Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Now that will be cool....

I was just sitting today watching this ACDC concert. (I know I know.... I am ACDC fixated these days.... just bear with me). I bought this DVD a few days ago and was watching it on my laptop.
They were doing their thing and the entire stadium full of people was on its feet. I just thought to myself, "Wow! Someday in my life I want to attend a concert like this!".
That got me thinking.
What are the things I would REALLY REALLY like to do in my life atleast once? Well the following is such a list of things. Not in any order except the order in which they came into my head:
1. Attend a concert of AC/DC or Rammstein.
2. Trek in the Himalayas. Go up to Lake Mansarovar
3. Take the Konkan Express train from Mangalore to Mumbai during the day.
4. Better still... ride a bike down the West Coast Highway.
5. Hold a new born baby and show it its first sunrise.
6. SOMETIME read through the Bengali Mahabharat my Grandfather gave my Dad.... and which my Dad has a good mind to give to me. (For that of course I will have to learn to read the Bengali script and attain more than a nodding acquaintance with that language).
7. Buy a Honda CBR 400 or better (Fireblade? Hayabusa?)
8. Climb a hill, set up camp on its peak and spend a night. (I almost did that once. Me and a few friends climbed this hill near Bangalore. Once we got there, it got so foggy that we almost decided to spend the night shivering under the watchful eyes of the God 'Nandi' whose statue graced the peak. The fog unfortunately cleared soon after.... We climbed down in the dead of the night and at the village near the base, we discovered that we did not speak Kannada and no one in the village spoke English or Hindi. I even broke into Bengali in desperation but to no avail)
9. Learn to appreciate Indian Classical music.
10. Learn enough General Theory of Relativity to shut this friend of mine up who proses on about it whenever he is in his cups.
11. Buy a 'raddi' laptop for 100 bucks (I mean dollars) set it right, find software for it which will run on its hardware without major trade-offs on functionality, write scripts which will make its use simple and then gift it to my Dad who is scared of Electronics!
12. Keep a dog at home. Call it Jurgen... or Adolf or Pervez....
13. Go on a blind-date.
14. Make a four-course meal for my parents while they sleep oblivious of the treat (or ordeal most likely) in store for them.
15. Learn the fingers-in-the-mouth-whistle

Well I guess the list could go on and on but I will stop here. Would anyone else like to write his own to-do list?

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

List jyada lambi nahi hai..Is janam me poora ho sakta hai..Plan publish karo to sahi.. We will drive it to execution..

-Praveen Adil

Josh said...

Hold a new born baby and show it its first sunrise.. that is very touchy. nice one cp!
i shall try over the weekend. btw.. did it take some thinking to list these down or was it spontaneous?

Cane-an said...

Oh I sat on my computer and did some thinking for fifteen minutes while compiling this list....
What do you mean you will try over the weekend? Where will you get a new-born baby so soon?

Anonymous said...

Probably josh is expecting ...

Josh said...

oh they were uncorrelated statements! i shall try to list my 'now that will be cool' stuff down over the weekend. thatz wht i meant.

as to my expecting, dont worry adil, u will be the first one to know [:D]

viski said...

cool list cp! I think everyone should make one such list. Somethings to live for, something to die for.

Cane-an said...

Viski, Josh, Adil,
I look forward to reading your lists.

innovation said...

Hey cool man nice wish list, hopefully it dint turn out like Austin Powers kinda list..the baby thing is the only thing which cannot be possible done with self help :-)...

Cane-an said...

Hey "innovation"
I am NOT talking about necessarily my baby!
You want me to show your baby its first sunrise, I'm still game!

sbharti said...

oops.. tat was graceful, kind of moments u cherish n wanna feel, but wat is this "bengali" thing popping up? were/are u a bengali?

PS : lol i was surely expecting this to come now or then, but so soon? :D lol.. watch out promos for bucket list at http://thebucketlist.warnerbros.com/ , having nicholson n freeman, kinda desparately waiting for it..

Cane-an said...

No No...I am NOT Bengali.
I happen to know a bit of that language and my Grand-Dad used to be a Bengali Scholar

Divya said...

ur blog made a nice read..especially this one & goin home one..its always nice to have lists of what one wants as thats what dreams are comprised of