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Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

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one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

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You're getting distracted again. You've got dreams to chase. Not people to impress. Wake up.

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hiii I was rewatching my liberation notes and I loved the scene in ep 16 where ji hyeon says "I only feel alive when I exhaust myself completely. if I have any energy left, I feel heavy. nothing has gone my way and i haven't achieved anything, but I know I've done my best" and i was wondering if you could gif it? 🍄✨

it's around 47 mins into the episode

hey thereeee

here you go~

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LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

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Tabebuia rosea tree blooming around late March every year in Malaysia.

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Took this while waiting for the traffic lights on the way to work this morning

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Cracked. Leaks. Kuala Lumpur / 2023.

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At a stop light

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WHY SRIRACHA WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND AND NOW TASTES BAD

If you like hot sauces and the like you probably have been a big fan of sriracha... specifically the sriracha made by Huy Fong Foods. But, you may have noticed that since 2020 there have been noticeable times where it was sold out for months and months. Even worse - now that it is back on shelves it tastes like crap.

I did some digging.

All of the peppers for Huy Fong Foods Sriracha were grown on Underwood Ranches in Ventura County, CA. Family-owned farm (since the 1800s) that grew along with Huy Fong Foods. Starting at 400 acres and growing to almost 4000 to support the popularity of sriracha. This was when it tasted good. In the late 20-teens Huy Fong decided to demand money back from the farm for... no one really fully understands why. They then severed the contract leaving Underwood with 4000 acres of hot peppers and no one to buy them.

Meanwhile Huy Fong approached a number of other farms scattered across southern California and had them quickly spin up pepper concerns. This put a massive dip in their supply and they lost a year of sauce-making basically. Then bad weather knocked out a lot of these farms and they lost another season or two. Also the quality and flavor across multiple farms was inconsistent.

Meanwhile Underwood sued Huy Fong, won, received 23 million dollars, hired back their workers, and got back to growing. Additionally they were able to mitigate a lot of the weather issues the last few years through better technique and had bumper crops.

So they made their own sauce - Underwood Dragon Sriracha...

and lord strike me down if it doesn't taste much more like the older sriracha than whatever Huy Fong Foods is making now. Anyways, they don't seem to sell to stores but you can buy directly from their website. I did and I've been putting it on everything.

I wasn't paid to write this... I just like doing exhaustive research about things I enjoy.

(EDIT to adjust Underwood Farms to Underwood Ranches, and change location from Ventura to Ventura County)

Source: https://www.facebook.com/sean.baptiste.125/posts/10159735977401881

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i made a roast tonight for the first time and it actually turned out really good

at 35 i'm finally a real adult y'all

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There are so many scenic place at my alma mater, UTM Skudai. It's a beautiful campus.

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At a car workshop; driving a car means regular visits to the workshop in your neighbourhood to replace spare parts to maintain and keep your vehicle running.

Mundane and boring to most but workshops are essential in a car oriented society in Malaysia. With plans to build an LRT system and increase public transport ridership in Johor soon, the future of these workshops are uncertain.

Several relative factors such as willingness of the public to switch to public transport and the reliability of public transportation will determine the fate of these men who's hands covered in engine oil and walking in boots.