A bucket list! Aha! Something that I wanted to pen down since watching The Bucket List way back in 2008. So without further ado, here is my wild list of stuff that I want to do before I die, (in no particular order):
- Be the CEO of my own company. (current status: in the works already)
- Live far away from the city. Probably a nice little village on the outskirts of Bangalore.
- Splurge on all the latest gadgets I can lay my crappy hands on, just once. (technology jumps a mile each month, so no point splurging over and over)
- Build a sound-proof room. (for various naughty reasons)
- Drive at 200+kmph, with the windows down and my head out, doggy style. lol
- Bungee jump. (lets keep it realistic, I doubt I’ll ever be jumping out of an airplane)
- Create something (anything) that I would have usually bought from a store instead.
- Get a damn tattoo. Even a small one will do.
- Attend Rock in Rio \m/.
- And while I’m there, visit “Christ the Redeemer” and perhaps Peru (Machu Picchu :D
. - Slap a wild bull on its arse, TWICE! (like in the movie Wild Hogs)
- Eat a live squid. (yes, people actually do this!)
- Break a guy’s nose. (oh c’mon, you’ve seen it so many times in the movies. Just once I would love to do it! Volunteers anyone?)
- Try and watch all Star Wars movies in a day. (Wow, there’s _actually_ another nut like me. And thanks to him for the image for this post.)
- Add some more stuff to this list.
Stuff that should have been on the list, a.k.a. the ones that I’ve already completed:
- Paintball. (yay! never expected it to come to Bangalore _ever_. Read here.)
- Get stoned. (disclaimer: if you’re family, this never happened!!)
- Get involved in a street fight. (if you know me well, then you know that this just _had_ to have happened to me)
- Smash an electronic gadget (preferably a mobile phone) to pieces. (props to my friend C.S., who wanted a reason to buy a new mobile phone.)
Tweetups in Bangalore have been getting not only better, but more common. This edition of Bangalore Tweetup, hash tagged #paintballtweetup, was organized in less than a couple of days, but it was loads of fun. The venue – Indian Paintball League (ironically called IPL), located off Sarjapura Road. 
Lately I’ve been finding myself manually converting PNG files to JPEGs. It can get quite tedious and frankly, boring. I downloaded a couple of apps that could automate the process, but each of them had their quirks. They would either watermark the finished image or limit me to trying them out for a finite number of days. I had to resort to manually editing them using MS Paint, and then saving them as JPEG files. The quality was bad, all thanks to the disastrous MS Paint. So I set out to find a way to convert them using Photoshop. What I ended up was writing my own Action for Photoshop CS2. 
Simply (photo na) Yenjaay Maadi! 
). Besides the bowling, we had a lot of fun looking everywhere else (rather, at everybody else), which for us guys, proved completely distracting, but enjoyable at the same time. (Err.. *hint*: birds, bird watching, you get the point?)