You Know You Grew Up in India in the 90s When…

(Disclaimer: This article was NOT written by me (but only edits here and there!) it was an email forward and I’ve no clue who wrote it!)

You Know You Grew Up in India in the 90s When…

1) You know the words to ‘In-pin-safety-pin’ and ‘akkad-bakkad’ by heart
2) Cricket is almost a religion for you, and you idolize at least one of Kapil Dev/Rahul Dravid/Sachin Tendulkar/Saurav Ganguly
3) You have read at least some Chacha Chaudhary or Tinkle comics
4) You’ve watched Shaktimaan on TV at least once in your life. And you can immediately recognize the character when you see him.
5) You have some ‘NRI’ relatives.
6) You couldn’t wait for it to be December so you could have the Toblerone chocolates your NRI relatives brought you 7) You watched Cartoon Network, and then the late night movies on TNT that came after Cartoon Network ended.
You watched corny dubbed versions of Small Wonder, Silver Spoon, and I Dream of Jeanie
9) You were THRILLED when McDonald’s opened in your neighborhood (or even eight kilometers away)
10) Your first burgers were at Wimpy’s or Nirula’s.
11) A visit to Pizza Hut used to mean a special treat
12) You have seen Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun at least 5 times each
13) You still remember the theme song to Hum Paanch.
14) You have played hours upon hour of running and catching, chu-chand , lagori, gilli-danda, ‘Doctor, doctor, help us!’, ‘Lock and key’
15) You have played ‘Oh ma goshi eh eh eh’ more times than you can remember. (And you still don’t know what it means!)
16) Dog ‘in’ the bone was your favorite co-ed game.
17) Much of your free time in school was spent playing UNO.
18) You collected trump cards of wrestlers, cricketers, and airplanes, and did not quite understand why your younger siblings were obsessed with Pokemon and the other Japanese trends that followed.
19) Your summer vacations were often synonymous with visiting your grandparents 20) Your parents, at some point, told you ‘Dark Room’ was a bad game to play. But you still loved playing it.
21) Bole mere lips, I love uncle Chips!
22) You know the song ‘Made in India’ by Alisha Chinai
23) You have seen many many many episodes of ‘Antakshri’ on Zee TV and know the only thing constant in the show is Annu Kapoor.
24) Many evenings have been spent watching little kids gyrate vulgarly on Boogie Woogie on Sony.
25) You were the coolest thing in class if you had a computer in your house while it was still the 90s.
26) You learnt LOGO and BASIC in school!
27) You couldn’t wait to start 4th standard so you could start writing with PENS instead of with pencils!
28) You often use terms and phrases like ‘two-say’, ‘same to you, back to you, with no returns’, and ‘shame shame, puppy shame, all the donkeys know your name.’
29) You most probably saw Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge at the cinema at least once. You also fantasized about singing songs in mustard fields as in the movie.
30) You have seen David Dhawan and Govinda movies and laughed at them. 31) You have said ‘haw’ or ‘yuck’ when you saw people kissing in English movies
31) You have seen Titanic at least 12 times.
32) You thought seeing English movies and speaking English made you the coolest thing ever.
33) You remember the Orissa cyclone, even though you didn’t know what a cyclone was.
34) You remember the Gujarat earthquake very clearly and could possibly tell everyone EXACTLY what you were doing when the earthquake occurred (yes, this happened in 2001, January 26, 2001, to be exact — but this group is about the things that Indian kids that GREW UP in the 90s remember and identify with).
35) Barbies for girls, and GI Joes for boys were the ultimate status symbols. You just wanted more more more and more. And how can I forget Hot Wheels, for both boys and girls?
36) You have worn weekender kids and wearhouse clothes while growing up. And you thought ‘imported’ clothes were definitely way better than ‘made in India’ clothes (never mind that a lot of clothes brought from overseas by NRI relatives were actually made in India, before ‘Made in China’ started appearing on EVERY existing thing)
37)You used to watch figure it out and legends of the hidden temple on nickelodean once you came back from school. 38) At some point or other, cool was your favourite, and therefore, most overused word.
39) Captain Planet was your first introduction to environmental consciousness.
