101 things to do before you die

12. Get a piece of art into an exhibition

2011-07-29T15:50:00.004+02:00

Do you remember Candy Chang ? Yes? No? She's an urban artist in New Orleans. I'm totally fascinated by her works since the Before I die project <^^< To realize this task and to make me happier for my 30 ( it was July 24th); I bought one of her Before I die painting via the online shop . This piece of art is signed by the artist and it gets the number 15. Ok, that's not really a exhibition but

64. Drive a car a top speed

2011-06-12T19:36:00.005+02:00

Yesterday, I ve been blocked in a traffic jam on the ring of Brussels, Belgium. I drived 4h to go back !!!! Normally, it takes only 2 hours and a half. More, we are in a long weekend and everything is closed in France, I continue my road in Germany in order to make shopping. Germany...the country with no high speed limit on motorway. I push my car to 160 Km/h (approx. 100 mph)

Happy Europe Day !

2011-05-09T20:24:00.003+02:00

It's celebrated the Robert Schuman's speech on 09/05/1950 about Europe and it's the fundamental base of the creation of European Union. To preserve peace, to free exchange our industry products, to permit student exchange, health protection....European Union is an union of 27 european countries who try to leave together in peace and make unique goals in economy, politic, ...One of its treaty is

LOST...REWARD

2011-04-02T14:21:00.002+02:00

WHERE ARE YOU DEAR BOOK ??? I CAN T FIND YOU AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH I LOST MY BOOK !!! I NEED TO UPDATE YOU, PLEASE COME BACK

Europe ... It's time to turn off

2011-03-26T20:31:00.003+01:00

http://www.earthhour.org/Homepage.aspx

42. hit your targets

2011-03-13T18:27:00.003+01:00

I've been promoted !!! waahouuuu ! I change my salary group, from #5 to #6 Mini Wave in celebration to me I work in Luxembourg since 2005. It's my first real job and even if financial crises has crossing my road, I'm still here and my employer too. I have now 22 poeples in my team I manage. It's important to me to be recognized for my job by my boss. I'm so happy !

Hiro

2011-03-12T14:11:00.006+01:00

Si j'avais eu le pouvoir d'Hiro Nakamura, j'aurais sonner l'alerte au Japon and other version : Here On Youtube My Heart goes to Japan English Lyrics : HERE

Before I die... I want to

2011-03-06T09:47:00.012+01:00

I discovered an artist called Candy Chang. She's a new generation urban designer. She has her regulars in US (NY, NOLA, ..) and in Europe (Finland, Germany, France too maybe when I read her Bio) One of her exhibit is "Before I die" . I cannot forget to present you her talent. Some links: http://candychang.com/before-i-die-in-nola/ http://candychang.com/before-i-die-begins/ to

Happy New Year 2011

2011-01-08T10:19:00.004+01:00

I wish you all the best for 2011. Gutt Rutsch ! Bonne Année ! Happy New Year ! Buon Anno ! I let you listening to the #1 in the european charts :

67. Visit...

2010-10-10T16:41:00.003+02:00

Golden Gate Bridge :

News September, 23rd

2010-09-23T22:20:00.006+02:00

Hi guys, I'm now coming back in Europe and I can just say : I LOVE AMERICA ! I spent two excellent weeks in Las Vegas, Reno, San Francisco, Yosemite and Grand Canyon. I saw some funniest animals like roadrunners and the perfect and nice guy Mr. John Smith from Goldfield,NV To see his photo That was so incredible, I trust I was in a road movie or a western film. The US desert, the farwest. I

43. throw a dart into a map and travel where it lands

2010-05-01T17:20:00.004+02:00

I'm trying to find a dart and a map ! French ads for the national lottery "- I'm starting ! - What ? ... - Australia - Oh no, not again ! - Well, It falls on. That's the game my poor Lucette"

17bis. Own a pointless Collection

2010-04-25T00:27:00.019+02:00

OMG! OMG! There is a coin by a state ! Each 1/4 USD coin represents one of the US state. pssssssssssh ! I must collect them all ! Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New

News April 25th

2010-04-25T00:06:00.002+02:00

Dear followers, I must say that I was sad since several weeks because my father is dead since a month and a half. I can't cry but I'm sad, sad because it's strange to be alone, sad for my grand-mother, sad for people around me, sad for my mother. My father was 61 years old, he wasn't sick, he didn't have an accident, he just said "je dors" ( "I'm sleeping" ) and I'll never see him again. One of

