10 things (continued)

Continued from here.

ten books i have yet to read
1. Elie Wiesel’s Night
2. William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
3. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
4. Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels
5. CS Lewis’ Mere Christianity
6. Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
7. Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses
8. JRR Tolkien’s Silmarillon
9. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
10.HardyBoys Casefiles #1 – Dead on Target

ten movies or TV series that I should watch soon
1. The Godfather 1-3
2. Oro, Plata, Mata
3. Kubrador
4. City of God
5. Constant Gardener
6. StarWars 1-6
7. 28 grams
8. Knocked Up
9. Six Feet Under
10.Gone with the Wind

ten animals i would like to see in their natural habitat
1. Aardvark
2. African Elephant
3. Coelacanth
4. Entamoeba Histolitica
5. Emperor Penguin
6. Great White Shark
7. Kangaroo
8. Pandaca Pygmea
9. Sting Ray
10.Zebra

ten concepts I would like to learn more
1. microprocessor architecture
2. FPGA programming
3. MEMS
4. embedded wireless applications
5. surface computing
6. GUT
7. artificial intelligence or DNA computing
8. electrical signal integrity
9. basic radio astronomy
10.advanced data encryption/decryption

ten adventures i have not experienced yet in Cebu
1. Southern Cebu roadtrip (Cebu City to Santander)
2. eat larang (fish soup) at Osmeña
3. try pungko-pungko (a low cost, roadside dimsum meal) one time
4. Sutukil at Mactan
5. birdwatching at Olango
6. cross the two bridges (Marcelo Fernan, old bridge) on foot
7. dinner at Shangri-la Mactan or Plantation Bay
8. gokarting at Mabolo
9. Kawasan Falls and Osmeña Peak weekend
10.watch a concert

ten overdue tasks I have amazingly not done yet
1. migrate the Lorega Diaries from wordpress to blogger – unnecessary
2. overhaul my old CPU
3. jog once a week
4. video presentation for LMNSC
5. finish The World is Flat book
6. dine out with my college friends
7. FBS test
8. switch to CitiBank (credit card). – unnecessary
9. buy dad a new wheelchair
10.open a new savings account

and ten more things i really want to do soon before I turn 25
1. ride a helicopter
2. bungee jump
3. learn how to swim
4. speak Mandarin
5. master a sport
6. publish a Youngblood article
7. find my Kinder II bestfriend
8. rollerskate
9. drive a motorcycle
10.fall in love again

After a quick review, I realized that with my present salary, I could possibly cross out at most 20 items in this list. Also, if I had been more industrious and conscious of my time for the past six months, I would have done at least 8 of my 10 overdue tasks.

The melancholic in me could only come up with so much strategies, detailed action plans or weekly objectives. But as to how the real world operates – limited financial resources, time and my body weight to name a few, I could only embrace wholeheartedly the fact that I just cannot do everything all the time. Saving the world is simply not for me.

But I found encouragement in my highschool geometry teacher’s words: “if you aim at nothing, you will eventually hit it.” This list may not be as profound as Earl Hickey’s, but having this is better than not having even a daily goal at all. I just hope then that I have enough motivation to start a new challenge and more importantly, the determination to finish it.

So wish me luck guys. First up: larang at Osmeña.

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