I have a dream ...

I have been tagged by Prashanth. He asks me to share three of my dreams. The word "dream" can be interpreted in different ways - the literal one, the kind you "see" in your sleep - or the that refers to a desire, something you wish to achieve, or to happen. I am going to try both.

I have a dream ...
1) To paint some beautiful oils - I love to draw and sketch. I have tried different media so far, but I have never been able to learn to do oil on canvas. I want to some paintings in this medium, just for the sake of my own satisfaction
2) To travel - I have visited some of the popular places withing the country, but I do not get to travel as much as I'd like to, due to miscellaneous constraints. I wish to travel more, and my dream is to travel to the old cities of Europe - Rome, Paris, Venice ...
3) To design a great software product - Unlikely as it might seem, given the non-technical things I write about on this blog, I am quite interested in things on the technical side :-)

And I saw ....
1) I keep having this dream, even years after leaving college and exams far behind. In the dream I wake up very late on the day of exam, missing the most of the time of the exam. Or I reach the hall prepared for one subject, and in the exam hall I learn that the paper scheduled for that day is something else. Or I realize days before exams that I haven't as much as glanced at some of the subjects in the whole year.
Strange, as in real life I have not ever been scared of the exams, or missed the exam :-)
2) I am on a goods train, a very long one, all alone. The bogies are completely open, i.e. just a platform without sides, the kind that are used to transfer vehicles. The train is passing through vast, open plains.
Illogical, since the train will at least have a driver :-)
3) I am sitting in a movie hall. A few seats down the line in the same row is a foul-mouthed, apparently uneducated guy with a large entourage (small town neta-type?), who is shouting orders at some of the people accompanying him. He realizes that he needs another seat, and asks some of his attendants to grab the seat [which has not yet been occupied] from the rightful owner. This is the only one between me and his group, and I am rather scared at the prospect of sitting next to such uncultured people more than that of robbed of my seat. Someone comes to check the tickets, and the neta-type shows him a sheet of paper and shouts at him.
Funny, but more near the truth than the previous two??


He he. And now the best part. I get to tag five people. And I chose to bestow this honor on:
Ash - Dreaming in metaphors for long. Lets hear them in words ?
Bendtherulz - Let's see what rules you dream of bending
Cuckoo - Bolo, bolo ....
JV - Observer, give others a chance to observe you
Leziblogger - Idling for a while? Lets put you to work

:-))