Three years ago, I listed 11 skills I wanted to learn before I reach 30. I’m now 26 years old and 6 of the 11 skills are already crossed out. Amazing how time flies and I have gained new skills in the span of three years. Well, obviously that’s a lot of time but I never really tracked my list and only saw it again a few days ago. Below are the six skills I learned although two of these I haven’t really mastered yet (the languages) but I made progress.

Digital Photography

Please see some of the photos I took. I’m amazed how beautiful they look even if I have just used a point-and-shoot camera (Although most of these cameras today produce good quality pictures comparable to professional digital cameras).

Web Designing

Most of my projects now involve web designing which really wasn’t one of my skills 3 years ago.

Programming

This is one of the biggest achievement among the 6 skills. I only learned how to program less than a year ago. My first public program is a tool that converts korean characters to roman letters. I made a similar tool in 2008 but I lost the files so I didn’t consider it as my very first. It was poorly coded in Perl anyway compare to the Korean tool which is well coded in PHP.

Speaking Spanish

My husband is half-mexican and we attend a lot of events where I meet a lot of spanish-speaking people. These events encourage me to learn Spanish. I’ve been listening to a lot of Spanish audio lessons lately and because of the Spanish words in Filipino and Visayan languages, I’m able to pick up Spanish easily.

Speaking Korean

I’m not still good at speaking Korean but I made some progress.

Cooking

I learned cooking after I got married.

And Biking (7th not on the list)

One skill I did not put in my old 11-skills goal list is to learn how to ride a bike.  I just learned it when I was 25. I really love it although I fell on my first try! My husband and I will go biking again tomorrow. You’ll really never too old to learn how to ride a bike. The little kid on the video gives an inspirational speech.