40) You have tried to convince people around you to not burst crackers on Diwali, and then gone straight back home and burst them yourself.
41) You have had endless packets of Parle Gluco G biscuits, and of Brittania Little Hearts biscuits.
42) You loved licking off the cream from the centre of Bourbon biscuits.
43) There were no Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Puma- Bata and Liberty was the way to go for your sports shoes.
44) You have probably consumed more Frooti in your lifetime than there is oil in Iraq.
45) You watched Baywatch on Star World even though (or because) your parents said you shouldn’t watch it.
46) You bought packets of potato chips for the specific purpose of collecting Tazos. And you had Tazos depicting everyone from Confucius to Daffy Duck to Daffy Duck dressed as Confucius.
47) For the longest time, the Maruti 800, the Premier Padmini, THE Fiat, and THE Ambassador were the only cars you saw on the road, and the Contessa was cool because it was bigger.
48) You would literally jump up in excitement if you ever chanced upon an imported car (Oh my gosh, is that really a MERCEDES?)!
49) You spent a good part of 1998 drooling over the Hyundai Santro and the Daewoo Matiz , debating which one was better.
50) You used to Fuzen gum. You also chewed Big (big) Babool and/or Boom Boom Boomer chewing gum. They were bright pink and disgusting tasting, but you loved them for the temporary tattoos.
51) Talking of temporary tattoos, you sometimes had contests with your classmates about who had more tattoos on their arm, leg, knee, hand, forehead, wherever.
52) You thought Mario and Tetris were the coolest things ever invented, especially if you were a boy.
53) You knew that having the latest Hero or Atlas bicycle would make you the coolest kid on the block.
54) You can imitate Sushmita Sen’s winning gasp to perfection.
55) You have, at some point of time, worn GAP clothes (real or fake) like SRK in KKHH.
56) Seemingly senseless acronyms like SRK, DDLJ, KKHH actually make sense to you.. 57) You have at some point debated who was more beautiful- Aishwarya or Sushmita.
58) If you lived in Bangalore, The distant thought that there would be a forum mall one day would bring a twinkle to your eyes!
59) Baskin Robbins ice-cream was THE thing to have!
60) You know what Campa Cola is. And you also knew that Coca Cola was THE drink.
61) When you would watch WWF keenly every evening/afternoon and really think that Undertaker had 7 lives and he made an “actual” appearance in the Akshay Kumar- starrer Khiladiyon ka Khiladi.
62) When all backpacks (or ’schoolbags’) and water bottles and tiffin boxes had strange cartoon characters that were hybrid versions of seven or eight different characters, and you still bought them, because a green man wih a water pistol, boots, a jet-pack, Johnny bravo hair, a rajasthani mustache, gloves, and underwear (long johns) over his pants, called ‘Mr. X’ was OBVIOUSLY a status symbol.
63) You remember the Nirma tikia jingle.
64) You remember the Nirma girl.
65) You remember the ‘doodh doodh’ ad and also the ‘roz khao andey’ ads.
66) You grew up reading, if you read at all, some or all of Nancy Drews, Enid Blyton books, Hardy Boys, Babysitters Club, Animorphs, Goosebumps, Sweet Valley series, Judy Blumes, and Tintin, or Archie comics. Because naturally, reading foreign authors made you much cooler than reading Tinkle.
67) Towards the late 90s (1998-99) at least some of us started our Harry Potter obsessions!
68) You absolutely HAD to go to Essel World if you wnet to Mumbai! “Essel World mein rahoonga main, ghar nahin nahin jaaonga main!” (I never went but always dreamed of going there!)
69) You watched the Bournvita Quiz contest on TV pretty religiously. The smarter ones amongst you actually took part in it and had your entire school and your entire extended families watch you on it!
70) “Jungle jungle baat chali hai, pata chala hai. Chaddi pehen ke phool khila hai, phool khila!”
71) Maggi 2 Minute Noodles = ultimate snack (and tiffin, lunch, dinner)!
72) If you grew up in the early 90s, you recall the nation’s obsession with Mahabharata on TV
73) In the later 90s, you religiously followed Hip Hip Hooray on Zee. Maybe Just Mohabbat on Sony too.
74) You eagerly awaited Friendship Day, so you could give friendship bands to all your friends, and get bands from them in return. Then, of course, those with the most bands loved to show them off .
75) This list made you smile.

