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Write about skills that you have developed in lockdown learning time.

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Nowhere in our history has a pandemic been more serious than the outbreak of Covid-19 with
million cases
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a million cases
 worldwide.
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, social-distancing is on top of the list to protect human beings from being affected. While some people still assume
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lockdown
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 learning
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 refrains them from following their routines, I have taken
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time
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 to enhance my skillets, namely
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time-management
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 and cooking skills. My top priority in
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lockdown
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period
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 was always my study.
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, by virtue of the abundance of
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 must come the procrastination and the distractions, so that I attempted to tight myself on a daily schedule to practice my
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 skill. My initial
endeavor
a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)
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 started with a specific ‘To-do list’ on which I highlighted all the homework tasks within a day. I would
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 make sure that the amount of
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 spent on studying every day must be approximately five hours so as to develop a sound study habit in
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 self-quarantine
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.
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, I would never past my bedtime at eleven o’clock and have myself indulged in the comfort of
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 break. Only when I developed
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time-management
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 skills did I could spare enough
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 to pursue my hobbies and spontaneously strike a balance between my study and my recreational activities. Apart from improving my academic performance, generating new life skills was my
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 priority. I have started to expand my culinary repertoire since the
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 days of the
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period
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. Basically, I was familiar with the kitchen as I always had the predilection for preparing home meals.
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, it goes without saying that cooking is a crucial life skill that every mother urges the daughter to master before getting married. Prior to preparing the ingredients, I usually checked for the best recipe to prevent social-contacts as much as possible. To my way of thinking, the most difficult point in cooking was that the cook had to accurately measure the ingredients and the spice to delicately perform the
flavor
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
flavour
 of the food. Recently, I sought out plenty of cooking tips;
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, the best tip of the
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 was always satisfied feelings when seeing your family enjoying your dishes. Cooking skills and
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time-management
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 skills were two of many quintessential skills I need to practice and
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period
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 provided me nothing but
time
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 for my self-improvement. As everything must be viewed from different perspectives, supposing people took
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 to fully develop their strengths,
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lockdown
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 would be much expeditious and meaningful.

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