tagged!

So, Navin decides to tag me. The game is on. This one’s for you Navin:

Three things that scare me:

• Lizards- Dude, that ugly little slimy thing anywhere in the room, on the wall, behind the huge trunk, on the window, wherever it is, SCARES the shit out of me. Not only am I scared of it, I hate it. Completely. Actually, I hate the entire reptile family which includes Snakes. ewww…
• Crossing the road all by myself- Okay this one is not as scary as the previous one but somehow I am *very* scared to cross the road all by myself. I mean, I have but I am just very scared to do that
• Prejudice- not explaining this one

Three people who make me laugh:

• Sagar- He hardly speaks but comes up with the most hilarious one-liners! Really funny!

• Navin- Hidden sarcasm, dark meanings, frustration, boredom, general thoughts- whatever it is, he can make everything sound funny. I love the way he writes coz most of it is quite hilarious

• Vikram- Comes up with the weirdest things in the middle of a conversation. Has a contagious laughter. Can make anything, and I mean *anything* sound funny

Three things I love:

• Night sky & rains- Nothing like ‘em. Simply adorable.

• Conversations with Pratish

• Music

Three things I hate:

• Rudeness- I hate rude people. I hate it when they do that. And I hate it when they say that they’re ‘born like that’.

• Malls- I have always hated them, will always hate them.

• Untidiness- I loathe it. Be it untidy people, unkempt room, dirty beds… I hate it!!! I also hate people who litter

Three things I don’t understand:

• God.

• Concept of Love

• People who smoke

Three things on my desk:

• A bottle of water

• A phone

• Files. I also have pictures of my family &  lyrics of a few songs on my board

Three things I am doing right now:

• Listening to Mick Jagger’s ’Visions of Paradise’

• Missing home

• …

Three things I want to do before I die:

• Travel- Egypt( The deserts and Pyramids!), The Andes ( I love mountains), Africa( life out there), All over India ( I belong)

• Adopt a child

• Write an autobiography and mention almost everyone I have *ever* known

Three things I can do: 

• Talk non-stop for hours with Kunal, Ash, Tunu, Pratish,  Mom, Aditi, Vikram, Pranjal and Dhanya

• Cook.

• Write poetry.

Three things you should listen to:

• Pink Floyd- Their music is something else

• Your mother- Although not all the time, but she is correct about *almost* every thing

• Jagjit Singh- Amazing voice. I adore him.

Things you should never listen to:

• Himesh Reshamiya

• Britney Spears

• Liars

Three things I’d like to learn:

• I’d love to love to love to dance like Vanessa L Williams in ‘Dance with me’

• French

• Astronomy

Three favourite foods:

• Chocolate; anything to do with it

• Kadhi-chawal

• Anything that tastes fine

Three beverages I drink regularly:

• Water

• Coffee

• Iced-tea

Three TV shows/books I watched/read as a kid:

• I dream of Genie- Completely adored it

• Wonder Years

• Nancy Drew- Well okay, I am a girl. Let me be!!

Three people I would love to tag:

• Asha

• Saumya Jain

• Komal

 

 

 

 

ya ya…Life’s a bitch

The January 22, 2007 issue of Outlook has a picture of Moninder Singh Pandher and the caption says, ‘ Inside the Monster’s Mind’. The article is about how a well educated and urbane businessman like him had another aspect to his personality; a Jekyll and Hyde personality monitored by an insane, disturbed, evil mind. Depressing.

Generally surfing through the videos on You Tube, I came across the clip of Aishwarya Rai’s heart to heart talk with Oprah on her show. Well, that’s all you need to see on an already bad day; an Indian representing India, wearing western formals, a put on accent, uttering ridiculously silly things on the screen and mindlessly giggling like a fool. O well. ( Yes I hate her for personal reasons as well :p)

Anu’s parents are starting a ‘Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Awards’ for excellence in Journalism. The ceremony is tomorrow and I also have been invited to attend it and I don’t know if I will be able to go or not. Well, I really want to but there are 100% chances of getting stuck with official work. Crap. Life sucks. Memorial award in her name??? aagggrrrhhhhhhh

Depression is funny. When you are depressed, everything is gloomy and grey and low and dull and hopeless and pointless and aimless; the moment you come out of it, you laugh at yourself for being depressed for small things in life. Someone today told me, “every silver lining has its dark cloud…”. Heights of pessisism!! I mean, there are good times in your life so that you can think of them when you are going through a bad phase and the bad times are there to remind you that you should value the good ones coz life could take sudden twists and turns which could be either better or worse. And we all forget to realise (or take too long to figure out), that nothing and I mean nothing in this world is larger than life. No emotion, no pain, no joy, nooone, nothing is bigger than life itself. We should just give in to this vague chapter called Life which is written by an anonymous author who apparently has our fate well designed. Well, I like the game. I like the chase. I love the way it plays around with us. We actually get so caught up in this mess that we often tend to oversee the greater meaning of our lives.

Guess what? I am off chocklates for a while. No, I am not going to count the Death by Chocklate that I ate at Tangerine last night as part of my fasting. That we can ignore but otherwise I really am off chocklates!

Song? ‘Feel’, by Robbie Williams.

Weather? Pleasant on the warmer side.

State of mind? Don’t know.

Thrown off balance

Shit happens. 

It’s just a bad day. I mean, it’s just one of those days when you wake up on the wrong side of the bed and then end up spending a dull, sad, dead, disappointing, hopeless and a miserable day. Your heart sinks and it feels like the world has come together to conspire against you from behind those hidden cameras that watch you all day. Well, okay, it’s life I guess.

The first call in the morning tells you that your grandpa is hospitalised and the doctors are gradually giving up hope. You talk to your mom who has lost it badly and you completely fail to console her; I hate to see mom cry. Then you get your salary after almost half the amount been deducted for the leaves you took last month! Bah!

You decide to be fine and relax and not worry about the confirmation letter that you should have got two weeks ago and suddenly you are told that the account you have been working for is no more your’s and that you need to assist the other *group*. Hmmm.

Well, you are also missing all your friends because you have just moved out of hostel and you hardly get to see your friend you have moved in with because she has different shifts. Great. Okay, you could watch TV and cook. What if you are not a very TV person? What if there is enough and more food in the fridge and nothing more needs to be cooked? Ah, then maybe you could go for a walk? But what if you are shit scared of those scary street dogs who bark at you for no rhyme or reason? And you thought you loved dogs??

Hmm, I know! You could sleep!! But what if for the past one week you have turned into a insomniac?

You know what’s the worst? You cannot buy those nice fitting pair of jeans from Lee because your budget has gone for a toss. You cannot go Rodger Water’s concert because you will have *no* money. You cannot go and see your grandpa coz you cannot take anymore leaves. Wow.

Everything sucks. Everyone irritates you. Every action is against you. Every word is spelled against you. You realise that nothing, nothing is working in your favour. Just when you were getting a grip on your life, you are thrown off balance.

But then, I guess, shit happens.

Whatever.