Oh well... I was so jobless that I actually went and asked for a tag. And of all people, I had to ask her. And here we go... I have been dragged to a tag that at least seems not weird, or stupid...but really really difficult. Given the fact that the person who tagged me has literally stolen 80% of my content and I cant even sue her for plagiarism. :(
Anyways... Will try to squeeze the poor little soul thats underneath the ghazni hair do and try to write something. :D
The Tag:
6 Whatever's about me:
Well...if you have been following my blogs, the last time I blogged, I had written 8 whatevers about me. Aint that enough?? :O:O But there are so many whatevers about me that I simply cant get bored of writing those little whatevers. Huh... Whatever.
1: I hate to take bath. I mean, I feel weird to take bath. You know... the water falling on you and then soap and yada yada. I dont find it least interesting let alone fascinating. I remember the times when I was a kid and mom used to run behind me to make me take bath. And I used to run around the house...err...naked. Just to escape bathing. I dont know. Maybe I have a thing against water that I manage to enjoy it only from a distance. I really wonder if there can be a magic potion applying which, you are devoid of germs and dirt. Or this gas chamber which'll do the same. Without a drop of water. :D
1(a): Oh yeah... That totally doesnt explain why I havent learnt swimming. Nope. Not in the least sense. Because, I had real big plans of taking up swimming classes and become a swimmer. Until, I watched the tv show - Baywatch. I mean...come on. Who would want to know swimming when you know that there'll be this bunch of beautiful scantily clad women who are ever ready to save you in case you are drowning. With that thought, I promised myself that I'll not learn swimming. This happened at the age of 8. Little did I know then that such things only happen in the TV. But I cant break the promise can I?? So there...
2: I have been flunking a lotta of these corporate certification exams. My success rate has been very poor and I was introspecting as to why it is so. Not that I have turned into a moron whose grey cells are getting older by the day rendering my ability to think way below par. Its just not that. I am as sensible, intelligent and quick witted(*runs and hides before people can throw things... come back to continue sensing that there is no one around*) as I was before. The problem is with kerosene. Yes. I meant the Kerosene Auto Xerox in Girish Xerox shop. I remember the times when we used to get 30 ps xerox done and the paper used to smell so much of kerosene that it would create nausea. But then, our success rate of studying from it and scoring used to be huge. And I dont ever remember to have studied from proper text books or non-smelly xerox papers throughout my engineering. So, I think I simply cant read from neat papers. I need kerosene xeroxed papers to study. But alas... we are not able to find such xeroxes these days. For people who havent studied from it surely are missing something.
3. I think I have a problem of concerted thinking. In a conversation, I cant simply speak of just one thing. I mean, in a one minute conversation I would have spoken about 3 or 4 different things in succession with quick context switching leaving the other person feeling dizzy. Not just that, my mind seems to wander as I speak. Wander a lot and that contributes to me speaking many different things with no connection whatsoever at the same stretch. That explains why many of my friends talk to me and never get bored for however long they talk coz if I am in those normal moods(which is abnormal in the common man's lingo), I can go on and on and on till the other person sleeps. A perfect person to speak to in a Pub as one of my friends puts it. hehe...So true!! Mostly I sound so drunk. :P
4. They say, women have mood swings. But thats so not true. Even men have that. Atleast I do. I have severe mood swings were one moment I'll be this really bubbly person making a lotta fun, talking a lot of crap and simply be happy and the next moment I can talk really sad, worried, tense and for a second give the feeling if I am suffering with some kinda MPD. But then, relax. Its just a mood swing. Partly contributed to point 4, which means I constantly keep thinking and this swing in mood has gotta do with that.
5. Oh god... Still in 5th. Wait. Let me think. Oh yeah... I am an extremely extraordinarily superstitious person. Yes. For example, if I am playing a game of snooker and I place the chalk at a position on the table corner and pot a ball, I would make sure I keep it at that place for the entire match... wait... the entire day and even after. I have worn the same set of formals for all major interviews after I got my first job in NIIT wearing that. Oh man... I have so much superstition in things that now to think of it and list down, its getting difficult. I mean... its almost become a way of life that people think thats the way I am but actually thats the way I have made it as. Phew. Oh yeah... I always wear four knots of shoe lace(thou shall never slip over your lace and fall), always take the coffee in the left hand and then pass it on to the right(I feel this way the coffee wont spill), never fail to glimpse at the sun at any given time of the day(good omen I feel as though I am getting the powers) and oh holy lord... so much more. I should blog about it sometime.
