A couple of years back, I put a lot of thought into all the new things I want to learn and hobbies to build. Growing up, I had always been a person who loves to learn new skills and a jack of all. But I realized, from the time I moved to NYC, \u00a0I had stopped picking up new hobbies – busy job? random drinking\/eating out over the weekends? so much to do in this city? :\/<\/p>\n
Time to build new hobbies!<\/p>\n
Take 1:<\/strong><\/span> Summer 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Bought 20 classes (10 from groupon and 10 from travel zoo) – yes! When I plan something, I go all in!<\/p>\n Took 1 class each at both tennis training centers – yay! I’m getting there!<\/p>\n 2. June 8: (I still remember the date)<\/p>\n We drove to Upstate New York for our first hike for the summer. We decided on trying the Popolopen trail<\/a>. The trail had a lot of rock scrambling and we thoroughly enjoyed it. \u00a0I completed the whole hike and at the last stretch, just when I was about to walk into the footpath (hike entrance)\u00a0– oops! I tripped on a rock right at the entrance.<\/p>\n My left feet was swollen 3 times the usual size! \u00a0Doc visit -> 2 full ligament tears! Oh no! And with this, an end to both my goals for summer 2014 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n Nevertheless, I shall re-visit this plan again – 2017 perhaps?<\/p>\n Take 2:<\/span> Summer 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n Learning from my past mistakes, I decided that I need to have a more varied set of hobbies. \u00a0After a lot of thought, I concluded that its best to have 3 types of hobbies<\/p>\n My only criteria for choosing these hobbies is that it has to be a social activity (will go mad without people around me!)<\/p>\n 2016\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Continued with #1 and #2 and still going strong!<\/p>\n Still searching for #3. Will my side project be the solution to this?<\/p>\n Maybe my desire to\u00a0learn new technical skills can itself be #3. I could also make it social once I gain expertise i.e build websites, analytics for NGOs, work with volunteers etc<\/p>\n Updates:<\/span><\/p>\n Billiards turns out to be a very expensive hobby! \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n I’ve started writing regularly and am super keen on getting better at it – hope to write a book someday (genre finalized!)<\/p>\n I keep going back to my love for drawing! See Digital Art<\/a>. My drawings still look like a 4 year olds, but i’m getting there!<\/p>\n\n
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