And I miss that age, it was sooo awesome!

The phenomenon of Chitting!

Q. Elaborate on the phenomenon of Chitting (full marks!)

Ans: Chitting is the process of chit (Small pieces of paper containing answers) making and taking into internal examination halls to score marks.
Chitting extensively occurs in VTU colleges (autonomous and BNM excluded) across Bangalore, only during internals. Never seen during externals. It is also very famous among final year and pre-final year students, not so popular with second years and literally non-existant among first year students.

Types of Chitters:
The not-so-bad chitters: These will copy only 1-2 answers from chits. They take chances and write down only important answers on the chits. They will score badly/know other answers if the questions don’t come from whatever has been written down.

The lazy chitter: Knows absolutely nothing and will micro* the whole chapter and take it with him.

The Nervy chitter:  Takes a whole BIG sheet, the size of the blue book, with full answers in it and copy down.

The Pre-Prepared chitter: Will have the question paper beforehand and prepares the chits at home. Why he does not study is being researched upon. But as of now, the question remains unanswered.

Example of chit use and how certain specimens get caught/ almost get caught and how they manage to escape.

Characters used: Chit lady (CL) , Chit lady’s friend (CLF), Islamia** (Issy), Dumbfounded juniors (DJ)

Act 1: Scene 1: CL(Gender: F)is crammed between 2 DJs. She’s a pro at this… She’s the first kind of chitter, the not-so-bad chitter, she would’ve studied, unfortunately she had more important things to do last night. She was watching an award function. Award functions come only once a year, internals come 6 times, she thought.

Enter Issy- The starer. He just stares at all the people who belong to the above mentioned gender. CL was obviously one among them and so was poor CLF!
So she was naturally the object of his actions. So poor thing was desperate to copy, else she would not do well. She was trying her level best. Sandwiched between two DJs wasn’t helping her. Every time she opened the chit to look, the DJ would give her shocked looks, she wasn’t in the mood to return them with dirty looks.

CLF on the other hand wasn’t as brave as CL. CLF was also being stared at. CLF and CL exchange glances. In the gentle eye contact, they are developing a fully evil strategy as to how to make Issy go away… They try all kinds of things, just then a huge mishap occurs.
CL’s chits fall off on her lap. 2 seconds and Issy would have realized. CLF immediately moves to catch Issy’s eye. She does it successfully. In the meanwhile, CL’s partner DJ stops writing to stare at CL’s chits with absolute shock. CL almost has a cardiac arrest thinking she will be caught any minute and the DJ will blab to Issy. In a split second, she picks up and arranges her chits in order and decides to get up and go.

CLF had already given up hope that she will be able to copy at all. She submits her answer books and gets out of class, to go to the other class where CLF’s Friend (Also CL’s friend!) was sitting- CLFF. CLF waves frantically to CLFF, who waves back irrespective of where she is! CLF almost got caught with another invigilator. After which she decides she has had enough drama for the day and resorts to loudly screaming out the answers that she wrote to the others (Much to the benefit of people Like CLFF who were sitting in class blankly without writing anything!)

CL comes out after a near death experience shouting curses at Issy! CLFF in the other class hears them, in the middle of her very bad test and is laughing to herself (The invigilator now, seriously suspects that she’s a retard!) decides to give up on her also bad (but chitted successfully) paper and also join her friends.

Then they go out and drop their chits into the chit-bin*** and walk off into the horizon. Happily ever after (Well, until the next internal atleast!)

GUIDE:

* Micro: Micro-xerox… People who have done/doing engineering in these parts extensively use it for the above mentioned purposes.

** Islamia aka Issy: cos he claims to be an IIT passout. We have strong proof that he’s from Islamia institute of technology (no offense to the students of this college!) and not from Indian institute of technology.

***Chit-bin: Is like a regular dustbin used to dispose off chits. All chits are thrown here, atleast in CL’s dept!

In conclusion:

People who use chits: Are the kinds who will first use chits, write blogs about it on the same day and use chits again the next day!
(STATUTORY WARNING: DO NOT TRY THESE STUNTS AT HOME, THEY ARE PERFORMED BY EXPERTS. IT CAN BE HARMFUL TO LIFE)

How I forgetted the englees!

