Day 6 - Hanoi

Ok as to stave off my self-loathing while I'm cooped up in my room for almost a week now, I decided I'm going to log everything that happens in my day.

Woke up and as usual, knee was hurting to the hells and back. I had guests messaging me that I had to get back to, so hobbled over to my desk to answer them from my laptop.

Got ready as usual, and decided to walk around my room for an hour while listening to a book as a way to move around and clear through a list of books I want to read or listen to. Listened to Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman and am really enjoying it. I've always been fascinated by mythologies and legends and this is shaping up to be a really fun listen.

While walking, I decide to do some workouts with whatever I have around me. It's pretty difficult with a fucked knee and no equipment, so we have to improvise - 1.5L water bottle time. If someone walked in on me it would've been a pretty weird sight, me walking around while listening to norse mythology and shoulder pressing a bottle of water. But hey if you do it for long enough you start to feel it :). So i did that for a good 5 minutes straight while alternating arms, then resistance band side steps which FUCKING HURT, but like the good kind. I knew my legs and knees were weak but goddamn I felt it burning after minute 2. Stuck that out then did calf raises in one minute intervals which didn't feel that bad in the moment, but using the stairs after, I feel my calves working.

Following that, I decide to order food from 'LeO TACOS - Xuan Dinh'. I'm finding food a bit weird here, I'm not a huge fan of most of it, but then I'm thinking I just prefer making food myself, or really simple foods. But that might change when I can actually walk around and see what's out there not just on Grab.

Food was a lot better than I thought it would be. Got a beef burrito and some fried chicken and was pretty solid.

Watching Frieren, and man I forgot how much I loved this series. The slow mundanity of it all really envelopes you into the story. It's not just the fancy flashy fight scenes but also slow quiet moments of the trio travelling.
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I particularly loved this scene. There's something about magic that I've always felt fell flat, normal spells to locate things are often overlooked as being 'normal' and never look cool.
"I want to figure out what the most optimal mining route is? Yeah just cast this spell and it'll tell you something that you could've never figured out yourself"

But where's the fun in that? Magic is magical - it's cool as hell. so let's make it cool. It takes what is normally portrayed as simple, and gives it the gravitas it deserves. ALSO in this scene Frieren (the elf) is a legendary mage, so what's normal to normal people actually is really fucking powerful, so let's make it powerful.