Seven Things

Anks tagged me ... so here I am racking my brains!!! It wasn't as easy as I thought.

Seven Things you want to do before you die:

Visit Austrailia.
A cruise trip (well i am scared of sea voyage although :D)
Yell my lungs out at some Echo point.
Learn skiing.
Publish my poems (someday... sometime)
Plan and design my own house!!!
Read every book written! (I agree with Anks)
Understand people (in general. specially my friends) - This is tougher!!!

Seven Things you can do:

Waste time for hours together without even realising i am doing it
Convince people (most, not all)
Sing (specially when i am alone)
Listen to PJs the whole day! (Thanks to the people around me)
Talk, talk and talk (Some friends will vouch for this and...)
Be silent for hours and hours (Some friends will vouch for this too :D)
Read books any number of them as long as the whole day and whole night.

Seven Things you say most:

As if I care!
Oh pleeeeeeeasssse!!!
Sun to...
Achha ek baat batao...
Absolutely.
Pagal ho kya?
Wohi to!!!

Seven Things you can't do:

Stay awake the night before exam and study.
Paint (I wish I could :( )
Convince about something that i am not convinced about.
Dance. (Keep me away from that)
Watch more than 3 movies in a day (plssss gimme a break!!!)
Drive a car alone (I am learning)
Flatter people just to find my way out.

Seven Things that attract you to the opposite sex:

Sense of humour (humour not sarcasm)
Intelligence .
A sense of responsibility.
Patience
Respect for certain things.
Personality (includes dressing sense).
Ability to handle unexpected situations.

Seven Celebrity crushes:

Aamir Khan (used to be)
Priyanshu Chatterjee (used to be)
Sonu Nigam (used to be)
Saurav Ganguly (used to be)
Aditya (Son of Madhav Rao Scindia)
Jimmy Shergill (used to be)
SRK

Thats it!!!

[ps: my fancies, wishes and whims are subject to change very frequently. so whatever is written above although were very much true while i was writing them, they may not be so while u r reading :) . this does not apply to the information written below. i mean if u r tagged, u r.!!!]

Seven People you want to tag:

Kaps
Shubhra
Khushi
Priya
Ritu
Ruchika
Vagabond

Its a mad mad world !!!

Why would I in a time when everything is absolutely "normal" say somthing like that.

Well because firstly its not about now or then, but the times when I tire out my grey cells (whatever there r) in some (u may say worthless) brooding and 2ndly because thats how it is. So here I was reading a book and the introduction says that the moral of the story is we become what we pretend to be, so be careful what you pretend to be. (Is it so??? Some people say we are what we are.) I havent finished the book yet, so I dont know how the story ends up to prove that. And I will keep my views about the moral to myself till I finish the book. But in any case its better to take the writer's caution. (This book, btw for those who r wondering, is abt a person who lives and wrks for the Nazis and secretly as a spy for the Allieds. His secret unknown to his parents even his wife, whats more he gets caught, no not by the Nazis but by the Allieds and then is sent to a prison in Israel. Great isnt it?)

So back to the mad world. To the people who live amidst controversies and are themselves unaware of it and probably those who do that knowingly (like the character of the book). Unfortunately the book is not the only place where we find it. Now dont expect me to speak smthing on Politics. I know tht must be the first thing tht came to your mind. But I found them in lot of other places like the journalist who had a phobia for writing and the word for "fear of long words". (I wonder what those ppl will do if they come to know wat they r suffering from.) And ther r others like the communal riots, the bomb blasts just before Diwali, the river (if u r wondering how the river can be such a place, then try visiting one crowded ghat of some river. )
River is not just the only such aspect of nature. (I know, now u will say, "Oh no!!! not again) In any case wat I mean is anything that is blessing can be a curse. As human we are quite well aware of it from our first invention, fire to the atom bombs, plastics and wat not. Anything that is true can so well be a lie. And well I cannot leave out the people I come across in everyday life., in the newspaper, TV, and smtimes in real. This world is a stage so well said and we are all struggling to do our best in the roles that r given to us. (or may be pretending to be someone we r not)

Someone once said that my nature consists of every opposite characteristic. I agreed to some extent but I still wondered if it was true. And if so then what are the characteristics which were being pointed out. I dont remember if we ever talked about it or not. But then how does it matter. It afterall is a mad mad world and I am a part of. Sooner I accept, the better.

Now back to my book. Well may be I will write something abt it after I finish.