Bucket list of sorts

Shankari of Narad Tales had this tag on her blog and it made me wonder about what I would like to do when am a little more grown up. The idea is to list five things you want to learn/do in the near future. So, here goes!

1. Learn to dance. Not classical or any particular dance form. I want to feel free to let my body move to music and feel no inhibitions doing that. I already do it when it is just Kay and Cee and me. So it is a matter of either signing up for some Bollywood style classes or a gym with some form of dance/exercise routine.

2. Swimming. This has been on my list for ever and ever but have never really gotten around to doing this. I have a feeling that I will probably learn with Kay and Cee.

3. Exercise. I have always had an aversion to any form of physical exertion. Still do. This is really top on my list. I know I need to get started on it like now. I am hoping a day will come when I will actually enjoy doing this.

4. Baking. I have tried my hand at making simple cakes. I would like to some day make different kinds of breads and use my oven as much more than a storage rack.

5. Learn to sing. I have never felt a deep need to know singing till the girls came into my life. I now so wish I knew how to sing or even hum with some semblance of a tune. Some days when the girls are inconsolable I wish I could soothe away their tears with some home-brewed music.

So readers if you are still around, what is on your list?


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4 responses to “Bucket list of sorts”

  1. I made some attempts on first 3 on your list(salsa,swimming classes, Gym)..But didn’t get far..The next 2 are out of my scope (In best interest of human race..) Mine would be
    to take piano lessons
    volunteering
    joining a book club

  2. Hey, there! Came here from Shankari’s blog, and I am loving it here. 🙂 Will be back for more. Read some of your old posts, and loved them..

  3. Nice list! Did you notice that all of us “cheerfully well rounded” folks have at least one bullet reserved for the physical 🙂

  4. Srividya Srinivasan Avatar
    Srividya Srinivasan

    Here goes …
    1. Join dance again – I have loved dance all my life and lost the connect that i feel awkward with my body now.
    2. Make my movies – They are waiting, dozens of stories written years and years ago, in every book of mine with reminders to move my butt. I still haven’t and getting more nervous with every passing year.
    3. Travel – In the last one year have made a start – Went to US, ladakh, Hampi, Agumbhe … Need to do more. Planning and hoping to do Europe next year
    4. Trekking etc – Did two of them this year, my first ever one i signed up bravely with a total set of strangers and had a grear time 🙂
    5. Learn art properly – used to copy my sis in my childhood but haven’t done any drawing after that
    6. Swimming – Yes. There is a pool right downstairs. Should lose my fear of water and do that
    7. Go to the gym and join yoga – I am going to the gym only once a month. Just joined yoga today. But cycled a lot with my son at Hampi.
    8. Get back to quizzing and scrabble – seriously
    9. Cooking – want to connect to people who really really love their food and learn a whole lot of new stuff
    10. Learn driving and lose my fear of the road…
    11. Reading – Reading was as natural as breathing at one time, i have lost connect with that. Now slowly getting it back. Feels like i am finding a long lost friend again 🙂
    12. Do my documentary on tribals soon
    13. And the most important of them all – Start my ashram again. soon.
    14. Have another baby if god wills and I meet the right man

    Ahhh so many wishes. I am a greedy one :-p

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