4 A Piece

After a long absence from updating the blog, I finally received the “Last Call” from Deepa regarding her tag yesterday. So I thought, I should update the blog, finally...

So, Deepa, here's the tag:

4 jobs I’ve had:
I guess only paying jobs count, so there are only 3:

• Software Engineer – first job I got, straight out of college


• Stacks assistant – in my college library, putting books back in place, dream part-time job I can get


• Programming Assistant – I think thats what I should call it

4 films I could watch again and again:
Many movies will come under this heading and I can watch parts of many more movies repeatedly, and the top honors go to:

• Andaz Apna Apna - I love eggs...


• Dil Chahta Hai – beet gayein who din


• Hera Pheri – Need any comments?


• Topgun – No surprises given that I am fighter enthusiast.

4 places I’ve lived in:
Let's count the places I have lived in for more than a month (which excludes the places I have been to for long duration camps), and exclude Pune, which is my home town

• Hyderabad – where I was trained for my first job, 4 months of fun


• Mysore – where I worked for around 1.5 years


• Stuttgart, Germany – for 2 months, onsite


• Durham, NC – where I study currently

4 TV series I like to watch:
No cable where I live, but I watched a lot of TV till I reached Durham, so:

• FRIENDS – need I say anything?


• SWAT Kats – T-Bone and Razor, who else?


• Takeshi's Castle – on Pogo, the only reality show (if you can call this that) I watch.


• CID – one of the few crime/detective serials which are not unintentionally funny (I had to omit Byomkesh Bakshi from this list as it is no longer aired)

4 places that I’ve been on vacation to:
Of course, I will omit Nasik, which being my mother's place was vacation spot of choice for every vacation.

• Manali


• Byet Okha (Dwaraka)


• Mahabaleshwar (for camp, and more importantly 2 days with my friends)


• Goa, Kanyakumari, Kodaikanal, Ooty etc (Should not include this in “vacations” list, since technically this was part of our so called “Industrial tour”, but honesty compels)

4 websites I visit everyday:
Barring mail sites, and Google -

• Orkut – ok, it's not a visit, I am usually at orkut when I am online


• Google Reader – for keeping track of blogs


• Cartoon strip websites – that's Sinfest, PhD Comics, CAD and LICD. And Garfield.


• Blogger – for updating my blog and commenting on others blogs (when in US)

4 books I’d love to read again and again:
Only 4? Ok, then I must limit this to top 4 in the list (And I agree with Deepa, about 90% novels I like are worth nth reading)

• Sherlock Holmes (The Complete Adventures of ... one)


• Harry Potter Series


• Any book of PuLa


• Mrityunjay – The greatest book on any Mahabharata character

4 favorite dishes:
Difficult question, but here goes:

• Methi vegetable


• Potato slices (or what is called batatyachya kacharya in Marathi)


• Bhel, Panipuri etc chat dishes


• Any sweet dish (and that is ANY)

4 places where I’d like to be right now:
Aah, Home, Pune does not count currently as I am sitting there. So, I will start from Rank #2, discounting fiction like “with my girlfriend”:

• Nasik


• On The Round Table, with everybody in full flow – there is a big history behind this, which will come out soon. Suffice here to say that this was a real table in my friend's house which has seen some of the best hours in our life. This is where we learnt that “stomach ache due to laughter” is not a myth, repeatedly.


• Any place with my friends – As I said, we don't need a laughter club, its laugh till (and sometimes even after) you drop.


• Mysore – Ok, I miss the company campus sometimes... there, it's out.

4 people I’m gonna tag:
Many people from my friend's list are missing from blog scene. But still:

• Figo


• Kani


• Silverine


• OIJ

Again Deepa, sorry for delay...


The Great Eagle has spoken...

Quote of The Day:

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)