:: What Mama Has To Say ::

Let me start off my birthday (belated) blog with a post listing all the things that I want to achieve for the rest of my lifetime here on earth. I got the inspiration for this post from a story written by John Goddard in Chicken Soup for the Soul. He wrote his "My Life List" when he was 15 years old, which contained 127 things he wanted to achieve in his life.

I would like to share with you my own My Life List. I think it will be an ongoing endeavor on my part to update this list--for additions or better, for an item successfully achieved.

1. Build my dream house (in the city)
2. Buy a rest house in the province
3. Work abroad at least one more time (Singapore maybe)
4. Have another baby
5. Travel around Europe and takes lots of photos (especially in the Vatican)
6. Learn how to swim
7. Engage in a sport that I can be passionate about
8. Learn and master all types of ballroom dancing
9. Play honest-to-goodness basketball
10. Design my own webpage (and for other people)
11. Go up the Statue of Liberty
12. Ride a yellow cab in New York
13. Master photography
14. Sit on top of the Grand Canyons
15. Have a picture with Piolo Pascual
16. Climb up the Sydney Harbour Bridge
17. Learn to snorkel
18. Snorkel at the Great Barrier Reef
19. Go on a relief mission for calamity victims
20. Sponsor a kid (not a relative) thru school
21. Go to Palawan
22. Go to Camiguin
23. Go to the tip of Aurora Province, where the Pacific Ocean touches the land
24. Sunbathe in Hawaii
25. Visit Beijing and the Great Wall of China
26. Go up the Petronas Towers
27. And up that building in Taiwan
28. Get a special tour inside the US Air Force One airplane (I have yet to figure out how)
29. Have a TV and DVD set all to myself
30. Meet Manny Pacquiao
31. Watch a U2 concert
32. Sing with a band in front a crowd
33. Do a Da Vinci Code tour
34. Learn a new language
35. Take an Asian cruise
36. Appear in a print or TV ad (paging Anne and Dez - pwede ako labandera!) -- partially accomplished when our wedding pic appeared in Merlene Marcelo's ad for a bridal magazine
37. Have a personal weight trainer
38. Go to Disneyland, US and HK (even when I am old and gray, magpapakuha ako with Mickey Mouse)
39. Watch a play in Broadway, NY
40. Visit Vigan and Pagudpud
41. Take a Carribean cruise (memories of Love Affair)
42. Have a second car (I want an Altis!)
43. Get married again in church--to the same man

On another note, I celebrated my birthday with a date with my hubby last Friday, details of which will be elaborated here when I have time.

Thanks to all my friends, online and otherwise, who took the time out to greet me on my special day.