This is the direct result of having extremely vernac profs who can’t talk english and still make wannabe attempts towards it, thus making our lives miserable. It would just be better if they spoke kannada, I mean, most of us understand Kannada and for those who don’t… It’s high time they learn!

We’ve a host of dialogues that our profs have used, got us extremely confused with and sent us into peels of laughter!

We’d a teacher who said “Are you visible?” What she meant of course was “Is it visible to you?” (NO I’m invisible, I’m being awarded the Nobel for this great invention! )

“Outernal” for “external” “Jaaa- for  Jaw” etc!

Articles are just out of the question, I believe all the people in the world have forgotten/ never learnt the difference between A, An and The…
Bring me a an textbook.
Where is the your book?
Why are you writing in the pencil?
(I SWEAR I’m NOT exaggerating)

The other common ones are, differences between as and has. And they use the wrong one more often than not!

Has you can see…
This part as to go there!

And  other “alien” mistakes like, “you has to putten it” and “you has to putted it!”

Past tenses and plurals have taken an entirely new meaning in the dictionary…

You see-ed the project?
Where is you going?
It affect the machines if you don’t use oil.

Sometimes teachers want to use specifically complicated words and end up using the wrong words instead…
Somebody wanted to say “Please use technical words in the paper” and ended up saying “technical words should not be nullified in the paper!!!” You’ve no idea how much we laughed!!!

There are also “These respects (for aspects) should be kept in the mind!”
Why are you going into the inner ( for finer) details?

But this one has to take the cake!!! A teacher once said instead of “Can you make out what I’m showing?”
“Can you see me making out?”
That was ultimate! Damn, how minor mistakes  like this can give such a dreadfully different meaning!

Really, if somebody wants to teach, they need to correct such tiny mistakes rather than get themselves embarrassed. I mean, how can they not figure. They have to do something about it, if they’re in the profession right? They don’t need to be literary geniuses but at least basic communication skills is necessary, isn’t it?!

I honestly after going throught this feel I’m forgetting english. My thought flow and usage of words and even sentence formation has become weaker. It’s not that I was ever great, it’s just going from bad to worse and I don’t like it.

Happy new year.

Another year passed by. And so quickly, I still remember how sad my last new year’s eve was. (I’ve a history of horrid new year’s eves.) And this one’s no better. I’m forced to stay home, and watch crap on tv/do boring stuff online and cut a happy happy cake that I don’t even like. Well I’m not supposed to complain cos I should keep my parents happy, anyway…

This entire year was full of highs and lows. Ups and downs. It was overall a very satisfying and a landmark year for me in some ways. I hope it was the same for you too!

And now I’m giving away the prestigious “Niveditha awards” (ahem ahem!!!) for the best and the worsts of the year! *clap clap clap!*

Best movie(s): Rock on! And A wednesday. I’ve not yet seen Ghajini.
Worst movie: U me aur hum (and probably Yuvvraaj and some Wafaa whose promos I saw, it was horrrrid!!!)

Best actor: Hrithik Roshan for Jodha Akbar
Worst actor: Himesh for Karzzzzzz (not that I saw the movie, and for guessable reasons! )

Best actress: Priyanka Chopra for Dostana and Fashion
Worst actress: Priyanka Chopra again for love story 2050, Drona and God tussi Great ho

Best Song: Khwaja… (Even better than all the songs of Rock on!)
Worst Song: Tan tanananana tandoori nights! (Hey, I’m not picking on Himesh, he’s genuinely awful!)

Best national moment of the year: The three Olympic Medals.
Worst national moment of the year: The Mumbai blasts.

Best Hero of the year: ALL those who laid their lives down for the country.
Best Villian of the year: ALL those goddamn politicians!

