Things I Want to Do

I had some things in my mind that I wanted to do out of the routine and had posted them on my earlier blog here. Well I passed out of XLRI and still have most of things unchecked. But then that does not stop me from having my own set of fanciful wishes. So here's my updated "Bucket List":

1. Visit Bhutan
2. Learn Salsa - Check
3. Read Old Man and the Sea - Check
4. Play Mafia with some of my old Friends
5. Give a presentation as impressive as at TED - (Update) - Do something with as much passion as those people at TED
6. Get a real job
7. Do pull ups
8. Run 4kms. in 18 mins. - (Update) - Ok 18 mins. is overshooting, I'll settle for 20 mins. Hey come on, I have only grown older since last time.
9. Climb up those 10 storey high cranes and see the world from the controller's cabin.
10. Learn to dance - Salsa was good but I'm still in the two left foot syndrome.
11. Learn to play guitar - Yeah man, that's a really old one but this is one thing I'd really want to do. Just for the fun of it. Actually I want to learn to play piano but that does not seem to feasible so guitar is the next best instrument.

Let's see where I reach in 6 months time.

I'm Impressed

Now this is a perfect case of getting impressed simply because you do not expect it, not because you think its impossible. Here's my salute to the PAN issuing authority of India:

• August 13 : I apply for PAN, pay online and get an immediate acknowledgement and directions on what to do next
• August 20 : I send the documents (lazy me, delay by a week)
• August 24 : They receive the courier (info. from my courier service)
• August 26 : PAN authorities tell me they have scanned my documents and have forwarded the application to IT department
• August 28 : IT department dispatches my PAN card, sends me an email to that effect with the courier service (Blue Dart, OMG they must be spending everything on postage!) and the tracking no. details.
• September 1 : I get my PAN

The total cost for this for me was Rs. 179 (Rs. 94 for the PAN and Rs. 85 for postage of documents by courier). Awesome, really awesome. Here's the link for applying online:

https://tin.tin.nsdl.com/pan/index.html

Would be glad to be of help to anyone in the process. (That's because a highly inefficient financial service provider kept delaying my application for more than a month here in Bangalore and as vendetta, I want to destroy this market for the "agents". Hehe, evil me.)