--- On Sat, 15/11/08, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [silk] When I Have The Time
> To: "Silk List" <[email protected]>
> Date: Saturday, 15 November, 2008, 10:36 AM
> Mohit (मॊिहत) wrote, [on 11/15/2008 9:05 AM]:
>
> > I need to learn how to use chopsticks...and
> swimming...and
> > dancing...and smiling while stabbing someone.
>
> That reminds me of all of the various things that I will do
> When I have
> The Time (small unrepresentative sample follows)
>
> * Masters degree in cryptography
> * Learn Perl
> * Find those treasured old college ripped jeans and lose 2
> inches around
> the middle so I can wear them, dammit
> * Krav Maga
> * Finish off my TBR pile (~200 books at last count)
> * Get back to reasonable fluency in French
> * Meet up with all the several dozen friends with whom my
> primary
> interaction these days is occasional phone calls saying
> "we MUST meet"
>
> Share yours, o wise ones?
>
> This has the makings of a[nother] monster thread.
>
> Udhay
* Get my Master's degree in History;
* Write the definitive maritime history of India;
* Re-learn German;
* Learn French and Sanskrit;
* Tour those corners of India that I haven't seen yet, on my own set of
rough-roading wheels;
* Go to Leh by road, and bum around Ladakh for as long as I can afford (two
days, at present levels);
* Lose 20 kgs.;
* Photograph Calcutta before it auto-destructs;
* Try to understand the different Indian philosophical schools;
* Try to understand Economics (if it's really possible; sometimes it seems to
be something that Economists invented to keep themselves in an occupation not
to be described as idling their time away);
* Learn to ride a motor-cycle;
* Complete my collection of Western classical music;
* Listen to as much jazz as I can;
* Travel through Cambodia (without losing limbs, it is to be hoped);
* Travel through Scandinavia, and the Baltic states;
* Backpack through Africa, and South America, and travel to China and Russia
(they don't encourage back-packers, it is said);
* Scuba-dive at every feasible Indian location;
* Collect and print my daughter's poems;
* Find my ancestral village in Bangladesh (there are two, one easier to find
than the other);
* Learn to fly a plane;
I'll be happy to achieve even one of these, any one.
bonobashi
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