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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What's your bucket list and does it involve China?
A bucket list, in case you don't know, is a list of things you'd do if you were told you only had a short time left to live. It's really not a 'China' related question at all, I just added the 'China' bit to keep admin happy. But the board looks bored, so.....
I want to live forever. So far so good.
Scandinavian:
yeah, but right now I am at home just with the wife and dog, wouldn't mind it lasting forever (she is watching a soap though..... hmmmmm, maybe just end it now)
mArtiAn:
Forever, to steal a line from John Lennon, is a 'Hell' of a 'long time'.
Scandinavian:
pfffft. John Lennon also wrote "You may say I am a dreamer, but I'm not" what lack of ambition is that. Almost makes me wonder if Mr Lennon was Chinese. This would also explain why Yoko caused so much turmoil.
to survive the torture of my new domina.... China.. perhaps she will respect the safe word...
eat the most perfect sirloin
become fluent in Mandarin
get a bit of respect that i dont necessarily deserve
and think of a good safe word before i arrive in China!
Paulberger:
The safe word is "ganbei" say everytime you eat with people and you should be OK...
If I had to knowingly spend my last days in China, I would probably...
1. Smoke in an elevator
2. Run a red light
3. Cut in line
4. Poorly parallel park my car
5. Complain just to get a discount
Paulberger:
Oh my god it all makes sense now... I think every Chinese person is dying soon...
Scandinavian:
@Paul. It's the smog. All people in this country will die sooner than they should
If my bucket list were to involve China, then there is only choice.
I would personally go looking for all of those posters on this Board who have been impertinent to me, at least the males anyway, and make sure I found them in front of their Chinese wives or girlfriends, and then I would say to them in my best Chinese : "honey, your boyfriend or husband is the best f*ck that I have ever had". I would make sure that I did it publicly.
And just to ensure maximum indigestion, I would bring a gay Chinese bodybuilder friend along, who has a great sense of humor, and I would have him say in Chinese, in front of the Chinese significant other, "honey, your husband or boyfriend is the best f*ck that I ever had".
Guaranteed sweet revenge right from the bucket list.
Scandinavian:
wauw, that makes you a really small person.
"gay Chinese bodybuilder" OK, you might want to look up the word "pleonasm"
My bucket list gets crossed off every day. I intend on living happily; living in the moment, and not worrying about stuff I can't control. If I really want to do something (as per fantastic 'bucket list' items) I either make it happen in the short term or just put it out of my mind and forget it. That way, I'm not always thinking about my 'future plan'.
I'm totally OK dying tomorrow. (not that I want to, but I wouldn't be all "oh my God I didn't do ________!!")
mArtiAn:
Good answer. I'd still like to break into Carnegie Hall and blow my sax centre stage for as long as it took for security to come and wrestle me to the ground though.
JanShanghai:
heh, yeah that would be cool. I'd like to kiss a man under the Eiffel Tower, and hot-air balloon in Africa.
I never think about this. when it comes, it comes and probably I will do just what I will like to do at that time.
( If I have to choose and in china, so maybe some jerking on nanjing road and spread the seeds ? )
Just because I need to kill time-
1. Visit Machu Picchu
2. Climb a mountain (must be significant and one I have to train intensely for)
3. Sky dive
4. Slackline with no rope over a high drop
5. Surf on an Australian coast
6. Play a poker game with a big amount at stake
7. Rent an old beaten up car and do a big road trip around several states in America (Texas being one)
8. Ride the biggest rollercoaster in the world (front seat)
9. Play guitar in front of an audience
10. Be an actress in an indie film, whether it becomes a hit or not
11. Stay at a stupidly expensive hotel for one night
12. Finish my book
13. Fall asleep on the beach and wake as the sun comes up
14. Take a trip on a little boat for a month or so
15. Attend a lantern celebration/festival (Where they send thousands of lantern to the sky)
16. Find a dancing partner that I'm happy dancing with and work real hard at it
17. Work as a ranch hand
18. Fall in love for the first time.
Here's just a selection I guess. Guess I better get started...right now.
MissA:
Fall in love for the first time? Awwwwwww....
Anyhow, slice, quite a number of those can be done in one day on a visit to Sydney.
You can come and surf in loads of places (tick), all the hotels in Sydney are ridiculously expensive (tick), you can head out at night for a hand of poker (tick) and then fall in love with the dealer (tick, if you're a 'love at first sight' kida gal, I admit this one's a bit patchy), and after a crazy night of dancing (tick) pass out with your new love on Bondi (tick) before deciding to elope with your new love to a ranch (tick, but we call them 'stations' here instead of ranches so I don't know if you'll count it).
slice_999_k:
Not really Bill8899, I know some riffs and chords etc, but I haven't got a full song pegged yet. You can play right?
And MissA I like your thinking a hell of a lot! I have a trip to OZ booked next year already so by damned am I gonna give it a good shot!
And yeah, first time, I have just met too many boys..I need a man (preferably with a beard or some tattoos etc..just saying).
If a 'bucket list' includes what I would do if I'm dying, then I would visit my friend in Beijing and go home until the end. How morbid.
On the other hand if a bucket list includes life goals, I'd say finish an MS, improve my guitar playing, and maybe, just maybe find a gal I can live with. Or, more to the point, find a gal who can tolerate me. Oh, and return to Puerto Penasco or Cabo or both at least once.
bill8899:
MS = Master of Science - either math or economics for me, but of course there are many others like chemistry, etc.
Not really a list, but I would love to work in conservation, perhaps helping to save mountain gorillas or rhinos.
Failing that, be a voiceover on my favourite anime show or video game.
I. Visit Mt. Sinai.
II. Visit Jerusalem.
III. Observe a Delta IV launch.
IV. Stand at 90˚ South Latitude.
V. co-Pilot a Boeing 747-400 on take-off roll outta JFK (night-time during a thunderstorm).
diverdude1:
I liked yours too. :-) I also wanna do #11, like maybe the Ritz-Carlton in HK !