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“You can’t make your dream come true if you are only half awake.” - Maynas Eric

This is my Bucket List, a list of goals and things I want to accomplish in this life before I die. It’s a personal place on this blog for me to keep track of the list and it’s a VERY LONG list to reckon with, so serious readers only (Smiles).

(cleared 8 14 15 of 148)

Having basically turned over the notes I have written for almost a decade and a half, I felt strongly that this bucket list was the result of most of the thoughts, goals and ambitions that I wanted…then I realized…this Bucket List must be the most important thing I have ever done…it is everything I ever wanted to be, become and fulfil in my life.

It’s the soul of what’s this blog is about. Read the list and you will know why!

Many thanks to my very special friend Jeanie *HUGS* who is the inspiration with her list and also introduced the movie, “The Bucket List” to me. You make my light shine again.

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.

P.S : Some completed tasks have links to them (bold and strikethrough)

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Things to do before I kick the Bucket

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LIFESTYLE & SELF IMPROVEMENTS

To be able to tell myself “I am good at living my life.”
To live in a comfortable house that looks like a 5 star hotel
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 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 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 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 never have to worry about money and making a living again before 30
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 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 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 have an insight of 5 situations to why I do the things I do
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 70 kg, be fit, feel and look great
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 be able to cancel out the feeling of sadness within five seconds of feeling it
To become someone so well known for his action that others come forward to offer more so that we can produce much more together

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MEANINGFUL LIFE

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To be able to enjoy the company of great thinkers and in return, enjoy mine
To be able to gain many streams of possible income necessary to achieve the bucket list
To help 5 people out of poverty for a start
To help 5 people achieve their dreams for a start
To record my own album
To star in a film
To be able to say “Limited resources did not stop me from achieving what I want.”
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.” (July 28 2008, Brazil Vs Singapore Soccer Match)
To advise someone that “Wisdom is nothing without 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 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 teach 10 people how to teach others how to teach others to teach how to feed themselves
To uphold Justice for someone
To save someone’s life, but not at the expense of someone else’s or mine
To have 5 people to give without price
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 complete the first version of personal philosophy in how to live a worthy life
To become the World First and therefore Best at something
To eat the nicest meal in the world and be so touched, I will shed a tear
To be able to be the man who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, who renders the world, through that act, a greater service than that rendered by all the fault finders combined - Napoleon Hill
To help talented strangers showcase their talents
To create a life that matters, helping make a positive difference to people no matter how little
Compile a 10 page booklet frequently with the combine efforts of talented people

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FAMILY, LOVE AND FRIENDS

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To provide a comfortable and fulfilling life for my family.
To be a good friend (Smiles, made a friend’s trip a much better one)
To be a good son (Smiles, represented family to do prayers)
To be a good brother (Smiles, protected family)
To become a magnet who magnetizes people
To be able to love and trust deeply in love again
To be able to say truthfully I am living very happily
To have a friend in every country in the world
To meet Richard Branson
To meet George Soros
To meet Warren Buffet
To meet Oprah Winfrey
To meet in person 80% of my closest online friends
To meet Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters
To take a photo together with a World Champion (Joey Chestnut, World Hotdog Eating Champion, 27/07/2008)
To be the dream person my dream person wants
To marry the woman with the most beautiful inner beauty in the world to me
To help out and attend my best friend’s wedding (Completed)
Make a friend with a fellow Singaporean Blogger

Lolz, took a photo with Estee Teo, I didn’t know she was a Singaporean Blogger when I took a picture with her. Only found out about it after I went home and checked her website out.

Well, only thing is that we aren’t really officially friends, we just had a quick chat and took photos with her during one of the events she was hosting that day at Suntec City, Singapore for an Web 2.0 event for startups.

