Hop into the Year of Endless possibilities..well Hello 2023!
Well hello 2023! Now that 2022 has left us behind with a rather spectacular eventful of serendipity and a mixed baggage of emotions, let me recap some of the finer epiphany that came knocking my medula oblongata just few months ago.
I like to call it as a pleasant delivery that arrived after I have been placing in my 'life cart' yeah if you love online shopping then you know the gist. Those items that you wanted to purchase but it has always been a 'should i' or 'should i not' purchase kinda feeling. Sometime we keep this items in the cart like forever and one fine day when your mind finally come into a realization that you need to get that stuff. Wait no more. So it was the same concept that i have couple of things I've always wanted to do but it was kept there somewhere in my memory bank while some I wrote it in my journal book that I hardly look into it lately due to busy schedule. Then some incident happened that it came to my senses, alright no more excuses and wait no more.
Finally last September I made a point to put aside everything, take a pause and press that SUBMIT 'life cart' button. Long history short, some calculated risk and feeling fear involved, I made a point to go ahead and do it anyway.. life is one heck of an adventure right? Absolutely. so here I am in the land of unknown, foreign and alien but the it has been delivered right - so i just need to brace myself and go ahead to start figuring it out what I want to do next. It was super scary at first, to be honest at one point I was thinking to myself..Are we really doing this , D? i guessed my support system around me are super convincing that no matter what happened, i will be fine and somehow that assurance gives me 80% confident, 20% doubt haha.
Growing up I always know that i am up for something big out there. I meant, I am always curious to know and experience new territory, environment, vibe, opportunities and all the likes but it has been 3 years real life put me on hold from venturing all that. Oh man, it was hard and i don't even know myself during those period. Probably it was a wake up call. Enough is enough. So that was when this #D44Project was formed. I only told to my closest loved ones and they were supportive. D is my initial and the number 4 has been a significant 'luck' number to me ..but oh well.. u know things that we called luck right. You gotta make your own luck. I noticed that in order to materialize and make things happen, you need to first of course create a dream list, then manifest it, and finally act on it. Small progress is better than no progress. I'm always a believer that if you want something so badly, you need to do something greatly.
44 days of things that I do repeatedly will become a habit, 444 am is the time that I frequently look into when I have great ideas come into my mind. yeah weird but it does. Coincidently I have been alive in this world with that favorite number, yeah to me age is just a number. Anyway there are 44 newness that I want to experience and explore and that include to have 44 countries in my list by end of 2023. As I am writing this, I have another 13 countries to go. let's see! these are 44 list of newness that i would like to achieve in this #D44Project :
1) Take sabbatical break from life
2) Celebrate White Christmas
3) Try Snowboarding
4) Hiking on snow
5) Change a new job that is fulfilling with good environment and empathy mentor
6) Be a digital nomad - traveling every quarter to a new place
7)Try new hobbies yearly
8) Finish a new book - inspirational, spiritual, motivation, growth
9) Try surfing
10) Migrate to a new country preferably country with snowcapped mountains in Europe - Austria!!
11) Swim with the sharks
12) Visit the sahara
13) Try skydiving
14) Try paragliding
15) Learn a new language - spanish
16) Visit the Great Wall of China, Beijing
17) Visit the Avatar Mountain in Zhangjiajie China
18) Visit the Balkans
19) Write journal
20) Do a scrapbook of my travels
21) Create a sketchbook
22) Create a travel photobook
23) Create my Youtube channel
24) Create an ebook of my travel
25) Visit South Africa and experience safari life
26) Visit the Pyramid, Egypt
27) Try knitting
28) Try creating a Manglish luggage tag
29) Try creating my own line of sports attire
30) Fly business class
31) Fly first class
32) Try dirt biking
33) Try to learn kpop dance
34) Try Dj-ing
35) Try to witness the Olympic - 100m run
36) To try witness World Cup final live
37) To to visit Carnival in Brazil
38) Hike the Dolomites
39) Watch the Ice- glacier and Fire - volcanoes in Iceland
40) Visit Georgia and try snowboarding there
41) Visit Ecuador – Galápagos Islands wildlife
42) Visit Canada and experience wildlife camping
43) Visit Tanzania - Kilimanjaro
44) Visit my dream destination since i was a teen - Machu Picchu, Peru and to understand the Mayan tribe.