It’s been forever since I’ve done one of these. I’ve also basically been studying since 7 am this morning, so I think I deserve a little break.
1. What did you want to be when you grew up? Haha, at what point are we talking here? I went through various stages in my career ambitions. The major ones, as I recall (in some rough order) – paleontologist – marine biologist – lawyer – mathematician – psychologist – writer – journalist – linguist – chemist. There were, of course, weird one-off things, like jockey 😀
2. Did you follow through? If not, what happened? I don’t know. I haven’t thought seriously about being a paleontologist for good long time now. Ditto for marine biologist. As for the others, it was mostly either that I didn’t think I’d be much good at it or that it wasn’t really going to make me happy. Or, in the case of linguist, that I wouldn’t be able to parlay it into anything useful.
3. Is your life turning out the way you thought it would when you were a kid? If not, is it better or worse? Ah, it’s a little worse, I guess. I can’t really say much about it except that this is not what I’d expected. I don’t know where all my ambition went. I used to be so… get-up-and-go. Now I’m so … it-can-wait.
4. Paradoxes aside, if you could time-travel back to when you were 10 years old, what would you tell your 10-year-old self? Oh dear. I can’t believe that’s almost a decade ago! Um, probably not to take myself so seriously. XD I was a very serious kid in some ways. Not so much in others.
5. Do you think the child you were, would like the adult you’ve become? No, I’d hate me. I think I talk down to kids and I’m just no fun and … yeah. That, and the kid in me would totally have jumped into the Faculty of Arts feet first and taken Bio as my science requirement, forget Chem 😛
And in other news….
I need to make a list of things to do after exams:
- Do Christmas shopping
- Go see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Actually, I should watch Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban first
- Go see RENT
- Go see the Beauty and the Beast musical
- Watch Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Wererabbits
- Watch Infernal Affairs in Cantonese before Hollywood…. Hollywoodizes it
- Read Pride and Prejudice
- And hey, while I’m at it, watch Pride and Prejudice
- Read all those French books I borrowed in May
- Read that Essential Linguistics book I borrowed last week
- Go do something remotely Christmassy like Bright Nights
- Buy a nice scarf
- Clean my desk
- I know there’s some other movie out that I want to see, but I just can’t remember its name right now
- Watch In the Mood for Love and see just how indie HK films can get
- Learn a little something about economics
- Learn a lot more stuff about organic chemistry
- Re-organize mp3s on the computer (since it got formatted, I haven’t bothered sorting anything I’ve downloaded. All my mp3s get tossed in “My Music.”)
- Finish Dots and Diamond. WARNING: ADORABLE CUTENESS AHEAD :kawaii:
Edit, sometime later:
I realized that most of these things I need to do involve watching movies. I might as well add: