You probably have meet Chinco, my partner for the recent Ecency-Dreemport Challenge.
Thank you Janey. That was his response to my 2nd-day post about him. I feel like people will gonna call me Janey instead of Jane because of this challenge 🤣. It's because of my virtual uncle @olawalium. He made that nickname, haha.
Nigerians are really cool, aren't they? I met a lot on another platform and added more to my list from this platform. They are everywhere, spreading their wittiness and awesomeness. And I like their natural sense of humor and honesty.
Back to Chinco...
Chinco mentioned about 2 Nigerian nicknames he wants to call me, and he wants me to choose one.
- Janeti
- Folake
Honestly, Janey is fine 🤣. But among the two, I guess Janeti is better since it's the closest one to my name. And Folake (for-LA-keh), doesn't suit a lady's name 😅. But I still prefer Jane or Janey ✌. Although it's too common, I like its simplicity and womanness.
In our latest exchange of words, he advised me on how to be a good dancer.
Your body isn't stiff it's just your mind, you'll have to allow your mind flow with the beat and get your body used to dance moves by doing them over and over again
My mind does dance. It always dances along with preoccupied thoughts that are being congested inside, lol. Kidding aside. Lemme try. It might work. But when I have time. I'm a busy bee online and offline. So I often find it difficult to stuff a new one on my plate. I need to discard some first before I add a new one to it.
In his recent post, I was asked a set of questions that I owe an answer to, so I opted to make this post.
What's your favorite food?
I used to love sweets such as ice cream, cakes, chocolates, and more. My favorites are Filipino-style spaghetti, Filipino-style salads (any kind), and mango-graham cake. I like making sweet foods as well. In our country, I used to prepare desserts during special events like Fiestas, Birthdays, Christmas, and New Year.
However, those favorites just became my guilty pleasures when I found out that, I have lactose and gluten intolerances. The symptoms are still tolerable though, but annoying. And I know that, if I keep eating forbidden food over and over again, it would impact my health negatively. So nowadays, I eat sweets occasionally and moderately.
I am into a healthy diet now, but sometimes hard to maintain, especially when the food in front of me is enticing 🤣. But I like eating vegetable salad now instead of sweet salad, steamed food, and other not-so-seasoned food. I realized that healthy food is yummier.
What genre of songs do you enjoy?
I love music, any kind of genre, as long as it is not noisy to my ears, rap, and rock music for instance. I don't like the too deafening ones. Although they're a kind of art for others, for me, they aren't music anymore, but rather noise. But sometimes, I can go along with the flow and would dance along with the beat of rock music and rap songs. It depends on the occasion. But I only like them when played at parties.
I mostly like those with soothing melodies, the chill ones, not so noisy, but relaxing, the pop, RnB, and even classical ones, lol. You'll find me boring though 🤣. I just don't like too noisy songs.
Do you have pets?
I don't own a pet, but we have a lot at home, cats, dogs, parrots, and fish, including some rabbits, goats, and chickens. We even have ducks and pigs before 🤣. My father is an animal lover, so don't wonder if our house is like a farm. We have, not just pets but a lot of plants too since my father has a greenthumb. So our place is like a mini jungle 🤣.
One of our dogs with my youngest brother, taken a few years ago. Do you know its name? Duterte 🤣. My father is a fan of our former president, so he named our dog Duterte lol
But the pets I like the most are cute dogs, the tamed ones, naughty is fine, but not the fierce-looking big dogs, I am afraid of them due to an incident in the past (a long story to tell). I like furry dogs. They seem huggable and cute.
If you could turn back time, what would you change and why??
*Image created on Canva
I know we can't turn back the hands of time anymore, nor change something in the past. But if there are things in the past I want to correct and change, they are the wrong decision I made (in the financial aspect) and my unhealthy lifestyle back then.
I mentioned in one of my posts that I've been saving cryptocurrencies for more than 2 years now. They were saved for my future and I thought, the more I collect, and the longer I hold them, the bigger returns I'll get. Of course, that is possible. However, in the recent crypto market crashes, I realized that it's also best to save more fiat, not just cryptocurrencies, and take as much profit as I can.
I did a lot of mistakes in my crypto investments and I lost a lot too. I had a lot of chances to recoup my investments and get some profit, but I was too weak to let go of my assets because I thought they'll grow more once I hold them longer. Unfortunately, I just lost more instead. I feel like my efforts were just wasted.
Looking at my portfolio, it's too red and it is still uncertain when will the crypto market be recovered so I could recover my losses too. I hope it's not when I have white hair already, lol. They are supposed to be the fruit of my labor in blogging, trading, and investing in DeFi. But I can't see them anymore. I thought I'll gonna have a million worth of crypto (in our fiat), but I only lost a lot. I was too close to become a millionaire, but unexpected and unfavorable crypto market crash happened. Not just once, but many times.
And I need to wait longer again to see the seeds I planted growing. sigh I'll be going back to my homeland two years from now, and I hope that my portfolio would turn green again by that time. It's a lot of time to save more though before I become jobless. I just need to make my crypto asset management more effective. I should be practical this time.
Another thing I want to change was my unhealthy lifestyle in the past. I'm not getting any younger anymore, and the consequences are now showing up. Sometimes they make me uncomfortable, and they are concerning.
It's not late though to make it right. That's why I opt to make my diet healthy too by scraping my favorite off my diet. I'm still rewarding myself with some sweets sometimes 😅, but moderately.
It is still hard to stop sleep deprivation though. But how to? Maybe if I'll stop my online side-hustles. But that's too tough to do. Adulting is really a pain in the ass. The most complicated and challenging stage of life. You can't do things you really want, as there are more priorities on the list. Less rest, more grinding. But at least, I am giving myself some time to unwind on the weekend. That's the only way I know.
Now let's see how much Ecency Points were added to my wallet in the past 24 hours. Nice, that's more than 80 points added.
But I don't want to end this without asking questions to my partner as well. I'll ask the same question,
- If you could turn back time, what would you change and why??
And.... - How did your passion for dancing start?
- Have you ever been to dancing competitions before? Have you won? What were the trials you encounter before getting into it?
- Can you show us some of your graphic design?
Lastly, - If you'll be given a chance to travel or migrate abroad, where and why?
I guess that's enough for today. I'm looking forward to reading your answers @chincoculbert 🙂
Thanks for stopping by.
And by the way, others made this one so I made ours as well.
Why IntroArt?
Because we both are Introverts and we both love Art. That's all I can think 🤣.