1. Thanks to Francis, I'm writing this and thanks to Waseem I'm writing this about people. Let me start with the boys themselves. Francis and Waseem are two boys who are brilliant in their own ways. They are sure to become famous in the future.
2. I feel I'm the richest person in this planet for I feel I have got everything I want with my family and friends. I do think some of my friends are part of my family, the way family is defined. I dont have any major monetary aspirations as I'm already filthy rich.
3. Even though it's cliched and said in a million award acceptance speeches, I would like to thank my parents who created and crafted me.
4. I'm extremely curious about new things, technology, stories, movies, books and people.
5. When I was young I always felt insecure about my future. I was afraid that I might become a beggar on the street. But I had a back-up plan - of becoming a kindergarten teacher. I thought - C'mon how hard is it going to be to teach ABC... But after having a child, I cant imagine handling two kids a time.
6. Even though information is becoming obsolete with google.com I luvvvvvve information(current and future predictions). And I love to share information with people.
7. To an extent, I know how a man thinks because I'm one. I dont want to spend my time thinking how women think. Instead I would like to spend that time loving them.
8. I feel most of us(including me) are self obsessed most of the time. This is where I like Waseem because he decided to write 25 things about other people.
9. I feel I'm hugely indebted to my parents, teachers, friends, ex-boss and current boss for they have been my steps to move up every single day.
10. I feel life is too short. Too short it might get over any second. After death, it's nothing. It's just blank screen. Pitch darkness. It's more nothing than nothing itself. Death of my near and dear ones(both family and friends) have made me weak and strong at the same time.
11. To continue the previous point - I think most of us dont take life too seriously. By saying 'seriously' I dont mean it literally. I dont think we take care of ourselves enough to take care of others. I dont think we take care of our health so that we can have fun and spend more time with the ones we love.
12. I think drinking and smoking is a self-imposed momentary lapse of common sense. Just because every 9 out of 10 people drink and smoke, it cannot become an ok thing to do.
13. Music, Movies and Books help me to love life more...love people more.
14. To continue point#2&4 I'm curious about people. People whom we bump into by fate and time. As I already said I'm not monetarily inspired. But I would like to earn as many good people as I can. Here too I'm not greedy for more people... just more time with the people whom I like. I'm tempted to mention their names but I have decided not to. People who mean a lot to me know at heart I love them and they love me. To put it in simple words, good people and their goodness is the only currency I can earn.
15 I love fate as much as I hate it.
16 I'm in touch with all my friends for the last 25 years.
17. I love torrents. Thanks to Amritha who introduced me to it.
18. I collect all my letters, cards, doodles and I'm scared that they might get washed away by a Tsunami. Sometimes, I'm paranoid and hassled about stupid things like this.
19. I believe I can get anything if I believe I can. And I will stop trying..i will give up only on the day I die... Because after my death, it doesnt matter whether I got it or not. But I also believe I'll get it before I die. :-)
20. I'm again tempted to mention names - names of people whom I love. I have again decided not to as I dont want to disappoint the people I dont mention.
21. I didnt want to be a single child. I always wanted a sister as a kid. But now Im lucky to get sisterhood love(more than i ever wanted) from people whom I dont want to mention here. (I like personal things to be personal - not on facebook)
22. The previous point reminded me of one more thing. I feel Im lucky. Especially with people whom I've been with through my life.
23. I feel people are more important than work and education. But ironically we need both to take care of the people whom we love.
24. I feel every happy moment is important and has to be stored, rewound, paused and played.
25. I have not said so many things here as I would like to discuss it only offline.
From Francis Thomas' Notes - This is how it works: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person / people who tagged you. If you’re tagged, it's because the person who tagged you wants to know more about you.
Even school time (from 8am to 2pm) is just one block of time for her which has a beginning and an end with a lunch interval in between. So if it’s the sixth period and class is about to get over in 15 minutes, she really doesn’t know. To her, lots of periods are over. So chances are this will also get over. But she doesn’t know it is going to get over soon. She splits day and night with light. So if it’s cloudy in the morning, it takes some time for her to believe that it’s morning. (Or I guess she just goes with the flow as we push her to school). She has her classic ‘five more minutes please’. It’s different from our ‘5 more minutes’ that we usually say when we wake up. If she says I want to watch TV for 5 more minutes, it could be one more hour or two more hours depending on the mood she is in. On the whole she is not so much bothered about time. Her time is divided into ‘fun with friends’ time, study time, TV time and outdoor time. Time is not yet so precious to her. While other things are – like her Mother, Father, cousins, friends, toys and her dress(in that order:-))
