"Realise that you've got a problem"- Mike Gayle, The To-Do List
Dear all,
After four-and-a-half months of studying, lepaking, ogling at chicks, sleeping, facebooking till 3am, and went crazy trying to meet assignment deadlines and topping it all with a miserable run of final exams, I, Zaid Mohamad feels that I richly deserve a good 2 months break from anything related to studying the balance sheet, analyzing corporate finance and understanding research methodology. I'm planning to laze around the house and be completely useless.
At least, that was the plan.
But as I grow older and being 22, somehow I feel that I need to make myself more productive. In a sense that I should be doing stuffs that matters to myself. That can make my life better, even a tad bit. And that, by doing so I can actually pave my way through to becoming a proper adult, hopefully by 30. In a nutshell, I'm doing this so that I won't be putting my holidays to waste.
So now I have come to a conclusion that it's about time I joined the world of fully functioning adults - on a temporary basis at least - as of today I will be undertaking a 79-item To-Do List which I plan to have completed by July 5th (or so, till my semester break ends). So that I can in the future look back at this semester break as being the more/most productive than the past few semester breaks before it and make my transition to being a proper adult without suffering from much shocks and difficulties.
And the reason I tagged you lot to this blog post is to give me the inspiration and motivation to succeed, knowing full well that should I fail in completing a minimum of 50 tasks, I will look like a complete and utter buffoon in front of you all and will afford you the right to mock me to within an inch of my life.
See you all soon.
Zaid Mohamad.
The Semester Break Holiday To-Do List!
- Clear the desk so that you can actually put your laptop on it.
- Arrange my bags, books and stuffs on my desks and shelves in my room into something resembling an order.
- Restring both guitars...
- And relearn how to play them (and break the 'tone-deaf' ceiling).
- Talk to those people you haven't spoken to in YM/Facebook.
- Clear my music library from broken-files songs/ songs that I accidently downloaded twice.
- Learn basic Italian.
- Download Google Earth...
- And Windows Live Messenger.
- Get rid of useless files and downloads from the hard drive.
- Expand vocabulary (one word per day).
- Arrange my academic/co-curricular certificates into chronological order and put it in a file.
- Work out how to make function the laptop camera and mic with Windows 7.
- Do something with Winamp music library artist organisation.
- Learn to cook proper food.
- Keep hair as long as possible.
- Come up with a 5 year plan.
- Learn to identify plants/vegetables/shrubs.
- Go jogging.
- Find more news on scholarships.
- Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop.
- Plan a final meet up with the DIIA kids before or after convo.
- Remove my name from all emails newsletters subsription services that I unwisely signed up for.
- Keep up with current affairs.
- Create a new email with a proper name for official use.
- Establish yourself at the last.fm forums.
- Brush up your fardhu-ain knowledge.
- Delete useless emails/junkmails and keep them organised.
- Make it a habit to check your email everyday.
- Learn to appreciate Metallica.
- Go to mosque for regular daily prayer (that is, barring the Friday prayer).
- Get a proper IQ test...
- And personality test...
- And career test.
- Try to appreciate Pulp Fiction.
- Give Harry Potter a chance.
- Watch American Beauty...
- And Juno...
- And In Bruges...
- And Leon...
- And Pineapple Express...
- And Rec...
- And 500 Days of Summer...
- And This is England...
- And Role Models.
- Learn to curb my tendencies in using "..." in writing messages...
- And learn how to write a proper sentence.
- Give PJ Harvey a second chance...
- And Tori Amos' Boys for Pele...
- And Pizicatto 5.
- Try to understand George Carlin's jokes.
- Learn a dance move just in case I might need them in the future.
- Find out how the capital market responds to different economic indicators.
- Try to like reading BNM/Bursa Malaysia/Economic sites.
- Decide if you're really ever going to watch Bangkok Dangerous...
- And Initial-D...
- And Inkheart...
- And Fight Club.
- Know about the solar system.
- Know who's who in the government.
- Find missing CDS like Oasis' What's the Story [Morning Glory?]...
- And Audioslave...
- And The Darkness' Permission to Land.
- Catch up with Bonana...
- And Tun Syakirin...
- And Hafiz...
- And Syarku+Mimi+Anas.
- Ask Faiq to save me a pair of Arau Open T-Shirt+goody bag.
- Investigate what exactly does a remisier/dealer/broker do.
- Play chess more.
- Relearn chess moves and strategies.
- Stop eating McDonald's. Or have once/month max.
- Get a girlfriend so that she can give your life purpose and make you more organised.
- Learn how to impress girls.
- Have a indie-music moment.
- Join the library.
- Sample every nasi kandar restaurants in town.
- Register myself with the Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya so that I'll be eligible to cast some undi-rosak in the next election.
- Watch every World Cup game without fail.
