Thanks Mythri

BTW I have a doll-like cousin with the same name and different spelling. She spells it like Maitri …. sweet hunh?

1.What is your current obsession?
Blogging, freelance writing, watching hindi movies

2. What are you wearing today?
Salwar kameez – am in office …… and dress code here is a bummer!

3. What’s for dinner?
I dont eat dinner …. gives me acidity! Have discovered that life is easier without it.

4. What’s the last thing you bought?
Shopped on Rakhi – mithai, chocolate, juices and clothes. Total feel good scenario

5. What are you listening to right now?
Heaven on Earth on my Ipod

6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
Very young, cute and funny

7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
In the hills

8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?
24 hours power back up, cotton kurtas and jeans!

9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Mauritius on the beach!

10. Which language do you want to learn?
Japanese

11. What’s your favorite quote?
“Dance like no one is watching, love like you’ll never be hurt,sing like no one is listening,and live like it’s heaven on earth.”

12. Who do you want to meet right now?
Spock! Hmmmm Neo would also do!

13. What is your favorite colour?
Orange, Red, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Some more red! Green, Purple. Yeah I love it to be a riot of color

14. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own closet?
My ancient tattered shawl! Its so old that it holds a life-time’s memories. I love it.
15. What is your dream job?
Dont wanna work. Just wanna chill and write. A lotus eater would be a great job profile.

16. What’s your favorite magazine?
Actually none! I like books thick and meaty. Magazines have too many pictures of perfect women with slim butts and too little matter.

17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Books

18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
Being overdressed for the occaision.

19. Who are your style icons?
Waheeda Rehman, Rajmata Gayatri Devi, Leela Naidu, all are pictures of understated elegance.

20. Describe your personal style.?
Comfortable and casual.

21. What are you going to do after this?
Start working! Just came to office and started blogging.

22. What are your favorite movies?
Anything that is fast, thrilling, funny, basically good time pass. Not too demanding about movies.

24. What are three cosmetic/makeup/perfume products that you can’t live without?
Jovan White Musk, Sunscreen from Lakme Fundamentals and a simple colorless lip gloss

23. What inspires you?
A positive person and a happy smile!

24. What do you carry in your bag?
My entire life! Hmm okay, keys, credit card, sunscreen, lip gloss, mints, chewing gum, nail file, Ipod, book, wet wipes, note pad, pen, lighter, prayer book, rosary beads …. I think you get the idea!

25. What do you do when you “have nothing to wear” (even though your closet’s packed)?
Ask DIL to choose what I aught to wear.

26. Coffee or tea?
Tea followed by cold coffee with icecream!

27. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
Put on my Ipod and earphones and go for a walk.

28. What is the meaning of your name?
Ritu means season. My father in a rare poetic moment thought I was moody and could drive every one nuts with my mood changes! Hence the name.

29. Which other blogs you love visiting?
Too many to list.

30. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?
Chocolate, Coffee and Walnut cake, Atta Halwa

31. Favorite Season ?
Winter

32) If I come to your house now, what would u cook for me?
Upma, or spicy vermicelli with lots of capsicum and beans. I love it. We can add some atta halwa to that. Cooks in a jiffy.

33)What’s your current mood?
At peace

The rules are:
Respond and rework – Answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, and add one more question of your own.Then tag eight or ten other set of people.
I would like to share these awards and tag….

Manpreet
Indyeah
IHM
Rajat
Pallavi
Aathira
Advitiya
Sakhi

Hmm, Got this from a friend in the mail.  Love to kill two birds with one stone …. so am replying on my blog Yoo hoo Ravin, Did it asap!

1. Were you named after anyone?
Papa named me Ritu …. cause he thought I was moody and changeable like the seasons.  Thanks Papa!  Would have hated being Pinky or Babli, so not me

2.  When was the last time you cried?
I cry.  It is my only feminine accomplishment as per my father. Last night I was watching Sophia Lauren’s Two Women, and I cried.

3. Do you like your handwriting?
No.  Do you?

4.  What is your favorite lunch meat?
Hmmm …. sardine … tuna : actually both

5.  Do you have kids?
Oh yeah.  Some that I gave birth to, some that adopted me through life, and I am Mom to three canine ones too.

6.  If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
Yeah of course.  I am a good pal  

7.  Do you use sarcasm a lot?
Yes, I do

8.  Do you still have your tonsils?
Yes I do.

9.  Would you bungee jump?
No!!!  YIKES!

10.  What is your favorite cereal ?
Dont like cereal

11. Do you untie your shoes while taking them off?
No, never

12. Do you think you are strong?
Mentally and emotionally yes, Physically?  No, but I have two sons who can whup your ass, thanks for asking

13.  What is your favorite ice cream?
Dont like ice cream … but almond praline is okay

14. What is the first thing you notice about people?
Eyes

15.  Red or Pink?
Hehehe, Pink after the campaign

16.  What is the least favorite thing about yourself?
I kinda forget to finish a sentence … and people get so annoyed!  I just start and leave people hanging!

