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 bicycle, 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. Get a German Shepherd dog, how about Bernese Mountain dog!
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. Build my own house, to the spec I like, without worrying about the budget
17. Build an excellent physique
18. Learn Aikido from a Japanese Master
19. Learn nan-chakku
20. Learn Sai (another martial arts weapon)
21. Learn to wield Katana (i.e. Samurai sword)
22. Own a Katana
23. Make Vividh Bharati available online
24. Gift my bro an expensive hi-tech dentist chair
25. Build my bro's clinic, which would be one of its kind
26. Be wise & wealthy (both at the same time)
27. Spend, at least once, without worrying about bills
28. Help my community grow
29. Be recognized as a great Software Architect
30. Publish at least one paper in the domain of Filesystem/Storage
31. Author a good technical book
32. Become a Technical Fellow, highest post in the engineering ladder
33. Master the art of meditation, and be able to meditate for prolonged hours
34. Build a special meditation room in my house
35. Build an impregnable composure
36. Be a good spiker and setter in volleyball
37. Be not afraid in large water body
38. Leave a good legacy to live by, for my family and friends
39. Learn to sleep less than 6 hrs a day and still be efficient (and alive!)
40. Visit Japan and learn more about Japanese culture
41. Own a weekend-get-away farm house in some serene place
42. Build an artificial soothing waterfall in house
43. Build a huge in-the-wall fish aquarium
44. Be a son my parents can be proud of
45. Be a parent, my kids can be proud of
46. Be someone's Godfather
47. Go to all of the Greatest Places to Visit (link)
48. 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.
49. Influence someone's life in a good way
50. Stop swearing, no matter what
51. Take an extravagant cruise for a long vacation
52. Make a short video-documentary on my life at CMU
53. Become a Guru in at least one technology (filesystems?)
54. Teach my kids to count in hex before they hit high-school :)
55. Own a Think Pad
56. Own a nice DSLR
57. Own at least one F1.4 lens
58. Own a sports motor bike
59. Go out on someone's personal yacht
60. Write a simple yet powerful incremental backup script (preferably using bash or perl and some standard unix tools)
61. Then write a tool to test as well as restore from that incremental backup :)
62. Teach some topic to students or colleagues
63. Attend an authentic traditional Japanese tea ceremony
64. Ride a Helicopter
65. Go on wildlife Safari
66. Rappel, pro-level
67. Travel First Class at least once
68. Give voice to a character in an animated movie
69. Write my resume using TeX/LaTeX
70. Make someone cry of happiness
71. Make a significant contribution to an open source software project
72. Drop through a line from a chopper, just like commandos do
73. Learn Acupressure
74. Make one good stop-motion and slow-motion videos
75. Triple-boot a MacBook Pro: OS X, Windows and Linux
76. Don't be tagged as an OGYASE: Oh God! Yet Another Software Engineer