Tag

I realize that I have been not posting much of late. Blame it all on the hot babe who has recently joined marketing. I spend way too much time trying to catch her eye by walking back and forth from my seat to the cafeteria and water cooler when I should be posting something on my blog, or working if I get too bored. I've realized in the last one week that a) she is too intimidated by the work environment which pits 150 ogling men across all age groups against one lonely (and hot) female fresh out of B-school, and b) she is aware that she is hot and is too self-conscious about it. I feel sorry for the situation she's in. I really do. So I'll give her a week to get around to noticing me, another week to go for lunch together. And if all goes well, in a year we could be taking a stroll on Elliot's beach with the kid in our arms. However, I have a suspicion that all bachelors (and some married men as well) are harbouring similar thoughts as well.

So while thinking up strategies to beat the competition and waiting for her to start looking at some other place other than her feet all the time, I got tagged by Mathew. So here goes:

8 things I am passionate about

• Enjoying life
• Critically analyzing everything I hear, see or read.
• Postulating a hypothesis for everything. If a hypothesis is not feasible, at least an opinion on everything.
• Respect for people's rights
• Quizzing
• Knowledge
• That's not eight yet
• But readers of this blog will know that I'm not really passionate about a huge number of things - I merely love most of the stuff.
  

8 things I want to do before I die

• Ride a Harley in Ladakh
• Write a book
• Become the Prime Minister of India
• Travel a lot. Visit every country on earth, swim in every sea, scuba dive in Antarctica, and of course, travel to the Moon.
• Drive on pothole-free roads in Kerala
• Scarlett Johansson (although technically she doesn't qualify as a 'thing')
• Kill all the participants in MTV Roadies and Splitsvilla or at least maim them. Alternatively, I could just ask my Information and Broadcasting minister to shut down the channel after I become the Prime Minister.
  
• Do some serious gardening.

8 things i say often:

• 'Ayyo!'
• 'Yeah'
  
• 'WTF!'
• 'Intha bus Nandanam poguma?'
• 'Oru fish curry meals, oru ayala fry'
• 'The risk in doing this is that...'
• 'I'm not interested in your offer of pre-approved loan.'
• A lot of Thiruvanthoram slang, but my fav -'Thalle, muttan Kalip!'
  

8 books I last read

• Love in the Time of Cholera (G G Marquez)
  
• Maximum City - Love and Longing in Bombay (Suketu Mehta)
  
• The Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
  
• The Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger)
  
• Critical Chain (Eliyahu Goldratt)
  
• Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
  
• My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
  
• The Inheritence of Loss (Kiran Desai)
  

8 songs i could listen to over and over again

• Ambalapuzhe Unnikkannanodu Nee (M G Radhakrishnan, ONV; Advaitham)
• Vellai Pookkal (A R Rahman, Vairamuthu; Kannathil Muthamittal)
• Sundari Neeyum Sundaran Njaanum (Ilayaraja; Michael Madan Kamarajan)
• Aaro Viral Neetti (Vidyasagar, Gireesh Puthenchery; Pranayavarnangal)
  
• Sundari Kannaal (Ilayaraja; Thalapathi)
• Raree Rareeram Raaro (Mohan Sitara, ONV; Onnu Muthal Poojyam Vare)
• He's a Pirate (Klaus Badelt; OST Pirates of the Caribbean)
  
• People are Strange (The Doors)
  

8 people i think should do this tag

Don't have the energy to tag people after all the walking and strategizing in office. So I'll be happy if somebody chooses to take it up from here.

Can't stop humming this song from Subramaniapuram.