6. Being a software engineer, it would literally be a crime if I dont write anything about computers. Well...its a known fact that the favourite keys of a lot of people in the Software industry would be Ctrl, C and V. But for me it is Shift and Del. Two keys that give me the power to eliminate a thing from the very face of the earth. Oh boy... I get a lotta joy doing that. Right from mails to unnecessary folders to what not. I go about happily deleting stuff for its so much fun and gives me inexplicable powers. Yes. I even delete my scraps in orkut. :) Guess what... I deleted a total of 24 GB from my office machine today. The world is now a cleaner place by 24 GB. :D
7. Let me make this as a combination of a lotta other whatevers about me. Six is too less. I cannot sleep without cuddling under a bedsheet, however thin or thick it is and whatever season it might be. I wont get sleep otherwise. I have many personalities within me. And each one is deadlier than the other.(Buhahahahaha) I simply cant read books... they put me to sleep. Any book for that matter right from the magazine Outlook to engineering Thermodynamics to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. I believe in sun-signs, astrology, palmistry and all that crap. I attach sentimental values to all of my stuff.. watches, pen, paper, cell, comp, chair and most importantly clothes. My mom has a tough time getting rid of old clothes. She has only recently reached upto my clothes worn when I was 18. She has another 5 years to cover. I never throw away any of my stuff. I plan to buy two houses. One to live in, one to dump my stuff. :D
5 Things I miss right now:
1. I miss those conversations I used to have with my dad. We used to get very little time to talk. The time taken from railway station to home and home to railway station is all the time I used to get alone with dad.(He used to work in bangalore and used to come home in the weekends) And boy... what conversations we have had. Miss all those and more.. :(
2. I miss that maroon color checked short shirt that I bought when in tenth and which I wore until yesterday. Mom gave it away to the servant maid's kid. And I had a huge fight with mom before this tragedy happened.
3. Felcy mam's nose pinch. Felcy mam was one of my childhood crushes and I used to love the way she used to pinch my so called long nose. I had even decided that I am going to baby-sit her kids just to stay with her all my life and get my nose-pinched.
4. I miss summer holidays. Those were the times when it took just 2 months for my skin color to change from Kamal Hassan's color to gaptun Vijayakanth's color. Yes. My schedule used to be Shuttle Badminton(6 am to 9 am) - bath, breakfast - Cricket(10 am to 2 pm) - lunch, siesta - Cricket(4 pm to 6 pm) - some chatting, some lame talk - TT in friend's garage(7 pm to 9 pm) - some mom's scoldings for playing like that and then dinner and sleep. That was some routine.
5. I miss college culturals. The numerous competitions, the organization, the intros, the sights, the chicks, the glamor, the bulleying, the fights, the eggs that were thrown on stage, the lecturer who always used to screw us in the end by eating the sponsorship money, the fun, the frolic, the victories, the losses, the pain, the disappointment and what not. And every year there used to be a minimum of 8 fests within mysore and 1 University Fest. Gone are those days.
10 things I wanna achieve in a decade:
Hmmm... Now this is something. 10 things are a little too less but I safely assume that the word achieve here means things I wanna do at any cost. So here goes...
(@Revs - Now look. These are things I really wanna do and you stole it all. I cant think of other things now. So most of this is a repeat telecast. :( I am not ctrl+Cing and ctrl+Ving...Honestly!!)
1. I want to go bungee jumping, sky diving and scuba diving.
2. I want to travel a lot. Especially to places where tourism has not yet eaten into. Places like Sikkim, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Tibet, Nepal and above all, manas sarovar(The birth place of the river Ganga)
3. I want to buy a Honda Civic hybrid and go for a long drive.
4. I want build my dream home. A nice two storeyed home that'll have an underground parking, a nice underground swimming pool with a bar table and a snooker table. The first floor will have the basic house stuff and the second floor will have my room with slant glass wall so that I can see those rain water falling down beautifully. The terrace will be a place where I can have candle light dinners with that someone special. All this will be in mysore and only mysore. This is what I call home.
5. I want to start an NGO that helps poor people get food, shelter and clothing. And yeah, it would go international and however cliched this might sound... it would help those poor mal nourished kids in africa.
6. I want to start a restaurant chain and name it La aaloos. It'll serve different varities of French Fries the Indian way.
7. I want to adopt a girl child. Rather two. And baby sit them. I simply love kids. Especially girl childs coz you can dress them up with all those fashion accessories and adore them. :)
8. I want to visit all the wonders of the world.
9. I want to do all my dream jobs... a waiter in a restaurant, a traffic police constable, a radio jockey, a driver, a pilot and a cook. All atleast for a day.
10. Earn quite a lotta money, do all the stuff thats listed above and then give away everything and keep on travelling till I am left with no money whatsoever. Want to start my life all over again from scratch.
Phew... This was some tag I tell you. And I had a tough time thinking. Plainly coz of the fear of being branded a copy-cat when I know I am not. :(
Well... Anybody is free to take this tag. But as the custom goes, I tag:
Karuna(First time I am tagging you... so you better take it without a fuss)
Sri(You first read my blogs... Tagging you coz you are not cut out for such boring stuff)
Asooka(Just to check if he takes up tags.. :P)
So long...
It is...what it is!
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