17.  Who do you miss the most?
My childhood sibling gang

18.  Do you want every one to send this back to you?
Yeah, I am quite a nosy busy body

19.  What shoes are you wearing?
They are white, silver and with beads.  Horribly uncomfortable though lovely!

20. What was the last thing you ate?
Papaya

21.  What are you listening to right now?
My stomach grumbling!  Its lunch time

22.  If you were a crayon which color would you be?
Orange, Purple … Earth colors acutally

23. Fovorite smell?

Wet mud in summer rains.  Motiya and raat ki rani

24. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
The peon!  I want my lunch …..

25. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
Yeah inspite of his sending this to me

26. Favorite Sports to watch?
WWE, TNA

27.  Hair colour?
Right now, red streaks and purple 

28.  Eye color? 
Brown

29.  Do you wear contacts? 
No

30. Favorite food? 
Unhealthy and fattening.  Samosas top the list

31. Scary movies or happy endings? 
Both

32. Last movie you watched? 
LUCK BY CHANCE

33. What color shirt are you wearing? 
Pink and white

34.  Summer or Winter?
Winter

35.  Hugs or Kisses? 
HUGS

36. Favorite dessert? 
You mean I have to chose?????

37.  Most likely to respond? 
I dunno

38. Least likely to respond? 
I dunno

39. What book are you reading? 
Biography of M. S. Oberoi

40. What’s on your mousepad? 
Vin Diesel droooool!  (I wish)

41. What did you watch on TV last night? 
American Idol

42. What is the farthest you have been from home? 
Kenya and Mombassa

43. Do you have a special talent?
Yup!  I can write well and I can manipulate extremely well! Hehehehehehe!  Gets me out of trouble every time

44. Where were you born?
Delhi

I tag everyone who wants to do this ……

Tikuli tagged me to try this some time ago and I kept thinking what would I like to be reborn as ……

Sigh – so many magnificient creatures, so little chance.  I would love to be born as the pampered pooch of a very rich and loving home – my needs, my wants all taken care of – shiny coat, regular trips to the vet, lots of good food and treats, a huge ground to run around – an absolute doggie heaven.

I would like to be glamourous too.  Have a lot of oomph, so I would love to be a unicorn.  Or may be the Babi babe coming out of the sea … but I digress.

Grand isnt it, and beautiful too.  Dogs are loving, loyal and very simple.  It would bore me.  I like the power and the attitude a wild animal has – even the mythical ones.

But most of all I would like to be the mythical bird that means so much to me – the phoenix

Now this is fantastic, grand can not even begin to describe it.  

The phoenix is a bird that resurrects itself.  It burns itself when finished, and then rises from the ashes, stronger for the experience.  I can understand the “never say die” attitude.  I see parallels between me and the phoenix.  Ostracised by everyone, even my own mother for having the gumption to end an unsuccesful marriage, daring to want to live my life with respect, for daring to be free of a conventional surname – either paternal or one given by a husband.  Having to fight alone for the right to live with respect on my own terms.  The phoenix is a survivor, and so am I.

I think I lived it long before Obama made it a famous catchline

This is for all the women in situations similar to what mine was

YES IT IS POSSIBLE, YES WE CAN

Alankrita of Real Virtuality tagged me to do this one.  I am not too much into memories, since I have seen people live and relive past glories, or suffer the traumas of their past endlessly – quite forgetting that life is here and now.  Okay here goes …

This really is a trip in a Time Machine kind of thing …..

My oldest memory

I was quite a little thing … and it was a summer afternoon.  My brothers(cousins and real) and I were playing in the park at Humayun Tomb.  They decided we had to go inside the tomb – which was out of bound for us – beats me why.  Once we were inside, the elder four ran away, hid, and laughed a loud maniacal Ha Ha Ha, which scared the shit out of us (the three younger ones).  We screamed, wept and clung to each other like little baby monkeys and sat down – yeah on the gravestone.

Round one to my elder cousins!

Ten Years Ago

Oh most definitely a bad period, trying to get my divorce and trying to bring up a very out of control angry adolescent Kid#!.  The only thing good about that time was that I also enrolled along with Kid#1 for Tae Kwon Do classes for a few months and learnt how to kick some ass.

My first thought this morning

I hate mornings.  I hate getting up.  I hate office.  I hate exercise.  Ritu get up and exercise otherwise your butt wont fit into your office chair.  What do I kill, miam and cut for breakfast and lunch.  OMG I hate mornings.

If you built a time capsule, what would it contain

I dont know …. I live here and now.  I dont much care about either the past or the future.  Hmmm, my blog maybe?

This year

This year has been pretty big for me.  I built and moved into my own house.  I got promoted to General Manager.  My stories got published by the CBSE.  I started blogging in earnest.  Got my own domain.  Got Kid#2 into Engineering College with the strong feeling of “one down, one to go”  Pretty eventful.

14 years from now

Hmmmm, retired from corporate life, full fledged writer, living in a small cottage in the hills, two dogs, internet …. a very peaceful life.  Of course with the option of coming back to NCR when I get bored or if the winter is too cold.  I hope whatever I write sells – I need money for that kind of life.

I tag Itchy, IHM, Manpreet, Advitiya

Should be interesting reading other peoples trip down memory lane