my Bucketlist

“Gelukkig zijn is een onderweg zijn.” Fair is fair. This Dutch one-liner is stolen from my all-time favorite TV program “Buiten de zone“. There is something of truth in it. Therefore, this list. A list full of things I still want to do in my life. A man can have some ambitious things in life, not?

It’s all the fault of Mom and Dad

Daddy’s rather … how shall I write this, a busy bee with anything and everything.
And our mom, our mom who tinkers things off. Our ma has been to the fashion academy and passed her insatiable hunger to me I guess. She keeps on designing hats, making handbags in leather, making her own clothes, … it probably started when she knitted my sweaters, back in the days .. you know, those stinging wool sweaters … damn.

Our dad … having an idea, he just goes for it. Few examples: he build his own oscilloscope when he was 18, he tailor-made a tripod for his telescope as he found out that other tripods weren’t good enough. His “I can do that too or even better” mentality … G, Thanks Dad! ;-)

Alright … I have quite a few things that I want to get done / do in my life.

A list which will undoubtedly continue to grow.

Online

  • Start my own blog
  • Build my own chrome plugins
  • Build a Jquery plugin
  • Build my first own tool
  • Launch a startup (& fail)
  • Start my own e-commerce store

Offline

  • Learn to read lips
  • Learn Mandarine (Chinese)
  • Improve my French
  • Learn to taste wine
  • Learn more about whiskey
  • Learn a martial art
  • Pick up breakdancing again
  • Work/live in NY for a few months

Music

  • Start an own music concept and give some intimate parties
  • Start a record label
  • Bring out the first vinyl on my label
  • Make a vinyl record of my own
  • Organise a label night at a unique place
  • Start a press plant
  • Learn how to master music
  • Launch a VSTi

DIY & Crafts

  • Learn how to make fire like Bear Grylls does
  • Build my own desk
  • Restore an oldtimer bike or car
  • Build a mini-ramp in my garden
  • Brew my own whiskey

See & Visit

  • Visit Google in Mountain view
  • Visit Facebook in Mountain view
  • Visit Microsoft
  • Visit Area 51
  • Visit Nasa
  • Visit the European Space Center 
  • Visit the International Space Center
  • Visit longleat Safari & Adventure park with the maze
  • Visit Auschwitz
  • Visit Burning man

Do

  • Go see a NBA game
  • Go see a space launch
  • Go swimming in the blue lagoon in Iceland
  • Chase & film a tornado
  • Do a parabolic flight
  • Write a book
  • Have a tattoo or piercing
  • When retired, start smoking again
  • Solve a rubics cube
  • Become energy independent
  • Have random talks to people & record a video show and/or podcast

Sport

  • Buy a BMX & lear some freestyle tricks
  • Run a marathon
  • Walk 100km

Transportation

  • Drive a lamborghini
  • Drive a Corvette
  • Drive a Porsche
  • Drive an Aston Martin
  • Drive a Ferrari
  • Dump my shitty car i hate and choose something fun
  • Get a motorcycle drivers license
  • Drive a Kawasaki W800 (café style)
  • Drive a new Porsche for at least 6 months
  • Drive a ’52 Porsche
  • Drive a minivan
  • Drive an American Pick up Truck
  • Ride an electric car instead of gas

Living

  • Get a rooftop apartment in a City (maybe abroad, preferably NY)
  • Get another house
  • Move to a place where I can snowboard any day, for a few months