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karimabima's Life List
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1. Learn Korean
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2. be a better muslim
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3. Get a better-paying job
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4. read every book I own
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5. plant a container garden
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6. plant a garden
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7. Acquire all the songs from Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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8. get paid to travel
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9. Dress Gothic Lolita
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10. Travel on the Venice-Simplon Orient Express
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11. exercise regularly
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12. see the northern lights
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13. Get out of debt
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14. Find peace of mind
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15. Travel to Korea
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16. Become fluent in more than one language
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17. Learn to play Go
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18. be more outgoing
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19. Take more pictures
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20. Move out of the suburbs
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21. Rip all my CDs to my mp3 player
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22. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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Recent entries
This movie was the first movie I ever saw that made me go, “hey, I’d really like to have that soundtrack.” And, of course, there was no soundtrack. Ironically enough, John Hughes supposedly didn’t release one because he didn’t feel it was commercial enough. Well, I certainly would’ve bought it then (imagine, someone actually passed up the chance to make a buck on teenagers. That’s the ‘80s for you, I guess). Now, all these many years later, I still want those songs. But since they were so obscure, they aren’t easy to find (not hard, of course, is this day of the Internet, but not easy). So, the quest continues…
I’ve spent many years studying French, German and Korean, but am fluent in none. I’d like to study Arabic and, what else? Chinese! And once I’ve mastered (ha!) Korean, I may as well add Japanese. And Russians have the best accents, so Russian, too. I pretty much want to become fluent in the languages of all the countries I want to travel to which means… I’ve got a lot of studying to do…
