I didn’t wrote a January 2026 update. As a result, I completely forgot what happened 😄

So while it is still February, I’m going to push an update!

Chunithm: reached 16.5 rating

So I ended up finishing my new year’s resolution by February 😄

My current rating is 16.63, so I guess I can go for 16.75? It’s an uphill battle, so I’m hesitant to set 17 as my target rating this year.

Japanese learning progress

So I took a mock N2 exam today (yes literally today), and the results were as expected (I failed)

  • Language Knowledge (Vocabulary/Grammar)・Reading: 55/120
  • Listening: 26/60

Which results in a grand total of 81/180. The requirements to pass is 90/180, so it is pretty close. This gave me the confidence to try applying for N2 this July.

Why did I take it today? Because based on past experience, the registration for July’s JLPT is on March.

10K training regress

Yes, not progress, regress 😓

I kept getting sick / skipping days due to lack of confidence, so I just hovered around running 4-5 km instead of pushing my long runs.

Body weight & high blood pressure

I actually started tracking my body weight & blood pressure each morning when I wake up. My current weight is hovering around 69.9 - 70.5, which is better than my previous range of 70.5 - 71.5 I guess

My blood pressure is consistently high though, despite the fact that I am trying my best to reduce weight & run a lot. I heard that reducing body weight helps with reducing blood pressure, which is why I started doing intermittent fasting. Nowadays my first meal is around 10 AM and my last meal is around 6 PM.

Work has been very stressful I can’t lie… Hopefully once the dust settles my health improves.

Goi (語彙)

At some point I was bored of playing rhythm games at home, to the point that I resumed my personal project of mine. Java & Spring is not too scary once the project is somewhat initialized, only the barrier of entry is kind of high due to needing knowledge off how things work & what annotations are there.

Turns out the amount of backend code needed for my personal project wasn’t too high, so it is what it is I guess. I will start the frontend side sometime on March (maybe).

Future plans

  • Gonna watch King of Performai with my arcade friends tomorrow. Hyped about what new song is composed for the competition 😄
  • Path of Exile 3.28 is dropping on March 6th, so that will probably occupy me for the whole month of March (I will still do my regular Japanese practice, so probably my personal project is going to be the sacrificial lamb 😓)
  • Chunithm’s Rinne reirei (輪廻玲々) linked verse update should drop on the 5th (unless SEGA throws another curveball), so around the 5th / 6th I will be grinding on a nearby arcade (even took a personal leave for this because my personal leave will expire at the end of March)
  • Still continuing my 10K training plan although I keep pushing it back due to illness. Honestly it is kind of concerning how often I get sick despite currently working from home.