10 things to do before I die

Yup as morbid as it may sound eventually everyone dies. I will too but i reckon I have a plan, or rather plans to complete certain tasks before I meet my creator.

the list is by no means in order of importance, but it is what I intend to at least do before I move to a different existence......


1) Travel around the world

For me nothing beats experiencing and soaking up a new place. What can I say? I am a sucker for travelling. I like visiting places that I haven't been, I like eating local delicacies that aren't available in my home country. For me the best way to travel is by foot. I enjoy going on long walks especially with the love of my life and soaking up what the locals do, and not merely travel like "itinery dictated packaged" tourists. I am different in that sense. I like to take my own sweet time and do what I want.


2) Run a marathon

I reckon this is the single most easily achievable aim of mine in present and problem remains that the longer I wait, the more difficult it would become. I am not getting any younger, and I reckon for me to complete this feat, it would have to be in the next couple of years. I am currently logging 15 Kms in one and half hours. My aim is to not to beat the clock, but to beat myself. I surmise that I should be able to conservatively complete a full marathon, all 26 miles or 42 kms of it in 4 hours and 20 mins, but if I can do it in 6 hours, I would die a happy man.

3) Bungee jumping and sky diving

This I have to do at least once before I "konked" off. I reckon for some one with some amount of phobia for heights, I am staring straight into my phobia right to the eyes. I reckon I'd only live once and as such should go all out for it.

4) Obtain my PPL's

another one of my passion is flying. Not sitting in those cramp commercial jet planes, flying 15 hours to a new destination, but those single engined plane, where i can pilot myself and fly towards the blue yonder. Till now all this has remain a dream, but I reckon I would want to get my licence to fly before I leave.

5) Find someone

One of the top on my "to - do - list", so far I have met a special someone that I am totally in love with. I hope and pray that this is the one. I have never felt so happy in my life, and I am so looking forward to spend my life with her.

6) Stop work and join a MSF

Yes, my life long passion. I have an inate feeling of wanting to serve people, not for a profit but for the sake of making our world a better place. I have always respected those people that can give up their life and to help other humans less fortunate that us. For that I salute those selfless people and their acts of kindness. I for one, will do it, when things are better and more stable. A pledge to do what I view as my calling.

7) climb mount everest

something that is appealing to my outward and competitive nature yet again. For this I reckon physical fitness would be an issue, and which is why I am on a time line. I hope that it would eventually do it.

8) Have kids of my own

Well, I am getting older by the day, and by conservative estimates I am in a perilous situation. Fact is everything hinges on 5). I will not delve further on this.

9) rid my phobio of snakes

I don't know if I can do it, I have always have a phobia of snakes since time immemorial. I wonder if I can ever shake this away, but I would at least try.

10) Make my own first million by 40.

Self explanatory. I am actually striving to do just that this current moment.


All in all my aim in life is not something that I feel is unacheivable. Perhaps with a little bit of luck and support (mental ones) I might be well on my way towards it.....:))

What hit me?

I have been posting in the real estate forum, this time the one that we set up. For the want of impartiality we aren't moderators or even administrator and this has been keeping up for a week, everything was fine, I am in my usual self, posting some advice here and there, with loads of loose talk in between. Our way of spicing up the forum so to speak.

I mean a forum is where we exchange ideas and to network and as it is the forum that we had rocks! well that was until something hit me like a train. Something that until now, me, a supposedly main cast, is totally in the dark. I didn't know what happen, so much so that many of the members are asking me to tell them the reason. As much as I want to tell everyone and everybody that cared, I really really don't know.

The fact is that I have been fast friends with one of them and all in all I held high regards for him, even to the extend of treating him as a brother. I have been seeking advice from him, and have been totally straighforward in volunteering information about myself to him, not that was any issue as I trusted him wholeheartedly and completely, but in a span of a few hours everything changed. I reckon I must had said something completely out of line, or I might had inadvertantly pissed him off to an extend that even friendship is impossible. I tried explaining to him as well as written an apology to him if what I had rebutted in the open forum actually hit a raw nerve but to no avail. I even went to the extend of smsing him, but that didn't generate any response.

What could I have done to warrant such a reaction? Well I seriously don't know. I reflect back and also reread what I had written over the forum but I don't see any major problems or even overboard posts. We have been posting in the same vein since the last forum. So I concluded that it cannot be the posts. It would probably be more than that., which really bug me. I am here, being the instigator and I am not sure what mess I stroked up as well.

For me, I value and treasure a friend and as such finds it difficult to comprehen what was the actual reason. Suffice to say that it would be better for me to lie low and to find the actual reason of this animosity. For whatever's worth, I reckon I would miss this friend.

The day that never was

I am been regularly posting again in my blog, I think this distinctive merit needs to be attributed to a certain person that has been urging me on, so I'm taking this opportunity to thank that special someone. Thanks ya!

Anyway coming back to my posts, ever wondered about the inccesant adverts that have been plastered all over our communicative media like the dailies, radio, and TV? Another day is beckoning towards us and it's father's day! Last week it was mother's day, err or was it last month? Fact is I have been mystified by the number of days that is attributed to various groups of people, nurses, labour, secretary, police, army, and even an animals and what not, have a special day's attributed to them.

Coming back; there are days to honour neighbours, civil servants and even days for those madly in love. The good 'ole Valentines's day, there is a chinese version of Valentines, Indian version and so and so forth. There are even days attributed to people that had died, both chinese, indian and our caucasion counterparts. All in all a very good time for "Days".

Mind you, the people in general loves days that have a special meaning, I do to in fact, but it's been bugging that there these special days are overly commercialised. Big hotels would hold special dinners and function to "celebrate" all these days, not because that actually believe in it, but merely to rake in a handsome profit. Shopping complexes would hold "special" sales and events to mark the days. Govermental organisation would organise functions to "appreciate" these certain groups of people. NGO's would held carnivals to appreciate those, and even animals get their own day.

Thus you would think that it would be in their best interests to have all the days that they want and celebrate it merely for financialy gratification or for recognistion and propagation of it's own agenda. But there is something that does not add up. Has anyone ever notice that there is NO Doctor's day?