And the Music plays!

1. I depend on logic, reasoning and gut (different proportions – different times). I enjoy getting involved in something that presents mental challenge. Working with numerics comes easily to me. I love detailed planning.
2. Most of the time, I am able to pick up negative vibes as I walk into a room. That applies to people as well as places.
3. Strong as I may be, I am like a kitten when I am with my loved ones.Quite accommodating for all my people, and make up for the strong will everywhere else. My people mean the world to me. A harsh word from them gets me down the quickest.
4. Food – If it wasn’t for the love of good food and experimenting with food, I would have taken sanyaas a long time ago! I’d love to do a food show someday. I simply enjoy late night snacks. Many a times I get sudden food cravings out of the blue.
5. Every now and then, I love spending some time with myself. I can’t sit quiet for more than a little time. Except when I am in my ‘me time’.
6. I used to be a topper in school, always amongst the top 3 rankers. I used to be a favorite of many of teachers. I have won innumerable prizes for art, handicrafts, handwriting besides academics. I used to have a beautiful handwriting while I was in school. It has got screwed up over a period of time.
7. I absolutely dislike crowded places. I don’t like discotheques and rock concerts. Enrique is an exception though!
8. Movie freak – I love all kinds of cinema – I have a soft corner for romantic and comedy movies. Music freak – I need music 24 by 7. I can’t concentrate if there is no music around. I have a soft corner for Sufi and the song ‘Ay hairathe’.
9. Something funny keeps happening around me all the time and God keeps me entertained.
10. I can’t get myself to hate people no matter how much I try.
11. I am a hardcore Bombay-ite. I don’t have any native place.
12. Shifting from a huge bungalow to a flat taught me a lot about life. It was more of a culture shock.
13. College life was amazing. Those five years of Jai Hind still bring back a smile on my face. Till date, whenever I need that extra zing in my life, I either visit college or take a walk down A road – and I feel light as a feather and ready to fly!
14. I have a penchant for fairy tales and mythology. By the age of 6, I had a huge collection of Ladybird Fairy tales, Chandamama, Amar Chitra Katha… I knew the entire Ramayana and the entire Mahabharata by the age of 8.
15. At the age of 16, I became very ill and doctors had given up hope. At a time when most girls my age would dream about life, career and love, I had stopped dreaming because I didn’t know if I would see another day.
16. I love nature. It just makes me peaceful and happy.
17. I am an emotional wreck. I cry at the drop of a hat!
18. I love surprises – pleasant ones. Getting as well as giving.
19. When I feel bored or when I haven’t done any talking for a while, I start yawning and it has nothing to do with sleep.
20. The world doesn’t exist around me when I am engrossed in reading. I become notionally deaf when I am reading.
21. I give a lot of unwanted advice. If I feel that someone would get benefited by my advice, I just go ahead and give it. I am consciously trying to control this habit of mine as the shastras say that advice should be given only when asked for.
22. I sincerely believe that the journey, not the destination, is the reward.
23. I love all things grand and beautiful.I love handicrafts – making as well as researching is a passion. Reading and researching about Indian Art, Culture and Traditions is yet another passion of mine.
24. I love getting drenched in the rain.
25. I love my birthdays and my birthday month.

I just remembered that I had done a tag on similar lines a while ago – about quirks etc. Will properly club it with the above in leisure.

1. I get bored easily. People find it very difficult to hold my attention for a long time. There are times when people talk and I listen and then I go in my so called world, eat notional paani puris/bungee jump, travel to Paris etc and come back without the other person even knowing about it. And answer/comment so nicely that the other person thinks that I actually heard all of it This usually happens when the other person tells me to only listen without talking. Its like if I don’t talk, I don’t live.

2. I turn somewhat deaf when I am reading. So when I get myself to read something, it deserves my full attention. People might be screaming around but it doesn’t matter. Its only my reading material that matters at that moment.

3. I have a fetish for pencil heels. And I have a few in different colors – so comfortable that one can even run in them although that is not advisable. Even if I don’t wear them so often. I go weak in the knees when I see a good pair of pencil heels. By good I mean those which look sexy and are super comfortable at the same time.

4. I am a complete water baby.

5. I need to have my ‘me-time’ in the morning. I don’t like discussions in the morning. I first need to sort out things in my head before I start my day. But if initiate a talk in the morning, then that’s perfectly ok.

6. I find joy in the small things than the big things. Big things bring happiness. But its the small things that bring joy and memories. Seeing a distant aeroplane with blinking lights late in the night (Yes, sometimes I like calling it that way) I like doing this more than having to travel in one. Flights are super boring. I dread long distance flight journeys. Well more – non-sensical talks with family and friends where there is no agenda; we just hop skip and jump from one topic to the other. Besides that mix and match food to create a new dish. Getting drenched in the rains. Scolding my parents sometimes as if I am their grand mother and seeing them grin ear to ear.

7. Drama. A day without drama and the drama queen feels like it is a wasted day.

8. Irritating and pulling legs of my loved ones.

9. I am absolutely pathetic when it comes to returning calls. Except when it is family.

10. I get emotionally attached to things pretty soon. Old phone handsets. Friendship day ribbons even though it has been ages since I passed out of college. And more.

11. I don’t like spam. I need to delete it as soon I spot it. The same applies for dust. I need to get rid of it the moment I see it.

12. I need to be pushed and urged to get out and go and have fun. I am quite lazy that way. But once I am out, there is no stopping.

13. Until sometime back I used to think that I love shopping. But of recently I have come to realize that more than shopping I like getting things. So if someone takes the task of choosing and getting the best for me, I am more than happy.

14. Generally women like diamonds. I don’t. I prefer gold.

14. I am quite old fashioned. Be it art, jewelery, romance. Anything.

15. There are times when I am stingy even for a single rupee. And there are times when I might just blow up a thousand bucks because I want to. Moreover it should make sense to me. Or logic. Or plain ‘i liked it’.

16. I have a strong gut feel. If I don’t get good vibes from a person, I don’t talk to that person.

17. I don’t get along with dogs. Or rather dogs don’t get along with me. If I see a dog walking on one side of the road, I cross and walk on the other side. In short, I am petrified of dogs.

18. I don’t like anyone touching my face. Okay okay, except a few people who have bypassed this rule against my wishes. But I don’t complain. I just like it. They are my people after all.

19. I love talking. Just for the sake of talking. Many a times it is plain non sense.

20. I like watching cookery and food shows even though I don’t cook.

21. I totally hate planning for outing/holiday/eating out or whatever. I prefer that being taken care of by the other people. If I plan and then go, I am more in the planning mode. I don’t enjoy that at all.

22. I get scared easily. A silly horror flick which people won’t even term as horror is enough for me to sleep with the lights on for days. Or a simple mention of some horror tale. Thats it. And even a slight sound does the trick to scare me.

23. I need at least 8-10 hours of sleep daily else I get cranky.

24. I am quite a control freak. Be it work or home. I like things to be done the way I want.

25. Mid night snacks. People who know me know this thing very well. I get these atypical sudden urges to eat something out of the blue at any hour of the day or night. Generally the kinds pregnant women get.