One (Hundred) More Thing(s)

New Year’s is a time to look back at the past year and look ahead to the year ahead. But see­ing as this Decem­ber was so momen­tous for me, I decided to look ahead not only to this year, but to my whole life. Like I said in a pre­vi­ous post, I wanted to make a list of 100 life goals. How­ever, as I was mak­ing my list, I real­ized that a big part of what I wanted to do was to travel. In fact, more than fifty of my goals were places to visit. So I split the list in two and made a “100 Places To Visit” list and a “100 Things To Do” list -

Places

  1. Great Pyra­mid of Giza (only Won­der of Ancient World left)
  2. Stone­henge
  3. Colos­seum
  4. Cat­a­combs of Kom el Shoqafa
  5. Great Wall of China
  6. Porce­lain Tower of Nanjing
  7. Hagia Sophia
  8. Lean­ing Tower of Pisa
  9. Taj Mahal
  10. Cairo Citadel
  11. Ely Cathe­dral
  12. Cluny Abbey
  13. Chun­nel
  14. Empire State Building
  15. Itaipu Dam
  16. Delta Works
  17. Panama Canal
  18. Machu Pic­chu
  19. Bali
  20. New Zealand
  21. Angkor Wat
  22. For­bid­den City
  23. Bagan Tem­ples
  24. Kar­nak Temple
  25. Teoti­hua­can
  26. Sere­genti
  27. Gala­pa­gos Islands
  28. Iguazu Falls
  29. Ama­zon Rainforest
  30. Ngoron­goro Crater
  31. Great Bar­rier Reef
  32. Vic­to­ria Falls
  33. Bora Bora
  34. Cap­pado­cia
  35. Mount Ever­est
  36. Aurora Bore­alis
  37. Aurora Aus­tralis
  38. Lake Baikal
  39. Chicken Itza
  40. Syd­ney Opera House
  41. Antarc­tica Dry Valleys
  42. Jerusalem
  43. Tibet
  44. Mau­soleum of the First Qin Emperor
  45. Hoan Kiem
  46. Maha­bodhi
  47. Masjid Al-Haram
  48. Spi­ral Minaret
  49. Parthenon
  50. Sis­tine Chapel
  51. Statue of Liberty
  52. United Nations
  53. Bar­ringer Meteor Crater
  54. Mat­ter­horn
  55. Ayers Rock
  56. Kil­i­man­jaro
  57. All 50 states
  58. All National Parks
  59. Rio for Carnivale
  60. Munich for Oktoberfest
  61. Blar­ney Stone
  62. Run­ning of the bulls
  63. Swim all oceans
  64. Vieques, Peurto Rico (Biol­umes­cent Bay)
  65. Car­ni­vale in Venice
  66. Ice­land
  67. North Pole
  68. South Pole
  69. Mardi Gras in New Orleans
  70. Alta Igloo Hotel
  71. Kola Superdeep Bore­hole (Well of Hell)
  72. Her­i­tance Kan­dalama Hotel, Dambulla, Sri Lanka
  73. Dhoni Mighili, The Maldives
  74. Green Magic Nature Resort, Ker­ala, India
  75. Mirador Hotel, Cop­per Canyon, Mexico
  76. Easter Island
  77. Walde­mar Jul­sred Museum
  78. Cuil­cuilco
  79. White Pyra­mid of China
  80. New­port Tower, Rhode Island
  81. Ring­ing Rocks Park, Pennsylvania
  82. Big­foot Cave, California
  83. Krem­lin
  84. Hampi
  85. Tas­sili n’Ajjer
  86. Ilulis­sat Icefjord
  87. Hue Tem­ples
  88. Nin­tendo HQ
  89. Bora­cay Island
  90. Pearl har­bor
  91. Dubai
  92. Istan­bul
  93. Tim­buktu
  94. Cas­bah (Algiers)
  95. Hanoi Tem­ple of Literature
  96. War Rem­nants Museum – Saigon
  97. Da Nang
  98. Nha Trang
  99. Phu Quoc Island
  100. Ba Den Mountain
 Things

  1. Start a suc­cess­ful business
  2. Start a suc­cess­ful and help­ful non-profit
  3. Remove all debt
  4. Save one mil­lion dollars
  5. Give one mil­lion dol­lars to charity
  6. Sky­dive solo
  7. Save a life
  8. Com­fort the dying
  9. Front page of Digg
  10. Book pub­lished
  11. Game pub­lished
  12. Build a clock
  13. New York Times Fri­day cross­word in ink
  14. Build a house
  15. Write a sonnet
  16. Die gal­lantly
  17. Be on television
  18. Hike Half-Dome
  19. Outer space
  20. Read every book on ALA OBCB
  21. Solve Rubik’s Cube
  22. Solve Gor­dian Knot
  23. Play piano
  24. Play gui­tar
  25. Ride motor­cy­cle
  26. Fly plane
  27. Fly heli­copter
  28. Conn boat
  29. Speak French
  30. Speak Span­ish
  31. Speak Ger­man
  32. Speak Ital­ian
  33. Speak Russ­ian
  34. Speak Can­tonese
  35. Speak Man­darin
  36. Sign lan­guage
  37. Jeet Kune Do
  38. Krav Maga
  39. Muay Thai
  40. Brazil­ian Jiu-jutsu
  41. Capoeira
  42. Butcher a pig
  43. Dance
  44. Draw
  45. Meet Dad’s side of family
  46. Pro­pose to someone
  47. Change my child’s diaper
  48. 10% Body-fat
  49. One-armed pull-up
  50. Run a marathon
  51. Iron­man Triathlon
  52. Six-pack abs
  53. Attend Olympics
  54. Swim with dolphins
  55. Extra in a movie
  56. Dis­till spirits
  57. Stomp grapes to make wine
  58. Brew beer
  59. Try mead
  60. TV Game show
  61. Ship in a bottle
  62. Stand in waterfall
  63. Night in haunted house
  64. Sleep under stars
  65. Jug­gle
  66. Hot air balloon
  67. Hole-in-one
  68. Bar­tend
  69. Uni­cy­cle
  70. Surf
  71. Restore clas­sic car
  72. Drift
  73. Snow­board
  74. Ski
  75. Run for office
  76. Name a star
  77. No TV for a year
  78. Knit
  79. Cro­chet
  80. Shake hands with President
  81. Spelunk­ing
  82. Polar Bear Club
  83. Rock­climb
  84. Sea kayak
  85. River raft­ing
  86. Horse­back riding
  87. Watch opera
  88. See show on Broadway
  89. Bungee jump
  90. First aid/CPR certified
  91. Win in Vegas
  92. Hang-glide
  93. Give 50 gal­lons of blood
  94. Kiss under mistletoe
  95. Nav­i­gate by stars
  96. Live in another coun­try for at least a year
  97. PeaceCorps
  98. Build a treehouse
  99. Veg­e­tar­ian
  100. LASIK

I’ll refer back to this post as I accom­plish the things on it.

Posted by Dinh at 11:24 pm on January 1st, 2008. 6 comments... »
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6 comments.

  1. 78 & 79 should be higher up on your to-do list!!! :)

    Posted by Peggy on January 1st, 2008.

  2. This isn’t nec­es­sar­ily the order in which I’m going to do these things. :)

    Posted by Dinh on January 2nd, 2008.

  3. I think if you learn Krav Maga you’ll find you won’t need the other mar­tial arts, but that’s just my opin­ion. :grin: Good luck.

    Posted by Krav Maga 411 on January 2nd, 2008.

  4. I think I can help you with some of these.

    At the very least, #94.

    Posted by jimmy on January 2nd, 2008.

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