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Here a some of the things i want to do before i die:
(some of these are finished already but i would love to do them again)
  • Inspire people in all ways possible and make them happy (i’m trying to do this everywhere in every time)
  • Make a difference and leave this planet better than i’ve found it
  • Travel the world (i have just been to california and los angeles and someday i want to go to italy, england, greece and rome) and appreciate Earth’s beauty (Aurora Borealis says hello!)
  • Learn how to play a musical instrument (i’ve done this with guitar, drums and piano already and maybe i could patiently learn a new one again)
  • Learn a new sport (i’ve played soccer, baseball, badminton, ice skating, basketball, boxing, swimming and ultimate frisbee and i am not really an athletic person and i still don’t understand why i was a varsity player back then haha)
  • Learn a new language and actually use it
  • Join a competition and fail
  • Finish my studies (Hooblah! i’m done with this and with the scholarship and i hope i made my parents proud)
  • Apply for graduate school (Australia)
  • Quit a job that is not worth it anymore (April 2012 – Meg magazine’s Editorial Coordinator)
  • Find a job that i will love doing for the rest of my life
  • Bring people closer to God (Youth For Christ member + Bible study)
  • Help people to love themselves more (Love Yourself Project)
  • Try to take a photo everyday (digital or analog)
  • Write a book
  • Publish articles (Feature on Meg February 2012,Beauty write-up, Meg March 2012)
  • Appear in a newspaper (December 9, Philstar and Business World, April 9)
  • Appear in TV (twice at ETC channel for Meg’s Up and Coming Party and iammeg.ph launch)
  • Create my own portfolio
  • Build my own website (2010 for my Tumblr blog and 2011 for my own site on WordPress)
  • Create a clothing line or put up a business in food industry (a pastry shop)
  • Paint in an actual canvas (and prolly sell them for a dollar to my sister haha)
  • Plant a tree (actually i have done this already but this time i want to plant a tree in my sister’s room hihi)
  • Join a group or an organization that supports a worthy cause (Red Cross – April 2012)
  • Try yoga (2012)
  • Dye my hair for the first time (March 2012)
  • Give mom and dad a romantic candlelit dinner date by the shore (we did this for them except they were with me and my sister! so it wasn’t romantic at all haha)
  • Swim with the dolphins (and maybe run with a cheetah okay im kidding i could get myself killed)
  • Try zipline (January 2012), skydiving and bungee jumping
  • Learn surfing and wake boarding
  • Attend art and music festival (Manila Music Festival, May 2012)
  • Be in a hot air balloon and kite festival (February and April 2012)
  • Attend a fashion show or the NBA game
  • Read 150 Books (*Bible, The Secret, Happiness Project, Harry Potter series so that’s seven already, Narnia 1 and 2, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Alchemist, Private, Full House, Truth or Dairy, The One-Minute Organizer, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, How Not-To Spend Your Senior Year, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, A Mid-Summernights Dream,  All-American Girl,  Leaf Storm, Chicken Soup for the Soul 2, Flirt, Twilight saga so that’s four, Bella of Bananaland, Sweet Valley twins, PPG All Chalked Up, Wondergirls, Six books of Rugrats, Bible for Toddlers, Matilda, My Haunted House, The Twits, The Magic Finger, George’s Marvelous Medicine, The Boy with the Magic Numbers, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Wtches, Danny the Champion of te world, The BFG, Charlotte’s web, Six Captain Underpants, Little Pink Book, The Little Prince, Footprints for Tens, Because of Winn-Dixie, Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging,  Shopaholic, Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Shopaholic and Sister, Can You Keep A Secret?, Moby Dick, The Notebook*, Purpose Driven Life*, Lord of the Rings*, The Giver)
  • Cook or bake 50 new dishes
  • Climb a mountain (i can’t believe i was able to do this and it was exhausting but fulfilling)
  • Experience autumn, fall and winter
  • Make a time capsule
  • Invent something brilliant
  • Have my own bank account (November 2011)
  • Own a pet (we loved our basset hound, black labradors and lhasa apso plus our hamsters and bunny before but they are all in heaven now)
  • Perform in front of an audience (and this was embarrassing and awkward as always but my earliest memory was when i was five years old and i surprisingly won the declamation contest of “the Happy Bee and the Sad Elephant”)
  • Be a leader (I was the photography director from our official university publication, head of some school projects and activities)
  • Win an award or be recognized for something i have achieved (I won blogger of the year and i was so happy that time knowing that i was able to inspire others)
  • Meet someone remarkably special (and it happened last 1995 when i first and last saw Pope John Paul II)
  • Design my own studio space someday (as if i have the moolah to buy a flat)
  • Work in a magazine company (November 2011-April 2012)
  • Throw a party (but i am not really into parties so maybe i should not invite myself haha and i remember throwing a kiddie party for my debut at McDonald’s!)
  • Attend a concert of my favorite band or singers (hello The Script, Bruno Mars and David Cook with David Archuleta hahaha)
  • Taste softdrinks (one weird thing about me is that i have only tasted coke once in my whole life and it was just last summer of 2008 and i never attempted to try it again)
  • Help a stranger (random act of kindness everyday and everywhere)
  • Teach unfortunate children (it was so gratifying when i did this year ago)
  • Be in orphanage or home for the aged (i have been to both i have never felt so lucky and blessed)
  • Sell at a bazaar (Bloggers United, December 2012)
  • Free all the animals in the zoo (okay this might not technically come true haha)
  • Witness something magnificent and breathtaking (i saw the true cross of Jesus in real life!)
  • Grow old with the person i love while sitting on the porch watching our grandchildren (real and lasting love)
  • Forgive those who have hurt me (always)
  • Finish everything i’ve started
  • Save a life
  • Find true happiness
I try to complete my bucket list and i was dumbfounded when i found out that i actually did a lot of things already, considering i wrote these years ago. I always live my life as if it’s my last and i make the most out of what i have. I find the best in everything (especially in other people) and i give the best of myself as well. I laugh often ad love much. I don’t regret anything i’ve said or mistakes i’ve done because that made me who i am today. And maybe one day, i will look back and realized that i actually have lived well.