Dreams
A Lifetime Of Dreams Coming Up …
(Last updated 15th January, 2005)
When I was 18 – around 1993 – my mother cut an article out of a local newspaper and gave it to me. The article was about a young boy who had sat down and made a list of all the things he wanted to do in his lifetime. That little [...]
Miscellaneous
(Added May, 2004) To keep chooks of my own, looking after them and perhaps even breeding chicks.
Sew a business shirt of usable quality.
(Added February, 2005) Build my own Solar Oven, and use it to cook things on a regular basis over some period of time so that it becomes a [...]
Creative/Artistic Achievements
(Added October, 2003) To pose naked for a series of studio art or life drawing classes.
(Added May, 2004) Pottery, how to run a wheel and everything related to it. To become a proficient (at least technically) potter.
(Added May, 2004) To have my own art studio/art room set up, where I can [...]
Writing Achievements
Have an article of mine published.
Done Lots!
Get paid for an article I write.
Done in 1998! I got my first cheque for an article in November 1998. $50 from Grass Roots Magazine for an article about my family and about growing up on the very edges of suburbia. I had up to 29 articles published on [...]
Musical Achievements
(Ammended October, 2003 to expand on what I meant) Attend an opening-night performance for a major musical. The sort of opening-night where there’s a red carpet and lots of famous personages and the media everywhere. Real fancy-like.
Learn the flute for a year or more.
Done in 1986-1992! I studied flute all of my secondary [...]
Adventures To Have
Partly Replaced! All of these are on really forced to be on hold until I get better, if I ever do.
Go on 5-day hiking trip by myself.
(Added May, 2004) Go an a very long hiking trip – a month or more.
Go para-gliding.
(Added February, 2004) Go swimming with Dolphins in [...]
Physical Achievements
Be able to swim 100 laps of an Olympic pool.
Be able to walk 10km.
Be able to bike ride 20km.
Learn to ski.
Learn to juggle 5 objects.
Learn to dance, any style.
(Added 2003) Learn to tap-dance.
(Added May, 2003) Learn the Irish ‘Riverdance’ style of [...]
Travelling
Spent at least a year living in another English-speaking country
(Altered Feb, 2004) Spent at least a year living in an area where English is not the primary language and is not widely spoken. Speak as little English as possible while there, obviously! Germany, The Netherlands, and more obscure places like Tibet or Nepal [...]
Self Education
Learn stone carving – the hammer-and-chisel sort – and make a stone carving of my own.
Learn about different political systems in Australia and Internationally.
Learn carpentry.
Read the holy books for ever major religion, including:
Christianity – The Bible
Done in 1983! Our class studied Christianity that year, and read the whole bible [...]
Things To Study
Advanced linguistics
Done in 1994! I’ve completed a major in linguistics as part of my cognitive science degree, finishing the linguistics major way before I finished the rest of the degree.
Artificial Intelligence
Done in 1998! I have a degree from La Trobe University in AI and I also did one honours-level subject in AI at RMIT University.
Architectural [...]