150 things to do before you turn 30

Suttufied list from another blog.

The rules of the tag are,

• Bold for things you have already done.
• Italics for things that you are dying to do!

1. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
2. Swam with dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain (Azhagar kovil counts? )
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Hugged a tree
9. Bungee jumped
10. Visited Paris
11. Watched a lightning storm at sea
12. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
13. Seen the Northern Lights
14. Gone to a huge sports game
15. Walked the stairs to the top of the Eiffel
16. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
17. Touched an iceberg
18. Slept under the stars
19. Changed a baby’s diaper
20. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
21. Watched a meteor shower
22. :P
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse (metaphorically yes)
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total (partial) eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Scored more than 20 runs in an over.
36. Danced like a fool and didn’t care who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 29 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched whales
45. Stolen a sign  ( Examination in Progress from web design lab is on my bedroom door. \m/ )
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Taken a midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Organized your CDs Song folders.
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theatre
66. Visited the Great Wall of China 
67. Started a business ( 360 Bazaar Partner :D )
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Enjoyed hostel life
76. Gone without food for 5 2 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Saved someone’s life
83. Been on a television news program as an “expert”
84. Gotten flowers for no reason
85. Performed on stage
86. Been to Las Vegas
87. Recorded music
88. Eaten shark
89. Kissed on the first date
90. Gone to Thailand
91. Bought a house
92. Been in a combat zone (Paintball ! )
93. Buried someone close
94. Been on a cruise ship
95. Spoken more than one language fluently
96. Performed in Rocky Horror
97. Raised (Babysat) children
98. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Passed out cold
100. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
101. Picked up and moved to another city to start over
102. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
103. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking with the windows open
104. Had plastic surgery
105. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
106. Wrote articles for a large publication
107. Lost over 100 pounds
108. Held someone while they were having a flashback
109. Piloted an airplane
110. Caused a car accident
111. Touched a stingray
112. Broken someone’s heart
113. Helped an animal give birth
114. Won money on a TV game show.
115. Torn a Ligament
116. Gone on an African photo safari
117. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
118. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
119. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
120. Ridden a horse
121. Had major surgery
122. Had a snake as a pet
123. Hiked to the bottom Drove to the top of the Grand Canyon
124. Slept for 30 hours in a 48 hour period
125. Visited more foreign countries than Indian States
126. Visited all 7 continents
127. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
128. Eaten kangaroo meat
129. Eaten sushi
130. Had your picture in the newspaper
131. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
132. Gone back to school
133. Parasailed
134. Touched a cockroach
135. Eaten fried tomatoes
136. Read The Iliad and The Odyssey
137. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
138. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
139. Skipped all your school reunions.
140. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
141. Been elected to public office
142. Written your own computer language
143. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
144. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
145. Built your own PC from parts
146. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
147. Had a booth at a street fair
148. Dyed your hair
149. Been a DJ
150. Shaved your head 

As of now : 74.

" The Ten Commandments of Air Travel " by the average moviegoer.

1. There will exactly be one celebrity per flight.

2. The guy with the beard has a drug problem !

3. There is always a highly talented, multi faceted doctor with cross platform expertise travelling in every flight. Should the flight crash, he will be the first to survive.

4. There is also a fatherly figure around to give you advice on life, the universe and other stuff whenever you want. And of all the time you can get it, you will only want it minutes before getting killed.

5. There are two pilots flying every plane and one always dies.

6. There is one happy family who makes another passenger realise he/she should get back with their estranged spouse.

7. Kids on board will survive plane hijacks with ease. The same cannot be said for their parents though, who usually top the "its-a-sacrifice-for-the-team" list.

8. After a flight crash, that girl you gave a second look in the airport lobby will become your soul mate.

9. There is one devout christian to pray to Jesus whenever things go wrong. With luck you might also get a Muslim or a Korean co-passenger.

