Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part). "
Disclaimer to myself: Although this mission is supposed to be completed within 1001 days, mine will not be possible. If I did manage it all, I would be in serious debt and would probably have failed my degree, lost a job and spent too much time away from Yuriy. My aim is to complete as much as I can in the 1001 days. Things such as watching films and reading books should definitely be completed as there isn't really a price to doing these other than time. At the end of the 1001 days, I'll write another list, keeping all of the unacheived items on the new list. God speed. Whatever that means.
From date: Saturday, January 10, 2009
Added 1001 days
Resulting date: Saturday, October 8, 2011
KEY: £=only do when bank balance is positive
1.Watch 25 documentaries (25/25) Panorama on swearing on TV, Panorama 'Tax me if you can', Terry Pratchett - Living with Alzheimer's, Panorama on Gaza, Snog, Marry or Avoid? (what?! that's a documentary isn't it?), Panorama on small business, Panorama on illegal immigrants, 18 Pregnant Schoolgirls, Who Do You Want Your Child To Be, Yellowstone, Darwin's Dangerous Ideas: Body and Soul, Darwin's Dangerous Ideas: Born Equal?, Nature's Great Events: The Great Feast, Building the Olympics: Laying the Foundations, Orangutan Diary, Hottest Place on Earth, Natalie Cassidy's Real Britain, Freaky Eaters: Addicted To Diet Cola, Horizon: Why Can't We Predict Earthquakes?, Fish! A Japanese Obsession, Gary: Young Psychic and Posessed, Panorama on private pensions, Question Time, Panorama on Ireland, Snog Marry Avoid?, Great British Menu
2.Have no letters to reply to, just for one day i.e be up to date with penpalling
3.Watch 250 films I have never seen before (63/250) Role Models, Fando y Lis, La Cravate, Slumdog Millionaire, 3:10 to Yuma, The Atomic Cafe, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Watchmen, American Gangster, El Topo, Knowing, Monsters Vs Aliens 3D, The Boat That Rocked, Chica de Rio, Hell in the Pacific, I Love You Man, Crank 2, The Fast and The Furious, In The Loop, Nanny McPhee, Coraline, Star Trek 2009, State of Play, Terminator: Salvation, Drag Me To Hell, The Hangover, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Ice Age 3, Madame Butterfly, Public Enemies, Bruno, Religulous, The Proposal, My Sister's Keeper, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, The Bank Job, Moon, Everything is Illuminated, Inglourious Basterds, The Time Traveller's Wife, The Hurt Locker, funny people, district 9, 500 days of summer, adventureland, surrogates, the invention of lying, micro men, zombieland, up, the imaginarium of doctor parnassus, what women want, men who stare at goats, 2012, a serious man, the big kahuna, law abiding citizen, when harry met sally, avatar, sherlock holmes, daybreakers, the book of eli
4.Get a million neopoints in the neopian bank (929,638/1,000,000)
6.Obtain 10 new albums for my iTunes 10/10) Stereophonics - Word Gets Around, Stereophonics - Decade in the Sun, Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack, Hot Hot Heat - Elevator, Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood, The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die, Hot Chip - Made in the Dark, MGMT - Oracular Spectacular, The Boat That Rocked Soundtrack, Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
7.Read 'Genesis', the first book of the bible (0/1)
8.Visit anywhere in Asia
9.Watch all the films made by Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds, Death Proof, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs) (3/7) Death Proof, Kill Bill 1, Inglourious Basterds
10.Watch 10 films made before I was born (5/10) Fando y Lis (1968), La Cravate (1957), The Atomic Cafe (1982), El Topo, Hell in the Paific
11.Watch 10 great films I've seen before (10/10) Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Sex and The City, Kung Fu Panda, Death Proof, Kill Bill 1, Hairspray, Love Actually, Snatch, Madagascar, Labyrinth
