I'm doing 19 things
So I’ve already devoured Wild Swans, My Antonia and The Castle of Otranto since Nov. 1. I’m working on Ficciones by Borges now, but when that’s done I have a bit of a dilemma: do I try to finish all of Jane Eyre in the time remaining, or do I try to find another English language book somewhere in China?
Amissio's Life List
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1. learn to play the erhu
2 entries . 2 cheers45 people -
2. learn cantonese
2 entries . 2 cheers288 people -
3. be a tea connoisseur
2 entries . 1 cheer41 people -
4. write a book... a good book that people will want to read
1 cheer260 people -
5. learn the alexander technique
1 entry . 3 cheers41 people -
6. fire a gun in a shooting range
147 people -
7. Learn to juggle
1,326 people -
8. learn to cook
9,749 people -
9. learn to draw
1 entry2,309 people -
10. learn how to read and write Zhuyin Fuhao
1 entry1 person -
11. lose 10 kilograms
1 entry96 people -
12. Get on a better sleep schedule
1 entry22 people -
13. Schedule my time better
1 entry18 people -
14. learn kung fu
805 people -
15. Shower with cold water
2 entries2 people -
16. see all of verdi's operas
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17. memorize a poem a week
2 entries . 1 cheer7 people -
18. become ambidextrous
2 entries . 2 cheers956 people -
19. Learn to read Arabic
1 entry20 people
How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: When I first put together this goal I was a student living and studying in Guangzhou, China. In China it's absolutely necessary to get business cards, but I never did figure out how to do it. I finally got my cards when I graduated college and got a job. I actually made it a perk; I refused to take the job unless they offered me business cards straight off the bat. Read how I did it…
Recent entries
I don’t speak Arabic, and I don’t feel a very very strong urge to focus on learning how to speak it; instead, I’m just fascinated by the different ways of writing languages. And it would be nice to already have the written form under my belt if I ever do want to learn to speak it…
I already know pinyin, but I’m annoyed by the fact that whenever I flip through a dictionary there are a whole bunch of “characters” that I don’t recognize: those are zhuyin fuhao, a form of Chinese phonetics even older than pinyin and used mostly in Taiwan and in mainland Chinese dictionaries.
It shouldn’t be toooooo tough…
