A-tag.

John had tagged me loooooong back with this.. was trying to put it off for as long as possible. considering it's the year end and richa has tagged me again, i thought i'd take it up. i've tried to be a smug smart ass with this though :P  

1. If your lover betrayed you what would your reaction be?

I'll kill him.. off with his head!

2. If you could have one dream come true which one would it be?

The one where i become Priyanka Chopra :P

3. Whose butt would you like to kick?

Arjun Singh! eeeeaaargh "pataaak"!!!!

4. What would you do with a billion dollars?

geez... i have no idea! hmmm... maybe get a make over. everyone's getting one of those of late nai?

5. Will you fall in love with your best friend?

that's not something you can predict, is it? 

never have till now, but who knows what's to come?

6. Which is more blessed: loving someone or being loved by someone?

Loving someone and being loved by the same person.. that's blessed!

7. How long would you wait for someone you love?

Not very long, the moment i realize it's futile, i'll move on.

8. If the person you like is secretly attached, what would you do?

(i don't think i like these qs very much :| ) 

whine and cry about it, irritate all my friends, sulk for a few days and then move on. 

9. If you could root for one social cause which one would it be?

sexual abuse of the girl child.

10. What takes you down the fastest?

bad breath, talking to men who believe beauty is skin deep and when ppl tell me, ohh ur so chubby and bubbly! God how much i hate that!!!

11. What I loathe most in people

It's difficult narrowing down to one single thing you know :P

but picking one thing at random, i guess i'd say, hypocrisy. 

12. What's your fear?

that i'd never lose weight!!! :O

that apart, failing at something i desperately want.

13. What kind of person(s) do you think the person who tagged you is/are?

richa: strong, sensible, someone who doesnt fear to voice her opinions and a real babe who believes in the inner beauty of ppl. girl power go go!!

arjun: haven't got to know him much, but from what i know, a sincere blogger.

14. Would you rather be single and rich or married and poor?

ooooohhhh tough one! why why whyyyy can't i be married and rich??

15. What is the first thing you do when you wake up?

scream at my dad for waking me up so early (early being somewhere around 9 :P)

16. If you fall in love with two people simultaneously who would you pick?

the one who is absolutely crazy about me and adores everything i do.. that would be the perfect pick :)

17. Would you give all in a relationship?

i haven't till date, but henceforth, if there is one, i would want to.

18. What's eating you now?

MBA!!!!! eye yooooo :(

19. Do you prefer being single or in a relationship?

i answered 18 questions!! pls pls let me bunk this one? :D

20. Tag 6 people...

right so, if you guys haven't already done this, i tag

muZer

princess mia

anwesa

HP

diana

crystal

Divya Needs...

I've been tagged by the great one blessed with an extra funny bone, Chriz. this is funny, simple and easy, and since i have no new posts in mind, this becomes a reason for you guys to still keep coming.. 

-----> help! i'm dying : (  

here's the thing- i type my name followed by needs (divya needs) and google it and list out 10 of the answers that Google God gives me. 

so here goes!

1) Divya needs advice - Muscle Building & Natural Bodybuilding Forum

    - yes i can do with some advice but err... no not this kinda! 

2) Divya needs to explain everything to Amar.

    Amar who???

3) Madhuri and Divya doesn't need plastic surgery because they were born as the natural beauty. 

    - yeah... well.... *blush blush*

4) Divya needs. submissions. Deadline is first Monday after Spring Break.

    - uh huh! you heard that!

5) Divya's "Helmet Hair Ishtyle needs to go... ASAP!!

    - helmet hair? me??!

6) divya needs a stylist desparately !

     - oh no : (  i don't like the way things are headed now.

7) divya! ur ass needs to come home like rite now!!! I miss you!!!

    - aaaaawwwwww : ) that's so sweet : )  : ) 

8)  Divya needs to slap the shit out of Priya.

    - errrmmm.... priyaaa!!! i'm so so sorry : (

9) Reasonably good-looking Divya needs to concentrate on expressions more, though she did quite well in nrittam

    - you know.. i am selecting the best answers ; ) 

10) divya needs some new hair ...

