Bucket list 🪣

I wish to do these things from my bucket list in the coming months! The list is dynamic, unsorted, partial, and personal; The complete list is of a 10-year horizon, but the goal is to finish 24 in 24 months. [P] is a priority. This page is updated monthly. More regular updates at diary

Current Dec 2023 update: Some progress on items 9, 10, 32, 34, 42, 47, 50, 67, and 73

  1. Dance with a girl – ballet, or waltz, or salsa, or tango

    (I tried bounden with a friend and sibling, but not a proper one 🩰)

  2. Play the harmonica in front of a crowd (I only tried during school time 🎵)

  3. Make a crying kid smile by performing cat's cradle [P] (I used to do rubber band ones 😊)

  4. Gift a random kid an amigurumi toy I crochet (I love mini toys, but I need to learn crochet 🧸)

  5. Swim with dolphins (need to learn swimming first🩱)

  6. Learn tennis (I started in uni; reminded being fit is different from being athletic 🎾)

  7. Cook meals from 30 countries for 30 days (can cook well and have a list; need to start after graduation and personal kitchen 🍳)

  8. Travel to three special places in [hidden] list (Where the hell is Matt? video inspiration 🧳)

    • Backpack 42 countries before 42yo (Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Netherlands, Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Nigeria, South Africa, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Russia, Canada, US, UK, Australia, Brazil, Finland, Liechtenstein, Turkey, Ireland, Poland, UAE, China, Ethiopia, Antarctica, Tanzania, Argentina, Cambodia, Egypt, Israel, Nepal, and Peru)

  9. Publish my research as the first author in any A* AI conferences (P) (most immediate one on the list to me 🧠)

  10. Finish 1000 books before 30yo (Crossed halfway mark 📈. Want Kobo libra 2 soon 📚)

  11. Gift each uni friend a personalised hand-drawn art [P] (I gifted two; I need to speed up production for a dozen 🖼)

  12. Write the first draft of a mixture of hard science fiction and epic fantasy book with zero AI help. (I love them and feel there is something to be created in mix 📕)

  13. Do the skydiving (I am terrified of looking down from heights, so why not 😂 )

  14. Scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef [P] (Before coral gets damaged more in my lifetime 🐠)

  15. Watch live Broadway or opera (Disney Hamilton musical made me want to go live theatre 🎶 loved watching one week of live theatre as a kid)

  16. Become a competitions expert on Kaggle (I need to go overdrive for this 💻)

  17. Paintball (I Love Holi. I used to play paintball on Minecraft servers as a teen, but I want to hit more irl 🔫)

  18. Start a podcast (Broad generalist topics or special personalised ones? 🎙)

  19. Create a personal, signature, creative and complex dish (Finish reading Bilet and Myhrvold 🤲)

  20. Make soap and candle (Ethereal to bath with own soap 🧼 in own candle's light🕯)

  21. Sleep on the beach's sand shore on the full moon (The real list is to be on special beach, but still a prude for now 🤫)

  22. Real hot waxing (I would go on to say anyone calling others pussy is the actual coward until they try waxing. By the way, pussy is not weak. Tried wax strips 🦵 )

  23. Get Lasik if low personal risk (not sure about my eye dryness; is on the list to overcome the final destination 5 fear 👁️, but also betting on CRISPR potential on rejuvenation )

  24. Acupuncture (petrifying to me. I don't care about benefits, though 🪡)

  25. Ice skating (Risky given my fractures profile, but I so want to ⛸)

  26. Left-hand writing (I tried before, given my fracture history since school, but I have to get good ✍)

  27. Complex origami (I always loved folding magic, but I want to go big now 🐉)

  28. Flash mob (none of my current friends are daring it 😥
    so need to do more random conversations )

  29. Train Boson's real handwriting, vocal speech, text pattern, and video scaffolding imitation AI models (It is not so hard for me technically, just economically for now 🤑)

  30. Open source large-scale AI project with tangible impact (Need to think more about real ideas 🤔)

  31. Visit any of the seven wonders of world on the full moon night (Thought tajmahal is easy, but the experience of visibility is a pain according to friends)

  32. Half Marathon in 100 minutes. (13kmph. long on mind, healing knee injury, so soon 👨‍⚕️)

  33. Be a chef in a fast-food chain and 5-star restaurant for the day (I always want to see that juxtaposition personally ⚖; I tried asking fast food chains before, but they wanted a driver's license 😔 )

  34. Speaking levels of de, es, fr (currently Basic reading levels 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇫🇷)

  35. Reading levels of ko, ja, el (currently Alphabet levels 🇰🇷🇯🇵🇬🇷)

  36. Random yes day. To everything family and friends ask, Yes. (You have to pick carefully and not get caught early on during that day, causing advantage asymmetry 🤫)

