Jenxi Seow

While I use Bear as my main note-taking app and second brain vault, Notion has become an integral part of my workflow.

The concept of ikigai has become popular recently.

I have a habit of making daily journal entries.

As we wind down at the end of the year, I moved my blog to jenxi.com at the close of the 20th anniversary of this blog.

This is my translation for the song “Forever” by Takashi Sorimachi.

There are many inspiring quotes from Japanese drama Beach Boys.

To say that the Japanese drama Beach Boys transformed my life is an understatement.

Chewy, 19 July 2011 -- 4 October 2022.

I wrote about habits that help us improve.

Travel to broaden your view.

Fortune favours the brave.

The secret of success is to form the habit of doing things that others dislike doing.

I wrote before about how I read in general.

The term that’s trending nowadays is actually personal knowledge management (PKM).

Fear is our instinctive reaction to protect us from harm.

Time is a unique currency.

Many of us were taught to be persuasive when we write.

Our memory is being eroded in the modern society.

We read daily.

There is a gap between what we experience and what others think we are experiencing.

People often don’t say what they think.

We all have opinions on almost everything.

In a world where we are driven to pursue efficiency and productivity, we often end up failing to appreciate the need to cut ourselves some slack.

2022 marks the 20th anniversary of this site.

Being vulnerable is to be exposed to the possibility of being attacked physically or emotionally.

I have a habit of compartmentalising my routines.

I have been using iCloud Drive for a while, then macOS Catalina revamped the Mac file system but moving most of the files into iCloud Drive.

This is about a song by KAFE.HU,《经济舱》.

Shopping online in China is a unique experience due to the massive logistics network and the immense amount of vendors available.

《僕が死のうと思ったのは》(romanji: Boku ga shinou to omotta no wa) is a song by Nakashima Mika.

This is a translation of the song by Summer aka Momoko,《不要怕》.

This is a translation of Hua Chenyu’s’《好想爱这个世界啊》, a song written for people with depression.

Why waste time taking photos of things that aren’t meaningful?

I discovered a quick way to key in Hànyǔ pīnyīn tones on a Mac.

We encounter fear on a daily basis.

This site is now dark mode ready!

The song made me, and many watching at home during the pandemic, tear.

I have a habit of standing while I work so I use a standing work desk.

I’m often told that I have a very positive outlook in life.

This is a translation of the song by GALA , 《追梦赤子心》.

People ask how I blog.

We all know that time is limited, yet we are guilty of wasting it.

Bear replaced Ulysses as my writing app.

This is a translation of the song by Mayday , 《顽固》.

When I blog, I write down my stream of thoughts.

This is a translation of the song by Hua Chenyu, 《烟火里的尘埃》.

I took a crazy leap of faith and moved to Shenzhen, China.

Many of us are social averse by nature.

In English, we refer to origin of certain things by turning city, region or even country names into adjectives.

I get asked pretty often about the car vehicle registration plates in China, so I figured I’ll write the information down in an article as a quick guide I can point people to.