I am not the tagging types. In fact, I don’t like them. But Art tagged me recently, and rajesh had done it earlier. Today being a holiday, I thought I’d ‘get it out of the way’ :-)

So here goes the first one …

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Ten Years Ago
- came to the US
- called India @$1.20/min!
- cooked for the first time by myself
- walked a mile to get groceries done!

Five Years Ago
- got married
- called india @$0.40/min!
- changed jobs and moved to the West Coast
- did not cook at all
- got a speeding ticket

Last One Year
- Flew by without me noticing it
- started traveling at work
- sold our house
- started living in a rental apartment

Yesterday
- recovered from a trip to napa valley
- played guesstures with cousins
- had Papa John’s pizza for dinner
- had South Indian food for lunch

Five Things Planned for next 5 Years
- have a baby
- get the green card
- visit west indies to see cricket world cup
- have another baby
- work in a coffee shop (own or otherwise)

Five Yummy Things
- Dairy Milk
- Starbucks White Mocha
- Cicero’s pizza
- Cheese/Pineapple/Cherry
- Veggie Max toasted subway with southwest sauce

Five Songs I know by heart-
- Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
- Time - Pink Floyd
- Chitthi Aayi Hai - Pankaj Udhas
- Alive - Pearl Jam
- Right Here Right Now (sort of) - Bluffmaster

Five Things I’d do If I had Money-
- Buy a house
- Get a maid
- Trip to all of Europe for at least 2 months
- buy a coffee shop in the middle of some downtown
- get a lot of electronics

Places I Escape To-
- internet
- starbucks
- TV

TV Shows-
- Entourage
- Friends
- seinfeld
- Everybody loves Raymond
- The OC
- curb Your Enthusiasm

Five Things I Can’t Live Without
- my wife
- internet
- computer
- tv
- sports (to watch!)

Five Things I Can Live Without-
- work
- social obligations
- politics
- jealousy
- backbiters/manipulators

Five Favourite Ethnic Cuisines
- Indian (as in not commercial crap! More the paneer/dossas/pau bhaji/ bhel stuff!!)
- Thai
- Chinese
- Mongolian
- Ethiopian

Five best places to visit
- Bombay
- Lonavala
- Mahabaleshwar
- Bali
- Hawaii

And for this one, I am going to tag Reza, Rajesh, Tarun and Chick Pea.

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This one if for the Seven tag from Rajesh:

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Seven things I plan to do before I die
* Go on an Europe Vacation
* Watch an F-1 race
* Own a coffee shop
* Learn a new language
* Finally understand world history, now that I don’t have to write essays on it!
* Watch India win the Cricket World Cup
* Read books on a regular basis (I hardly read nowadays!)

Seven Things I can do
* Drive long hours on a beautiful day
* Relax
* Be comforting
* Surf the internet endlessly
* Be patient
* Be analytical in all matters (the wife obviously does not like it)
* Eat the SAME food for 4-5 meals in a row (if it was good)

Seven Things I can’t do

* Cook
* Work out religiously
* Oversleep
* Stay away from watching sports
* Stay unorganized
* Be negative for too long
* Cartwheels

Seven Things that attract me to the opposite sex

* Facial expressions
* Confident personality
* Understanding
* Sense of humor
* Carefree nature
* Her optimism
* Some common interests with me

Seven Things I say most
* Basically
* Hey
* Yaar
* Essentially
* Arrey
* Bolo (Haa, Bolo)
* Su Chaale Che?

Seven Celebrity Crushes
* Sonali Bendre
* Scarlett Johansson
* Meg Ryan
* Aishwarya Rai
* Priyanka Chopra
* Jennifer Aniston
* Uma Thurman

For this one, I tag Art, Tarun, Reza, Chick Pea

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