> >Full Name: Shree
"My real one? Or the one I tell everybody it is?? hehe.....Anusha S. Sathe
> >Nicknames: SP
I have been called many names, nicknames from my friends. Some of them still use those names for me, like Anamika or Ana, Simran or Sim, previous chat names, and my current one, Ivory Rose. And my honey calls me some sweet things too, like "Angel"....
> >Meaning of the name: Beginning of any good thing, name of Ganesha and also Laxmi.
I was named after one of my aunts who had all boys and wanted a girl, and the name meant "pure".. But I never liked the name I was given at birth, and in August of 1998, I changed it to 'Ayesha', which I understood to mean 'beloved'. Since that, I have made a permanent change to "Anusha", which means "beautiful morning" or "star", which is ironic because I am not a morning person.
> >Birth Date: 1 May 1972
Momma always said, there are two things you don't ask a lady, her age or her weight, so on these grounds, I plead the lady thing. But I will give you the month and day, it's May 24th.
> >Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Gemini.
> >Hair Color: Black.
Blonde.
> >Eye Color: Dark
Blue (my honey's favorite color)..
> >Height: 5' 6"
5' 5"
> >Personality Type: instinctive.. probably most of the traits of a taurusean
Ummm, that's a hard thing to answer about yourself, so I will try, I guess I am easy going, get along with a wide variety of people because I accept them as they are. I had been alone most of my life--so somewhat individualistic, but nothing out of the ordinary. Just a girl. :)
> >Location: Mumbai, India and Singapore
Born in Tennessee USA, but now in Singapore.
> >School: Atomic Energy Central School, Mumbai
Happy Valley High School (it sounds more like a funny house than a high school name) and then I went on to Northeast State. I wish I could have gone on for MBA, but with no parents or money, I had to go to work, or starve. And now that I am working, there is no time for school. Altho I did go on to pursue knowledge in theology, for my own piece of mind and to answer questions I had.
> >Future Schools: Where I could pursue further studies in Quantum Physics
Ummm, that's still in future somewhere, unless I win the lottery or some distant rich relative I have never seen or known about dies and leaves me a legacy. But the only thing you can depend on is change, and as all things go, anything can happen, and I can now see the possibility of continuing education and going for my degree. We'll see.
> >Name Of college: Bharati Vidyapeeths college of engineering
????? We can spin a wheel and see which one ends up being the lucky one to have me.....hehe
> >Pets and their names: none, but would love to have a Persian cat and a German Shepherd dog or better a wolf
Misty (born Jan 24 1986) and Bird=Chippy (Oct 1991). They are my "children". They are still in Tennessee.
> >Brothers Or Sisters: Brothers, Parag and Deepak
Sister, Theresa and brother, Paul. I do not know where either of them are now.
And I have some friends I feel are as family.
> >Hobbies: Many things interest me. But the best I like is reading and listening to good music
Collecting (obviously-from my web page), movies (have personal collection of over 3000+ titles), music (adore it, wish with all my heart I could play piano), my friends, my computer and of course, THE NET (sufficiently addicted).
> >Things you like to do: Surprise myself
I agree, I am totally spontaneous, I have always said I want to experience all life has to give, cause it is too short to miss anything. And I want to do as much as possible. And obviously, I like making web pages. :)
> >Best Advice Ever Given: Be yourself
Given to me, or by me?? Given to me: my grandmother once told me, that beauty was not just on the outside, that you also had to be beautiful on the inside for it to truly last forever. I have never forgotten that. And I always look for the beauty inside of anyone I meet, and love them for who they are. It works. Given by me: I once had someone ask me my opinion on a very very important thing, I told her to look inside herself, in her heart for the answer, and she would find it there, because the heart cannot lie. She must have followed my advice, she married him, and they have two lovely children and are very happy. :) I felt good about that. And I have always remembered that advice is as hard to take as it is to give. So I always give it from my heart and with love.
> >Words or phrases you overuse: O Shit
"OK" and "Hang on a minute".
> >A non-sport game which you enjoy: Chess
Non-sport?? Well, I guess my non-sport game would be computer games. :)
> >Coolest experience in life: Falling in love
Falling in love. Love is just as much inside yourself and it is anywhere else. It's also how it makes you feel and how you experience life differently. Without love I feel there is nothing...but empty existence.
