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What sort of things do you want to learn?
Domo:
There are things in life that, in one point, will make you say "I want to learn how to do that!" or "I will do that someday". Due to excessive dreaming, I have formed a list of things I wanted to learn. These are things that I think will make me look either of the following: Awesome, Cooler, Smarter, Nerdier, Sexier, or just plain epic useful.
1.) Photography - I bought an Entry-Level DSLR and occasionally buy a Photography Magazine.
2) Drawing - I downloaded tons of book for drawing to get started. I also bought a notebook for my crappy sketches
3) Playing the Guitar - I bought 4 guitars which broke in a period of 4 years. I know the basics and a few songs.
4) Playing the Piano - My uncle gave me his long unused keyboard. Some of the keys don't respond
Sub-section: Drums, Bass, Dubstep-making,
5) Game Programming - I started C++ a while back. I gave up because of my studies.
6) Computer Graphics - I bought a pen tablet! :)
7) Dancing - I'm fat and I can't move my body really well.
8) Losing weight - I'm 70 kg and 5 feet 6 inches in height.
9) Speaking any other language - I am a Filipino. I know Filipino, English. a tad bit of Japanese.
10) Making Electronics - Isn't it cool to make your own thing-a-mabobs?
11) Music Making - I love singing. Unfortunately, the love isn't mutual.
12) Being really good at arcade games - DDR, DJMAX Technika, Tekken. I suck in all of those.
13) Building my own Gaming Computer - Yeah. I will try it as soon as I get my first paycheck. Which I will have after I got my first paying job. Which I plan on taking after I graduate college. Which will take a very long time.
14) Parkouring - Without the nut hits and injuries, It would be just plain awesome.
15) Animating - 3d or 2d. I want it :)
16) Be an EFFIN rich man - Living on your own mansion on a private island is the dream. And don't forget the maids and butlers ;P
17) Making an Operating System - Yeah.
18) Be an unbeatable champion at all any sport - Basketball, bowling, Ice hockey, Volleyball, Boxing
19) Be an Engineer - I took up an Industrial Engineering course and I'm loving it. I am now in danger of being kicked out of a very good Technical school.
Sub-section: Doctor, Pilot, Physicist, Astronaut, Actor
20) Be LEGENDARY at all games - The feeling of being a top-ranker at all games intrigues me.
21) Lead a country and be awesome at it - This says it all.
22) Forge my own sword
23) Mixing my own cocktail - I don't drink BTW. I just think its cool.
There are other things such as inventing the time machine, reanimating the dead and Flying. But those are plain fantasies (as of November 13, 2011, if reanimating the dead is possible in the future, please don't forget me).
Anyway, I wonder if any of you feel the same thing.
TL:DR ver. Post your dreams.
kurandoinu:
Some of yours would be on my list as well.
1) Learn how to use my camera better. (I've had a DSLR for a year now and can take an okay photo, but I would like to read up on how to technically take a better one as at the moment I'm playing it by eye)
2) Learn another language. I'm trying for Japanese, as a lot of people around here do.
3) Learn to code websites better. Being a designer it's a really useful skill to have.
4) Learn to sew clothes. I can follow a simple pattern but I would like to actually improve my sewing skills enough to make some clothes I could wear out and about.
5) Learn to cook more dishes. This one I'm always pursuing and the guys and gals on IRC often get to hear about my latest culinary adventure.
6) Animate something by hand. I have great respect for the animators of old and would love to animate something completely by hand. I've tried stop motion and using After Effects to animate with so far.
As for something that's a dream and not so much something I want to learn- I want to have my work featured in illustration annuals. I should hopefully have some work in a book about Futures next year and a magazine in a few months, but I want to have people approach me because they love my work and want it to be in their annual.
I'd also love for some university students in years to come to use me as part of their dissertations/research for work. I'd probably never know about it but it'd sure be cool
Ixarku:
--- Quote from: Domo on November 13, 2011, 01:29:36 PM ---There are things in life that, in one point, will make you say "I want to learn how to do that!" or "I will do that someday". Due to excessive dreaming, I have formed a list of things I wanted to learn. These are things that I think will make me look either of the following: Awesome, Cooler, Smarter, Nerdier, Sexier, or just plain epic useful.
