Enough people have asked me to make mine. So here it is - Four times the vengeance. Half the fun.
1. I share my birthday with Monica Bellucci, Pope Nicholas IV and The International Translation Day.
2. One day I would like to be next to a glacier on my birthday.
3. I have no dogs and cats tend to creep me out.
4. I have darling sisters though.
5. I am the oldest.
6. Two of my great grandmothers lived to 90.
7. I am right-handed. I have so wished otherwise.
8. I hate being tickled - it’s torture.
9. My favourite colours are silver & blue.
10. I once wrote a screenplay.
11. It was, of course, semi-autographical.
12. I used to write for a magazine before there were blogs.
13. I have black hair and eyes.
14. I watch far too many TV shows on the computer.
15. I have created the empirically proven mathematical formula:
me + distracted = bad
16. I wore glasses since I was 6.
17. I will not give up my anime or my comics.
18. The much larger percentage of what I write is never read by anyone else.
19. I have a hard time admitting when I’m wrong, especially to those that matter.
20. My energy level is never very predictable. I never know how productive I’m going to be. I work in very efficient spurts, but then I’m quite disproportionately fatigued.
21. The first thing I notice about people’s faces is the angle that they keep their heads.
22. My favorite drink, besides chocolate drinks (especially Boost) is American Bourbon - Jim Beam Black Label, if you insist.
23. While in Hyd, a friend owned this classy restaurant, which appeared in some movie starring Kangana Ranaut (I was there when they filmed it.) This was also the friend who used to be a systems analyst for a stock broker at the World Trade Center, on one of the upper floors. He had called in sick on September 11, 2001.
24. Surprisingly I won a handwriting competition in the 3rd grade.
25. My favorite color is green, though I don’t wear anything that color.
26. I am a ray of sunshine (to some people)
27. I can recite one poem.
28. I have one tattoo. Long story.
29. I wounded a cat with a bow and arrow once (mostly the arrow). Was quite unintentional.
30. I have never been to a strip club.
31. I have been invited to a gay party. Short story.
32. I hate wearing jewelry, now i am forced to wear a chain.
33. My first job was to teach innocent kids, to get them to pass a test.
34. My last year of high school I wanted to be a researcher or an architect.
35. I am neither. Am getting there.
36. I have been arrested.
37. I was born with my tongue stuck to my lower palette. Yup, I had surgery for that when I was two. I can't help but still slur sometimes.
38. I have always wanted a photographic memory.
39. As a child I played with matches and burnt most of somebody's garden.
40. I have always loved British parodies and I don’t know why.
41. I seem to get younger as I get older. I was a little old as a child.
42. When I was in kindergarten, I had this huge crush on a girl. She loved the attention, but her best friend at the time took a dislike to me, and kicked me in the balls during recess once. (Talk about a “crush”)
43. I love it when I am able to play different roles with different people to finally make things fall in place.
44. I was a Scout for a short time. The NCC never was actually for me.
45. I used to love climbing trees. I once fell from a tree about 20 feet high when I was seven years old. Was largely unhurt. The mangoes that we had piled below broke the fall.
46. Alcohol is the answer for most other problems (thank you Homer Simpson)
47. I fired several people when I was a manager.
48. I once hitched a ride in the back of a milk truck.
49. I love things that glow in the dark.
50. I have a certified black belt in Karate. Been fractured twice. Returned the favour five times. At least.
51. I am half pure tam, other half pseudo tam-mal. I still wont touch seafood.
52. I own land of my own. All by myself. Ha.
53. I love to be bored.
54. I have played in real, natural snow only twice.
55. The first real concert I ever saw was Diana King, and I had won the tickets from a quiz on the All India Radio. A neighbor took me for the show.
56. My seventh-grade Hindi teacher taught me that if there was anyone who has a direct pipeline to hell, it’s her.
57. I have known my closest friend since I was 11.
58. When they disagree, I tend to side with my mom, but I actually think my dad is right most of the time.
59. I have never had a stay in the hospital or broken a bone in the last 14 years.
60. I have not had any body parts removed, except for wisdom teeth. Ow!
61. I was very disappointed with the x-ray glasses I sent for from the back of a comic book.
62. I tend to listen to male singers.
63. I talk to myself.
64. I don’t do well talking about myself.
65. I was a damned good student till school.
66. I am the king at constructing scenarios.
67. I'm still dreaming of writing my own book where I can inspire, touch and influence lives,
68. I sometimes wonder if the world will ever get my weird set of ethics.
69. I’m obsessive-compulsive about the useless little things, but completely clueless about really big things. Think it's some coping mechanism.
70. A former babysitter of mine got a bit of a crush on me when I came of age, but I was still living at in my old home with my parents in a flat. She'd throw pebbles at my bedroom window so I'd meet her outside. It didn't really work.
71. I’m better at expressing my true feelings and opinions in writing than in person.
72. I can talk a lot or not at all, depending on how interesting I find the company.
73. I used to have a sacred blanket.
74. For a long, long time my default ringtone was The Rolling Stones "Sympathy for the Devil".
75. I still own the silver pulsar. It sports alloy wheels, wider tyres and a two piece handle bar. I am never selling.
76. I hate people who are jealous or complain all the time.
77. I think the internet is a truly brillaint place to learn anything. I now know more on most topics that I ever thought existed. I dream of being self-sufficient.
78. I love to sing, but I wish I was any good at it, and I’d love to learn to play an instrument. A sax maybe. Yeah.
79. I am constantly writing lists.
80. My best friend in elementary school from the 2nd through the 5th grade moved away and I have never seen him since.
81. I still see my mom making dosas on the same pan after 25 years.
82. I feel the most comfortable in formal clothes.
83. I am against children having to study long hours so early in life.
84. I truly believe the world lost one of its greatest actors when Heath overdosed.
85. I am a little bit paranoid about who's looking at me right now.
86. I have driven cross country by myself. (1400 kms on a bike)
87. I have to return quite a few books.
88. Since the time I could remember, I did not fly on a commercial airline until after I graduated from college and had to go for a b school interview.
89. I love my xbox.
90. I like where I live.
91. I have very strange dreams.
92. I am working on my million dollar idea. I wish it'd work for me.
93. I have had more crushes than I can count.
94. I cannot mimic a soul. My impersonations of myself aren't quite convincing.
95. I think myself to be a good person but I haven’t always done what’s right.
96. I’m a ridiculous procrastinator. Instance, I actually meant to post this last week.
97. Bhaskar is to blame for setting me on this list.
98. It was so hard to think up all of these things about myself. I have managed to kill a sunday.
99. I have secrets that I'm not telling here.
100. Though there was a time I never thought it was going to be possible, I'm happy with my life.
