To have and to hold
1 Own a Hastens bed
2 Own a Herme’s Birkin bag
3 Own a Herme‘s Kelly bag
4 Own a black pearl ring
5 Own something from Tiffany’s

The ties that bind
1 Bring my parents/mom to visit the Pyramids in Egypt
2 Bring my parents/mom to visit Turkey/Istanbul (she wants to see the Hagia Sophia)
3 Bring my parents/mom to Xi’an to see the Terracotta Army

Living deliberately
1 Visit all the countries of the world (I don’t have to visit each country comprehensively, but at least, have a stamp in my passport(s) from all of them, however brief my visit is)
2 Start my own business and own my own company (a collaboration with a few people counts)
3 Be a published writer
4 Work with Lonely Planet and/or National Geography
5 Learn how to use my DSLR and take beautiful photos
6 Have my own garden (a pretty one, with plants that are alive, not dead)
7 Try sky-diving
8 Try bungee-jumping
9 Try scuba-diving
10 Learn horse-riding
11 Learn to sail (in particular learn to sail dinghies single-handedly)
12 Learn French and speak it like a native
13 Eat at all the 3-Michelin starred restaurants in the world
14 Have my own dog (I want a Siberian Husky)
15 Have my own horse? (depends on how much I like horse-riding)
16 Try skiing
17 Cycle the Karakoram Highway
18 Visit both the Arctic and Antartica
19 Dive both the Arctic and Antartica
20 Hike the Inca Trail
21 Try para-gliding
22 Visit Victoria Falls
23 Visit Pompeii
24 Visit Angkor Wat
25 Visit Borobudur
26 Live in at least 5 countries in my life (definition of “live” to stay for at least 2 years, 3 countries so far: Malaysia, Singapore, UK)
27 Improve my mandarin
28 Cook a nice, slightly fancy meal once
29 Get paid for doing something I enjoy
30 Work with the UN/IMF/some international NGO
31 Further my studies
32 Work with the environment – forest/marine life etc. (have already some of this when I volunteered for 3 weeks with the Appalachian Trail Crew)
33 Try hang-gliding
34 Walk along a canopy walkway
35 Climb up a volcano/walk to the crater edge (Vesuvius)
36 Visit the great rivers [list to follow]
37 Visit the great deserts [list to follow]
38 Climb [at least one] of the Seven Summits
39 VIsit the Amazon [and other forests?]
40 Fall in love
41 Have my heart broken
42 Play the following instruments [list to be determined]
43 Go on an American road trip

– List of countries of the world below:
North America
1 United States
2 Canada
3 Mexico
Western Europe
4 Andorra
5 Austria
6 Belgium
7 Cyprus
8 Denmark
9 Finland
10 France
11 Germany
12 Greece
13 Iceland
14 Ireland
15 Italy
16 Liechtenstein
17 Luxembourg
18 Malta
19 Netherlands
20 Norway
21 Portugal
22 Spain
23 Sweden
24 Switzerland
25 United Kingdom
Commonwealth of Independent States
26 Armenia
27 Azerbaijan
28 Belarus
29 Georgia
30 Kazakhstan
31 Kyrgyzstan
32 Moldova
33 Russia
34 Tajikistan
35 Turkmenistan
36 Ukraine
37 Uzbekistan
Central Europe & Balkans
38 Albania
39 Bosnia
40 Bulgaria
41 Croatia
42 Czech Republic
43 Estonia
44 Hungary
45 Kosovo
46 Latvia
47 Lithuania
48 Macedonia
49 Montenegro
50 Poland
51 Romania
52 Serbia
53 Slovakia
54 Slovenia
55 Turkey
Asia Pacific
56 Afghanistan
57 American Samoa
58 Australia
59 Bangladesh
60 Bhutan
61 Brunei
62 Cambodia
63 China
64 East Timor
65 Fiji
66 Guam
67 Hong Kong
68 India
69 Indonesia
70 Japan
71 Kiribati
72 Laos
73 Macau
74 Malaysia
75 Maldives
76 Micronesia
77 Mongolia
78 Myanmar (Burma)
79 Nepal
80 New Zealand
81 North Korea
82 Pakistan
83 Papua New Guinea
84 Philippines
85 Samoa
86 Singapore
87 Solomon Islands
88 South Korea
89 Sri Lanka
90 Taiwan
91 Thailand
92 Tonga
93 Tuvalu
94 Vanuatu
95 Vietnam
Latin America & the Caribbean
96 Anguilla
97 Antigua & Barbuda
98 Argentina
99 Aruba
100 Bahamas
101 Barbados
102 Belize
103 Bermuda
104 Bolivia
105 Brazil
106 Cayman Islands
107 Chile
108 Colombia
109 Costa Rica
110 Cuba
111 Dominica
112 Dominican Republic
113 Ecuador
114 El Salvador
115 French Guiana
116 Grenada
117 Guatemala
118 Guyana
119 Haiti
120 Honduras
121 Jamaica
122 Martinique
123 Mexico
124 Netherlands Antilles
125 Nicaragua
126 Panama
127 Paraguay
128 Peru
129 Puerto Rico
130 St. Kitts & Nevis
131 St. Lucia
132 St. Vincent & the Grenadines
133 Suriname
134 Trinidad & Tobago
135 Uruguay
136 Venezuela
137 Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Middle East & North Africa
138 Algeria
139 Bahrain
140 Egypt
141 Iran
142 Iraq
143 Israel
144 Jordan
145 Kuwait
146 Lebanon
147 Libya
148 Mauritania
149 Morocco
150 Oman
151 Palestinian Authority
152 Qatar
153 Saudi Arabia
154 Sudan
155 Syria
156 Tunisia
157 United Arab Emirates
158 Yemen
Sub-Saharan Africa
159 Angola
160 Benin
161 Botswana
162 Burkina Faso
163 Burundi
164 Cameroon
165 Cape Verde
166 Central African Republic
167 Chad
168 Comoros
169 Congo Republic
170 Cote d’Ivoire
171 Democratic Republic of Congo
172 Djibouti
173 Equatorial Guinea
174 Eritrea
175 Ethiopia
176 Gabon
177 Gambia
178 Ghana
179 Guinea
180 Guinea-Bissau
181 Kenya
182 Lesotho
183 Liberia
184 Madagascar
185 Malawi
186 Mali
187 Mauritius
188 Mozambique
189 Namibia
190 Niger
191 Nigeria
192 Reunion
193 Rwanda
194 Sao Tome & Principe
195 Senegal
196 Seychelles
197 Sierra Leone
198 Somalia
199 South Africa
200 Swaziland
201 Tanzania
202 Togo
203 Uganda
204 Zambia
205 Zimbabwe