Wednesday, September 3, 2008

These are a few of my favourite things

1)8 hrs of solid,uniterrupted REM
2)lazy,sunny afternoons
3)the smell of chocolate,heavy in the air,during school, from the Cadbury's factory bang opposite
4)window seats-car/train/bus/home
5)pepper corns
6)gulmours & bougainvilles in full bloom,around may,before the rains
7)william somerset maughm
8)telling people i'm a doctor
9)hrishikesh mukherjee/sai paranjpe flicks
10)childhood holidays
11)serendipity,hornswaggle,aquamarine,hullaballoo,snafu & brouhaha
12)squirrel-spotting in the coconut trees from my bedroom window
13)old photographs
14)silver
15)holding on to my innocence...ironical?
16)running
17)water-within & without:oceans/rivers/lakes/ponds
18)the smell of ink & paper
19)culinary R & D's
20)friends who have brought..er..dragged me up...Free Verse,take a bow.
21)perfecting the art of doing nothing
22)chitrangada singh
23)gone with the wind
24)the sound of the flute
25)AR Rahman
26)brown eyes
27)dogs that dont shed...barring Princess Angie,the hirsute beast
28)striped socks
29)UNO
30)movie trailers in the intervals
31)train journeys in non-peak hours
32)old houses
33)bookmarks
34)Lic lollys
35)googling my name & being disappointed to see no additions
36)figuring out the whens & hows of the farmhouse in the hills i have to have
37)suramya

5 comments:

ruhey said...

Oh la la, this is a lovely post, simple and sunny :)
made me think of what I like.
Love,
Ruh.

freeverse said...

did i really? drag you up i mean? i didn't mean to, really :P but i thrive on undeserved credit, so head bobs, curtseys and deep bows :) good to see my suggestion taken. post a few more. you'll always have one reader no matter what!

Unknown said...

ok so i finally read it.. n its good!! keep at it.. ul have two readers then.. :P
u could write about our 4 crazy yrs in BDS.. or how u know some guy called aishwarya! :P

twisty-scientisty said...

yayy i google myself too!
awesome post nigella!
yayy
keep writing
yayy

prickintime said...

nice... how much???