I couldn't believe how empowering the bucket list is. I've been reading about this since last year but haven't got around to doing it. What's great is that my husband and my 8-year-old made their own bucket lists, too. Celestine Chua asked us to do this in our Day 26 and I'm sharing them with you. It's not complete yet. I stopped at
1. Learn Italian.
2. Kiss my husband under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy while the bells are ringing.
3. Travel abroad with my family.
4. Pop bubbles coming out of the Wishing Fish Clock, Regent Arcade Shopping Centre, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. (See Photo)
5. Learn to drive a car.
6. Ride a Vespa in Italy with a silk scarf streaming behind me.
7. Participate in a NaNoWriMo.
8. Publish a chick lit novel called "Boy Magnet."
9. Publish another chick lit novel called "Love Under the Cherry Blossoms."
10.
11. Visit Green Gables Heritage Place in Canada.
12.
13. Zipline in Cagayan de Oro or Subic.
14. Work in the women sector.
15. Drink tequila with my daughters on their 18th birthday.
16. Have a heart-to-heart talk with my daughters' soon-to-be husbands.
17. Same as above for my second daughter.
18. Help plan my daughters' weddings.
19. Hold a tarsier on my hand.
20. Hold a baby panda.
21. Hold a tiger cub.
22. Ride a boat through Puerto Princesa's Underground River.
23. Experience lush hair with hair extensions.
24. Perfect my English verb tenses.
25. Be a friend's maid of honor.
26. Fly first class.
27. Fly business class.
28. Watch Phantom of the Opera with clear vision. (I watched it already but without my contact lenses. Bad idea.)
29. Watch Wicked in NYC.
30. Drink wine in Tuscany.
31. Live in Tuscany.
32. Meet an online friend in person.
33. Ask for forgiveness.
34. Ask for forgiveness.
35. Complete GEMMA.
36. Complete a Ph.D.
37. Work for an international organization.
38. Meet Neil Gaiman.
39. Take my kids to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
40. Start a counseling center/spa.
41. Interview Uncle about his life.
42. Write about Uncle's life.
43. Become the Pioneer Woman of the Philippines.
44. Spend a whole day in a spa.
45. Complete reading The Sandman again.
46. Meet Celes in Singapore.
47. Meet Eleanor once again and thank her.
48. Accompany my second kid on her first day of school.
49. Complete our emergency fund and never touch it.
50. Read Dante's La Divina Comedia in Italian and understand it.
51. Eat gelato in Italy.
52. Stroll along the Louvre.
53. See the Mona Lisa with Pammy.
54. Live each day with joy and gratefulness.
55. Watch Mei sing and cheer for her.
56. Take my daughters to see a volcano.
57. Bring my daughter back to a beach in Cebu and help her build a sand castle.
And because my list is boring, here are my daughter's and husband's list. (When I told my daughter I published her list, she was annoyed with me because her list "isn't finished yet" and she gave me an assignment to finish my list. Isn't she adorable?)
My Daughter's Bucket List:
1. Read a book.
2. Bake cookies.
3. Read another book.
4. Write 4 stories.
5. Publish the 4 stories in a book called My Storybook
6. Read more books.
7. Cook on my own.
8. Go to a volcano.
9. Go back to the beach where I made a sand castle and make another one.
10. Go to the clouds and eat a cloud.
11. Teach Nyv how to read a book.
12. Eat my imaginary cookie.
13. Grow my mongo seeds to bear more seeds.
14. Write a letter to nobody.
15.
16. Have a kitten.
17. Make an anagram for my name.
18. Drink my imaginary milk.
19. Have a treasure chest locked with letter combination ******.
20. Travel to a famous foreign place and take a picture of me riding a local vehicle there.
21. Know the Spanish language.
22. Have my “Sims” fulfill their lifetime wish.
23. Write a bestselling book and cover it with gold foil.
24.
25. Cry like a baby.
Hubby's Bucket List:
1. ***
2. Drive a Porsche 911 Turbo
3. Travel the whole Philippines with family
4. Skydiving
5. Go to the moon
6. Slap Bill Gates
7. Stop my baby’s plans for my daughters’ weddings. (Lol-Miss Guimba)
8. Kiss Megan Fox.
9. Buy a BMW 1000R
10. Teach Nia how to brush her teeth properly.
11. Grow a mustache and a beard.
12. Implant my brain inside a computer and upload it to the Internet.
13. Fly a plane.
14. Watch Top Gear Live.
15. Build my own garage.
16. Watch my babies grow up.
17. Look like Brad Pitt.
18. Explore the ocean.
7 comments:
Awww, Mis Guimba, how beautiful are your lists, thank you sooo much for sharing.. Such interesting places that made me dream, I didn`t know about the Green Gables place and I`d love to see that too, Anne is very dear to my heart.. and so are the tarsiers.. :)
I`m looking forward reading all your books, I`m sure they will be beautiful!
I smiled a lot reading your daughters lists, they must be such sweet, wonderful children.. Please tell them that I wish them good luck in making all those beautiful things real and that I`m sure they`ll enjoy everything they dream..
I adore their ideas with eating a cloud and the imaginary cookie, yammiii.. :) and I believe that nr.15 is already done, my chair and all the windows laughed so loud with me when I read that!! :)
I read Anne of Green Gables when I was in the 5th grade and I couldn't believe why I forgot all about her wise words. My daughter will be thrilled to see that her 15th is already done. She told me that she wants to add more to her bucket list so I'll keep you posted. =)
Hi miss Guimba! You have an awesome list! I love your idea of going zipline in Cagayan de oro and to travel the whole Philippines. It is also included in my lists. You may want to visit Bukidnon's Dahilayan Adventure park zipzone, which is said to be the Asia's longest zipline.Not to mention the Enchanted river in Surigao, really amazing! By the way, are you a filipino? or an Italian living in the Philippines? hmmm. just wondering.. :)
Hi, strawberrybiscuits! I'm pureblood Filipina, dearie! I'll look into your suggestions. I haven't researched enough about where to go here. Thank you for the suggestions and your list is wonderful, too. I'll try to look at your list and find out whether or not there are others I can include in my list. Good luck to us!
i am so looking forward to seeing the Mona Lisa with you dearie,by the way i happen to know the owner of the zipline in Tagaytay,i might see him when he arrives from doha 2weeks from now..we could both ride the zipline and shout our hearts out,that's one check on the list,isn't that great!..i had a good laugh reading Nia's and your Hubby's List..i hope he gets to slap Bill Gates and Kiss Megan Fox...and Nia,we could all read and enjoy books together,like Mommy like Daughter and like Tita (pasingit na ako)LOve you dear and i enjoyed your Bucket List too...
Truly a great list. Now all you have to do is put a date on each of them and make it happen. Take those actions steps and there no longer be dreams, but pure realities.
Hi Jonathan, you're right. I have to make a game plan on how to make this bucket list into a reality.
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