List of people who made the country proud:

Aravind Adiga (for the booker prize)
Abhinav Bindra (for the gold medal)
Vijender Kumar and Sushil Kumar (for their bronzes)
The entire Indian cricket team (for playing some outstanding cricket at the right times, it was a spirit lifter)
All the martyrs, against all the terror attacks.
A.R.Rahman (for making it to the goldenn globe nominations)
Parvathy Omanakuttan (for being the runner up at Miss.World)
Most importantly…A lot of nameless, faceless people who are toilig their lives for our country.

Worst people of the year.
As I said each and every politician for being insensitive and opportunistic at all the wrong times and making the country go from bad to worse. A lot of credit to Vilasrao Deshmukh, Arjun Singh, Shivraj Patil, A.R.Antulay, Deve Gowda, Amar Singh… et al!

Anyway… Have a great new year ahead!!! Hope it brings you all happiness and success! Have fun! See ya next year!

My All time favourite movies!

I’d been to Hyderabad for a week and have absolutely nothing to write about.

I had a fun time, saw a new city, explored all the shopping malls there and did random things and since I’m just So blocked I’m writing a jobless post on my top 20 movies ever in no particular order. These are movies I wouldn’t mind watching again and again.

 

1) Padosan (the old one!)
2) Golmaal
3) Kal Ho na Ho
4) Rang De Basanti
5) Lagaan
6) Andaaz apna apna
7) Forrest Gump
8 ) The Sound of Music
9) Pirates of the Caribbean (all 3)
10) Munnabhai 1 and 2
11) Amar Akbar Anthony
12) Cast away
13) Hum Apke Hain kaun
14) Dilwale Dulhaniya le Jayenge
15) My fair lady
16) Mary Poppins
17) Ganeshana Maduve (and the remaining ananth nag’s “ganesha” movies)
18 ) Barsaat
19) Maya Bazaar
20) Appula Apparao (and all those Rajendra Prasad movies!)

The movie marathon!

Come holidays and I am on a continuous movie watching spree, be it on DVD or in the theatre. Of late I’d stopped writing reviews cos all the movies I saw were awful, like Bhoothnath which was ok and Tashan which was super bad! And it just continues, another bunch of bad bollywood movies hit the theatre!

I saw Thoda Pyar Thoda magic: Rani Mukherjee minus the tears isn’t all that bad, very cute kids who have acted well. My problem with this movie was the lack of a storyline. It was vague and scattered, with a semi-nude bimbette Ameesha doing some vague things in between! Overall it was watchable once, the kids will like it. And I seriously think Rani and Saif should stop working together!

Rating:* 1/2
Grade:  B

And Jaane tu ya jaane na. It was the best movie I’ve seen of late, not that any good ones have released. I think this is the year of bad movies (by far!) It was so hyped that I expected more from it! It was hmmm, reasonable but a little far fetched in certain aspects. Like Naseeruddin Shah talking from the portrait or parents being called peachy and pumpkin. Talents like Rathna Pathak Shah, Jayant Kriplani, Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are wasted. I like Genilia and Imran, they are people with some amazing potential. And their friends, they’re fun, cute people! Overall, decent watch! You’re left with less choice cos this is one of the better movies of the season! And Rahman, lending amazing music!

Rating: ***
Grade: A

 

Kismat Connection has a very ill dressed, fat, aunty looking Vidya Balan (I used to like her before this movie!) and Shahid Kapoor caught up in a strange mess doing random things which are all set straight by some mumbo-jumbo that Juhi Chawla says. The problem with this movie is it’s awfully edited and it just goes on forever, with a horribly cliche ending! Special mention toVishal Malhotra, some really good acting and a neat comic timing.

Rating: * 1/2
Grade: B

Legend: * awful! who even thought of making the movie!
** all right. watchable but you can still do better by staying at home.
*** decent. watch it for pure entertainment.
**** good. worth the 150 bucks.
***** we have a winner here. absolute must watch

Legend:
O- Outstanding
V- Very Good
E-Exceeds Expectations
A- Average
B-Bad
T-Troll!

P.S: I also saw Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Maara and Babel on DVD. The former being just brilliant! And the latter being dreadful. Watch Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Maara on DVD if you find it. It’s a movie that any collector should add to his collection!

The introspection tag

Lively tagged me, and I love doing tags… so here goes!

