Meme-ology
TECHNOLOGY
Q: What is your wallpaper on your computer?
From our last hike.
Q: How many televisions do you have in your house?
Two. Left to me, none!
BIOLOGY
Q: Are you right handed or left handed?
Right.
Q: Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
At least six teeth, and an ectopic.
Q: What is the last heavy item you lifted?
My in-laws' luggage.
Q: Have you ever been knocked out?
Anesthetic, yes.
BULLSHITOLOGY
Q: If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
No. What's the point of living?
Q: If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
No way. It is unique enough that I even got no messages of 'has been previously used...' while naming this site!
Q: What color do you think looks best on you?
I think green. But I am told I am way off, and that it should be brown.
Q: Have you ever swallowed a non-food item?
I have swallowed flying mosquitoes on many a summer night in India, but I am sure they are considered 'food' in some parts of the world!
DAREOLOGY
Q: Would you kiss a member of the same sex for 100 dollars?
Sure why not?
Q: Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for 200,000$?
No thank you, not even if it were a sixth (a-l-a Hrithik Roshan)!
Q: Would you never blog again for 50,000$?
No.
Q: Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for 1,000$?
Nope.
Q: Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for a million dollars?
Why human, I wouldn't even touch an animal. Absolutely no.
DUMBOLOGY
Q: What is in your left pocket?
Don't have one today.
Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
My movie trivia is pathetic...ask Ravi K :-)
Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
Both. Though I would prefer hardwood everywhere.
Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
We have what is called a 'standing' shower.
Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
Four, if you count the ones I 'allow' myself to borrow from junior. Thank God she got the big feet genes from me :-)
LASTOLOGY
Q: Last person who texted you?
I don't text, but I did get one from Rahul, as he was boarding the plane in SFO in March to remind me to be at the other end for pick up.
Q: Last person who called you?
My sis, checking if I was doing ok.
Q: Last person you hugged?
My kids.
FAVORITOLOGY
Q: Number?
Don't believe in such.
Q: Season?
Definitely Spring when my daffodils, crocuses and lilies are in bloom :)
Q: Color?
Greens, Oranges, Yellows...and as Krishna teases me, my absolute fave is 'rust'
CURRENTOLOGY
Q: Missing someone?
R :(
Q: Mood?
Contented.
Q: Listening to?
My keyboard... I type very loudly.
Q: Worrying about?
My baby's day in camp.
Q: Wearing?
Beige pants and a black shirt. GOK I need a new wardrobe!
RANDOMOLOGY
Q: First place you went this morning?
The backyard, to check if the lotuses are happy with the 90 degree days, so they can bloom soon.
Q: What can you not wait to do?
Pick the tomatoes.
Q: Do you smile often?
I think so yes, though the genetic component I got from the dad's side is down-turned lips :(
Q: Are you a friendly person?
I think so, yes.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Audio Books .... I hear ya :)
When I was growing up, I read a lot of books like everyone else. The usual suspects ... Enid Blyton, Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew), Franklin W. Dixon (Hardy Boys), Jack Higgins, Alistair Maclean, Oliver Strange (Sudden), Louis L'amor, PGW, Arthur Hailey, Robin Cook, ..... you get the picture. I grew up in Jayanagar, Bangalore, and we often visited the City Central Library (CCL), a government sponsored site where the limit for borrowing was two books per person with a due date of 1 week. The pickings were few and far apart but we managed to get everything under the sun from there. Membership to privately owned libraries was not easily affordable and even they had very strict rules and steep fines. So after a while, I think I just stopped reading :(
I rediscovered my penchant for reading when I found a local public library by where I went to grad school in the US. There was no upper limit to the number of books I could borrow and the options were oh so many! It was heaven on earth! So I spent my early months of loneliness with my dear old friends, books! That was before grad school took up my life and that put an end to 'light' reading.
I met R a year into grad school. R was the first person I found who could read a book a gazillion times and still enjoy it like it was the first time. Of course R believes to this day that I only 'acted' like I read and it might have even been to ensnare him more than anything else :) This is not true. I have over time realized that reading a book for me is for 'when' I am relaxed with nothing on my plate/mind, rather than 'to' relax and escape from reality. It has taken me many many years to get to this 'guiltless' state of mind.
Reading till recently was maybe a few books a year, finishing them at snail's pace. To a point, that I would have forgotten the beginning by the time I got to the end :( I never found the right time, book, author, medium to escape like R or some of my other friends could do. It was at such a time I per chance discovered books on CDs, long after its invention. This has replaced NPR on the radio and Carnatic music on the CD player. Commute times are all of a sudden so ... rewarding. (this again, is a sentiment I am sure book-lovers I know will scorn at :)) So yet again, I went back to reading. Thanks to CD-books even my book-worm friends acknowledge that I have suddenly become a prolific reader!
In this past year I have listened to quite a few books and genres. I have realized that the most enjoyable ones are when I listen to the book by the author him/herself. Here are a few books I recommend you listen to, if ever you want to try out this option, in no particular order.
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseni
The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Holy Cow - Sarah Macdonald
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseni
Living History - Hillary Clinton
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Castle in the Forest - Norman Mailer
Places in Between - Rory Stewart (I'm still listening to this one)
I want to say I could now easily afford a membership in a private library, if there was one such, but my county public library more than makes up for everything I have missed in all these years. It is the best thing that has happened to me and my book loving family, audio or print!
I rediscovered my penchant for reading when I found a local public library by where I went to grad school in the US. There was no upper limit to the number of books I could borrow and the options were oh so many! It was heaven on earth! So I spent my early months of loneliness with my dear old friends, books! That was before grad school took up my life and that put an end to 'light' reading.
I met R a year into grad school. R was the first person I found who could read a book a gazillion times and still enjoy it like it was the first time. Of course R believes to this day that I only 'acted' like I read and it might have even been to ensnare him more than anything else :) This is not true. I have over time realized that reading a book for me is for 'when' I am relaxed with nothing on my plate/mind, rather than 'to' relax and escape from reality. It has taken me many many years to get to this 'guiltless' state of mind.
Reading till recently was maybe a few books a year, finishing them at snail's pace. To a point, that I would have forgotten the beginning by the time I got to the end :( I never found the right time, book, author, medium to escape like R or some of my other friends could do. It was at such a time I per chance discovered books on CDs, long after its invention. This has replaced NPR on the radio and Carnatic music on the CD player. Commute times are all of a sudden so ... rewarding. (this again, is a sentiment I am sure book-lovers I know will scorn at :)) So yet again, I went back to reading. Thanks to CD-books even my book-worm friends acknowledge that I have suddenly become a prolific reader!
In this past year I have listened to quite a few books and genres. I have realized that the most enjoyable ones are when I listen to the book by the author him/herself. Here are a few books I recommend you listen to, if ever you want to try out this option, in no particular order.
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseni
The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Holy Cow - Sarah Macdonald
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseni
Living History - Hillary Clinton
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Castle in the Forest - Norman Mailer
Places in Between - Rory Stewart (I'm still listening to this one)
I want to say I could now easily afford a membership in a private library, if there was one such, but my county public library more than makes up for everything I have missed in all these years. It is the best thing that has happened to me and my book loving family, audio or print!
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