> >What you want to be: successful
Someone asked me this once, what did I want out of life. And I will give the same answer now: To be loved and happy. The two things that money cannot buy. But the two most important facets of life. And I got both of them all at one time. : )
> >Favorite thing to do in Summer: I am a member of World Wild Fund and like to go on camps organized by them, though lately haven't got much of a chance for them.
Stay in the A/C. I am very hot natured and it drives me nuts to get hot. (And here I am in one of the hottest climates on the planet.) But weather permitting, I love exploring, especially the mountains, and Tennessee had a lot of them. I am content for hours to study the leaf pattern of a fern. I hope always to never let simple things escape me.
> >Favorite thing to do in Fall: umm.. guess haven't had much taste of it.. where I have lived most of my life.
I like fall because it is a mild season, no longer hot, but not cold yet. I love the leaves changing. I lived on a hill in Tennessee facing another hill, and the view of the trees changing color was awesome. My house also faced the sunrise, so it added to its beauty in early morning. I haven't had a fall in Singapore yet, so can't say.
> >Favorite thing to do in Winter: stay indoors... my favorite escape is a room full of books, an easy chair with Jagjit or Lata Mangeshkar playing in the background.
I love winter, because it is not hot. I love the cold crisp air. I am in my element in winter. I love snow, as long as I don't have to drive in it. But don't think I will get much snow, or driving, in Singapore, so winter will just come and go, without much change.
> >Special skills or talents: An intelligent conversation turns me on.. I am good at marketing I guess
Skills? Talents? Well, I love to write. Stories, poems, feelings. Perhaps I try to express who I am inside. And I like to make graphics, obviously.
> >Character traits you most look for in a guy/girl: A girl who is smart, bubbly, pretty and has long hair attracts me. Well apart from the long hair, my Anu has it all..
Umm, I guess I looked for someone who is comfortable being himself. I like outgoing people, people who smile, I just like people in general. I looked for someone that I knew I could spend the rest of my life with. Knowing that I will love him just as much at the end of forever, as I do now. Know that the special feeling of falling in love will last, and deepen into that bond that endures time and anything life has to throw at it and still be in love. To see inside his eyes and know that I have found my soul mate.
And as for the long hair, it is getting there, inch by inch. :)
> >Things you collect: nothing much in specific..
I have a passion for antique glass. I have an extensive collection of it. I love the feel of the smoothness of the glass, the different colors it comes in, and the way the light plays thru it. And just for fun, I collect elephants. I love something so huge, but has the potential to be so gentle.
> >Favorite music: Classical and gazals.. mainly slow and sentimental types
I love Mariah Carey. And all love songs, soft sweet and slow. And anything that is good. But I do not care a bit for country music, it just does not appeal to me.
> >Favorite Color: Blue
Red (especially burgundy) and purple.
> >Favorite Food: Chappati and Aamti or Dal as it is called.
Indian food, spaghetti, pizza, chicken and anything Mexican or spicy.
> >Least Favorite Food: Rice
Avocados, eggplant, blue cheese dressing, anchovies, grapefruit and country ham.
> >Favorite Animal: Human Beings.. well as in other animals I like cats the most.
All of them. But I really like ducks, they are cool. And horses, my dad bought me one for my thirteenth birthday.
> >Favorite Thing to Wear: nothing
Ummmm, clothes....hehe
> >Favorite Vacationing Spot: Raigad, a fort build by Chattrapati Shivaji, the great King of Maharashtra..
What vacation??
> >Favorite Sport to play: Football
: I am a idiot when it comes to sports. Forgive me.
> >Favorite Sport to watch: Cricket and football
None.
> >Favorite Toy: my "thingy" ..my Anu knows what it means..
My computer, and the remote control to my cd changer, and well, I like Shree's "thingy" too...hehe
> >Favorite Subject: Alots.. I read anything from Karl Marx to Freud to Astronomy, lateral thinking, psychology, humor and science fiction.
Anything new. Anything that I did not know yesterday, or five minutes before
> >Favorite Book: Many of them.. But the one that made a great impact on me was "Asami Asami" By P. L. Deshpande.
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
> >Favorite Cartoon: Tom and Jerry
Scooby Doo, Sylvester and Tweety, Tom and Jerry, and Ren and Stimpy. Cow and Chicken and Two Stupid Dogs.
> >Favorite Movie: Where Eagles Dare, Pyaasa, All James Bond Movies. Especially the ones with Pierce Brosnan. Out of all the Actors I guess he suits the Bond's character the best.
