Friday, June 22, 2007
Bashing the Boredness
Wow. So far two of my buddies have been bitten by the bored bug. It's a seemingly incurable disease that I fear will spread as the July holidays come around. Luckily for me though, I am fairly confident that I will never ever succumb to this disease. As I'm sitting and typing here in front of my screen I am well aware that time is short, and I have so many plans and ideas up my sleeve I have absoluately no time for boredom. Idleness, as they say, is the Devil's playground.
Why am I NOT bored, you ask? Here are the reasons:
1) Have to transfer all the songs in my new CDs into my faithful MP3 player.
2) Have to transfer all the episodes of the shows I've received into the MP3 player to watch between classes next semester.
3) Have to complete the art I've started in Photoshop in two months.
4) Have to watch all the Japanese movies I've bought: four in total.
5) Have to finish all the Taiwanese drama I've bought: two in total.
6) Have to finish all the Japanese drama series I've bought: two in total.
7) Have to finish all the anime series I have yet to watch: six and counting.
8) Have to read Ouran book 6.
9) Have to cut off all the tags from the new clothes I've bought and take the time to brainstorm for new clothing combos.
10) Have to cull last year's clothes from my wardrobe to make space for the new ones, like give away that shirt I'll never ever wear again.*****
11) Arrange a sleepover and maybe even a clothes swap session. :D How fun!
12) Buy the new hard drive I've been craving.
13) Sell the old one on eBay (clear the old contents first).
14) Watch all the movies I bought from JB Hi-Fi: five in total.
15) Read the Dragon Temple Saga: Books 1-3
16) Read the other stand-alone books I've bought: six in total.
17) Watch the upcoming movies I'm interested in: Nancy Drew, Transformers, Blades of Glory etc.
18) Make my own blog layout using someone else's basic html.
19) Handwrite letters to three of my closest friends back in S'pore, since I promised and up til now haven't the time to sit myself down and write a long heartfelt thingie.
20) Arrange the mix-ups in my MP3 player according to album, artist and genre.
21) Start my own manga...? :) 9I'll only do this once everything else on this list is done.
22) Continue with the story I've typed up so far in the computer. (Again, I'll only have time to do this once all the above is done)
23) Plan my perfect and beauty-licious timetable for next semester using the tutorial times for this semester.
24) Continue with my Mapling adventures. (I'll only do this if my friends are online. It's uber-boring Mapling on your own)
I DON'T KNOW HOW I'LL EVER BE BORED WITH ALL THE STUFF I HAVE TO DO. It's obvious that some of the items on this list will never be completed in a day. And I have 24 items in all. It feels so good to be busy with things other than uni work though, so I'm welcoming this particular type of hedonistic labour. :D
The moral of the story? Before complaining about boredom, sit down and think deeply about what you've still got to do. Because what I believe is that, a person will ALWAYS AND FOREVER have something to do. Always. No matter what the situation, the time or the place. Want an example? If you think you've really got nothing to do, try a new recipe, bake a new cake, compose your own song, write your own poem, draw a self-portrait, go for a walk, go window-shopping, go sit at the park with the birds and a loaf of fresh broad, go sit on a random bus and see where it goes, go do something nice for a person close to you, go start an online business on eBay and make profits with your unwanted goods, go Go GO!!!
See? And I thought up all these things on the spur of the moment. Holidays aren't meant to be boring, live it up! <3
...is what I said. Savvy?
4:47 pm
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June 2006