20 Question Tag

1. What have you realized recently?
   -- Idli batter left on the kitchen counter all day, will ferment like hell, spill all over and create an unholy mess and smell worse than cat urine.
   -- Also, be careful what you wish for, you JUST might get it and NOT in the order you wished them in.
   
   
2. Have you given your first kiss away?
   -- Only too gladly!
   
   
3. If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, who are the 11 blog buddies you would take?
   -- Um. I'd really rather take Keanu Reeves.
   
   
4. Where is the place you want to go the most?
   -- Back in time from a specific date to a specific date and run that in a loop till kingdom come.
   
   
5. If you have one dream to come true, what would it be?
   -- Assuming this means a day-dream; I'd want the time travel to come true.
   
   
6. Do you believe in seeing the rainbow after the rain?
   -- Secretly yes, but it's more fun pretending to be a cynical bitch.
   
   
7. What are you afraid of losing the most now?
   -- My will, focus and sanity.
   
   
8. If you win $1 million, what would you do?
   -- 33% invest in land/property, 33% for family and my "animal/earth" causes, 33% BLOW it UP.
   
   
9. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
   -- Confess that I pee in the shower? Sure!
   
   
10. List out 3 good points about the person who tagged you.
    1- non-judgemental
    2- always THERE for me
    3- painfully honest (sucks at times!)
    
    
11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
    -- That when I'm picking a fight, he should just grab and kiss the living day-lights outta me instead of fighting back.
    
    
12. What type of people do you hate the most?
    -- Mostly most ppl.
    
    
13. What is the one thing you can’t live without?
    -- Constant and consistent reassurances.
    
    
14. If you have faults, would you rather the people around you point out to you or would you rather they keep quiet?
    -- Look all of you gleeful pointers, QUIT POINTING! I've had it with you nit-picking my faults, you are not so grand yourselves ok, you all stink and in some cultures my faults are adorable. Hmmpppfff!
    
    
15. Question was missing; so I added me own-
    Name 3 things you wanted as a child and never got.
    1. Space of my own. HATEed sharing.
    2. Attention. Or rather, more attention.
    3. School trips.
    
    
16. Are you a shopaholic or not?
    -- Certified and absconding from theraphy.
    
    
17. Find a word to describe the person who tagged you.
    -- Bindaas!
    
    
18. If you have a chance, which part of your character you would like to change?
    -- The part that explodes frequently.
    
    
19. What’s the last shocking thing you’ve seen or heard?
    -- I hadn't known that The Joker was actually Heath Ledger, and throughout the movie I was like, "WHO is this brilliantly creepy nutjob... who is also a tad hot!?"
    
    
20. Would you rather have love but no money or money but no love?
    -- Love, love, love, looooooooooooooove, luuuurrrvveeeee... all the way!
    

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This was fun!

I am a Thunder and Static kind of day!

Life Begins, new Mommieee >:D<, you tagged me which leads me to believe that you have some interest in knowing what day I wish to be, so here goes.

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There's one and only one kind of day I wish to be and that is a thunderous, overcast, heavy with impending rain, charged with static day.

When you wake up in the morning and the sky looks dark and angry, rumbling deep in her belly her discontent with the general state of affairs, the hot arid indifference of the sun, and you just know it's going to be a wet wet, gloriously wet day. The air is charged with static, making your hair dance in the wind as you take down the laundry from the clothesline, a bitty annoying but a bitty fun, it smells slightly musty and you turn your nose up a notch to catch the deliciously effervescent scent.

Lightning flashes and streaks across the sky, the wind picks up strength, lifting petticoats and kicking up naughty dust devils, they swirl and tease the road-side trash. Thunder cracks out a loud warning setting off car alarms, startling you and making you almost spill your morning tea. Steady arms tether you close and you both stand just under the canopy of the balcony, unmistakably giving in to the joy of watching the heavens put on a pompous light and sound show.

Pitter-patter-pitter-pat-pat... fat orbs whizz down to the parched earth, crack open and turn everything a shade or so dark and very damp. The heady scent of wet earth makes your senses dance, his eyes light up with delight as you lean in for a kiss, the soft spray of the raindrops misting over your feet deliciously. The heavens pour their hearts out, enveloping you in a world of rain, turning everything into muted shades of pastel, like an old watercolor painting.

Lost in languor, the wet morning seeps into a damp evening. Snuggled close under warm blankets, the world outside the window looks clean and fresh, a soft cool breeze sneaks in ruffling the curtains. "Chai", softly whispered, just so it would not annoy you... too much."Ok baba, but you make the pakoras."

