Things I want to Do

After realizing that I dont need this blog to do one new thing every week, I am changing it now. I am going to make a list of things I want to do:

This list will be a Work In Progress and I will keep adding to it. 

I am going to dream big now.

In no particular order:

#1 Go to Prague. 

#2 Don't speak a single word for 24 Hours. Then extend it to 240 Hours.

#3 Write a song that a band performs

#4 Save a Life. Physically.

#5 Go Inside a Mosque to Pray

#6 Revisit all the ten schools I have studied in.

#7 Revisit all the houses I have lived in

#8 Live with 3 Dogs in the House

#9 Dive out of an aeroplane

#10 Bike to Leh Again, this time alone.

#11. Read the Bhagwad Geeta

#12. Meditate Daily.

#13. Build a school.

# 14. Win Tata Crucibles. Its about time.

#15. Visit 50 countries.

# 16. Wear a blindfold for a day

#17 Teach children

#18 Walk a hundred kilometers

#19 Write a Play

#20 Write a movie. My Way.

#21. Write a book. My Way.

#22. Learn one marshal art

#23  Buy a car for my dad

#24. Write ten thousand words in a day

#25. Climb a tree. Never did it. Want to do it.

#26. Scuba Dive.

#27. Become a Travel Writer.

#28. Switch off my cell for a week.

#29. Call one friend every day for 30 days.

#30. Pat a Lion

#31. Meet Sachin Tendulkar

# 32. Go to Africa.

# 33. Visit the final resting place of Stefan, my old dog and brother.

#34. Fly in a fighter plane. 

# 35 Learn Yaad Kiya Dil Ne kahaan ho tum on the mouth organ

# 36. Ride all over India on my bike

# 37. Visit Amsterdam

# 38. Visit Disney Land

# 39. Attend the Oscars

# 40. Meet Christopher Nolan

#41. Visit Golden Temple.

# 42. Watch Real Madrid Play

# 43. Watch a F1 Race

#44. Watch a World Cup Final

#45. Climb a 8 thousander

# 46. Go on a Himalayan Trek

# 47. Drive a Rickshaw / Truck

# 48 Write a Urdu poem

# 49 Fly in a Helicopter

# 50 Visit the Vatican

Do One New Thing - Three Panels

I always wanted to make a cartoon strip. And then I chanced upon a random website, which helps people with Severe Drawing Disabilities to create cartoons in a matter of minutes.

Writing for a script was fun. The most important thing in any form of writing is the structure. The Start, The Problem, The Resolution and the end.

When I tried my hand at a comic strip, I realized that it is slightly tricky. To tell a story, in three panes is not as easy as it looks. I guess writing a SMS novel is somewhat like this.

But anyways, here goes. This is the new thing I did this week. I made three comic strips. To view the complete strip, simply click on the file.

As these strips took shape, I knew that at the back of my mind I want to end up being a complete content creator. Which includes a full fledged novel, a poetry book, a cartoon series, and perhaps a song writer.

Lets see how the remaining weeks of my life shape out.

Do One New Thing - Life is a Game!

Till this week, I had not played Badminton for close to 2 years. This absence was more due to a lack of opportunity than anything else. My college does not have a Badminton court, and to tell you the truth there have been many moments in my hostel room and many more in the classroom where I have longed for the sound of a shuttle cock cracking against a badi racket.


There is a new badminton court at the huge DRDO estate next to my house. For the past few months every time I rode by that court I had wishfully looked at it. 


Last week, having absolutely nothing to do I hesitantly took out my Carbonex, gunned the engine to life and went to the court. 


As a fifteen year old, I was decent at Badminton. I always found myself playing with people older than me and I did ok. 


Now, as I entered the DRDO court, I saw a bunch of fifteen year olds playing. And man could they play! 


Isn't life funny? I asked one of those kids his name, and he said Ritesh.


What's your name? he asked


"Gaurav. But I was a Ritesh once." I smiled. Life is indeed a conveyor belt.