Things to do...

Keyed this one during a transatlantic trip, and reading it one more time makes me wonder....But anyways, here are some of the things I want to do,before I use up my 650,000 hours. These are in no specific order.

# Make a trip to Africa,to the Serengeti…watch the lions, the elephants, the cheetah, the hyenas, the wild dogs, the buffalo. Dance with the Masai.[Made a trip to the Masai Marra plains in Kenya and watched the Masai dance...heck, you could watch the whole cosmic dance on those plains!!...done & done!]

# See a tiger in the wild…before its too late. Meet Billy Arjan Singh…and tell him “Thank You”. Listen to stories about Tara, Prince and Eelie. [Billy moved to the happy hunting grounds a few days after I made up my mind to visit Dudhwa...this one will never be done and will always remind me to seize the moment! ]

# Fly a plane…all by myself. Actually say, “Tower, Eagle One is now ready for takeoff”. Take that trip to space and be stunned at the view.

# Trek the Appalachians…to determine if life makes more sense at the end of it

# Run a marathon…to exorcise all those “running race” fears from my school days.

# Live for 3 months at Manhattan….run at Central Park everyday. Make my peace with mankind.

# Make a long road trip in a jeep…with two german shepherds. Meet a girl on the way…also with two german shepherds…jeep optional. [Got the order and the details a little mixed up, but this one is done...got two labradors, met a girl with two labradors and we have driven 30,000 km in a car to date...close enough!!]

# Trek from Noradhar to Churdhar one more time. Run a fever at the end of it. Feel cleansed.

# Start a company…do the unthinkable. Redefine “going to work”. Create. Be a primary mover.

# Live for a month in a small fishing town by the sea. Watch a few storms. Listen to stories over beer. Go fishing.

# Spend a month at Topslip. Learn to track animals. Work towards better management of wildlife sanctuaries on the Western Ghats

# Own a farm….like the one in “Six Cousins Again”. Cows, horses, dogs, and high tea.

# Have a “private” runway in the farm, to fly RF planes. Fix cameras on the plane and have “real-time” intelligence capability…a capability I wish I had in 11th grade

# Rehabilitate all “domestic” elephants into the wild

# Learn to play the guitar.

# Feel the way I felt on a cold, violent November night….one more time.[Blitzkrieg yet again!]

Version Invincible

January 1st 2008. A New Beginning. I’ve spent half the day on the phone and a few hours watching a really nice Tamil flick. Now, an extra hot caramel macchiato in hand, at my usual corner in Starbucks and watching just the hint of snowflakes sailing down, I think its time to launch Version Invincible of the Buddha OS.

Logic #11: Fuzzy logic – Make your highest exception(s) for the one(s) you love the most. So when all other logic points lead to a fuzzy conclusion, make the exception. At this point, contradictions disappear, faith is rewarded, winning and losing don’t matter, deceptions vanish and happiness is experienced. By definition an exception is a condition unacceptable to you, but acceptable to the one(s) you love most.

Logic #12: Invincible Function- The principle of “This far, and thus no further”. This is based on an ex Air Force Chief’s advice to his pilots that they shouldn’t kill themselves by attempting to save a plane that is beyond saving, and to bail out at a certain self preservation point. Timing is critical. Self-preservation is key and the highest exception from logic #11 excludes self-destruction.

Time to compile, reboot and start all over again.