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Even though I HATE what rain does to anything below the vicinity of my ankles, how the roads turn muddy and impassable, how the gutters swell and flood with trash, reeking of filth... not to mention how suddenly all autowalas not want to go anyFUCKINGwhere. GRRR. And oh yeah, the infux of happily swarming mosquitoes and flies. Yech.

But I absolutely adore storms, booming thunder and crackalicious lightning, the wind wailing as if the world is truly coming to an end. The sheer power of nature and the faciniating display of it, completely rocks my senses. Most of my dreams, esp. the flying ones have an overcast weather, gloomy clouds and the soft spray of rain. I love it. When I wake up in the morning and I see its all couldy and dark, I feel euphoric. There's a promise of something fresh and clean in the air, plus it tends to make me feel reeeeeeeeally frisky. :P

Tagging ~nm.

The tag of 8s!

Long due. Plus I needed a reason NOT to document what's REALLY going on in me life right now.

The lists are in no particular order.

8 Things I am passionate about:

1. Paneer
2. Promoting Animal Welfare
   
3. Fruits
4. Nanoo
5. Doing everything possible to reduce my carbon footprint
   
6. Daydreaming
7. Shopping
8. Poochies and Huggies

8 Things I do that drives Mama crazy
Umm... used to drive my Momsie crazy :P

1. When I used to act like I was the Mom and she the kid.
2. Holding her in a death-grip with my arms and leg while sleeping.
3. Nagging non-stop about... well anything and everything.
4. Demanding that she wake me up with atleast 3 cups of ginger-tea and if either one was not made to my exact specifications I would throw a tantrum... and then she'd have to wake me up with lots and lots and LOTS of poochies and huggies.
5. Hoarding fruits and snackies in my cupboard cause I hated sharing anything with my bro.
6. While dressing up to go someplace, I'd force her to wear the sari I liked instead of the one Da picked for her, and when she would still wear what Da wanted, I'd get all miffed and cranky and sulk the entire time.
7. My refusal to go to church.
8. Waking her up in the middle of the night to go see why some pup or dog was mewling, sneaking pups and dogs in the terrace and then sneaking them into the house and into my bed, emo-blackmailing her to deal with Da into letting me re-home the pups and strays... *sigh* miss it all so much.

8 Things I want to do before I die

1. Sky Dive/BASE Jump/Fly in a HotAir balloon
   
2. Have a baby
3. Go storm chasing
4. Visit Scotland; only for Jaime
5. Learn to drive a Car
6. Make a sincere effort to help the cause of animals and our planet
7. Write a book
   
8. Be loved, unconditionally
   

8 Things I say often

1. Who the F, What the F
   
2. Bloody Hell
3. Really???
4. Man... or meaaaaan!
5. Kya bakwas
6. Abe oye
7. Ba or Nanoo
   
8. Pukka?

8 Books I've read recently

1. The Twentieth Wife
2. Feast of Roses
3. Namesake
4. Mistress of Spices
   Thats about all I have read recently. I'm too busy to crack open a book (imagine that!!), I do most of my reading these days online, and mostly it's either on Animal Welfare/Rights/Issues, or about organic products, green living or... crochet patterns. :P

8 songs I could listen to over and over
I cannot answer this!!!! There can never be JUST 8 or 10 or 1 or 100.

8 Things that make me me

1. Really short fuse
2. Has GREAT expectations
3. Opinionated
4. Obsessive
5. Vivid imagination
6. Passionate about the oddest of things
7. Moody as hell
8. Stubborn
   

5 quirky things about me :)

My first Tag! I'm IT IT IT!

First, the rules:
- 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.

Here goes...

1. I wangle turds up. TeeHee.
   
   
2. I adore Paneer. I can eat it raw, I can eat a kilo of it and I have eaten it 2-3 weeks old gathering fuzz in my fridge.
   
   
3. I bite when I'm terribly affectionate with someone. Them, I mean. I bite THEM. Dogs included. The cat won't let me yet.
   
   
4. I have weird priorities about silly things (regular everyday things as well) like, if I'm buying bread or saving table-scraps to feed my stray dog(s) and if I'm not able to feed/find her/him that day and happen to spot another stray, I'll give it a tiny portion of the food and save the rest for MY stray(s).
   
   
5. I worry. Non-stop.
   
   
6. I'm addicted to Lip Balms. My favorite brand is Avon (it has SUGGAH!) and Burt's Bees. I apply it even if I wake up in the middle of the night to pee.
   

Hmmmm... I actually have no one to tag, so...