      - no no!!! i LOVE my hair!! why's everyone after my hair?? :' ( 

When I become Nature

I've been tagged yet again by Vinay! This one is very creative and something I loved writing. Thank you Vinay; with every tag I'm glad I met you on blogger.

The tag requires me to write a poetry/short prose on what sort of a day I would want to be. I'd say I would want to be a bright spring day in its prime; in all its glory, beauty and 

exuberance. 

In fact, I would love to be a beautiful spring day, enlivening the tranquil terrain of a lovely hill station, where the weather is almost always pleasant- where a plethora of flowers bloom, their colours as though carelessly splashed across the green of the landscape. 

I would want to be the rising spring day sun; its early red rays cracking through the black sky like a volcano ready to burst and then slowly turning to golden streaks, bejeweling the darkness. With a warm glow, I’d smile over the mist-clad mystique-mountains; where clouds envelope the lush green mountain tops reminding people of whipped cream on pista ice cream with me, the red sun, like a cherry on top!!

And then I’d slowly fade into the night, enrobing myself in the surreal darkness. Then I’d become the pitch black night sky, embedded with countless twinkling stars and the mysteriously glowing moon; my reflection floating merrily on the sea waves going from places to places, engulfing everything that it comes across- happy or sad, good or bad. While all along, people would look at me and feel the bliss of the blessing that nature is- all through me.

Yep, that would be lovely indeed!

And now i tag:

sameera, vinz   

photo courtesy: sarastra 

Thank you!!!

Yay! Blogging friends forever award came knocking at my blog :) Thank you Vinay :) am honoured!

Here are the rules for the Blogging Friends Forever Award:
1. The winner may put the logo on his/her blog.2. Put a link to the person you received the award from.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Put links to the blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees.

THE AWARD! 

and now i nominte these people who i've met through the blogger... thank you for your support and encouragement too folks :)

Arvind : my first regular blog reader and now a good friend :)

Scribblers inc : his is one of the best blogs i've come across... a simply fabulous writer

River soul : one of my first blog readers who has always commented on my posts and helped me                               improve

Rajesh :  as i introspect, he is a good blogger friend who keeps his word especially when it                                   comes to duly taking up tags :)

Bhai with Chai : apan ka bindaas blogger dost!

Take It Easy...

aaayeeeee... and i have been tagged yet again! (by vinay.. grr :x ) pls pls.. bus karo... ppl will stop visiting my blog if i keep taking up tags like this... but well.. this tag was interesting.. i liked it!!

The rules:
1. Put Your iTunes/ music player on Shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG DOWN NO MATTER WHAT!!!
After you've answered all of the questions, tag other people and then let them know they've been tagged to do the meme themselves.

- IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Respectable by Don Mclean (aaahaa! Diplomatic don’t you think?)

- WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Penny lane by The Beatles (errr…. Does this mean I’m sadak chchaap??!! :( )
- WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL ?
Red light by U2 (oh dear!!!)

- HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

Phir dhoom by Euphoria (naaa… not really…)
- WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?

Proof by Coldplay ( huh?!! Proof of insanity personified? I hope not!)
- WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?

Ye kahan aa gaye hum from the movie silsila (naheeeee!!!)
- WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?

Kabhi neem neem kabhi shehed shehed from Yuva (lol lol… uh huh ;) )

(I swear to god I’m not manipulating or cheating in any way.Sorry I doubted you Vinay,this tag is nice!)-WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN? WHAT IS 2+2?

Seventh heaven by Deep Purple (indeed!!! Pls God lemme clear CAT and reach there!)
- WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?

Trip through your wires by U2 (mmm…. No I can’t make anything of this… can you?)
- WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

Surrender by Evanescence (hmmm… cheesy :P )
- WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?

That thing you do by The Wonders ( LINES: you…doing that thing you do… breaking my heart into a million pieces… who?? Me?? Yeah rrrright!!)
- WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Fire by U2 (uh huh… uh huh… oohhh yeeeaaaah!!!!)

- WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Jiya beqrar hai aayi bahaar hai by Lata Mangeshkar (lol… ahem... yeah… well… *batting eye lids*)

- WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?

Original of the species (wow! Yes yes they think I’m one of a kind… only thing is I wonder which kind)
- WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?

