10 Day you challenge - Day 6 of 10, Five Foods

I'm sure all of you who have been regular readers of this blog space would sure know my love for good food, now having to select just five food stuff makes me feel I'm not doing enough justic to all the good food I have tasted.

However, to go with the theme of the meme I will stick on to listing out five of my favourite food stuff.

1. The thokkus made by my grandmom (Tomato and Mango)
2. The Dal Tadka made by my mom
3. The Veg Galouti kebab from the Great Kebab factory
4. Veg. Biriyani with Onion Raitha
5. Thin crust wood fired Pizaas

I am yet to talk about spinach, corn and mushroom baked pasta, a list of desserts, mocktails et all. It is so much fun when we live to eat !!

The best thing about food and eating is, whatever we are doing in life we need to stop it all to come and savour the delicacies each time .. everyday ! :)

P.S. Sadly I just realised I have no good picture of my favourite food stuffs. Giving me another opportunity to go have these items all over again and clicks pictures of them ;) *slurp*

10 Day you challenge - Day 5 of 10 , 6 places

The thought that I had a blog and I miss writing in it continued for over couple of weeks until I saw my aunt's comment asking if I was still satisfying my wants .. Seeing the 5th challenge was to list 6 places nothing could really stop me from getting to do this right away ..

Places to visit has been one of the hottest topic for discussion right from folks at home to friends to colleagues to clients. It looks like six places is a little too less, however I will group the places I would love to visit and the ones I have loved being in as well.

1. Europe (Rome, Italy, UK, Scotland, Venice, Switzerland etc ... )
2. USA
3. The Whole of India
4. Carribean
5. South Africa
6. Australia

Now that is just a big picture :) I would love to hear your favorite places as well !!

10 Day you challenge - Day 4 of 10, 7 Wants

This is part of the 10 Day you challenge that I started here.

There are so many things that I want and my wants keep changing with time. But, here are my 7 wants that has remained my wants for quite sometime now ...

1. A vacation lasting for 2 weeks every 3 months :)
2. A happy, peaceful, healthy and fun filled life with family and friends like the way it has always been *touch wood*
3. A day for myself once every month
4. Time to sit out and blog every time I feel like
5. To own a restaurant chain, I wouldn't mind owning a hotel or resort either ;) ;)
6. To be in touch with friends and family always ....
7. To go Shopping !! :D

The last wants sums it all up :) :)

10 Day you Challege - Day 2 of 10

Making this meme had been at the back of my mind for few days now .. Now that I am home from the exciting and tiring Pondy trip (about which I will post shortly), here we go with my 9 loves ..

1. All the lovely people who make me smile with their act of kindness, love and affection - Family, friends and just about anyone who has brought about that smile in me :) :)

2. Driving ..!! As a kid I wanted to drive the bumper car , as a teen I wanted to go ko-karting and now that I have learnt how to drive .. I am enjoying my never ending love for cars and drives ..

3. FOOD .. not that I eat a lot, it is jus' the love for good food :) :) that also talks about my love for restaurant hopping :D .. Not to forget my favourite food stuffs ..

4. My favourite Food stuffs .. Pani puri from the chat shop near Rangoli, Strawberry Colada from Zara's , Jaelebi from Ajnabee chats, Aapam made at home, Gulab jamuns, sandwiches in my college (near the back gate), starters at barbeque nation ... and the list can go on for many posts together ..

5. Travel ... It is an anywhere anytime love ;)

6. I can never have enough of clothes and bags .. right from stuffs that we get from street shops to designer stuff I can never say no to them :) :)

7. Blogging .. The relationship started five years ago and the thought of making a blog post makes me happy until today and I'm sure would continue for a long long time to go .. It has been a total stress buster :)

8. Dance ... I have always loved performing and watching dance performances..

9. Last but not the least .. I love to read .. tight from the news paper to magazines .. to blogs to autobiographies ... Sad that I don't take enough time to read off late ..

There goes my nine loves .. would love to here yours as well .. In case you are taking up this 10 Day you challenge meme .. please drop by your blog address in my comment's space .. Would love to know about you :) :)


It was easier to come up with nine loves than the 10 secrets .. !

It is fun to sit and blog on a Monday when you didn't have to go to work .. (Thanks to Lord Krishna .. Many Krishna Jayanthi wishes to all :) )

I'm up for the 10 Day You Challenge - Day 1 of 10

I had come across this 10 Day you challenge Meme a couple of times when I was blog hopping, now when my friend Karthik suggested I take it up I thought it was no better time to be blogging about this and also a better way to keep my blogging spirits up.

