How many of you believe in coincidences??

I have got a quote for you

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

How true is this ? I happen to have noticed recently.. very recently a series of unexpected coincidences! so much so that its very spooky.. now is it really an enemy action ? Do I have to scourge for enemies now ?

Or is it as this interesting person says,

A coincidence is when God performs a miracle and decides to remain anonymous.

So is god playing an anonymous prank now ? Whatever it is.. well its fun isnt it ?

Think of life without coincidences! there will be nothing to look forward to.. no surprises!!! how boring!!!

Is it any wonder that writers don’t like to be in the limelight ?

Ah my fourth tag in a row!! River Soul tagged me …..

So here I am letting out my very own octal meme

Things I am passionate about:

To start with would be reading! I cannot think of ever stopping to read….

Music/ Singing. I have never known an hour when I haven’t hummed a song.. Literally. I was a living nightmares in libraries and examination halls. If I am not singing loudly, I am singing in my mind.

Life. I am passionate about living. I have no words to describe this but yes I am

Poetry. Can’t think of life wherein words would stop to flow. It has happened before. I know how choked up I feel so now I am afraid to stop lest I cannot start again

My Blogs. I have 3 that are really active. Blogging started as an escape from boredom, grew to being a place to rant and now… Its my own private space, my creative expression. It has become a part of me.

I love my “sweety”. She is an adorable lab of 2 years. For years I wanted a dog. However, my parents were dead against it. She was my first gift to myself and Am I glad!!!

My Adorable darling!!!!

Nature. I love going on a trek. even though I am not fit at all now for hiking and all! I love sea, waterfall, sunset and sunrise. Ah and clouds and birds and rain.. I guess you get the picture

Cocktails. Any given time, if I am having alcohol, it has to be a cocktail. More so, it would be something I never had… more obscure and exotic the better.

Okay you get a bonus here. I am totally gone for chocolate. And chocolate and alcohol is the best combination!!!

I love stuffed toys too erm.. I just have to stop else lot more will come out …..

things I wanna do before I die

Travel. As many places I can.

Donno if this will come true but I want to have my own company

Buy a farmhouse or cottage on a cliff. If I can swing it, a private island!!

Own 4 dogs, countless cats and few rabbits.

Get drunk so much so that I pass out. Its really doubtful as I don’t get drunk easily and I have a hard time being out of control.

Get married have 2 kids and adopt a third one.

Go on a blind date. I find that very intriguing!! Or may be get stranded with strangers in a storm, in a forest.. ummm anything that makes me interact with strangers very intimately…

Okay, the most important and the last one. You won’t hear it again ever, I promise you that… I want to lose weight and maintain the loss for 1 year, atleast once in my life

Things I often say

How could they/he/she? or how dare they/he/she!

Fuck, asshole.. bull crap, bullshit

I know!

sahi hai! What else?

What do I know?

A smattering of punjabi.. tussi… etc etc

Has to be my call opening.. Thank you for calling Addr.com ….

Oh and the last one is sir, maa’m bleh! blah! etc etc * I know I am not able to recall i guess!* Oh yeah! “I guess so”.. i use that a lot too and ” The thing is….” and ” What the heck!” and lastly, “Damn!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Books I last read

My Favorite of all the sections!!!

Blind Assasin – Margaret Atwood

Brida- Paulo Cohelo

Nude – Nergis Dalal

Dark and Darker – Sameer Kohli and Samir Parikh * I don’t recommend this at all*

Waves – Sundara Ramaswamy
Four plays by Henriek Isben

Almost single Advaita Kala

The birth of Venus – Sarah Dunant

songs I love
This is very hard to list *boo hoo hoo*

Another day in paradise by phil collins

You sang to me by mark anthony

But it rained by parikrama

Any song by kishore kumaar * I have a long standing crush on him if only he was alive!*

After glow by INXS

Na shiqwa hota from the movie Tehzeeb

Tujhse naaraaz nahi zindagi from the movie masoom

Mera kuch saamaan tumhare paas hai from the movie Ijaazat

I think its the most common tag around, I donno whom to tag..

Neeru

Ishaan

Vishal

Nancy

The Rules are as follows:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you really love (and strikethrough the ones you hate!).
4) Reprint this list in your own blog.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare *I have never liked him*
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery * Read long time back wanna read again*
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas * Read long time back wanna read again*
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

My score is: 43/100

Good enough I guess..

I tag………….

Since I never received this tag I don’t feel like tagging anyone but I would really like to know about

—> Anoop ( After that interesting conversation we had today.. you better take this tag)

—> Neeru!!!

—> Nancy

—> Vinay ( I tag you coz I know you read a lot of books)

—> River Soul ( Simply coz I know next to nothing about you and yet your poems delight me!)

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