97. Live out of a van

2010-01-31T12:25:00.008+01:00

Luxembourg, January 31st I will realize this task this summer (august/september) between Las Vegas, NV and San Francisco, CA.We will spent 3 days in Las Vegas and will go at Burning Man Festival in the middle of nowhere. After that, we'll go to San Francisco for 3 days and ..back to Europe. My holidays are accepted and flights booked. I'm so excited! Reno, September 5th BM near Gerlach,

85-2. Visit the world's tallest buildings [Burj Khalifa]

2010-01-10T10:22:00.005+01:00

Formaly known as Burj Dubai, Burj Khalifa is the tallest skyscrapper never built at 828m. It was opened January 4th 2009 only 6 years before the 1st excavation. I don't know of much it costs in USD or EUR but I am sure that's a big success for the architect ....but it's still empty. I was in Dubai in November 2008 for the Atlantis Hotel opening ceremony and I took this photo in the front of

News January 7th

2010-01-07T17:39:00.007+01:00

Dear all, I'm please to wish you a happy new year and to say I'm very happy to see more and more comments on my blog. My goal this year is to communicate more and more with peoples, my team, my family and you. That's why, I begin with something rots my life since December 6th. Do you remember my car : http://101chosesafaire.blogspot.com/2007/09/54-make-at-lease-one-huge-purchase-you.html I

53. Complete a coast to coast road trip across america

2009-12-07T07:46:00.018+01:00

Luxembourg - > Paris - > New York : April 11th, 2010 New York - New York - United States of America New York -> Washington : April 17th, 2010 Washington - District of Columbia - United States of America Washington -> Frederick, MD : April 18th, 2010 Frederick,MD -> Baltimore, MD : April 20th, 2010 Baltimore - Maryland - United States of America Afficher Vacances USA Avril 2010 sur une

79. Answer a personal ad

2009-08-29T00:20:00.010+02:00

After severals monthes of unemployment my friend has had an interview for a new job.She will start the 1st september at Be2.com based in Luxembourg. In order to help her before her first interview, I registered myself on the website and trying to find the philosophy of it. I have completed my profile and my personal ad : that's a little funny...and what ? I'm single. A week after my

2. Swim with...

2009-07-08T20:26:00.013+02:00

Here some photos taken at Punta Cana for my holidays in june 2009. I did a snorkeling and catamaran cruse around a protected island (Saona) and in the lagoon. Dolphins Sharks Tropical Fish Ray Starfish Me with a starfish Task 36 - Visit every country

83. Skinny dip at midnight

2009-07-02T22:32:00.003+02:00

Before After I spent 2 weeks in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic in June 2009. That's a wonderful memory to share my holidays with all guys and girls photoed. We were 10 or 15 or more and for the last day we decided to play water-volley at the swimming-pool at 11:30 pm. After 15min the guardian asked us to leave the pool and we decided to skinny dipping at midnight in the lagoon directly.

21. Be a human guinea pig

2009-06-02T22:57:00.003+02:00

This is a 3 days survey about food and physical data. The goal is to understand the linkbetween our social way of life and food. This is a french study for 500.000 inhabitants.3 days a year, I must fill a questionnary about what I ate.My first day is tommorwhttps://www.etude-nutrinet-sante.fr/

35. Play a part of your favorite TV show

2009-03-14T23:39:00.005+01:00

Talk-Show on the 2nd french tv channel (14/03/2009)

Who What When Where Why How ?

2008-12-28T17:26:00.003+01:00

London, August 15th 2007 We spent 3 or 4 days in London for summer holidays, and we'd tried to visit the max of London touristic places. I don't remember how many places we visited exactly but I remember the boutique of souvenirs at Tate museum. It was full of funny toys, colored and design objects. Picholine was stand up in front of books generally given to kids or just for fun to a friend for

Book Updates

2008-12-28T17:23:00.004+01:00

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18. Study the Kama Sutra and put theory into practice

2008-12-28T15:35:00.002+01:00

Try to understand that's a piece of my private life.

71. Have adventurous sex

2008-12-28T15:33:00.008+01:00

Try to understand that's a piece of my private life.

100. Reach 100 years of age

2008-12-28T11:05:00.005+01:00

datedujour = new Date(); hdj=datedujour.getHours(); mdj=datedujour.getMinutes(); sdj=datedujour.getSeconds(); date_even = new Date(2081, 6, 24, hdj, mdj, sdj); //janv =0 > decemb =11 date1=datedujour.getTime(); date2=date_even.getTime(); nbrej= date2-date1; nbrej= Math.round((Math.round(nbrej)/1000)/60/60/24); document.write(""+nbrej+" days before my 100");

7. Be part of a threesome

2008-12-28T11:00:00.002+01:00

Try to understand that's a piece of my private life.