I am sure I am gonna love doing this meme, since its gonna give me time for a lot of self realization.. Starting with the biggest challenge - 10 secrets about myself.

1. I am super addicted to Internet and Social Media and have no regrets about it.

2. I hate air conditioners .. I don't mind sweating it out rather than being frozen with cold air.

3. I'm more of a summer person than winter person (thou' Chennai doesn't really have winters)

4. I am totally bad at remembering movie stories .. I can not remember even the entire cast of the movie in many cases .. Sigh my memory ! :p

5. I love to cook, it is just that I have not tried my hands at it yet

6. I can spend my entire day and night blogging or reading

7. I have ended up crying watching dance performances, with the thought of not being able to continue dancing

8. I can stay without mobile and Internet connectivity for weeks together

9. I can never hear an alarm ring when I'm sleeping .. So, if I say I will for sure get up early .. I am just setting my alarm .. You know what to expect ;)

10. Each time when the flight I travel in takes off or lands I wish I was a pilot too, but my wish ends there coz of the severe ear pain I get when the flight nears landing !

Phew .. It took me two long days to come up with this list .. Only making me realize that there aren't many secrets I hold :) :D

I am totally enjoying doing this meme .. watch out for this space in the coming days to know me better :) :)

A little more about me :)

After a long time I'm doing a tag here, this one I flicked it from Anoop's blog .

The rules are:
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, and pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.


The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food? right now?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. What is one word that describes you?
12. What is your user name?


I would like to tag Navin, Shanthini Akka, Vasanthan, Krithika, Melanie, Lena, Drama Diva, Preeti lata and all others who would like to take up this tag. Drop in a comment so that I could visit your blogs.


P.S. : I'm off to my native place for the weekend , will be back on tuesday. I'm planning to carry my laptop with me but I'm not too sure if my data card would work there. But, my posts will be coming as usual as I've scheduled them all :). I will be back with a lot of stories to share and I also intend collecting some info. about my native place and its neighbouring towns so that I can share it with you all in my travelogue.

A meme with a difference :)

Anoop over at Tales of a lone wolf has tagged me to do this meme. It surely is a meme with a difference.

1) It is important to be liked by others : Well, not necessarily . I believe one should first like themself and be the way they want to be than changing the way they are to be liked by others . If people like you the way you are then it is fine :)

2) Obedience is a virtue: I don't agree to this either. I don' think one has to be blindly obedient as this might not really help them in the future. Never get worried even if your decisions turn out to be not too perfect as it will jus' add to your experience and make you wise. At a later part in your life, you will regret for things you have missed out than the things you did in an incorrect way.

3) People are not malicious but they become so because of bad experiences orcircumstances: Bad situations would have changed the way people behave, but that I feel is jus' an excuse to blame others or things that has happened to get away with their behaviour. I consider a person who behaves best under a bad situation with a high regard as everyone would put our best feet forward under normal situations . I think it is these bad experiences or situations that differentaites people.

4) Education broadens our view and makes people more humane: I do agree education broadens our view but about making people humane I doubt it?? Even people from remote villages who have minimal access to good education have a good way of thinking and behaviour may be they jus' have to be groomed a little more to go to the next higher level. On the other hand I don' think all city brought up people are great thinkers or behave more humane than their other counter parts .

Most of all it is the individuals personal values and what one wants to make of himself/herself that makes all the difference.

5) People who have no money troubles are happier:Not really, I don' think money is the only thing that makes a person either happy or sad . There are innumerable factors . So, I don't really think the millionaries/ billionaries out there are really happy .

6) As people get older they get wiser:It depends. If one is old it doesnt necessarily mean that they are wiser as one doesn't get wise with age but the experiences they come across in life .

7) You can live on love and fresh air: Love and fresh air are much needed but is not the only thing that

8) There is a celestial guardian angel looking after each one of us:I do belive in it.. Each of us have a different name for it and I call it god :) . I don' know if its true or not but this helps me to be the way I am :)

9) All living beings reincarnate.I don’t believe in this. Thou' I have heard there are stuffs like that and have also felt like I have been in some place already even thou have never been there before I still don' believe in the concept of reincarnation.

10) Heaven and Hell are places you go to after death. I'm not too sure of this thing one too but would like to think so as it helps one stay good and stay away from the bad.

Thanks for tagging me Anoop. Really enjoyed doing this meme . I would like to tag Shanthini akka, Vasanthan, Lena, Noushy, Drama Diva