  37. Blindfold 3x3 Rubik's cube (Learnt to solve the cube in under a minute a decade back but stopped midway in blindfolding; mom forced to stop, so again 🧑‍🦯)

  38. Drop a grand flower bouquet at a stranger's door for no reason (remember this from a book I read almost a decade back: write proper greetings, though, so as not to let them lose their mind 💐)

  39. Design personally and order an exquisite necklace for Mom[P] (she won't like it, but we know who sold gold for education since birth 💖)

  40. Do proper horseriding (feels regal in books and Olympics equestrian sports 🏇)

  41. Touch a real tiger (I am terrified of even touching dogs, so here I am to compensate for that 🐯)

  42. Write a long handwritten letter to Boson's future 42yo persona (Need to be very personal and thoughtful 💝)

  43. Harmless hack/prank in future office (Did Towel day in uni 😁)

  44. Firewalking for 2 metres (Need that unstoppable confidence. For science 🔥)

  45. Live inside the airport for consecutive 24 hours (Love The Terminal and living multiple days inside the lab prepared me, I hope 🛏)

  46. Ask a stranger I like for a blind date (Dare to ask. still an open bet of 2k ₹ from uni friends 😬)

  47. Prank the hell out of ten irl friends (I did three properly so that they went full-on screaming. Love Ellen's scares 🤣 )

  48. Be a vegetarian for six months consecutively (I currently would call myself a flexitarian; I tried veg for two months before out of personal choice, but my knee got fractured, and mom stopped it 🥗)

  49. Be offline consecutively for a week [P] (I used to keep internet detox days during my bachelor's university with only books, but I never tried a week 🌌)

  50. Get 2016 ELO rating (1 kyu) in the Go game (Chess was never practised by me, and Go is more complex than chess. Also, AlphaGo inspired me for a long time. Probably 100 ELO now ▦)

  51. Drink alcohol first time directly in a real vineyard (Never peer pressured into drinking, and I know more about science of cocktails and now on wine 🍷)

  52. Meet one favourite author for dinner (current fav. alive one's list – Jenny Lawson, Cixin Liu, Lisa Genova, Erin Morgenstern, Laini Taylor, N. K. Jemisin, Ted Chiang, and Abby Jimenez 🍽)

  53. Whole genome sequencing and self analysis of my data (Ultima genomics, when is that 100$ test for me? 🧬)

  54. Give a real TED talk (Tech or Design. not TedX 🎤)

  55. Roller coaster ride at Cedar Point (I have always been scared even to try the giant wheel in carnivals since I was a kid 🎢)

  56. Fine dining at Fat Duck restaurant (What can I say except Heston Blumenthal fan 🧑‍🍳)

  57. La Tomatina (It is not just about tomatoes; it is the crowd with tomatoes and fans of ZNMD 🍅)

  58. Do a cameo in sci-fi movie (Not in an average film 🎬)

  59. Surprise tip 2x to 5x the bill amount (One day, make another one's day 🥲)

  60. Get a patent (Owning one is always fun, even if you may not earn from it 🧑‍🔬)

  61. Garden size 2x to 4x the home (Always a nature lover from mom, need a big garden and kitchen 💯 )

  62. Camp in the desert solo (One cannot be Bear Grylls but can try surviving 🏜)

  63. Help a stranger's bucket list item (Go above and beyond in being human and, if possible, do anonymous help 🫂)

  64. Find my Doppelganger (Want to be surprised 😯)

  65. Leave a review note in the book (To make a friend via the library/bookstore/drop book 🖊️)

  66. Volunteer in the temple's free food kitchen (Had enough free meals in temples, but was always shy to ask for volunteering; volunteered for Akshaya Patra before but not in their kitchen 🧑‍🍳)

  67. Learn complete music theory (Instrumental and classical music fan, want to read too now 🎼 , Started)

  68. Crashing uninvited random party of stranger (To do that 3 idiots movie thing 🏃)

  69. Ride like a rodeo (The mechanical bull; what were you thinking, huh? 🤨)

  70. Dye the hair red [P] (I did an open dare with my university friends. Go ginger! Temp ofc 🦰)

  71. Touchtype with Colemak (Reached 20WPM, need to get to 70WPM avg. to ditch 90WPM Qwerty ⌨)

  72. Finish memory plan (Remember birthdays and phone numbers of 150 friends; Morse code; nato alphabet; 100 digits of pi; capitals, flags and currencies; 206 bones; full periodic table ... 🧠)

  73. Send handwritten letters to strangers from 42 countries (Used to use Dialup and Slowly during COVID, but now postcrossing sounds cooler 📮)

50 year bucket list

Contact: opens telegram once a month, the five letter @ID is hidden in this clue

Dot met the Matrix protagonist for 69;
Euler became modern for Epsilon


Yes, it's not boson; verify the answer with the ID's digital root – 8


Too impatient? Here is the answer then