100 Things I Want To Accomplish
I'm sure I'll change items and add more to this list in the future. I'm also sure that I won't be able to finish everything off this list. But it's a nice reminder to remember not to be afraid of pursuing these dreams.

They're listed in no particular order, and a lot of items are scammed (and perhaps slightly modified) from other online lists. Enjoy!

1. Enter the Sunday Star Short Story Contest
2. Enter the Toronto Star Winning Images Photo Competition
3. Travel to all seven continents (Africa, Antarctica, Asia (born in HK - photo below), Australia, Europe (visited May 23-Jun 7, 2007 - photo below), North America (immigrated Oct 8, 1990), South America)
4. Start a non-profit organization helping immigrants
5. Record an album
6. Get a certificate in Creative Writing at a local college
7. Publish a novel
8. Fall in love
9. Get married
10. Have children
11. Learn how to play bass guitar
12. Learn how to play drums
13. Buy an electric guitar
14. Visit Vaines Limbikani, my sponsored child
15. Write a screenplay
16. Make an indie movie
17. Make a felted bag out of an old sweater
18. Go to a taping of Royal Canadian Air Farce/This Hour Has 22 Minutes/The Rick Mercer Report
19. Have a Due South marathon
20. Win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
21. Win the Booker Prize
22. Learn Mandarin
23. Learn German
24. Be an extra in a movie
25. Learn to swing dance
26. Sleep under the stars - June 6 and 7, 2008 in Toronto (part of Street Walk (homelessness experience) with Evergreen Staff)
27. Go to a Lifehouse concert
28. Go to a Mae concert - Nov. 18, 2007 @ Kool Haus
29. Go to a Mat Kearney concert
30. Walk the streets in Israel that Jesus tread
31. Witness the midnight sun
32. Witness the polar night
33. Save a life
34. See a movie at the drive-in
35. Visit the pyramids in Egypt
36. Visit a castle
37. Visit the site of a WWI or WWII battle
38. Visit the Stonehenge
39. Visit Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas
40. Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa
41. Go on a road trip with a good soundtrack and even better friends
42. See an African sunrise
43. Visit Tuktoyaktuk
44. See the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)
45. Touch the equator
46. Knit a scarf
47. Visit all the provinces and territories in Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario (Oct 8, 1990), Prince Edward Island, Qu�bec (Oct 1990), Saskatchewan, Yukon Territories)
48. Paint a picture on a canvas
49. Dye my hair purple - Dec. 15 2006 (photo below)
50. Become a coffee barista
51. Read the entire Bible in a week
52. Visit the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey
53. Publish a book of recipes all created by me
54. Learn defensive driving
55. Go to a school reunion
56. Become a mentor
57. Straddle a provincial border (thanks, Mandy Moore!)
58. Knit a personal set of arm warmers
59. Come up with a scientific theory
60. Make the local news
61. Open a bakery
62. Travel across Canada by train
63. Take a map, blindly point to a destination, and visit that destination
64. Go to the Olympics
65. Learn to use sign language fluently
66. Get a photo taken of me outside Saint Basil�s Cathedral in Moscow
67. Travel the route that Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado took when they road motorcycles across South America
68. Prepare Peking duck from scratch
69. Visit Texas, baby!
70. Shop in the flagship Ikea store in Sweden
71. Fire a gun
72. Set up my own home recording studio
73. Score 300 in bowling
74. Be crammed onto a train in Tokyo
75. Buy cloth and make a piece of clothing for myself that I will wear in public
76. Watch all of Paul Newman�s movies
77. Go to a CD signing
78. Watch all Oscar-winning Best Picture movies
79. Visit a concentration camp and pay my respects
80. Visit H�tel des Milles Collines in Rwanda
81. Have a song written about me
82. Learn curling
83. Attend a Hawaiian luau in Hawaii
84. Learn to spot all the constellations in the sky
85. Sail in the four major oceans in the world (Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, Southern)
86. Eat olives in the Mediterranean
87. Live in a loft for a period of time
88. Go to Seattle and check out Tooth and Nail Records HQ
89. Read all the works of Augustine
90. Bake a pie from scratch - Dec. 27, 2007, an apple pie (photo below)
91. Attend a Roman Catholic mass - Apr. 1, 2007 at St. Jerome's University, Waterloo
92. Attend an album release party of an admired artist
93. Get formal photography lessons and create a killer collection of photos
94. Learn to can my own corn relish
95. Pick peaches off a tree in the fall
96. Knit everyone�s Christmas gifts
97. Say the words "vĕcĕr�" and "stihlounka" in the Czech Republic
98. Go on an overseas missions trip
99. Buy a vintage dress
100. Be the one that leads someone to accept Christ into their heart

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Photo Proofs
These are listed in order of completion.

	3. Aug. 18, 2004 - Yes, I was born in HK, but here's a photo from a trip back to China in 2004. That my family at the Great Wall.
	49. Dec. 15 2006 - Becca helped colour my hair, and here it is wrapped up and waiting for washing.
	3. Jun 1, 2007 - Not the best picture by far, but it shows me and my girls in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris on the 10th day of the trip.
	90. Dec. 27, 2007 - For the first pie, I decide to do the traditional criss-cross pattern. Now that I have the crust down, I think I'll stick to my beloved crumble top instead. I was never one for pastry.

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Retired Items
The following items were once on my list, but after some thought, I'm not so keen on keeping them.

• Win a Nobel Prize in whatever category
• Go to Kingdom Bound at Six Flags Darien Lake for all four days
• Solve the Rubik's cube

Updated June 9, 2008