Masterplan
66. Learn 5 magic tricks
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Jul 29 2005
65. Experience weightlessness
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Jul 28 2005
64. Run a marathon in Greece
63. Compete in a dragon-boat race
Summer 2001. Competed in the Jones La Salle Dragon Boat Festival in Frankfurt with 15 colleagues from Portum. With each row, we shouted ‘Sheisse’ at the top of our lungs.
Apr 04 2007
62. Publish a book
61. Go Yachting in the Adriatic
60. Run naked in the snow
59. Broker a deal worth at least £100M
58. Found an Organization
57. Organize a Charity Event
56. Own a 3000-Title DVD collection
~800 DVDs as of 01 Dec 07.
55. Drive across a country non-stop
54. Pay £1000 pounds for a meal
53. Save a person’s life
52. Be appointed CEO of a corporation
51. Kiss 30 people on New Year’s Eve
50. View five Gustav Klimt paintings
December 2005. A rare glimpse at the most notable works of Gustav Klimt at a museum in Vienna before they were repatriated to his subject’s heirs in 2006.
49. Hit 350 yards on a drive
Status: Now considering a robotic arm to replace my still not-up-to-task swingers.
48. Watch Eagles and Queen live
Hell Froze Over in 2000 with 20,000 other fans.
Then, got rocked by Queen (sans Freddie) during a concert for Mandela.
47. Navigate through the canals of Venice
July 2002. The sheer number of tourists (and pigeons) probably took away the mystic from what once was a bastion of power and staging point for the crusades.
46. Fly a plane
45. Own a house on top of a hill
44. Own a cool pad
Remote-controlled blinds, sensor-controlled lights, plasma tv, OSIM chair… Is that cool or what?
43. Say I Love You once
42. Learn how to say I Love You in 100 different languages
41. Watch a Mozart concierto in Vienna
December 2006. A rather good-looking conductor master-minded an emotional rendition of classics from Mozart and Salieri at the Belvedere castle.
40. Memorize the 1st 100 digits of the pi constant
The constant p (Greek letter pi) is, classically, defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. This constant, among thousands of constants in the math world, interests me the most because over a several millenia, since the beginning of human civilisation, it has undergone refinements-an evolution of its own.
The first 42 digits are:
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197
39. Fly first-class
38. Swim with a shark
37. Win £1000 on a poker game
36. Own a Rolex watch
35. Go wild in Spain’s Tomatina Festival
34. Be anonymous for a week
33. Get an MBA degree
32. Win the lottery
31. Go ghost-haunting
30. Meet a reigning Monarch
29. Build a hut in Africa
28. Compose a song
Five (5) songs as of July 2008
Dilemma
Kalayaan Ng Pagiisa
MyExIsAPsycho
May Isang Ibon
Pangarap Ng OFW
27. Visit 100 castles
Have so far seen 31 castles and nothing beats Sleeping Beauty’s castle at Disneyland. OK, that doesn’t count but the this castle near the Rhine river is close.
26. Speak French fluently
25. Attend a Christmas Mass at the Vatican
December 2005. Karol Wojtyla died that year. The solemnity of the event was touching.
24. Spend new year’s eve in Paris
January 2006. The City Of Lights disappointed that night with scant fireworks and a quite subdued ‘Parisien’ revellers.
23. Witness a space shuttle launch
22. Own a Jaguar
21. Survive in a jungle for 3 days without packed food
20. Get lost in a big city
To a lot of people, cities are menacing artificial habitats with all sorts of unnatural contradictions. Signages abound but few know where they are going. Clocks are hoisted in magnificent buildings yet everyone seem to run out of time.
Yet, I am drawn to the vibe and energy of big, cosmopolitan cities, as if I feed from them, as they do from me.
19. Be somebody’s role model
18. Live in Antartica for a week
17 . Establish a scholarship foundation
16. Go Backpacking in Europe
The real worry in travelling from one place to another is not the notion of unfamiliarity but exactly the opposite. The cause of real anguish is that a place will be so like all the other places you have been that you lose that joy of novel experience and discovery of the unknown.
Mar 31 2007
15. Obtain a Patent for an invention
Status: Working on project: WeDO.
14. Ride a camel into the Arabian Dessert
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12. Drive on the AutoBahn
January 2001. Who would have thought that a 1.6L VW Golf could reach 220km/hr?
11. Visit Jerusalem
March 2008. As I wandered through the Christian, Muslim, Armenian and Jewish quarters, wearing an IDF shirt and a baton in my hand, I can’t help but feel a sense of mystic. For people to shed blood over a little more than a square kilometer of land for thousands of years must really be something.
10. Skydive
April 2000. From up there in the clouds, there are no individuals, nor states, nor countries–only one world.
