Tagged: 29 Questions

1. What is your current obsession?
The same as my oldest obsession – trying to fit into my pants from college days that are saved and stored in my closet

2. What is your weirdest obsession?
You mean weirder than a burning desire to fit into a high-waisted, bell-bottomed, faded, frayed piece of cloth that hasn’t been washed in eight years???

3. What are you wearing today?
A big smile to start with

4. What are you listening to right now?
Radio and traffic

5. What’s for dinner?
Anything but carbs, at least for the next 3 months

6. What’s the last thing you bought?
Scented candles (on sale!) that will add to my collection of scented candles which will not be needed for at least another 6 months

7. Which language do you want to learn?
Mandarin. So I can bargain better here where I stay

8. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
Bora Bora

9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Galapagos. Or Sossusvlei. Or Macchhu Pichhu

10. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Nowhere, I’d save it for my travel budget

11. What are your must-have pieces for summer?
Cotton dresses, strappy sandals, and lots of deo

12. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own closet?
The one that is most frayed, faded and overused – a certain cotton dress

13. What do you do when you “have nothing to wear” (even though your closet’s packed)?
I tell Vipul it is all his fault. And wear a certain cotton dress again

14. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
Fur

15. Give us three styling tips that always work for you.
It’s not the styling tips, it’s the confidence that works

16. What’s your favorite quote?
'Whatever happens, look as if it were intended'

17. Describe your personal style.
Understated. Underappreciated

18. Who do you want to meet right now?
Dave Barry

19. What is your favorite color?
Turquoise

20. What is your dream job?
To be a Muse

21. What’s your favorite magazine?
Used to be Target, before they contorted it out of recognition

22. Which TV character can you simply not tolerate?
Tulsi. %$^&*(()*&^&^&

23. Who are your style icons?
None. Though I do ogle at whatever Priyanka Chopra, Preity Zinta and Deepika Padukone are wearing on-screen nowadays

24. What are you going to do after this?
Go swimming

25. What are your favorite movies?
Too many to fit in a single post!

26. What inspires you?
Music

27. Coffee or tea?
Chai. Masala Chai

28. Pet peeve?
Telemarketers

29. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
After all the tags Quicksilver has handed me down, I know we have loads in common, ranging from a love for Stephen King to a dissatisfaction with the frequency of my posts!

**The rules: Respond and rework – answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, and add one more question of your own. Then tag eight or ten other people.

I tag any reader who'd like to take it on!