Three Things…

First Lakshmik (Veggie Cuisine) and then Shaheen (Malabar Spices) tagged me for this meme. I always need lots of time for the ‘meme’ stuff - thankfully, unlike in real life, for a blog I can take the time to think up witty one liners what I think are witty one-liners. So here goes:

3 Things that make me laugh
Watching Friends
Watching Seinfeld
Watching Friends again… and again and again. (I know, that adds up to a lot of TV. They also say laughing is a good thing. So there.)

3 Things that make me cry
Watching our Saas-bahu serials from the K-factory (looking at those decked-up conniving women with an inch thick make-up makes you want to pull your hair out. And that is very painful. So I don’t. Watch the serials, I mean.)
Watching movies like Stepmom - a totally different kind of crying. Not painful, but feels like something’s stuck in your throat.
Chopping onions. Not very original. Or witty. But true.

3 Things that scare me
There you have me. I’m not really scared of things other than being put on the spot! In the limelight I mean. Like that will happen! So, I’ll say I don’t scare easy. I hate cockroaches but I am not scared of them - I can always stomp on them (yuk).
But I am mortally afraid of riding a bicycle, with good reason.

3 Things I love
Reading the Sunday papers (especially The Hindu)
Delhi’s Four-seasons Climate, always sunny!
A good cup of tea

3 Things I hate - too strong an emotion, let’s make that - I can’t stand
Dealing with corrupt officers (I can’t offer bribes you see. Big problem.)
muggy-cloudy weather for too long (London is not for me!)
Roaches/ Salman Khan

3 Things I don’t understand
Why TH won’t drink tea. What kind of Indian doesn’t drink tea? And he says he has a very refined sense of taste. Right.
Why we (Indians), as a people, have NO CIVIC SENSE
Why a lot of people think Aishwarya Rai is the epitome of womanhood

3 Things on my desk
cell phone
calculator
bunch of pens and pencils

3 Things I am doing right now
Multitasking as usual…
making a cup of tea for myself, as I
cook dinner (3 burners going), and
write this meme, intermittently

3 Things I want to do before I die
visit Greece and Rome and Italy and Barcelona (to begin with)
make that dream ‘farm’ house in Belgaum (much much before I die, I hope)
finish knitting that sweater I started last year

3 Things I can do
put a great meal together in half hour
be on time
look for the silver lining (it is always there somewhere)

3 Things one should listen to
one’s conscience
one’s wife
Indian Oldies like Kishore Kumar and Begam Akhtar

3 Things I would never want to listen to
North Indian speciality - the all-night Vishaal Bhagwati Jagaran (show me one tuneful singer…)
Ahem…rap?
Aishwarya Rai talk

3 Favorite foods
This is hard. Amongst scores:
Pizza
Aloo Parantha
Eggs and Cheese

3 beverages I drink regularly
Tea
Water
Coffee

3 TV shows I watched/books I read as a kid
Anne Frank’s Diary (when I was 13 - she wrote it when she was 13)
Our very own first soap: Hum Log
A whole lot of Enid Blytons with the favorites being the Famous Five, Five Findouters with Fatty, Bet…Tim? and poor old Goon

Three fellow bloggers I would like to tag
Manisha (Indian Food Rocks)
Nandita (Saffron Trail), I see she has been tagged already
Krithika (Manpasand)
Vaishali (Happy Burp)
only if they would like to!