Honest Ramblings

“This award is bestowed upon a fellow blogger whose blog’s content or design is, in the giver’s opinion, brilliant.” When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, and link back to the said person so everyone knows she/he is real. Choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have seven friends. Show the seven random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with Honest Weblog. Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon. List at least ten (10) honest things about yourself. Then pass it on!!!





The master chef in blog world found it apt to present me this award. I suddenly woke up like Rip van Winkle to realize I had forgotten to give an acceptance speech. Voila here we come..

“First of all, I have always dreamed of this moment as a little girl (That’s not so long ago ok :P). In my moment of glory I would like to thank God (yeah he plays a big role), my parents, my readers, my friends (whom I literally have to beg to read my crap), the world around me which gets interesting by the day .. from the people in the meeting rooms to the Schummachers on the road .. without you all mindspace would be empty!!!!

Here are the confessions of an honest mind…( Mai gita pe haat rakh ke kassam kha leti par aap yahi puchenge ki gita kaun hai … so I skipped that step…. :D)


1) I procrastinate like procrastination is going out of fashion. On second thoughts I think I will take a vow to stop procrastinating …errr.. from tomorrow!!!

2) I am allergic to rude people. One rude encounter early in the morning and it sets the pace for a bad day!! Anybody out there knows about immunity to rudeness vaccine???

3) I talk a lot .. if yapping had Olympics .. I would have got India the gold!! But I don’t gossip.

4) I hate it when people call women with opinion as feminists!! Would you like it if I called you a sissy if you didn’t??

5) I thrive on my sarcasm, and it has gotten me into trouble too as many a times people don’t get it.

6) I get flustered when I know people are watching me work. I then goof up with simplest things like breaking an egg too!!

7) I am short tempered … but I cant get myself to scream at people .. it keeps simmering inside me!!

8) I am not a fan of gold jewellery … its always silver or oxidized stuff for me.. (hope all the mallu elders don’t ostracize me from our community for this confession)

9) I dream of leading a boho life.. doing something offbeat .. away from the madness of IT!!

10) Phew finish line… I believe its ok to lie if it doesn’t harm anyone!!! :D

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Irresistable 8

8 , this number has been plaguing my thoughts ever since the editor of the Bower Times has me to do my doctoral research on the importance of the same.... Here are a few first hand observations on the same ....


8 Things I am Passionate about

• Family



• Music : From GnR to Indian Ocean, from Kishore to Pink floyd.. there is a rhythm for each moment...



• Books



• Friends



• Being punctual



• To keep my humor intact ..no matter how hard it is at times



• Sports



• Good food :)

8 things I want to do before I die

• Drive my own SUV ... a Lexus Land Cruiser atleast ( whats the harm in dreaming !!)



• Get a tattoo



• Backpack to remote destinations and host a travel show



• Learn to play the guitar and violin



• Watch an Formula 1 race live



• Overcome my fear of water and learn swimming



• Be at peace with myself



• Rein in my temper :)

8 things I say often

• Oh my god



• Yeah right



• Kuch bhi..



• Ishwara ( god in malayalam)



• Ciao



• What the hell... which in cases of extreme emotion metamorphosises to you know what ;)



• Whatever... (like a sign of indifference)



• Bitch ( out of extreme love or exasperation to my fellow species!!)

8 books I last read

• The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri



• The Kite Runner -Khaled Hosseini



• The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt



• A Thousand Splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini



• The Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri



• The Japanese wife - Kunal Basu



• Difficult Daughters - Manju Kapur



• A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar

8 songs which are my eternal favorites

• Coming back to life - Pink Floyd



• Sweet Child O Mine - GnR ( If only I could play the prelude flawlessly one day!!)
• Country roads take me home - John Denver





• Tujhse Naraaz nahi Zindagi - Masoom



• Dil hai chotasa - Roja (I fell in love with A. R Rehman after hearing this song and from then on its been one love story that has stood the test of changing times)


• Nahi Saamne - Taal
• Jamaican Farewell - Harry Belafonte
• Those were the days my friend - Mary Hopkins and Top of th world- Carpenters ( School memory... must say our choir teacher taught us some real cool songs back then!!)
• Surya Kireedam - Devasuram ( One of my Favorite malayalam songs)
• Yeh Jeevan hai - Piya ka ghar (I like all Kishore Kumar songs.. especially the sad ones but this number epitomises the essence of life .. )

I cheated on the last part of this tag and I am still miserable that so many of my fave songs have been left out ... :(

I tag: Anyone who hasnt done this tag yet!!

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Weird weirder weirdest!!!!

