The List

I recently turned 18, and then I turned 18 and a half. Now while the process of ageing like this is inevitable, I realised on my 18th half birthday that I don't really do most of the stupid things I think of doing.

That's when I made the decision of lists of things I will do before every half birthday of mine.
Every birthday celebrates my birth, every half birthday from now on would celebrate my life!!!

This list will probably keep having things added to it through the year, but right now:

• Things to do before turning 19.5 - 23 May 2012
• 1.       Write a book     This one's actually just a short, short stories book with illustrations that I did for my first year project (I'm in design school) It was the first thing I added, to the list because a) It sounds really cool; and b) I could strike it out
• 2.       Dip feet in a pool     Now, this one was a very specific, almost ornamental pool in the middle of a fancy club. The pool is surrounded by a chain that is opened only during swimming timings. I dipped my pool at dinnertime and no one even noticed. Someone asked me how I did it, and I must say...nonchalantly(and here I will snobbishly turn up my nose and look down on everyone else =P)
• 3.       Steal a road sign    The road sign is a No Horn sign and I didn't do this one alone. My room mate and I had gone to Chennai to visit a friend. While coming back from dinner with her boyfriend, the four of us spotted a slightly wobbly sign on the junction of a narrow road. Since it was on my list, I got off the bike and shook it. It was made to pull out. The next morning, we woke up at 5:00 am when there is no traffic and the cops are kind of sleepy; three of us(no boyfriend this time) piled onto one bike, uprooted the sign and brought it home. Later we sawed off the supporting rod from the sign on the roof completely scared someone would walk in on our illegal activities but it worked out just fine.
• 4.       Start a blog    Well that one's clearly been done; but if you notice the username, it's called angoorchinu, I'm Angoor and Chinu is the nickname of the friend I started this blog with. She's always been called Chinu, but I gave myself the name Angoor. Angoor is the Hindi word for grapes, my logic was, that when I grew old I could be called Raisin, and the urn with my ashes after I die, perhaps squished in a road accident would be called a bottle of red wine.
• 5.       Post on a blog 10 times
• 7.       Wink at a stranger    Well I finally did that. After all the crazy things I do I found this one oddly difficult. I did this only two days ago. We were at a concert and a I was dragging my friends to the front, and I was pulling them along by hand through the crowd when this cute blonde guy came out of nowhere. I lifted my arm (and that of the girl's next to me) for him to pass through and as he flirtatiously smiled at me...I winked.
• 8.       Water ski
• 9.       Gate crash a wedding
• 10.   Go to Delhi
• 11.   Doodle on every page of a library book
• 12.   Mark 20 currency notes    Too easy, did that for about a week so I've probably marked 50 notes. I think the idea of maybe getting a note I marked back has a nice whimsical feel to it. 
• 13.   Intern
• 14.   Get article published
• 15.   Draw a motorcycle
• 16.   Graffiti
• 17.   Crazy idea with Vibhuti (anything she comes up with and accompanies me in)
• 18.   Drink a carton of juice of juice with straw in one go
• 19.   Go to a concert    If you read above, you would realise that not only did I go but I also had fun. The best part though was that we got the concert (Jay Sean, Ludachris and Florida; yeah we danced and jumped more than anything else) passes from college.
• 20.   Make a bucket(I mean proper 1.5' deep bucket) of popcorn
• 21.  Put dish washing fluid in a fountain to make it overflow