101 things that I want to do in life

With little introduction to the title of the post, I am going to start typing right away...

just two things: 

1. These are in no particular order of priority/ relevance... 

2. I am probably not going to type 101 things at one go...

3. (I know there were supposed to be 2 things, but I just changed my mind). I am posting after a loooooong time, not because I didnt feel like, but because in the effort to keep it anonymous, I shifted the authorship of the blog to a new gmail ID and then forgot the new username and password :D.... but (very luckily) just when I had completely given up on efforts to retrieve it, I just manage to recover my uname/pswd!!!!!

4. (ok, I have already broken the '2' limit). For the record, I am posting from Istanbul, in transit to Dusseldorf (Germany). I am comfortably seated in a business lounge; and while I am trying not to flaunt it, the real fact is that contrary to my own expectations (that I will be ambivalent to B-class), I actually loved it; no reasons for guessing why..... why because, I managed to peacefully sleep for 5 straight hours in a flight :) 

Now, to the subject matter of the post...

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1. Start and actively manage a gardening blog

2. Start writing poetry again. - hindi poetry preferably

3. Try my hand at quilling. I just bought a quilling kit. I think they have just started selling those in India... I am yup so happy!!

4. Euro trip with 'AM'

5. Join dance classes

6. Learn Indian classical dance (pref Bharatnayan/ kuchipudi...) some day..

7. If I have a daughter, I will enable her to learn Indian classical dance (dont gimme that look, I am not 'forcing'  my yet-unplanned-unborn-may-be-a-girl child.... I said I will 'enable' her ;-)

8. Want to be a mother - well I will discuss this on a separate post someday

9. Speak fluent Bengali... I can speak in bits and pieces currently

10. I will keep my hair short n'sexy when I am 50+

11. Do a temperature-raising salsa number.... now this one is preferably with 'AM' again; but, he has two left feet, so... I mean I have to do the number anyhow!!! 

12. Be a good manager, a good boss 

13. Learn swimming... at least enough to make use of a pool!

14. Be a sexy mom

15. Sketch better, sketch extensively

16. Be good at my office stuff - no matter what I do, I should do it well... very well

17. See Ajanta Ellora

18. See Hampi

19. See Ladakh someday, though its difficult for some undisclosable reasons :( 

..... to be continued...

Sad & angry

Me is sad.... and angry...

All the excitement of shifting into a new (rented) house has been marred by the current owner refusing to give back our security deposit. Quite a harassing situation I tell ya! Apart from the the fact that we are losing money, the worst thing is the feeling of helplessness ('helplessness' is one feeling that a control-freak like me do not like AT ALL!)...  Just can't accept the fact that he can simply not return our money!!! We are in NO MOOD to give up, less or more, its OUR hard-earned money, and I WANT it BACK :|.

Second the 'honour killings' bother me a lot.... Is this the India our children will grow up in? What is my gotra (my husband's or my father's)? why should my gotra change after marriage? what is gotra anyways and why should it be so paramount?...and what is caste? what is my caste? again, my husband's or my father's.... why should it change anyways.... what would be my kids' caste?? why should it be my husband's caste and not mine ?? do I like it, No....... do I like my husband?... Yes, & I love him too (and very much at that!). Guess the last one is one comforting point that helps me bear the rest of the nonsense that this world is becoming (or may be always was)

... and I wonder again...

Do i love him with all my 'mind'?
Yes


Do i love him with all my 'heart'?
YES


Do i love him with all my 'soul'?
YEP


Do i love him with all my 'physical self' ;-) ? 
YEAH


and do you think the same is true from his side?? 
yes :)


Oye lucky, te tainu fikar kaisii!!

Appended: "Part 0: If you were to look at your life from outside...... What advice would you give yourself.."

Just thought I should more light on the intent and context of this question... "If you were to look at your life from outside...... What advice would you give yourself.."

The intent is that if someone doesn't know me completely i.e. he/she has a 5 minute (/10 minute/few weeks) discussion with me - how will he/she perceive me as a person? what will he/she advice me?

Also, the second perspective, if I was an acquaintance (/colleague/ boss/ peon/ subordinate etc) of myself, what advice would I give to myself..?

just for an example "Oh! she is sincere, but I wish she was more driven", "she is nice but gets moody"

Now, this might or might not match with my understanding of myself... but yet it might be true. And in cases where I would think that its not true, it will give me an opportunity to see why an outsider will perceive otherwise....

Then there can be so many other perspectives too... what if I was a book-writer...? I might say "Well, your life was exciting till point A, but you lost control after point B"

if I was my door plant "You take a lot of care of me, but its sporadic....

Part 1: If you were to look at your life from outside...... What advice would you give yourself..

1. Dear A, you should be monitor yourself for traces of pride and arrogance. While pride is good to an extent, if it goes unchecked it might turn into "arrogance"

A speaks: Am I arrogant?

Frankly, I am not really sure; most probably you are a borderline case.

PS: 'A' is me :)

Part 0: If you were to look at your life from outside...... What advice would you give yourself..

I intended to post this few weeks back...

Its a question for myself, and I think it is one of the questions I would like to ask myself every now and then...

Without wasting any more time or words on introduction, I would bring up the question directly:

"Part 0: If you were to look at your life from outside...... What advice would you give yourself.."