My Bucket List

On a lazy, and i mean really really lazy Sunday afternoon , I realized my T-shirt
was far too dirty to wipe my food smeared hands on , and decided to do a quick
wash up . Rugged haired, and sleepy eyed, wearing curry smeared T shirt and
an year and a half old shorts, I found my self too irresistible to not to indulge in
a bit of self vanity in the mirror. But horror off horror, I spotted a Grey hair, and
that to not on my head.And before some of you start running your thoughts in any
wrong directions , let me add that the Grey hair was in my beard, just to the right
side of my upper lip.
I would not have been too bothered on spotting a half baked hair on my head,
for that i can easily pass on as a sign of some one whose job involves a lot of thinking
and brain racking work.I do not in any way however endorse the fact that I.T professionals
are intellectual people.
But a Grey in my beard was clearly a sign of life leading down hill from here on.So the roll
of toilet paper is more then half used up. That calls for some rethinking, re-planning and re-estimation.. yeah you cant leave these out even in your day to day life.
What with so so many things left to do in life and with the growing speed at which we have started living our lives, there is so very little time left ahead.
The sudden realization that i have reached , or at least neared the summit and it will be all down hill from "hair" pressed me to come up with my own Bucket list.
A bucket list at the fag end of the life may include , from a large set, only a few thing that you want to do before you reach your expiry date. But at my age, a bucket list would include not only the must haves but the good to haves and the may of may not haves.
And again , more time to do things means , more time to procrastinate and keep pushing things for later, a dream come true... isn't it.
So here goes in no particular order. .

• Do a stage performance,and not end up sucking at it .
• Get over my fear of ridding bikes(Yeah ,right , i don't ride bikes.. so what .. )
• Date at least one girl each from each of the continents(give and take Antarctica).
• Survive a major accident( since an Accident is written in my palm lines, I'd rather hope to survive it ) .
• Gamble big money(winning isn't important,so this would probably be the last one i try to fulfill).
• Learn to swim.
• Write a book , inspired by my own life.
  
• Visit Manali .(give it up, there are no girls or money involved here, I just wanna go).
  
• Top 150kmph on a highway(Just making sure the task of surviving an accident doesn't have to wait for too long).
  
• End up with a feeling that my raise is too high after an appraisal round.
• Save enough in a month's salary to think of investments ( its either this one or the 5 continents one, not both for sure).
• Bitch slap some one ( any one , really any one) .
  
• Be hit upon, by a hottie in a club.
• And then turning her down( not because I swing the other way , for a proof see see the rest of the list) .
  
• Be the authority on some issue (even if its about what brand of toilet paper to buy).
• Grow a beard for some time ( and maybe dye it up ;) )
• Dude it up ( I don't know what it means, it just sounds cool).
• Be on TV ( would like that to be for the launch of my book, or wining on that big gamble , and definitely not because of the accident).
  
• Ask a manager technology to debug my code ( and see him fail .. he he ).
• Be involved in a brawl ( fist fight to be exact) and come out on top .
• Work up some serious muscles ( helps survive mishaps, beat up people, look good on TV, pick up girls .. this is a must haves).
• Have a protege.
• Give drinking and smoking a shot( just in case the accident doesn't kill me , or the 5 continents thing doesn't work out).
• Vote (don't you need a voters Id for that.. I am not closed on it being in India for sure).
  
• Laugh ( at people,look out for the list of names in my book ).
• (censored, for your safety).
• Get a barbwire tattoo on my arm. ( or whatever is in vogue 20 years hence).
  
• (censored, for my safety).
• Be stalked by a lady.
  
• Go back to school to study literature ( or to make interesting chapters for the book).
• Attend my school/college reunions ( juts that).
• Euro Trip ( must haves .. hmmmmm).
• Wear Versace ( and not look gay).
• Have great hair once again.
• and continuing......

How I plan to do all this amid the usual hustle bustle, is another story.