Dear friends,
If I were going to have a short visit here on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now. So on behalf of marronisgoing blog, this bucket list is my main inspiration and reason of why the heck I am traveling and writing and game for almost anything and everything. Started this list back in college with only 25 goals and as I proceed with life, it’s also growing like a baby. Some of it are pretty impossible right now but dreaming big isn’t a crime, right?
If by any chance, you might wanna help me check off any of the things in the list, you may connect with me in whichever form you may like. Again, thank you and here are the things that I wanted to do before I die.
Score so far: 34/100.
See a shooting starGraduate college- Own/design my own house
Travel international- Back pack South East Asia
- See the Northern lights
Run a Marathon- Invite (all of) my friends to celebrate my birthday
- Learn how to speak another language fluently
- Sky diving
- Be part of a flashmob
- Start my business
Put up a Blog- Put up a Vlog
- Buy a seriously decent camera
- Get my own travel laptop
Get drunk in Boracay- To do Freediving
- Swim wearing mermaid fins
- Fly in a hot air balloon
Do volunteer work- Witness solar eclipse
- Plant a tree and actually watch it grow
Be in two places at once- Publish a book
Travel solo- Be in a fulfilling relationship
- Do public speaking in front of a huge crowd
Become a baristaGrow my hair longDye my hair some crazy color- Live in a different country for atleast a year
Act in a filmStart to live minimalist- See a snow
Surf in Siargao- Spend a week in Batanes
Watch an opera- Invite friends for a staycation just to drink and play Monopoly
- Fly in a Helicopter
Go on adventure in CebuCanyoneeringSwim with the whalesharksSee the whole Mayon VolcanoSpend at least a week anywhere in Palawan- Go to USA
- Go on a Cruise
- Learn sign language
- Scuba dive
Visit Puerto Princesa Underground River- See all the 7 Wonders of the World
- Go on an African Safari
- Attend Miss Universe (or any major pageants) and watch Miss Philippines win
Go to MindanaoWhite water rafting- Donate a blood
- Get a tattoo
- Spend a summer in Italy
Experience the country’s longest zipline- Bungee jumping
- Spend a whole day in Disneyland
- Fly first class
Go on skinny dipping- Attend Olympics
- Explore the Amazon rainforest
- See the Pyramids of Egypt
- Swim in the Dead Sea
- Have a fancy dinner in Paris, France
Get an award as the company’s employee of the year- Build a 4 door apartment available for rent
- Walk in the gardens of Versailles Palace
- Be a Millionaire $
- Take the blue train in Sri Lanka
- Go to Brazilian Carnival
Spend a night on top of a mountain- Learn to juggle
- Invest in gold
Travel solo to Bali (and Lombok maybe)- Organize a picnic
- Visit Machu Pichu
- Be published
- Own a hostel with a Café
Take a pottery classCliff jumping- Learn how to back flip
- See the tower of London
- Visit a big castle
- Go on a ghost hunting tour
- Dance Hula in Hawaii
- Vacation at Maldives
Earn a Spartan Trifecta- Ride a cable car
- To go to an abandoned European castle, explore it and study its history
- See a pink sand beach
- Greece!
- Get myself a 6 pack abs
Pride MarchLearn/experience yoga- Retire at 40 (?)
- Go on a life changing long time travel by the time I’m 30.
Comments
Great post 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
No problem 🙂 check out my blog when you get the chance 😄
Great post. Well, number 99, are You sure that You want to retire so young?
Author
Deffo yeah! So I could experience life for all its worth 😊 But it’s still case to case basis tho. I’m hoping I could have saved enough money by that time or have a good running business.
That’s a heck of a list!
Author
Should update it as soon as possible, though. Thanks for the time reading the list!
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Great list. It’s nice to see a few items crossed off. 🙂
Author
Thank you! Can’t wait to cross some more in the future 😊
That’s a great list. I hope you cross off more quickly! So many things for you look forward to.
I love the retire at 40 one xD
Author
Hahaha it might seem impossible but why not! Thanks for the cheer 🙂
Meh, don’t say it like thaaaaat. Impossible shouldn’t be a word.
Good luck :’D
Author
Thank you! I must start to become a firm believer that all things are possible until proven false 😀
That’s one way to look at things :’))))
25 was it? https://www.blurb.com/b/8704211-leviathan
You may notice the ungodly list price… It’s not that they do not print/construct a book nice, as they do! They offer print on demand. They get you your ISBN. You can link to an Amazon storefront too. Yet, that price is a tough one to swallow for a new author to sell. 50% more unless ten thousand dollars is invested in a bulk print run to substantially lower that cost per unit.
It is not very hard for you to publish your own book blurb….for a fee…. Does a wow job.
