• economics - basic definitions; development of capitalism, applied economics, communist countries and their policies
• southeast asian history, colonial and post-colonial to modern-day
• Seneca drama
• Renaissance and Jacobean poetry and drama
• modernism
• music, sight reading and theory
• roman history
• John Donne's sermons
• drawing/sketching urban landscapes; as a hobby

• Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Middlemarch, George Eliot
• Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
• A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
• Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
• S, J.J. Abrams
• John Milton, Paradise Lost
• Dante, The Divine Comedy
• A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis
• The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
• Lunch Poems, Frank O'Hara
• Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell

• visit yellowstone national park
• go to a vienna teng show (blu jazz cafe, 2014)
• snorkeling/diving in jellyfish lake (koror, palau)
• soak in an outdoors hot spring in hokkaido in winter
• live alone in a room/apartment
• visit a jazz age themed cafe/bar/restaurant
• visit the jurassic coast
• visit freshwater, isle of wight
• go to a florence and the machine show
• go to a belle and sebastian show
• hopefully, see a reprised peranakan version of federico garcía lorca's 'the house of bernarda alba'
• see tom stoppard's 'arcadia'
• island day trips: pulau hantu, southern islands, sisters' islands
• go to a joanna newsom show

• i'm going to run the risk of being free. - patrick wolf, the libertine
• To smile less, talk less. Conversely, and most important, to mean it when I smile, and to believe what I say & say only what I believe. - Susan Sontag
• Who the hell said you no longer had it in you? - Charles Bukowski
• I needed my mistakes / in their own order / to get me here. - W.S. Merwin, Wild Oats
• If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives. - Lemony Snicket
• Nothing worth doing is easy.
• Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. - Camille Paglia
• Life is difficult, ok? Step up! Step up to the plate! - Camille Paglia

• Tell the truth.
• Do not do things that you hate.
• Act so that you can tell the truth about how you act.
• Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.
• If you have to choose, be the one who does things, instead of the one who is seen to do things.
• Pay attention.
• Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you need to know. Listen to them hard enough so that they will share it with you.
• Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationships.
• Be careful who you share good news with.
• Be careful who you share bad news with.
• Make at least one thing better every single place you go.
• Imagine who you could be, and then aim si...

daily

• ☐ take vitamin supplements regularly
• ☐ (at least) ten-pages-a-day reading plan
• ☐ x1 fruit daily

consistently

• ☐ 10-step skincare routine
• ☐ eat more home-cooked meals
• ☐ weekly swim
• ☐ monthly spring clean

goals

• ☐ minimalist bookshelf, wardrobe, life
• ☐ keep in much-needed contact with friends
• ☐ long-term financial plans