50 things I am grateful about

Rider: Some of these may (have already) lapse (-ed) as I grow older/wiser/dumber.

1. Faith in all its shapes and forms
2. Television and the remote control
3. Formula 1 and Michael Schumacher
4. Steffi Graf
5. Sportstar magazine
6. The Economist
7. The games of basketball and tennis
8. Books that can be digested
9. Philosophy and philosophers
10. Computer programming and algorithms
11. University of Roorkee and 4 years of wasting highly subsidized education
12. Dramatics Section of Roorkee and its plays
13. The billiards/snooker club at Roorkee
14. Chilling out with old friends
15. Vacations at grandparents’ place
16. Levi’s 530 jeans
17. Benetton t-shirts
18. Perfumes
19. Kakori kababs
20. Pizzas with a crunchy crust
21. Tim Horton’s ice-cap
22. Sherlock Holmes
23. E-mail and voice over IP (voice chat for laymen)
24. New York and its coolness
25. New Delhi and its chaos
26. Long, non-stop flights with a personal entertainment system
27. MS Windows and Outlook
28. Sarcasm
29. Humor
30. Fights
31. Lucknow’s tehzeeb
32. Urdu language and its poetry – Mirza Ghalib
33. Dev Anand and his black and white songs
34. Rock music
35. Red Ferraris
36. Rains on a hot day
37. Sun on a cold winter day
38. Lemon soda (salty)
39. Hookah while lounging around with pals
40. Hangars and hooks
41. Beach
42. Digital cameras to capture all the unimportant moments that become precious with time
43. Indian democracy
44. My organization and time management skills
45. My (universally acknowledged) leadership skills
46. ATMs that don’t charge any fees
47. GRE wordlist
48. Post-Its
49. Napping at work
50. Verdana font