I'm doing 26 things
Proficient in…
English
Need to work on my…
French
Mandarin
Cantonese
Toisanese
Would like to try…
Japanese
Korean
Italian
German (my Chinese grandparents knew how to speak it)
paperxin's Life List
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1. write a book
1 cheer30,182 people -
2. learn chinese
1 entry . 1 cheer2,611 people -
3. get my driver's license
1 entry5,334 people -
4. have better posture
1 entry8,147 people -
5. read all the books I haven't read that are sitting on my bookshelf
1 entry314 people -
6. perhaps knit more than a scarf...if I ever knit again
1 entry7 people -
7. make my own clothes
2,338 people -
8. become a better artist
363 people -
9. speak better cantonese
7 people -
10. learn Mandarin
1,339 people -
11. fight human trafficking
3 people -
12. become an interior designer
177 people -
13. learn guitar
3,568 people -
14. Go back to Italy
272 people -
15. learn to use chopsticks properly.
1 entry11 people -
16. watch more foreign films
148 people -
17. learn feng shui
103 people -
18. update my website
285 people -
19. Become fluent in more than one language
1 entry . 2 cheers1,324 people -
20. stop eBaying
1 cheer10 people -
21. work in china
1 cheer12 people -
22. go banksy hunting
10 people -
23. dress like frida kahlo
5 people -
24. be a nicer person
1 cheer501 people -
25. learn german
5,236 people -
26. Improve my French
1,467 people
How I did it
It made me
shocked! 
How I did it: Read lots of books. Conducted interviews and oral histories. Got involved with the community. Learned the language, culture and history of China and of the Chinese in America. Read how I did it…
Recent entries
and still I buy more, with the most sincere intentions of reading them!
unread books i’ve had for years: the Fountainhead, Moby Dick, Snow Falling on the Cedars, Emily Dickinson poems, Emma, the Odyssey, Sushi for Beginners, Fishbowl, an Art History book, the Bible, Zen Flesh Zen Bones, etc.
unread books purchased in past few months: complete collection of Jane Austen novels, Fortress of Solitude, Wild Swans, two Amy Tan books
My knitting skills are very limited. A ribbed scarf is as fancy as it gets.
I go through phases with knitting. I’ll get really into it for a week or two and then drop it for a year. Last month, I bought an interchangeable circular needle kit but grew bored (and frustrated…circular needles are strange!) again within a few days and returned it.