39. Go to the dogs

2008-11-30T21:09:00.012+01:00

Last holidays, I spent a week in Dubai and I'ld like to complete my to do list. I believe that was a good idea to see horse races in the middle of nowhere. But my problem : They don't inform me there was not course this day. Task 36 - Visit every country

22. Go up in a hot air balloon

2008-11-09T12:47:00.004+01:00

If you want to do the same in the desert of Dubai, book a day on : here Task done : 17 /11/2008 Where : Dubai, UAE Price : 950 AED (180 EUR)

13. Meet someone with your own name

2008-08-17T16:26:00.004+02:00

I know that my family name is not really spread but I am lucky that my first name is partially translatable. Even if in the 80's my first name was particullary famous, I find only 2 other persons with exactly the same name in France on Facebook. Why I chose Facebook? Because I think it's the easier research on a global database, some groups list members with the same family name and Facebook is

85. Visit the world's tallest buildings

2008-06-08T13:45:00.009+02:00

- Empire State Bulding, New York, United States of America - June 2008 photo taken on top of the rock - Burj Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - November 2008 photo taken in front of Mall of Dubai

Mail from Richard about book updates

2008-06-08T13:37:00.006+02:00

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66. Be part of a flash mob

2008-03-08T10:17:00.006+01:00

Date : 15/03/2008Place : Train StationStart time : 15:10Finish time : 15:15Starting Signal : "GEORGE ?!?!"Finish Signal : "I'M HERE !"Goal : Don't move for 5 minutes.http://freezeluxembourg.blogspot.com/ and facebook group : "Freeze Luxembourg !""GEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOORGESSSSSSSSS"Photos and videos will be add soon Achieved :

3. Win an award, trophy or prize

2008-01-01T19:50:00.000+01:00

Date I won the trophy : 8 January 1992, I was 10The trophy was for : chess tournament in my departement : Moselle (french local subdivision)What kind of award was it ? a medal..;but we're the first !Was there an award ceremony? Only a little speech in my classroom with my teacher, my coach and the mayor.Photo's taken by a journalist from the local newspaper Le Republicain Lorrain at the

98. Go on a demonstration

2007-12-03T16:32:00.000+01:00

"SANS MOYEN 'Y A PAS MOYEN !"Date of demonstration : 06/03/2001Was there a march ? Yes, in Paris. We have taken a train from Metz to the capital.What was the demonstreation ? The goal was to have more budget for the "Université de Metz" because this university didn't received incomes issued by professional taxes like the others french universities. Metz is located in "Alsace-Moselle" : a former

96. Be an extra in a film

2007-11-17T21:54:00.000+01:00

"FALLAIT PAS SAUVER LE SOLDAT RYAN""Don't Saving Private Ryan"All my group of friends, students at this moment, have made an amazing film between december 2002 and february 2003. The film parodies a super americain production, only for fun ! The most important part of the film was filmed around the city of Metz in a private forest. We have very organized with a musician, a sound ingeneer, 2

93. Complete the monopoly pub crawl

2007-11-04T17:18:00.000+01:00

Place : London - UKDate : November 1st, 2007Start Time : 1:32 pm End Time : 11:36 pmWe didn't drink in each pubs because some of them are closed at the time when we are or forever. I made the monopoly pub crowl with my cousin Mike and my friend Picho. We didn't give up !See some photos taken of us below : If you want to do it, I give you a very interesting website : http://

57. See the All-time greatest films

2007-09-29T23:33:00.000+02:00

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/31871/compare/kisscool57 Achieved

52. Read the greatest books ever written

2007-09-29T23:30:00.000+02:00

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/31285/compare/kisscool57Last read : Mr Tickle ( Monsieur Chatouille) Bought : 30/09/2007 in Cattenom at a flea market for 0.80 €Achieved

10. Leave your mark in graffiti

2007-09-18T19:57:00.000+02:00

Date : 16.09.2007 at 22:15Place : Thionville ( quai)Did you get caught ? not yetHave you graffited since ? No Isn't ? Heroes...are in the place Achieved

54. Make at lease one huge purchase you can't afford

2007-09-01T10:17:00.000+02:00

Date of your purchase ? 27/04/2006 What is the item you bought ? Peugeot 206ccWhere did you buy the item from ? Esch-sur-Alzette ( Luxembourg)Lenght of time you decide to buy the item ? 2 daysdid you pay with a credit card ? No, by banking transfertHow long has it taken you to pay for the item ? 3 years Did you get a discount on the item ? YesWhat percentage ? 10%Are you still paying for it ?