Pretty Woman from Kal Ho Na Ho (aaawww… well I’m not the one who should be singing this ;) or so I hope! :P )
- WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

Meter Down (remix version) from Taxi No.9211 (Hey Eeeshwar!!! :O )
- WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
High Speed by Coldplay (dead end again)

- WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Ye nayan dare dare by Hemant Kumar (mere nayan?? Nahi toh!)

- WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Cluster one by Pink Floyd ( we are all one big buncha masti oriented people alright!)

- WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
Take it easy by Eagles (now THIS I like :) )
-WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS TAG?

Big yellow taxi by Joni Mitchell (Oh well… that’s that!)

Aaaaaaand NOW!!!! I tag:

swati (I know you'll like this one)

trinaa

think tank

rajesh

photo courtesy: flickr

Hat-Trick!

the third tag! this one by river soul...

The Rules are as follows:
1) Look at the list and BOLD those you have read.
2) ITALICIZE those you intend to read.
3) UNDERLINE the books you really love (and strike through the ones you hate!).
4) Reprint this list in your own blog.

I just realized.. I'm such a poor reader :(

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (gazillion times over UNDERLINE UNDERLINE UNDERLINE!!!)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 William Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams(half way through)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Famous Five Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

And this time around, I'm not required to tag anyone.. you lucky fellas you!

The unspectacular quirk tag! tadaaa!!

I've been tagged again. And since I am at a loss of inspiration and cuz I’m busy with CAT preparations and endless mock CATs, to post anything, I thought I might as well complete this task. Yep, some task indeed!

Here is the Unspectacular Quirk tag (copied from my tagger):

1. Link the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules on your blog.
3. Tell 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger's blogs, letting them know that they have been tagged.

1: …have a very annoying habit of saying 'touch wood' every time I say something nice about something or someone. Yes I know, it’s very childish and at my age, people think I’m stupid to use it. I do hope I give it up soon. Touch wood.
2:... scared to go for a haircut. It’s always at least a week after I first decide that it’s time for a haircut that I actually turn up at the parlour. And an hour prior to leaving, I would’ve messaged and called around 3 to 4 friends of mine asking if they thought it was better I got a haircut done then or later. I actually feel my stomach churning when I sit on the chair and the parlour lady goes chop-chop while I think... oh dear god please let her not mess up :(
3: I feel drowsy when someone strokes my hair... and it’s not just mildly drowsy... I sleep off! It’s enough if someone happened to stroke my hair for more than maybe 10 minutes to put me to sleep. Now THIS, my friends, I believe is incredibly strange (like something out of a jataka fable where the mighty and cruel lion is tamed by stroking its mane?). Anyone who shares this weird one?
4: ...scared of crossing roads. Every time I successfully cross a busy road, I say a small thank you to God. Yes very evidently, I don’t know how to drive, trust me, I’ve tried! But I have this mortal fear of roads and moving vehicles; I never showed much progress and then my teacher (my darling brother) gave up on me. After all, who would want the embarrassment of having to teach someone who goes 'oh god oh god oh gaaaawwwwd', every time she started the scooty.
5: ...obsessed with losing weight. That, neither makes me a great looker nor do I have perfect vital statistics (oh... faaar from that!) but yes I’m very finicky about putting on weight. So I’m always trying hard to control my gorging tendencies (trying being the highlighted word here). All this when I simply LOVE food! It’s so cruel and unfair... sob :'( but the problem is I hate doing it and so I crib and cry and piss off everyone around me when I have to refrain from having a pizza slice or a scoop of chocolate ice cream :( and of course, the people who suffer the most by all this are my friends and family, them being at the receiving end of my 'oh no... mein phir se moti ho gayi' rants.
6:... hate taking tablets. Even b-complex capsules for that matter.
Voila! I’ve said it all! And I thought I’d never be able to finish this one…
So well, the honoured tagged list is:
gunj, sameera, riversoul, bhai with chai, vinay, arvind (this time it IS mandatory arvind!)

Tagged!

My first tag so obviously I can’t refuse… then again what good is that blogger who hasn’t been tagged once :P

8 things I am most passionate about:
I am not using passionate in the true sense of the word here, because then I don’t think I’d be able to come up with 8 things. So I’m taking the liberty to use the word in a way that suits me :P
8 things I absolutely LOVE!

