Things to do in the days to come…

I’ve been making lists of things I need to do for ages on small pieces of paper and on my phone - some short term, some that are gonna take a while but seem like a nice idea to say I did.
Figured would be a nice idea to make a nice long list and get it all off my phone while I’m at it. So here goes (I thought of calling it ‘things to do before I die’ or something like that, but then the idea of putting a deadline to these didn’t seem so good)

In no particular order…
1. Watch a football game live (EPL, definitely an Arsenal game)
2. Learn to play the guitar (that’s been lying at home for the past 8 years)
3. Learn to play the drums.
4. Learn Golf (I’m gonna get rich some day and it is the rich man’s game)
5. Learn to swim (so i don't drown)
6. Figure what the stock market game is all about, and make some moolah off it
7. Learn to skate.
8. Learn to drive a bike (and be good at it)
9. Learn to drive a car (and be good at it as well)
10. Own my own car
11. Go cross country travelling round India (Only been to Pune, Goa and Jamshedpur so far)
12. Visit my top 20 cities in the world
13. Write a letter to / write for a newspaper or magazine (as in get it published)
14. Be interviewed by a news channel (I like when people ask my opinions)
15. Be an extra on a television soap opera/ movie.
16. Get Married (this one needs to be here on this list... i have friends already telling me i might die a spinster considering my complicated love life)
17. Write my will (and have something to bequeath in it)
18. Travel to 6 continents. Am excluding Antarctica here. (Europe and Asia so far)
19. There are 194 counties in the world. Visit as many as I can (So far Netherlands, Denmark, U.A.E., Austria, Sweden, Spain, Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand , Indonesia, & Malaysia)
20. Take a year off just to do nothing
21. Go skinny-dipping (after learning to swim)
22. Learn to sail. (also after I learn to swim)
23. Not owe anyone any money. Be Debt free. (done. I'm Debt Freeeee 5.10.2008)
24. Fly a kite.
25. Own my own house
26. Have a graffiti wall of my own
27. Learn to carry a proper note for more than 10 seconds (which would be the toughest thing on this list considering my singing abilities)
28. Watch a play (yeah, never have till now)
29. Latin American dances
30. Bungee jumping
31. Skydive.
32. Go for a Pearl Jam concert
33. Go for a Green Day concert

***Updates in red

Top 20 cities in the world..places to go to

This was a list aired on Discovery Travel and Living's program Top 20 cities of the world (for the year 2005, i think). It was nice enough that I wrote the cities down. Been trying to search the net for more details to write down here on this list, but still can’t find it). Below is the order they had given it in, tho’ I’m not particularly choosy, I just wanna go to all.

1. Barcelona, Spain - (Done. June 2007)
2. New York, USA
3. Paris, France,
4. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
5. Rome, Italy,
6. Sydney, Australia
7. Dublin, Ireland
8. Cape town, SA
9. Istanbul turkey,
10. Stockholm, Sweden
11. Amsterdam, Netherlands (Done. October 2005)
12. Berlin, Germany
13. Lisbon, Portugal
14. New Orleans, USA
15. Mexico city, Mexico
16. Reykjavik, Iceland,
17. Santiago, Chile,
18. Copenhagen, Denmark (Done. Small trips from 2005 to 2007)
19. New Delhi, India
20. Tokyo, Japan

Traffic is a Killer - The Great Wildebeest Crossing

If you’ve ever travelled by road in Mumbai you would have experienced this for sure. You are in your car/cab/handcart and someone just darts by across the roads forcing brakes to be slammed upon and half your body hitting the windshield (Seatbelts seatbelts). I've always thought they did this because they knew that as a motorist you’d be in shit loads of more trouble for knocking them down that they ever could be. I doubt anyone’s ever been caught/fined for crossing a road in this country, and no matter who’s at fault, its usually always the motorist who gets beaten up (community activity)
If you’ve ever been at the lucky restaurant junction at Bandra, you know exactly what I mean. I swear people here wait for the traffic signals to turn green and cars start moving to realise that they have a sudden urge to be on the other side of the road. And by people I mean a minimum of 50 people. So one brave soldier starts inching ahead, unsure of whether he should be the leader, and then ten more join in and push him and themselves ahead, and lo and behold, its like the wildebeest crossing at the Serengeti plains. Needless to say all traffic has come to a halt (while the signal is still green) and beware any car that tries to move ahead.
I swear I get this manic desire to drive thru and intentionally hurt some people just to teach them a lesson, but higher intelligence warns me that the only one to learn any lesson at all will be me..