I've been Tagged !

I’ve been tagged by fellow blogger Abhi . And bloggers reply in kind…and without much further ado, here I go.

1.Pick out a scar you have, and explain how you got it:

This scar is in the direct line of sight in front of me as I fumble over my keyboard (No touch typist here :( ). On my left forearm – a patch about the size of a visiting card and looking like charred skin is THE Scar. Quite unassuming as far as personalities of scars go.

I am a scourge of the road. This scar is my reminder of one of my earlier misadventures. A fateful evening; 8.30 p.m I am returning from Nedumangad via Peroorkada. Exact location I don’t remember, but it is nearer to one of the s-curves en route Vattapaara. I was rather proud of my 3-month-old Honda. From my faint recollection (we don’t remember the details of our failures, do we?) I overtook a KSRTC bus at the start of the s-curve at about 60 kmph , went into the lower part of the s-curve without cutting the speed. To negotiate the turn, I slightly tilted the bike and feeling confident because no vehicle came in opposite direction, I still didn’t cut the speed (Silly ASS!). I went on dipping the angle and the bike was at an angle of 60 degrees from the road. Then ……it all happened in about 50 milliseconds. The rear tire unable to take the pressure, gave way. The vehicle swerved badly – I hit the front brakes – the bike stalled and it started skidding along the road. All I remember are the initial thud and the fury of the roaring engine. Then I was getting dragged along the gravel along some 10-15 meters. I was in no position to get up by myself and it was a very dark area (No street lights). A few very kind bystanders / locals helped me up but for some reason I refused to let go of my bike and then they forced me to do so. :) My arm was shaking badly and I knew this was really bad ….I had injured myself. My thought was to get home…somehow!

The KSRTC bus passed me by a few seconds later when the bike and myself had been moved from the middle of the road, with all the passengers looking on at this pandemonium. You will never learn how earnestly I loved God that moment….a difference of a few seconds and Google would have been spared of these many bytes. ;)

There were many comments from onlookers like “ Njyangalkku ith thanne pani – ennum kure ennam ivide veezhum …(This is a major trouble for us – there are daily accidents here) “. One comment stands out in my memory – an elderly man gave this gem – “ Speed theere kurangyu poyi…athaanu veenathu (the speed was too low, that’s why you fell “. Inspite of feeling sure that my arm was in flames I smiled. In about two minutes I was up again, I took my bike, started it (it started in one kick) and started for home. I stopped at the next street light and raised my sleeve or what was left of it…it made me sick. It was swollen; there was no skin and blood dripping down the sleeve and the shirt. Looking back now, I seriously wonder how I drove about 12 kilometers till home with that arm. And that is the story of my scar.

Since then the two of us have done 5000 kilometers together without event, clocked a top speed of 110 kmph and been happily biking ever after.

2.What does your phone look like?

Hmm…interesting question. My current phone is a Nokia 2100 and it looks like something the cat has brought in ….. ( I know its rather unfair of me to tell that of a phone that my served my father well for 3 years….but its God’s fault – giving me a rather nasty aesthetic sense and a MotoRazr v3i which I used for 3 months)

3.What is on the walls of your bedroom?

A calendar, a poster of a very nice painting of child lord Krishna, a mirror, a coat hanger. Hmmm…I guess I’ll never earn my ration rice as an Interior designer :)

4.What is your current desktop picture?

My first system has a blank desktop, no wallpaper (A P-II system tweaked for speed)

My Second system has Harley Davidson Cruiser Wallpaper (Someday I want to buy a cruiser and one of these days I will…)

5. Do you believe in gay marriage?

No, I don’t. Gays are people who think, feel and act differently and they yearn to be free from social hassles. So why force an institution like marriage on them? If gay people want to live together, let them be.

6.What do you want more than anything right now?

Ho….difficult question . I have 7 backpapers (doing Btech Degree major in Electronics). I want to clear all of them and get my bachelor’s degree in first class.

7. What time were you born?

A Friday morning, long long time ago. And as some of my friends mention, God must have winked for a moment. :)

8.Are your parents still together?

Yes. And they are a great inspiration to me – the way they have together tolerated ME for all these years. Incredible!

9.Last person who made you cry?

It was about 1 year ago when I was in Chennai I had seen a really old man (at least 75-80 years) working as a waiter in a restaurant outside my workplace. I sat there sipping my tea and looking at him slowly going along his work. It was a very sad moment. I didn’t cry, but felt like I am empty inside. I never went to that restaurant again. :(

10. What is your favourite perfume / cologne?

All fragrances of Axe. I choose a different one each time I buy . Current choice – Click.

11.What kinds of hair/eye color do you like in the opposite sex?

I like girls with long or slightly curly, black hair (I don’t approve other colours).

I’ve had fascination for people with green-colour-eyes. But there’s something mysterious about those eyes that I am not comfortable with. So I guess I would approve black/ brown eye colour.

12.What are you listening to?

Enya – Braveheart Theme.

13.Do you get scared of the dark?

No. When I was young I used to be scared of being alone. I’ve learnt to appreciate solitude since then.

14.Do you like painkillers?

No. And I don’t like pain as well.

15.Are you too shy to ask someone out?

I am not now. (Perhaps because I don’t have anyone to do that now). I once had, and I was shy. In those circumstances she would have refused anyway. :(

16.If you could eat anything right now, what would it be?

I don’t want anything to eat right now. But I would really appreciate some pure fruit juice now. On afterthought, some tapioca chips wouldn’t be a rather bad idea either.

17.Who was the last person that made you mad?

A classmate of mine. For believing that closing your eyes creates darkness and rather stubbornly insisting that all the rest of us believe the same.

18.Who was the last person who made you smile?

A friend of mine who in her own naïve way got me philosophizing again during conversation.

I tag Akhil Sasidharan , Lekshmi C ,Don and Freebird.