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[English]

hello everyone

Today is Saturday

It is 8pm now

I went out from home

Where am I going?

I plan to go to a bookstore

But most bookstores close around 10 o'clock

Why do I have to go so late?

This is a very temporary decision

I just suddenly had this impulse

I feel

I must go

I must go now

to satisfy this impulse

so that my whole night will be wonderful enough

So where did this impulse come from?

So today after I finished my chores

I sat down

and I thought

What should I do next?

I want to go to YouTube to learn how to use AI

to build better workflows

I want to calm down and read a book

I want to take some time to write a manuscript for a video

I plan to make a video suitable for beginners

Then I want to complete an online course that I

only took half of

There are so many things I want to do

I don’t know where to start

But I judged at that time

Well, this is not just a problem of not having a good schedule today

Such a problem does not mean that I can solve this problem by planning today

...

I was thinking

Actually, it is because my life is a bit chaotic now

I really don’t know what the point is

And what do I want

Plus the person who is very important to me

also expressed it to me recently

I think I didn't give them enough time

So I really think

I need to rethink the focus of my life

So how do I reflect?

In fact, there are many videos on the Internet

Many resources teach us

right?

But at this time, I no longer wanted to search for these tutorials

I just thought

At this moment, my instinct told me

I will use the simplest method

That is, I will write down all my thoughts in a notebook

...

Organize my thoughts

But I suddenly discovered

It has been a few months since I moved to Shanghai

I don’t have a handwritten notebook in my room

That’s why I decided to go to the bookstore

I’m going

to a good bookstore near here

to buy a handwritten notebook

And the design should be nice

This will make me more eager to write by hand

So I’m here now

I’m going to the subway station now

Take the subway to that bookstore

Then I'll catch the subway now

Otherwise I really won't be able to catch up before

the bookstore closes

Okay, now I'm crossing the street

I've reached the subway station

Now I can walk to the bookstore, which only takes about 5 minutes

After a long period of hot weather

It's finally autumn in Shanghai

Or it's winter directly

You can see how strong the wind is

In fact, when I first went out today

I found that I didn't wear enough

So I went back and got a jacket

Well

This is a suit jacket

In fact, I didn't bring a camera when I went out

Then when I got the coat, I was thinking

Or I can record a video for you tonight

It should be pretty good, so

Haha

This area is pretty good

There are many, many trails

Well

The one I'm walking on now is called a trail

and there is a large green space next to it

The lighting nearby is also good

It's not very dark

So it's very suitable for walking at night

So my main goal is

Find a book that can be used for handwriting

Write all my thoughts in it

Write whatever comes to mind

Then the secondary goal is

If you see a book that feels good

you can also buy a book to take home and read

Sometimes I feel like I am in a bookstore

surrounded by all the words

surrounded by human wisdom

It's a very healing thing in itself

I'm looking for it in this open-air mall now

But I'm a little unsure

Can I find this bookstore

It's already 9 o'clock

I saw it

There should be another flight of stairs

Hmm

It's quite hidden inside

It takes a lot of walking

But it always takes time to find good things

Now

I hope I can find my favorite notebook

Ok friends

I came out of the bookstore

bought some things

There is also a book

Let me find a place to sit down and share it with you

Okay, then I bought a notebook like this

with dog fur on it

and it looks soft

Hmm

Then I also bought a sticker

with various small animals on it

I plan to post it when writing my thoughts

For example,

What animal is suitable for today's mood?

This selection process should be fun

I also bought three pens

One gel pen

Two fluorescent pens

They are light blue and pink-orange respectively

Pink-orange

You can understand it as a mixture of pink and orange

It's quite light

Well then what

After I selected these tools for writing

I went to the book shopping area

Wow, I really wish I came earlier

Because I couldn't stop once I browsed

If it weren't for the fact that the bookstore was closing at 10 o'clock

Plus I was so hungry

I would definitely go shopping for a while

Then I bought a book like this

Its name is "Kingdom of Chinese Characters"

There are about 200 Chinese characters in it

What about the author

Using pictures and texts

That is,

a written description

and pictures

to explain the origin and characteristics of these Chinese characters

and composition

Then the author should be a Swedish sinologist

Well sometimes I think

Let’s look at some of the history of this Chinese character from the perspective of a foreign sinologist

...

