50 things I like

One of my friends compiled a list. I took a month. Consider yourself tagged and tell me about it :)

Here goes mine:

Things I like –

1. Clay pots
2. white curtains
3. Sun on a winter morning
4. freshly scrubbed marble floors
4. warm water bath after work
5. long nights in winters
6. bikes. Not the flashy ones.
7. cold sand under my feet on a full-moon night
8. long walks
9. a bus ride on ring road – from the origin to the last stop - on a Sunday in winters
10. Smell of rain
11. Voices and songs of street vendors
12. Stationary items – pencils in all colors, highlighters, slates and chalks
13. Water colors (but can not paint).
14. Shoes and watches
15. Music – from raunchy to rock to sufi
16. Cotton – in anything – from clothes, curtains, bedsheets, keyrings, earrings, bangles to dining table mats. Anything in cotton.
17. Hot and strong coffee in a large mug. All seasons.
18. Long narrative stories a la New Yorker
19. Journeys – long and sudden
20. Listeners
21. People with madness/secrets/humility
22. Bamboo curtains/shades/furniture/swings
23. Ceramic tea pots and tea- green/white/black/tulsi/ginger/lemon/lemongrass
24. Simplicity – in speech, living, food
25. Sundays
26. Green and spacious homes
27. Chaupal conversations in the villages / trains
28. Love that is hard-won, long-envied, honest
29. Deadline extensions
30. Hand-written love letters
31. Holding hands
32. Courage, space, respect, humour and openness in relationships
33. Quaint auditoriums playing Shakespeare
34. Cotton corsets
35. Sunrise in the hills/villages
36. family dinners and hosting friends
37. art house cinema – my first was Pather Panchali when I was 8.
38. The now phased out maruti gypsies
39. Fish starters and dark chocolate cake
40. Burberry perfumes
41. check shirts and hotpants
42. Mini dictionaries
43. water in brass glasses
44. Lamps – clay/brass/wooden
45. Literature and folklores
46. The feeling of falling in love
47. Tents and bonfire – one mustn’t do without the other
48. Mountains – If I were the river, I would be married to a tall one.
49. Family trees – they are more about individual histories and that is where every child’s history lessons should begin
50. daylight dreams – those are the ones we want to work for.