2 3 a r b i t t h i n g s a b o u t m e.

1. I always feel people have a better impression of me than is true.
2. A lot of people say I am stubborn. I know that’s true, but I don’t agree. I guess that’s proof enough of my stubbornness.
3. I enjoy the company of a few people.
4. I love being alone.
5. I bought myself chocolate truffle on the eve of my birthday - and ate it in solitude at midnight – in my Hyderabad apartment.
6. I believe something is inherently wrong with people who dislike me.
7. As a child, I was frightened terribly by the moon, because I thought it followed me wherever I went.
8. I once made a paper boat with a hundred-rupee note that an aunt gave me, instructing me hand it over to someone, and left it on the Store Room shelf, till it was discovered by my aunt herself.
9. When I was in Class IV, I wore three badges with great pride – one that was given as part of the Best Behaviour Award, one for being among the top rankers in class and a third for being the House Leader. I even went down the stairs with an extra gait, so that the metal badges would produce a tinkling sound.
10. In Class IX, when I was supposed to wear a House Leader badge, I always tried to avoid it – I felt that I had risen above such simple honours!
11. I hate crowds.
12. I wrote Sri Ramajayam as I sat in the Industrial Organisation class – Prof. Siddharthan must’ve been under the notion that I was taking down notes.
13. I have three strands of white hair.
14. I can’t quite resist the colour green. I find it pretty difficult to take my eyes off anything that colour. I wore green to college everyday of one week – until my friends pleaded with me to stop. I even had a pair of green jeans.
15. If I am very hungry and lazy, I drink milk straight out the Aavin pack – without boiling it.
16. I completely trust only God. No one else.
17. I acted as a bed-bug in a school play. The story was about two bed-bugs – one good and one bad. Apparently I was given the role of the good bed-bug.
18. My feet still tremble when I have to get onto an escalator.
19. I have devoured tins of milkmaid. Licked up the nectar as it dribbled down my chin.
20. I sit quietly during Group Discussions conducted as part of the admission/recruitment process.
21. As an eight-year-old, I fooled my kid cousin of four into believing that I was a magician. I made a camera out of paper and secretly inserted some bits of paper that I had drawn on. I would give it to her without the drawings and ask her to click. Obviously, nothing would happen and there would be no pictures. Then I would take over; flash the silver magic wand which I had handy, slipping the pictures discreetly into the camera and then click. And hey! The paper drawing would pop out. My cousin used to look at the mastermind with such awe!
22. Another cousin of mine challenged me to a bicycle race. I must have been 12 and he 9. He was a gymnast, a swimmer, a cricketer and a good athlete for someone his age. I lacked on all counts. Despite that I readily agreed to the race. In my earnestness to somehow win over him, I pedaled furiously. So furiously, that I lost all control of the handle bar. The bar kept turning this way and that – a full 180 degrees, non-stop. I realized it was beyond my command and took my hands off it. The cycle skidded madly and crashed next to a parked, white ambassador car. The inertia dragged me under the car and I lay there like a mechanic until my victorious cousin scrambled in to retrieve me.
23. I am unable to blog on subjects that don’t centre around me.