Life is an adventure

Nerdy, workaholic, and service things

  • Have a dish named in honour of Alexis at a restaurant or other food establishment

  • Develop high density housing in Vancouver

  • Take a photo with the UBC University Mace

  • Encourage 100 people to donate blood for their first time

  • Experience policymaking in Singapore

  • Serve on the Board of Directors for a provincial crown corporation or agency

  • Serve on the Board of Directors for a Canadian federal crown corporation or agency

  • Count to 100 in a new language

  • Compete in a board/card game tournament

  • Be involved in the awarding of 500 scholarships and bursaries for higher education

  • Complete the 10-day Vipassana course as a server

  • Sit the Vipassana for Executives course

  • Create enough impact to earn the Order of British Columbia

Hobby things

  • Listen to my favourite music at a professional recording studio

  • Build furniture from scratch that is upholstered and wooden

  • Grail watches: SBGD001, VC 222 yellow gold, VC Patrimony Traditionelle (rose) gold

  • Complete the Hacker Summer Camp

  • Fishing, prawning, crabbing

    • Experience B.C. fishing in every month of the year and across river, lake, and ocean settings

    • Experience fishing in every province and territory

    • Catch fresh spot prawns to feed friends & family

    • Ice fishing!

  • Smoke a cigar at a lake, on a mountain, on an ocean, and at a canyon

  • Roll a cigar

  • Make a hand-dipped beeswax candle

  • Find the ‘perfect’ jacket (I’m close… 80% of the way there!)

Travel and experiences

  • Ride a Ferris wheel

  • Go glacier kayaking

  • See the northern lights (aurora borealis) with Alexis

  • Carve a pumpkin with Alexis

  • Travel to every Canadian province and territory (minimum 3-night stay)

  • Visit the Ghibli Museum

  • Harvest corn

  • Capybaras!

    • Visit the Capybaras in South America

    • Stay at a capybara resort in Japan

    • Visit the Lesser Capybaras in Panama, Venezuela, and/or Colombia

  • Stay at an Aman property

  • Stay in an underwater hotel

  • Stay in an ice hotel

  • Stay in a cave hotel

  • Take a shower on a flight

  • Carve an ice sculpture

  • Visit Malaysia and eat Sambal Stingray

Not sure how to categorize :)

  • Experience a moment in Vancouver where I simultaneously at least seven bird types: duck, crow, pigeon, gull, goose, cormorant, bald eagle, Great Blue Heron… bonus for Belted Kingfisher, Barrow's Goldeneye, Horned Grebe, and Anna’s Hummingbird (Vancouver’s official city bird)

  • Fall asleep on a massage chair

  • Fall asleep while reading

  • Attend a renaissance fair

  • Bake shortbread

  • Make fruit leather

  • Have a meal at an office setting prepared by a private corporate chef

Celebrity crushes

  • Share a home-cooked meal and cocktail with Stanley Tucci

  • Read a book with Kristin Kreuk

  • Complete a workout with Georges St-Pierre

  • Watch a live performance by Seori

  • Have tea with Jackie Chan

  • Hang out with Jisoo Kim