This is straight from Facebook, where you're supposed to write 25 random things about yourself and then tag people who will then proceed to write 25 things about themselves and so on... I'm copy-pasting my note from there...
1. I love writing about myself.
2. I love going on walks on moonlit nights... by myself. I love time by myself, because that's when I feel like I am really communing with myself. And also gives me time to indulge in fantasies or planning out books that I am probably never going to write in my life...
3. I gave up on coffee because I was too addicted. I do indulge from time to time though.
4. I don't drink but I get very high on music. Ask anyone who watches me dance at parties.
5. I blog but I don't advertise it. I blog for 'nirmal anand'.
6. I have wanted to be in an IIM since my Class 10. The only reason was because my dad told me at that time that the IIMs had open book exams. I thought they were a brilliant concept! That's been my only goal pretty much through my life so far. So now that I've achieved it I need a new goal!
7. I honestly think of myself more as a tomboy than as a girl. I love jewellery, I love dressing up,but there's one part of me that still thinks of me as part of the 'boys gang'. Hangover from childhood I guess. I've always been better friends with boys than girls since I was a little kid. I think my dad finds that weird for some reason.
8. I think my ideal job would be as a film critic. I love to watch movies, I love to write, I love to give my opinions. It's perfect.
9. I scored an ENTP on my MBTI. That's the same as Akil. Apparently the chances of two siblings getting the same score are extremely remote. I guess we're exceptional in more ways than we thought.
10. I think music is the answer to every ill that plagues the world. And it is the most universal thing in the world. I say I associate with music from the time my mom was pregnant with me (like Abhimanyu in the Mahabharata!). Apparently I used to kick her everytime she used to sing.
11. I tend to over-analyse and over-think. I keep thinking about what I did yesterday, what happened today, what he/she said, what it actually meant, did it actually mean more than what it seemed - and am I over-reacting to something that is actually pretty simple etc etc till I drive myself mad.
12. I am straight. It might not seem that way at times, but I am. I am also very fickle. I fall in love with every second guy I see on TV. I even find the lion from Chronicles of Narnia hot! :O
13. I love computer games. I think shooting games help you relieve your stress, NFS and Road Rash help build your reflexes, AOE and FIFA Manager make you think, Hidden Object games build your concentration and Sims is around only for time pass, but is so awesome!
14. I confess, I love romances. I love it when the hero and heroine end up together. And when the book is over I go, "Awww, that's so sweet. But they are so different. I bet it won't last". That's when the cynic in me overrides the romantic.
15. I am a mass of contradictions. That's obvious from the point above. I am also capable of being highly childish one second, and highly mature the next. I can be quite the selfish brat at one point, and a caring concerned soul the next. And then there's also the tomboy vs the girly-girl. My computer files are usually the best organised, my room is an ABSOLUTE mess. Sometimes I think I have multiple personality disorder. Sometimes I am convinced that is so.
16. I don't believe in love at first sight. It's bullshit to say you love somebody you see for the first time. Come on, you don't know their name, or anything about them, or whether you'll be compatible, but you know you want to spend your life with them?! Please! I think most marriages fail because of this kind of romantic notion of love. It's more important to build a relationship and sustain it.
17. I believe in something that I call 'click' though. While you might not fall in love at first sight, I believe you can 'click' with someone at first sight... well, maybe not sight, but first time you speak to them. First conversations with people - any person - are the most interesting thing.
18. There are few things in the world that are as good as chocolate. For anything. When you're feeling down, when you're feeling out, when you're happy, when you're hungry, when you just feel nothing but want to do something for the heck of it... just have a chocolate.
19. I am in a relationship. With my iPod. I love the darn thing. I don't feel like going anywhere without it. I carry it around like a baby. I can't stop listening to it. Sometimes I wake up in the night, look at it and smile. I know, I am crazy.
20. I cry at movies. Especially SRK ones. I still cry everytime I see Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, but I think Kal Ho Naa Ho is my favourite crying jag. I think that movie is awesome. Everytime Aman goes running to the bridge and hugs Naina and tells her "main tumse pyar nahin karta", something inside me snaps. I can cry for hours after watching that movie.
21. I also cry at happy times. I have cried everytime Michael Schumacher won a Championship since 2000. I cry during episodes of Friends - the one where Monica and Chandler propose to each other, the last one when Ross and Rachel finally get together... I love Friends. It's the most brilliant show in the world.
22. I love TV. Especially my TV at home (in case I haven't bragged about it to you, it's 40 inch LCD with a home theatre system). I can watch TV for hours and hours together. I even like Hindi serials. Especially to poke fun at them (though I used to take them very seriously at one point). I can switch channels at an amazing speed. My mom and dad both hate that.
23. I love Europe more than the US. I've always been fascinated by the amount of history and culture that Europe has - France, Italy, England, Greece, Spain, Scandinavia... I think it might stem from the amount of reading I do. Or the fact that I love history. Or that I played AOE a LOT when I was a kid. :P I was pleasantly surprised by the US when I went there though - especially Washington. But the most enduring memory of the US for me from that trip is the first morning I was there. I walked out onto the road in Detroit and it was absolutely gorgeous. Quiet, peaceful, green... lovely. I wouldn't mind living in the US at some point in my life. But Akil claims it's got more to do with the fact that they have dishwashers there rather than any deep appreciation of beauty. That might actually be true. :P
24. I am highly impatient and impulsive. I usually don't think things through before saying them. Sometimes that is STUPID as hell. But I can't get over it. I also can't wait to do things that I REALLY want to do. It's like "I want to do it NOW!!!". That's probably the Arian in me. I am a complete hardcore Arian actually. Reading Linda Goodman's Sun Signs about Aries was like reading about my life.
25. I have never started so many sentences with 'I' before in my life! Makes me feel like a complete narcissist. I have also never been so random in my life - though I am at all times extremely random. This was good fun though. Hope people who I tag actually write something too.