First my apologies to my blog pals, I confess I have been highly irregular with my posts.
Was flooded with work , it was and is still raining deadlines .... There seems to be no respite on that front. And to top it all, been nursing a swollen ankle due to a real freaky accident.(now that's so like me!!!)
I had been tagged twice so many moons back by my blog sistah Macadamia. If I didn't do this tag now ( rather tags), I am sure she would even stop dropping by ....
Here we go....
The 1st tag was to give 5 time pass info about me which( I've never revealed on this blog!!!)

• I talk very fast and talk a lot ( one of my friend even comments that me and silence are like chalk and cheese :( Sometimes my speech touches the speed of a Bullet train between Tokyo and Osaka, only when i see the blank expressions on the listener's face that I try to slow down :)
• I can't watch horror movies... I try my best to pretend its all fake but the screen ghosts keep haunting me. ( wonder how I look into the mirror daily though :D)
• Even if I try and keep my feelings to myself, my face betrays it all ... :( ( working on this one .. betrays me at the worst possible junctures in life you see)
• I forgive but can't forget... cant help it but that's the way I am!!!
• I suffer from partial amnesia... tend to forget names and directions easily and many other things too ( err now don't know if that's the sign of ageing !!)

Now lets get down to real business.. real quirky business.... (Macadamia asked me to list down 6 quirks too :) )

• I love cars and enjoy ogling at them on the road... ( its only when the not so handsome drivers ogle back that I realize how much I was staring)
• I read almost anything I can lay my hands on , which includes the newspaper used to wrap grocery, shampoo contents etc etc ...
• As a kid, I used to love watching ants go about their business and even imagine what they must be sharing each time the ants passed one another ... (I would still do it, if only there were no time constraints)
• I love to day dream .. I really think I would have given good competition to Mungerilal ( I am sure you remember him from Mungerilal ke Haseen Sapne on DD1)
• I get put off by people with egos, of the size of Mount Everest, ... sorry I am not Edmund Hillary .. I cannot climb that mountain to please you :)
• I really don't mind too much if people hurt me physically ( ok so that doesn't give you license to punch me) but I am distraught when people are rude. It tears me apart and takes me ages to get over rude people , always think its my fault they were rude!! :(

I am not tagging anyone .. most people I know have already done this .. Do feel free to pick it up if you like it :)

Om Tag -aaaya Namah

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Eight wonders of the world ...

I have been tagged by Thomas of NASA fame :) ... Have been buried in work and with deadlines whizzing past my head, missed his deadline too( the 8 hours one)... And boy , his blogs take me back to my engineering days of mini projects and vivas and all the jazz ( not marks) which accompanied it
Rules
1. Each player starts with 8 random facts about themselves.
2. People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
3. At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names.
4. If you fail to do this within eight hours, nothing will happen to you and you will die of boredom

So let me rack my brains..( not much to rack though) ....

1. I get very scared of canines ( cant call them dogs ... I already have the Blue Cross on my back for my lack of Comapssion). One particular childhood memory which left me scarred for life :( ... but I am trying to work on my phobia...
2. I can't swim to save my life.. in case of emergencies I might as well depend on the cute life guards ;)
3. I love the fact that I belong to real big family with truckloads of cousins... the joy they have brought into my life is irreplacable :)
4. What's in a name said Shakespeare, I take the Bard seriously and forget names and this habit has got me into real foot refusing to come out of the mouth situations..
5. I hate the color pink... absolutely ... ( not a feminist notion folks.. you would hate it too, if you had Pink salwar kameez as uniform for 4 years , four days a week in engineering college)
6. I dont like chocolate, the only sweet I like is Gulab jamun, which I can devour like no tomorrow ... ( hope the gym guy doesnt read my blogs .. else the crunches will be doubled tomorrow :( )
7. I am a Big Sachin Tendulkar fan ... and I take this chance to wish him "Happy birthday"!!!!!
8. I tend to give up very easily .. on people ,on things I like, on relationships .... thats one area I really need to work on :)

I pass this on to Alameen .

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Quirky Tag :)

I was tagged byMM and a quirky one at that :) Thanks MM.

The Rules:
- Link to the person that tagged you.
- Post the rules on your blog.
- Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
- Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
- Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their
website.

1. I lose hankies whenever I take them outside my house. No matter how much I resolve every new year that I wont lose them , I still do :( So Tissues only for me.


2. I cannot stand it when people get their grammar wrong in a sentence, and go ahead and correct them. This has landed me in a soup several times as many people dont take to corrections lightly.


3. I am paranoid of crossing crowded roads. I wait for the whole road to clear and then cross, even if it takes quite a bit of my time.


4. I keep washing my hands while cooking even if its not dirty. My mom thinks this is why I take almost double the time needed.


5. I am clueless about directions. No matter how many times I go to a place, if there are too many left or right turns, I can never remember my way around.


6. I sometimes get tensed for no apparent reason and keep fidgeting around and making it very obvious to people around me.
   

I now tag Silverine , Durba , Solitaire , Nishanth , Ravi , Alameen .

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