Saturday, July 3, 2010

2010 Wish/To-do list

Every year I write down a list of stuff I would like to do/resolve for the current year, here is my 2010 and current progress:

- Breathe deeper, more often
- New 2010 Diary with Quotes
- Start a blog: This is it
- Get a cool next-gen personal phone: Nexus One
- E-reader with touchscreen
- Fix Wacom tablet/Get new one: Bamboo Pen & Touch
- Get a Macbook Pro: i5 17inch with gloss screen
- Have decent source/driver for my headphones: Creative Xi-Fi 5.1 (cheap! good signal to noise - turn effects off)
- Continue to be our own biggest client Yep, it's working for us, and not having a "client" in the equation, changes everything!
- Establish our mobile games community: Barkingseed.com launched
- Grow our community to 50 000 members in first 12 months: Done! And sooner than expected!
- Get 1 million downloads of our games in 2010 - Aug 10 2010: 1 000 000 downloads on OVI!
- Spend quality time with my parents, be as honest as possible
- Do a collaboration with international designer/programmer
- Record my own mixtape
- Design my own font
- Spend more productive time outside Singapore Got to spend 3 months in Cape Town working with friends!
- Go to bed before 12
- Optimize the running of our Cape Town office
- Sell my VW Golf in Cape Town: Thanks Juan
- Pay all outstanding South African debts
- Do something to support indie media / developers
- Let go of my Cape Town apartment and possessions
- Do more collaborations with South African friends/new talent (& pay them decently!): JDLQuake, BenRad, Shaun Thompson, BigLeap
- Repay software loans
- Go to the dentist: Root canal avoided and wisdom tooth finally removed!