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Vasuki and BPSK have tagged me to come up with a middle name

The rules of the tag are:
1. The rules must be mentioned in the beginning of the tag.
2. You must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name. If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had.
3. At the end of your blog post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

For many years I firmly believed that the toughest thing was to mentally add 293709.08967654 and 98786875.87867(or any two numbers for that matter)

But the last few days have made me change that opinion. Coming up with a middle name is definitely the toughest thing to do! After browsing through pretty words in Sanskrit, French, Urdu, Greek and Swahili I still couldn’t think of any middle name.

I would have liked to pick “zaphod beeblebrox” as my middle name but since I don’t have that many friends to tag…it wasn’t an option!

I finally sought help from Ramesh. He suggested ‘drowned’ as in“krupa drowned raj” and laughed for a few minutes at his own dumb joke. Then he went on to suggest ‘bulldozed’, ’killed’ etc till I asked him to shut up. I asked him what he thought of “Karissa” which is Greek for beloved. He replied that it sounded like ‘krupa caress a raj’! Sooo…karissa was out of the game.

Then I sought help from Charu. She suggested ‘Vela’…which sounded too much like “whale” which is what my cousins called me when I was a kid. Talk about childhood trauma!

After a few minutes of discussing…we finally came up with a middle name which made me happy. Thanks, Charu! If not for you, I would have had to go with one of Ramesh’s suggestions!

I have picked “preeth” as my middle name.

“Preeth” translates to love in English. From a very long time I have been in love with love. I could give any Yash Chopra heroine a run for her money! So, somehow preeth sounds like an apt middle name for me.

Love is also the theme I am going to pick…

P-I love Pride and Prejudice, the flower paarijaatha, Perry Mason, Paris, Phoebe’s weird songs, Peter Pan, Pizza, love poems, Pather panchali, the song ‘pina colada’ by Simon and Garfunkel, pink panther, pistachios, pepper, Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”, songs from the movie “Prema Loka”; being Photographed; the movie “Pretty Woman”, spicy mango pickle; The song from the movie Prince “Badan pe sitaare” ;Joshua Kadison’s song “Painted Desert Serenade”; Prem Joshua; Pirates of the Caribbean; Pillion driving on Saif’s bike; The way Patrick Swayze moves in Dirty Dancing, Peter Gabriel’s “Book of love” …

R-I love romance novels, roses, Richard Kincaid, Mohd Rafi, Richard Gere’s smile; Rasmalai;the color ‘red’; dancing to old Rock’n Roll tunes; Rumba (a dance I want to learn);Roxette’s “It must have been love”….

E-I love Elisabeth Bennett, erulli chitranna, egg dishes, Bullet Enfield….

E-I love Ernst Lubitsch, Elvis Priestley, Eric Clapton, Elton John’s “The way you look tonight”, Eric Carmen’s “Hungry Eyes” …

T-I love Tea, Tinkerbell, Turner Classic movies, Thai food, Tina Turner(particularly “what’s love got to do”)Thomas Hardy’s ‘Far from the madding crowd’, Tango from the movie “Shall we Dance”; movies-The sound of music, The Shwashank Redemption, The Godfather, The motorcycle diaries(I have never been more grateful towards ‘the’),Tolstoy’s “Resurrection”, Georgette Heyer’s “These old Shades”…

H-I love Haiku, horses, H2G2, high heels, Deepak Chopra’s “He has no choice”, Shakira’s “Hips don’t lie”…

Needless to say that these are just a few of my favorite things …my list is endless!

I tag Ramesh, Soumia, Rekha, Karthik and anyone who cares to take it up.