Things I want to do before I die. Please let me know if you have any recommendation.
Progress as of Dec 31, 2022: 39.75/93.

  1. ✓ Learn Spanish
  2. ✓ Live in another country
  3. ✓ Start a nonprofit organization
  4. ✗ See my book being sold at an airport outside Vietnam
  5. ✓ Be in a movie/commercial (I’ve actually done this in 3 countries: Vietnam, India, US)
  6. ✗ Become the first author of a paper at a top-tier conference
  7. ✗ Get published on the New Yorker
  8. ✗ Read 1000 books (~60% done)
  9. ✓ Teach a graduate-level course
  10. ✓ Start a company
  11. ✗ Author a patent
  12. ✗ Write for a TV show that I watch
  13. ✗ Design and publish a game
  14. ✓ Fall in love
  15. ✗ Build my own home
  16. ✗ Have a salad from my own garden
  17. ✗ Become a parent
  18. ✗ Be a writer in Paris
  19. ✗ Get married to someone I love
  20. ✓ Go on a trip overseas with my whole family
  21. ✗ Take a hot-air balloon ride
  22. ✓ Be in a submarine
  23. ✗ Swim a mile
  24. ✗ Run a half marathon
  25. ✗ Scuba dive
  26. ✓ Learn to ski
  27. ✓ Surf in Hawaii
  28. ✓ Fly an airplane
  29. ✓ Learn to drive a car
  30. ✗ Get a PhD (in CS, Neuroscience, or Psychology)
  31. ✗ Body transformation
  32. ✓ Dance on stage at a concert (thanks Flo Rida!)
  33. ✗ Ride a horse in Mongolia
  34. ✓ Publish a Python package
  35. ✗ Create my own programming language
  36. ✗ Start a scholarship to support brave young kids
  37. ✗ Volunteer 1000 hours to help to the elderlies
  38. ✗ Get involved in a publishing house that focuses on math, science, and engineering books
  39. ✗ Start a research lab
  40. ✓ Take a walk in the rain
  41. ✓ Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant
  42. ✓ Ask a stranger out (he said no)
  43. ✓ Invite a stranger to my home
  44. ✗ Sleep in a castle
  45. ✓ Sleep outside on the beach, under the sky
  46. ✓ Go on an African safari
  47. ✓ Camp in a desert
  48. ✗ See auroras
  49. ✓ Learn to salsa
  50. ✗ Learn to play a music instrument (tried 3x)
  51. ✗ Zero gravity
  52. ✓ Work in a casino
  53. ✓ Do stand-up
  54. ✓ Travel Southeast Asia
  55. ✓ Hitchhike across Africa
  56. ✗ Spend at least a month in Western Africa
  57. ✓ Hike Los Andes
  58. ✓ Visit South Omo valley, Ethiopia
  59. ✗ Sail around the Caribbean
  60. ✗ Drink vodka in Russia
  61. ✗ Eat sushi in Japan
  62. ✗ Travel around Eastern Europe
  63. ✓ See Kashmir
  64. ✗ Visit Mecca
  65. ✓ Do Bible tour: Jerusalem, lake of Galilee, Jordan river, Bethlehem, Nazareth
  66. ✗ Stay with an Amazonian tribe
  67. ✓ Visit an Amish community
  68. ✗ Visit Vatican
  69. ✗ Visit Tehran
  70. ✗ Visit Sicily
  71. ✗ Visit 100 countries (~40% done)
  72. ✗ Go to South Pole or North Pole
  73. ✓ Climb Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
  74. ✗ Climb Great wall, China
  75. ✗ Hike to Everest base camp
  76. ✗ Reed Dance, Swaziland
  77. ✗ Burning Man, the US
  78. ✗ Carnival in Brazil
  79. ✓ Watch a Broadway show in New York
  80. ✓ Pashut Festival, Israel
  81. ✓ Laos’ new year
  82. ✗ Watch bullfight in Spain
  83. ✗ Watch a soccer game at Camp Nou (Old Trafford is fine too)
  84. ✓ Visit Googleplex
  85. ✗ Speak at TED
  86. ✗ Meet the Pope
  87. ✗ Meet a prince
  88. ✗ Meet JK Rowling
  89. ✓ See a comet
  90. ✓ Meet Dalai Lama
  91. ✗ Have my own’s ice cream flavor
  92. ~ Be awesome
  93. ~ Be kind