It's also very interesting

Well

Then I bought this book

because I thought

should be able to use it in my teaching

I also saw many, many other books

I want to buy them home

But

I thought about letting them stay in the bookstore for a while

After I read some of the books I have at home, I will buy them

Or read it on e-books

Well

Then I really felt that

visiting a bookstore is a very healing process

You will find out

It turns out that there are so many interesting things in the human world

First of all, books can be divided into so many

Different fields

Different types

Then I was just browsing the books

I must look at the name of the book and the cover of the book

first, right?

Then if a name and cover attract me

I will open it and look at the table of contents

If I have more time

I certainly hope to start reading one of the chapters

Because the name and table of contents

are all summaries and generalizations of a book

If you really want to understand what the author says

You really have to read those specific words

Specific long paragraphs

Well

So I sometimes think

It’s really difficult to choose a book title and catalog

You have to attract readers through the book title and table of contents

This also reminds me of

my process of choosing YouTube video titles

Then I just stopped working on

[Writing] this type of book for a long time

Because recently, whether it is my work

or my video creation

It all makes me think

Well

How should I tell stories better?

Yes, so I read those books over there

See if there are any books that can explain me

Well

Okay, I'm really hungry now

It's almost 10pm now

I haven't had dinner yet

Then I'm going to find a restaurant that's still open

Fill my stomach

I'm getting off the subway now

It takes about 8 minutes to walk

I will go to the restaurant I chose

It's a Japanese Yakiniku restaurant

I'm really hungry

I'll eat later

It will definitely be like this emoticon of mine

Let me show you

I recently got a

emoticon of my own

Bad news

I just walked there

Then the map said I should go this way

When I saw

there was no road here

What's going on?

Then I discovered, oh——

It turns out that the driving route was selected on my map

So now I switched to the walking route

I found that I still have to walk for about 20 minutes to the restaurant

So I will be hungry for longer time

It is really unfortunate

I can only hope that the hungrier I am, the more delicious I will eat

Finally arrived

Okay, then I'm back home now

It's just past 12 o'clock now

Well I feel very relaxed

Well

This feeling of relaxation

makes me have the illusion of being tipsy

Then after this video ends, I

may use the notebook I bought today

to write something

Come up with my thoughts

Yeah

So today’s vlog

is a very temporary vlog

But I hope you like it

See you in the next video

Bye, good night

[Chinese]

