MY BUCKET LIST

Make your bucket list and post it! This might change your life!

Saw this post from a friend who told me that it changed his life, so I'm going to do the same. 

Do the following thing. Take a piece of paper and write down unique things you did or experienced that most other people haven't. 
Don't take more then 10 minutes. This can be things like being starting your own business in college, having written a play, having been on a 10-day meditation retreat etc....

Now turn the paper over and take 10 minutes and list all the things you want to do before you die. If your first list is shorter then 10 items, you really need to go out there more!!
If your second list is shorter then 10 items, you HAVE to go more out there and try to experience new things!! Now take three items of your second list and do them within the next year!! Just do it!! Keep doing this every year!!

Here is my bucket list.... If you like this post, list your own list on your timeline or just post your three goals for the next year in the comments below.


List 1: great things I have experienced in my life
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1. After graduating in the top university in the Philippines -(UP), was accepted and now studying masters in coastal engineering in the top university in Asia- University of Tokyo. (2008/2012)
2.  Got my openwater diving license from PADI (and for free!) (2009)
3. Was able to get a job related to my field which gave me a chance to travel most parts of the Philippines (2009-2012)
4. Experienced and saw most awesome creatures underwater (2009)
5. Graduated Salutatorian in High School with almost 900 students in my batch (2002)
6. Was able to visit most of the coastal areas in the Philippines (2009-2012)
7. Lived in a foreign country which speaks no English (Japan) for about two years (until now) (2012-2014)
8. Climbed Mount Pulag, the Luzon's highest mountain, and watched sunrise, and saw sea of clouds! (2012)
9. Saw sea of clouds, twice, one in Mt. Pulag, and the next one was in Mt. Talamitam in Batangas (2012)
10. I applied to some other foreign universities. Got accepted at National University of Singapore and Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. But accepted the scholarship offered by ADB in Japan (2012)
11. Won some medals from poster making contests way back in elementary and HS years, and joined (and won) a mural painting contest together with some awesome artists in our town (1993-2002)
12. Visited another country, Laos, and was able to witness and experience Lao wedding (2014)
13. Became a member of a mountaineering group in Philippines. The Backpackers Philippines (2012)
14. Saw super big manta ray while diving in Okinawa, Japan. It was amazing, and they said that it was only a very rare case in that place during that season (2013)
15. Okay, tried onsen in Japan. (2013)
16. Enrolled myself to a ski school, thou i didnt learn much, but it was such an experience! (2014)
17. Set my foot in Japanese alps! (2014)
18. Dated the foreigner guy i have been crushing on for some time (2014)
19. Climbed mountains! (2006-present)
20.Saw a school of fishes while snorkling in Coron Palawan! Super amazing view (2007)
21. Watched sumo wrestling LIVE in Japan!! (2013)
22. Traveled to some of the most awesome places in Japan (Tokyo, Okinawa, Disneyland, Disney Sea, Kamakura, Nikko etc)
23.Saw cherry blossoms for real. (2013)
24. Experienced snow and made my first snow man with my gradschool friends! (2013)
25. Saw dolphins in the open sea and swam with them! (2010)
26. Made a lot of new connections, and international friends (2012)
27. I organized and became a chairman for a weeklong exhibit for my organization during college days, and was so happy to score a huge amount of money from a sponsor. It was such a successful event that I will never forget. I was also able to express my artistic side in designing and conceptualizing the whole exhibit and program. ^^ (2007)
28. Became an intern in an Aquarium/consulting company in Japan, and i learned how to arrange and maintain big aquarium systems (like those which you can see at ocean parks). Was able to experience feeding sharks, turtle, big crabs, and nautilus with my bare hands!! (2013)
29. I have amazing friends and family and I couldn't wish for more.
30. Was able to do all these things.. MOSTLY FOR FREE 


List 2: life goals I want to achieve (aka my bucketlist)
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1. Get my master's degree in University of Tokyo this October 2014! ^^
2. Climb Mt. Fuji and enjoy the amazing sunrise
2. Visit Hokkaido, Kyoto, Narra, Osaka and many other places in Japan.
3. Climb Mount Apo, the highest mountain in the Philippines
4. Learn photography (seriously), and buy myself a professional camera, if possible, try astrophotography.
5. Improve my sketching skills, try to buy books, attend classes about it, and set-up a collection, and maybe an art exhibit someday
6. Visit Seoul Korea.
7. Ride on a hot-air balloon!
8. Sky-biking/ Ziplining/ Skydiving
9.  Start a project (related to environmental awareness) in my hometown
11. Get a driver's license
12. Backpacking in Europe. Attend a Greek wedding.
13. Dive at Tubbataha Reefs, and Apo Reefs in the Philippines
14. Achieve a master-diver level in diving
15. Attend a marine biologists' conference in Australia
16. Get a real nice job which will allow me to travel to new places
17.  Do something really really nice and unforgettable to someone (anonymously)
18. Involve myself in a volunteer work/ charity/ community works in the Philippines
19. Swim/dive with a whaleshark
20. River Camping
21. Travel cruise
22. Fly first class!
23. Travel to Bhutan, the happiest place on earth
24. SE Asia travel (SG-Indonesia- Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand)
25. Learn Japanese language seriously
26. Date a Visayan guy. Hahaha
27. Learn one of the dialects in PH. (preferably bisaya/ cebuano)
28. Watch a movie alone in a movie house.
29. Take an unplanned roadtrip.
30. Visit El Nido, Sagada, Puerto Princesa, Batanes
31. 5-day vacation at a secluded island.
32. Learn new dishes and be expert with it.
33. Ride a camel
34. Skinny dipping
35. Start a business (with my friends) probably a coffeshop/ cafe with a lot of books to read (like a semi-library)
36. Wine tasting
37. Maintain a 48-50kg weight, and achieve flat abs! :p
38. Start an environmental consulting firm.
39. Date a stranger guy
40. Fire a gun
41. . Find the love of my life (and accompany/support me to achieve this bucket list ^^)
42. A family of my own. (hopefully not later than 35yo!) haha
4443. Do these all before I die

Someday, someone will come along, and it will make all the difference.

I have not been so active recently with blogging as my thoughts are occupied with so much gradschool stuff, but with the recent events that have happened lately, I cant help the urge to write down my thoughts as i feel that somehow, a big part of me has changed. I just feel that finally, I met this person, who I think I have been looking for so long. He's... I dont know how to explain...but it felt like I've known him for so long even if it's not, like an old friend, as he said. So you see, I guess the reason why I am still unattached until now, is that I have form an ideal person in my mind, which I thought, with all the heartaches I have been through, this type of person is just an illusion and do not exist.... But I guess, I am wrong. And I am really happy that I am wrong. Because he exists. The sad part thou is that I dont think we can be together and I dont think he likes me well enough. Im not pretty after all. And we spent a very shot time together, that I dont think I was able to show so much of me, because I was awkward the whole time we're together. I barely can talk enough. Yes it's a bit sad, but I think it's more of a happy feeling. Happy that I get to know him. Thankful that despite of all the assholes in the world, a nice guy like him is still a reality. He'll be flying back to his country today, and all I can wish is that Id get to see him someday again. And maybe when that time comes, I will thank him, because he has inspired me, to dream again, and pursue what i really wanted to do. Thou he doesn't know, but he became a reminder to me, of what I should be doing in my life. I guess a big reason why I like him this much is that he's living the life I have always dreamt of. A bit jealous perhaps, that he was able to do and pursue his passion. And he made me realized without him knowing, that I've got still a handful of things to do and he made me realized how beautiful life is to be wasted with so much drama. #inspired #believe #thankful