My name means: My name means Royal Spear ;) Okay that is not what Cheti means ! Cheti comes from Chettiyaar - apprarently I looked like the "golu bommai" they keep for Tamilnadu business man - when I was a kid. With a big tummy and all ! But now I have six packs ;)

My favourite books are:  I am not a big reader. I read only when I am forced to - by the book itself or by a exam or something ! Some of the books that are compelling are Tintin series. I read them more for the illustrations! Herge plants such delightfull clues and trivia in the illustrations that its mindboggling.(there is one where a bandaid is featured through a long sequence which the Captain is trying get rid off - unsuccessfully) I am digressing. Ilove The Count of Monte Cristo. I keep rereading the part our hero repays Mon. Morrel. Its fantasitic. I love Ponniyin Selvan. Brilliant. The war scene where this guy without legs sits on the shoulders of his loyal aids and cuts through the enemy lines with swords on both the hands - I read this long ago - and this is the visual i have in mind. Its goosebumpy - the narration. There are a few others Like Train to Pakistan etc

My favourite author is: Jeffery Archer. I love his kind of Humour. Kalki. I love the grandeur he is able to whip up. I like one off stuff from lot of ppl. Since I am not a big reader, I dont have much else here.

My favourite poem: Tamil : Bharathiyar songs. Wordsworth's Highland LAss : for some reason that stuck with me. And if you know me even a little, you know I freak out at poems.

My favourite lines are: "Do your best is for loosers, Do or die is what we live by around here" - A soldier in a NCC camp that I attended. He asked me what my moto is ! And I got sluaghtered.

My favourite songs in English: Hotel California (Eagles), Road house Blues - yeah I know pretty old ones.

My favourite song in Hindi is: Recently, Kholo Kholo from TZP, Chehera from Thakshak, Tu hai asma mein from Jhankar beats

My favourite Malayalam song is: ?! Pramada Vanam Veenum from His Highness Abdullah. I will add Tamil songs too - NAdhiyae from Rythm, Sundari Neeyum from MMKR,

My favourite movies are: Micheal Madana Kamarajan (Tamil), Get Smart (its one heck of a movie - saw it yesterday), Crimson Tide - I love the dining table sequence between Genehackman and Denzel Washington.

My favourite smell is of: First rain on loose sand (prefereably red soil - my home town) and Vasambu - the beady thing that they make bracelets out of for infants in Tamil Nadu

My favourite dish: Well made, spicy, hot, dhals, sambhar, rasams... diced potato fry or gobi or bhindi fry, appalam (not pappad ;), home made potato chips, curd, lemon pickle or punjabi mango pickle and a lot of rice. ( you do know that I was kidding about six packs - dont you ?)

My favourite second food: MAggi, Rajma chawal, Phulka with aloo gobi, Aloo Paratta

My favourite Drink : Bovonto !!! I dont know if you know ! I am not  a big drinker ! But I love Bailey's Irish Cream. And Kaapi. Not Coffee.

My favourite colour is: Color of Black currant icecream

My favourite second colour: Blue

My favourite friend is: Just me probably - I have a friend for a different personas in me ! Okay, I am not a psycho and I am nit suffering from multiple personality syndrome

My favourite past times are: TV, movie - browsing the net, doodling on papers. Offlate I have bought a Wacom tablet.

My favourite dress is: Relaxed casual. Nothing contraining !

My favourite qualities in others: Integrity, Straightforwardness, Humour.

My favourite qualities in myself: Integrity, Straightforwardness, Humour.( that was pretty humourous and may be pompous !)

My favourite mantra is : Take it easy !

My favourite heros are: My cousin, A teacher, A friend - I think I am surrounded by normal people with extraordinary qualities. The qualities are my heros.

My favourite dreams are: Travel the world, backpacking. To build a really good home - is that contradicting ?

My favourite memory is of the time spent in: Engineering College - where I became to be me.

My favourite 'Aa-ha' moment is when: Standing at the head of a valley on my trek to KEdarnath and watch a eagle glide through that valley.

My favourite fantasy is : Well ... its like this .. I am ... well forget it..

My favourite lines penned by me are –  You got to be kidding me !

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Parting Notes : I blog mostly on tags ! The place where I actually got taged : I am unable to access that place from office !

Current Location: Office

Current Mood: Awright

Last Music Heard: Deep Purple

Reading/read: When Venus and Mars Collide

Cooking: Nothing

Weather: In AC

Observation: I am doing things I would rather not do !

On mind: What to do !