Here are 100 things that I would like to do before I die, which I haven’t yet done (bar number 43 now).

1. Be interviewed on T.V.
2. Be in charge of an organisation with at least 50 employees.
3. Have a go at food photography.
4. Write and publish a non-fiction book.
5. Visit at least 10 countries.
6. Get married.
7. Have a family.
8. Send a singing telegram.
9. Recieve a singing telegram.
10. Drive a car that is worthy of wearing driving gloves (and wear them doing it).
11. Write/direct a stage production or movie and see it produced.
12. Act in a stage production or movie.
13. Go to a Broadway stage show.
14. Invent something simple that meets an everyday need.
15. Cook a flaming dessert.
16. Be an expert in a field where I can help others.
17. Win a photography competition.
18. Invent a board game and see it produced.
19. Live at least until my 90th birthday.
20. Have a picnic at midnight.
21. Scuba dive at Poor Knights Islands.
22. Watch a sunrise with someone special.
23. Have a bank account in the Cayman Islands (inspired by the movies…).
24. Get a traditional barber-shop shave.
25. Ride an African Elephant.
26. Ride the Hamilton to Auckland 100km cycle race on a unicycle.
27. Fly an airplane.
28. Fill up my bookshelf with books (it measures approx 2m x 2m!)
29. Sky dive.
30. Be friends with a prime-minister/president of a country.
31. Drive a steam train.
32. Organise and run a conference.
33. Climb to the top of a (reasonably) high mountain.
34. Ride a bobsled.
35. Take a trip in a submarine.
36. See God’s creation from space.
37. Have a unique business card that makes people go “wow”.
38. Win a game of Boggle against a friend that I can never seem to beat.
39. Learn to surf.
40. Own a house.
41. See a photo of mine in a famous gallery.
42. Compete in a TV game show.
43. Complete writing this list of 100 things that I have never done and would like to do.
44. Meet the (current) Queen of England.
45. Eat deep fried grasshopper in Thailand.
46. Watch the world-wide premiere of a movie.
47. Teach in front of 1000 people.
48. Visit a camera manufacturer’s research and development centre.
49. Work for Google.
50. Go to the Olympic Games.
51. Name a street.
52. Be with friends when doing as many things as possible from this list.
53. Ride in a Japanese bullet train.
54. Help build a house for a homeless family.
55. Pay off my student loan.
56. Try every sandwich at Subway.
57. Own a fast food restaurant, that is world famous for it’s pizza and burgers.
58. Create content that would attract over 1000 unique visitors to my website in one day.
59. Build a sandcastle that is at least 10m long.
60. Take part in a multi-day kayak adventure.
61. Write and publish a recipe book.
62. Publish a book of my photos.
63. Hold a world record.
64. Own a bookshop that is also a cafe with live entertainment.
65. Write a piece of software that is used by at least 100 other people on a regular basis.
66. Air travel in first class.
67. Organise a New Zealand-wide scavenger hunt for a large group of people.
68. Ride a helicopter to an important meeting.
69. Be in charge of a computer network of at least 100 users.
70. Build a 3 meter high snow man.
71. Learn four types of dance (with an intermediate degree of skill).
72. Cook dinner for someone famous.
73. Ski overseas.
74. Learn to snowboard.
75. Cycle the length of New Zealand.
76. Learn to speak conversational Mandarin
77. Ride in a hot air balloon.
78. Climb the great pyramid of Egypt.
79. Taste caviar.
80. Build a large treehouse.
81. Learn sign language.
82. Guest star in a British Comedy TV show.
83. Shoot under par on a golf course.
84. Shave my head.
85. Pull a prank so big that becomes famous.
86. Use a foreign accent for an entire day.
87. Invest in the stock market.
88. Learn to fence.
89. Learn how to eat properly with chopsticks.
90. Visit Machu Picchu.
91. Develop a roll of film from my own photographs.
92. Float in the Dead Sea.
93. Hold a “Settlers of Catan” tournament with a large group of people.
94. Spend no money for a month.
95. Drive a Formula 1 racing car.
96. Dive with sharks.
97. Swim with giant sea turtles.
98. Ride in a Russian fighter jet.
99. Find a message in a bottle.
100. Actually complete a game of World Domination Risk with 6 players.

What things would you like to do before you die?