The Bucket List
From: www.maynaschua.com
Thanks to Jeanie who is the inspiration with her list and also introduced the movie, “The Bucket List”to me. *winks*
This list is accurate as written and will be revised, ticked off and added at any time as long as there is life inside of me
Things to do before I kick the Bucket.
- Skydive
- Compile a 10 page booklet frequently with the combine efforts of talented people
- To marry the woman with the most beautiful inner beauty in the world to me
- To help talented strangers showcase their talents
- To make a living doing what I love to do
- To create a life that matters, helping make a positive difference to people no matter how little
- To help out and attend my best friend’s wedding
- To start an excellent e-book publishing business
- To become a Technorati 1000 site owner
- To have a good pleasant speaking voice
- To have Lasik eye surgery for perfect eyesight, for convenience when travelling
- To remove acne and acne scars permanently
- To weigh 76 kg, be fit, feel and look great
- To visit the Great Pyramids
- To visit Mecca
- To visit the Holy See
- To stay in Europe for a year with a month each in England, Italy, France, Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Greece and Sweden
- To visit Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (Korea) and places in India
- To visit the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Dubai
- To visit New York (USA), Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Cuba
- To fly in a private jet and sail in a private yacht
- To achieve financial freedom doing what I love to do
- To record my own album
- To have my own Internet radio station
- To have my own Internet television broadcast station
- To climb the Himalayas
- To visit the Sahara Desert for a three day travel
- To visit Nature Parks in Africa and see the beauty of the wild
- To publish at least one best seller in bookstores
- To start a magazine like TIME
- To help 5 people out of poverty for a start
- To help 5 people achieve their dreams for a start
- To be able to say “Limited resources did not stop me from achieving what I want.”
- To be able to delegate 80% of tasks to capable people to free up more time
- To be able to find the kinds of talent who together can accomplish incredible feats
- To be able to gain many streams of possible income necessary to achieve the bucket list
- To live in a comfortable house that looks like a 5 star hotel
- To be featured in a newspaper, magazine and article
- To be #1 in the e-book publishing field
- To be able to realize that “This too, will pass,” in times of defeat
- To remember that I am responsible for myself and I have to make good when deciding what to do in times of difficult choices
- To be like Anne Frank, “Don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
- To be able to say “I live to make life less difficult for each other” to someone and the person will say that to me as well
- To be able to say “Yes, that’s how I ought to feel.”
- To advise someone that “Wisdom is nothing with kindness” in an appropriate situation
- To be in a situation where I am able to say again “I will do what I can, with what I have, where I am,” in times where things are greatly against my odds
- To prove to myself that I have lived a fearless moment
- To learn and speak Arabic, French, Spanish and Japanese
- To live for a month alone in a cave in India
- To be able to give something nice to every close friend
- To prove to my parents that I can make it in life as a great success
- To prove to myself that my life has great meaning in it
- To gather talented people to give the ability for a 3rd world to become a developed one
- To give the world the choice of using thermal energy worldwide to power the world’s thirst for electricity for their country’s development
- To teach 10 people how to teach others how to teach others to teach how to feed themselves
- To be able to create something that people can learn to love themselves again
- To hold a patent related to a useful product that can save people 4 hours of their time every week because of it
- To be able to tell myself “I am good at living my life.”
- To provide a comfortable and fulfilling life for my family.
- To be able to order food from the menu without looking at the price
- To ride the plains with a beautiful white horse I can call my friend
- To be a good friend
- To be a good son
- To be a good brother
- To be able to lead people to achieve a common objective successfully
- To have unshakable confidence 80% of the time, currently at 50%
- To understand how I will react accurately to 10 different but similar situations
- To persist on an impossible goal until successful
- To adapt myself on perfect poise and harmony without showing the least sign of arrogance
- To know the trigger words that makes me express my emotions such as anger, happiness, sadness or thought
- To uphold Justice for someone
- To be able to live life without showing the least signs of anger or lack of self control
- To be able to walk up to beautiful and amazing people and carry out a good conversation
- To be a good conservationist and listener 80% of the time
- To save someone’s life, but not at the expense of someone else’s or mine
- To have a bank of knowledge formed by and for great people who understand how to apply it to good use
- To be able to enjoy the company of great thinkers and in return, enjoy mine
- To be friendly to all, not just appear to some and otherwise to others
- To be true to myself and choose my own path of life to walk…to run…to fly
- To not give up on an important matter
- To become a magnet who magnetizes people
- To be able to love and trust deeply in love again
- To live happily
- To have 5 people to give without price
- To never have to worry about money and making a living again before 30
- To star in a film
- To be able to be productive from anywhere
- To produce art that I like and people want
- To start a foundation which trains the great thinkers and producers who can match anyone anywhere in the world
- To start schools which teaches people moral values, filial piety, kindness, understanding, financial freedom skills and how to make the world a better place to live in
- To never give up on myself when I have already given up
- To live life, not as just a life but a dream come true
- To obtain my PhD by providing a feasible solution for Global Warming
- To have a friend in every country in the world
- To do great things with great people unexpectedly
- To spend the majority of each day doing the things I choose to do
- To handle losing and defeat better and rebound back much faster
- To never doubt that I will not indulge in self-pity
- To have a large desk that encircles me in a room filled with my library of books
- To meet Richard Branson
- To meet George Soros
- To meet Warren Buffet
- To meet Oprah Winfrey
- To be able to design and wear my own line of clothes, simple, nice, effective and efficient. Just three sets of design, two causal, one official, like a uniform. Able to travel anywhere in it. Also another matching set for women. Primary Colours : White / Red / Black
- To assist someone who need it, asking nothing in return
- To assist someone to improve their life, asking nothing in return
- To become an World Class Expert in Presentations
- To learn self sustainable and survival skills such as farming, basic generation of electricity, filtration for drinking water, to be prepared for worst case scenarios while travelling
- To further upgrade myself with martial arts for self defence
- To have a jumbo punching bag to practice self defence
- To win an award in media design
- To have a desktop with two large Hi-def LCD screens
- To have an insight of 5 situations to why I do the things I do
- To have a personal web-site I am extremely proud of as one of the top few around which is beautifully designed, meaningful and people around the world find it worthy to visit two times weekly
- To have a web-site with audience specifically for my home country, Singapore. With the local touch of Singlish flavour
- To meet in person 80% of my closest online friends
- To be able to say to myself “I am no longer a boyish man, I am a Man.”
- To admit an honest mistake when I don’t need to do so
- To improve my cooking skills from a “not bad” to a “Mama Mia!”
- To upgrade my automatic car driving license to a manual one
- To get a motorcycle driving license
- To get a boating license
- To meet Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters
- To complete the first version of personal philosophy in how to live a worthy life
- To produce a booklet to encourage people to be spare a thought about global warming and why, if not taken seriously, Earth is going to be a harder place to be in
Edits
- 1st Edit July 15th 2008: From 100 to 125 entries to bucket list (Done)
- 2nd Edit July 16th 2008: Categorized into sections
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