Tuesday, March 03, 2009

25 Random things about me

Since not all of you are on Facebook, and this blog is not being updated regularly anymore (big FAIL for me!) thought I'd share this list here too.

1) I got my motorcycle driving license when I was 13. My dad taught me to ride his Yamaha 350 RD.
2) I arrange my money in my wallet in ascending order, always.
3) I am known to arrive at a Host's house early and wait outside till the correct time and then ring the bell. I hate being late.
4) I turned vegetarian on my 18th birthday. I heard Linda McCartney say "Never eat anything that has a face". I haven't since.
5) I carry my flat-iron everywhere. I have spent a lot of time and money on my hair, it's my Achilles heel.
6) Delete is my favorite key.
7) I was by my father's side when he had his first heart attack and his last. Not a night passes when I don't picture the smile he gave me just before he went breathless.
8) Discovered my favorite band Pink Floyd when I was 11, sitting in the London Planetarium watching a laser light show set to their music.
9) I'm kinda ambidextrous. I play tennis with my left but write with my right. I'm always confused about left & right as a result. When someone says - take a left - I have to think about it for a second before I turn in the right direction.
10) I won two silver medals at the All India Tennis Championships. I got the medals simply cause non of the seeded players came for the tournament.
11) I've experienced two life threatening incidents. One when I was 6, I sat on a glass table and went crashing through it. It slit my wrist and missed the nerve by millimeters. The second I fell into Lake WA while trying to pull a boat onto the dock. I didn't have a life jacket and was convinced I was going to drown until I was pulled up by my brother. Rumor has it the water was only 5 feet deep and I could have just stood up, but I don't believe it.
12) I seriously believe there is more to TV than life. I have learnt a lot from watching the Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Gossip Girl, and an episode or two of Taxicab Confessions.
13) Whenever I type fast I put the last alphabet of one word with the next word - lik ethis, drives Google's spellcheck batsh*t crazy.
14) Both my daughter's names are in my maiden name. Pure coincidence.
15) I am terrible with street directions. When people tell me to head west I immediately look for the sun and start to figure out if it's rising or setting.
16) I have a photographic memory. I can remember every last detail of some random good for nothing crap that happened bazillion years ago. I can quote every line from Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.
17) I can never hang-up on a telemarketer. I have taken countless surveys, bought tickets to gala functions and supported the Firefighters of WA for years because I could not say No.
18) I once was locked in a very small bathroom for 9 hours. I never ever enter a bathroom now without a magazine and a fully-charged cellphone.
19) I have finished a 5kg jar of Nutella in a few weeks.
20) I have a fake laugh which I use at times when I'm conscious or am blushing.
21) I fantasize about being Jude Law's nanny.
22) I had my first sip of alcohol when I was 28, my younger brother bought me a drink. I live dangerously through him.
23) I proposed to my husband on email. He took 3 days to reply.
24) I wish I was taller.
25) I experience a lot of buyer's remorse. I pretty much want to take everything that I buy back. When I had Tara and she was giving me hell I considered calling the hospital and asking them for a copy of their return policy. Then I went and had Nisha.