I utilized a prized neighborhood guy as he was a graphic artist. He took my crappy phone photos and cleaned them for production; arranged within directed ideas well, the look, and put the book into final printer ready, pdf’s… A bit of life you’ll learn. You must understand what and how it’s going to be made to some degree…or it’s going to cost too much. Look at the list price of mine again. All of my choices got burnt by construction choice and printer cost….because I wouldn’t copyright my book myself…a scary hassle that cost me 3 dollars a copy costs I could avoid… Nearly 6 dollars you pay in list price. Details. I also knew 4 publishing authors, a short-lived duo publishing via their business…. And got the good and bads. Theives……poor fulfillment….etc.
This means just publishing is not your worry…nor making a pretty offering…. It’s doable and for my book, expensive now… Shouldn’t have been …. Shame on me!… Was a $450 for 12 copies 1 hardbound as I murder softcovers ! … That’s family friends and one I can read in public to try my hand selling it tooooo the pubbbblic. Yes, that means I’m legally blind so my book magically is in bookman 14 pt font a “large” print. And I saved my money for my project… I sold 3 copies.. the 12 ain’t because I’m narcissistic…. I had a few to sell. Well it’s business time.
I didn’t know 500 people. I didn’t have a promotion circuit in the works or help there. Publishing a book is easy. Selling a book is for me not as easy. Know your goals each step achievable! Then you may!
May.
Enjoy selling a modestly received title that may grow your audience.
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If this comes across “Debby Downer” I’m sorry. I enjoyed my thrill of publishing mine. However, it’s very easy to misstep in highly costly ways!
Author
Thanks for sharing your journey about publishing your book. Will definitely check em out. Such an inspiration!
Lovely post 🤗
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Thank you!
My pleasure, followed you 🧚🏻♀️
My pleasure ✨
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GOOD LIST! HOW DOES IT COMPARE WITH YOURS?
Hehe there are things listed in there that I also wanted to do, and all of mine still unchecked 😂 hoping that you get to do all those 💕
Author
The list is my guide to see if I am really living my life to the fullest 🤣 Thank you! I hope you get to check off all the things you put in your bucket list too.
Enjoyed this read!
I first retired at 30, then the government shifted the goal post, then again retired at 40 but goal posts were shifted again. I’ve just returned to Australia after 6 years away, is that retired? 😉
Many thanks for stopping by my travel and photography blog.
Author
You’re welcome! Your travel and photography blog deserves all the best. And thank you for stopping by to mine as well.
Thanks for stopping by and for the kind feedback.
Looks like you’ve done quite a bit of that list! Keep on!
Author
Hopefully after the pandemic! Thank you, Mark 🙂
Excellent list to cover, all the best!
Author
All the best for you too, old sport!
Thanks Buddy!
Love how comprehensive this list is, you’ve ticked off some brilliant stuff already! It must be a great way to keep focussed 🙂
Author
Thank you! It’s pretty much my guide actually 🙂✌🏻
Marron,
It’s an interesting list. I am reading this when you have done 34 of the 100. A few bits are puzzling. How on earth were you able to be at two places at the same time? And what’s “a four door” apartment? #25 and #81 (Be published and publish a book) appear to be the game goal.
Anyway, your list made me think. Since I way older than you are, I have done many of what you have yet to do. And I will never do many of what you have on your list. I will never do watersports items, and skydiving and bungee bits. I don’t have a head for heights.
When I was in school in India, I had two items on my non-existent list — 1. Go to the US. That I got done at 26 and have lived in the US ever since. 2. Learn how to fly a small plane. That I got done at 29.
But anyhow, by nature I am a wanderer and not a planner. So I have not made any lists. Perhaps I should do that. If I do, I will let you know.
BTW, thanks for liking one of my blog posts. That led me to your blog. Best wishes for all your list getting crossed off soon. Cheers. Atanu
Author
Hello Atanu! The funny thing is, it’s actually the bucket list that I created many years back 😅 To answer the things that puzzled you, the idea of being at two places at the same time was actually the dream of standing on a boarder between two countries, I don’t think it’s possible though but I’m hopeful! I meant 4-unit apartment. I want to get published by a magazine or whatever talking about my story; and of course, publish my own book (which I am slowly working on!)
That’s very nice that you checked off the two items on your non-existent list at a very young age! I am currently 26 right now and sometimes I feel like my life is moving slowly, that it seems pointless…
I appreciate you taking the time reading my bucket list! Some of them are silly but for me, they are my dreams 🙂 Thank you so much, Atanu!
Marron
Pardon the typo — “game goal” should read “same goal.” Also please feel free to delete my comment. Thanks.
When you blog, you(‘re) publish(ed) 😉
Author
Shall I cross it off now? Haha when I wrote that I was actually thinking someone who will publish something about me. Thank you, Timothy!
Oh I see. Well I’m following your blog now so who knows… 😉
Author
That sounds totally exciting! Thank you, I followed your blog back so we’re in touch now ✌🏻😊
Wonderful! 🙂
wow! kainggit! you have actually fulfilled a lot of things that’s still in my own list. yo d man!!!
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No, don’t be! For sure you’ve got a lot of stuff checked off from your list that I wish I’ve done too!