My Addictions

I have been tagged by Manpreet . The job is to post my five addictions on my blog (a highly top secret and a sensitive job). Since she has evoked the fauji spirit in me to carry out the given assignment urgently, i have put all other work on hold and got down to the job right away. After all, i represent a highly result oriented organisation that Indian Army is. Though i have been tagged earlier by Renu and Nancy, i have not fulfilled all the requirements of those tags. Renu asked me to post my quirky side and she and Nancy awarded me with BFFA (Blogging Friends Forever Award). I did write My Quirky Side and also displayed the BFFA award on my blog as per the tag rules, but i have partially violated the rules by not extending the tag to my fellow bloggers. I apologise for that. I would do that in due course. (let me share with you that Jeet is here with me at Calcutta for some time, who otherwise is continuing to stay at Delhi with kids, after my transfer to this place in 2005. She comes once in a while. Therefore the time is at extreme premium. I have even written a poem for her "तुम हो एक हवा का झोंका" in my other blog कल्पना की उड़ान ).

Again as per the rules of the present tag, Manpreet, please bear with me for further linking etc which may take some time. Now, let me carry out the main job first.

While i picked up the key board to type out my addictions, i stopped for a while and pondered over as to what addictions do i have. None, i suppose. But after a second thought i shortlisted certain habits which may not be called either addictions or quirks but those certainly are the ones without which some dearth is felt, some sense of incompleteness in my day to day life. So let me proceed :-

1. My daily four cups of tea ie., at 7 a.m. to start the day with, at 11 a.m. as an accelerator, at 3 p.m. to drive away the afternoon drowsiness and at 6 p.m. to unwind the day.

2. My morning newspaper must reach me before i sip the morning tea and i read the same up to the sports page in one go. And frankly speaking that is the only reading i do at present. I get damn ragged on the days when there are no newspapers, mostly on the days followed by national holidays.

3. Surfing the news channels on the TV along with the 6 p.m. cup of tea is a must. There is some times a fight for remote if Jeet or kids are watching something else. But TV people are wise enough not to telecast any ladies programme at that hour.

4. Work out from seven to eight in the evening from Monday to Friday. Please don't ask me that why not in the morning. I have had enough morning P.T. parades in the army and now the morning sleep has become very dear to me. Workout is generally a mix of Baba Ramdev routine and some sweating out on the treadmill.

5. And finally my weekend drink, at home or at the club or at a friend's place. In fact i go through the whole week just in a hope to break free on Friday evenings. But at the same time i don't even look at my drinks closet during week days, unless a friend walks in.
Edited to add
The above matter i had written yesterday. Now let me do the honours of extending the tag to Joshi, Ashwani, Renu, Gurpreet, Nancy, Arti and Parry. Please guys and gals, don't let me down.

And let me also shake up Chitra who generally goes into oblivion after writing a post. Chitra where are you.

Manpreet, task accomplished.
PS : I forgot to mention above that the persons who have been tagged have to link the blogger who tagged them and also extend the tag to five or more bloggers and link them too.