There are things that I do, and more significantly things that I don’t do, that often make me ponder for a purpose for the next day. Given the fragility of life and the microscopic impact that the majority of us have on this world, I concluded that it might be easy to cater to thyself rather than keep procrastinating till that to be great moment. I have always wondered how to get over the paradox that presents itself in chalking out a plan for life; if everything was planned out, then I’d end up being too busy worrying about not achieving the next goal and if nothing was planned I would get nowhere. So like most things, I am taking the middle ground, and writing a list of things I want to do this year. Yes, I too, would like to see Rome and walk the Great Wall, but no point wandering too far from reality or in over-estimating the randomness of my own mind. And with that spirit, I came up with the following twenty or so things that I would love to do before the world ends on New Years Even 2010.

Eat Dim Sum in LA’s China Town
Buy a bike, any bike
Taste a 15 year old wine
Paint an oil of canvas of a real landscape
Run 7.1 miles non-stop
Do two all-nighters and sleep one whole day
Fall hopelessly in love and write a love letter
Write an iPhone app
Try all ten of the best of LA Zagat
Watch Le Reve one more time
Play Comptin Dun Autre Ete Lapres on the piano
Watch three movies with one ticket at any multiplex
Eat at the French Laundry
Make my company website
Buy a flat screen tv
Help with at least one disaster through the red cross
Fire a shotgun
Learn at least three dance moves
Finish Edgar Allen Poe’s complete works and poems
Cook four indian dishes in one evening
See La Traviatta at the Disney Hall
Buy a George Foreman grill
Spend $1000 on a gift for a special person
Write one work-related article
Short-sell at least one stock