My hobby๐ง
My first and absolute favorite hobby is travelling around the world. ๐โ๏ธ I love visiting different countries, experiencing their cultures up close, and exploring new places. So far, Iโve travelled to four countries โ Japan ๐ฏ๐ต, China ๐จ๐ณ, Germany ๐ฉ๐ช, and Brazil ๐ง๐ท.
My second hobby is learning new languages. ๐ฃ๏ธ So far, Iโve learned Chinese, Hindi, and English, and now my next goal is to learn Japanese. ๐ฏ๐ต I believe learning a language isnโt just about learning new words and grammar; itโs also about understanding the culture and way of thinking behind that language.
And then comes my third hobby, which is a little unusual โ talking to trees.
Whatโs Your Hobby!
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Four countries and three languages, and you still had room for a third hobby. Respect.
Mine is cooking. Most of my weekend disappears into it, usually into something I've never made before. I love food, but what really keeps me at it is that food is the fastest way into a real conversation with someone. Ask anybody about the dish they grew up on, and you'll get their whole family history in five minutes.
Some of what I've worked through so far:
๐ฎ๐ณ Masala dosa. Crisp shell, that gentle sour tang from the fermented batter, and the potato inside doing all the comfort work.
๐จ๐ณ Mapo tofu. The Sichuan pepper doesn't burn so much as buzz. Your lips go numb, and you keep eating anyway.
๐ฏ๐ต Tonkotsu ramen. Broth rich enough to coat the spoon. Hours of work for something you finish in ten minutes.
๐ฌ๐ง Steak and ale pie. Deep malty gravy and pastry that has no business being that good.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Haggis. Peppery, oaty, properly savoury. Much better than its reputation, and I'll defend that.
๐ฉ๐ช Currywurst. Sweet, tangy, slightly spicy sauce over good sausage. Simple, and it just works.
๐บ๐ธ Texas brisket. Salt, pepper, smoke, twelve hours. That's the whole recipe, and it's still hard to get right.
Japanese next is a great call, by the way. The food alone justifies it.
As for talking to trees, that's honestly the most underrated hobby on your list. They listen, they never interrupt, and they never leave you on read. Just tell us immediately if one replies. ๐
My weird one: I read other companies' outage postmortems for fun. Someone else's very bad Tuesday, documented in full detail. It's the closest thing my industry has to true crime.
Let me recommend a dish โ it's called Wo Tofu (sauce-drenched tofu). Ingredients: soft tofu, chopped spring onions, cornstarch, salt, soy sauce, and water.
First, heat some oil in a wok. Pour in the soft tofu โ remember to crumble it into pieces first โ then add a splash of soy sauce. Once the tofu changes color, keep stir-frying, then pour in some boiling water. Add a small spoon of salt. Next, scoop two spoonfuls of cornstarch into a small bowl, mix with water, and pour the slurry into the wok. Stir a few times and you'll see the sauce start to thicken. Kill the heat and scatter in some chopped spring onions at the same time. Then dig in โ it's incredibly satisfying and goes great with rice. ๐คค
Saving this, thank you. On the list for one of my weekends.
You mention waiting for it to change colour, so I'm guessing that matters more here than usual.
I'll report back on how badly I mangle it. ๐
A man who cooks is a good-looking man, and you clearly qualify. ๐
HaHa, I'll take that. ๐ Though the kitchen will tell you a different story once I'm finished with it.
By that logic, you're doing fine yourself, handing out recipes like that.
Damn right โ confidence is handsome, haha ๐คฃ
Haha, let's see how handsome I look after this tofu. ๐ Reporting back either way.
Yes, tofu is betterโitโs healthy too! :D
You actually talk to trees? I'm starting to suspect you're into cultivation (like xianxia cultivation ๐). Where I'm from, lots of people hug trees โ they believe you can absorb the tree's spiritual energy that way. Everything has a spirit, after all. ๐ณโจ
As for me, my hobbies are video games and reading. Games aside โ for reading, I've been following one web novel for 7 years now. And when I really like a book, I'll reread it at least seven times. Any genre works, as long as it clicks with me.
Reading is such an interesting hobby, especially when you get so into a story that you completely lose yourself in it. And gaming is definitely one of the best hobbies, but honestly, the real-life games people play with us can be pretty interesting too. By the way, do you want to know why I talk to trees?
Sure, we'd all love to know!
Chesss all the way! Iโm not a pro or anything, just around 940 ELO in Rapid, but yeah, itโs a fun hobby.
You can find me on chess.com/member/lovestaco
Mine doesn't have a tidy name, so I'll show you instead.
A group I followed once posted a game: a drawing of a room, and for every object in it you had to name a song. The objects were easy enough. Then I dragged my cursor across an empty patch of wall for no reason, and a hover state I wasn't meant to find lit up a big heart where nothing had been. The song for it arrived before I'd finished grinning.
That's the whole hobby - noticing the thing that sits one layer under the obvious. Some mornings a half-finished coffee cup says more than a roomful of talk ๐
Mine is probably building things that I absolutely donโt need to build. ๐
I can spend a perfectly peaceful weekend setting up a server, self-hosting something that already has a perfectly good SaaS version, breaking it, fixing it, monitoring itโฆ and then writing about why it broke.
I also have a dangerous habit of reading incident reports and infrastructure postmortems for fun. ๐ Thereโs something fascinating about following the chain from โeverything looks fineโ to โone tiny configuration choice took half the platform down.โ
And when Iโm not abusing CPUs, networks, or Docker containers, I like exploring new technologies just to understand how they work under the hood.
So I guess my hobby is basically:
Curiosity โ build โ break โ debug โ learn โ repeat. ๐ฅ
Talking to trees sounds considerably less stressful, though. ๐ณ๐