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	<title>Hong's Cave &#187; new year&#8217;s resolutions</title>
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		<title>Changing Wishes&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2003 00:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, I was talking to a friend of mine about the New Year&#8217;s Resolutions and things each wants to do most in life. As I was comparing things with my friend&#8217;s and also with those things I wanted to do long time ago (like in or before college), I noticed that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of days ago, I was talking to a friend of mine about the New Year&#8217;s Resolutions and things each wants to do most in life.  As I was comparing things with my friend&#8217;s and also with those things I wanted to do long time ago (like in or before college), I noticed that there had been some changes to the mixture of my wishes.</p>
<p>It seems most of my previous &#8220;wishes&#8221; can be classified as one-time, or short-term projects, such as traveling to a particular location in the world, seeing a certain museum, an artwork, etc.</p>
<p>However, that kind of wishes no longer interests me that much.  These days, it seems I am more incline to say that I would love to learn a new language, to play piano better, or to try my luck in cooking.  That is, I seem to go for more mundane, but more lasting (&#8220;long-term&#8221;) projects.  If I go to some foreign countries, it would be more for a longer term, like a year or so and do something there.</p>
<p>Am I getting old?  Maybe I am not getting much satisfaction from just doing something that would soon be forgotten mostly.  Am I getting lazy?  Maybe, but learning something is not that easy either, so maybe not.  I guess I am getting a bit realistic (or better at calculating costs and benefits :p)</p>
<p>Anyway, I just thought that it was interesting to realize the changes in me.</p>
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