Before I Tango With The Reaper...

...I've been thinking of a few things that I'd like to do - before the end of my days. I was essentially bored of studying, felt like updating my blog yet had nothing particular to say, and thought I'd try and update my "Things To Do Before I Die" list and see how it has developed since I last thought of it. Some of them are incredibly mundane, whilst others are slightly larger goals. Behold, in no particular order!

1. Travel to America (and possibly meet a friend there if able), Japan, and somewhere yet-to-be-determined in Europe.
2. Land a job in graphic design or advertising, after having preferably attended the Visual Communications course at UTS.
3. Get a slinky autographed by Hamish Blake & Andy Lee.
4. Get a photo with Natalie Tran, the Communitychannel girl from YouTube.
5. Learn how to dance and/or mosh to some description, whether it be an actual style or just generic when-the-music-is-playing type dancing.
6. See Daft Punk in concert and apply some of the aforementioned skills in number 5.
7. Obtain the largest stuffed Mario mushroom possible.
8. Buy a 'fancy' pseudo-novelty belt buckle, so it's still metallic but has an interesting image/symbol/design/etc.
9. Publish a book.
10. Finally win something out of a Stacker game machine, instead of the machine cheating me at the final line every single time.
11. Get Charles Martinet's autograph - the voice of Mario. He was in Sydney this year but his only store appearance was on a Wednesday, so I missed out due to school. Bah.
12. Attend any form of video game music concert played by an orchestra, such as the Eminence or Play! Symphony Orchestras, among others. Or, bar that, just see a live orchestra of any sort.
    
13. Learn to drive, heh.
14. Move to Sydney or somewhere not too far from Sydney.
15. Lose another 10 or so kilos, and finally get myself in proper shape when time allows.
16. Have something properly exhibited in an art gallery or museum.
17. Have a lucid dream.
18. Experience anti-gravity, even if it's only that fake anti-gravity simulation thing they can do on a fast-moving plane. Apparently these planes are called 'Vomit Comets'.
    
19. Finally get around to giving blood at least once.
20. Participate in some form of scavenger hunt, along the lines of an 'Amazing Race' type deal, though probably held more locally such as around the city.
21. Win a trophy from a competition, as opposed to a schooling or sporting trophy. It can be any sort of competition at all, even as obscure as, say, Lawrence Leung's Rubik's Cube trophy, for example.
22. Learn to use chopsticks properly. I learnt once, temporarily, but then forgot by the next time that I had to use them.
23. Learn to paint. I never really honed my skills in that and just focused on drawing, but I'd like to improve one day.
24. Invent something, even if it never is never commercially successful. I just want to invent something that would be useful to me personally, if no one else.
25. Own an SLR camera, and pursue photography in some form whether it be as a career in photojournalism, for competitions, or just as a personal hobby.
26. Learn to play a musical instrument, preferably either the violin or piano.
27. Properly sing karaoke at an actual karaoke bar without getting embarrassed or completely and utterly sucking. Just perform slightly above the level of terrible, maybe sub-par.
28. Meet Tim Burton and/or Danny Elfman, and get some form of photo or signature.
29. Paint a pair of my own shoes with some sort of retro gaming pattern, like Tetris or Pac-Man, ever since discussing it with Lynneal a year or two ago.
30. Ride, or possibly own, a segway.

...Considering the first time I wrote a list like this about a year ago and it only had ten things, it's grown quite considerably. Good to know I have some stuff to aim for in life. I might try and keep this post updated and cross things off as they happen, though when and if I cross any of these things off is a mystery. Oh well, that's all for today.

Adios.