Bucket List

TRAVELINGS

  • Vietnam – Thanh Hai, Saigon, Hue, Hanoi
  • California – Yosemite National Park
  • Alsaka
  • United Emirates – Dubai
  • Israel – Jerusalem, Bethlehem
  • Czech Republic – Prague
  • Iraland
  • Norway
  • Holland – Amsterdam
  • Australia – Sydney, Queensland (Great Reef)
  • Singapore
  • China – Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong
  • Thailand – Bangkok
  • South Korea – Seoul
  • Japan – Tokyo
  • Brazil – Rio de Janeiro
  • Bora Bora

PEOPLE

  • Get Married
    • accomplished – to the most beautiful woman
  • Have Kids
    • accomplished – 3 girls and a boy – the joys of my life.
  • Meet Pope
    • private meeting with St. John Paul II
    • altar boy for St. John Paul II – Christmas Eve mass and Easter mass
  • Meet my relatives in Vietnam – especially the people who helped my parents to take care of me when I was a baby.

ACTIVITIES

  • Graduated from college
    • accomplished – B.A. Philosophy, B.S. Computer Science
  • Own a business
  • Ride an elephant
  • Zip lining
  • Scuba in the Great Reef
  • Ski/snowboard down a mountain
    • accomplished
  • Hike up/down a mountain
    • accomplished – Mt. Washington – highest mountain in the U.S. Northeast
  • Sky dive
  • Surf a ocean
  • Sled down a mountain
    • Was able do sledding down a mountain…. took us 45 min to club and 10 minutes to sled down
  • Road trip across the USA
    • accomplished – travel from Dallas to Los Angeles then back to Florida
  • Fly first class transatlantic
    • The best flight from Rome to New York on first class.
  • Attend an international soccer match
  • Attend a NBA game
    • accomplished – many Dallas Mavericks games
  • Attend a NHL game
    • accomplished – Dallas Stars playoffs game
  • Attend a NFL game
    • accomplished – many Cowboys and Saints games
  • Visit the Pyramids
  • See Michaelangelo’s art works
    • Sistine Chapel, other works through Italy
  • See Leonardo Da Vinci’s art works
    • Mona Lisa in Paris
    • many other works through Italy
  • Visit my parents’ house in Vietnam where there was a chicken coop – story goes that I followed my dad into the chicken coop naked and the chicken was attacking my peewee.
  • Visit the Great Wall of China
  • Visit the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome
    • accomplished
  • Visit the Coliseum
    • accomplished
  • Visit the lending tower of Pisa
  • Visit the White House
    • accomplished
  • Visit the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
    • accomplished
  • Visit the St. Patrick Cathedral in New York
    • accomplished – everything I visit New York
  • See the Niagara Falls
    • accomplished – got to see it but did not actually go near the edge.
  • Swimming in freezing water during the winter
    • this was fun… it was freezing, but I jumped into the freezing water.
  • Run naked in the snow
    • accomplished
  • Pee on a white blanket of fresh snow
    • accomplished
  • Walk on iced lake
    • accomplished
  • Play ice hockey on an iced lake
    • accomplished
  • Snowmobile on an iced lake
    • accomplished
  • Skate across an iced lake from one city to another
    • accomplished
  • Ride a motocycle
  • Eat raw honey right from bee hives
  • Eat raw maple syrup from the maple tree
    • accomplished