The things i need to do before i kick the bucket

Well life is too short to for anyone let it make its own road. Time and tide never stopped for no one and as i already mentioned in my time post "the clock starts the very day you were born" ......... so i thought now that i see quiet a few years to live before me (i.e. if all goes well) i might as well make a list of the 20 things i would like to do before i kicked the bucket. so here it goes

1. See the 7 wonders of the world
   
2. Base jumping from the Himalayas
   
3. Bungee jump from Sydney harbor bridge
   
4. White water rafting in the rapids of Nile
5. Meet up wit my first crush
6. Drive a Bugatti veyron flat out over the salt flats of Utah
7. Drive a formula 1 car all by myself (atleast a lap)
8. Piss all over parvez musharraf
9. Have 2 saint Bernard's as pets
10. Pilot a single engined plane across the atlantic
11. Own the next tech behemoth
12. Discover something bigger than post-it
13. A Trip from kanyakumai to Leh on my custom Harley
14. Fall truly deeply madly in love
15. Imprison every corrupt politician in the world.
16. Go on an african safari
17. Drive through the streets of pune im my Lamborghini LP 640
    
18. Buy a diamond studded Rolex
19. Own a bungalow on a small Island
20. Own my private yatch (a 120 foot pirelli yatch)

Hmm even if I can achieve 5 out of these 20 i would consider myself to have accomplished everything i have dreamed off (well almost)

But then who are we kidding, I know that only those who dare to dream dare to achieve ...... so what the heck.

BTW my birthday is on the 5th of June so if you want to gift me something you know what i want.

Hoping to live the dreams

- Innocent Bystander

Vienna

Billy Joel

Slow down you crazy child
You're so ambitious for a juvenile
But then if you're so smart tell me why
Are you still so afraid?
Where's the fire, what's the hurry about?
You better cool it off before you burn it out
You got so much to do and only
So many hours in a day

But you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want
Or you can just get old
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through
When will you realize...Vienna waits for you

Slow down you're doing fine
You can't be everything you want to be
Before your time
Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight (tonight)
Too bad but it's the life you lead
You're so ahead of yourself
That you forgot what you need
Though you can see when you're wrong
You know you can't always see when you're right(you're right)

You got your passion you got your pride
But don't you know that only fools are satisfied?
Dream on but don't imagine they'll all come true
When will you realize
Vienna waits for you

Slow down you crazy child
Take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while
It's alright you can afford to lose a day or two
When will you realize...
Vienna waits for you.

And you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want
Or you can just get old
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through
Why don't you realize...Vienna waits for you
When will you realize...Vienna waits for you

A life worth peanuts

A few weeks back I was backpacking cross country just to get to know more about the country. It was great fun, we traveled 1000’s of kilometers at the minimum possible cost - hitchhiking , traveling without tickets were the order of the day. This was the first time I ever made a trip like this and boy ohh boy was it fun! This also happened to be the second time in my life that I boarded a general compartment of a train (first being during my internship in Gujarat), life now seems so different; before the trip I was oblivious to the harshness of the world. I never knew what it felt like to travel in a 4by 6 sqft place along with 30 odd people (yeah its true). A true eye opener, I remember I used to crib when had to share the sofa with my sister while I lounged all over it and here we had 7 people sitting on a ransacked wooden bench meant for 3 (while it was at its prime); god knows how they did it? but they all managed to squeeze out every last bit of space from between their bones (coz that’s all they were made off). The train finally started as I breathed a sigh of relief, things could only get better now; but as usual Mr Murphy managed to make an appearance, as the train slowly chugged its way people started running for the entrance, (how they planned to get in is a whole different story).

As the train caught speed, it seemed that now its too much of a risk for anyone to board the train now - I felt the hellish ordeal was over, Suddenly this frail 5 footer pops up and tells me to hold his bag while he runs like his lungs will pop out of his mouth and being a nice guy (Ahem Ahem!!) I take the bag an place it where my left foot was before(now its pretty much suspended) .The guy having a negligibly small mass manages to squeezes himself through the crevices (please don’t ask which) between people there and manages to make it to the middle of the compartment. Now the guy wants his bag back, to which I promptly reply “Please take in when the next station arrives , there is no place for me to bend down here” (not to forget with just one leg on the floor). Then he utters the magic words which have me astounded he says “I got on the train because of what is in the bag”, suddenly half of the compartment is shuffling around just to make enough space to retrieve his bag. I started wondering what could be in that bag that was so important to him, I thought maybe something really precious, that’s why he took such a big risk to board that train.

