Tagging a High-fiver

I have been tagged into this by Arnab.

Life ten years ago
High and Mighty,( crazy, gawky, incorrigible, precocious) teens – like Icarus, I flew towards the sun.
Life was pretty much all about studies. I was at the threshold of an exciting and a decisive turn in my life. Fresh out of the glory of my 10^th class Board Exam but still learning the ropes, dreaming about getting into the greatest Architecture school in India. I knew my destination but I did not know the directions. What do high school physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics have in common with architecture? I ‘d say almost nothing.
Frequently, I would look at the sky, see a plane flying towards the horizon and dreamt that one day the world shall be my play ground. Unknown to me, stars were changing houses, new avenues were opening up. For once I knew what I wanted, there was no looking back.
Meanwhile, DDLJ was setting the trend for a great romance. If I could almost miss the train to be rescued by a Hero who flunks exams but is a charismatic talker. Who said about anything better?

Life five years ago
Older enough to know the rules, young enough not to follow them, says the troublesome twenty, a stepping stone to adulthood.
I fondly remember my collage life as the best-est time I ever had. Pune was great. Architecture was inspiring. I had the best group of friends I’d ever imagine. Life’s lessons were not just confined in the library books, but laid out in the world – in the design studios, in our random bunking of classes to go for trekking in Mahabaleshwar, Punchgani etc, in Amruta’s babble about tensile structures, Anaheet’s paintings, Shabnam’s common sense and intellect, Manasi’s management skills and Chevan’s practicality. I had an over-dose of foreign award-winning movies at Pune film festival. Pictionary at Anaheet’s place was becoming a ritual. Nothing beat the heat of Pune summer better than sugarcane juice from the streets.

Life tomorrow
So the slow turtle won the race, hmmmmmmmmm. Maybe I should slow down too. Maybe it was time dilation.
Who knows?
And that’s the best thing about it.

Five locations I would run away to
I would never run away. But given a choice I would go to these places -

• Fly to Pune , Bombay, Calcutta to meet my friends and family.
• Take a tour of the world on Magellan’s boat.
• Visit North Pole.
• Be a time traveler and travel back and forth in time.
• On a space shuttle, seeing the world as the Gods might.

Five bad habits I have

• I am so disorganized, a living proof of Murphy’s Law.
• I love procrastinating. Love to spend hours reading wikipedia and answers.com
• Compulsive coffee drinker. Love to take long walks, even in the most inclement weather conditions.
• I am very mercurial – may be little crazy as well. Now that’s a good confession.
• Hell hath no fury when I am angry. Keep all blunt and sharp objects away from my reaches, including yourself. But fear not, it doesn’t take time for the volcano to cool off.

Five things I will never wear

• A Miss Universe Crown (I don’t foresee that coming along anyways)
• Bikini
• I love new clothes. So I’d wear anything that is considered fashionable.
• I whole-heartedly support tree-planting and green revolution but I avoid the color green.
• I hate all kinds of jewelry except earrings.

Five biggest joys at the moment
Happiness is a state of mind; it’s a long term feeling of contentment. But joy is momentary exhilaration, which even a long drive down the winding roads can bring. Or even a glass of vodka. I’d go for the happiness. Joys will come along surely.

Something to achieve by next year
A good old job will do for now. Eventually, some day to work with the United Nations. Start taking writing and photography seriously.

Something that impacted me last year
My grandmother’s death. And then the April 16^th event at Tech.
Like trouble, help also comes from unforeseen quarters – so keep your doors open for hope to walk in.

What I will miss about 2007
Nothing. This was a year I’d like to forget.

Five things I want to do before I die
First thing, to achieve immortality. Haha, just kidding, lets see......

• Live an adventurous life – to make it worthwhile.
• To be part of this great social revolution called Globalization. I want to be the daughter of India and the citizen of the world.
• To work in UN, for the third world and developing countries. To have sustainability as my agenda. To lobby for the environment, human rights and animal rights without sounding like a zombie.
• Write a novel (more than one if possible).
• To be remembered after death, as one who tried hard to change the system by being a part of it and not running away from it. I came, I saw, I conquered, not by sword but by words. (No I am not trying to be the modern day Joan of Arc or that great Lady with a Lamp or merely trying to be useful)

And now its my turn to pass the parcel to Bernie , Karthik and GPS.