1:18 pm | 17 May 2009 ∞ Permalink

My bucket list

  1. Bungee jumping (or sky diving).
  2. Read all of Shakespeare’s plays.
  3. Meet Khaled Hosseini.
  4. Fall hopelessly in love.
  5. Be loved hopelessly.
  6. Run/walk a marathon.
  7. Write a message in a bottle and throw it into the ocean.
  8. Solve a Rubik’s cube in less than a minute.
  9. Learn Haskell/other obscure programming languages. =D
  10. Build and gift someone a robot.
  11. Spend a month in every continent.
  12. Speak at least five non-Indian languages.
  13. Get ∞ tattooed on the back of my hand.
  14. Spend a month in a monastery.
  15. Adopt a child.
  16. Meet Rajnikanth.
  17. Learn to play some instrument well.
  18. Perform a carnatic concert.
  19. Go to a thousand carnatic concerts.
  20. Learn to draw/paint.
  21. Publish or present an academic paper.
  22. Jump off a bridge/cliff into a clean river (which effectively eliminates the Charles).
    Jumped off a cliff with Erin McCreary into the Ganga on the 13th of June 2009.
  23. Grow a beard for at least a month.
    Done! June 12th 2009 - July 12th 2009!
  24. Travel in a ship for more than a week.
  25. Read Thoreau in Walden.
  26. Learn to dance.
  27. Keep a journal.
    Kept one starting June 14th 2009.
  28. Build my personal website.
  29. Travel without plans.
  30. Ski!
  31. Stand at the north or south pole.
  32. Smoke a cigar.
  33. Meditate regularly.
  34. Learn Tai Chi.
  35. Take a picture with John McLaughlin.
  36. Cook an entire meal by myself.
  37. Send a Postsecret card.
  38. Win a (preferably HUGE) stuffed toy at a carnival.
  39. Be in a hot air balloon.
  40. Buy and jump in my OWN trampoline.
  41. Go back and spend an entire day in the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.