t as strict as the previous 3 weeks. The good part is that I had more food that was pretty diverse and made up the things that I haven’t had while I was on a pretty strict eating plan.

Time flies isn’t it?This Sunday was a little bit different from my usual lazy Sunday. I was so exhausted and dehydrated due to the carnival. While I wasn’t wearing a costume, I was taking pictures of the participants and walking alongside my neighbors. I wrote about our pre-carnival situation over here Behind the Scenes of Village Carnival Festivities. The next day, when we got to the venue, people came with crazy costumes and awesome decorations. They did awesome choreography dances too and did the street dance all along the main road. It was truly festivities on its own.

What is it like being a moderator for tiktok ? the other day, I got to talk with a distant relatives of mine who worked as a tiktok moderator. This person has recently resigned but what I have suspected of how it carries its operation was somehow right. Tiktok hired some type of subsidiary companies that focuses on moderating the content uploaded in the video. This person said that the policy kept changing and it was one of the reason they quit. They have a few layers of moderation and each of them deals with different type of content before being approved and feed into what the customer seen. The first layers deal with horrible thing that something we don't really see often. It's like the common content that you often see in deep and dark web. Then, there are other layers that simply deals with minor spams, certain tags that needed to be removed etc etc. This person told me that since working there, this person never installed tiktok. I mean, I can imagine given they work seeing tiktok almost all day and filtering things out over there.

Carnival time is hereThis is the first time our community has held a carnival. It seems a lot more festive than the region’s carnival. While it’s only for our village, safe to say there is going to be a lot of people as it involves each neighborhood unit. There will be more than 40 people in each neighborhood unit and each of them are going to wear some type of costume depending on the theme. I heard that this carnival will have 48 units participating.

Fall is one of the best times for seasonal coffee flavors. Think of pumpkin, spiced chai, apple cider and even maple. Technically, while we don’t have four seasons in South East Asia, corporations like to follow seasonal flavors. During summer we have fizzy coffee with fruity flavors, during spring we have rose flavors, and winter with its peppermint and chocolate dominated flavors. Since now it’s around fall, coffee chains begin to roll out their fall inspired drinks. I tried everything from Starbucks before but since they are far away, the closest chain I could get to taste seasonal coffee's flavors is from Janji Jiwa.