(click to show/hide)1.) Photography - I bought an Entry-Level DSLR and occasionally buy a Photography Magazine.
2) Drawing - I downloaded tons of book for drawing to get started. I also bought a notebook for my crappy sketches
3) Playing the Guitar - I bought 4 guitars which broke in a period of 4 years. I know the basics and a few songs.
4) Playing the Piano - My uncle gave me his long unused keyboard. Some of the keys don't respond
Sub-section: Drums, Bass, Dubstep-making,
5) Game Programming - I started C++ a while back. I gave up because of my studies.
6) Computer Graphics - I bought a pen tablet! :)
7) Dancing - I'm fat and I can't move my body really well.
8) Losing weight - I'm 70 kg and 5 feet 6 inches in height.
9) Speaking any other language - I am a Filipino. I know Filipino, English. a tad bit of Japanese.
10) Making Electronics - Isn't it cool to make your own thing-a-mabobs?
11) Music Making - I love singing. Unfortunately, the love isn't mutual.
12) Being really good at arcade games - DDR, DJMAX Technika, Tekken. I suck in all of those.
13) Building my own Gaming Computer - Yeah. I will try it as soon as I get my first paycheck. Which I will have after I got my first paying job. Which I plan on taking after I graduate college. Which will take a very long time.
14) Parkouring - Without the nut hits and injuries, It would be just plain awesome.
15) Animating - 3d or 2d. I want it :)
16) Be an EFFIN rich man - Living on your own mansion on a private island is the dream. And don't forget the maids and butlers ;P
17) Making an Operating System - Yeah.
18) Be an unbeatable champion at all any sport - Basketball, bowling, Ice hockey, Volleyball, Boxing
19) Be an Engineer - I took up an Industrial Engineering course and I'm loving it. I am now in danger of being kicked out of a very good Technical school.
Sub-section: Doctor, Pilot, Physicist, Astronaut, Actor
20) Be LEGENDARY at all games - The feeling of being a top-ranker at all games intrigues me.
21) Lead a country and be awesome at it - This says it all.
22) Forge my own sword
23) Mixing my own cocktail - I don't drink BTW. I just think its cool.
There are other things such as inventing the time machine, reanimating the dead and Flying. But those are plain fantasies (as of November 13, 2011, if reanimating the dead is possible in the future, please don't forget me).
Anyway, I wonder if any of you feel the same thing.
TL:DR ver. Post your dreams.
--- End quote ---
LOL, at least you have ambition!
My current dreams:
1) Learn to play guitar solos at around 200bpm. (I'm never gonna reach this one, I'm too damned old to teach my fingers to move that fast, but I'm having fun learning.)
2) Write & publish one or more fantasy novels. This is a dream I periodically revisit. I've had this ambition literally since I could pick up a pencil. I have all of the technical knowledge to write a fully-realized novel, but I lack the self-discipline to follow through, and I can't settle on what in the hell I want to write.
3) Pay off my house, sell it, and move somewhere where I don't have a lawn to take care of. Maybe buy a condo instead. I'm at the halfway point to paying off my house, only got 6 years to go!
4) Retire from work. That's at least 25, maybe 30 years away, though.
5) Go back to Japan, spend more time in Tokyo, Kamakura, and Yokohama. Go to Kyoto and maybe Osaka. Planning to do this next year if my friends are available to go!
6) Learn more Japanese. I'm not serious about it, but I dink around with Rosetta Stone every so often.
7) Win the Lottery, build a big ass house with a gaming room, theater room, and a fully stocked bar. (The alcohol wouldn't last around my friends, though; I'd be lucky not to come home one day and find my friends' corpses piled up in front of the liquor cabinet.)
Dale08:
* Learn Japanese - I'm sure that's something most people on this forum want to learn. Just knowing enough to read raw of Yotsubato would be nice.
* Become a DJ - I've already got the basics down. Just needa fork out a metric crap ton of money for the equipment.
* Draw (decently) - Would love to be able to draw as well as someone like Emperpep
* Eat melon bread - Shana makes it look tasty
That's about it...
Yeah I don't have high aspirations.
Supai:
1) Get out of this country (Finland).
2) The ability to make a living in whichever country I end up going to.
3) Learn the following languages: Japanese, Spanish and Italian. (Working on the Japanese)
4) Eventually die as a happy man.
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