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What does your ‘Bucket List’ look like?
By admin | May 5, 2008
One does not have to wait till you have a crisis to have a bucket list. A movie I saw about two men, one obscenely rich and the other an ordinary family man. Both were given about six months’ to live. That is where they created the ‘Bucket List’ of things they would do together. Nevertheless, most people wait till they encounter serious health issues to write their bucket list and live it. I have heard about 100 things to do list. Well, listing is one thing and doing it is another, right? We dont have to be that rich to do our bucket list or 100 list too:)
It takes a crisis to live a bucket list! Get out of comfort zone.
Let’s see, the last time I read about a list is from the internet, someone wrote a list and talked about getting a degree, building a business etc… I have been doing things differently since 2001. When my husband lost his job, I had to learn how to take an MRT, I was like a city bumkin. This kind lady I met in an Anthony Robbins preview in Sheraton Hotel had to literally show me where to scan my ezlink card. How to top up and which side to stand to wait for the MRT to arrive. You see, why this would be an interesting story to tell. I was driven by my husband’s driver to where ever I want to go. Sending my children to school and shopping is my past time. Watching the share market, the CNBC news, watching the HBO 58, 60 back and forth, back and forth. Life was a bore. A crisis does wake people up, I guess.
My list date back to when I started to trek with a group of strangers to Jerangang Falls 6 years’ ago. Leaving my family at home. This was organised by SAC Singapore Adventurers’ Club. We shared our load, I had a backpack of some canned food, some camping rods, clothes, etc. for 4 days. That was the first vertical climb through the jungle some 50 km off Kuantan in Malaysia.
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That climb had me sweat profusely and brought my mental alertness back. I don’t have to take HRT pills (Hormone Replacement Therapy) to balance my hormones as they play havoc at times. Going natural is the ’sane and save’ way to go. Saved more money too. Your whole physical body, mind and soul is in syn. The confidence level went up too. You see people working together like a community is good for the soul. Young or old, rich or poor, there is only one way up, no whinning, no complaining, just do it! There were 6 of us. After a long ride from Singapore to Kuantan, we reached a Malay stall selling food except that it was not open yet at 5am. We just put the plastic chairs and line them up, plonk onto the chairs and use my jacket to cushion my head and slept. Freedom! Not knowing what to expect is my first learning process. Then it looked like 7am, a 14ft lorry came and pick us up. We just threw our backpack onto the lorry and climbed on it. We drove through rows and rows of trees, until we reached a road that the lorry could no longer go through. Not a happy though to get off the lorry. It felt like an endless walk and yes, I did asked myself “what am I doing here?”. I could have been sound asleep in my aircon room! We pass through some creeks and moved uphill. The test came when I was able to pull up the branches of trees to help me up. There were two graduates in their twenties and I was ahead of one of them! What does that mean to me? That I am still strong, I felt like I was in my twenties. Really!
We pitched our tents and hung our clothes after washing them by the side of the waterfall. Helped to prepare meals and wash up.
The waterfall’s natural flow of energy is good for the skin as I put my face just below some water that had it’s force cushioned by some rocks, not too strong flow, enough to massage my face. Better than the SPA operated by some jet machine back home in Singapore.
Game to write your bucket list? Or List of 100 things to do!
List of things to do….What else? hmm….. Started in 2003. Done nite trekking (organised by Singapore Adventurers’ Club) started at 11:30pm through MacRitchie Reservior pass Island Country Club’s golf course and all the way to Seletar Reservior at 4am! scuba diving, vertical climb up 1,380 steps in Republic Plaza, Went on four-wheel drive into Tigers Fall, deep into the Malaysian jungle. Trekked up the Jerangang Falls; Climbed Mount Kinabalu upto 2,700 m. Swam from Esplanade across to the Singapore river to the Merlion; nite cycling 44km, trekked down Grand Canyon, climbed the Mount Aspiring in N Zealand, Certified Coach Course, sang in front of 80 people in my outrageous outfit!
Coming up: Cruise to Alaska happening in May 2008! Followed by a retreat in Hills Health Spa in Cariboo 5 hours drive from Vancouver; To write two books! To trek the colorado river in Grand Canyon. Speak to thousands of people!
Life is more interesting and useful too! Life was never the same after being coached!
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