I have a lot of needs, wants and dreams. Hey, I’m human. I remember writing this list (or something similar) after watching the Morgan Freeman/Jack Nicholson movie but blogs weren’t the thing back then.

• Write a novel
• Win the Palanca
• Have my own car before the age of thirty
• Have my own house before the age of thirty
• Have my own vacation house (by the beach or in Tagaytay) – partially crossed off: bought a beach lot last 2017. Hope I raise enough to have the cottage built before I retire, though. 😂
• Go on a European tour (UK, France, Greece, Spain, Luxembourg, Russia, Austria, Italy). Yep, been there done that, twice in two years!
• Watch a play on Broadway
• Ride a horse
• Ride a hot-air balloon – well, does riding a private plane with only the pilot and me count? Guess not, but I will make this happen soon. 😀
• Get a driver’s license
• Be a millionaire
• Climb a mountain – I hiked not one but three rice terraces in Banaue last December 2017. Bone tired but oh so worth it. Will blog about it soon!
• Go camping overnight with no electricity
• Learn to bake
• Paint
• Visit 20 countries (finished this 2019 only 9 12 16 19 including PH: Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Macau, Hongkong, US, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Taiwan, Germany and Poland, Cambodia). Four more to go!
• Visit 100 islands in the Philippines: so far, only 18: Isla de Balut, Luzon, Palawan, Coron, Dimakya, Cebu, Boracay, Kalibo, Panglao, Bohol, Virgin Island, Balicasag Island, Potipot, Grande Island, Panay, Cagraray, Batan, Sabtang
• Have two kids – second baby born last November 2013!
• Go to the Vatican City and Versailles with the hubby – went to Versailles a few days before my 32nd birthday.
• Go on a cruise – does the Seine river cruise count? 😀
• See the snow
• Attend a red carpet event in an evening gown – attended several reunions for my college paper in evening gowns. I suppose that counts? 😁
• Renew our wedding vows at the Vatican City
• Go scuba diving
• Go to Batanes and have my picture taken on top of the cliff which was used as the setting for the movie Hihintayin Kita sa Langit – I can finally cross this off my list (2018)!!! 
• Go to Disney World and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter – yey! Did this last October 2012! 🙂
• Cut my hair and get blunt bangs
• Get my waist line back to 24 inches and my weight back to 108 lbs.
• Start my own business before I’m thirty-five – okay, this is seriously off-track
• Retire by the age of 45 (about the time Joey graduates from college)
• Work as a volunteer for an orphanage or home for the aged
• Learn to speak and write Spanish fluently
• Have a Spanish-colonial style house with a big garden and fountain at the bag (think of the old wooden houses in Vigan with capiz windows and terraces with carved balustrade and railings and a big reception area/parlor)
• Have a star named after me
• Watch Christina Aguilera in concert – VIP seats!
• See the Pope
• Go on a safari
• Swim with dolphins
• Get a fish massage
• Read all the novels of the ff: Jane Austen/Arthur Conan Doyle/Bram Stoker/Anne Rice