Original iPhone + iPhone 3G + iPhone 4

I don't want to start talking about Gizmos because lately I've been obsessed with quite a few. My obsession started when Sandeep bought the iPod Touch 4 and I was awed with the technology. Till that moment, I was never a fan of Touch Screen gadgets because I felt that it was too easy to press the wrong button because all it required was 'a touch' and hello, you can't use a gadget without touching it.

But I was so wrong! With the iPod Touch, it's like the gadget knows what it is that you want to do. Enough about the iPod. I guess it's safe to say that since then I've had this desire to acquire the iPhone 4. Believe me, I started obsessing about it in October and I still haven't got it (or gotten over it for that matter) and I won't rest until I have it.

When I started doing research about the features of the iPhone, I also came across the iPad and I continued to be amazed. I am not one of those girls who doesn't get technology or how to use gadgets, but I couldn't believe I didn't know about these!!

Now, the iPod, iPad and the iPhone all have apps for e-Books. Then there's also Kindle (which I learned about through Booksneeze. They were doing a survey and wanted to know if their reviewers preferred to read books the traditional way or e-Books and the prize for the lucky draw was a Kindle 3.0)

In the past, 8I have read long narratives using MS Word on the computer but have found reading it on paper a lot easier. All the scrolling puts me off. But when I saw the app on the iPod, I sort of changed my mind about it (like I did about the whole touch screen thing.)

The whole experience is different and let's face it, we need the trees. With the iPhone the e-Book reader is a given and quite frankly, only because I've sort of tried it on the iPod Touch, I wouldn't mind switching to e-Books; although I love having books on my shelf. They have their own charm. So yeah, e-Book reader, why not???

The question says; list five things and as I started typing, I realized that you can list more than five if you wish. But then knowing myself, I have the tendency to go overboard. So even though with a little more thought and effort I could have listed at least 20 things to do before I die, I decided to stick to 5! :-)

Write a book!
I just love writing and I hope that I write at least one book (and an extremely good one at that!) before I go!! Its something I've been dreaming of since I started reading Enid Blyton and Hardy Boys (been dreaming about writing the book... not dying!) and they have been one of the first sources of inspiration to write. :-)

Take a world Tour!
In all my life so far I have made only one trip outside India; to Ghana (West Africa) when I was eleven years old. Since I read a lot of books, I've read about the wonderful places all over the world and would love to see them in reality 'coz the way they have been described in the books is way too awesome to just sit at home and read about!

Find my soulmate!
Isn't that what life is all about? Finding the perfect partner? Well, maybe not PERFECT, but close enough... Someone who you can share your life with, whose dreams match yours, who you could talk to for hours without getting tired and have them listen to you just the same, who you'd rather be WITH than WITHOUT!!

Do some social work....
I know I am not running for Miss World, but hey we all want a better world to live in don't we? So why not do something within our capacity to make it a better place? When I have the money, I will contribute towards the well being of orphans, buy them clothes, toys and books to read (who knows if they'll ever be able to go out of their own cities... let alone take a world tour... And to quote Jhumpa Lahiri... author of 'The Namesake', here goes a line from the same book... On being asked if he had been outside India, traveled the world, Ashok replies, "My Grandfather always used to say that's what books are for")

Tell everyone in my family and my close friends that I love them...
and that life wouldn't have been half as much fun without them. They have played the most important role in shaping my life the way it has turned out and I am thankful to them for that... And mostly, this makes the list because I'll have to haunt them and scare the shit out of them if I have to tell them that I love them AFTER I am dead!!! :-)