2007-04-08 Eyes Only

Just as I expected: excellent food and a small family get-together. Good day (no earthquake or hurricane whatsoever). Now I'm back home and making plans again. Next week I would like to buy a shirt in the color of my eyes. The problem is, I don't know the color of my eyes. My passport says blue, but check out these two photos. Both show my right eye and were taken in the same minute. Confusing, isn't it?

Also, I'm planning on getting a tattoo. Just a little one. Here are the first drafts. I made them half an hour ago and I already don't like them anymore. There's much work to do here, considering that I'm going to have to keep it for the rest of my life.

Well, anyways, here is the rest of the 200 things you should have done in your life:

• Get a tattoo
• Find out that merely touching something gets you by
• White-water rafting
• Being interviewed in TV
• Get a bunch of flowers for no reason
• Masturbate in public
• Be so drunk that you cannot remember anything afterwards
• Learn touch-typing (ten fingers instead of two)
• Be on stage or address a large audience
• Visit Las Vegas



• Record your own music
• Search for rock crystals in the Alps
• Have a one-night stand
• Visit Thailand
• Experience how asylum seekers live
• Buy a house
• Cause a damage while parking a car
• Bury one or both of your parents
• Shave your pubic hair
• Get on a cruise



• Be fluent in more than one language
• Get beaten up while trying to defend somebody
• Spend a night in the desert
• Skate on a frozen lake or river
• Do your own taxes
• Raise children
• Buy your former favorite toy afterwards and play with it
• Go on tour with your favorite musicians
• Find your own star constellation
• Go on a bicycle tour abroad



• Find out something interesting about your ancestors
• Write a letter to your representative in the parliament (or the equivalent in your country)
• Start somewhere from scratch with your loved one
• Donate blood
• Cross the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on foot
• Sing along in your car and don't stop when someone's watching
• Experience an abortion
• Have plastic surgery
• Survive a heavy accident
• Write an article for an important newspaper



• Lose one third of your weight
• Hug somebody to be a comfort
• Fly a plane
• Pet a stingray
• Break somebody's heart
• Help an animal giving birth
• Lose your job
• Win money in a TV show
• Break a bone
• Jump from the ten-meter board



• Go on photo safari in Africa
• Ride a motorcycle
• Drive faster than 200 km/h with a land vessel
• Get a piercing somewhere below your shoulders
• Fire a gun
• Go on a mushroom foray (and eat what you found)
• Ride a horse
• Put your own homepage in the Internet
• Have sex in a driving train
• Go to a stock exchange and see what's going on



• Build an igloo and sleep in it
• Sleep for an entire flight: take-off, flight, landing
• Sleep more than 30 hours in two days
• Write a poem for your loved one
• Visit all seven continents
• Get on a canoe tour that takes longer than two days
• Make your own paper
• Experience campfire romance
• Donate sperm or egg cells
• Learn a classic dance



• Find your own photo in the newspaper
• Have at least two happy relationships in your life
• Convince somebody about something that is important to you
• Throw someone out for what he/she did
• Go back to school
• Do paragliding
• See your own body fluid in a microscope
• Pet a cockroach
• Fry and eat green tomatoes
• Read Homer's Iliad



• Read the book of a famous author that you missed in school
• Steal spoons, plates or glasses in a restaurant to use them at home
• Get the gold-fever
• Learn something artistic all by yourself
• Kill, prepare and eat an animal
• Apologize for something after many years
• Get on a long nighttime trek without a torch light
• Have sex with somebody who is half or twice your age
• Be appointed to a public office
• Develop your own programming language



• Comprehend out that you're actually living your dream
• Give someone that you love into care
• Build your own computer from pieces
• Sell a self made piece of art to a stranger
• Have your own stand on a street party
• Dye your hair
• Perform as DJ
• Find out in the Internet that your partner dumped you
• Write your own role-playing game
• Get arrested

I have a new "about me" text, by the way: Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy crap, what a ride!"
All this must sound like I'm turning towards the wild side of life. But remember, I'm still that boring computer geek that you wouldn't want to talk to at a party. I still can dream, can't I?