What's another word for 'future'? More like how 'current' is for
'present'/'now', and 'then' is for 'past'. Hold on, I'll check my
dictionary app.
Okay, it says 'time to come',
'forthcoming', 'in store', or 'prospective'. Hmm I think I like
prospective the best so I shall use that in the title.
Now,
getting on with what this post actually is :) It's a compilation of the
stuff that currently fill my days/thoughts and what I hope will fill my
days/thoughts in the days to come, hence: current and prospective.
Right
now I'm in the midst of my holidays so this means that I have much time
to sit around all day and just do what I like (which may not always be a
good thing for me, having so much unobligated time. Why is there a red
squiggly line under my "unobligated"? Is it not a proper word? They have
it in the Google search but they don't have it in the Collins
dictionary. Huh. Well okay, unoccupied/idle time.) Anyway, the point is
that I've been spending my time reading books. And you might think this
is a good thing, you know how expanding your pool of knowledge and
broadening your perspectives etc is supposed to come with reading,
making it a beneficial pastime; but I think that it's starting to become
more of an impediment than a help. This is because I think I'm a bit
excessive about it. okay maybe that's an understatement. I go through
one book in a day and have been doing so for about 2 weeks now, not to
say that I've read 14 books, but close. They all have about 350 pages
each. The sad part about this story is that I haven't ad any time to do
other things. Almost all I do everyday is read, eat, sleep, read, eat,
sleep. I borrow a book from the library one day and return it the next,
yeah, I guess I should probably say it's an unhealthy obsession.
Literally. haha well because of this (and because of a pretty serious
foot injury that came with a sprained ankle), I haven't been very active
or exercising regularly which is bad. Especially for one like me who enjoys life's simple pleasures like a few squares of Kinder Bueno or a Happy Hippo, also from the Kinder company, every once in a while. (if you don't know what these are, you've been missing out on life!! Big time!) I also like Vanilla soft-serve ice cream and Froyo sometimes. SO back to the point: My holidays are dwindling away quite unproductively and I'm getting fat.
But
I propose to change that. You see all my friends are finding part-time
jobs to fill their days and earn spare cash and I feel like I should be
more.. proactive. I had wanted to volunteer to teach tuition to younger
kids (especially since it's study-for-exam period now) but my dad wasn't
too keen on the idea; though I think the experience would have been
good. I feel somehow guilty and almost spoiled because I've never worked
a day in my life. Never have had to work for money before; but yet I've
been spending since I was tall enough to speak to the salesperson
across the counter. That picture just isn't right. I know I'll have
plenty of time to work next time and really shouldn't want to speed the
process up, but enjoy my studies now ( there's a time and season for
everything+ when I work I'll probably be looking back on my youth and
dreaming about studying again); but I just feel that I should know how
hard it is to earn my own keep and at least experience it (the real
world?) for myself before I have to enter it. Also, prior work
experience does look better on a resume. (But it'll mostly be for the
experience if I work). But since my holidays are so short (only 1and a
half months, long, but not enough to entice someone to hire you) and
it's often interrupted with blocks of trips overseas (another turn off
for potential employers) I don't have the chance to do so.
This brings me to the part where I tell you what I can and hopefully will (if I can get my nose out of story books)
do in the days to come; the Prospective projects. So my sister is a
very hands-on type of person (or she recently became so) and I think
being around her so much(she's having holidays too, but her's are ending
next week ) has made this trait rub off on me. She made an entire bag
for her boyfriend for his birthday this year, from scratch. Literally.
She went on-line to get inspiration for the design, then watched videos
and read tutorials and things on how it is all done then she got the
cloth and needles and thread and buttons and pins and padding and
everything that you could possibly need and sewed the bag stitch by
stitch (mostly by hand, crazy girl) everyday for about 1 month. It
wasn't perfect but it was way more than just legit. She loves to cook
too! (oh did I mention, she cooked a whole seafood platter with homemade
fries and fresh cut fruit as a "picnic" on the actual day of the
birthday? to go along with the bag. Dedicated. but her boyfriend is
really sweet too, sometimes I envy their relationship, but I'm happy for
her :) anyway that's for another time.) So I've been thinking of a sewing project of my own. I want to sew a laptop case for myself but haven't quite finalised the details like how many pockets and where and strap or no strap, Velcro or buttons? okay, I haven't exactly settled on anything yet. But I'm working on it! Then I'll go buy the materials and start! :) yay that sounds exciting!! But I won't be so crazy as my sister and I will use a machine. hmm maybe I should document that process on this blog.. we'll see.. and maybe I'll do a post on the books that I've read. Whoo long post! Sorry for my tendency to ramble and sidetrack,
I'll end off with a quote: " If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
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