Saturday, April 01, 2006

875 Things i want to do before I die

( not in any particular order )

1. Watch change of guards in London infront of the palace.
2. Gaze at the pyramids on a very hot afternoon.
3. Build a library at home before the moths eat my books. [[ ALMOST DONE]]
4. Fall head over heals in the so-called-emotion - love and Marry.( not necessarily the same girl )
5. Have kids and spoil them with endless supply of love and turn them into spoilt brats.
6. Own and drive a geared four-wheeler to work.
7. Go to Machu-Pichu and smell the air.
8. Rest on a lonely beach all day long and eat fried fish.
9. Have honeymoon in a university.
10. Drive all day long without knowing where am heading. [[ DONE - September 2004]]
11. Play decent tennis.
12. Try grass .. just once. [[ DONE - ]]
13. Get drunk and dance alone in my room to the beats of a popular dance number. [[ DONE]]
14. Do cartoons and sketches of people in railway stations.
15. Go to Las Vegas, gamble and win lots of money. [[ ALMOST DONE]]
16. Play hotel California on acoustic Guitar.
17. Write a play.
18. Read Fountain Head and Catcher in the Rye.
19.Find if I have a purpose in this world ( not to be confused with the word function )
20. Score 99th percentile in a competitive exam.
21. Write a letter to my son ( as if it were the last and only letter )
22. Enjoy solitude for 30 days ( atleast 10 ? ) , shut down from everyone , silence and away from the world.
23. Bungy jump.
24. Cycle for a whole week.
25. Climb the everest.
26. Run a marathon and be the top 2% of the finishers.
27. Make the most perfect tea.
28. Live till you are 70, find your old friend who is 66 and spend a good vacation with her.
29. Road trip in USA - Rote 66.
30. Visit James Uncle in Kenya and be with the tribes for a few days.
31. Learn perfect photography with the SLR.
32. Make a well researched documentary.
33. Learn to meditate.
34. Oktoberfest in Germany !

840 to follow ....

"Florentino is so in love with Fermina that he eats gardenias and drinks cologne so that he can know her taste. He becomes drunk on the cologne, and his mother finds him the next morning, in a puddle of his vomit, in a cove of the bay where drowning victims are known to wash ashore" - Love in the time of Cholera