~~ Love to Hate it !! ~~

Yayyy! I won a 55F contest - My first ever win in my blogging history... Most of the times, I end up as the special mentions or make it to the last but not the very-last round!! This win meant so very much that even words fail to express, no, not even in 55 words…  Believe me, every 55F that I have posted (that are yet to be synced up in this space), has been the toughest ones for me to write, I am so used to word vomit, that restricting myself to write something in just 55 words and still make it sound interesting, is a herculean task! So winning for the first time ever for a blog post and that too for a 55F is just something in-explainable! *dance* 

Now inspired by this win, I tried to explore the territory I so so so don’t understand – Yes, poems (Well, I do understand a few simple ones)! Okay, so English Gurus or Grammar Gurus or Rhyme Gurus – if what I have written doesn’t justify to be called a poem –  pardon me, let it go and do let me know (at-least I will not feel like a dud for not being able to understand so many of them out there when writing this one seemed so simple)

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Few are light, few are bright!
Not even one of you is a lovely sight!

Oh! You are such a painful fright!
A reason to fret day and night!

Few let it go and a few put up a major fight…!
Try to get rid of you with all their might!

What do you gain by being painful yet polite!
Can’t you just fly away like an aimless kite!

You always appear when the time is not right!
And leave a scar that’s visible from any height!

Oh dear, you have no right!!
To ruin my life with your pitiful plight!

You must know, you are not a delight!
Oh my fresh pink pimple – I sure hate you with all my might!!!

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Originally written on March 01 2016

~~ Meme: I Mustache You Some Questions ~~

Loved the meme for the simplicity though I didn't understand why it is fixated on the number “four”  - Anyways, here you go!!

Four Names People Call Me Other Than My Real Name:

• Amma :P
• Deeps
• Deepu
• Dimpy

Four Jobs I’ve Had:

• Teacher/Akka - I used to give Maths & Science tuitions to school kids during my high school & engineering times – and probably have done a good job at it as am still remembered by a lot of my tuition students and few are still in touch :P  
• Always been in IT from the time I stepped out of college and have played varied roles – of all the roles played till date, I absolutely loved the phase of being the Technical SME/Onsite coordinator for applications during the developer/module lead phases. The most varied experience in my job stint would be of being a QC for about a year. Believe me, the varied learning experience & exposure during that 1 year stint was just just great!
• Baby sitter to my baby cousin once upon a time :P There was no actual payment – but would want to say that payment was in terms of pure fun & loads of experience :P
• Though I don’t have any concrete plans and this is not the fourth job yet, in future, someday, if not IT, I would like to be a teacher (I know its late, but would love to teach little kids in whichever way I can) or/and a novelist (am I eligible to be one is a question that I would like you to answer :P

Four movies I have watched more than once: There are many – I am quoting the recent ones only. 

• Gone with the wind (English)
• Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Hindi)
• PK (Hindi)
• Toy Story Series (English)

Four books I’d recommend: I cannot just recommend four books. It wouldn’t be fair. So I am recommending four authors. 

• Dan Brown
• John Grisham
• Jeffrey Archer
• Lee Child

 Four places I have lived in:

• Udupi/Mangalore
• Bangalore
• Mysore
• Chennai 

Four beautiful places I have been to:

• Flower shows (Bangalore)
• Goa temples (I know what you must be thinking, but yes, there are temples in Goa)
• Minneapolis
• Niagara Falls                

Four places I’d rather be right now:  I am happy where I am – But I would rather be 

• With my daughter @ home
• Back to school/college :P
• On my bed with a book
• In a movie theatre watching any latest release.

Four things I don’t eat:

• Non-Vegetarian
• Boiled tomatoes (I keep them aside)
• Alvathi (a green-leafy preparation Konkani foodies would die for, but somehow, I don’t)
• Too many sweets unless it’s really really really really good!

Four of my favorite foods:

• Anything made of potatoes!
• Anything spicy & anything fried   - Wrong combo I know!
• Popcorn
• Konkani Dalithoy (oh, actually, the whole Konkani spread except of course the Alvathi)  

 

Four TV shows that I watch: It’s too difficult to cut it short to four and moreover, I don’t get time to watch TV these days, but if I do get, these would be my preferences in each genre.

• F.R.I.E.N.D.S/The Big Bang Theory/Two and a half men/Everybody loves Raymond/HIMYM
• Castle/Bones/Mentalist/Dexter
• Downtown Abbey/Once upon a time/Grey’s Anatomy (Yes, these are not of same genre, but I had to mention them)
• Masterchef Australia series

 

Four things I am looking forward to this year (2016): There are multiple things! But all that drills down to only one final thing that I strive for – a year filled with happiness!

 

Oh yes, please feel free to pick up this meme and pass it on :)

 

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Originally written on 09-Feb-2016