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1. stop procrastinating
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2. drink more water
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3. Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful.
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4. Cook something new each week
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5. exercise regularly
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6. Read 50 books in 2008
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7. donate 100,000 grains of rice through freerice.com
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8. learn to draw
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9. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
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10. Ask her out for a coffee
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11. become better at small-talk
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12. pass the 2nd year of Computer Networking Course
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13. clean my room
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14. write a book
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15. make more friends
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16. be more social
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17. leave notes in library books
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18. Get my CCNA
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19. get my driver's license
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20. Watch the top 250 movies on the Internet Movie Database
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21. bake my own bread
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22. learn a programming language
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23. dine at a gordon ramsay restaurant
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24. disclose 43 random THINGS about myself
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25. identify 100 of my Favorite songs.
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26. quit smoking
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27. Write a will
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read 50 books in 2008 (read all 8 entries…)

A Few more 12 months ago

8. A spot of bother – Mark Haddon 9/10 very very funny.
9. Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult 8/10 good book. disturbing subject matter….
10. The History Book – Humphrey Hawksley 6/10. Not very well written. Not very believable. Lacked something.
11. Fabulous Things – Kelly Braffet 7/10 kinda average.

Jul 13, 2008, 05:27AM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments

read 50 books in 2008 (read all 8 entries…)

Book 7:The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne 17 months ago

I really enjoyed this book. Read it over the last few hours. Very easy to read in terms of language and style. Not so easy in terms of topic.
One negative would be the word play that the 9 year old narrator uses through out the book doesn’t make sense when he is meant to be speaking German. “The fury” and “Out With” doesn’t translate.
And most nine year olds aren’t quite that naive perhaps. Though mass media and the Internet probably weren’t as big in the 1940’s. That being said I thought it was a good thought provoking book. 9/10

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