A long Pending TAG

A, Deeps, Sansmerci & Spontaneous Mini have tagged me.

At first, a dial-up connection prevented me from attempting it but now my ADSL is giving me more trouble than the dial-up. Aah anyways here it is:

The rules states that for every answer one has to do a Google Image Search and paste a picture from the first Google Image Search page with minimal explanation. So here goes....

1. The age you will be in your next birthday: will turn 35 this month
…..I’ve been dying to tell you guys this for sometime now. But just couldn't blurt it out could I???? I get the feeling many of you think I’m atleast 43:-S.
Though Pink is the last color I would choose to wear, I loved the picture. And for the many young fellas who walk in here & pull my leg, once again I repeat, I believe I'm in my prime...nothing you say will convince me otherwise:-/.

2. A place you'd like to travel to: New Zealand
Everything about this place fascinates me. The googled picture is of New Zealand's Rugby team & they are doing the HAKA Dance…before the games start, they will dance the Haka first. It is like an intimidation technique to scare the opponents. Cool huh:-D!!!!
Quote from wiki: A haka is a traditional dance form of the Maori of New Zealand. It is a posture dance with shouted accompaniment, performed by a group.

3. Your Favorite place: The living room.
The scenario: After dinner, with my feet up on the sofa, nibbling on some dessert, catching a late night movie leaning against my better-half.
p.s: My living room look nothing like this:-(

4. Your favorite food/drink: Chicken Biriyani.

Any Indian Restaurant I go for the 1st time, I ask for CB for sure. And if tht CB is good then I know we'll be going there again:-D.

Drink: Prefer Mocktails.

....I'm not partial to any one but am particular that there shouldn't be any traces of banana in it.

5. Your Favorite pet: German Shepherd.

....We had 2 of them once upon a time...Toothie & Cookie. I absolutely adored them & cried buckets when they died. One died after she swallowed a marble. She was our first pet & when she died we were heartbroken. The other lived with us for 12 years & died of old age.

6. Your favorite color combination: Blue & Green

....It could be clothes, food[more like drinks], nature.....I just love the combination & drink it in with my eyes. I try to take a picture but it never ever matches upto the original.

7. Your favorite piece of clothing: Blue Jeans & a white shirt.

This is not the exact picture I would have chosen normally as an ad for Blue Jeans & white shirt. But when this picture came up I simply couldnt NOT put it up. Princess Diana took me back to my school days where we used to devour news of her in the foreign magazines. She was the ultimate Fashion Icon in those days.

8. Your all time favorite song: Annie's Song by John Denver.

I first heard this song when I was in the 6th-7th standard & loved it. Though not a polished singer as such, I sing this song very well....ummm atleast I'd like to think I sing it quite well. The funny thing is, for a long time I thought it was a hymn and the 'You' in the 'You fill up my senses' was God:-D.

9. Your favorite TV show: Nigella Feast on Travel & Living.

Do any of U watch it??? My kids found this program by chance....this is the One show, all of us watch together & nobody asks to change the channel. She is just too good & makes cooking so just easy. The kids after watching a couple of shows asked me whether I would mind if they went to live with Nigella Feast... I was a bit rattled & couldn't think of an answer immediately. So I merely contented myself by correcting them "Her name is not Nigella Feast, it's Nigella Lawson"

10. Full name of your significant other: Biju Thomas

....When I googled this name a lot of visages came up...seems like there were a lot of Biju Thomases out there. This picture is of a book which was written by another Biju Thomas.

……And no, I’m not Nancy Thomas…I’m still Nancy My father’s Name:-D. No..no...its not like what U think...you know, feminist & all that. It just happened that changing the name in the passport was one tedious process. And so the Sir name just stayed that way. I for one was secretly pleased;-D.

11. The town in which you live: Deira.

....Dubai is basically divided into 2 cities- Bur Dubai & Deira. And the two is separated by this creek[the water you see in the pic]. Long ago I think people would travel by boat from Deira to reach Bur Dubai. Now ofcourse we have the Maktoum Bridge & the Floating bridge to help us get across. But even now the quickest way to reach across is by the abra[boat].

12. Your screen name/nickname: Reflections.

....I'm pretty pleased with this picture I got. Its beautiful isn't it?? An iceberg incase u cant figure out what it is. It gives out 2 connotations...one ofcourse is the reflection itself & the other is a fact which is known widely.....it is said that only one-tenth portion of an iceberg is above water.

Even the Blog world is like an iceberg isn't it......we all 'think' we have a general idea of what the rest of us are like.... which is based on the posts which we read. But I feel even after years of posting & bonding together as blogger friends there is so much we will not find out about eachother.....we'll only know what the Blogger wants to tell us. Quite a disturbing thought actually:-(.

13. Your First job: Training Coordinator

...At a Multimedia Training Centre. It was a job which happened by chance. When I joined there I never intended to stay for long. But I ended up staying there for 2 years & left only because I was getting married & moving away to Dubai.

The picture I have put up here bears no resemblance to the nature of my job but I took to it immediately. Infact I was thinking if my dream job wasn't that of a librarian, I would have liked to become a fire fighter.

14. Your Dream job: Librarian
……yeah boring I knw, but I always wanted a job where I could spend the entire day with books. In my school days I used to think the librarian was the luckiest person in the whole world. I had decided then when I grew up I would become one. In between college years I had forgotten all about it. Then after completing 1 year of postgraduation in Literature I came across an ad for admissions for Library science. You wont believe how much I kicked myself for not remembering my original career decision. I still nurse a desire but as far I know there is no correspondence course in it.

15. Bad Habit you have: Procrastination.
...I write a list of grocery items early in the morning but by the time I call the supermarket it will be evening. Seriously...I dont know how that happens. I even remember going to pick up the phone to call but I get distracted. The distraction could be the doorbell, a phone call or even a pencil lying on the ground. By the time I finish answering it or picking it up & putting it in its place I would have found something else there & gone to fix that.

16. Your worst fear: Getting mugged.

...I'm paranoid about this. I hate to walk alone after dark. If by chance the street is lonely & somebody walks behind me, all sorts of wild thoughts run through my mind. As I hurry towards my destination, my mind will be busy analysing how best to block the attack + how much money I'm going to lose.

17. The one thing you'll like to do before you die: Pray

.....I know a lot of people who want to die in their sleep or die without delay. While I do want to leave the world without suffering, I do not want to leave the world without speaking with Him first. Now most of U will think I'm some kind of religious fanatic.....no really...I'm just safe guarding my interests:-D.

18. The first thing you'll buy if you get $1,000,000: A 2nd house for my parents.

....This house will be located in Kerala their native land, so that they have the best of both worlds. They live in Bangalore presently but the winter season is not very kind to them. I keep thinking....if only I could do something about it.

Yeah I know the TAG rules mentioned minimal explanations. When you know me better you'll realise that I specialise in the opposite.

And I'm in a generous mood today....... so I TAG everybody who has not attempted it yet.