10 things I plan to do after my A Levels (part 1)

10: Buff up



I've been a skinny beanpole pretty much my entire life; with the exception maybe of a couple of years in primary school where I was a skinny beanpole with a potbelly thanks to a daily filet-o-fish fixation. My legs especially have always been obscenely skinny, more than convention would deem to be socially acceptable. As a public service, I intend to beef up my chicken-legs and general chopstick body. I hope to put on 5-10kg after my A's, and I plan to be very rigorous and steadfast in my bulking diet.

9: Catch up with old friends



Hasn't life gotten pretty crazy these past few years? So many new faces, new stories, sagas, dilemmas, the drama and the sagas. When the dust clears and the world stops spinning, it's always great to have familiar faces to return to and trustworthy shoulders to lean on. Sometimes we get so swept up that we end up unintentionally distancing ourselves from the people who are the points of stability in our lives, and I think it's important that we always know the road home. After all, no matter how much you've feel like you've traveled, you haven't gone anywhere if you don't have a frame of reference (*winks at the theoretical physicists*).

8: Get physically 'in-tune'



This is not the same as putting on weight. A while ago I wrote an entry about how I believe that improving your linguistic abilities would actually allows you to express thoughts and emotions you may not have been otherwise able to properly experience or understand. This is parallel to that, akin to a sort of physical manifestation of the same idea. Fitness junkies know something that the average person don't, and that is being in tune with your own body is one of the most awesome experiences of being alive. I've gotten close to those moments before, of being well and truly in control of your body. I want to learn to dance, I want to cycle, play basketball, maybe even football (which I'm notoriously bad at). To break out into a warm sweat, to feel your muscles and joints warmed up, your heart pumping, the sweetness as oxygen fills your lungs.

7: Draw



I've always had a secret fascination and obsession with drawing; particularly pencil and ink mediums. Since I was a kid I used to obsess about trying to draw manga characters (and failed miserably at it). At first it was probably just a bit of a temporary anime fixation. I want to be able to draw what I see in front of me, like friends or locations. More than that, I want to be able to draw things that I visualise or imagine, and visually recreate the images I see in my head. I want to be able to doodle ideas easily and have coherent structure.

To Be Continued!