Thursday, February 09, 2006

Tagged yet again!

And this time, by Bharath aka bleu…

7 things I wish to do before I die:

1. Read many more books
2. write a few books ( hahaha- whats wrong in dreaming),
3. learn dancing once again,
4. Do my M.A in English Literature, then M.phil, then thesis…(there's no end to dreams)
5. Meet Amitabh Bachchan ( not on KBC)
6. Set up a library- with a humongous collection of books
7. Visit a few places

7 things I do not enjoy doing:

1. Hard work of any kind
2. Attending functions, social do’s
3. Travelling
4. Doing something simply because I’m expected to or supposed to
5. Arguing
6. shopping
7. being in a crowd

7 things that Attracted Me to Blogging:

1. brings me Relief of Expression
2. enjoy Toying with words to bring out my thoughts effectively.
3. Gives me clarity of thought
4. helps me sort things out within myself
5. Seeing my thoughts crystallized into words on the monitor gives me a highenjoy
6. enjoy reading other’s thoughts and expressions.
7. Enjoy interacting with the virtual community

7 things I say most often:

1. “Hayyada"
2. “PPP” – "Palliyil poyi Paranjaal mathi" meaning : go and tell this elsewhere, not to me :-)
3. "Please" “sorry”
4. ‘vere paniyilla’- roughly translated as :“as if I’ve no other work”,this however is used in jest.
5. calling out the names of my DH, sons.
6. I also have a habit of uttering the name of my “ishta deivam”(favourite deity) now and then
7. OK- to indicate I’m listening.

7 Books I like:

1. Roots
Alex Haley
2. Zorba the GreekNikos Kazantsakis
3. Parallel JourneysAnu Majumdar– story of a young Indian dancer and a French architect, whose lives are infiltrated by the journey Maitreyi and Yajnavalkya had undertaken eons ago…
4. Randam OOzham- The second turn -The incidents of the Mahabaharatha from the POV of Bheema- by
M.T.Vasudevan Nair
5. Ini njaan Urangatte - (Now, let me sleep!), P. K. Balakrishnan's retrospective account of the Mahabharata from Draupadi's perspective
6. Ente Karnan – Karna’s story by V.T.Nandakumar

7. Bharatha Paryatanam- Voyage thru the Mahabharatha- Kuttikrishna Maraar- critical exposition of the main events in the epic Mahaabhaarata. Maraar questions the subjectivity of Dharma and Adharma, the definition of rights and wrongs


7 Movies I want to watch again (and again and again - more than 7please)

Vijeta ( old-Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Kunal Kapoor, Supriya Pathak)
Kalyug (old- Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Raj Babbar, Khulbhushan Kharbhanda, /Anant Nag)
Pyaasa
Parichay
Guddi
Abhimaan
Kaagaz ke phool
Jaane bhi do yaaron
Angoor
Chashme Baddoor
Saahib Biwi aur Ghulam
Jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
Paayal ki jhankaar
Silangai oli
Saptapadi
Pakeeza
Baawarchi
Sound of Music
That touch of Mink
Anand
I’ll stop here, b4 I remember any more

7 pieces of Music I enjoy

1. Bombay Jayasree’s albums
2. Aruna Sairam
3. Uthukkadu krithis
4. M.S’s ‘Jagatho udhaarana’, Maithrim bhajatha…
5. Lata’s hits
6. Asha’s hits
7. Kishore Kumar, Rafi, Mukesh hits


and yet again, I leave the tag open- anyone wishing to do so – pls do, only pls leave a comment, so that I can go check it out- always interesting to gain trivia abt other bloggers…







9 comments:

bharath said...

roots? I heard it was made as a movie. I was going to check this out sometime soon. didn't know there was book to this title. :-)

thanks for accepting the tag Ardra. as usual a great list ... and i know sometimes 7 is such a big contraint.

eerezhu ulagam vendrum
manam sollum vendum vendum


:)

Arunima said...
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Arunima said...

read quitely and walk out thinking about the various tags I haven't yet done.

sinusoidally said...

I like the 7 things you say most often! Like you have nothing else to do...that was funny. :-)

Ardra said...

swanima, liked u'r lists too- have seen and read all of them...
and thanx for u'r comment on my dabbles site...

bharath! yes indeed there is the book- and its difficult to put it down- except i had read it with the info that it was based on a true story and later heard that it was not- and was not sure if i was dissappointed or relieved...

arunima!
i see these tags as a good filler when I want to blog but dont have anything to say- also am curious abt other's tags :-)


thanx sines!

junat said...

7 things I do not enjoy doing is exactly same as what i wud have written .

u get to know so much about a person from these tags and yet you dont come to know much about a person from these tags. amazing how many aspects a person has.

Usha said...

Books:
P.G.Wodehouse
Pride and Prejudice
The little prince
Seat of the Soul
Moon and Six Pence
Tortilla Flat
Cannery Row

In the films list mine would also have:
Sabrina
Loved your lists.
Are there translations of thse malayalam books you have mentioned? If yes, would you know where I might buy them..

My films list would have (in addition)
Dr.doolittle
Born free
Golmaal
Chupke chupke
Amar Akbar Anthony
Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ka

My Music would have (in addition)
Madurai Mani
Maharajapuram Santhanam
O.S.Arun
Jagjit Singh

RamaDrama said...

Wow!Kalyug and Salangai Oli with Chasme baddoor ? love the variety there,Ardra! It is always good to know the movies u love are loved by others..sort of like validation.

J said...

Wow, nice to know abt U, lady :-)

>>1. “Hayyada"
This one is sooo sweeeet :-)