The List, Redux

I, khaylis, of sound mind and body, will attempt to fulfill the following 30 challenges before the eve of my 30th birthday, falling on the 10th of December in the year 2011:

1. Bake an edible cake (hey, I didn’t say they were all going to be earth-shattering ambitions, ok).

2. Perform a stand-up comedy routine at Time Out’s comedy night at Zouk (still in the drafting stage).

3. After years of promising to visit, finally go and see my high school buddies Bhags, Fish and Jols in Oz.

4. Run a 10km race AND/OR climb Mt. Kinabalu

5. Find my platonic ideal of a hairstyle (and hopefully my platonic ideal of a hairdresser, I know he/she is somewhere out there, waiting for me to walk into his/her salon. Sigh).I think I already had my platonic ideal of a hairstyle the whole time: long and messy. If it ain't broke, why fix it?

6. Write a short story or at least get a draft of a novel going (keeping the Bohemian Dream alive). Okay, at minimum, a really interesting haiku.

7. Compile all of my mom’s favorite recipes for posterity.

8. Get a promotion at work or alternatively, find a better job.

9. Go bungee jumping

10. Go to a nice restaurant and have fancy dinner by myself, and later, take myself out to the movies. (I might go do that this weekend; dinner for 1 ate Sage, followed by Alice in Wonderland at GSC Signatures?)

11. Master mimicking at least 1 foreign accent (not necessarily sober).

12. Organize my entire iPod library so all songs are accurately named by album with album art (I feel this may be the most impossible feat by far).

13. Do a full body detox flush for at least 2 weeks (with no cheating!!!).

14. Take up yoga.

15. Visit Russia in the summertime, and finally make it to St. Petersberg.

16. Fully pay off my credit card.

17. Write a hand written letter to a friend and mail it.

18. Learn to play 1 song on the guitar.

19. Make a new good friend (much harder than you might think).

20. Watch all the James Bond films again.

21. Pick a stock, study and track it, and make a small but significant long term investment (despite being in a line of work that involves making large institutional investments for large sums of money, little old me is still risk averse when it comes to making any personal investments in equities).

22. Read an English translation of the Qur'an.

23. Buy a green Le Creuset pot (and not just admire how pretty it is, but actually use it to cook).

24. Find a worthwhile cause or charity and genuinely contribute towards it, if not money, at least my time.

25. Quit that filthy habit.

26. Master the art of the perfect French braid, a’la Lauren Conrad.

27. Visit a Zoo.

28. Learn how to make Laksa (Lemak, Assam or Sarawak).

29. Watch Coldplay in concert again (god, I hope they’re still touring in the next two years).

30. Celebrate my 30th Birthday in style (style being v. subjective).