I've had a fair bit of time lately to reassess my life and I just realised how badly I've been living it, so I decided to draw up some self-betterment plans to address this concern. I'm also bidding adios to Sydney in a month or so and I figured I should stop being such a sloth and make the most out of my last remaining days here. A partial list in no particular order:
1. WEAN MYSELF OFF THE NET. I am very much ashamed to tell people how much time I actually spend online on a daily basis. The Internet is my oxygen, yet it is also my kryptonite. I obsessively check Facebook and my email inbox, it's not even funny. I foresee abysmally low grades for myself this semester on account of this fact. Anyway, from this day on I resolve to decrease my dependence on the net and only spend a maximum of two hours surfing daily. Cognitive-ish stuff like reading the news and intelligent blogs do not count towards the limit.
2. LAY OFF THE KFC. Colonel Sanders, your chicken is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I'm pretty sure your original recipe of eleven secret herbs and spices includes a generous dash of crack. I am completely addicted to KFC that sometimes it's all I could think about. Late last year, myself and a friend would eat a Megabucket Meal every week (think 10 pieces of chicken, popcorn chicken, nuggets, chips, mashed potato, the works). With bolgogi and rice. And I would finish all the leftover KFC for the next few days. Before I knew it, my face began to look like a sticky bun in photos.
In the last fifteen hours alone I have demolished more or less ten wicked wings with potato gravy. And chips. And Beard Papa. I am literally digging my grave with my teeth, and this has got to stop. To think I once used to be vegetarian and I'd religiously eat an apple a day and have green tea after every meal. So therefore I resolve to try to go off the KFC for a while, in an attempt to detox myself of all the evil evil food I have been consuming. On second thought, going completely off the KFC sounds highly undoable so maybe I'll just aim for limiting my intake to once every two weeks. This will be difficult, I know it. The withdrawal symptoms will be nasty.
3. GET SOME EXERCISE. I still think gym is evil and I would rather watch paint dry than go to one, but for this particular resolution walking a bit here and there would do, for the meantime. I've been so out of shape that even the slightest uphill climb would leave me tired and panting. To think that I was a pretty mean runner back in the day and I even played football.
4. GO OUT OF MY ROOM. Sounds deceptively simple and easy, but not when you're surgically attached to the bed, like I am. I plan to venture out more from now on, even to just go to uni and walk down the tree-lined avenues and step on the crunchy leaves strewn all over the campus. I think I need some sunshine as well cos I'm perpetually morose.
5. SEE MORE OF SYDNEY. I have a mental list of things to see and do before I leave. Next plan of action is to actually see and do those things. And take photos. I want to go back to the Art Gallery and look at the sculptures I like again, along with that uber cool Australia vs. England chess set. There's also the Sydney Observatory, which I've been meaning to go to for a long time now. And the Bondi to Cogee walk which I absolutely must do before it gets too cold that I'll die of hypothermia or something midway. At this point it doesn't really matter if I could get people to go with me. I mean, the company will be appreciated but if there's no takers then I'm perfectly cool with going on a date with myself.
6. MOVIES. Uni kept me from watching movies last semester and now I have a serious movie backlog.
7. SPEAK TO PEOPLE MORE. It's actually strange how I've regressed so much in the sense that I used to be a lot more sociable, but now I find myself only engaging in conversation with people I actually know. And this is coming from someone who loves conversations and debates and arguments and stuff. Thus I will now resolve to stop being monosyllabic and start talking to other people more than usual. After all, a stranger's just a friend you haven't met.
8. COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE OLD-SCHOOL STYLE. Out with online chatting and emailing. I should write letters more, by hand. And use the phone to call people, because last I checked that's what they're for. And have more face-to-face conversations, because all this technology-mediated communication, for what it's worth, still leaves a lot of things unsaid.
9. TAKE IT EASY ON THE ALCOHOL. I can only get plastered once a week, but I will make exceptions for special occasions. Hehe.
10. RECONNECT WITH PEOPLE WHOM I HAVEN'T SEEN IN A WHILE. I have a little more than a month to do this.
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