So can’t strike this list out yet!
Met Singapore’s Prime Minister

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CAREER

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To make a living doing what I love to do
To achieve financial freedom doing what I love to do
To be an expert in organizing efforts towards a common goal
To start an excellent e-book publishing business
To become a Technorati 1000 site owner
To become an World Class Expert in Presentations
To have my own Internet radio station
To have my own Internet television broadcast station
To be featured in a newspaper, magazine and article
To publish at least one best seller in bookstores
To start a magazine like TIME
To be able to delegate 80% of tasks to capable people to free up more time
To be #1 in the e-book publishing field
To be able to find the kinds of talent who together can accomplish incredible feats
To be able to lead 76 people to achieve a common objective successfully
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 be productive from anywhere
To produce art that I like and people want
To win an award in Media Design
To have a desktop with two large Hi-def LCD screens
To have a web-site with audience specifically for my home country, Singapore. With the local touch of Singlish flavour
To have a Professional WordPress Theme instead of fiddling on my own
To be confident and capable enough to be like Henry Ford, if everything I ever owned was destroyed, that capital is always available in unlimited quantities to brains such as Henry Ford
To be able to say I accomplished in one week what I struggled for a year before
To create a system so simple, effective and efficient that it can duplicated within a day for 80% of projects I set upon
To be fully aware of what it means to be ON the business, not IN the business and be able to fulfil it
To achieve self-fulfillment and success of 40 before 28
To be able to distinguish the non-productive and super productive activities within a minute and to focus on the super productive activities instantly without blinking an eye worrying about the non-productive. In a word, don’t be too perfect that things that don’t produce results, gets done as well.
To have a great WordPress theme and quality website like Smashing Magazine.

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TRAVEL & ADVENTURES

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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 visit the Great Pyramids
To visit Mecca
To visit the Holy See
To live for a month alone in a cave in India
To fly in a private jet and sail in a private yacht
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
Skydive
Space travel with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic! (Added 3/8/08) - 200k

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LANGUAGES

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To learn and speak Arabic, French, Spanish, Korean and Japanese

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SELF DEFENCE

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To further upgrade myself with martial arts for self defence
To have a jumbo punching bag to practice self defence

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COOKING

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To improve my cooking skills from a “not bad” to a “Mama Mia!”

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SKILLS

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To upgrade my automatic car driving license to a manual one Converted Australia license to Singapore license, no longer interested in manual)
To get a motorcycle driving license ( After discussion with parents, decided not to do it for safety reasons)
To get a boating license

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.EMOTIONS

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To not let bad memories haunt me again (X 5 times on July 15, 4 times on July 16, 11 times on July 18)
To let go of the bad memories of my first true love and not to be affected by it ever again just by the mention or thoughts of her
To show her that I am living a much better life even after she left (not needed, how I live is how I live, thanks Maryanne!)

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SCIENCE & RESEARCH

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To obtain my PhD by providing a feasible solution for Global Warming
To give the world the choice of using thermal energy worldwide to power the world’s thirst for electricity for their country’s development (Australia)
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 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 produce a booklet to let people be more aware about Global Warming (Not yet distributed)
To create eateries that offers quality and fast meals for 40% less in places and three cities that charges above eight dollars for a normal meal. Great meals comes at a higher price, but normal meals just to continue the day, shouldn’t.

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PHILANTHROPY

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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 assist someone who need it, asking nothing in return (privately, not to be disclosed)
To assist someone to improve their life, asking nothing in return (privately, not to be disclosed)

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Edits

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1st Edit July 15th 2008: Created list of 130 entries to bucket list (Done)
1st Edit July 16th 2008: From 130 to 144 (148) entries to bucket list (Done)
2nd Edit July 16th 2008: Categorized into sections (Done)
4th Edit July 29th 2008 : Emotions #15
5th Edit August 13th 2008: Meaningful life #13 corrected from “With” to “Without”
To show her that I am living a much better life even after she left (not needed, how I live is how I live, thanks Maryanne!)
8th August, To get a motorcycle driving license ( After discussion with parents, decided not to do it for safety reasons)

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Completed List

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July 27th 2008 : Completed Family Love and Friends #15 To take a photo together with a World Champion (Joey Chestnut, World Hotdog Eating Champion, 27/07/2008)
July 28th 2008 : Comepleted Meaning Life #12 To be able to say “Yes, that’s how I ought to feel.” (July 28 2008, Brazil Vs Singapore Soccer Match)
July 31st 2008: Cleared Emotions Section
August 07 2008: Cleared Science and Research #6 To produce a booklet to let people be more aware about Global Warming
August 08 2008: Cleared Skills #1 To upgrade my automatic car driving license to a manual one
August 10 2008: Cleared Career #29 To have a great WordPress theme and quality website like Smashing Magazine.
August 14-15 2008: Cleared Family, Love and Friends #2
August 14-15 2008: Cleared Family, Love and Friends #3
August 14-15 2008: Cleared Family, Love and Friends #4
August 14-15 2008: Philanthropy #3
August 14-15 2008: Philanthropy #4