Comicon 2009

So I was at Comicon last weekend, it was ok. Not as fun as last year I believe.

The one thing that I did have fun was being with my cousins. It was like a mini reunion for me and the rest of my cousins.

Highlights of my Comicon weekend
- I saw Leonard Nemoy
-I saw John Cho
-I saw Damian something--- he played Jethro on Beverly Hills Hillbillies the 90's movie
-We went to Coronado. Awesome beach
-Met with the cousins.

It was a good weekend. But kinda blah.

My Bucket List

Since my bestest friend said I keep adding things to my Bucket list... I decided to write it down. And yes, I will add more things to this if I find more interesting things to do. Oh and don't ask me for the places I listed down, google it. I read the article and they look so pretty and I decided I want to see those places.

If anyone's willing to join, let me know.

• finish my MA
• try to get a PhD (hoping! after getting married and having kids)
• Set up a private practice
• sky diving (check)
• bungee jumping
• white water rafting (check)
• cliff diving
• learn to do the trapeze
• hang gliding
• Buy my own house
  
• shark watching (in a cage submerged in shark infested waters)
• back pack through out Europe. No tour guides (with friends)
• back pack through out Europe. Alone
• Living in my own apartment
• Learn to surf
• Surf in Hawaii
• Learn to speak another language- other than the Filipino Languages and English (ASL- in progress; will learn Spanish after my MA)
• Be in 3 countries in one day
• Volunteer with Operation Smile (preferably in a different country after I get my MA in Speech Pathology)
• Write a children's book
• Learn to dance the salsa
• Learn to pole dance
• Ride a cruise
• Shave my head.
• Watch a concert in the US. Up close and not in the nose bleed area
• Volunteer for Special Olympics
• Go skiing
• Go water skiing
• Go snowboarding (check)
  
• Pay for my own car (check)
• Pay for my own education (in progress)
• Ride a ferrari
• Learn to play the guitar really well
• Step foot in every continent
• Visit all the European countries (i guess this goes with backpacking).
• Try the beer and liquor of choice of each country
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• Eat as much unique and most delicious food from everywhere!!!

• See at least 3 from each category
• 7 Ancient wonders of the world:

1. Great Pyramid of Giza
2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
3. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
4. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
5. Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
6. Colossus of Rhodes
7. Lighthouse of Alexandria

• the wonders of the medieval world

1. Stonehenge
2. Colosseum
3. Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
4. Great Wall of China
5. Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
6. Hagia Sophia
7. Leaning Tower of Pisa
8. Taj Mahal
9. Cairo Citadel
10. Ely Cathedral
11. Cluny Abbey

• See the Natural wonders

1. Palau
2. Pelize Barrier Reef
3. Great Barrier Reef
4. Deep-Sea Vents
5. Galápagos Islands
6. Lake Baikal
7. Northern Red Sea

Sky diving

Last July 11, 2009 I went sky diving with a friend.

It was the best experience ever and I would not mind doing it again! I love the feeling. I love feeling free and floating in the air.

So the whole thing was a good experience. We arrived at Perris Skydiving school at around 2:00pm and checked in. The staff were awesome and very friendly. The facility was really good. You get to swim in their pool while waiting for your turn to dive. Everything was very clean. They have a bar/restaurant that was also very clean and the staff was friendly as well. I loved that they had various memorabilia for skydiving posted on their walls.

When our names were called, we suited up and our instructors were also very friendly. Mine was very fatherly, since he was one of the older members. They instructed us with different steps on jumping out of the plane. My instructor Jim was very patient and my camera woman Lindsay was so awesome. She helped pumped me up. I liked her energy as well as she liked mine

So as we boarded our shark plane. I felt so giddy and excited. Our plane was like a little school bus in the sky. A cramped school bus. It was nice because all our instructors cracked jokes while we were inside and it relieved the tension of other first time jumpers.

When we jumped off the plane, it was such a rush. I kept telling myself, "Don't you dare close your eyes!" The 120 mph wind blasting from underneath us was so thrilling. Then the parachute opening and you float down like little daffodil wisps. So awesome. Then we had a perfect soft landing, 5/5 stars.

I'd recommend it to anyone.