hello大家

今天是星期六

現在是晚上8點

我從家裡出門了

我要去哪呢？

我打算去一個書店

可是一般書店都10點左右就關了

我為什麼這麼晚還要去呢？

這是一個非常臨時的決定

我剛剛突然有了這個衝動

我覺得

我必須得去

我一定要現在去

去滿足這個衝動

這樣我的整個晚上才會足夠美好

那這樣的衝動是怎麼來的呢？

那麼今天我在做完我該做的家務之後

我坐下來

我想

下一件事我應該做什麼呢？

我又想去YouTube學一些怎麼用AI

建立更好的工作流的辦法

我又想靜下心來看一本書

我又想花點時間寫下一個視頻的稿子

我打算做一個適合初級學習者的視頻

然後我又想去完成一個我之前

只上到一半的線上課程

有這麼多想做的事情

不知道從哪裡開始

但是我當時就判斷

嗯這不只是今天沒有安排好的問題

這樣的問題並不是說我把今天計劃好

就可以解決這個問題

我在想

其實是因為我現在的生活有點混亂

我真的不知道重點是什麼

還有我想要什麼

加上對我來說很重要的人

也最近向我表達

認為我沒有給他們足夠的時間

所以我真的覺得

我要重新反思一下我生活的重心

那用什麼方法反思呢？

其實網上有很多視頻

很多資源教我們

對吧？

但是這時候我已經不想再去搜這些教程

我就想

此刻我的本能告訴我

我要用一個最樸素的方法

就是我要在一本筆記本上

把我的想法都寫下來

梳理我的想法

但是我突然發現

我搬來上海幾個月到現在

我的房間還沒有一本手寫的筆記本

這就是我決定去書店的原因

我要去

離這比較近的一家還不錯的書店

買一本手寫的筆記本

而且要設計得比較好看

這樣會讓我更有手寫的慾望

所以我現在就在這裡了

我現在要去地鐵站

坐地鐵去那家書店

那我現在先去趕地鐵啦

不然真的不能在

書店關門之前趕上了

好，現在我過馬路

我地鐵坐到站了

現在走去書店，大概只要走5分鐘

經過了長時間的高溫天氣以後

上海終於到秋天了

或者說是直接入冬

你們可以看得出來風有多大吧

其實今天我剛出門的時候

發現我穿的不夠多

所以我又回去拿了件外套

嗯

這是一件西裝外套

那其實本來我出門的時候也沒有帶相機

然後我拿外套的時候就在想

要麼也給你們錄個今晚的視頻吧

應該還不錯，所以

呵呵

這一塊區域還挺好的

有很多很多的步道

嗯

像我現在走的這條就叫步道

然後旁邊有大片的綠地

附近燈光也不錯

不會很暗

所以很適合晚上散步

所以我最主要的目標就是

找到一本可以用來手寫的本子

把我的想法都寫在上面

想到什麼寫什麼

然後次要的目標就是

如果看到什麼感覺還不錯的書

也可以買一本帶回家讀一讀

有時候感覺待在書店裡

被所有的文字

被人類的的智慧包圍啊

本身就是一件很治癒的事情

我現在在這個露天的商場裡找

但是我有點不確定

我能不能找到這個書店

現在已經9點了

看到了

在那裡應該還要再上一層樓梯

嗯

藏得還挺裡面的

要走很多路

不過找到好東西總是要花時間嘛

現在

就希望自己能找到心儀的筆記本了

好啦朋友們

我從書店出來了

買了一些東西

還有一本書

讓我找個地方坐下來跟你們分享一下

好，那我去買了一本這樣的筆記本

上面有狗狗的毛

看起來軟軟的

嗯

然後還買了一張貼紙

上面是各種小動物

我打算在寫想法的時候貼一下

比如說

今天這個心情適合什麼動物呢？

這樣的選擇過程應該很好玩

還買了三支筆

一支中性筆

兩支螢光筆

分別是淺藍色和粉橙色的

粉橙色

你可以理解成粉色和橙色的混合吧

挺淡的

嗯然後呢

我選完這些要用來寫東西的工具之後

就去逛了逛書的區域

哇，我真的希望我來得更早

因為我一逛就停不下來

要不是因為10點了書店要關門了

加上我實在太餓了

我一定會多逛一會兒

那我買了這樣一本書

它的名字叫做《漢字王國》

這裡面有大概200個左右的漢字

那作者呢

用圖文並茂的方式

也就是

有文字的描述

還配有圖片

來講解了這些漢字的來源和特點

還有組成

那這個作者應該是一個瑞典的漢學家

嗯有時候我覺得

從外國的漢學家的角度

來看一些這個中國文字的歷史

也是很有趣的事

嗯

然後買這本書

也是因為我想著

應該可以用到我的教學上吧

還看到了很多很多別的書

想買回家

可是

我想著先讓它們在書店裡待一會吧

我現在家裡有的書讀了一些之後，再去買它們

或者再在電子書上看

嗯

然後我就真的覺得

逛書店是一個很治癒的過程

你就會發現啊

原來人類世界有趣的東西那麼多

首先書就可以分成那麼多那麼多

不同的領域

不同的種類

那我剛剛在瀏覽書的過程中

我肯定是先看書的名字和書的封面

對嗎？

然後如果一個名字和封面很吸引我

我就會翻開去看一看目錄

如果有更多的時間

我當然希望開始讀其中的一章

因為名字和目錄

說到底都是對於一本書的總結和概括嘛

要真的想去瞭解作者說什麼

你真的要去讀那些具體的文字

具體的長的段落

嗯

所以我有時候就在想

真的取書名和編目錄都好難啊

你要通過書名和目錄去吸引讀者

這也讓我想到

我取YouTube視頻標題的過程

然後我剛剛在

【寫作】這個種類的書那邊停了很久

因為最近不管是我的工作

還是我創作視頻

都讓我去想

嗯

我應該怎樣去更好地講故事？

對，所以我在那邊看那些書

看有沒有可以説明我的書

嗯

好了，我現在實在太餓了

現在差不多晚上10點左右

我還沒有吃晚飯

那我要去找一家現在還開門的飯店

填一下我的肚子

我現在下地鐵了

要大概走8分鐘

才會到我選好的飯店

是一家日本的燒鳥店

我真的太餓了

我待會吃飯

一定會像我的這個表情包一樣

給你們看一下

我最近獲得的一個

屬於我自己的表情包

壞消息

我剛剛走到那兒

然後地圖上說我應該朝這邊走

我一看

