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The Homemaker had tagged me on this. Long time, i haven’t done any tags. So, here it goes…

Eight things I am passionate about

1. Movies
2. Sports
3. Books
4. Blogging
5. Food
6. Child and women’s empowerment
7. My family
8. Gym
9. Investing. Yup, i have an extra passion

Eight things I want to do before I die

1. Adopt a child legally. Preferably, a girl child.
2. Travel to eastern Europe.
3. Take a bike and drive the whole length and breadth of India. Stay overnight in some tiger sanctuary and see the animals up close in their natural habitat.
4. Direct a movie. I have some pretty controversial topics in my mind.
5. Retire at 40. Wake up at 0900 hrs daily, have breakfast, switch on CNBC at 1000 hrs. Watch the market and invest. Stop work at 1530 hrs when the stock market closes. Work only 5 days a week.
6. Build a 6 pack ab.
7. Watch an India that treats every human being equally. Where no one is discriminated based on their race, region, religion, caste, creed, sexual orientation, political or other beliefs.
8. Write a will that will donate all my earnings to charity. All that my kids will get will be a good education and some money in the bank as safety deposit. If i ever have my own business, they will be run by professionals and not by my kids just because they are my kids.

Eight things I say often

1. Shucks
2. F*** you
3. Gimme a ring later
4. Freakin hell
5. Nee pani bagundi raa (Telugu)
6. Inkem raa (Telugu)
7. C****** hai kya be (Hyderabadi lingo)
8. Teri joint mein grease (Hyderabadi lingo)

Eight books I have read recently

1. Eleven Minutes – Paulo Coelho
2. Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
3. Freakonomics – Steven Levitt
4. Barefoot Investor – Scott Pape
5. Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
6. It happened in India – Kishore Biyani
7. Lots of MBA books – IGNOU
8. We are like that only – Rama Bijapurkar (now reading)

Eight songs I could listen to over and over

Hardly any. I easily get bored after listening to a song 4-5 times. No matter how good/bad it is.

Eight things that attract me to my friends

Let my friends tell that about me. Its not for me to speak about myself.

Four people I think should do this tag

Akhil
Dinsan
Ramya

and anyone else who wants to do it, please go ahead.

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Had been tagged by Dinsan some time ago. Pretty late in the day, but couldn’t resist myself doing this

1. Am a potty reader. Ya, i do spend time on the throne everyday, reading through practically any book, magazine, newspapers etc that i can lay my hands on.

2. I can cook reasonably well. I spend a lot of time on the net looking for recipes, buying the ingredients and try out cooking. I dont restrict myself to Indian food. I can cook Italian and Chinese too. Though i have never tried to bake. Its one skill that i plan to hone in the new year.

3. I can multi-task easily without strain. During college, i used to go for manual typewriter classes, then college, then NIIT @ Liberty, then computerdrome and finally reach home at 11pm, have dinner, sleep and repeat the routine again the next day. I did this effortlessly for 2 years. In fact, i never understood why my mother kicked up such a fuss about my packed schedule.

4. I got 920 rank in the first ever MBA-CET exam conducted by Osmania university in 1995. But i couldnt join as i had failed in the Organic Chemistry paper in my final year degree. By the time the revaluation results declared me passed, the admissions for the MBA had closed. I nursed a secret desire to do my MBA at any cost some day in my life. I joined IGNOU to do my MBA here in Singapore, even though the cost is more than 10 times of what i would have paid had i did the course in India.

5. I suffer from Aqua phobia (fear of water). I can’t swim to save my life. Its ironical because am a Scorpio and water is the element supposed to be associated with my sun sign.

6. I take some time to make up a decision. But once i do, its pretty impossible for anyone to wean me away. It doesnt matter that the decision can be detrimental to my own interests. Its precisely why i dont succumb to impulse buying.

7. Every woman/girl i have known closely, has accused me of being a ‘lady killer‘ or someone with a ‘glib tongue‘. Some even told me that, they believed, that i would try to bed them. But they were also very surprised that no matter how long or intimately i knew them, i never touched them physically.

8. I have a weakness for older women. I was once in love with a divorcee. She was elder to me by almost 20 years. I wanted to marry her. But when i became too obsessed with her, she just disappeared for good. Another one was my computer lecturer. I have blogged about her earlier.

Hmmm….who should i tag? How about Akhil.

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