Monday, January 01, 2001

I'm a lazy bugger who can't be arsed to update my blog template, so this is my raw, un-Bloggerized profile -

About me:

Girl. Boarderline early twenties. Blogs to procrastinate from more important things in life.
Chinese. Originally from Hong Kong, went to school in England, ended up in uni in the US.
Currently under an indefinite spell of unemployment in Hong Kong. Next destination to be determined.

Aspires to be: 1. filmmaker 2. art / food critic 3. travel writer / resort critic 4. starving artist 5. architect.

36 things to do in the next 365 weeks:

01. learn to cook better - i.e. more improvisation, less following recipes by the teaspoonfull
02. stop breaking into tears when frustrated or don't know how to answer a question in a meeting / an interview
03. make an animation that is longer than 2 mins
04. learn to draw properly - charcoal, watercolour, oil paint
05. buy less random stuff from eBay
06. stay in less
07. finish the clothes that I cut up / alter / make
08. actually wear the clothes I cut up / alter / make
09. use the nice camera my dad got me more often
10. stop putting Sex and the City on top of my Netflix queue
11. read a book that is longer than 500 pages (Harry Potter doesn't count)
12. take a fashion / jewellery design course
13. take a cordon bleu dessert making course
14. treat friends with desserts made in course
15. grow some chocolate vine
16. go to Gou Zhai Gou, China
17. go to Morrocco
18. go to India
19. go to Turkey
20. try to hold a conversation with a cabbie
21. learn more about jazz - musician names and different styles
22. play the piano again
23. become fluent in French
24. stop inventing pronounciations for Chinese words I can read but can't write, and use a dictionary
25. read Jin Yong's novels
26. read Michael Moore's books
27. enter my work to a festival / competition
28. go to a spa in Bali for utterly shameless self-indulgence
29. try to increase my booze tolerance
30. learn to ballroom dance properly and stop stepping on other people's toes
31. design my own permanent home, be it the whole structure or just the interior furnishing
32. start an art collection <- have started with Takeshi Murakami's Flat Museum plastic figurines. Hurrah!
33. become more eloquent and knowledgable
34. learn how to make really good congee <- I heart my new rice cooker.
35. learn how to make good broths and soups
36. rebuild my personal website with CSS, PHP, Flash... all that stuff that I don't really understand.