12.Rate every film I watch as part of this challenge on IMDB (68/?) Role Models (7), Fando Y Lis (8), La Cravate (6), Slumdog Millionaire (10), 3:10 To Yuma (8), The Atomic Cafe (7), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (5), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (8), Watchmen (8), American Gangster (9), El Topo (7), Knowing (6), Monsters Vs Aliens (7), The Boat That Rocked (7), Chica De Rio (9), Hell in the Pacific (7), Death Proof (8), Sex and the City (7), Kung Fu Panda (7), i love you man (7), crank 2 (1), fast and furious (4), in the loop (10), nanny mcphee (6), coraline (9), star trek (6), state of play (8), terminator salvation (9), drag me to hell (1), the hangover (4), x-men origins: wolverine (5), transformers: revenge of the fallen (7), ice age: dawn of the dinosaurs (7), madame butterfly (8), public enemies (10), bruno (7), religulous (8), the proposal (8), my sister's keeper (7), the taking of pelham 1 2 3 (7), the bank job (7), moon (10), everything is illuminated (6), inglourious basterds (10), the time traveler's wife (4), hairspray (8), madagascar (7), labyrinth (7), the hurt locker (10), funny people (6), district 9 (9), 500 days of summer (8), adventureland (7), surrogates (6), the invention of lying (7), micro men (6), zombieland (8), up (9), the imaginarium of doctor parnassus (7), what women want (6), men who stare at goats (7), 2012 (6), a serious man (8), the big kahuna (6), law abiding citizen (8), when harry met sally (8), avatar (9), sherlock holmes (7)
13.Read 'A Clockwork Orange' (0/1)
14.Get and read a film magazine
15.Find 10 chick flicks on IMDB that have a rating over 7 and watch them (Gone With The Wind, The Notebook, The English Patient, Memoirs of a Geisha, Chocolat, Titanic, Jerry Maguire, The Last of the Mohicans, Love Actually and Casablanca) (7/10) Love Actually, The Proposal, My Sister's Keeper, The Time Traveler's Wife, 500 days of summer, adventureland, when harry met sally
16.Read 'Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'
17.Watch 10 films that are not American (10/10) Fando y Lis(Mexico), La Cravate(Mexico), Slumdog Millionaire(British), El Topo(Mexican), The Boat That Rocked(British), Chica de Rio(British), In the Loop, Love Actually, Nanny McPhee, Snatch
18.Watch 10 British films I have not seen before (Withnail and I, The Commitments, Secrets and Lies...) (10/10) Slumdog Millionaire, The Boat That Rocked, Chica de Rio, In the Loop, Nanny McPhee, The Bank Job, Moon, micro men, the imaginarium of doctor parnassus, sherlock holmes
19.Watch the Godfather trilogy (0/3)
20.Watch 4 films that have a rating less than 6.5 on IMDB but look good (Swing Vote, Mirrors) (4/4) La Cravate(6.4), Sex and The City, Chica de Rio, what women want
21.Drink 1001 glasses of water (247/1001)
22.Eat 1001 pieces of fruit (84/1001) banana x19, tangerine x16, apple x15, plum x8, pear x1, portion grapes x5, sharon fruit x1, portion strawberries x5, portion cherries x5, nectarine x2, blueberries x3, raisins x2, mango, lychee
23.£Buy a custom-made fitted jacket/coat (0/1)
24.Go to 5 music gigs (1/5) prodigy
25.Learn how to make friendship bracelets, then make 15 of them and give them to people (2/15) made 2, gave to shen tao and iris
26.Send 1001 photographs to my Flickr from the start of my challenge (407/1001)
27.Draw 2 self portraits (0/2)
28.Donate a million grains on freerice.com (13,600/1,000,000)
29.Watch 300 TED lectures (31/300) James Burchfield plays (invisible) turntables, Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on apes that write, Joseph Pine: What do consumers really want?, Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce, Understanding comics, The art of baking bread, Inventing the next big thing, Running on high-tech legs, Nick Sears: Presenting the Orb, How i'm trying to change the world now, tools for building a better world, Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice, cool new things you could do with a mobile phone, inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-altitude wind, how to grow your own fresh air, american trailer, designing newspapers, push for electric cars, Singularity University, supercharged motorcycle design, michael pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable, jim fallon: exploring the mind of a killer, dan pink on the surprising science of motivation, steve truglia: a leap from the edge of space, matthew white gives the euphonium a new voice, dan buettner: how to live to be 100+, nick veasy: exposing the invisible, vs ramachandran: the neurons that shaped civilisation, bertrand piccard's solar powered adventure, kartick satyanarayan: how we rescued the dancing bears, lalitesh katragadda: making maps to fight disaster, build economies, asher hasan's message of peace from pakistan
