Things to do at least once this year (or the next):
Cook a three course meal
(For the record, it was Salad with Chunky Chat Masala, Dal Fry + Bhindi Fry and Cake!)
Make someone a birthday gift
Visit a foreign country!
Get hopelessly drunk
Draw comics
Create a board game
Start to learn a foreign language
Take someone wonderful out on a long, aimless walk
See tigers!
Write a short story
Bungee Jump
Fill up a bookshelf
Kiss someone I really like
See snow-capped mountains
Buy a fancy jacket for the winter
Do something meaningful at work
Start playing music again
(Finally!)
Pull an all-night videogame marathon (Singleplayer doesn’t count)
(It was about as ‘all-night’ as we could manage. Guitar Hero was made for parties)
Go to the Eldorado Bar in Jangpura.
Start the New Delhi Board Games Club
(It’s the Delhi Board Games Society now)
Expanded List created on the occasion of the Chinese New Year
- Visit the Studio Ghibli museum near Tokyo
- Get a fancy haircut
- Buy a next-generation games console
- Find and eat at this Burmese Kitchen place in Delhi
- Go to the ‘Wild Fire’ pub in Gurgaon
- Make a birthday gift
- Expand the Delhi Board Games Society (look us up on Facebook!)
- Throw a successful party
- Get a Tampunk T-shirt
- eat Ramen
- Meet China Mieville (he’ll be in Bangalore in March!)
- Treat someone to that Dimsum lunch in Yum Yum Tree
- Go on a spontaneous weekend holiday
(River Rafting!)
- Visit Lakshadweep!
- Stay colour-free on Holi – FAILED
- Learn Pearl Jam’s ‘Alive’ on the guitar.
- Attend an international music festival. Has to be of the Glastonbury, Download, Bonnaroo, SXSW, All Tomorrow’s Parties kind. KINDA DONE.
Three course meal! Three course meal! Get hopelessly drunk! Stuff on the list I want in on.
Ah man, fancy jackets. My life, I think, has taken the sorry course it has thanks largely to my parents’ refusal to get me a fancy jacket when I was a kid.
And now, when I am capable of buying myself a fancy jacket, I do not want one.
I think it was the same with me, except it was fancy GI Joe that was always denied.
Also, I did buy a fancy jacket! it’s dark blue, and has mandarin characters near where the pocket is. So its quite obviously a working-class Chinese jacket.
Ooh, beauty saar, byooty!
Hey Sottai,
If time permitted, I would have accompanied you to Eldorado Bar…. hope you fulfill all of these in a month’s time.
EDIT: Sorry about the edit Manju – Don’t want my real name mentioned here.
Isnt Knorr Soup, Maggi Noodles and Kulfi a three course meal?
Nope, doesn’t count unless the Kulfi is made at home.
The closest I’ve come so far is: homemade Soup, Maggi and Cake from cake mix. The last was particularly awesome before it got sent to the oven. When it came out, it was merely okay.
Let me know when you want to strike off no. 8. I am not kidding.
=) I’m always up for long, aimless walks! It’s lovely weather now too, in Delhi.
=) Wish I was there..
Ooooo.. When and how did the getting hopelessly drunk bit happen?
I’m not telling! =)
Dude, we should so start a Tampunk T-shirt design contest.
And I know I’m a pedant, but isn’t it spelled Lakshadweep?
You are correct. Fixed.
Dear Sottai,
Is the long guitar solo part of “Alive” included in your to-do list?
Regards,
Puppy Manohar
Of course! The rest of the song is mere chordery and minor arpeggiory.
thanks,
u’ve inspired me to make my own list
Ooh. You went on long, aimless walk. Fantastic!
Wow..I love this list
He he …