10. The air hostess is always a good person. :-P

Sunday Drabble

*Beep*

"What's in your bag? ", the theater guard inquired.
"Oh nothing. Just a bomb! ", I grinned.
Sensing the sarcasm, he let me and my friends straight through with a smile.
The movie highly rated for its father-daughter sentiment and the protagonist's acting as a retard, lived up to its potential. It had a truly lasting impact and as we left the theater, I couldn't help but feel strangely empty.
We started walking towards Anjappar for lunch.
Why?
Why the sudden coldness?
What was it, that was missing in my life?

"Dai un bag enga da? ", answered a friend nearby......

A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length.

The Real Balon D'or

Celebrating Manchester United's 19th title

AG Books

" I don't quite grasp the concept of AG Books. I mean what is it? I understand that Autograph (AG) Books with respect to a college final year student, are regular-but-with-a-fancy-cover-attached-and-you-pay-triple notebooks that students give one another, when they finish college to write something. Ya something. But what do I write? Do you want me to write about you? Really? Isn't that a bit like posting a FB status with just the words 'comment on me' and tagging everyone? Or do you want me to write about myself? Do you wanna know more about me? Ore confusion!

I think in all fairness, the AG Book-er really means to say to the AG Book-ee, "Err this is a book. With lotsa pages in it. Forget the fact I gave it to you and asked you to write. Write whatever that comes to your mind. Anything you want. Anything that you can come up with your knowledge of the universe. Anything. And yeah, one tiny, small detail. Make sure they are all relevant to me, alright? (grin) "

Ok. If you know the person, its kinda ok i guess. I mean, yeah I will write something and you will get it now, what you could not get in the past 4 years of being with me. 

But it gets especially tricky when you don't know the person good enough. I mean, I understand you talk to a friend of mine and you are my classmate and I was standing near him, when you gave him the book. But no, I m not the widowed mother of two children and you really don't have to be polite dear. 

Yes. I know the picture ain't related much to the article. 

But again, 'Politeness' is a reciprocal privilege when it comes to AG books. So the ones who write, always write good, sweet things. Not necessarily true things. Just good and sweet stuff. You will never come across a AG book that reads,

"Dear owner of this book,

May you rot in hell for all eternity :)

Sincerely, 

The guy who you never passed the bit to, keeping it for yourself and so failed his internals :-@"

The true Indian way of doing things would be to look at the previous writers and write your own tweaked version of what they write. Doing which will tell you every AG Book would contain the following :

1. There is atleast one six-page-writing, with xoxos, love yous, mmmuahs thrown in, best friend girl for every girl.
2. Everyone wishes you for "a bright future", but doesn't want you getting a higher package than them in your campus placements. True story.
3. The owner takes in strenuous efforts and writes an introduction in the page put in to separate the content from the bounded cover. Some greeting card stuff.
4. The recession version of AG books is an old diary. Has an antique look and let writers choose their own day of the 365 days!!! woohoo!  
5. Everyone gives their contact details. Their address, phone numbers, DOB and all. And you are forced to think if attaching a resume is a good idea.

Now had Mark Zuckerberg not got his 'spark' from Harvard Connections in the Social Network, I m pretty sure he would have thought of it in his final year while writing AG books. Facts apart, I still write AG books for the love of other people. Yes I found slam books and +2 TNEA counselling application forms similar, but unfortunately I am an altruist. 

All the best!!

Have a bright future!! :-D "

Vishnu Gowthem. 

Irreversible

:-(-: 

We humans are happily SELFISH creatures.

Nothing stops us.

We do bad things all the time. 

Mistakes. Faux pas. Bad decisions. Love. Mokkai. Words. Engineering. Supporting Arsenal/Chelsea FC. Appataker-ness. Fantasy team selection.

We are wicked.

We do the unthinkable. :-(-:

We do it first in our mind itself!

At times, we do hope that we could finally hit that elusive, yet promising, Kemmar Roach-will-turn-white-someday level imaginary "Rewind" button in life.

