Outrageous 2020
By: Mr Anderson
Tags: Diary, Year Plan, Motivation, Mischief Managed, Personal Story

This picture is just for attention or maybe it is representing how I am looking forward to in the future. I had a terrific 2019, I had achieved some of the goals that I had planned originally, I missed some and there are some I did not even try. I am gonna do a quick recap of last year here. I know it is a bit late, January is almost over. I was preoccupied with procrastination. Moreover, I think it is better to put it out on the internet. It is more like shouting from the top of the tallest building of your city. Everyone will think you are crazy, a nut job but once you have done it, your ideas will not sound that crazy to you.

2019 was good for me. I had some major “first-time” experiences. I am going to skip the professional ones because I want to. On a less professional scene, my friend ynk cooked up a small python script for League of Legends, which download player data using league API and show how many games a player has played with a champion. It is a neat little script, I coded the web view of it and pretty-up the ynk’s code a little more. So, now it’s called https://lookup.gg/ and gathered probably 200k hits. Most of them were in December. I started parkour in April, made huge progress on it. My body became more flexible and I can run now! I had climbed some mountains, experienced rock climbing, and bouldering and fell in love with it. More importantly, I have made some truly remarkable friends. People I truly trust and someone I can look up to. These people push me beyond my limits, they are my leap of faith. I have also cut ties with toxic people. I experienced some amazing works, listened to some crazy music and most importantly,

I LIVED!

Now, let me tell you what my 2020 will look like. There is no particular order here and I will probably add more stuff here later on.

I am head over heels in love with bouldering and rock climbing now. I am going to keep going. I have made plans to visit India again, for climbing in February. I will probably do it again in March/April and later in years. For rock climbing and bouldering, I would have to make my body lean and fit. Thus, a new fitness program, designed by me for now. Let’s see where that end. I have bought a night lamp and started reading at least one page at night, before sleeping. So far, I have finished Hippie by Paulo Coelho. This is my favorite quote from the book — “Humanity has committed its greatest crimes in the name of the Truth. Men and women were burned alive, entire civilizations were destroyed, those who committed sins of the flesh were sent away, those who pursued a different path were cast out. One of them, in the name of ‘truth,’ was crucified. But before dying, he clarified Truth’s ultimate definition. It is not that which gives us certainty. It is not that which gives us profound thoughts. It is not that which makes us better than others. It is not that which makes us prisoners to our prejudices. ‘The Truth is what makes us free. You will know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free,’ Jesus said.” I loved it so much that I have put it in the first paragraph of my motivation letter for the master’s admission application. I started the letter with this paraphrase. I have a huge stockpile of unread books, I have to finish reading all of them by this year. I forgot I had bought a guitar for my sister and she left it to me. I always fancied myself learning to play guitar. This sounds like a good time. A musician friend is helping me with this project. Swimming — Always want to, never buckled in. I have planned to start in March. Running — Now I need to, I will probably not go in Jia Uddan just to run for half an hour and come back. It is gonna cost me 200 Tk minimum. I will just run in my neighborhood. I have also bought a skateboard and roller skates shoes. I am gonna start skateboarding from March, in sha Allah and roller skates will roll in from April/May, depending on my progress on skateboarding. I have started a micro master’s course on EdX. Right now, I am enrolled in four courses, Cyber Security Fundamentals, Computer Forensics, Cyber Security Risk Management and Introduction to programming using Python. Apart from the python course, others are part of a micro master’s program from RITx, Rochester Institute of Technology. There are five courses and I have already mentioned three. From March 04, I will start Network Security and from June/July, I will start the last course, CyberSecurity Capstone. Python course is also part of the XSeries program of MITx, Computational Thinking using Python. The next course and the last course of this series is Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science, which will finish in June/July. I am going to have a tough time in the first quarter of this year, considering I have to complete four courses in due time. However, after March, my schedule will open up a bit. I am highly interested in learning cryptography and Stanford has this fabulous course online, Cryptography I. I am going to pursue it from March. Then, there is PenTesting. I don’t know how or where, but I will find a way and I will learn it. I love the work of Jimmy Chin. He is this amazing climber and adventure photographer. He has a course in the masterclass on Adventure Photography, I am going to do this course. It's a whopping $80 course. Money is not necessarily that big of a problem. The main problem is I don't know how I am going to practice. But I am definitely going to take this course in April/May I have applied for masters in Cyber Security in different Finnish universities. Hopefully, I will be admitted or else, I will be more prepared for next year. I literally cannot do anything other than writing these sentences. Although, I would have to take the IELTS again. It is going to expire in February. Learning digital art drawing and animation. I have some comic ideas that I would love to try. I will start prepping from March/April and will be full-on mode from May/June in sha Allah. I am going to summit two mountains in Bangladesh in March/April and probably one last Nepal trip in May/June. I am going to plan it later. I always want to write a little bit, about something I truly love and support on Medium or my personal site. I am going to start doing it. Once a week. It is gonna be good music, book, movie, codes or life. Starting from this week.

As you can see, there is no plan after June. As my experiences say, these will drag on to July/August to fully achieve. If I am admitted to a master's in Finland, then I will be leaving Bangladesh in August and start a new life in Finland. I can't predict anything there except these —

I will join a climbing gym and start practicing indoor climbing and bouldering. I will try to visit Iceland during Christmas break and surf in Icelandic cold water, summit a volcano, walk on the black beach. A good old fashioned road trip.

Now, I have finished writing my dreams and plans for 2020. As I have stated before, it does not look that outrageous. It is really possible to finish everything I have planned. It does not look that impossible to me anymore. Funny thing is, the first thing I did before writing this post is finding a good cover photo for it. That's all. That's everything I want to achieve in 2020.