Bucket List

"Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon." Unknown

I lie wide awake in my bed doing nothing again after doing nothing the whole day. I have a medical exam to prepare for and my IELTS exam is also upcoming real soon. I have done so many things for the past few months alone but I have been awfully lazy lately. I suddenly realized, I am stuck. I then jerked myself out of my bed and got hold of the tattered notebook I had while I was attending a life coaching program before. I was then embarrassed of myself when i saw my list of life goals then. I have actually accomplished most of my goals achievable at this point in time. A knowing feeling punched me right into my guts. I actually aimed much lower than I should have. I was capable of so many things but I was not willing to admit to myself that I was. I am rather disappointed of myself.

" Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude." Zig Ziglar

So I reckoned, I will make a new list. I initially wanted to call it my "WISH or DREAM LIST" but i don't want them to stay just wishes or dreams. Then I remembered the word "Bucket List", straight from the movie of the same name. Then I wondered, why such a list of activities to do before you die is named as such. After research (yes I did research), i learned that it was adapted from the old phrase "kicking the bucket" which means "dying or passing away". Although I have reservations with the words "death or passing away", i think it would be nice to accomplish things before I ultimately lose all opportunity.

I included all that I've ever listed in my previous "wish list" since I was a child and added the ones from my latest list since the program. I've updated them and checked out the ones I've accomplished so far. I also deleted some goals that I'm not too proud of (hehehe). I will continuously update this as I come to encounter more outrageous goals to make my life more exciting (^_^). I hope to accomplish everything and I'm gonna do it!

☑ Become a licensed medical doctor

☐ Enter a residency program in a good medical institution

☐ Pass all accreditation exams in that certain residency program

☐ Be affiliated in a respectable medical institution and have a good medical practice WITH GOOD PAY ^_^

☑ Learn how to drive (stickshift)

☑ Learn how to sing and perform on stage

☑ Do ziplining

☑ Do a recording of me singing
☑ Have my own Blog (duh!)

☑ Learn how to bake

☑ Have 1000+ friends in Facebook (found out this was too easy eventually ^_^)

☑ Be involved in charity

☐ Have a full makeover

☑ Be involved in a fun run

☐ Climb Mount Apo (gulp) and have my picture taken there

☑ Learn how to drink alcohol judiciously

☐ Have a portrait of me done and displayed

☐ Learn how to paint properly and have one of my art displayed on my home and sell some

☐ Learn how to dance and perform

☐ Learn how to do yoga and acquire it as a lifestyle

☐ Learn how to cook, preferably enroll in a culinary school

☐ Learn and do scuba diving

☐ Learn and do para sailing

☐ Learn and do skim boarding

☐ Learn and do surfing

☐ Do bunjee jumping

☐ Ride a helicopter

☐ Skydiving!

☐ Ride and drive a race car

☐ Have a photoshoot in a professional studio with my close friends

☐ Learn photography and have my own portfolio
☐ Travel around the Philippines (Top 10)
                 ☑ Camiguin                                ☐ Coron, Palawan
                 ☑ Puerto Princesa, Palawan      ☑ Boracay
                 ☑ Ilocos                                      ☐ Cebu

                 ☑ Baguio                                    ☐ Siargao

                 ☑ Bohol                                      ☐ Davao

☐ Travel around the world (Top 10)
                 ☐ France                                     ☐ Brazil

                 ☐ Rome                                      ☐ Australia

                 ☐ Japan                                      ☐ Germany

                 ☐ Italy                                        ☐ Greece

                 ☑Singapore                                ☐ England

☐ See all the 7 New Wonders of the World

                 ☐ Chichen Itza - Yucatan, Mexico

                 ☐ Christ the Redeemer - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

                 ☐ Colosseum - Rome, Italy

                 ☐ Great Wall of China - People's Republic of China

                 ☐ Machu Picchu - Cuzco Region, Peru

                 ☐ Petra - Ma'an Governorate, Jordan

                 ☐ Taj Mahal - Agra, India

☐ See the Great Pyramid Complex at Giza, Egypt

☐ Go to Disneyland

☑ Go to Universal Studios

☐ Be a delegate at a World Youth Day Pilgrimage

☐ See the Pope

☑ Own a car (hopefully, the last one would be a luxury car)

☐ Own a big house

☐ Own a business, preferably pastry shop, book shop or a coffee shop

☐ Migrate to Canada (gulp)

☐ Acquire Canadian Citizenship (bigger gulp)

☐ Acquire a Canadian Passport (biggest gulp)

☐ Fall in love with the right person, my soulmate

☐ Get married at the Transfiguration Chapel, Caleruega, Batangas

☐ Have children someday

☐ Breed dogs and earn from it

☐ Write a novel or a book and have it published

☐ Be a professor of Psychology or, even better, any subject in the field of medicine

☐ Be involved in research

☐ Become a forum or a conference speaker

☑ Insure myself

☑ Make someone feel special and loved and keep that person in my heart forever

☐ Change the life of a person unrelated to me forever

"By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be." Mark Victore Hansen

Rest assured that I have also written this down in paper for future reference. ^_^