Well, my daily life is simple a cycle of working-reading-relaxing-sleeping.
6:30 AM Get ready
My day is activated by the alarm clock sound or sometimes by the noise from my neighbors, I couldn’t believe in my biological clock. It seems like a passive way to start a day, doesn’t it? Anyway then get up and drag myself into the bathroom to do personal hygiene, get dressed, all of these activities are completed in 15 minutes
6:45 AM Ride to work
I have a motorbike and it takes 5 minutes of riding to work, for breakfast normally I grab something on the way, it’s really convenient to get your breakfast here. In HCMC street food vendors are ubiquitous indeed, so you can get your meal literally at any street corner. Or sometimes I have breakfast at 7-eleven, cafeteria inside the company.
7:00 AM Breakfast time
Get into cafeteria and have breakfast with my colleagues, then sipping a cup of coffee. I love coffee especially the local black coffee, it’s from original coffee beans and the taste just so much better than Highland or Starbucks. So if you are foreigner, when you have chance to visit my Vietnam, let’s try some local brands, I highly recommend Trung Nguyen coffee or Legend coffee, this is the most famous and the tastiest coffee in the Country.
7:30 Working time
Spend the first 30 minutes to check email and prioritize what need to be done. Start working, stay in the laboratory or office and working there until 11:30 AM. About my responsibilities, I’m working as a Failure Analysis Engineer. So to simplify, every day someone brings me defected products, then somehow I need to find the root cause of the defect and present the finding to the project team, this is the hardest part because they always keep challenging me when my analysis point out their problem. Anyway, it is an interesting job, I can gain and improve my technical and interpersonal proficiencies a lot.
11:30 Lunch break
Have lunch with my colleagues, then take a short nap to recover the energy or grab a book at library, sometimes I play table football or billiard. Truth be told, I’m terrible at table football. That’s true, someone used to say “practice make perfect”, I prefer to do other things rather than practice this sport, so the result is exactly reflected my effort.
1:00 PM Return to work
Back to work, make a report, try to finish all the remaining tasks of my projects or read technical materials to further build up my proficiency. To me the key satisfactory factor which keeps myself stay in the job is that I can explore and learn new knowledge every day.
4:00 PM Time’s up and go back home
Finish working hours, In my plan after work I will workout 4 times a week at the company’s gym, but in fact the number just around 1-2 times. Return to my apartment, take a shower, listen to music, surf the internet. Sometimes I feel regret because of my laziness, so do some sets of push-up, pull-up and crunches to build up six pack abs, and proudly to tell you that I’m on progress, I’ve built a pack already, Just need 5 more.
5:45 Diner time
I am single, stay alone, do not cook at home so I go out and have diner, before going out I prepare a cup of Phin coffee,
After diner get some ice for my coffee. I can not working without coffee, it’s make me awake and “urge” my mind working or whatever.
I love the flavor of coffee bean, love its bitter taste, its smell and love to look at brewing process, love to relax with a cup of coffee to sipping
6:15 PM Prepare teaching material
Prepare lesson for my students, I have plenty of English online classes so it takes quite a few of my time, but it’s really fun and interesting job. To be honest, I’m fond of teaching than my bread and butter.
7:00 PM I’m a teacher
Teaching, sharing with my students, I love and believe in my method. Share the way I’ve been learning and try to help them improve their EL proficiency.
10:00 PM Personal time
Finish class, grab a book for reading, or just surfing internet to get needed information.
Finish classes, grab a book for reading, surf the internet to get needed information or just for the sake of relaxation. Then chit chat with my girlfriend, we share to each other about our day, this is my favorite time of the day, I’d love to look at her eyes and her smile. Sometimes she tells me a joke or a funny story, while telling it she laughs really hard, even though I don’t understand the content but just look at her also make my day.
10:20 PM Watching
Lie down and watch videos on Youtube, TED talks,… until fall asleep. That’s a typical day of mine, on weekend I spend time to hang out with friends, reading and writing an article like this one. To be honest I am not satisfy with my life now, I’m still looking for what I truly want to do, want to achieve in my life. So just try to experience and improve myself every single day. And believe that somehow I can connect all the dots of my life together.
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward” – Steve Jobs.
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