Things to do or learn this year !

There are loads of things which I have on my list of things to do.. Not sure if I can call them bucket list, but yeah...happy to have a big list.

So here I am trying to list down few of them.. along side topics of posts which I intend to write in the next couple of days..

I am two down,, #23 posts pending 48 hours remaining !

Without typing any more unwanted trash, let me start writing actual stuff which I intend to write.

On thing which I wish to do in the new year

1. Travel -
       Though in the last couple of months there has not been much interesting related to travel, I still have the    entire year open, and I am pretty much optimistic about it. Though I am not keen on travelling out of Karnataka, coz it takes longer duration, I am still open to it. Also keen on travelling with cousins and relatives.

2. Photography -
      I have been taking photos for quite a while now, I have been using my D90, wherever possible, but I still end up with crappy photos most of the time, and it leaves me embarrassed all way along. So I wish to improve my photography skills.

3. Drive -
    Driving goes hand in hand with travelling, but sometimes I travel using hired vehicles, so keeping this option as a different point. My love for driving has increased by many folds once I did my 1100km drive to Hubli Dharwad and Gadag !

4. Photography editing.
    Photography not only deals with taking pictures, but also editing them. I have installed GIMP since long time, but kind of not getting interest or time to invest into it. I have loads of plans to modify pictures which I have already taken to make them better. I get very jealous when people use all kinds of tricks just to get one photo right ! When they can do, why can't I ? Well, may be I have pretty much other stuffs to look into !

5. Read some books.
   Have almost not read any book to completion in last 6 months. Started couple of books, but could not complete them, somewhere in the middle just lost interest in them.

6. Learn something new technically.
    Love to learn ASP.NET MVC / Ruby on Rails and something using which I can build a website. So this includes stuffs apart from my routine office work.(Javascript, REST, some more web related stuffs is my priority).

7. Write proper code professionally.
    Though I have been writing code since quite a while, still not satisfied with quality of code I write. I am realizing this after interacting with a European counterpart and finding it difficult to get 30 lines of code pass through review. Actually would love to scrutinize each line of my own code in future, instead of unneccesarily putting in few kilo lines which in the end will never reach production.

8. Join a new organization.
   I currently work as a consultant to a company, so one of my priorities would be to join an altogether different company. For years I have been evading and trying not to become a lead (team lead / tech lead whatever crapola) but looks like now, its inevitable. Wish me luck !

Cheers, will update the list as and when I have more points !

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