About all things unimportant

Came across this website - http://www.webyantra.net/ . It is a good website for tracking some of the Indian start up companies.

About 8 years go ( when in college ), i told myself that i wanted to retire at 35. I didnt think i would have the patience or motivation to work till i am 60. The plan was that i would work till 35 and then stash up enough money to allow me to experiment with my life.

At that age i wanted to do the following things

 1) Make movies

 2) Start a company of my own and provide direct employment to a few people

 3) Start a group of educational institutes

 4) Teach in colleges where you have very substandard teachers/professors

 5) Cycle around the country and just laze around

I sat recently and wanted to see if my opinions / intentions et al have changed recently

1) I have become more normal and have been partially consumed by wordly peer expectations of wanting to buy an apartment for investment , wanting to travel ( blame my Gult - Telugu origins ) and wanting to own the best automobiles and plasma televisions.

2) I still want to make movies and am actively searching for schools that teach the same in Bangalore.

3) I want to start spending weekends increasing my spirituality quotient.

4) I want to have some impact on this world .. unlike the hords of people ( including me ) who just exist from Saturday to Friday. I see truck loads of people during weekends in the Malls and ask myself .. what are these but insignificant creatures who are trying really hard to kill time ( Including me ). Just whiling away time so that they can last till the next weekend and the weekend after that and the weekend after that.

5) I want to paint one masterpiece.

6) I want to blog sensibly ( Its not as easy as you think )

7) I want to go back to ISB and never have to come out of the Campus again

8) I still want to build one world class company.

9) I still want to retire at 35