I don’t want to tag anybody, if you wish to do it you may certainly pick it up. It’s a nice tag to do

I am: pure at heart. 

I think: unnecessarily.
I know: I want to get to the top.
I want: happiness for ever!
I have: a great life!

I wish: I were a witch

I hate: way too many things to pen down!

I miss: my school life (At Baldwin Girls’ High School)

I fear: I’ll be a failure.
I feel: I lack focus.
I hear: nature’s delightful sounds.
I smell: food, delicious food
I crave: Italian food (subject to mood change!)
I search: for the truth.
I wonder: why people aren’t happy…
I regret: nothing.
I love: the special people in my life.
I ache: at the sight of poverty.
I care: for the poor and needy.
I am not: a wannabe.
I believe: I can do anything that I set my mind to.
I dance: when nobody’s watching!
I sing: all the time!
I cry : when I’m angry!
I don’t always : abide by the rules.
I fight : for what I believe in.
I write: as a passion.
I win: when I put in my efforts.
I lose: When I give up hope
I never: disrespect anybody’s opinions
I always: stick to my principles.
I confuse: when I can’t convince.

I listen: to other people’s opinions.

I can usually be found: with a smile on my face!
I am scared: I will lose my near and dear.
I need: love.
I am happy about: everything about my life.

A summary of the IPL

Everybody probably saw the nail biting match between the Rajasthan Royals and the Chennai Super Kings. And really… Everybody was hooked on to the IPL thing, it was like the new fad!

I think IPL revolutionised county cricket in India. I’m not a person who can comment too much on the technical aspects of cricket, but even for a person who’s rather an ignoramus, you will know that this form of cricket (i.e twenty-twenty) is entirely new.

Well first of all the strategy is different, in test cricket, it’s all about the wickets. In a one day game it’s a mixture of how a team manages to score runs with enough number of wickets in hand. But in T-20 it’s just about the scoring, the priority to the wickets take a back seat.

Though I think cricket in India is more like a religion and that was one thing that brought the entire nation together, I think that this was pretty well accepted by the Indians who were divided by cities! Overall, It was not only good for the players, but I think it also promoted international harmony.

But on the whole, I think it is really entertaining, it’s fast paced and the match is usually not over till the very last ball is bowled. So it’s doing a very large thing to boost up the TRPs of the TV channels.

IPL has been a big success, everybody preferred it to boring saas-bahu sagas! (It’s more than obvious!) And with the amount of money that it has spun, whoa! The highest earners being people like Vijay Mallya, ShahRukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Anil Ambani and of course cricketers like Dhoni and etc… And let’s not forget the cute little pug which kept appearing on screen now and again! Well I think Vodafone had their share of the cash too!

And when you talk of bollywood, the word “glamour” is never far behind. The glam quotient of IPL was very high with people likeKatrina Kaif, Preity Zinta, SRK, Arjun Rampal kept showing their faces now and then. And of course who can forget the Cheerleaders! I think majority of the people were more interested in them that the cricket! And to add to the entertainment, there were the controversies, and quite a lot of them too… Be it the Charu Sharma- Vijay Mallya tiff or the Shane Warne-Saurav Ganguly tiff or the major cheerleader controversy they all made it to the headlines! But I think the fight that took the cake was the Bhajji-Sreesanth fight! That not only made it to headlines but stayed there for pretty long too!

With the most expensive trophy and a cash prize of 4.8 crores being away to the winning team, the IPLs curtains closed down. I hope we are all entertained with this masala next year too!

The about me Tag

I read this tag on Lively’s blog and decided to pick it up and do it cos well… I’ve never done a tag!
Besides I think this a better way of passing time than studying for internals!
-Ten things you wish you could say to people right now (don’t take names)
1. Why do I have to listen to and obey whatever you say?
2. Thanks for being there.
3. Don’t stress me out, I know what I’m doing.
4. I’m not just a giggly bimbette teenager who has Paris Hilton for a role model.
5. My face is here!!! (Don’t you girls feel like saying that way too often?!)
6. Keep out of my business.
7. Practice what you preach.
8. I don’t want to live in your shadow.
9. I am what I am, accept me the way I am, or you can always get out of my life!
10. I will stick up for what I believe, inspite of what you say.