30.Post 100 videos to youtube (5/100)
31.£See an Anthony Gormley sculpture (0/1)
32.Take photos in 5 different counties (5/5) west sussex, isle of wight, suffolk, norfolk, bedfordshire
33.£Try 10 different red wines (10/10)
34.Read 100 books that I haven't read before (15/100) Dark Alchemy by Various Authors, The Eye of Love, Pehgpohg and 3 Transformations by Mike Russell, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick, The Last Empress by Anchee Min, The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Tiger by Kwok Man-Ho, Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett, Sorcery by Terry Pratchett, The Exploding Book by Mike Russell, Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett, Eat Your Own Brain by Mike Russell, baluthahatchie and other stories by andy duncan
35.Watch all existing series of '24' (1/6) watched season one
36.Organise my iTunes to just 5 playlists (1/1)
37.Watch the sun set
38.Watch the sun rise (0/1)
39.Scuba-dive
40.Grow 2 different plants (0/2)
41.£Ride a roller coaster I've not ridden before
42.Visit Paris
43.Take a photo of at least 10 friends and family members and put them in a proper photo
album, with dates (0/1)
44.£Learn to drive
45.Read a classic novel (0/1)
46.Meet up with an old school friend
47.£Go to the theatre three times (0/3)
48.Learn to swim (0/1)
49.Go outside and lie on the grass on four separate occasions (0/4)
50.Take a last minute city break
51.£Go to a health spa on two occasions (0/2)
52.Take 2 hot air balloon rides (0/2)
53.£Climb a mountain
54.£Go horse riding
55.Go for a walk in the rain on purpose (0/1)
56.£Surprise someone with flowers (1/1)
57.Do a parachute jump
58.See a proper pyramid (0/1)
59.Have a cup of tea with a neighbour
60.Learn Russian - completed a beginners course and lower intermediate course
61.Make a bet on 2 different football matches (2/2) Bet on Chelsea scoring a goal before Southend, £4.92, 14th Jan '09, Bet on no more goals in Grasshoppers Zurich vs Mgladbach game, £4.92, 15th Jan '09
62.£Go to 5 different Indian restaurants (2/5)
63.See a whale in the wild (0/1)
64.Cook a proper meal
65.Go to a pub - went to the Boar's Head in Horsham
66.£Visit Machu Picchu (0/1)
67.£Join some kind of local hobby club, such as reading, chess, food etc
68.See the Northern lights
69.£Visit a museum (0/1)
70.Play a board game (1/1) junior monopoly
71.Read a book to someone
72.£Teach Mum to text (0/1)
73.Live in a house we both love
74.Go to a party (1/1)
75.£Learn some basic sign language (0/1)
76.Get off the bus one stop early
77.£Play Bingo (1/1)
78.£Learn first aid
79.Lend/give a book to someone Gave 'The Immaculate Conception' to Mike
80.Get my printer working or get a new one
81.Make 3 radio requests (3/3) suggested that geoff plays the prodigy on absolute extreme (absolute radio), requested 'you can't always get what you want' by the stones on nick's show, requested bob marley
82.Reply to someone's email by phoning them - Phoned Dad
83.£Buy a book for a friend - bought Ashley two Purple Ronnie books (guides to life and friends)
84.Get new glasses (1/1)
85.Write to someone who has inspired me
86.Give away all the books I own, unless I haven't read them yet or they were a present - sorted through - in boxes, ready to go to charity shop
87.Bake something for 2 different friends on separate occasions (0/2)
88.Buy 2 things at a charity shop for double the asking price (0/2)
89.Give blood (0/1)
90.£Have a meal out with Yuriy
91.£Invest some money in 3 different places (0/3)
92.£Get a new mobile and recycle the old one (1/1)
93.£Go to a gym/fitness center twice (0/2)
94.Have 3 baths with Yuriy (0/3)
95.£Plant a tree (0/1)
96.£Go to Argentina (0/1)
97.Go to Australia (0/1)
98.Go to Brazil (0/1)
99.£Go to Cambodia (0/1)
100.£Go to Canada (0/1)
101.£Go to Chile (0/1)
