I know that the title of this particular post sounds like a regular rant, but it has more to do with a recent novelty if i can call it, i saw. While crawling on the world wide web I came across this nifty little list somebody had made. Some of you might be critical about the "earnestness" with which i came across such a list, or to the cliched nature of it but i think this would be a nice little way to put life in perspective. I guess this would be the ultimate, the end all of all agendas, or at least it ought to be.
One hundred things to do before i die, has almost an apocalyptic sound to it. But then again, i am going to be a bit avaricious and just let the list go on for as long as i can think of more things to do. Limiting just to a 100 sounds a bit too "in-the-box" for a remotely "out-of-the-box" idea as this.
Combine this list with the death clock (hopefully they can make one sometime which actually works), and you have the secret to living a fruitful life. :)
Without further ado - Things to do before I die
- Get married to the one (all who think this is lame, eat my shorts).
- Go bungee jumping.
- Base-jump from Taipei 101 or which ever is the tallest building in the world.
- Go Snorkeling.
- Ride on a dolphin's back
- Go skinny dipping with the one
Catch a snowflake on my tongue- Dive into the mariana trench.
- Get a Brazilian wax.
- Fly a glider.
- Go to Everest Base camp.
- Jam with Joe Satriani, Saul Hudson, Eric Johnson, Joe Perry together.
- Go and live on an uninhabited island belonging to an Archipelago, preferably somewhere in the Pacific.
- Make someone really really desolate and poor, some one I don't even know really REALLY happy.
- See the look on that person's face.
- Do a good deed, see its results and walk away, without waiting for any adulation.
- Hear the call of a Hump backed whale...LIVE!
- Change the status of a vertebrate from "Extinct in the wild" to "Least Concern".
- Go and thank the makers of Google and Wikipedia.
- Learn the art of wine tasting.
- Taste at least all the good wines.
- Make my own wine.
- Make breakfast in bed for the one.
- Learn to make the perfect biryani.
Finally make egg in the basket someday.- Make Calvinian snowmen.
- Make my own comic strip.
Read all of Calvin and Hobbes. and Pearls before swine.- Learn to use a gun.
- Be a Sharpshooter.
- Rebut all the people, using all the rebuttals I came up with later. :)
Raise a "stub" to article status on Wikipedia.- Write a completely new article for Wikipedia.
- Donate to Wikipedia.
- Have my picture taken by Google Earth Satellites.
- Ride a cruiser and a super car in a desert.
- Find a meteorite in the desert.
- Stay at a Naturist Resort.
Sleep under a starry sky.- Visit Austria, Bora Bora, Iceland and most importantly the Pitcairn Islands (also here).
- Hear sights and see sounds.
- Spend time in a Sensory Deprivation Tank.
- Learn Hypnosis.
- Create a phenomenal instrumental track.
Splurge money on somebody else.- Get a personal computer, with the fastest processor I can, with the highest RAM I can put in it, with the best graphics adapter and sound card, with a laser mouse, with a goliath hard disk and plasma screen for a monitor, not because I need it, but because I WANT it :), and play games on it online on a "T3 or higher" connection.
- Possibly buy Bag end from Peter Jackson. (Jackson took it to his vacation home :( )
- Read Lord of the Rings cover to cover.
- Learn Elvish and Quenyan.
- Get a Tattoo.
Get Cornrows.I didn't do this, just don't want to, my hair hurts when its pulled that tight, and I don't think it's that cool.- Learn Falconry.
- Meet Keyra Augustina.
- Start a free career counseling website for health professionals.
- Buy a Shack at Arambol, and call it "Peace & Love".
- Own an Island.
