baby g’s diary

2024 is over (I mourn the unhinged girl I left behind)… so it is time for an accountability report.

I’m embarrassed that the “incompletes” list is longer than the “completed” one, but maybe life is supposed to be like that — one’s gotta want more to do more. Besides, I completed the most important thing I set out to do: my thesis. (Were you expecting “finding a man”, huh??? Were you???)

Learning point: many of the incompletes are moving targets that cannot be satisfactorily completed once and for all (e.g. cleaning my room, which I DID, okay) — subsequent iterations should be worded with more concrete outcomes. I have no excuses for the concrete ones I didn’t do, though.

So… I’m leaving the incompletes up in hopes of embarrassing myself so much that I’ll do them in 2025. Though not everything, I’ll carry some over to my 2025 resolutions list. The new year’s always a good time to rethink our priorities regarding the kind of lives we want to live. I can be sure that my true self is reflected in the things I did, but not necessarily in the things I didn’t.

2024 was awesome, especially in the middle. It was exhilarating to just exist. I’ll miss those days.

I hope 2025 will be just as magical.

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Originally published 24/2/24

COMPLETED
*bolded: stuff i really enjoyed

Struck out = done [completed date, comment]

Setting myself up for Success

• Finish and submit thesis
• Financial reconsolidation [Nov]
  • Clear debts
  • Emergency fund
  • Try side hustles: tutoring
• Duolingo [streak: 468/500 goal, I accept my persistence]

“Hobbies”

• 100k on blog [Jun] | 120k on blog [Nov]
• Finish 12 books [my read of the year is Antifragile]
• Commit to pilates [53 classes in 2024 – not bad if I say so myself!]
• Post 12 iconic reels (once a month) [exceeded and wiped, except for crowning glory]
  • Purge social media pages following (what you follow shapes what you are)
• Hyperoptimised partner-search project on dating apps [Jul: bonus comment — in time, you only remember the good ones]

Unhinged, Silly things

• Tongue piercing [Feb: I love the way it hurts a little]
• MORE tattoos [self-expression is an expensive hobby]
  • Devils dancing [May]
  • Gladiator gal [Jun]
• Engage with the woo-woo by visiting a numerologist [he said I wouldn’t find someone this year, but then again I’ve never listened to a man]
• Attend 5 concerts/musicals [total: 8]
  • Li Ronghao’s Free Soul (rating: 5/5☆)
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton (4☆)
  • Hacken Lee’s 《弦续李克勤》 (5☆)
  • Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism (4☆)
  • Jazz
    • Alina Ramirez Trio (3.5☆)
    • MAD LABS 3.0 (3.5☆)
    • Jazz @ The InterContinental (4☆)
    • Seeds and Flowers (3☆)
• Travel [total: 6]
  • Bali
  • Batam
  • JB
  • Genting
  • Tasmania
  • New Zealand [SKYDIVED!!!]

Cleansing and organising

• Purge problematic men [Jun: so true babe]
• Elimination load exercise [Dec]
  • Eliminate non-value adding activities
  • Consolidate all ongoing commitments
• Deactivate Motion and transfer data to Notion

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INCOMPLETES

Cleaning and organising, but the boring kind

• Spring cleaning
  • Work area [?]
  • Bookshelf and misc items area
  • Purge wardrobe and replace with babygirl vibes
    • Wear every single piece of clothing I own (shirt, shorts, socks, sleepwear)
    • Compile clothes and donate
• Get chair professionally cleaned
• Clean mahjong tiles + buy new excellent quality playing cards for good shuffle
• Clean up electronic devices/files
  • Clean up phone
    • Apps
    • Chats
  • MacBook and Google Drive files
    • Clean up photos
    • Organise Notion completely
      • Transfer all notes from phone to Notion
• Clear candy
• Purge blog, retag all posts, standardise categories/tags

Projects

• Sleep by 4am every night, wake up by 11am every morning (+/-1h) – 80% of the year [I don’t have to crunch any numbers to know that 80% definitely was not attained]
• Make Monumental happen (by Dec 2024) [70%]
  • Data transcription
  • Data analysis
  • Build programme
  • Run programme
  • Execute events
• Write blog posts [oof… what happened to My Passion…]
  • Reflections on grad school
  • Tips from a TA
  • Analyses on my Ultimate Life Tracker
• Volunteer weekly [8 sessions total… shame]
• Balance bonds and stocks portfolio
• Apply for 50 overseas jobs/education
• Side hustles
  • Write for an online platform?
• Learn R coding / other data presentation software

Hobbies

• Dance classes [I went for 1 class, at least – we’ll get there]
• Improve Japanese to N3 level
  • Register for intensive group classes after graduation
• Get better at pool [# practice sessions logged: 5?]
  • Master cuing action (hit balls accurately top, middle, bottom)
  • Pot balls faster and more accurately
• Piercings cont
  • Navel piercing?
  • Industrial piercing??
• Tattoos cont
  • One to commemorate thesis/graduation (“the struggle”, feminised)
  • Dopamine/serotonin pair
• Stream on Twitch 4 fun
  • Yakuza 0
  • JSRF, 100% (xemu)
  • Chained Together, with friends
• Visit a psychic
• Go to Lisdoonvarna, Ireland for matchmaking festival [note: maybe someday…]
• Go to 10 social gatherings to meet new people [count: <5??? loser]
• Open Water diving cert […someday I’ll see a shark]