Since we’ve gotten to the topic of offloading, here goes ;)
In 2025, I made some resolutions. Although more than 1.5 years have passed, I still want to address them.
Q1 Goals
- Lose Weight - going to a wedding
I think I was able to, but of course got it all back and more after the trip. I did get into running though, after running around the UP Academic Oval (maybe and idea for a future post - my 2025 running phase).
- Brush up on Chinese - going to HK
- Not really required to get around, but one time I tried ordering bubble tea and couldn’t even say what I wanted
I was shy so I didn’t even get to use Cantonese 😠except for this one time when I was asking for 馬拉糕. I did use some Mandarin on our China trip though, so maybe I just was more confident with Mandarin (or I didn’t have the choice to speak English)
- Try to eat out less
- Lines up with Goal 1 and 2, since I’m going on a trip and need to save up
Utter failure
The rest of the year
- Record myself talking every day
- I want to be able to tolerate my voice
- Also to improve my speaking because I get lazy pronouncing stuff
I didn’t get to do it either 😠I probably didn’t start at all. I hope to change that again this year though with Obsidian (another post idea!).
- Reduce (useless) screen time
- Keep my phone on greyscale
YouTube is crazy addictive 😠I have been watching slop all day. Luckily I was able to save myself the last couple hours of today.
I like the greyscale idea though. I did it for my phone again just now.
- Consume less, create more
- This has been my goal for a while, but perfectionism always gets in the way
- Try to write and publish every day (charles.thyck.top)
- Time for music covers?
We already know I failed at that in 2025 😂 but I am trying now in mid-2026. The music covers idea is crazy though
- Keep track of my money
- Before I just put whatever is left from credit card bills into my savings, but now I want to actually try to hit a savings percentage as a goal
- 60% is probably attainable considering my living situation
I just kept doing what I was doing before 🙂 I now have less savings
Bonus
- Move out
It did NOT happen 😠especially not now with my upcoming MSc
- Greet people on their birthdays
- First step is finding out what their birthdays are
- I only know mine because I have to use it to fill out forms (I still forget sometimes)
- I only know one (1) of my sisters’ birthdays because it’s the same as mine
- I only know Jherzey’s because she’ll get mad otherwise
I got through the first step (knowing their birthdays), but I’m shy 🥺
*This is post #4 for my first 100 Days To Offload challenge.