Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Bucket List: 101 Things I want To Do Before I Die

     I made this list almost a year back. Its a very personal thing, but I thought about sharing it today, hoping to inspire someone, like someone inspired me to make mine :) Its fun and a good way to know yourself :D 


  1. Scuba dive at the Great Barrier Reef
  2. Get a Tattoo
  3. River Rafting
  4. Horse riding, again
  5. Become a certified  scuba diver
  6. Be a life guard at a beach for a while
  7. Step once on all the continents
  8. Run for a 10 km marathon
  9. Make a sustainable living from making and selling handmade; handicrafts/ paintings/ lamps/ jewelry
  10. Backpacking in Europe for a month or more before I turn 30
  11. Swim at a stretch for 1000 mts, 5000 mts
  12. Sell handmade at an exhibition
  13. Make a wall graffiti
  14. Teach underprivileged kids, often
  15. Teach art/crafts to mentally challenged kids
  16. Put up a painting exhibition, lamps exhibition
  17. Make my sister VERY proud of me
  18. Kiss the sky from a hot air balloon
  19. Party and spend a night on a private beach sleeping under the sky
  20. Go on a blind date
  21. Sky dive
  22. Do interior decoration of a house, completely
  23. Ditch my cell phone and WWW for 10 days continuously
  24. Workout to get ideal figure once in my life ;-)
  25. Start an NGO in the name of my mom and grandfather
  26. Try to make a difference in the lives of Sex workers in India
  27. Learn wave surfing
  28. Write a blog and a book
  29. Swim in a sea and an ocean
  30. Find love and marry him- someone who understands all my craziness and is a little crazy too J
  31. Learn to cook non veg for friends
  32. Learn to eat chicken
  33. Not get addicted to drinking or smoking or anything else ;-)
  34. Watch a sunset from a boat, ship, plane and a cruise
  35. Make someone laugh, daily!
  36. Pet a fish, dog, cat, rabbit, a bird
  37. Live a no contact life in a hill station
  38. Become the marketing head for a FMCG company
  39. Surprise visit my grandparents and parents
  40. Spend a month at a stretch with my parents and grand parents
  41. Have enough time and money to buy a one way plane ticket to ANY place in the world for the same day.
  42. Learn French <3
  43. Get a psychic reading and a tarot reading
  44. Work in France for a year or more
  45. Board a train alone without a ticket.Traveled second AC #likeaboss 
  46. Wear a mask and paint a city wall in the night. Banksy style!
  47. 10 day meditation retreat at Vipassana Center 
  48. Learn Mediation and Meditate daily
  49. Volunteer at a Vipassana Camp for 10 days
  50. Learn and practice yoga
  51. Learn one dance form; ballet/salsa/ cha cha
  52. Experience astral projection
  53. Dive from a ship and a cliff
  54. Learn either of them:  face reading/psychic reading/ aura reading/hand reading/ reiki/ tarot reading
  55. Get an eve teaser caught
  56. Specialize in cooking one countries authentic cuisine apart from Indian, ofcourse! Thai, maybe?
  57. Learn to play a music instrument, proficiently
  58. Volunteer at a special needs school
  59. Attend A. R. Rahman’s live concert
  60. Meet a celebrity while travelling
  61. Spend a completely unplanned day chatting up with strangers from another part of the world 
  62. Drive Harley Davidson with a leather jacket on :P
  63. Be a vegan for a month minimum
  64. Paint, often
  65. Make a baby!
  66. Promote positive self-image and thinking
  67. Learn everything about Buddhism and maybe convert
  68. Travel to a new place once every 6 months
  69. Tell my family and friends that I am grateful to them for being in my life and being so awesome, tell often
  70. Quit a job without another in hand
  71. Travel with best friends
  72. Roadtrip on a bike
  73. Skinny dipping at Maya bay
  74. Witness firefly chorusing
  75. Witness bioluminescence
  76. Witness aurora (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIXs6Sh0DKs)
  77. Spend a night in a forest
  78. Inspire someone, often
  79. Travel on a ship and a cruise
  80. Support a kids education, thoroughly
  81. Ride in a helicopter
  82. Go para sailing & paragliding
  83. Get a massage by the beach & the hills & on the road
  84. Witness sunset at Golden Gate Bridge
  85. Visit Las Vegas and play at a casino
  86. Travel abroad solo for leisure
  87. Travel and stay solo in India for leisure
  88. Travel without a plan and a return ticket
  89. Visit world’s largest aquarium
  90. Learn driving a car
  91. Watch penguins walk
  92. Swim with whales ,turtles and fish
  93. Learn to not be afraid of lizards, aah, one day, maybe!
  94. Public speaking to a larger audience of over 1000 people.
  95. Strawberry and corn plucking from farms
  96. Travel international for work
  97. Donate a body part
  98. Tomorrowland, Brussels
  99. Burning man
  100. Help everyone as much I can
  101. Take care of my parents when they are old
  102. Donate a percent of my earning, consistently
  103. Gift dad a swanky car and mom a diamond jewelry
  104. Travel in a train for continuous 36 hours
  105. Invest more in experiences than asset building and shopping
  106. Places to see: well on a list of 194 countries these are just some basic pointers ;) much is never much!
·        Europe : Spain, France, Paris, Italy, London, Iceland, Scotland, Croatia, Hungary, Russia, Venice, Switzerland, Prague, Santorini, Amsterdam, Belgium, Austria, Finland, Cyprus, Vatican city. Okay, almost everything: D
·        N&S America: USA (Disneyland, Las Vegas, New York, San Francisco) Canada (Niagara falls, CN tower, Toronto), Haiti, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua
·        Africa: Mauritus (Rodrigues Island), Seychelles, South Africa (Sun city), Tanzania
·        Asia: Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, China, Japan ,Vietnam, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Maldives, Srilanka, Turkey, Burma
·        Oceania: French Polynesia(Bora bora, Tahiti), Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia
·        Antarctica: Paradise Bay (Yes, that too!)
·        Well, India: Leh ladakh, North East, Gujarat,  Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Kerala, Karnataka, J&K, Uttarakhand, UP, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Goa

Okay, my list is a little more that 101 :D but, I don't know which ones to remove :(

p.s: the ones cancelled are already done :D and half cancelled are half done :)

I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ J

3 comments:

Unknown said...

This is a hell of a list Pallavi !!Once these are done (and wish these continues to grow), I think death is going to be just another fun trip with no place for regret !!

Unknown said...

This is a hell of a list Pallavi !!Once these are done (and wish these continues to grow), I think death is going to be just another fun trip with no place for regret !!

p said...

@Sandip: Thanks a ton :)