Well irony and life are twins that never got separated. After a few seconds of pause to let his lungs recuperate the guy peeks into his back and then calls out “Karare namkeen moongphali le loo 3 rupyee main 50 gram” (salted peanuts neone – 3Rs for a pack of 50 grams). I stand there on one foot contemplating and cursing myself what a big jackass I’m. within 15-20 minutes the man finds that all the sales potential of the compartment has been exhausted so he plans to move to the next compartment.

Easier thought than done, the train was doing an easy 80 kmph fast enough to scare the shit out of the guy hanging near the door, that’s when the frail fellow decides to move to the next compartment and within a few seconds just vanishes from the compartment . He apparently switched compartments by climbing onto the windows of the train, hmm tell sean connery from the great train robbery to eat shit we got some one who did the same thing much faster and without ropes. Great huhh

I was not until another 10 minutes that I was hit by the stark difference in the lives of people, here, I had so much more in life ( infact more than the guy could dream off ) than that man and still I complained. The guy was Risking life and limb for a bag of peanuts worth no more than 200 rupees , the double of which I blow off if I happened to go for a single movie ……. Wow , It hit me and it hit me really hard. I wonder what did he do wrong to deserve a life like that and what did I do right to deserve a life like this? I have many unanswered questions in my mind which baffle and scare me. Why do I deserve more than him ? Or does’nt everyone deserve at least the basic needs of a human being . I started to hate myself for no apparent reason, for not being able to do anything or not being able to feel anything all this while. I feel helpless because I know no matter what anyone thinks nothing is going to change in the coming years.

Its only when you stop looking at the stars and start looking at the ground that you truly get the picture. Dreams, Ambition etc are important but so are equality and the lives of the lesser fortunate.

The Fool on the Hill

Beatles

Day after day alone on the hill The man with the foolish grin
is keeping perfectly still But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool And he never gives an answer

But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head See the world spinning round

Well on the way, his head in a cloud The man of a thousand voices
is talking perfectly loud But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make And he never seems to notice

But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head See the world spinning round

Oh, round, round, round, round, round And nobody seems to like him
they can tell what he wants to do And he never shows his feelings

But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head See the world spinning round

Oh, round, round, round, round, round And he never listen to them
He knows that they're the fools But they don't like him

The fool on the hill sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head See the world spinning round

Oh, round, round, round, round, round oh

Im back

Yes I's back with loadsa stuff to tell you guys about

wohaa I'm back in black

Back In Black

ACDC

Back in black, I hit the sack,
I've been too long, I'm glad to be back!
Yes, I'm let loose from the noose,
That's kept me hangin' around!
I keep a-lookin' at the sky 'cause it's makin me high,
Forget the hearse 'cause I'll never die!
I got nine lives, cat's eyes,
Abusin' every one of them and runnin' wild!

'Cause I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm ba-a-a-ack!
Ba-a-a-ack!
Well, I'm back in black!
Yes, I'm back in black!

Ow!

Back in the back of a cadilac
Number one with a bullet, I'm a power-pack!
Yes, I'm in a bang with a gang,
They got to catch me if they want me to hang!
'Cause I'm back on the track and I'm living to fuck,
Nobody's gonna get me on another rap!
For look at me now, I'm justa makin' my play,
Don't try to push your luck, just get outta my way!

'Cause I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yeah, I'm back!
Yes, I'm ba-a-a-ack!
Ba-a-a-ack!
Well, I'm back in black!
Yes, I'm back in black!

Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm ba-a-a-ack!
Ba-a-a-ack!
Well, I'm back in black!
Yes, I'm back in black!

Ow!

Aw, yeah! Let's go!
Keep on goin'! Yeah-yeah!
Yeah... aw, yeah-yeah!
Here we go!

Well, I'm ba-a-a-ack! (I'm back!)
Ba-a-a-ack! (Well, I'm back!)
Ba-a-a-ack! (I'm back!)
Ba-a-a-ack! (I'm back!)
Ba-a-a-ack! (I'm back!)
Ba-a-a-ack!
Back in black!
Yes, I'm back in black!