Design my own Outfit -COMPLETED

So I finally had a muse to draw something. And I couldn’t draw just one, I had to draw all of the ideas in my head. These are the results:

Kimono styled robe. I like the lines and the simplicity of this piece.

Military Cape. I would love to make one just like this one day.. Also the girl’s smile is very mischievous looking…don’t you think?

Gothic Outfit. I have a thing for corsets and red and black. I think I could do better but I don’t want to over do it. So I’m happy with the outcome

So another goal finally checked off the list. Been a while. I’ve been busy with life. But that is no excuse.

Another day another goal down

 

Low productivity

It does depend on what the goal is but for me I find it hard to get out of my mindset.. that I work on them in my free time- on my days off.

Then I end up doing things or not doing anything at all because ‘it’s my day off’. Plus on days I am working I’m just way too tired to do anything after work… I do 10 hour shifts… And then have to eat, shower and other little chores that by the time I settle down for free time it’s already 11pm and then I just facebook until I get tired and forget about work (because I find it awful to try to sleep still hung up on work…)

This month and last a little have been very low in productivity… due to this mindset. I need to change this mindset but it’s hard when my energy level is really low…

It’s all just excuses, now that we are in winter hours that means I finish earlier in the day so should be able to fit in some extra things into a day. I just need to get my ass into gear!

Anyway with my wallet nowhere near accessible and internet about to go I’ll be on my own for the next month….

Ciao

 

 

Goal 53# take a picture for each letter of the alphabet 16/26

One of my goals is to take a picture of each letter of the alphabet here is what I have so far:

16/26 (updated 24/4/13)

A- Aoraki Mount Cook

Aoraki Mt Cook- sometimes creates strange cloud formations

B-Books

My book collection.. at least part of it

C- Capoeira

Caught in mid au

D- Dance

DANCE-O-MAT- A public place for anyone to express themselves through dance

E-

F-Friends

Not the most well shot picture but one that encompasses everything I remember fondly at the time- Amazing food and great company

G- Glacier

Tasman Glacier

H- Helicopter

The lighting is crap but that’s the actual helicopter I rode on!

I- Iceberg on the Tasman Glacier Terminal Lake

Great Iceberg with overhang

J- Japanese food

Typical Japanese food- Miso Soup!! Plus my brand new katana chopsticks

K-

L- Lupins in Tekapo

Abundance in lupins

M-Music

Acoustic guitar on a camping trip is pure WIN

N-

O- Okonomiyaki

Okonomiyaki fresh in the pan

P- Pavlova

Delicious Pavlova one of my top 5 desserts

Q-

R-

S- Swap

swap I received through swapbot.

T- Tattoo

U-

V- Vanilla essence cookies

I didn’t take a photo of them pressed together with custard creme… but still so delicious

 

W-Waterfall

Waterfalls are aplenty after the rain in Aoraki Mt Cook national park….

X-

Y-

Z-

 

Mantra

My mantra for goals- At the end of this I may or may not succeed at them all but at least I’m trying

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How my IPOD Touch helps me with my goals

While all other technology flails and breaks within my prescence. my trusty Ipod Touch has managed to withstand my curse. And the apps even come in useful in helping me work towards my goals…

A number of my goals requires me to do something for period of time before I can count that goal accomplished/finished. But I need a way to keep track of how long I  Current goals include:

>52 week challenge

>Keep my room tidy for 2 months

>Stick to a budget for 2 months

For these goals I use an app called ‘Streaks‘ which is a motivational calendar app that is simple to use and helps you keep track of how many consecutive days (weeks or months- you can control the settings for which) you have kept to a goal. You can keep track of more than one goal and make notes as well

Another App called ‘Epic Win‘ follows your progress and makes it look like an epic adventure. This app blurs the line between a  ’to do list’ and a quest that you would play in an RPG game…Making it more fun when you tick off a task/goal. In this I have entered all my goals that I have yet to accomplish. For each task/goal you put in it you give it a value and can give each task it’s own settings (if it repeats/one off and how often etc) and when you complete a certain value you journey further into an unknown map and you gain items along the way

Kanjibox is a great tool which drills and quizes you on JLPT based japanese in areas of reading/Kanji/Vocabulary but can be great for beginners learning kana as well.  What I like the best is as you get certain words/Kanji correct your stats grow green and ones you get wrong show up red.. so you can have a visual idea of what you do and do not know..A few of my goals are Japanese related including getting all my stats in certain JLPT levels. You can play this online too if you do not have an ipod/ipad or iphone…

iworld quiz is a game app where you have to put the pin as close to the city/Country as possible. It is helpful for my World project goal and Learn to identify all the countries of the world goal.

Do you use Apple apps? What apps do you find most useful?

 

Time labouring goals….for APRIL~MAY

I only have have less than two months left here in Mt cook.. Usually at the beginning of each month I post something like a summary of what I intend to achieve but time is running out on me so I need to get my gears on!

And seeing that I need to get a move on with certain goals I am going to be focusing on these goals for the next 2 months:.

