15
May

List 100

   Posted by: Chip   in

Here is the list of 100 things I want to do before I die.

1. Speak 5 languages (For now I speak Vietnamese, English, survival Swahili and fundamental Spanish. In the future, I want to learn Arabic, French, Italian, Hebrew, Chinese and Latin)
2. Live in another country (Yes: Malaysia, Nepal and Israel)
3. Get another passport
4. Start an NGO (I started Free Hugs Vietnam – but I need to register it)
5. Author a book (in progress)
6. Write a song
7. Have my own company
8. Make my parents’ house a resort
9. Design & build my own home
10. Send Bim overseas to study
11. Go on a trip overseas with my whole family
12. Fall in love recklessly (It’s sad but I’ve never fallen in love)
13. Become a parent
14. Sail a yacht through a beautiful ocean
15. Take a hot-air balloon ride
16. Go parachute/skydiving
17. Get drunk (I did. At Kino 108 club in Mumbai, India, 1 week before my 20th birthday. Partied until 6am and had dozens of drinks. I didn’t get passed out but did throwing up. My brain worked harder than ever. I was vigorously discussed about the Vietnam war while fighting with a terrible headache.)
18. Ride a hilicopter
19. Fight a kickboxing fight (professionally)
20. Ride a jetski on my own
21. Shout like crazy in a concert or a live football match
22.
23. Go naked in nature (:”>)
24. Have sex on the beach
25. Get married to someone I love
26. Take a walk in the rain (countless times already)
27. Ask a stranger for a date
28. Sleep in an old castle
29. Learn to swim (Thanks to Paul)
30. Learn to makeup (managed to do it on my own. I look pretty much like a girl now)
31. Learn to dance (salsa or whatever)
32. Learn to draw
33. Learn to play an music instrument
34. Go outer space
35. Travel around Southeast Asia (done in 2010)
36. Travel around South America
37. Visit 100 countries
38. Visit Disneyland
39. Go to South Pole
40. Go to North Pole
41. Ride a horse round Mongolia (Gobi Dessert)
42. Oktoberfest in Germany
43. Christmas in New York
44. Visit Louvre, Notre Dame Church in Paris
45. Climb Great Pyramid of Giza – Egypt (OMG still can’t believe it. April 2011)
46. Climb Great wall – China
47. Laos’ new year (Yes and it was awesome. Strongly recommend)
48. Watch bullfight in Spain
49. Visit Sicily – Italy
50. Visit Vatican
51. Visit Googleplex
52. Have a date on top of Eiffel tower
53. Play poker in Las Vegas
54. Climb Fansipan
55. Climb Everest
56. Take an African Safari
57. Attend TED
58. Meet the Pope
59. Meet Steve Jobs -> Meet a Prince
60. Read Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) in Spanish
61. Read War and Peace – Count Leo Tolstoy
62. Date guys from 10 countries
63. Do drug
64. Act in front of camera (woo hoo, I was in a ZeeTV’s TVC)
65. Get my work published on New York Times
66. Adopt a kid
67. Dive
68. TEOF (Traveling as an Equal Opportunity)
69.  Learn to find the major stars and constellations on the night sky
70. Go to Jerusalem
71. Go to Mecca
72. Go to Madagascar
73. Learn fencing (Dark side of the Force, you’d better watch out)
74. Learn cold reading and hot reading
75. Own an island (Ha)
76. Write/Direct/Produce a movie
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80.
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84.
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86.
87.
88.
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90.
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100. Stay beautiful and young at heart forever :-)

Things that I have done and I’m proud of, but are not in the list because I didn’t know how awesome it was until I did it.

1. Visit Taj Mahal
2. Sleep on the beach
3. Work for a casino
4. Hitchhike
5. Get arrested
6. Get mugged
7. Holy in Nepal
8. Diwali in India
9. Ethiopia’s New Year
9. Sinai, Egypt
10. Camp in Sahara desert
11. Meet Dalai Lama
12. Go to Palestine
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10 comments so far

 1 

Girl there are loads of things which are easy to do… Like using some drugs.. India and Nepal you had loads of importunity’s ;)
If you would ask I could teach you dancing, swimming… ;) Well not now when we are on different continents :D
I can’t believe you have not been naked in nature..

You have to start moving, girl’ :D

August 7th, 2011 at %I:%M %p
Chip
 2 

Haha I’ve done some more things but haven’t updated the list yet.

If I’m about to reach 25 and still haven’t learned to dance or swim, I’ll fly to wherever you are and force you to teach me.

Miss you xoxooxox

August 8th, 2011 at %I:%M %p
 3 

Hey Chip! Thats one fantastic list!! I tried putting together my own to-do-before-30 list… not much progress I must say… but hey, which ZeeTVC did you feature in?!?

September 19th, 2011 at %I:%M %p
minh
 4 

I am still reading about your journey, soon you should tell me how crossing each line change you as a person girl. For now, loosen you feet.

January 5th, 2012 at %I:%M %p
Nguyên
 5 

Ohh, you got naked in nature :) ) Where??

January 5th, 2012 at %I:%M %p
 6 

@Maithili Desai I have no idea. I haven’t even watched it yet! I left before it was broadcast.
@Minh yes, each line crossed is me growing a little more. i’m thinking if i should write a self-motivation book: Things we have to do before we die?
@Nguyen check out my latest blog post, you’ll see the photo ;)

January 6th, 2012 at %I:%M %p
chinese-guy
 7 

christmas in new york fucking rocks
(sex on the beach is over-rated)

January 6th, 2012 at %I:%M %p
 8 

@Chinese guy lol i wonder how your comment got through the spam filter. it’s full of “fucking” “sex” and “chinese guy”? anyway, yeah, i heard that sex on the beach is not that good, sand always gets in the way, but hell, worth trying.

January 6th, 2012 at %I:%M %p
Thường Nhiên
 9 

awesome!!! you are really a powerful girl. Really admire you. But I have a question: how can you support your wish about money? Sorry because it is a sensitive question.

January 7th, 2012 at %I:%M %p
Linh Huong Nguyen
 10 

When I found your page through a friend’s facebook, I was speechless… I knew about you long time ago through Free Hugs Vietnam and yahoo!360. I thought you were different and amazing. Now, reading your page still makes my heart beat faster. I have been living without direction for so long. You reminded me of how life should mean to be. And it was like seeing my dream in the real world. Thank you a lot. Just want you to know that you always have my best wishes for good luck in any of your. Please keep traveling and keep writing.

January 15th, 2012 at %I:%M %p

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