January 13, 2009

• My 100 list

  I remember reading history books back in high school and college that would make me feel incredibly unambitious. You know the ones...Alexander the great conquered the world by 25, Mozart composed his first symphony by 9, and what have YOU done lately? Well it got me to thinking...at the age of 28, I will have graduated medical school. But is that all I have done? Of course not. So I present to you my 100 list. Feel free to comment or even better, to make your own. And remember, no matter how mundane and boring you think your life is, no one else has lived it but you.

  01. I have summited mount fuji at dawn after camping on its slopes
  02. I have said 'I love you' and meant it
  03. I have stayed up all night long, and watched the sun rise
  04. I have learned how to identify most of the constellations
  05. I have had a snowball fight. granted it wasnt til I was 23, but whatever.
  06. I have had a meaningful conversation with a beggar-really worth doing, youd be surprised
  07. I have ridden a roller coaster
  08. I have hit a home run-little league counts, right?
  09. Adopted an accent for an entire day-every september 19, in fact
  10. I have actually felt happy about my life, even for just a moment-
  11. I have danced with a stranger in a foreign country
  12. I have stolen a sign...collections of them in fact
  13. I have taken a road-trip and in doing so driven cross country roughly 4 times
  14. I have gone streaking in Japan with total strangers as part of a shinto fertility ritual
  15. I have gone sky diving not one, not twice, but three separate occasions
  16. In a restaurant, I have sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them-it was a mcdonalds, but we ended up having a nice convo
  17. I have matriculated in medical school .
  18. I have pretended to be a superhero
  19. I have sung karaoke both in a private room with friends and in a bar full of people. I recommend dont stop believin'
  20. I have got it on to "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
  21. I have delivered several babies into this world-the postage is unbelievable
  22. I have visited the Great Wall of China (and done other things while there wink wink nudge nudge)
  23. I have started a blog for myself as a means of keeping in touch with friends and ended up amassing a surprising number of readers for reasons that are still unclear to me
  24. I have trained in capoeira, tai chi, and basic knife fighting
  25. I have ridden a gondola in Venice
  26. I have gotten a tattoo, and I am planning to get another one
  27. I have been the lead vocalist for a heavy metal band
  28. I have eaten shark, scorpion, larvae, blowfish, starfish, yak testicle, and a lot of other things probably not meant to be consumed
  29. I have had a one-night stand
  30. I have pet, held, and walked a live tiger while visiting a monastery
  31. I have buried my father
  32. I have learned to speak more than one language fluently
  33. I have climbed a mountain to stay in a monastery
  34. I have learned that my great grandfather was both postmaster general and president of Mexico
  35. I have learned the difference between the greek words for coffee and shit in Athens the hard way
  36. I have broken my leg, dislocated my arm, snapped my sternum and broken several ribs
  37. I have been the last living face seen by another human being
  38. I have topped out my speedometer at 145
  39. I have fired a rifle, shotgun, and pistol
  40: I have been arrested
  41. I have been alive before the invention of nintendo, computers or the internet
  42. I have been cheated on
  43.I have prepared a 5 course meal entirely from scratch including bread and desert
  44. I have had a hollywood director cook dinner for me (mmm oxtail soup)
  45. I have dressed up as dr octopus and run across a medical lecture hall stage with spiderman as an april fools prank
  46. I have lived in 3 major cities...new york, los angeles and chicago
  47. I have lost control of my car on an icy road and used video game driving skills to avoid getting into an accident
  48. I have won and lost almost 2000 dollars playing cards in vegas
  49. I have visited hells pass and ridden the death railroad, two historical world war 2 sights and POW camps
  50. I have seen the painting of the last supper in Milan Italy, and totally missed out on all the stuff the da vinci code talked about
  51. I have visited the windmills attacked by don quixote in spain...bet you didnt know they were real
  52. I have been a vegetarian (it didnt take)
  53. I have learned how to breakdance, salsa, merengue, bhangra and gurba...not bad for a white boy
  54. I have been in a boy band which I wrote the lyrics for and another friend choreographed...its on you tube
  55. I can name all the countries in the world and all the U.S. states and capitols thanks to cartoons
  56. I have successfully diagnosed a patient, altering their course of treatment
  57. I have been exposed to tuberculosis, dengue fever, HIV, and the common cold, sometimes all in the same day
  58. I have sewed closed the arm of a burglar before he went to jail
  59. I have been to rave parties
  60. I have raised and trained two siberian huskies
  61.I have performed original stand up comedy at well know los angeles comedy clubs, and gotten paid for it
  62. I have been an extra on a movie set
  63. I have grown plants hydroponically
  64. I have built a fully functioning bar from scratch with friends
  65. I have been pooped on, vomited on, bled on, screamed at, demeaned, spit on and cried to on multiple occasions
  66. I have seen a broadway show
  67. I have performed LASIK eye surgery and had in performed on me in turn
  68. I used to sling when I was younger
  69. I have completed a new york times sunday crossword
  70. I have taken ski lessons, gone down a black diamond run, and crashed into the lodge all in the same day
  71. I have been hit in a head on collision by a drunk driver
  72. I have cross dressed (for theater purposes, I swear)
  73. I have ridden in a tuk-tuk
  74. I have dissected a human cadaver
  75. I have toured the forbidden city and the underground city in beijing
  76. I have given a small child a colonoscopy
  77. I have been somebodys job reference
  78. I have sung a cappella in front of fairly large audiences (I am a baritone, if you were wondering)
  79. I have won money betting on a fight
  80. I have walked through an actual ninja house
  81. I have studied acupuncture in beijing
  82. I have built a treehouse
  83. I have had several meaninful long term relationships
  84. I have spent the night in a haunted church
  85. I have learned to pick several standard locks
  86. I have helped to elect americas first african american president
  87. I have watched the mars rover touch down from the jet propulsion laboratory headquarters with buzz alldrin
  88. I have finished an entire roll of cookie dough all by myself without getting sick
  89. I have read the classics of philosophy-kant, goethe, etc
  90. I have produced a three hour variety show as a fundraiser
  91. I have vaccinated a small child
  92. I have worked with viral shells to help create a new method of inoculation
  93. I have been stopped by airport security in spain for trying to bring a weapon (toledo sword) on board an aircraft
  94. I have been to ground zero in New York
  95. I have seen carhenge in Nebraska (its exactly what you think)
  96. I have eaten at Casa Bonita, the disneyland of Mexican Restaurants
  97. I have climbed the pyramids of the sun and the moon in mexico
  98. I have bench pressed my own body weight
  99. I have changed my religious beliefs from what I was born with and raised
  100. I have made a list of 100 things I have accomplished thus far in my life

  Now I challenge you to do the same

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