The 25 Thing
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Yes. I'm taking the plunge.
- I am a newspaper addict. I read all sorts of newspapers from all parts of the world each morning.
- If I've watched a movie once, I can watch it any number of times.
- I hate wearing formal clothes. It gives me no thrill or feeling of importance. Gimme my khaddar veshti and T-shirt any day.
- I haven't heard a non-Indian song that I haven't heard before for more than a year now. I've become increasingly choosy and parochial about the music I listen to. I'm not very proud of that fact.
- I rarely, if ever, sleep in the afternoons. (Unless I'm catching up on sleep.)
- I like listening to cassettes. Because one must then listen to all the songs, and in order.
- I have strong opinions that I keep to myself.
- I'm not very good at keeping in touch with people.
- I love to talk. Yet, I once went for 48 hours without speaking to anyone in any manner (not even through SMS, phone etc). It remains amongst the most elevating experience of my life.
- I love Woody Allen. I often steal his jokes and crack them on unsuspecting souls.
- I don't like music coming in through earphones. I prefer even a little 2-in-1 to them.
- I am always in love. With someone or the other. Always.
- I fancy myself as an artistic fellow, but deep inside, I know I'm a fraud. Like all other artistic fellows.
- I think, and I really think, "Kajra Re" is the greatest Hindi song of this millennium.
- I've always wanted to be a cricket player - an opening bowler and a lower order hitter. I still harbour hopes of opening the bowling for India some day.
- I can watch "The Third Man" in infinite loop for the rest of my life.
- I can listen to one particular Mali's Anandabhairavi recording in infinite loop for the rest of my life.
- I once watched "Casablanca" in mute and still knew when to laugh, when to hold my breath, when to feel sad, and when to say, "What a slime!"
- I love tea. But I must personally make it the way I love it.
- I am mortally afraid of birds. I think it is because they have two modes of attack - pecking and clawing.
- I hate cauliflower. I think it is a mental block. But I'm not too inclined to conquer it.
- I spend one half of my life looking for wires.
- My famed laziness is, I think, a myth. AX, I'm sure, will disagree.
- I cant tolerate bad spelling. I often cant tolerate myself.
- I want my epitaph to be, "There shall be no orders as to costs."
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30 replies:
The Epitaph takes the cake!
:D
i spent a day not talking to anyone. it was interesting, but i don't know when the opportunity will arise to do it again :P
and mental blocks exist for a reason, though my curd thing may have more to do with the smell
fellow tea lover? high five!
@shankari
Heh. Thanks.
@s
Oru ooru irndudu. Anda oorle, ellaru edu tinra?
Thair saadam.
@Anjana R
High five!
1. What sort of wires?
2. But you can tolerate bad punctuation?
Amen to the one on cassettes!
I'm offended by 20, and hate cauliflowers too.
wha?
no, really. is this meant to be along the line of, "there is a circle, how many dots are inside it"?
if so why so, and if not why not?
@varali
all sorts of wires. The wires that connect from my camera to the comp, from my recorder to the comp, from my iPod to the comp, chargers, the wire that connects my music system to cool speakers, the one that connects comp to cool speakers, the one that connects camera to TV etc etc.
@Suhas
I knew you'd agree to that one.
@issarayu
I love one Bird though. And you know which one that is.
@s
No, this isn't a computer joke.
Tee hee. Giggle.
Epitaph still adorns the door of 203 Cauvery. Salute for No. 1.
dude my cousin got me Annie Hall yesterday. :)
and lol at you and iissarayu :D
@iissarayu
Heehee.
@vikramhegde
Dude! Kickass. 203 is Rashtrapati Bhavan yet again, no?
@Anjana R
Isn't that the greatest movie in the world? "What we've got on our hands is a dead shark..." Hahaha.
And iissarayu and me are like that wonly. Much lol-inducing stuff we do :P
not only is it not a computer joke, i suspect its not a joke of any kind.
About point number 4, are you sure you can put it down to being parochial? Of late, I've also not been making too many 'discoveries' in non-Indian music, and was wondering if it was because most contemporary mainstream music sounds like crap (to my ears, at least) and it's just too much effort trying to weed out the good stuff.
@s
You'll never understand that joke because you weren't a part of the "Chaaamagadda!" era. Youre a kid, basically.
@Suhas
:D I haven't even heard enough to make a judgment on mainstream modern music's crappiness!
people around me spent MY entire life looking for my wire :P
(in vain of course-- despite the fact that i am thin and WIRy)
9 - Wow.
14 - I detest!
Epitaph - Classic :)
is the bird phobia due to one of those woody allen movies where bird attack everyone on an island?
i'm going through 4 too.
try listening to FM radio. it helps.
@Sharan
Eh?
@A Ditty
14 - Musical taste must be cultivated. It isn't good enough if you sing well :P
@thenitknumbskulls
I didn't know of a Woody Allen movie like that. Birdphobia's been there since childhood. I have a feeling some deep-rooted past life stuff is happening here.
FM radio! Shall try...
whoops, meant hitchcock, not allen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)
apologies before you scream blue murder.
There, watch that flick... your aviophobia will be complete.
@thenitknumbskulls
Haha. I thought you might be referring to "The Birds", but I gave you the benefit of the doubt :P.
Yeah, that movie gave me many sleepless nights!
I've done the Casablanca thing too :) In CRPC with SBN Prakash.
marry me. now.
@divya
I haven't even heard of SBN Prakash. God, I'm old!
@Anonymous
You must contact my Amma on this matter.
How can you listen to something in "infinite loop" for the rest of your life?
Maybe you should add "26. I am immortal until somebody proves otherwise to me" to your list. :)
i read wires as wives!
@Anand
:) Trust you to point out errors of logic!
@buddy
You need one, perhaps :P
Why did I only just see this?? Multiple lol... :) and yes, at 23, disagree!
Haha. I told you.
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