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thelad
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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1. Get my MA in International Relations/Security
2. Complete my dive instruction (PADI) certs up to at least Master Instructor.
3. Work for the UK Foreign Office or a NGO working with security/refugees.
4. Get and stay in shape.
5. Quit smoking.
All within reach at the moment. I'll be 34 in 5 years. |
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tottenhamtaipeinick
Joined: 05 Sep 2010 Location: Canada
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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1. Find a career I really enjoy and venture further into investment opportunities, the career must make me smile during the day and not at the end of the day when its over and must let me have quality down time so I can be fun to hang around with.
2. Find the city I want to settle down in
3. Touch up on my Chinese and learn more Korean
4. Not buy the house my dad is trying to force me to buy in Brisbane (knowing far to well he is trying to get me to stay in his dismal city) though maybe purchase some investment apartments in Brisbane
5. Marry the woman of my dreams (Who I may already of found |
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johnnyrook
Joined: 08 Nov 2009
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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1. Learn to drive. I never really needed it before 'cause I always lived close to public transport.
2. Become fluent (or reasonably adept) in five foreign languages. Already advanced at spanish, but not quite fluent, hope to have come quite far in korean by the end of this year, and then it'll be french, chinese and german.
3. Write a novel.
4. Complete another bachelor's degree, in neuroscience, and commence a PHD in neuropsych or neurolinguistics.
5. Get married. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Celebrate five drunken New Year's parties. |
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scratchpiece
Joined: 24 Feb 2011
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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Louis VI wrote: |
cyui wrote: |
Damn, everyone else has such a different kind if list. No one wants sex?! |
We're already gettin' it. |
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debinoxford
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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1. Finally have my own house in New Zealand.
2. Hold a job for more than 2 years outside of Korea.
3. Invest in the creative aspects of my life (sewing and jewelry design) to work on a second income.
4. Get my New Zealand residency.
5. Be in a committed relationship with the guy of my dreams (I'm pretty sure I met him, so we'll see what happens when I move back to NZ!) |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Location: Earth, Solar System
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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1. Not Die.
2. Not become seriously ill/injured.
3. Have at least a decent income.
4. See a ballgame game in every Korean ballpark (very doable).
5. Tour the Eastern Theater in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Start at Manassas, then the Valley, the Peninsula, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg-Chancellorsville-Wilderness-Spotsylvania, Gettysburg, Union Mills (Read the Gingrich books), Cold Harbor, Bermuda Hundred, Petersburg, and finally Appomattox. |
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cyui
Joined: 10 Jan 2011
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Is that so, huh?!So what is the secret?
How does one get it 2-3 times a day for free? |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Location: In my Kingdom
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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cyui wrote: |
Is that so, huh?!So what is the secret?
How does one get it 2-3 times a day for free? |
Don't date, don't marry, just live together. |
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Lazio
Joined: 15 Dec 2010
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Louis VI wrote: |
4. Travel Hungary, Australia and Eastern Canada.
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Interesting choice. May I ask why? I'm from there btw. Feel free to pm me if you think I can help you with something.
My list would be:
- stay healthy
- have a child (or better yet 2) I'm already married so it's doable
- have at least 200,000 in assets
- travel some countries around Korea
- get my Korean to a decent level (long way to go) |
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Kokoba
Joined: 07 Dec 2009
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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I like this!
1. Save up $10K.
2. Relocate to Stockholm
3. Finish at least one Swedish course (aspiring towards fluency, well aware it doesn't happen in five years)
4. Start teaching ESL in Stockholm
5. Maybe get married to my boy
There's others but these are the boring, brick-and-mortar "life plans" plans, if that makes sense. |
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craigmcc1982
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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1) Buy a 2nd home in China.
2) Complete a round-the-world trip for 6 months.
3) Increase my mandarin ability.
4) Learn to play the guitar.
5) Start a family. |
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mmstyle
Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: wherever
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:25 am Post subject: |
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Kokoba wrote: |
I like this!
1. Save up $10K.
2. Relocate to Stockholm
3. Finish at least one Swedish course (aspiring towards fluency, well aware it doesn't happen in five years)
4. Start teaching ESL in Stockholm
5. Maybe get married to my boy
There's others but these are the boring, brick-and-mortar "life plans" plans, if that makes sense. |
Is English your native language (sounds like it)? Swedish is not as difficult as, say, Korean, if so. Based on personal experience.....you won't need 5 years, especially if you are there. Stockholm is a fantastic city...but it'll eat 10K fast |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 5:42 am Post subject: |
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Globutron wrote: |
1 - In theory I can put my family back together in this time. My dad's just disowned me because I expressed my feelings. A taboo in a family environment, apparently. Life long separation between the two halves of the family, so it should take some time.
I'm not really close enough personally to be that bothered about it, but it would be a nice achievement on my own behalf, proving to myself how much I've developed as a person. |
Sounds like you're setting yourself up for a big fall. You can't change anyone but yourself.
1. Get a second BA.
2. Achieve German fluency.
3. Become a being of pure light and love.
4. Play Skyrim.
5. Play Mass Effect 3.
I kind of ran out of possibilities after the third one. |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Location: In front of my computer, again.
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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1. Get my Ph.D. (mostly finished with the dis. research so this will happen within 5 years)
2. Publish the dissertation (slightly more challenging b/c of the perfectionist issues with finalizing anything I write)
3. Get "the job" (at a well-regarded private liberal arts college or even a research 1 in the US or at one of the SKY schools here in Korea, of course, "the job" will be tenure track). Even if working in Korea "the job" will never ever include anything like ESL.
4. Have one child (yes, husband, I really will get around to it once I have secured "the job").
5. Find a significant way to give back to the world (other than through publishing interesting stuff). I'd like to work to promote sustainable lifestyles somehow... and I'm committed to promoting education in rural Tibetan areas. |
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