The 101 Tasks by Category

It's been six days since I started working on this project. While I haven't made much progress as far as those tasks are concerned, I thought it would be handy to compile a categorised list of the 101 tasks I hope to complete within the next 996 days.

Here is that list :

Travel & Sightseeing :

• Visit Japan
• Visit at least one other country in Asia
• Go on a road trip around Europe
• Visit Ireland  
• See the Northern Lights
• Go up the Tokyo Tower
• Visit at least 5 different museums
• Travel to another country by train
• Go on the London Eye
• Visit Maastricht
• Visit the Atomium in Brussels
• Visit Scotland
• Visit the Keukenhof gardens
• Visit the windmills at Kinderdjik
• Visit a waterfall

Food & Drink :

• Learn to make sushi at home
• Bake a cake or pie
• Grow 3 different types of vegetables in my garden or home
• Make my own pasta and/or noodles
• Cook a roast dinner
• Make pad thai at home
• Make a dish from 26 different countries or regions (A to Z) 
• Make 5 classic Dutch dishes and/or snacks
• Take family/friends out for a "rijsttafel" meal in Amsterdam
• Make pancakes on Shrove Tuesday
• Enrol in a cooking class/workshop
• Make a meal using only home-grown or homemade ingredients
• Eat out at a Korean restaurant in the Netherlands
• Collect recipes and create my own cookbook
  
  

Books :

• Read Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace"
• Read at least 3 books by Charles Dickens
• Re-read Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables"
• Read Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment"
• Read at least 5 books in Chinese 
• Read 5 books in Dutch
• Ask 10 friends to recommend a book and read each one
• Visit the Selexyz Dominicanen bookshop in Maastricht
• Read some Tang and Song poetry (English and/or Classical Chinese)

Films & TV :

• Watch at least one foreign film a month for 12 consecutive months 
• Watch series 1 of Downton Abbey
• Watch 5 films by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
• Watch 5 films by Chinese director Zhang Yimou

Hobbies & Interests :

• Learn to play the taiko drums
• Learn to identify 20 constellations
• Finish Tomb Raider Underworld on the Xbox
• Buy a telescope
• Watch a meteor shower

Arts & Crafts :

• Take up Chinese calligraphy
• Learn to knit a scarf
• Teach myself origami
• Learn to take better photos with my digital camera
• Make cross-stitch cards for 3 different people
• Make a scrapbook (digital or traditional) of my visit to China in September 2010
• Complete a colouring book
• Take a nice photo of my cats and have it printed out on canvas
• Try my hand at decorating Easter eggs
• Make a necklace for a friend
  
  

Home Improvements :

• Make 5 decorative items for the house
• Declutter my bookshelves
• Finish decorating the back garden
• Renovate the bathroom

Sports & Outdoor Activities :

• Go sailing 
• Take up a new sport 
• Watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day 
• Take a long walk through the Hoge Veluwe 
• Go kayaking  

Education & Training :

• Work towards another degree/certificate/diploma
• Learn basic Turkish
• Learn basic Romanian
• Learn basic Persian (Farsi)
• Listen to 5 podcast courses from UC Berkeley
• Work through the coursebook "How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs" by Mark Collier and Bill Manley
• Learn about 3 different library classification systems
• Take part in an archaeological dig

Career :

• Find a more satisfying job or position
• Update my CV
• Become a freelance translator (part-time or full-time)

Personal Development :

• Get my driving licence
• Keep a diary for a year
• Learn to meditate

Fun Stuff :

• Take part in a falconry workshop 
• Watch a live sumo wrestling match 
• Attend at least 10 pop or rock concerts
• Dress up as a celebrity for a fancy dress party 
• Attend a sci-fi convention 
• Find a pen pal 
• Find myself a nice little black dress for special occasions 
• Write an article for an expat magazine or website
• Swim with dolphins
• Learn how to fly a kite
• Visit the butterfly house at Emmen Zoo
• Go fruit picking
• Host a theme party

Good Causes :

• Adopt an animal via WWF
• Do some fundraising for a good cause
• Go vegetarian for a week

Other :

• Convince a friend to create his/her own list on this site
• No internet for a week
• Have at least 500 people following me on Twitter
• Post regular updates of my progress on this blog and Twitter
• Create another list before the 1,001 days are over  

As you can see, there is still much to accomplish before those days are up. I'm not sure how I will find the time (and money) to travel to all those places or hone my artistic skills but I will certainly try my best to complete as many tasks as possible before the deadline (29th August 2013). To be perfectly honest, I'd be pleased if I could complete just half of the tasks on this list.

But enough of my procrastinating. Writing about my challenge is all well and good but it's time that I start taking some action. The clock is ticking and time, as we know, waits for no man...or woman.

Tally ho!