Me in 25 "Small" points....

This post is dedicated to Sudhanshu, who tagged me in one such note on facebook. I figured that writing this on my blog and linking people who need to read this is a fair compromise between not putting this on facebook for the world to see and not doing this at all.
So here goes.

1) I studied in a Gandian School for 13 years and a Leftist University for 3. The largest chunk of who I am can be sourced back to one of these.

2) I'm patriotic to a fault. Even though I know better, I can't tolerate criticism about my country. Unless its constructive criticism, which i'm welcome to.

3) I love dancing. Period.

4) As a child I've spent a large part of my time playing with barbies. If you ask me now, I will deny it tooth and nail.

5) I was diagnosed of mild dyslexia as a child. I consider it my biggest asset to date. I also cried the whole night after I watched Taare Zameen Par.

6) There was one phase in my life where I wanted to be a VJ or a talk show host. If nothing else, I wanted to appear on a talk show.

7) As an evolution of that, My 1st real ambition, since std 8th, was to be a Freelance Travel Journalist. I think at some level, I still hope to be that.

8) I Love Driving. I've wanted to drive ever since I could remember. My ideal car would be a Red Convertable. (Ferrari F50 - as a kid)

9) I still can't ride a bicycle, despite the numerous efforts multiple people have put in.

10) I enjoy drama(theatre, stage acting). I used to enjoy it even as a kid. I also considered being a script writer at some point.

11) I am a very detached person (despite how contrary it might seem). I know by now that I can never love a person the amount I love ideas. The sole exception to that being my parents.

12) I day dream a LOT. It almost borders on obsessive compulsive.

13) I have wanted to be a mother well before I considered the idea of being a wife. I wanted to adopt a girl child ever since I was in the 4th - 5th standard.

14) I know that I don't want to have biological children. I will adopt 2 childern (twins, 1 boy 1 girl - preferably). I will adopt somewhere between age 25-30 regardless of whether I am married or not.

15) I have recently figured that I am not a big city person. Although I love bombay to death, I would want my kids to grow up in a small town, or a hill station. Atleast their formative years.

16) I enjoy studying. I have always enjoyed studying because I have never studied for marks. To my mind, marks are only a by product of how well I internalize a subject. I have often internalized subjects a lot more after they were no longer a part of my syllabus

17) I love wildlife. I am not at all a domestic animals person. I feel very little sympaty for dogs or cats because they're far more pampared than the deer, the bear and the tiger.

18) I actually feel happy when leopards kill the tribals (or any such incidences). They asked for it! They had no business invading in the leopards house to begin with.

19) I am a true libran. The scales define me the best : because I am always trying to fight my internal battles about weighing out the pros and cons of all perspectives. Even though I come across as someone who tilts too much to 1 side - I'm likely to consider the opposite perspective with exactly that much passion before i decide.

20) I am a true libran in that I can be extremely lazy on one day and extremely active the next. I can also be extremely messy on some days, and obsessively clean on others.

21) One of my biggest flaw is that I tend to get overly passionate at times and in the process lose perspective. I have been trying very hard to find a balance over the years,

22) AIESEC was the most important thing in my life for the past 3 years. I will be lying to myself if I pretend otherwise. But it is true that at this point, I am happier out of it. Over the 3 years, I have also been very critical of it - not AIESEC Mumbai, just AIESEC as an organization

23) I love watching grey's anatomy. I am seriously crushing on Alex Karev. If someone like him was a part of my real life - I would be in love with him for sure.

24) I think I will make 1 movie. In Life- I will be part of 1 Movie making team. I'm not sure what kind of movie or what my role will be. But I get that feeling that I will be a part of one such team.

25) I used to have an imaginary twin brother named aniket while growing up. And I will be forever pissed at my parents that I had to grow up without a sibling.


Cool so now I have to tag:
So

1. Sudhanshu
2. Rahel
3. Alia
4. Alisha
   
5. Lavina
6. Aziza
7. Smitha
8. Karuna
9. Sneha
10. Siddhant
11. Jaish
12. Arvind
13. Ram
14. Udit
15. Manasi (Madness)
16. Dhaval
17. Advait (Ady Ash Chandy)
18. Ananya
19. Minal
20. Taha
21. Jem
22. Ankit
23. Saloni
24. Sagar
    
25. Rohan

Wow! Made it to 25!
I did this - You better do it too :)
How this works - is that you write this stuff about yourself, tag the person who tagged you and 24 other people. So wherever you write this stuff (if at all you do..) be sure to link me to it!