Recently, I had the privilege of returning to my alma mater, Foshan University, to attend a live lecture by the widely popular Professor Luo Xiang. I felt a swirl of inexplicable emotions but struggled to articulate them. So, I decided to jot down whatever came to mind.
Recently, I came across an interesting article on Slate titled How the Government Ate My Name by an author named Giovanni Garcia-Fenech. Coincidentally, Old T had previously written a brief analysis titled What Impact Will the K Visa Implemented on October 1 Have on Ordinary People?, discussing potential foreign immigration trends. This got me thinking: do foreigners coming to China also face the issue of their names being “eaten”?
This National Day holiday was much like previous years. Over the past decade, Lao T has mostly driven between his “two homes” in Hunan and Guangdong during the holiday, except for a few years when he traveled elsewhere.
If there was any difference this time, it was that with more family members traveling, the five-seater car couldn’t accommodate everyone, so he had to buy train tickets for them. It was this experience of purchasing train tickets that made Lao T rediscover buses as a mode of transportation.
Recently, a hot topic has been trending on Zhihu. The upcoming K visa issued by the government has sparked anxiety among many—will foreigners also come to compete for jobs?
Recently, influenced by Typhoon “Hua Jiasha,” the nighttime temperatures have been uncomfortably mild—too cool for air conditioning but slightly stuffy without it. Old T, trying to save electricity, opted to use just an electric fan overnight. Unfortunately, this attempt at frugality backfired, and he ended up catching a cold.
At first, it seemed like an ordinary cold with a runny nose for a couple of days. But just as the sniffles were subsiding, his sense of smell suddenly vanished again!
It has been exactly 10 days since Old T officially started using a WeChat Official Account on September 1st. These 10 days feel both short and long. Short, because compared to Old T’s journey of online writing since 2008, these 10 days are almost negligible. Long, because these 10 days have been the most rewarding period in Old T’s 17 years of writing, filled with novelty and challenges.
Yesterday, I saw a friend mention in a QQ group that I had already written over a million words. Indeed, as of now, Hugo statistics show 359 articles, totaling 1,036,977 words. When the count was around eight or nine hundred thousand, I was quite attentive, feeling a bit excited as the million mark approached. But when it actually crossed that threshold, I didn’t pay much attention anymore. This reminded me of the psychological paradox of goal achievement: people often invest immense emotion in pursuing a goal, yet may feel a sense of emptiness once it’s accomplished.
Back in 2020, Old T wrote a brief article with this same title, mainly because when searching for answers to this question on Baidu at the time, the results were all repetitive, plagiarized content, with few articles that clearly explained the issue.
The grand military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War was held yesterday. As the old saying goes, “The great affairs of a state lie in sacrifices and warfare,” and in times of peace, the military parade perfectly combines these two elements. As one of the most globally watched events today, Old T has come across many interesting comments from foreigners while browsing the internet and would like to share some of them briefly.
On a Sunday afternoon, Old T planned to install RouterOS on PVE for testing, only to find that creating a virtual machine was impossible. The specific issue was that on the VM creation page, the node field displayed “Node epson seems to be offline,” and on the PVE panel, the node showed a gray question mark with a status of “Unknown.” Thus began Old T’s rollercoaster journey of bug fixing.