20 before 30

Well staying alone in US is giving me lotta time for self dialogue. I came up with this (yet another) list of the stuff I wanna do before I turn the frightful 30 (not in a particular order). I wanted it to be "30 before 30", but din wanna write anything for the heck of it, so here it comes..... 20 before 30....

I will need a lotta help on the way... so stick around guys....

1) Run my own NGO in Rural Supply Chain or Education - Non Profit
2) Start a Branding/Advertising firm or a Service providing website - Profit :P
3) Go to the best B-School.... On scholarship of course :P
4) Complete IMDb top 250 list... Thanks to Sagar will finish it very soon :D
5) Read at least 250 books.
6) Own a chain of coffee cum book store... The best in India.
7) Direct a movie and script it too.. Well this might go a lil beyond 30
8.) Write a book
9) Have a Website of my own which is updated regularly.
10) Learn dancing... Singing is outta question so dancing.. at least 1 performing art.
11) Learn to play a musical instrument and perform with a band, Drums lessons to resume soon .
12) Learn swimming and do all water sports :D :D
13) Learn to play Tennis (Had initial courses at Fargo :P)
14) Run a full Marathon and keep doing it every year 13)Watch Tennis Grand Slams, Cricket World Cup, F1 race, Football Finals :D :D
15) Learn a Foreign language
16) Build a school... At my native village or some village.... Ruju, you will be there na???
17) Complete at least 5 treks every year.
18) Go backpacking to Europe w/o a plan
19) Make as many blog/net friends as possible. Continue hanging out with my friends every day and stay insane :D :D
20) Get well recognised in whatever I finally settle down to do.

P.S: My Bday updates n US travel coming up shortly...Its under construction....

Lists...

For all you know, I'm completely obsessed by lists.

Anything and everything I have to do, HAS to arranged in an order of Priority called a "LIST"....

I make Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, decadely (if thats even a word) , etc... All kinds of list...

During the good old Engineering days, when the exam time creeped loser and closer I drilled down from monthly to weekly to daily to even hourly lists... Phew... Never ever followed even a single and ended up lookin at the syllabus only in the last few hours....

But, this never detered my ambition to keep making TO-DO lists....

I can't start tellin you how thrilled I was to see a Widget which is dedicated to making lists.. It HAD to be a part of MY blog... I could fill the pages with lists of various categories, but became generous (yet again) and spared you guys (Assumption: Someone is readin this crappy page...)

From lists in my mind, to paper, to clip boards, to white board and now on .xls sheets, Outlook and Mobiles, it has been a rolller coster ride... Loved every phase of list making :D :D I can demark this stages into the stages of my growin up (if at all I did...)

So by this I add a Widget to my page where in i will scribble all my TO-DOs....