Monday, December 29, 2014

My Bucket List

1.       Learn Baking
2.       Try River Rafting
3.       Learn Yoga (in process)
4.       Learn a foreign language
5.       Do pencil sketching atleast once
6.       Learn driving both two wheeler and four wheeler
7.       Try Quilling
8.       Learn Hip Hop
9.       Visit Goa
10.    Visit Andaman and Nicobar Islands
11.    Visit the North-Eastern states
12.    Do sky diving in Dubai (Sheesh I missed it the last time I visited Dubai)
13.    Do scuba diving (did in Colombo)
14.    Buy a house
15.    Try photography
16.    Travel the entire Europe (ok not the entire Europe – but       Belgium, Czech, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Greece, Croatia, Slovakia and Vatican City)
17.    Host a New Year’s Party
18.    Take up 108 suryanamaskars challenge
19.    Lose upto 10 kilos (not possible I know)
20.    Try a full body spa
21.    Write a book (Really???)
22.    Have a disciplined lifestyle (I think this is nva gonna happen)
23.    Visit Leh Ladakh
24.    Visit Kolkata during Durga Pooja Festival
25.    Get a Yoga Certification
26.    Travel to South East Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines)
27.    Travel to UAE (Visited Dubai and Abu Dhabi)
28.    Run a Half Marathon and a Full Marathon
29.    Volunteer at an NGO
30.    Visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar
31.    Get a PADI Scuba Diving Certification
32.    Participate in a Triathlon
33.    Go skiing
34.    Try Paragliding
35.    Get a second piercing on my ears
36.    Give the biggest surprise to someone
37.    Fly in a hot air balloon
38.    Get a piercing done on my navel
39.    Visit an Old Age Home
40.    Visit Sula Vineyards (Yippee.. Visited at the right time – Sula Fest)
41.    Design my dream house
42.    Become a Vegetarain for atleast a month
43.    Try Meditation
44.    Try Vipasana
45.    Paint a Wine Bottle
46.    Fly First Class
47.    Go on a Cruise
48.    Fly in a helicopter
49.    Attend a Costume Party
50.    Visit an Underwater Restaurant
51.    Try trekking with Youth Hostels Association of India
52.    Try Parasailing
53.    Build my mini library (in the process – 100 books)
54.    Take a solo trip (Andamans !!!)
55.    Make a Visualization Board
56.    Get a Tattoo done
57.    Complete 28 days of Magic (Did twice!!!)
58.    Try pottery
59.    Visit Niagara Falls (yippee – someone has invited me!!!)
60.    Act in a play
61.    Shoot a Gun
62.    Witness Snowfall
63.    Send a Message in a Bottle
64.    Learn to use chopsticks
65.    Sing at a function
66.    Try Desert Safari
67.    Go Sailing
68.    Travel in a boathouse in Kerala
69.    Hold a Snake
70.    Have a healthy diet (a tough one again !!!)
71.    Get a Gratitude Journal and write down the blessings consistently
72.    Read The Suitable Boy (the fattest book I’ve ever seen)
73.    Get my nose pierced
74.    Try Zip Lining
75.    Visit the Blind Restaurant in Hyderabad
76.    Have dinner by the lake side (Amrai Restaurant in Udaipur)
77.    Play Golf (Did in Amby Valley)
78.    Read the Bhagavad Gita (in process), The Bible and The Quran
79.    Visit the Egyptian Pyramids
80.    Try fasting on fruits for a week
81.    Try the African Safari (Blended)
82.    Visit Burj Khalifa
83.    Attend a Punjabi Wedding (I don’t have any Punjabi fnds !!! )
84.    Donate Blood
85.    Donate an organ
86.    Let out a floating Lantern
87.    Pay off all my loans
88.    Attend a TV show (as audience)
89.    Participate in a cyclathon
90.    Attend a book launch event (missed the Half Girlfriend book launch event)
91.     Try a brunch (tried it out in The Little Door)
92.    Lighten my entire house during Diwali (I always light but not the entire house)
93.    Try Jet Ski on my own (Did in Colombo!!!)
94.    Try Water Rappelling
95.     Attend a Sonu Nigam Concert (dream since the last 15 years!!!)
96.    Start drinking Green Tea (I hate to do this but I wna do it badly)
97.    Attend a Fashion Show (attended the Lakme Fashion Week)
98.    Witness a Horse Race Event
99.     Visit the Auroville Ashram in Pondicherry
100.Buy a DSLR cam
101.Stay in an ICE Hotel
102.Witness the Northern Lights
103.Attend a Photography Course
104.Play Holi (I have played only wn I was a child..)
105.Play Dandya
106.Visit a Casino
107.Visit Elephanta Caves, Aksa Beach, Mumba Devi Temple, Hanging Gardens (Some of the places left out to visit in Mumbai)
108.Participate in a night marathon
109.Visit Maldives
110.Trek the Himalayas
111.Go on top of Marina Bay Sands (missed it the last time I went to Singapore)
112.Swim on a roof-top swimming pool
113.Visit Hongkong and Macau
114.Run on Carters
115.Visit a Castle
116.Make a huge Rangoli
117.Sing at a Karaoke event (someone else suggested me this)
118.Try atleast 1 dish every month
119.Set up a mini garden in the bedroom balcony
120.Learn to play atleast 1 song on the Keyboard
121.Walk the Great Wall of China
122.Go on a nightwalk in South Bombay and click some pics of those ancient buildings
123.Watch the play – Battle of Da Sexes
124.Visit Australia and New Zealand
125.Make a hyperlapse video of any city
126.Create a blog
127.Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
128.Go camping
129.Visit Igzau Falls in Argentina
130.Do fish pedicure
131.Sleep under the stars on a beach
132.Trek to Dudh Sagar
133.Prepare a Memory Jar for an entire year
134.Take a flight to a random destination
135.Attend a music concert (attended Arijit Singh’s concert)
136.Ride on a camel
137.Go hiking
138.Go on top of Eiffel Tower
139.Read the book India by John Keay
140.Visit the Hobbit Huts in New Zealand
141.Ride in a Gondola in Venice
142.Get married to the love of my life
143.Visit the Great Barrier Reef
144.Try knitting
145.Cliff Diving
146.Go on a date with a stranger
147.Go to a wine fest
148.Collect magnets of every country that I visit