Excalibur, anything with Meg Ryan, Nick Nolte, Cary Grant or Irene Dunn. All the James Bond movies, especially the ones with Sean Connery, and Pierce Brosnan. and zillions more, this to name just a few...and of course, TITANIC and City of Angels. When I saw CIA, I just wanted more than anything to be loved like that, with so much intensity. And passion.
> >Favorite Actor: Gurudutt
Nick Nolte, Cary Grant, Sean Connery, David Niven. Alec Baldwin...
> >Favorite Actress: Nutan
Meg Ryan, Lucille Ball, Irene Dunn, and Ginger Rogers, just to name a few
> >Favorite TV Show: Bugs, Dharma and Gregg
The Pretender, X-Files, Grace Under Fire and Drew Carey show....
> >Favorite Day: Sept 5 1999
Sundays, and Nov 24 1998 (when Shree and I met first on "chat") and Sept 5 1999 (when we met first in person) and my marriage date (April 1 2000)
> >Favorite Month: May
May
> >Favorite Holiday: In my room full of books, an easy chair with Jagjit or Lata Mangeshkar playing in the background.
Up until now, holidays have never held much interest for me....
> >Favorite Store: wherever I can bargain a lot
Mustafa and Tanglin Mall and the shops on Orchard Road...and anywhere I go with my honey. But I admit, I miss WalMart.
> >Favorite Musician: Bhimsen Joshi
Ummm, don't know if I have a favorite or not, because I love all music, except country....
> >Favorite Line: Prepare for the Worst and hope for the Best.
"Passion remakes the world...It makes all things alive and significant." "Not even poets have measured how much love a heart can hold." "Love is a soul aflame with a godlike passion." "O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love--the first fluttering of its silken wings." "Do not live without me--let us share the joys. We are word and meaning, united; you are thought and I am sound." "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise." "To love, and love well, is like stealing into heaven." "Love is time and space, measured by the heart."
"Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end." And last but not least: "Always and forever. Always has no beginning, forever has no end. Eternity and infinity, and beyond.
"Whoops, did you say "line".....oh well, couldn't make up my mind which one. :) So I put them all.
> >Would you rather be deaf or blind ? umm its a real hard choice.
That is a hard choice. You lose so much with either one. If I had to make a choice, it would be deaf, I suppose, but it would be sad to never hear all the lovely sounds again.....but at least I would not walk into a hole.
> >If you found out your best friend was gay/lesbian, what would you do? Oh that's a real hard one. But I guess I would understand and accept it just as a different kind of human behavior. I think its kind of weird. But life hasn't been able to surprise me much.
? Oh my, now that is one heck of a question. I have no idea. It would depend on how best of a best friend they were. But I have to admit, I find the whole idea disgusting.
> >Do you consider yourself a good listener ?  aH well definitely not
I enjoy hearing other people talk, so I hope I also have developed successful listening skills. You can learn so much from listening.
> >Would you rather be short or tall ? just what i am right now..
Short is good if you are a girl. I would like to be a couple of inches shorter, but oh well, we have to be happy with what we are.
> >Would you rather be happy and poor or over wealthy and unhappy ? obviously happy and wealthy
Wealth is worth nothing, if you are not happy.
> >Would you consider your relationship with your parents bad, okay, good, or awesome ? good
Parents are deceased.
> >Do you like to dance ? like to yeah but cannot
Yes, if I can find someone to dance with. But it has been a LONG LONG time since I danced.
> >Are you too shy to ask someone out ? My wife won't allow me to. :)
No, not really. But I wouldn't want to, as I have my Shree now.
> >Do you talk on the phone ? yeah for hours..
Yes, I love to hear my friends voices. And for the past year, I have spent a fortune talking on the phone to my honey. It is much easier now, he's in the same room. :) And the same country.
> >Would you rather take a walk or watch TV ? take a walk
I very seldom watched TV, unless it was a movie. Now, I watch TV with my honey in the evenings we don't go out. As for walks, I used to take long walks, but had gotten out of the habit. Now I am getting back into the habit, from necessity.
> >What is your dream honeymoon place ? anyplace with my beloved..
Hawaii. But Singapore is very very beautiful, and everyday here is honeymoon.
But the place is not important, the important thing is to have a honeymoon, and with someone that you love more than anything in life, including yourself. Then it does not matter where you are, anywhere is paradise. But of course, IF you just happened to be in Hawaii (or Singapore) then, well, who'd complain about that? :)
> >Who do you think has it worse, guys or girls ? guys definitely ...
