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Monday, June 20, 2005

Personal Tag

It’s the personal Tag now. Kaps & Joey have tagged me.Seems there is a big junta out there envious of my vacation :-) Honestly, I am quite diffident to talk about personal stuff . Nevertheless bowing to their wishes, here it is .............

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY

cogito

Fruit (Don’t ask me the origins of this name)

Mobile Encyclopedia

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF

I look much younger than my age

I can't think of anything else :-)

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF

I donno what to write ...

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE

Nanganallur, Chennai

All the other cities where I have lived (Mumbai, Ahmedabad , Pune, San Jose , San Francisco , Hyderabad, Delhi , Singapore )

Tam-Bram ( There is nothing casteist about it but the truth is most of my habits stem from this reality)

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU

Discotheques (Never been to one !)

Religious fanatics

Street dogs

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS

My Laptop & Internet connection

A book to read

Music Player

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW

T-Shirt

Ara drawer (shorts)

Spectacles

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP

If I knew the answer , I would have already been in one :-)

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order)

I am a crazy travelholic and bibliophile

Inspite of living abroad for more than five years, never been to a Pub/Bar !

I think I am an idiot while the others think I am an intellectual

THREE PHYSICAL (?) THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU

Humor

Intelligence

Eyes

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW

Visit India

Watch Wimbledon

Read a novel which I just started ( By Tamil author "Devan" )

FEW CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING

Becoming a Wildlife Photographer

Becoming a professional Quizmaster

Becoming an entrepreneur by either starting a travel/ tourism firm or a Wildlife NGO

Becoming a movie historian

Becoming a sports editor in a newspaper

FEW THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE

Visit the Serengiti / Masai Mara Wildlife Sanctuary and witness the "migration"

Have one of my photographs/videos published or shown in National Geographic

Win the Brand Equity Quiz or Mastermind India ( Do they still show it in India ? )

Travel to all seven continents

Want to start my own firm

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION

New Zealand

Italy

Kashmir

THREE KIDS NAMES YOU LIKE

chuttu

Mridula

rishab

LAST BOOK I READ

Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

BOOK I FOUND VERY DIFFICULT TO BE DONE WITH

Ulysses by James Joyce (Never finished reading it )

NUMBER OF BOOKS I OWN

Around 500

BOOK I WISH TO READ

Alchemist by Paul Coelho

THREE PEOPLE I WISH TO TAG

Hari

Mottai Boss

Ila

9 Comments:

  • Maattivittutaya :)

    By Blogger Srihari SN, at 10:48 PM  

  • curious to know whether u r called a fruit or a pazham?.....i could spot lot of similarities in our personal tags.

    By Blogger Kaps, at 11:11 PM  

  • so, finally you enjoyed sania mirza's victory... !!! I know why you want to watch wimbledon....

    By Blogger Ram C, at 10:53 AM  

  • i saw it....i will answer it soon :)...this tit for tat thing is kool

    By Blogger kaatss, at 1:17 PM  

  • i saw it....i will answer it soon :)...this tit for tat thing is kool

    By Blogger kaatss, at 1:20 PM  

  • Hari -- Yaan petra inbam (thunbam ? ) peruga ivvaiyagam !

    kaps -- seems there are lots of similarities. The hep crowd call "fruit" and the rest " Pazham" !

    Ram.C -- John Keats enna solli irukkar " A thing of beauty is a joy forever" !

    Kaats, tit for tat :-)

    By Blogger Cogito, at 2:41 PM  

  • Did you live in San Francisco.? Where? When? How come? Work?

    By Blogger Narayanan Venkitu, at 7:56 AM  

  • Fruit-ku ellaam origin thevaiyaaa sir

    By Blogger ioiio, at 7:57 AM  

  • venkitu -- Was in Foster city for a year and in Sunnyvale for 2 years.It was in 2000-02.

    ioiio -- for the benefit of non-tamilians.

    By Blogger Cogito, at 9:16 AM  

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