這邊沒有路啊

怎麼回事？

然後發現，哦——

原來我地圖選的是開車的路線

所以我現在切到了走路的路線

發現到餐廳我還要走20分鐘左右

所以肚子餓的時間又要更長了

真的是非常不幸

只能希望，越餓吃得越香吧

終於到了

好，那我現在已經回到家了

現在大概剛過12點

嗯我感覺到非常的放鬆

嗯

這種放鬆的感覺

讓我有一種微醺的錯覺

那我在這個視頻結束以後

可能會用今天買的筆記本

去寫一些東西

把我的想法拿出來

嗯

那今天這個vlog

是一個非常非常臨時的vlog

但是我希望你們喜歡

那我們下個視頻再見喽

拜拜，晚安

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
書店 /shū diàn/ B1	noun - bookstore
衝動 /chōng dòng/ B2	noun - impulse, urge
滿足 /mǎn zú/ B1	verb - to satisfy
美好 /měi hǎo/ B1	adjective - beautiful, wonderful
臨時 /lín shí/ B2	adjective - temporary, impromptu
決定 /jué dìng/ B1	noun - decision verb - to decide
反思 /fǎn sī/ C1	verb - to reflect, to contemplate
重心 /zhòng xīn/ B2	noun - center of gravity, focus
資源 /zī yuán/ B2	noun - resource
樸素 /pú sù/ C1	adjective - simple, plain, unadorned
梳理 /shū lǐ/ B2	verb - to comb, to sort out, to organize
筆記本 /bǐ jì běn/ B1	noun - notebook
設計 /shè jì/ B1	verb - to design noun - design
慾望 /yù wàng/ B2	noun - desire, longing
區域 /qū yù/ B1	noun - area, region
步道 /bù dào/ B1	noun - footpath, trail
散步 /sàn bù/ A2	verb - to take a walk
智慧 /zhì huì/ C1	noun - wisdom, intelligence
治癒 /zhì yù/ B2	verb - to heal, to cure

Key Grammar Structures

• 今天是星期六

  ➔ Simple present (copular verb 是)

  ➔ The verb ""是"" links the subject "今天" with the predicate "星期六" to state a fact.

• 我打算去一個書店

  ➔ Modal verb of intention 打算

  ➔ "打算" expresses a planned intention, similar to “plan to”.

• 這是一個非常臨時的決定

  ➔ Demonstrative pronoun 這 + 是 + noun phrase

  ➔ "這" functions as a demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”, linking with "是" to identify the subject.

• 我剛剛突然有了這個衝動

  ➔ Adverbial suddenness 突然 + 有了 (perfective aspect)

  ➔ "突然" (suddenly) modifies the verb phrase "有了" to show an unexpected change; "有了" marks a completed acquisition.

• 我一定要現在去

  ➔ Modal necessity 一定要 + infinitive

  ➔ "一定要" conveys a strong sense of obligation, similar to “must”. It is followed directly by the verb "去".

• 這樣我的整個晚上才會足夠美好

  ➔ Resultative clause 才會 + verb

  ➔ "才會" introduces a result that only occurs under the preceding condition; here the condition is "這樣".

• 我想用一個最樸素的方法就是把我的想法都寫下來

  ➔ Ba construction 把 + object + verb

  ➔ "把" pre‑positions the object "我的想法" before the verb "寫下來", emphasizing the handling of the object.

• 我現在先去趕地鐵啦

  ➔ Particle 啦 for soft imperative

  ➔ "啦" adds a friendly, slightly urgent tone to the directive "去趕地鐵".

• 我現在回到家了，感覺到非常的放鬆

  ➔ Aspect particle 了 for completed action

  ➔ "了" marks that the action "回到家" has been completed at the present moment.