How to get ahead of yourself - More things to do in the days to come

Today while reading Eat Pray Love at work i came across the most beautiful concept in the world - something i've appreciated and mastered for a long long long time now.
In Italian it is Bel Far Niente or The Beauty of doing Nothing.
While this concept has been successfully mastered, i think it is time to add to the wishlist.

The original wishlist is posted here
So here goes - Complete wishlist along with the additions:


Original list:

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 (Been to Barcelona, Amsterdam & Copenhagen)
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
Additions
34. Learn a Language: I'm opting for either Italian or Spanish
35. Learn a skill that should be completely useless to me. As in taking proper classes to learn, and it should probably be something like making furniture or baking cakes or learning to make chocolates - which I won't need to know.
36. Self teaching myself a will-not-use-again skill. What differentiates this from number 35 is the teacher. Moi. To make this even more interesting, the self taught skill should help in making/saving money i would otherwise spend to buy a product. So it would have to be something like learning to stitch or Sewing or whatever it's called, and can't be teaching myself to climb the stairs two at a time.
37. This should be the toughest one and least likely to happen: For a whole week to go to the gym. And exercise.
38. Learn Pilates or Yoga or some other form of meditation. I'm not sure why but i did buy myself a book on pilates.
39. To read a 100 books in 2009. See my 100+ reading challenge here. This is the only one with a deadline so far
40. In keeping with the over ambitious and cheekiness of this stupid delirious day, i'm thinking what the hell.. lets just add on to this now and make a nice 40 things. So, number 40 is to have atleast 3 months of my present salary saved in my bank account by end 2009. Well, one can always dream

DEBT FREE and loving it.

1 down and 33 to go from my list of things to do.
As of October 5th, i am now DEBT FREE!!!
Yes ladies and gentlemen.. unbelievable but surprisingly true !!!! That final 85 thou has been paid off and i happily owe no one now. Nice birthday gift this was to myself. Next one to target might be learning to swim.. seems like an easy one to do right now.

Home Sweet Home

I'm not sure why I didn't think of this earlier and plan a proper longer holiday, but then that’s usually how it is... Last minute plans these were...
I figured Chinese new year holidays would be better spent ambling the time away at home in India instead of being stuck in Singapore where most people have left for the festivities and holidays to other parts of Asia.

All in all, this has been a well planned surprise visit.. and I’m so happy to be back sleeping on my own bed and tasting all the lovely food here.
My lovely Malwani food from the take away at the corner of the road - if I had a last meal before being sent to the electric chair - this would be it (along with some Goan sausages, and some other food as well. Big meal that one will be)

Dear Ole Goa Portugesa - without the owner coming and disturbing you at your table that is.

The Amazing n Awesome Jai Hind at Pali Naka - this food will also be included in that last meal.

Gondola's and Soul Fry - I never know which one to go to, agony it is chosing cause they're both so yummy..

And my favourite place i missed the most - Good Luck Irani Cafe at Mehboob Studios. It’s just not a proper morning without the yummy Brun Maska and egg Bhurji. Sigh. This followed by Mango Milkshake at Just around the corner - this one you just have to taste.

All that’s left now, Margarita's at Not Just Jazz and my usual dinner at DPRC... I can hardly wait for tonight...

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