The 50 Things I Want To Do Before I Die (as of Oct. 1, 2009)

The typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) made me realize that life is short. You never know when your time is up. When it comes to death, it doesn't matter if you're eight or 80. When it's your time, it's your time. Being on this crazy planet we call earth for 20 years, I have achieved a relative amount of things. I graduated high school, I'm in college with the course I want, and I have a position in the school paper. But there are so many other things that I want to do before I leave this place and meet my maker. Here are some of the things I want to do before I die, as of October 1, 2009:

1. Write a book
2. Produce a painting and see it in a gallery
3. Work in a publication
4. Live alone
5. See the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower
6. Gamble
7. Work in a mental ward
8. Go on a cruise
9. Go to the zoo
10. See the Great Wall of China
11. Spend the day in Chinatown and eat the food
12. Get married
13. Have a baby girl
14. Play the piano
15. Drive a car
16. Skydive
17. Be surrounded by penguins
18. Write a moving poem
19. Learn a foreign language
20. Stargaze
21. See Intramuros
22. See the pyramids
23. Solve a crossword puzzle
24. Be in/famous
25. Win an award
26. Get a job
27. Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Ireland
28. See the Coliseum and the Parthenon
29. Go to the senate
30. See the National Museum
31. See a tarsier
32. See a fart
33. See the sun rise or set
34. Have an authentic British tea party with finger sandwiches
35. Eat croissant in the streets of Paris
36. See Macau
37. Ride a gondola in the Grand Canal
38. Eat halo halo in Baywalk
39. See Tokyo and meet a geisha
40. See a New Orleans festival
41. See a supernatural creature
42. Witness a "Your Mama" showdown
43. Fly a kite
44. Watch a musical
45. Live in New York
46. Plant a tree
47. Graduate
48. Learn the ghetto language
49. Teach
50. Fly to Peru and see the lines at Nazca