Nine things about yourself:
1. I have an obsessive compulsive disorder, about everything
2. My biggest shortcoming is, that I lack focus.
3. I have a fetish for perfumes.
4. I’m observant, have an eye for detail and tend to remember vague details!
5. When I’m alone, I love to dance!
6. I’m acrophobic, scared of heights.
7. I love children and dogs.
8. I think and analyse way too much.
9. I am a complete organisation and neat freak, I can be very finicky about most things, which can irritate people.

Eight ways to win your heart
1. Have etiquette, class and culture.
2. Enjoy books and music.
3.Brains are a complete necessity.
4. Have an innocent, radiant smile, that makes anyone looking at you happy!
5. Be able to cope up with my extreme whimsical behaviour.
6. Be compassionate, kind and helpful.
7. Be yourself.
8. Love me like nobody does!

Seven things that cross your mind a lot
1. RESULTS!
2. Am I betraying my parents?
3. Am I doing the right thing?
4. What’s the purpose of me doing this?
5. How do I improve myself…
6. Am I doing justice to myself?
7. Why is the world like this?

Six things you wish you never did
1. I wish I never wrote a diary.
2. Not prepared well enough for an exam.
3. Did anything to hurt my parents.
4. Cry in front of the entire family over small little issues.
5. Try to stop unethical things from happening.
6. Give a piece of my mind to people when it was required.

Five Turn offs:
1. Body odor
2. Stupidity
3. Bad english
4. Self centred, useless conversation.
5. Wannabes

Four turn on’s
1. People who are smart.
2. Chirpiness/Livelyness.
3. Good Smell.
4. A good voice!

Three things you want to do before you die
(Make that 300!)
1. Travel the world over
2. Convince my parents that I’m a good daughter
3. Experience everything that is worth it!

Two smileys that describe you:

One confession:
I hate to share my chocolates with anyone!

I tag Rashmi, Prarthana, Suresh and anyone else who wants to do it!

JOHN ABRAHAM I LOVE YOU!

I was informed by Rashmi that her mum (who works for a PR agency) could get us to go to a press conference where John Abraham was coming to promote his movie GOAL, organised by fun cinemas in sigma mall.

Rashmi, Anusha and I were all excited and like those bunch of giggly girls, that he’s always surrounded by! We’d cleverly planned a strategy of how we will obtain 3 autographs and a photograph of us with him (which we didnt get!)

And when we saw him, all else was forgotten cos he was just THE most good looking I’ve ever seen. Trust me when I say I’m not exaggerating because there is no way you can find a guy as good looking as him walking on the roads! In a crowd of a thousand guys, the first thing you will notice is him… he’s got that presence. That’s precisely the reason why he is JOHN ABRAHAM!

When he was walking in, Rashmi asked him for a photo and he very sweetly touched her cheek and said “A little later,sweety!”

The thing that really comes across about him is his down to earth nature, that humility that he spoke with. The patience he had while dealing with the crowd (which wasnt too much cos it wasnt a public press conference)He doesnt have the “starry” arrogance.

And later when Anusha went and asked him for an autograph, his bodyguard manhandled her… So John asked him not to do that and called her and put his hand around her shoulder and sweetly signed one autograph for her!

We later figured he’d left the building and we ran down 5 floors just to see him off! We were still hopeful of pictures with him. He was getting into his car and I ran upto him and said “sir, one picture please!” to which he replied “not today my sweetheart, I’ve got a flight to catch” and picked up my left hand and kissed my forearm! In an impulse I pulled his hand and kissed it too and caught the cutest smile on his face! (AH!!!!!) I was ecstatic with glee… I totally forgot that people were around and was jumping around like a maniac! hellooo, it’s not everyday that you get kissed by JOHN ABRAHAM!!!!

I could probably be counted as one of the most memorable moments on my life!!! I wasnt really that big a fan of his that I am now! He’s just simply superb!

LOVE YOU JOHN!!!!!

P.S: I’d like to thank Rashmi’s mum. and Rashmi for this!!!

And if you dont believe me… hmmm, not much to say to you, I dont think I’ll be able to cook up such a big story (I’m not that talented!)