We just don't want things going wrong. 
Any fair chance algorithm logic would point out that, the one thing we don't take into account is we don't want the rest of the world to go back along with us.

We want it to happen to us.

We wish we alone could go back a few minutes/hours/days and get it right this time. 

We are confident now.

We are hopeful we wont go wrong.

We ooze determination.

But,

Reality strikes us down.

All the time,

Why the vaaiika-thagararu between Reality and human beings?

We don't relish the prospect of facing reality??

Reality sucks???

:-(-:

P.S - Now that your done, for a different perspective read the article bottom-up (Sentence line wise with punctuation) 

College - Review :-)

Assuming that I ll pass the rest of the subjects and Sai(lazy fellow!) will finally complete the hashing module of our project, here goes my list on 4 years at TCE. :) 


(For a better experience to be read point wise correspondingly on both sides. :) )

I loved/ I ll miss The Terror Gang :D Lemon juice plus bourbon biscuit at Satellite canteen for lunch Chola pooris at main canteen. Mahendran sir P6 classes with Pooja, Nivas, Swami and Arch. Skanda single handedly teaching Basic Mechanical Engg. to 15 + friends. Egg puffs/Sarbath at Outside Canteen Sleeping under the sun and arriving at college, with Nivas driving. Bunking afternoons to go to a dappa movie on 1st day. Coming late to college. Sleeping in pumphouse/classrooms/KS Audi/KM Audi/Open Audi... Ottifying Kambi Vishnu and Swaminathan. Sai's really loooong polambifyings.   The costly birthday parties Sourashtra sangee/Thirumalai Nayakar Jokes. The late night football matches at my place :)  Iniesta's goal against Chelsea. United's comeback against Spurs, Aston Villa. Almost every United match :) Supporting the Dutch in WC 10. British Bakery chicken sandwiches thrice a week.  Shriram Narayan's "I love you" story  All Gapo posts. Playing Fifa all night over Hamachi at times talking over the phone simultaneously. :)  Bike trip to Kodai. Early morning cycle ride at Kodai. :) Viswa's jokes 2/10. My miracle worker :) Playing football first year. Archu's chanceless chappathis. Surya's Fish curry.  Ottifying Sai along with Surya and Viswa. Ottifying Surya along with Sai, Viswa and anyone around. All the mid-day parties bunking classes. Partying at chithappa's,(Nirmal, final year student) Kutrallam patti and other places. The full three days of Ooty IV. Parts of Chennai IV. Manu vs Liverpool fights with Sowmy at Lab. Gossiping/ "talks" with Sarvesh. :) Kodaikanal trip with Nivas, Subadesh and the gang :) Vinnai thandi Varuvaya.  Ooty trip in Vicky's OC car. :D Hostel vs Dayscholar comedy fights. Sowmy and Booth's hypothetical love story. Kodai Bike trip with Nivas and his cousin plus cousin's friends. Every spare minute during the First seven semesters. Full night dance practice for Esperto and falling asleep while driving bike the next day.   Seiger and Glitzia. :) Staying up all night playing fifa and talking crap and finally avasara avasarama going to sleep on hearing Dad wake up for his morning walk. Organizing and celebrating all those midnight birthday parties :) Bismi dinners. Late night FSM Grilled Chicken. Ragging. Being ragged.  Concept of two internal exams on the same day. :) Late night Maggi by Viswa. IPL matches at Nivas's place. Fun in Chennai during the semester breaks.  NEN, Kriya Trip to PSG and the late night movies. Cognition @ Mepco. :) Winning Fifa 08 Tournament at SASTRA. Helping Ani on certain issues. Sleeping unwillingly at 4 am everyday. The typical tamil movie "college fight" with seniors. KP's short,precise and googled/wikipedia'd answers from chennai during internals. :D The awesomeness of 2010. FB fights with Grinder. Angry Grinder. :) Yay! The Quiz club. Gre classes. Oracle exams. :D All of Ramji's love stories. Rajkumar Goutham's dancing when he gets high. Class choreographer's breakup and FB fight. B Arch girls passing by on a dull day. Accompanying Viswa to Civil dept. a lot of days. All seniors. Arathie and her wonderful temple tales. :) Abi akka's treat.  Surya's Mahabharatham stories. MCG (Medical College Ground) Cricket matches. Chicken dinner bets with Ani and Sai. And everything that happened. :)

