I don't depress you, reality does.

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

100 things, most of then junk.

I have come across quite a few interesting "100 things about me" instances. So let me try. I am not sure if I have 100 things to talk about myself or if I will be daring enough to include interesting things.

1. I am 29.

2. I have 2 great sons.

3. My life changed after advent of kids.

4. I used to be very stupid and very arrogant.

5. I did reasonably well in academics.

6. I was hyperactive.

7. I had great friends.

8. I still have great friends, but number came down.

9. I am a converted vegetarian.

10.My wife is a great person.

11.Probably I don't deserve her as companion.

12.There is lot of money at my disposal.

13.But it doesn't matter much to me.

14.I feel guilty about my spending habits.

15.I am not a big spender by conventional standards, but still..

16.I love gadgets.They represent pinnacle of technological achievement for me.

17.I like books. Both in quanitity and quality.

18.I don't care much about dressing.

19.I love video games. My favourites Metal Gear Solid, Thief series, Deus Ex-1, Road Rash, .....

20.I decided not to buy latest mobile because of high depreciation and rapid advances in handset features.

21.I am careless about my belongings.

22.I have almost lost money, baggage, missed my flight on various occasions due to my lethargy.

23.I love United States.

24.I commited BLUNDERS in life.Probably my quota of blunders is full.

25.At this point I have no motivation in life, only responsibilities. Like making my children millionaires.:)

26.I am an agnostic. And I am not comfortable with that. I want to believe in something.

27.I believe I have loyal set of followers. Yuck, that sounds feudal.

28.I am confident about my ability to be successful in this world, that is, if I want to.

29.I used to be very, very interested in politics till about 5 yrs ago.

30.Now I am disillusioned.

31.I had liked atleast 4 girls in my life.

32.And few others to lesser extent.

33.But only one girl in turn liked me. Don't know about secret admirers though. ;)

34.I had been in jail. (Technically)

35.I had caused grief to lot of people who loved me. That includes my parents.

36.I had vowed to my parents and friends not to repeat such misadventures which can land me in jail.

37.I was booked under "attempt to murder" charges while it was only a simple assault and judge acquitted me.:)

38.Given a chance I will migrate to US of A. But then I want my parents, friends to accompany me.

39.I used to hate few religions. Now I just don't care.

40.I own porn. (My son, please don't read this in next 20 yrs)

41.I had fun in my college.

42.And hence I learnt too little.

43.That didn't prevent me from appearing intelligent.;)

44.I believe average intelligence of mankind is too low.

45.Probably I should have been born a few yrs later to be in synch with rest of world.

46.I love visiting countries. But then I am not into sight seeing. Does that sound like a contradiction? (Probably)

47.I never tried beer, cigarette or any such "defined" addictive stuff.

48.It wasn't fear. Probably I didn't feel so or I wanted to have more self control.BS

49.I have too many doubts,questions about ethics and morals.

50.And I live in a society, where I can be killed if I express my opinions on such issues.

51.I was inquisitive about metaphysics when I was small. Spirituality, death,...

52.Now I just don't care.

53.I fantasize about anonymous friends with whom I will have no inhibitions exchanging various dimensions of thinking.

54.I am yet to find one such person.

55.I must say, I never tried.

56.I get bored with my work, more often then I should.

57.When I look at successful people, I start reasoning "under the same circumstances, I will be much better".

58.I dropped out of a premier institute.Now don't ask me the reason. I don't remember. And I don't regret.:) Good stuff for autobiography, right?

59.I have no siblings.

60.I used to be a crier. No longer.

61.I used to display emotions with few friends. It has reduced to minimum if not completely eliminated.

62.I tried writing crap in the name of poems and stories.

63.I plan to try again.

64.I believe I have enough story material.

65.I had great fun in my school.( Indian school = 1st - 10th grades)

66.But I hate to remember those days.For some strange reason.

67.I always felt sad about parting friends. I hated the fact that, they will have new friends.

68.I feel sad that some equals ended up lower and some equals took a different path.

69.Attimes, I am not sure if I am being sincere in my words and actions.

70. I sleepwalk through most of conversations I hve wih outsides. I mean those who don't matter anything to me.

71.I plan to contribute to improvement of my immediate society.

72.But then probably I am too lazy to translate that into reality.

73.I love dreams. I mean natural dreams, not day dreams.

74.I love sleep.

75.Given a chance, I want to kill lot of people, mostly corrupt people.

76.Who's stopping me now? I am no Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther , Hitler or any such revolutionary person.:(

77.I suck at all arts. Including simple writing.

78.I am ok in 2 sports and chess.

79.I am good at maths. I have enough proof for that.

80.I imagine my face to be something and it turns out to be something else in mirror.

81.And I don't like what I see in mirror.

82.I don't look straight into eyes of any person, not even my friends and parents. Now budding freuds, spew out your theories.

83.I like non fiction over fiction.

84.I plan to compile a book with all the things one need to know. I guess that is meant for aliens with zero awareness about our world.

85.My weight is near ideal, same thing cannot be told about my muscle mass.

86.I regret not being 6'. I miss the mark by 4 cms.

87.I have good hair.But I fear it's turning out to be "had".

88.I wanted to be a spy. Ok, I never said, I am not one now.

89.I believe in technology.

90 I believe in Individual freedom without limits.

91.I believe no matter how educated/intelligent/wise we are, we are primarily driven by physical impulses.

92.I speak a lot.with few people atleast.

93.I rebel just for the heck of it.

94.I hate all rich people. Somehow I feel it's my money that's lying with them.

95.And I hate all elitists. Please don't ask me examples. You will run out of memory.

96.My elder son is after me. I mean he is as lazy as I am.:)

97.I wish I had a purpose in life.

98.I wish I had control over few "particular things".

99.I am surprised, I have come this far.

100. I guess if forced, I can make it 200.:) Later.

1 Comments:

At 4:16 AM, Blogger Misha said...

I quite enjoyed this list. You seem to have yourself pretty well figured out, as opposed to most others I know.

By the way, I may not always comment, but I do always enjoy reading your opinions. Keep up the great work! :)

 

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