Eynar Oxartum

slɐoƃ sıɥ ɥɔɐǝɹ oʇ ʇsnɾ uʍop ǝpısdn sı



I'm doing 43 things
 

Eynar Oxartum's Life List

  1. 1. Work on my secret goal
    1 entry . 24 cheers
    60 people
  2. 2. Get used to do interesting experiments every day
    4 entries . 8 cheers
    1 person
  3. 3. Spread my father's ashes in India
    1 entry . 13 cheers
    1 person
  4. 4. Publish a paper
    10 cheers
    152 people
  5. 5. Get a PhD
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    2,776 people
  6. 6. Get a masters degree
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    2,958 people
  7. 7. Run a sub 7min/mile 10k
    15 entries . 7 cheers
    2 people
  8. 8. Run a marathon
    10 entries . 12 cheers
    10,409 people
  9. 9. Get more sleep
    18 entries . 10 cheers
    4,124 people
  10. 10. Understand quantum field theory
    5 entries . 14 cheers
    6 people
  11. 11. Reach my ideal weight
    4 entries . 9 cheers
    133 people
  12. 12. Make a smaller ecological footprint
    2 entries . 13 cheers
    1,041 people
  13. 13. Learn Irish
    8 entries . 11 cheers
    146 people
  14. 14. Cycle from Dublin to Madrid
    4 entries . 12 cheers
    1 person
  15. 15. Use three new English words every day
    11 cheers
    3 people
  16. 16. Be proficient in Java
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    8 people
  17. 17. Be fluent in German
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    223 people
  18. 18. Make my own light alarm clock
    3 cheers
    1 person
  19. 19. Be more charismatic
    4 cheers
    83 people
  20. 20. Get my driving licence
    10 cheers
    142 people
  21. 21. Collect myself a pebble, stone or mineral from every EU country
    6 entries . 13 cheers
    1 person
  22. 22. Learn Russian
    7 cheers
    2,437 people
  23. 23. Go to the Kerguelen Islands
    2 cheers
    2 people
  24. 24. Learn Hungarian
    3 cheers
    200 people
  25. 25. Create a board game and have it produced
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    6 people
  26. 26. Write a science fiction novel
    6 cheers
    61 people
  27. 27. Live in Berlin
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    119 people
  28. 28. Plant trees
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    98 people
  29. 29. Improve my Portuguese
    9 entries . 3 cheers
    36 people
  30. 30. Teach my partner Italian
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    1 person
  31. 31. Collect euro coins of each value from every country in the Eurozone
    6 entries . 1 cheer
    3 people
  32. 32. Be able to name all 16 of my great great grandparents
    3 entries . 2 cheers
    10 people
  33. 33. Write a book about astronomy in Veneto
    1 cheer
    1 person
  34. 34. Write a guide to Dublin in Esperanto
    1 cheer
    1 person
  35. 35. Start my own company
    6 cheers
    889 people
  36. 36. Learn the constellations
    14 cheers
    565 people
  37. 37. Teach Esperanto to ten people
    3 cheers
    2 people
  38. 38. Learn to identify plants, flowers, and trees
    1 entry . 17 cheers
    107 people
  39. 39. Learn to speak Latin fluently
    3 cheers
    3 people
  40. 40. Learn more about India
    4 cheers
    2 people
  41. 41. Learn Hindi
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    609 people
  42. 42. Learn to speak Toki Pona
    2 cheers
    18 people
  43. 43. Finish reading Don Quixote
    8 cheers
    13 people

How I did it
How to learn to play go
It took me
2 months
It made me
a newbie go player


How to make a career change to bioinformatics
It took me
9 months
It made me
PhD student


How to learn esperanto
It took me
1 month
It made me
multilingual


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Recent entries
reach my ideal weight (read all 4 entries…)
Working on this goal again 3 months ago

After moving to Spain I have lost some good habits. This happens to me usually when I move to another country, as I find difficult concentrating and getting used to new things at the same time.

So I have to go back under 80 kilos. I am attacking two fronts right now:

  • to lose fat I am running and cycling to work, as usual, and
  • to get some shape I am doing crunches. I know that doing crunches does not eliminate belly fat (that is why I am running and cycling to work). However, it is true that just losing weight is not going to give me a lot of shape. So this is the reason why I am doing crunches as well as other exercices.

That is why I have set up a sub-goal: doing 3020 crunches by 16th August. Let’s see if this work ;)

Why 3020 and not 3005? It is explained in my blog (only in Spanish, sorry).



Get more sleep (read all 18 entries…)
Provisionally making it easier 3 months ago

Since I moved to Spain I am finding particularly difficult being in bed by 22:30. Everything here is made in such a way that no one seems to be sleeping before midnight.

Nothing wrong about that, but I still want to go to bed early and wake up early. Provisionally I will try to make this goal easier by setting my bedtime at 23:30. After achieving this, I will go back to my original goal, which is being in bed by 22:30.



learn hindi
First step: learn to write and read devanagari 4 months ago

I have bought Teach Yourself Beginner’s Hindi, with audio (audio is important, as I am not living in India).

For the moment I have fulfilled the very first step, which is learning the alphabet. It is has been relatively easy. I still struggle sometimes to tell the difference between the different “d” and “t” sounds, and from time to time I find new consonant pairs I did not know previously. But I think I have already learnt the basics.

Now I have to keep working.



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