1. My cell phone! That’s my most prized possession ;)
2. Music. At least half an hour of music a day is a must. And arbitrarily it always happens. I have an assorted list of favorite tracks; Genre ranging from Carnatic to alt rock.
3. My family: My everything. I am blessed with the best parents a child can ask for and a brother, whose birth is one of the best things that has happened to me.
4. My friends: without them, I am lost; and not to mention in deep shit! (Sometimes that happens BECAUSE of them too :P)
5. Writing… I like to pen down anything and everything that comes to mind. Sometimes I complete the thoughts into a story or poem; sometimes they are left mid way.
6. Chocolate! I LOVE chocolate! (Of course I will have to mention pizza, Frankie, kebabs, tandoori, sambhar, avial, etc etc.. but then the list would never end!)
7. My room. Sounds a bit weird I know but there’s no place in the whole world that I love better than my own room.
8. My hair. Call me self obsessed if you will but that’s the one thing that I LOVE about myself.

8 things I wanna do b4 I die:
I hope I’m allowed to be imaginative here!

1. Meet Norah Jones. I worship her! And I know this sounds far fetched but I do wish I could record a song with her :D
2. Write a book. Of course, a book that people would buy, read and love.
3. Get married. I sure am not going to die before I hear the bells! NO not the ones in my head :|
4. Be able to eat whatever- chocolate, pizza, ice cream and all the lovely delicious things one can think of- without even an ounce of guilt. Of course that’s the catch!
5. Work with an NGO
6. Learn to play the piano.
7. Learn belly dancing :P sexy?? I think so!!
8. Reach that phase of life where I know I’m as happy and content as I can ever be. That is, to be able to say that I’m happy and there is nothing in the whole universe, the attainment of which can possibly make me happier.

8 things I say often:

1. “Git!”: Yep! The days of stupid and idiot are over. My favourite pet name for anyone who acts stupid or anyone who annoys me, in the adorable sense of the word of course!
2.“Bleh”… mostly a filler word that I use when I’m out of adjectives or when I’m unable to make a point or just want to say.. ‘Oh shut up!’ without being too rude
3. “Eh?”…my version of ‘what?’ its beautifully rustic tone irritates the living soul out of most of my friends and my dad. Oh what fun!
4. “Bloody ~ ”… if someone asked me to define bloody, I wouldn’t be able to. I use bloody when I’m angry, sad or happy. As in “bloody! That’s a bloody good movie!” or “bloody what shit yaar! Reservation my ass”, etc etc etc…
5. “Duh!” Homer Simpson is a genius!
6. “Oye!’ – Yo is passé… the new and trendy ‘Oye!’ is in. Oye balle balle!
7. “why am I so stupid/fat/dumb/clumsy/weird/….??” And I wonder why my friends call me a whiny ass.
8. “Oye! Mere baal theek hai kya?” yes yes I can be overly obsessed with my hair.

8 books I last read:

1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
3. The Monk who sold his Ferrari by Robin sharma
4. Who moved my cheese? Spencer Johnson
5. The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
6. To kill a mocking bird by Harper lee
7. Laughing gas by P.G.Wodehouse
8. The entire Calvin and Hobbes collection…I’m running out of books, so!

8 songs I listen to over and over again:
This is the toughest… am just picking 8 songs at random.

1. River by Joni Mitchell
2. Broken by Norah Jones
3. Ksheera Sagara as sung by Padmasree K J Yesudas
4. Amsterdam by Coldplay
5. Those sweet words by Norah Jones
6. Fool on the hill by The Beatles
7. She’s leaving home by the Beatles
8. Everything’s not lost by Coldplay

And now I pass on this tag to:
1.Rohit Ramachandran… The next best thing to chocolate and Harry potter!
2.Swati Saha… Monk-ey >:D< my emoticon twin :P my partner in crime and otherwise. My soul mate, had she been a guy. My best friend.
3.Madhav.. The NCC cadet. A brother to me. Damn, he looks nice :(
4.Arvind.. I know he hates tags but I cant leave him out :D plus its not mandatory anyway :P
5. Riversoul: the beautiful poet.