That is a good question, I guess girls will always say girls have it worse, and guys probably will always answer guys do. Being a girl, I would have to say that when the first guy has a baby, then he can truly say he has it worse than a girl.
> >If you had a round trip in a time machine, where would you go ? Future
Ummm, to the court of King Arthur, to see if there really was a Merlin and an Excalibur...hehe. Or back to the time of Shakespeare, and see what he was really like.
> >If you could be invisible for one day, what would you do ? Nothing much.
Just be myself. i don't have any closet desires
Geez, only for one day.....ummmm, can we bargain for a week?? A month ?? Alternate days ??
> >Do you like Adidas, Nike, Fila, or Reebok ? Nike
Does it really matter?? A tennis shoe is just a tennis shoe, some leather glued to some rubber with some laces and stuff.
> >If you could change your name, what would it be ? I like my name absolutely.
Something different and interesting, that no one would forget, ever.
Definitely something like ANUSHA SATHE. :)
> >Have you ever thought you were going to die ? yeah. More than once.
Yes, ...well, let's not got into details, I haven't had dinner yet. :)
> >What is the hardest thing about growing up ? Rising Expectations
Well, I have decided that I will never grow up. I'll always be a kid in a funny looking body...and Shree keeps telling me I am only two....
...but to be serious, I would have to say, burying both of my parents, was the hardest thing about growing up. Forced me to grow up very quickly...alone.
> >What's the most exciting thing you've ever done on a dare ? I am yet to do things that require me to dare.
A dare? Me? Accept a dare? You got to be kidding. I am the one who gives the dare....hehe
> >Have you ever gone skinny dipping ? what's that?
Oh yes, many times. It's awesome. But you got to be careful of getting caught...hehe.
> >Would you eat a bowl of live crickets for $40,000 ? what's that again?
No, I would not....live or dead, I am not eating any bug...for $40K or $40mil, NO NO NO.
> >If this Saturday, you could do anything you wanted, what would you do ? Be Adolf Schicklgruber Hitler, and well not for his bad but for his good qualities that I am awed by him..
Go to Disneyland, or Sentosa......ehh...could we make it Sunday too??
> >Have you ever wanted to run away ? from life? Never..
Yes. Many times. But where can you go to get away from everything? The problem will still be there and you will still have to deal with it sooner or later. Best to face it, get it over with and go on. Do what you have to do. And I have faced that many times, first hand. And survived. And have no regrets of it.
> >What's your worst fear ? Being caught off guard
Spiders....I hate bugs. And heights.
> >Do you sleep with stuffed animals ? Not me
Oh yes, there are tons of them across my headboard in Tennessee, I have everything from bears to elephants, snoring ones, some that play music, talk. And my honey has bought me a soft one, for here, my "bunny bear"...
> >Have you ever felt you were in love ? Yes, with my Anu.
Oh yes. Absolutely. Not just felt, but known for sure, and been overwhelmed and surrounded with it. And extremely happy with it. Nothing else is like it, or even comes close.
> >If you were stranded on a desert island with one single person, who would it be ? me and myself, well, if you are not taking that, it has to be with my Anusha
Well, I had a friend, who was precious and very special, and I have always said if angels ever walked on earth, I had one with her. She was killed in a fatal car accident with her daughter. And I had answered this question earlier as it being her I was stranded with, as it would mean she was still alive, and I'd like that alot. But excluding that thought, it would undoubtedly be my honey. I could not ever imagine being a moment without him, here, or a desert island, or anywhere. So I would like to have both of them. :) I am sure they both would get along very well, and I would have the two most important people in my life with me, my best friend, and the love of my life. But if forced to have only one, then it would definitely be my honey. .

SUMMARY: Thank you for hanging in till the end. :) I guess you have noticed our similarities, and our differences, and which of the two of us is the most "talkative". And that Shree seems to be more comfortable with himself than I am with me, and that he is the more to the point one of us, where I like to ramble on with feelings, but after all I am the 'writer' in the family. :) And he would prefer to know the future, where I would like to check out the past, then after that, I'd love to see what the future would be like, but it would take the fun out of it, I'd know ahead of time what was going to happen. And that he'd rather curl up with a good book, and I would be the more spontaneous one, and either want to curl up with a book too, or go out and explore "more input". And so our "alikes" are cool, but the differences is what spice up our relationship.