Tag

I was mighty surprised at Colors tagging me, for a bit I was checking for another "Moonie". I avoid sharing anything personal over the web, but then I thought there is no harm in answering the tag questions. just for colors I am making this post a bit colorful!

A - Available? - No comments ;)

B - Best Friend - J - was a colleague last decade but now he is my closest online pal!

C - Cake or pie - Apple Pie :) especially the one you get in mcdonalds. At one place in US I remember eating kiwi pie and key lime pie too, yummmmmm.

D - Drink of choice - Well, I'd love to say life giving water but it wouldn't be truth, I like my drinks strong, Scotch or Long Island Ice Tea.

E - Essential thing used everyday - yups toothbrush and toothpaste! To add to this is kohl, I just cannot feel dressed without it. Its very rare you'd see me without kohl in my eyes; usually its eye liner and kohl.

F - Favorite Color - Well its difficult but then I look at my recently decorated home and find ample sprinkling of darker shades of green, so I guess green must be my favorite. Recent fancy are Indigo and Brick.

G - Gummy bears or worms - Well, since this candy is not very common in India, I don't have a preference for either. I will share that once upon a time I used to eat tons of 'Mango bite', there was a time when my colleagues would drop on my desk just to get a bite of mango :))

H - Hometown - Delhi. Though my family belongs to Alleppey in Kerala but since I was brought up in Delhi; every time some one talks about hometown I can only think Delhi.

I - Indulgence - There is a popular ice-cream parlour in Bangalore called 'Corner House', they have a sundae called 'Death by chocolate'. death by chocolate is completely uplifting!

J - January or February - February, cause I feel quite settled into the new year after about a month. January is too anxious and in anticipation

K - Kids and names - I don't have kids but if I ever had, I would love to name them 'Nandini' or ever favorite 'Rahul'. Lots filmi but then everyone knows I am a movie buff.

L - Life is incomplete without - Internet. A strange choice, I know but apart from love of my family who don't live with me, I realize internet is my "need" without which I feel something is amiss. Life without being connected to the world is unimaginable. Recent addition to pass time over web is SecondLife, do you have a second life??

M - Marriage Date - No Comments.

N - Number of siblings - Same as Colors; 1 elder n wiser brother.

O - Oranges or apples - Tangy Oranges.

P - Phobias or fears - hhhmmmm... being abandoned.

Q - Quote - "Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal”.

R - Reason to smile - In Zen they say 'This too shall pass'.

S - Season - Rainy, absolutely love the rains. In Delhi it would pretty hot so it was absolute fun getting drenched in rains but even now I love watching rains and how everything turns deeper green after that.

T - Tag three people - I was surprised when Colors tagged me. I'd invite any one who is interested to take up the tag.

U - Unknown fact about me - Plenty, Its a difficult question to answer over the web because I try to remain a private person. Hhhhmmm something I'd like to share is that I used to make my own dresses when I joined college. I would copy designs from magazines, cut and stitch Salwaar, Chudidaar Kameez by my own. Yet another unknown fact about me is that I can cook quite well but I cook just a few times a month!

V - Vegetable you don't like - Its difficult to think about a specific vegetable which I don't like; rather I don't like any vegetable made bland e.g. eggplant is edible only as Baigan ka bharta and Bitter Gourd as bharwan kerala punjabi style, various pumpkins in coconut milk Kerala style

W - Worst habit - Procrastination.

X - X-rays you have had - usual ones teeth and chest.

Y - Your favorite food - Well, I am a chocoholic so anything chocolate is my favorite. Also one of my fav is a simple Maggi noodles made with a little extra water so that it becomes more of soupy noodles. One more fav I'd like to mention because that probably one of the very few things I miss from US is Gen Tso Chicken! :) :D

Z - Zodiac - Crab - Cancer.

End of an innings for Kiran Bedi

http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/27/stories/2007122755740100.htm

“It has been a life worth living. It has been a profession of my soul and heart. And truly, the end it has met was not imagined. But this was what the situation had demanded and it was necessary to drive home a point,” said Kiran Bedi without trying to hide her emotions.

Ms. Bedi, who had been ignored for the hot-shot post of Delhi’s Police Commissioner earlier this year, said: “You cannot be valued in one position and devalued in another. If the Government is really serious about [police] reforms, then why deny me the place from where I can effect them? What’s the point in doing paper reforms when there is no dearth of such recommendations lying un-implemented.”

The much talked about Magsaysay Award winner had submitted her application for voluntary retirement this past mid-November saying she wanted to quit in order to pursue her academic and social interests. The Government last week indicated that it would continue to avail itself of her services for its National Police Mission project, but she had rejected the offer saying she was not willing to work “for the Government” any more.

Saying that she was “grateful to the Government for not having delayed the approval” to her voluntary retirement plea, Ms. Bedi said she would continue to work on police and prison reforms besides pursuing other academic and social interests.

“I am already working on women empowerment in Panchayati Raj and will continue to work to groom future leaders,” she added.

Well, all I can say is Good Luck to Dr (Mrs) Bedi and I am looking forward to her hopefully playing some other socially relevant role in our country.

On the other note, Just while I was browsing the news in evening, I saw flash of news that Mrs Bhutto was assassinated. Quite sad I felt. Not that I know a lot about Pakistan's political scenario but I was quite impressed by her being a leader in the Muslim world which is not really known to encourage women.

Well, I guess, life goes on!