Weirdo - Kiddo - Weirdo

This is the first ever tag I am taking an attempt at - across blogger, mails and FB! It started when in conversation with a friend about our quirks and loony habits I re-discovered me. OK without making this a prologue, here I go!

1. I say sorry to non-living things and I talk to my plants when I water them.

2. I obsess about my eye-brows.

3. I love to wear 'pour homme' fragrances. There’s a theory – fragrances for men are supposed to woo females. Agreed, and if I am so wooed, I’d rather have it around all the time…so I’d rather have it on me!

4. I save the nut less part of the dessert and cheesiest piece till the end. Oh and I decorate every bite on my plate to make sure all the items are equally distributed and wisely consumed throughout the meal.

5. I often pat myself.

6. I always wanted to work part-time and support myself as a student. I especially wanted to work at cafés and fast food outlets. I would still love to do it sometime, for fun.

7. I have an extra strong digestive system given to the fact that as a kid, besides slate chalk, I used to nibble on wood – especially painted wood.

8. I can sleep in the tiniest, dirtiest, noisiest corner if I have to and I am also known to make a big fuss about perfumed and washed bed-sheets and stuffed pillows! Dual sleeping personality or sleep disorder!?

9. And while we are at sleeping, I am defamed as a sound sleeper…I am completely deaf to door knocks and ringing cell phones (deliberately, you may keep wondering…).

10. I smile to strangers (especially kids and old people) on the road, in the trains, at the stores, like almost everywhere a lot.

11. I type mostly with two fingers means I really don’t know typing. Yet ironically, I work on the laptop almost 50-60 hours a week. And hey, my friend once titled me “the fastest two finger typist” Yay!

12. I am averse to the idea of coloring my hair. So, to satisfy my urge to have a ‘change in look’ I once bought blue colored contact lenses. I am planning again on hazel or green soon.

13. As a kid, I displayed anti-kid behavior at stores. I remember crying out loud when my parents tried to get me clothes/toys to convince them otherwise.

14. I enjoy gymming. Like literally enjoy…I close my eyes and do a little rap on the treadmill or the cycle with the music plugged in.

15. I have fasted for 9 days during ‘Navratra’ once - voluntarily. Though when I was younger…like in class 5, my mom successfully tricked me into fasting for ‘Sawan k Somvar’ (16 Mondays in a row for Lord Shiva – girls do this for a ‘good husband’!)

16. After watching a movie with a dominant female character, I often feel like she had my mannerisms and idiosyncrasies or vice versa :-)

17. I used to collect quotations – from everywhere as a kid. I manually copied (hard copies) three entire books of quotations I borrowed from my aunt because I could not find them in the stores. Each with more than 300 pages…written throughout!

18. I love planning surprises and have successfully executed many mega ones (both for my friends, their gfs/bfs etc.) where the receiver had no clue whatsoever of what was in store. Sadly, I have never been on the other side as much (except may be twice --- naah not AS much!)

19. I dig chocolates in all forms and take it as my official responsibility to fish it off the plate – in its entirety. I testify, all the inches around my waist is pure dark chocolate fat though I somehow still call it beer belly. I work out mostly to be able to devour my desserts well.

20. This one’s well known – I love to laugh – out loud. Like REALLY LOUD. And I am more prone on doing so in quite places like in cinema theatres in between non-comic scenes.

21. I had my first serious crush in 3rd grade. Really and it kind of stayed on till 8th grade. And every place I visited in my summer vacations, I made a mental note to visit it again with him when “we would be together, happily ever after”. After all, I don’t call it serious for nothing!

22. I think I have been in love with the idea of being in love so much that I practically lived there.

23. I would call my life 100% perfect and well lived if I did one each of: a professional theater performance, display my artworks at an exhibition and write a bestseller.

24. I am scared and disgusted with the rituals and wastage in Indian weddings but I am amazed with the institution of marriage. I will marry – for companionship rather than ‘love’.

25. I develop instant respect for anyone who can play a musical instrument or sing in public because I can’t do any of it. I missed the Floyd concert in Bombay coz I was not into their music a lot then. Ever since I realized what I missed, I make it a point to go to the concerts while I can irrespective of who the artist is. Just in case I fall in love with them in future, I would live with the satisfaction of “been there, gotten high” :-)

When we were talking I thought I would be able to list down at max 10-15...that's when I started draftiing...now I realize I can go on and on...