A-Z
Tagged by Ummon and just getting around to it. Perfect for the listlessness and slightly feverish and hypochondriacal state I am in:
A
- Available: For What?
- Age: 31
- Annoyance: Men peeing all over the pot and juggling their crotches
- Animal: I am a cat but I love dogs
B
- Beer: Hoegaarden
- Birthday/Birthplace: Mumbai
- Body Part on opposite sex: Eyes and mouth
- Best feeling in the world: Hugs and hot baths
- Blind or Deaf: Deaf
- Best weather: Sunny and slightly humid
- Been in Love: Yes
- Been on stage?: Yes
- Believe in yourself?: Sometimes
- Believe in life on other planets: Yes
- Believe in miracles: Yes
- Believe in Magic: Yes
- Believe in God: Well, something divine
C
- Car: Electric (want one)
- Candy: boiled sweets
- Color: Red
- Cried in school: Yes
- Chocolate/Vanilla: Chocolate
- Country to visit: China, Bhutan, Burma, Vietnam, Japan
D
- Day or Night: Night
- Danced: Yes
- Dance in the rain?: No, don’t like cold water
- Do the splits?: In the Jurassic age
E
- Eggs: All kinds
- Eyes: Brown
- Everyone has: to have love
F
- First crush: seventh standard?
- First thoughts waking up: I can sleep for five minutes more
- Food: dal cooked by my mother or varan by my aunt with rice, ghee, lime, pickle and yoghurt
- Greatest Fear: Losing my loved ones
- Giver or taker: Bit of both
- Goals:To get fitter
- Get along with your parent(s)?: Yes, though have had phases when they drove me nuts (and vice-versa)
H
- Hair Colour: Black/dark brown and some gray
- Height: 5 feet and half an inch!
- Happy: When I am with a good book
- How do you want to die: Still in control of all my senses and bodily functions
- Health freak?: More where A is concerned!
- Hate: Religious fundamentalists
I
- Ice Cream: Vanilla or coffee. Not a big fan of ice-cream generally.
- Instrument: Tanpura
J
- Jewellery: gold, silver, wood, glass, stones, intricate designs, esp those taken from plants
- Job: Writing but also studying (does that count as a job?)
K
- Kids: Time to start planning them
- Kickboxing or karate: karate and kalari
- Keep a journal?: No, unless you count the blog
L
- Love: A, my family, books, music, my friends, massages, the sun, the sea, travelling
- Laughed so hard you cried: in Thailand
- Love at first sight: No
M
- Mooned anyone?: No
- Marriage: is hard work, but I love it
- Motion sickness?: No. A’s motion sickness is more than enough for this family.
N
- Number of Siblings: 1
- Number of Piercings: 2, used to be four
O
- One wish: That’s a secret
P
- Place you’d like to live: Bangalore/a farm somewhere
- Perfect Pizza: Not had it yet
- Pepsi/Coke: Neither
Q
- Questionnaires: Aaargh, just had to get many filled in for my dissertation
R
- Reason to cry: when I am angry and helpless, when I am frustrated, when I’m VERY sad, when I watch movies (cry at the drop of a hat then), when I see animals and children being mistreated
- Reality T.V: Sach ka samna-just discovered it. Does it count as reality tv?
- Roll your tongue in a circle: I can
S
- Song: Stand by me
- Shoe size: 5
- Slept outside: Yes
- Seen a dead body? Yes
- Smoked?: Yes, once, on a cold mountain trek
- Skinny dipped?: Yes
- Shower daily?: No, but I do bathe daily!
- Sing well?: No
- In the shower?: Yes
- Swear?: Sometimes
- Stuffed Animals?: An owl
- Single/Group dates: Sometimes
- Strawberries/Blueberries: Both
- Scientists need to invent: things to stop global warming
T
- Time for bed: Late
- Thunderstorms: Samosas, coffee, hot chutney, a razai
- TV: The news. Loathe all sitcoms
- Touch your tongue to your nose: No
U
- Unpredictable: Totally
V
- Vegetable you hate: Dill (more a herb, really)
- Vegetable you love: Potato, okra, pumpkin, many more
- Vacation spot: Indonesia
W
- Weakness: Sleep and chocolate cake
- When you grow up:I will have children, a house in India, and have written a phd and a novel AND have my own business. How’s that?
- Worst feeling: Being with the blackness inside,when it appears
- Wanted to be a model?: No
- Where do we go when we die: Somewhere nice, hopefully
- Worst weather: Cold and grey
X
-X-Rays: My sister uses them in her work
Y
-Year it is now: 2009
- Yellow: Sunlight
Z
- Zoo animal: Lions and Tigers
- Zodiac sign: Leo


come to bangalore then. will find you a house preferably close to mine.
You LOATHE sitcoms?
I remember you saying that A is a huge fan of Frasier – what do you do when he watches that?
LOL @ your annoyance…although have to say for men in our country,peeing is not confined to pot…it has a wider reach
!
Enjoyed reading this.
What are boiled sweets?
hard candy-those colourful ones-like parrys and ravalgaon-the old fashioned ones that come in a transparent wrapper?
Can you find the A a job also? Would love to move in next to you.
Glower at him