Ramblings about myself...

Time for some Action huh...

A 101 things, some exciting, some challenging, some materialistic, some spiritual, and few just plain fantastic things I want to do before I report back to Heaven. So that I can proudly say that I lived my life by purpose and enjoyed it too. Items appear in no particular order, and the list is still a work in progress.

0. Publish at least one breath-taking photograph in reputed magazine like NatGeo
1. Own an Accord, a BMW and a Lexus. On second thoughts, lemme add Mercedes too
2. Own a sexy road bike, like Felt F75 (this is what a Felt 75 looks like!)
3. Sky-diving
4. Gift my parents a ticket for world tour. And then randomly pop up to catch up with them at a few places!
5. Build a mysteriously interesting personality (what the heck this means???)
6. Intern at Google
7. Swim with dolphins
8. Build my own personal library of Books (and DVDs)
9. Go scuba diving
10. Say "I Love You" to someone and mean it
    (To someone other than my existing family)
11. Do fashion photography
12. Remember everybody's birthday
13. Have a German Shepherd
14. Spend time with family on Islands of Bahamas
    (in a house like the one in After The Sunset)
15. Sponsor education for a deserving poor, at least 1 per year
16. Ask beautiful girl out for a date
17. Build my own house, to the spec I like, without worrying too much about the budget
18. Build an excellent physique
19. Study the KS
    
20. Learn Aikido from a Japanese Master
21. Learn nan-chakku
22. Learn Sai (another martial arts weapon)
23. Learn to wield Katana (i.e. Samurai sword)
24. Own a Katana
25. Make Vividh Bharati available online
26. Meet my fantasy girl, and befriend her
27. Gift Skoda Octavia to my parents
28. Gift my bro an expensive hi-tech dentist chair
29. Build my bro's clinic, which would be one of its kind
30. Be wealthy and wise (both at the same time)
31. Spend, at least once, without worrying about bills
32. Help my community grow
33. Be recognized as a Senior Software Architect
34. Publish at least one paper in the domain of Filesystem/Storage
35. Author a good technical book
36. Become a Fellow, highest post in the engineering ladder
37. Master the art of meditation, and be able to meditate for prolonged hours
38. Build a special meditation room in my house
39. Build an impregnable composure
40. Make some good American and good Japanese friends
41. Develop good dribbling skills at Soccer
42. Be a good spiker and setter in volleyball
43. Be not afraid when in water
44. Leave a good legacy to live by, for my family
45. Learn to sleep less than 6 hrs a day and still be efficient (and alive!)
46. Visit Japan and learn more about Japanese culture
47. Own a weekend-get-away farm house in some serene place
48. Build an artificial soothing waterfall in house
49. Build a huge in-the-wall fish aquarium
50. Be a son my parents can be proud of
51. Be a parent, my kids can be proud of
52. Be someone's Godfather
53. Go to all of the Greatest Places to Visit (link)
54. Be not faltered in the face of death
    This probably would be the last one I could do! I probably won't be able to update this when it happens, unless my Lord sends me back to update it!
    Death is the singular thing most certain to happen, and yet we all fear death. We come with nothing in this world, and still develop so much material and emotional attachment that we are not willing to accept that one day it is bound to go back to where it came from: nowhere! Every thing taking birth, has to, once again, disintegrate into its constituent elements.
55. Influence someone's life in a good way
56. Do part time job to test new motor cars
57. Stop swearing, no matter what
58. Take an extravagant cruise for a long vacation
59. Make a short video-documentary on my life at CMU
60. Become a Guru in at least one technology (filesystems?)
61. Teach my kids to count in hex before they hit high-school :)
62. Own a Think Pad
63. Own a nice DSLR
64. Own at least one F1.4 lens
65. Own a sports motor bike
66. Go out on someone's personal yacht
67. Write a simple yet powerful incremental backup script (preferably using bash or perl and some standard unix tools)
68. Then write a tool to restore state from that incremental backup :)
69. Teach some topic to students or colleagues
70. Attend an authentic traditional Japanese tea ceremony
71. Ride a Helicopter
72. Go on wildlife Safari
73. Rappel, pro-level
74. Travel in Business Class in an airliner
75. Give voice to a character in an animated movie
76. Write my resume using TeX/LaTeX
77. Make someone cry of happiness
78. Make a significant contribution to an open source software project
79. Help a stranger change her tire, a hot stranger ;-)
80. Drop through a line from a chopper, just like commandos do
81. Learn Acupressure
82. Make one good stop-motion and slow-motion videos
83. Triple-boot a MacBook Pro: OS X, Windows and Linux
84. I don't want to be tagged as OGYASE : Oh God! Yet Another Software Engineer