41. Be friends with your ex

2007-08-31T20:50:00.000+02:00

In order to protect myself and my 3 ex requested by the book, I am just giving you nicknames of them. This task, a little bit funny, is described like a impossible misson, between a jerry springer show or retrosexual activities, or something like a revenge. I don't think they're my best friends yet but friends as it's possible.Here the list :Yaya I think our relationship lasted 2 or 3 weeks the

84. Sell all your junk on ebay and make a profit

2007-08-28T18:37:00.000+02:00

ebay's remplaced by priceministerInventorySince : 28/08/2007 18:47Note : 4,8/5How many items did you attempt to sell ? 24How many items actually sold? 14 What was the daftest item you posted on it ? Cindy Crawford Secret de forme VHS or Sur les traces de Jesus bookDid you sell it ? Yes for the secondHow much ? € 3,50Which item went for the most money ? a coffee table/ une table basseHow much ? €

72. Have enough money to do all the things in the list

2007-08-22T20:08:00.001+02:00

well.... I think you, yes you!, are the most generous blog-reader in the world ; If you want to give me the possibility to finish my todo list. If you want to help me, to go in Fidji islands to do the task #73 or to have an experience of weightlessness task #31 : that's my childhood dream via a space travel, ..., please donate $1 or 1€ (or equivalent) PayPal accepted ! Thank you so

30. Stay in the best suite in a five star hotel

2007-08-20T21:35:00.000+02:00

Date : 16/03/2006 and 17/03/2006Name of the hotel : "LE PLAZA"Stars : 5Where ? Belgium, BrusselsSuite's name : ppppppppppffffffffff, I don't know... Next to Annie Cordie ! lol...It was a buisness suite on the 7th or 5th floor.Cost a night : 390€Who's paid ? My CompanyPenthouse ? no, just a balconyNumbers of rooms : 2The amazing view : On the pedestrian center of BrusselsThe suite has a private

69. In various language learn to say...

2007-08-18T22:19:00.000+02:00

1. "Hello", "Good Bye", "Thank you", "Please" :English : "Hello","Good Bye","Thank you","Please"French : "Bonjour","Au revoir", "Merci", "s'il vous/te plait"Italian : "Buon Giorno","Ciao","Grazie","Per favore"German : "Guten tag","Auf Wiedersehen","Danke schön","Bitte schön"Luxembourgisch : "Moien","Addi","Merci","w.e.g."2. Order beer :English : "I feel like 2 beers please"French : "Je voudrais 2

51. learn another language

2007-08-17T20:17:00.015+02:00

As you can see in this blog : I can speak english and I can also speak french. My second foreign language learnt is italian, my third is german and my last is luxembourgish. Sie können zu dieses Blog sehen : Ich spreche englisch und Ich spreche auch französisch. Meine Zweite sprache ist italienisch, mein Dritt es ist Deutsch und der Letzte ist Luxemburgisch. Comme vous le voyez sur ce blog :

17. Own a Pointless Collection

2007-08-16T20:31:00.012+02:00

In which year did you start your collection ? 2002 Are you still collecting? Y What does your collection consist of ? To collect euro coins Where do you get the majority of your collection from ? Supermarket, Bank and e-commerce At what age did you start your collection : 21 Approximatly how much is your collection worth ? 300€ What made you start your collection ? € introduction What are your

49. See both Solar and Lunar Eclipse

2007-08-15T18:08:00.002+02:00

Total Solar Eclipse on 11/08/1999, THIONVILLE, from 12:27:59' to 12:30:10'Some people like Paco Rabanne frightened the world with their enormous statements about Mir station ; veterinary surgeons have analysed animals reactions in parc de Rhodes, other amazing people had gotten dressed in pyjamas or blew their candle of birthdays,but...My friend Fab and I were ready to see the eclipse with our

36. Visit Every Country

2007-08-15T17:01:00.007+02:00

Plan A : Plan B (or every continent) : From London - United Kingdom From Matala - Greece De Innsbruck - Austria De Porto - Portugal De Brussels - Dexia Training - Belgium De Punta Cana - Dominican Republic De Frankfurt-Am-Main - Germany De Dublin - Ireland De Dubai - United Arab Emirates De Niagara Falls - Canada De New York - United States of America