#Stick to a budget for 2 months…

#Keep my room tidy for 2 months -STARTED TODAY (29/3/13) I tidied my room and I will vacuum and do my washing once a week on one of my days off. So I will need to make a habit of putting things in their right place (there is no right place when you don’t have storage space xp) but I will try my best. I was thinking of shaming myself by posting pictures of my room but I can’t get a photo as my room is soo small all you see is the bed or the sink depending which side I take the photo from xp…So I will just have to be honest with myself.

#Learn the basics of Photography -It’s not hard, and I live in a very beautiful place

#Learn the basics of Portuguese – I am surrounded by brazilians… I should take advantage of this..

#Design my own outfit. I don’t know why I haven’t done this already.. I will do this.

#Write a short story

#Design my own henna tattoo

#Learn the basics of Excel – Can’t be that hard to self learn….I hope

AND these goals I want to make progress in:

#Learn 1/3 choreographed dances- I want to get a start on this goal… I have some songs in mind…

#World project

#New Zealand project -I haven’t even started on this one… that will come to haunt me if I don’t start soon!

# Be able to do the splits – The sooner I practise the sooner I get the pain out of the way

# Be able to do 50 push ups- same as above statement

# Be able to do handstands for 60 seconds… The more practise the better I get I hope…

# Be able to do poi- Learn some tricks other than figure 8′s…

#Learn to identify all the countries of the world

# Be able to reach my toes (comfortably)..

#continue 52 week challenge

# kanji box -I need to study japanese …

# study japanese (there are specific goals but I will work on those in the future

 

Okay bring on April and may… and the unforseeable future (jobwise) laa

 

 

GOAL #81-project #10- Write the story of why you moved to the city you currently live-COMPLETED

This goal was inspired by 52prokects.com

http://52projects.com/2009/10/23/project-10/

I shall write two stories as I had intended to write about Christchurch which I made this goal for (I lived there at the time I made this list) and Mt Cook which I am seasonally living…

Christchurch

I was 18 when I left my birthplace.. Invercargill. I couldn’t wait to move out and finally become independent. No more living under family rules or high school rules either. And No more living WITH family. I have moved about and lived here and there, but I had always been with family (it’s not that I’m anti family it’s more I wanted to be more independant and live on my own.support myself). I had chosen Christchurch over the popular student city of Dunedin which is within easy reach of family.. Despite pretty much all my friends went there- I’ve never been one to follow others. Plus Canterbury University provided the courses I was interested in. At the time I assumed everything else would just fall into place.-Being the organised person that I was- it did

Unlike most first years who go into a Halls of residence, I decided to dive straight into flatting. Generally by going into a halls of residence you get to meet other students, make friends and establish circles of contacts which you would like to flat with… However by diving… I really did just jump in and went flatting with people who I had only met over email. I had been corresponding with a few people to look at places for accommodation in Christchurch. And I did visit just after New Years to inspect the place and meet potential flatmates. In the end Tom seemed to like my nature and thought I would fit in the flat.

Though he was a little unsure at first as I was first year..and had never flatted before. But lucky for me everyone I was flatting with were postgraduate students. They had years of experience in flatting before, were exceptionally clean- the place we were living in didn’t count as ‘student flat’ because of their tidiness..
Them being males I expected that they might be unclean but it was I who was the messiest…. And they were good at cooking. Me? hadn’t cooked in my life and had to learn fast as we had a roster set up so we had to cook for each other…

They were kind, respectable and mostly kept to themselves but we did have some good times together And since then my first year flatting was the least problematic. Since my first year I have expanded my circle of friends and established a ‘life’ of my own. Even now that I am not a Uni student anymore a lot of my friends are still at uni or were made through uni or Uni related.  Uni has so many great clubs that I get involved in anyway… plus there’s Capoeira, the dance-o-mat, (some) clubs and crafty markets.. all which my hometown doesn’t have. But mostly it’s my friends that have made me feel like I can call this place home.

Actually it’s strange to say hometown referring to Invercargill. I call Christchurch home now.

Mt Cook

Last year I was determined to find a job. And I found after thinking hard about it- that tourism is industry I want to work in. I love travel and it is interesting to meet new people. So I took up a tourism course and thus my career in Tourims began… Our class went on a trip to Tekapo and Mt cook.. And we got to have a tour of the Hermitage Hotel. Everything that the Human resource manager said really sank in and I was ticking boxes in my head- Yes I can speak Japanese, Yes I can live in an isolated place Yes I can do all of those things… And near the end of my course there were some jobs on Trademe which I applied for- under the Hermitage Hotel. I originally applied for stargazing tour guide.. but since it was necessary to have really pera pera japanese I missed out on that role… BUT I stunned them enough in the interview that they offered me a different role- the role I am in now as a retail and activities assistant. It’s great working here and I love my job. And it started as soon as my course finished so I had less to worry about money wise. It is beautiful working here and I know when my days off are (some departments do not). Sometimes I even get to go visit Christchurch and catch all my friends again.

My room is reasonable. And it sounds big in comparison to others I have heard of.. Though I wish I had more storage compartments otherwise my room would be tidier… I think life here is a nice balance of nature and work. Though I spend my days off working on swaps and goals on this list.

So these are the stories of why I moved to where I currently live now.

GOAL COMPLETED