• make a comic? comic zine?
• ✔ record an a capella cover [with acoustic guitar - close enough]
• ✔ have a garage sale
• start a little vegetable/herb garden
• ✔ get an asymmetrical haircut
• re-learn Japanese
• ✔ make a mega-scrapbook of recipes I like (made a tumblr for it instead)
• watch an entire TV series in Chinese
• sell something I made (not a baby)
• learn to make, then perfect, macarons
• make a stop-motion video
• make a zine
• start and finish a 365 photography project... and then just keep going after 365 days is up!
• travel to (at the very least): Italy, France, Thailand, Vietnam, China (again), Japan (again), Singapore (again), America (mostly New York), England, Germany

• Yum Cha
  • WestLake (CBD)
  • Shark Fin House (CBD)
  • Red Emperor (Southbank)(pricey)
• Restaurants
  • Grossi Florentino's Cellar Bar (CBD)
  • Soto (Toorak)
  • Cafe Kimurakan (CBD)
  • Yamato (CBD)
  • The Vegie Bar (Fitzroy)
  • Laksa King (Flemington)
  • The Local Taphouse (St Kilda)
• Sweets
  • Brunetti
  • Lindt Cafe
  • Little Cupcake (CBD)
  • Cupcake Central (CBD)
  • Ganache Chocolate Lounge (CBD)

• butter dish thing
• slow cooker
• waffle iron
• water filter thing
• stick blender
• nice salt/pepper grinders
• mesh strainer/sieve
• tart pan
• tart moulds

Favourite shows are bolded.

Pre-2010

• Hellogoodbye
• Paramore
• All-American Rejects
• Silverchair (Pushover)
• Something For Kate (Pushover)
• Trial Kennedy (Pushover)
• Yacht Club DJs (Pushover)
• Young Heretics
• The Dirty Secrets
• Bertie Blackman
• Dukes of Windsor
• Ryan Meeking and the Few
• Lisa Mitchell
• Oh Mercy

2010

• Pikelet
• Dirty Projectors
• Mumford and Sons

Cafes

• Spoonful and Teaspoon (Prahran)
• Ray (Brunswick)
• Empire Cafe Gallery (Brunswick)
• Birdman Eating (Fitzroy)
• Elevenses Espresso Bar (CBD)
• Harper's Kitchen (St Kilda)
• Each Peach (Brunswick East)
• Brim CC's Japanese Organic Cafe (CBD)
• ✔ Oli & Levi (CBD)
• Drugstore Espresso (South Yarra)
• School of 7 Bells (Prahran)
• Beatrix (Nth Melbourne)

Restaurants

• Appetizer (CBD)
• Wabi Sabi Garden/Salon (St Kilda/Collingwood)
• Stalactites (CBD)
• Houndstooth (Fitzroy)
• Chin Chin (CBD)
• The Tofu Shop (Richmond)

I own all/most of this series on DVD | To buy

• Death Note
• Pushing Daises
• Battlestar Galactica
• Fringe
• United States of Tara
• Dexter
• Skins (only S1+2)
• Scrubs
• Daria
• The Office
• 30 Rock
• Arrested Development
• Heroes
• The OC
• Veronica Mars
• The Simpsons
• Community
• Freaks and Geeks
• State Of Play (BBC miniseries)
• Sherlock

• The Wire
• Six Feet Under
• Weeds
• Lost
• Boardwalk Empire
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Big Love
• Mad Men
• Bored to Death
• Peep Show
• Shameless
• Twin Peaks
• Party Down
• Torchwood
• Merlin
• Evangelion
• Firefly
• Love My Way
• Avatar: The Last Airbender

• Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Family Law - Benjamin Law
• The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
• Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
• Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
• The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham
• Holes - Louis Sachar
• The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
• Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
• Ashbury/Brookfield series - Jaclyn Moriarty
• Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
• After Dark - Haruki Murakami
• 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
• High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
• The Day Of The Triffids - John Wyndham
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt

own a copy | to buy

• X-Men: First Class (and X-Men movie franchise)
• Atonement
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Up
• Hot Rod
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• The Breakfast Club
• Edward Scissorhands
• Spirited Away
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Superbad
• Wall E
• Kick-Ass
• Howl's Moving Castle
• My Girl
• Memento
• A Single Man
• Shutter Island
• A Little Princess
• Fantastic Mr. Fox