25 Things I Wish To Do Before I Can't Do Them

There are three major reasons for this post. In order of priority, here they are:

1. B would be very, very angry if I do this any later ;)
2. N has been waiting a long time for a new entry.
3. A third entry in a month is a huge personal achievement for me.

What is the purpose of life?

This post is not meant to be philosophical (the complete opposite, in fact). It's just a good introduction to what follows. Unless you're a believer in destiny, I guess most of you will agree with me that we live to dream and then do whatever it takes to fulfil them. Agreed, those 'dreams' are influenced by the opinions of others sometimes and our own shortcomings at other times. But there would be a general consensus that we would be happiest if we just did what we wanted and didn't care a damn about what others would think. And I'll stop right here because whatever I just wrote is best suited for a different entry altogether. The basic idea here is that all of us have the wildest of dreams and so do I... so here I am sharing those with you. So, as they come to mind, here are the *Read the title now*

(There'll be a wide spectrum of things... ranging from piece-of-cake to never-gonna-happen, so just bear with my fantasies and in the meanwhile, do some dreaming of your own. I guarantee it'll make you feel really good!)

1. Study at Harvard/MIT/Oxford.
2. Be a National Geographic photographer. And since my career choices don't allow that, basically become really good at photography and do looooooooooots of wildlife shoots.
3. Visit Alaska and see some live polar bear action.
4. Feel the snow fall on my face.
5. See the northern lights a.k.a. Aurora Borealis.
6. Fly first class. (Beds passed off for seats, 5 course meals, wine lists and I've heard they serve different varieties of cheese after dinner!)
7. Become fluent at atleast one foreign language.
8. Live in the US for some period of time. That country has fascinated me for as long as I can remember and I have to experience that way of life once.
9. Trek through Ladakh and Tibet. Walk along those deep blue, crystal clear, picture perfect lakes under huge azure skies.
10. Watch the Soccer and Cricket world cup finals, especially if India is taking part. (In the latter of course! (I'm not that much of a dreamer))
11. Complete 100 posts on blogger.
12. Watch a bestseller at Broadway.
13. A transatlantic cruise on the RMS Queen Mary 2.
14. Visit each of India's bird hotspots and spot every one of the 1200+ bird species resident in the country.
15. Bungee jumping! Here would be good ;)
16. Learn how to eat crab. (I've heard it tastes very good but I've seen just how impossibly hard it is to eat)
17. Read all the Tintins, Asterix, Archies and P.G. Wodehouse ever published.
18. Swim in the sea. I've been to beaches many times but never had the guts to actually swim in the open sea. And I should add snorkeling with this point only.
19. Discover/invent something great to do with genetics and become famous, of course!
20. Spend an entire day watching Laurel and Hardy & Tom and Jerry.
21. Get on the wrong side of law, just for kicks. And not get caught, of course.
22. Watch Aerosmith live.
23. Ride a roller coaster with those crazy loops and unbelievable drops.
24. Visit the Great Wall of China and the pyramids of Egypt.
25. And finally, to do half he things mentioned above, I'll need loads and loads of money!

So that completes my list. And in case you're wondering why I wrote this entry at all, it's because a fellow blogger had 'tagged' me. Which means she wrote a similar entry coz someone else tagged her and then she tagged her friends who had to make this list. So now that I have completed my list, I'd like to give other friends a chance to dream. So I tag:

Nitish, Shivani, Sunali, Abhimanyu (how about starting blogging dude?)