Weeknotes: 2026-06

Been thinking if I should have a separate feed generated if people just want to sub to my weeknotes (?!) but I guess for now I keep them all within the #weeknotes tag until eventually I decide otherwise in the future.

Anyways! Another week has passed. It’s now February. January was A Month. Truly. And this week was… also A Week in its entirety, man. Started off okay, but… yeah. I’ll just keep to other social media accounts for the mushy shit, don’t wanna “pollute” this place too much yet with my negativity reflections that may hint that I need to take a break, or just re-learn to relax.

Anywho, I did have some stuff I wanted to share for this week’s weeknotes.

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I was initially amused with seeing other friends on Facebook posting a weeknotes-esque thing on a regular basis. I was thinking to myself, “Wow, they’re also doing the same thing I’m doing (right now)!”

Then I noticed a pattern between the weekly update of two friends. They were both following an acronym to use to head the sections they would post about—R.E.P.O.R.T., which I eventually learned (after a quick Google search) that it meant: “Reading, Eating, Playing, Obsessing (over), Recommending, Treating”. Apparently it’s from a TikTok trend making use of the photo slideshow feature there, though I guess videos can pass, too.

I find it amusing that sharing a weekly update is something that does become trendy from time to time, albeit for some there might be some criticism included because of what it propagates, but I don’t really care about that if the person doing it is in it for the fun. Like, you do you.

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I recently started kendo. I attended my first session, which was more of an orientation for beginners, last Saturday and I’m attending the next one tomorrow. Initially I was thinking I wasn’t gonna get a shinai yet, but after the session, they were taking in orders, and… I figured it would be a good way to get myself to commit to attending more classes, because I’d have less excuses to not go. 😆

Though funnily enough, I ended up winning a free shinai during the Welcome Dinner the Metro Kendo Club organized that same night after practice. There was a game organized by some of the members—both of them my friends 😆—and all beginners were invited to participate to join. The goal was to be the first to give the correct answer, and the questions all revolved around the things we just learned that day, with some coming from the welcome guide that includes a list of Japanese terms normally used in practice. Some basic ones like how to count from 1-10, to things specific to kendo like れいrei¹ to bow, そじsoji for the act of cleaning the dojo usually before and after practice, and I forgot the rest of the questions asked :)) It was also funny during this time that our senpai was giving us clues through the form of coughing then saying the word, since he was right behind us while we were all standing (it was in a restaurant and there wasn’t much room for us to all be standing while doing this activity 😆). That’s how I eventually won the challenge when I guessed the word soji, and also because I associated the word with my friend’s cat whose name is Soju. 😝

I didn’t really get to take much photos then, but it was a nice experience nonetheless and I’m looking forward to attend the next sessions. Hopefully the lessons I learn here too help me get more physically and mentally fit, as the concepts in kendo seem to also be applicable to daily life challenges.

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Speaking of physical fitness, I also recently started exercising again after so long. Personally, this was something I planned to do again last year, but… I let life take over instead of the other way around, and ultimately I just really didn’t set aside time for it. It’s gonna be a hard habit to (re)form again, especially now that I don’t go out as often as I used to given I work fully remote, but I’m trying to not put too pressure on myself and just remember to do it, then I can focus on the rest of the day. (I’m actually supposed to be exercising today… I’ll do it after I publish this post hahaha)

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I also recently realized as I talked to a friend about our personal websites that… I don’t have my design portfolio yet on here. 🙈

I’ll just… queue that in the list of things I wanna add on my website. It’s not really a priority right now, honestly :)) Also kinda shy with some of the work I’ve done before, not really knowing if it’s worth posting or something… But I guess there is merit to me documenting these again and giving them a spot in my website with its growing list of pages. 😁

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Okay, I shared everything I wanted to share again today. So far I am enjoying putting these together, whether someone else reads it or not. The audience of this may very well just be future me if I decide to look back at past posts in the future.²

Footnotes

1. TIL of the <ruby> element as a way to show the Japanese word as the base and a definition can show up at the top. The initial intended use case is to use it to show kanji then render its furigana on top, but I read that it can also include the translation of words (if desired). Initially I was gonna show this as <ruby>{Japanese word in hiragana}<rt>{english translation}</ruby> but I decided against it, opting instead to show the romaji rendering of the Japanese characters instead. ↩

2. That’s a lot of words to just say, I’m writing this for me. Okay! I need to work on my brevity. 😂 ↩