30 Day Blog Challenge - Day2 :: 20 Facts about me

20 facts about me

1. Food is something I live for, and I can die for (or kill? Maybe). I have competed with many heavyweights, and won! So if you intend to feed me good food, make sure you make massive quantities

2. In my 7th class, when a poem written by me wasn't published in my school magazine, next time I submitted articles copied from my friend’s school magazine. That was my first brush with plagiarism, and I was so ashamed later that now I grow fangs when I see something blatantly copied

3. I love snow, but hate winters. 

4. I can bend my fingers all the way to the back of my hand (and scare the sh** out of people)

5. I am spiritual, but not religious (but I love the food and festivities of religious celebrations)

6. I love travelling, and meeting people from different cultures. But I am also socially awkward at first – the kind who knocks off things around her in nervousness

7. Hypocrites, super moms, power hungry professors – people I can’t stay in the same room with

8. Books – I cant keep one down till I finish it, no matter how boring it might be. The most difficult one for me to finish was Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. I love his writing, but somehow that one took forever

9. I am scared of heights, old age and dogs.

10. One movie which I recommend to everyone with a sensible head and sensitive heart is “Turtles can fly”. And one book which I love gifting is “Seven Years in Tibet”

11. Speaking if Tibet, there was a time not so much in past when my friends were worried I might run away to Tibet or become an activist. 

12. I want to learn to drive. And I want to learn to put on nail paint.

13. I have ridiculously small feet – I used to be directed to kids section when I was in college! And surprisingly, it has grown 2 sizes AFTER college, but it’s still too small

14. I truly believe, that all major problems can be handled after a good sleep

15. I find it very unsettling, that my little daughter wants to copy me in everything! For the sake of all my craziness, I just wish she would have a better role model than me!

16. I somehow remember things from when I was very little, things which weren’t so nice. And one day I intend to tell 

17. I can’t get my head around watching sports on TV- why the heck would you want to watch a ball being thrown around, one that you can’t even touch! 

18. My house is always a mess, and I love it! If you come to my house and find it tidy, you probably shouldn’t open any doors for your own safety.

19. My tears have a mind of their own. They don’t come out when they need to, out of some social obligation. But pour out in buckets even on a stupidest memory when I am alone. If you have seen me cry, you probably know its very ugly to watch. But so you know, you are one of the closest one to my heart!

20. I just can’t believe I have done it! I seriously can’t! But I am just looking at the rest of the list of the 30-day challenge, and looks like there's going to be lots of repetitions.

30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 1

So I've taken up this challenge to talk about myself shamelessly for 30 days! sort of like a blog-fie! Might just be the thing to help me shower some love on my blog. It’s the month of luurve after all.

So today’s challenge is “Your blog’s name” – the simplest one! But I have a .. erm.. history of “names”, something I am not very proud of. My own name means “fishy” – what the hell were my parents thinking! And my brother’s name was decided during his school registration (since my parents forgot the important aspect of the school registration process- the name of all the things! (what were they calling him before that? Oh well, in India, we have this system of 2 names – one is the home name, sort of nick name, and the other one a formal name. His nick name so far resembled a certain “vegetable”, and I am not going to reveal what is it, for the fear of my life as I am damn sure my brother will be reading this one). So when my parents reached the school, and started filling out the form, the first field was – Name of the Child – which shouldn’t resemble a certain vegetable. And when they asked the person behind the desk, if they could leave that space blank, and come back later with the name, they weren’t thought to be very funny. So in their frenzy, they just skipped through the last couple of forms filled by other parents, and got the first proper name they came across – the fact I cant even tease my brother with, cause, you know, the “fishy” bit…

So coming back to the name of my blog – well I too have got this issue with naming creativity, and I would happily attribute it to my genes. This blog- Randomness – was chosen when one day I was bit by the writing bug, and thought of starting a blog and all, but the first thing it asks me is – the name ofcourse. And it doesn’t let me skip through previous names and let me choose a begged, borrowed, or stolen one, because, google ofcourse… so here was the most unimaginative name of the blog ever(well, there was this blog for which I used to ghost-write movie reviews, which had a very sleazy name, but even then I wont call it unimaginative. Of all the sleaziness, it atleast evoked some emotion. But “Randomness”? )

May be one day I might stumble upon a really clever name for my blog. I might start a new one. Or I might hit upon a lottery and go ahead and “buy” one of those blogs with really clever names (one of the name that stuck to my mind when I started crochet was RepeatCrafterMe – I just love the play of the words here.. ). I wish.. I wish…