I hated You-know-who.  Satellite canteen moved into the pumphouse area. Fried rice at main canteen. First semester chemistry classes. Studying on my own. When Sarbath was stopped at Outside Canteen. Being awake at 8 and driving to college under the hot sun. Bunking afternoons to go to a dappa movie on 1st day when my attendance % was low. Coming late to college when my attendance % was low. Sleeping in bus and missing my stop. :( When Kambi/Swami didnt show up at pumphouse. Sai's over rated relationship. My costly birthday party. Driving bike with the person sitting behind you putting kadalai over the phone in Sourashtra. The rare United defeats. Chelsea winning the EPL last year. Chelsea winning anything. Spain winning the finals at WC 10. British Bakery cook for reducing the usually over flowing fillings in the chicken sandwich. Sai's "Sothapals of a Somberi" (except the chapters on friends.) Except the technical ones. Playing fifa only with Arsenal or Aston Villa due to poor BW. Driving bike to Kodai. When the cycle ride ended. Viswa's Mokkais 8/10. All things that happened before the Miracle. Going home after playing football. Archu's bitter gourd side dish. Surya's every other lunch dish. Ottifying Sai along with Surya and Viswa even when he gets angry. Spartan jokes about Surya, which were still funny ofcourse. :) Going home after the mid-day parties. Not knowing to swim in wells. All the hype over FOSS. (What was wrong with Piracy?) Parts of Chennai IV.   Manu vs Chelsea fights with Chezhian. Illogical. When no gossiping/ "talks" is going on.  The Prahaar penultimate round in 2nd year I qualified but couldn't make it as a result of being smuggled on that Kodai trip. The Prahaar third round in 3rd year I qualified but couldn't make it as a result of tat movie. A lot of things I did . But had no choice. Hostel vs Dayscholar serious fights. I mean them getting all serious. :D  Machi at times. And Machi calling me machi all times.   When I had to be the responsible one during skit practices. Yuck! Final Sem. free time.   My dance onstage at Esperto. (Still destroying evidences of it.) The names Seiger and Glitzia. (Why does every college contest have to be named after a Greek/Roman God? or use combinations like ****h**ia or ***z**ia?)  Feeling sleepy the whole next day.  The good, the bad and the Sai Santhosh.  Bismi Location.  Suguna Grill Chicken.  The Enquiry session next day.  Morning semester exams.  Him eating that Maggi! @^%!%^  No one never found out that IPL was match fixed.  Project Reviews.  Clean sheets at Festember and Kriya Lit events.  Nivas's snoring at sleepovers.  Never receiving the cash prize I was entitled to for winning the Fifa 08 Tournament at SASTRA. Awkward silences with anyone.  Waking up at 2 pm next day.  The konjam-kuda-enaku-sambandhame-illatha fight with mechanical friends.  No signal/ KP's messages getting delivered late during internals.  The Worstu year of 2009.  Grinder's Mokkais.  Me not contributing to the Quiz club.  Gre Exam.  Oracle classes.  K's one side love story.  Getting Rajkumar Goutham home after he gets high. (Paduthi Eduthiduvan!) Class choreographer.  B Arch girls passing by with B Arch boys on any day.   Accompanying Viswa to Civil dept. twice on the same day. Except well the ones that threatened me. :D Surya and his narcissistic photos on the final day. Placement preparation. Surya's Sai Stories.  Early morning MCG Cricket matches.   Losing Chicken dinner bets to Ani and Sai.  And everything on the left side that has to end now. :(