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Well yesterday my Baby biwi decided to quit on a Wednesday afternoon and so we sat down today to write a list of 100 things we have to do by the time we're 50. She chose 50 and I chose 50 and then we put them together to form our joint list (a few overlaps)
They are:
Tiku's list:
1. Go bunjee jumping
2. Go parasailing/paragliding
3. Own a house and decorate
4. Own a house on a beach
5. Learn to skate
6. See Niagara falls
7. Find a job I love - done
8. Find at least one hobby and follow it passionately - done
9. Go camping with friends
10. Go anywhere for 3 days alone and make at least one friend
11. Get a story/article published
12. Learn to play tennis
13. Make a new friend every year and stay in touch with all the old ones - done
14. Go to the Himalayas
15. Dance in snowfall
16. Have a baby
17. Stay in shape after that
18. Take psychology classes and learn more about human nature
19. Teach in a school - done
20. Quit any job that I'm not enjoying and not feel guilty about it - done
21. Read one book every week - changed to once a month (at least that's being achieved)
22. Learn to draw caricatures
23. Learn to water paint
24. Make one canvas painting
25. Learn to play an instrument - doing
26. Have a pretend Christian wedding with the white dress, veil, etc - done
27. Model - magazine, TV, anything
28. Wear a bikini
29. Read the holy books of all religions
30. Take acting classes
31. Learn pottery
32. Go scuba diving
33. Learn yoga and try to do some sort of exercise every day
34. Take an interior designing course
35. Work in a company even it's for a couple of months
36. Get drunk
37. Teach in a play school/nursery - don't want to do anymore
38. Work with an NGO - done
39. Go to a safari (whichever is the most famous)
40. Learn a language
41. Go on a holiday and live in shacks, eat the cheapest food, travel on foot
42. Go to Scotland
43. Own and wear an evening gown - done the wearing (many times over)
44. Volunteer at old age home/blind school
45. Fly a jet
46. Go to Disneyland
47. Learn 10 full songs
48. Learn photography
49. Have an all girls night out
50. Learn to say - CENSORED - done
My list:
1. Sail down the Amazon, party at the Rio carnival
2. Visit Macchu Picchu
3. Visit Easter Island
4. Feed a penguin in Antarctica
5. Watch the Northern lights and stay in an ice hotel
6. Learn the basic textbooks for all the major subjects
7. Go to Disneyland, Disney World, Euro Disney again (again, this time with Tiku)
8. Live in USA for a year. White water raft in the Grand Canyon
9. Live in a place without electricity, running water or telephone for 2 weeks
10. Do a juggling/comedy/music stand up show and go on tour with it
11. Drink Vodka in Moscow
12. Go to Shanghai, visit a paddy field, the Great wall of China and the Forbidden city
13. Europe tour (London, Paris, Riviera, drive on the Autobahn, skiing in Switzerland, Gondola in Venice, concert in Vienna, pot in Holland - all done except the pot but this time with Tiku) - done
14. Australia (snorkelling and fishing on the Great Barrier reef, Gold coast, Alice Springs - all done, but need to be done again with Tiku)
15. Japan - the bullet train, Mount Fuji (both done but need to be done again with Tiku) and watching a live Sumo wrestling match
16. Watch a football world cup final live
17. Game park in Africa (again, this time with Tiku) + South Africa
18. Pyramids and Luxor (again, this time with Tiku)
19. Dubai, Mecca and Jerusalem
20. Non veg food in Pakistan
21. Write a bestseller
22. Sing a top 20 single
23. Host an art exhibition of my own work
24. Have a pool table, table tennis table and little swimming pool in our home
25. Design our own home and watch it get built piece by piece
26. Hot air balloon
27. Bungee jump into water
28. Learn Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin
29. Do a back flip
30. Give a guest lecture at ISB and an Ivy League college
31. Be a Chairman/CEO
32. Run my own business
33. Become Prime Minister
34. Patent an invention
35. Climb Mt Everest
36. Be as fit as a marine
37. Become perfect
38. Have kids who chase their dreams and equip them with the ability to achieve them
39. Live with both sets of parents
40. Baby sis's kids and Shipra/Adnan's kids and our kids should think of each other as soul mates
41. Make Tiku happy - done
42. Set Mimi up in business
43. Be famous
44. Keep in touch with all my friends
45. Never lie - doing pretty well so far
46. Act in a play (big production)
47. Be rich (ie - being able to do all these things and still provide my kids a great education)
48. Drive through all the states of India
49. Play Chess well
50. Make a difference in the world
Comments
Top of my list is:
Walk on glaciers in Alaska (already done one in Canada).
-bAaLu
-bAaLu
What's the address of your blog?
guess u shud b really happy if u make 20 out of this happen....
~sekhar
Please feel free to add me back if you'd like.
Nice list, BTW. You've made me think.
Are these 'to dos' in some sort of order? If not, which are your top 5?
Take care,
Gaurav
50. Make a difference in the world
38. Have kids who chase their dreams and equip them with the ability to achieve them
39. Live with both sets of parents
40. Baby sis's kids and Shipra/Adnan's kids and our kids should think of each other as soul mates
I havent really made a wish list till date ...but am planning to after this...butI have already struck off one item from the list...watched an India Pakistan cricket match recently....I know i can die in peace now!!
Santa
Though I don't know you but congratulations for such a wonderful list.
I hope u do it all before u reach 50!