Making New Year wishes & planning New Year plans has never been so difficult before as this year, because I’ve never been both so eager to realize something and so afraid to risk to fail. Therefore, most wishes become questions, or pious prayer: can I ... ?
Most importantly:
1. Can I really do something as I wish in my job?
Already familiar, time to improve or change or do something new. But can I? But do I really want to?
(1) Finish watching Bernstein’s Young People's Concerts and take notes.
(2) Finish reading A Brief History of Music in Western Culture, 《音乐分析与创作导论》, and more if possible.
(3) Can I pick up and then keep practicing the piano?
2. Can I write something so that I have something to apply for schools abroad?
No plan in heart yet. But a year is not short, and inspiration will come whenever I do deserve it.
(1) Read more, think more, travel more, practice writing more, fall in love more//esc.
(2) Search for more schools and see their respective requirements.
(3) Feel free to write in Chinese; finish my first short story and keep doodling.
3. Can I continue to study French while improving English?
With the hope that one day my French could be as natural as my English and my English could be as proficient as my Chinese. //Why did and do I have such hope... - -
(1) 2008/02/25-2008/06/29 Mon&Wed 18:30--21:00 ￥2250
报名时间：一月
报名地点：上海法语培训中心本部（吴淞路297号5楼）
- 需提供2张一吋报名照和身份证原件
- 若您不是初学者，需事先预约做分级考试，当场就能知道结果
Shall I simply start as 0-level......//esc
(2) Learn TOEFL vocabulary by heart, and find something lovely to listen to.
Then…
4. Read literature systematically in a wide range, especially in English. Yet also pay attention to French and Russian writers’ works.
5. Learn more about Christianity.
Not with the hope that I’ll become a Christian; just not eliminate the possibility.
学习时间： 2008年1月5日至6月21日每周六16：30 -- 17：30
学习地点： 重庆南路270号圣伯多禄堂二楼215教室
Not sure whether this will be of some help.
6. Learn something about Art.
Just received Meiyang’s gift: The Story of Art, by E.H.Gombrich. 1000 pages...
7. Trip to Xiamen and Hainan, German or U.K. or Italy or Xinjiang&Russia.
But how can I find money supporting this since I have to deposit 80% of my income for future study use......
8. Increase of salary or reduction of overtime.
9. Build up a healthy lifestyle: diet, exercise, sleep, etc. Pay attention to protect my eyes.
And if possible…
10. Teacher's Certificate.
11. Encounter someone.