At the very end of February 2012, after leading an extremely sedentary lifestyle, I randomly decided I wanted to take up running. So, these are my milestones, beginning with zero and with liberally estimated times.

• Standard Chartered Brunei Half-Marathon 2012
  • 8th April, 2012
  • 5.3km in 30 minutes
• Special Olympics Brunei Darussalam Fun Run 2012
  • 29th April, 2012
  • 6.3km in 45 minutes
• HSBC Walk Run Cycle 2012
  • 19th May, 2012
  • 6km in 50 minutes
  • Bonus: I was dressed as Buttercup

• Go on a hot air balloon ride
• Get published
• Bungee jump
• Skydive
• Demonstrate for something I believe in-
• Write and send a letter to Dr. Noam Chomsky
• Get my driver's licence (Once I get over my fear of driving, of course)
• Work for a really good cause-
• Run a marathon-
• Holiday in a foreign place on my own
• See the Northern Lights-
• Climb a mountain-
• Visit every single country in the fucking world
  • Africa : Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Republic Democratic of Congo, Djibo...

• The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
• American Beauty (1999)
• Oldboy (2003)
• Elephant (2003)
• The Green Mile (1999)
• Detachment (2011)
• The Pianist (2002)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• Boyhood (2014)
• Kids (1995)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Atonement (2007)
• American History X (1998)
• The Science of Sleep
• The Voices (2013)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• MirrorMask
• Room (2015)
• What We Do In The Shadows
• The Witch (2015)
• Get Out (2017)

• Keep in contact with people you care about
  • Reply your freakin' e-mails within AT MOST two weeks of receiving them
• Think positively
• Remember you're in charge of your happiness
  • Something isn't awesome? Make it!
• Talk to more strangers
  • Learn about their lives

• Buzz Aldrin
  • In 1969, he became the second man to land on the moon. Upon returning to Earth, he's never been the same. He's the man in the iconic photograph attached.
• Noam Chomsky
  • I think Dr. Chomsky is one of the most amazing media-critics alive. He has all of these ideas that I would really like to talk to him about. There's so much to learn from him, and I would be genuinely upset if I didn't get to see him speak at least once. Also, he's a UPenn graduate!
• Stephen Christian
  • The lead singer for Anberlin, I've technically already met Stephen. While his music is beautiful, he's also got some intriguing ideas about humanity and life which ...here.

• Got a Lifeguarding license on __
• Graduated with a Bilingual International Baccalaureate diploma
• Awarded a semester-long scholarship for an exchange programme at the University of Pennsylvania
• Graduated with a BA (Honours) in Journalism, Film & Media on 17 July, 2011 from Cardiff University
• Ran a half marathon on 10 March, 2013 at the CPC Loop Den Haag
• Got an Open Water Diver's license on __, 2013
• Ran a full marathon on 13 April, 2014 at the Rotterdam Marathon
• Climbed Mount Kinabalu on __, 2014
• Graduated with a MSc (Research) in Communication Science on 3 June, 2015 from the University of Amsterdam
• Started at Doctors without Borders on 17 December, 2017

In my search to slowly become more independent, this is a list of things I'd like to do on my own:

• Go to a concert
• Explore a new city
• Go on a holiday
• Watch a movie in the cinema
• Eat at a restaurant
• Walk through the park and sit in the sun
• Go for a run