16 August 2009

Name Tag Be Glad you are not called Xerxes !

Tagger ! A rose is a rose is a rose


Tag Rules: It’s harder than it looks!(Mind It). Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag your friends. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real… nothing made up!(nahi to police pakedegi Savdhan !!!) If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can’t use your name for the boy/girl name question. Have Fun!!


1. What is your name: Ava


2. A four Letter Word: Alum


3. A boy’s Name: Amit


4. A girl’s Name: Ameeta


5. An occupation: Agriculturist


6. A color: Amber


7. Something you wear: Angrakha


8. A food: Aaloo


9. Something found in the bathroom: Aqua (water)


10. A place: Ahemdabad


11. A reason for being late: Anything



12. Something you shout: Aha !


13. A movie title: Aye Din Bahar Ke


14. Something you drink: Ale


15. A musical group: Abba my favorite


16. An animal: Anteater


17. A Street name: Akbar Road


18. A type of car: Astar


19. A song title: Aaja aaja me hoon pyar tera


20. A verb: Act


Taggees - Anyone called Xerxes? Yasmin ? Z.....?

09 August 2009

Jhatpat Tag

Was tagged by A Rose is a Rose is a Rose


1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4.

In the light of discussions above and visulisations, we can again say that every..


2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can & catch air?

a tissue


3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?

Rabbit Proof Fence


4. Without looking, guess what time it is?

10.05 am

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?

10.16 am


6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?

Hammer blows on the construction work going on in neighbourhood


7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?

I went out to pay the koodewala.


8. Before you started this Q&As, what did you look at?

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose


9. What are you wearing?

A nightie (blush) am abt to change !


10. When did you last laugh?

This morning when the elecrticity returned in 5 minutes, I was expecting a 2 hour cut.


11. What is on the walls of the room you are in?

Baba Nanak's picture, wall clock.


12. Seen anything weird lately?

The absent monsoon ?


13. What do you think of this quiz?

All quizzes are fun.. make you think about mundane things.


14. What is the last film you saw?

Rabbit Proof Fence


15. If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy?

A house in a posh sector in Chandigarh, one in the hills, one in Goa.


16. Tell me something about you that I dunno!

My keyboard is wayward.


17. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?

Poverty ( A rose said the same thing and I agree wholeheartedly)


18. Do you like to Dance?

Ballroom dancing, in a lovely gown, in a lovely hall, to some lovely music.


19. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?

Hena, thats for real. For a granddaughter, I would like to call her Leah.

20. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call her?

Angad, thats my first son. Wanted a name that began with an A.

21. Would you ever consider living abroad?

Yes, Rome, Italy, Venice, Greece


22. What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?

Hi, had fun down there?

In my turn I tag - Vee, Smita (hehehe), Shayari, CP

01 August 2009

The Cream and Scum of Blogging

Ours not to reason why,
Ours but to do an die.


Ummm Life is like that isn't it? It is full of choices which may or may not appeal to us. I like life as it is, full of contradictions, a little rough, a little sweet, kabhi khushi kabhi gham kinda scenario. Is blogging any different?

Bloggers seem to stretch from here to eternity. Techo, movie buffs, music buffs, just-airing-their-view-on-anything, letting-it-all-hang-out types. Celebrities, of whom Shobha De seems to invite most brickbats (even from me). There are guys who lost their jobs because they were too hasty to run down the companies that had just employed them. Some lucky ones like Maureen Dowd get famous because of their blogs.

I first stumbled across blogs god knows in which year. I didnt even have an internet connection at home. I used to surf in cyber-cafes, exploring this medium and spending a lot of money in just fooling around. I had created a profile on rediff blogs and wrote to a couple of bloggers. Didnt really get along with the medium, created a blogger profile and lost it. Discovered Jai Arjun's Jabberwock, followed it for a while, lost it. Yada Yada Yada, and here I am with a healthy blog and a good amount of blogger friends who are on my phone and email lists even. I have met a couple and chatted with a few.

It has been a wonderful journey and I have no intention of giving it up. That is the cream for me.

Scum - hum ! I guess there are plenty of bloggers who would put me off. But hey, they have as much right to this world as I do. Let us all swim together in this large ocean.

I like honest bloggers who have a good style and don't bore me. I bypass bloggers who bore me/seem affected/have a bad style. I wouldnt call them scums, just that they are not my type.

Our kind multiplies:We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.


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