I've been tagged..
.. So I have to now go on and write up an introspective piece called 'My Fifty Firsts to Familiarity'. Feel free to go ahead and write your own after reading these:
1) I'm never quite sure about most things.
2) But I don't really care either.. well, usually, anyways.
3) I don't like people whom I think are undeserving (that's almost everyone).
4) I dislike people who are unfair or rude. I think they're the aesthetic eqivalents of the hostels 12 and 13. Eyesores.
5) I hate people who are unfair or rude towards those I love. I'd gleefully dance on their graves if such an opportunity happened to present itself.
6) I feel life is unfair in the short run. People would have me believe that it is however fair, given a long enough timescale.
7) I feel the required timescale is too long.
8) I'm extremely impatient.
9) I love music.
10) I hate noise.
11) I hate crowds too, for that matter. Partly because they tend to make too much noise.
12) I don't get jazz. I really don't.
13) I don't get art either. I've tried, but I just don't.
14) I think religion's a powerful concept, with infinite power to do good.
15) Unfortunately it's been used too often for just the opposite for me to be entirely comfortable with it.
16) I really hope God exists.
17) If he/she does, I'd like to pick a few bones with him/her, given the opportunity.
18) I think doctors are worse than useless.
19) I think engineering can be an artform unto itself.
20) I'll never stop loving my parents and my oye.
21) I really don't think that life has any purpose any greater than having fun while you're at it.
22) I lean slightly to the left.
23) I dislike government employees. They're too secure in their jobs to even pretend to be anything but complacent.
24) I think capitalism and communism have a good deal to learn from each other. That'd be a good system of governance.
25) People are stupid. Might as well make some money off them.
26) I like doing nothing.
27) But it can get boring after a while.
28) I don't particularly like to dress up.
29) Bodies of water any larger than a swimming pool are inherently evil.
30) I'm not all that in touch with my Indian heritage. In fact I think calling it my heritage is a bit strong. Perhaps more of a background check.
31) I like comedy.
32) In general I don't like Bollywood movies, because usually they have nothing much to offer.
33) I think I'm overcritical.
34) Old hindi movies, in general, rock.
35) I might just be too cynical for my own good.
36) I've never had a religious experience.
37) I've had many medical ones.
38) Surprisingly I'm still alive (see 18).
39) I'd like nothing more than to make a ton of cash early, and then use it to make even more.
40) I think I'm capable of doing so.
41) I prefer to start off being indifferent to people when I meet them.
42) Unfortunately, I form opinions very fast. Usually lasting ones.
43) I really think that the best punishment for rapists should be rape.
44) Not so for murderers. They should be tortured a bit first.
45) I keep hoping that there's a secret police that doesn't bother with the legal process.
46) I'd love to be its head.
47) I might just be very evil.
48) Or the nicest person ever.
49) I will, however, never be a vegetarian painter.
50) Despite all this, I have great faith in the human spirit.
1) I'm never quite sure about most things.
2) But I don't really care either.. well, usually, anyways.
3) I don't like people whom I think are undeserving (that's almost everyone).
4) I dislike people who are unfair or rude. I think they're the aesthetic eqivalents of the hostels 12 and 13. Eyesores.
5) I hate people who are unfair or rude towards those I love. I'd gleefully dance on their graves if such an opportunity happened to present itself.
6) I feel life is unfair in the short run. People would have me believe that it is however fair, given a long enough timescale.
7) I feel the required timescale is too long.
8) I'm extremely impatient.
9) I love music.
10) I hate noise.
11) I hate crowds too, for that matter. Partly because they tend to make too much noise.
12) I don't get jazz. I really don't.
13) I don't get art either. I've tried, but I just don't.
14) I think religion's a powerful concept, with infinite power to do good.
15) Unfortunately it's been used too often for just the opposite for me to be entirely comfortable with it.
16) I really hope God exists.
17) If he/she does, I'd like to pick a few bones with him/her, given the opportunity.
18) I think doctors are worse than useless.
19) I think engineering can be an artform unto itself.
20) I'll never stop loving my parents and my oye.
21) I really don't think that life has any purpose any greater than having fun while you're at it.
22) I lean slightly to the left.
23) I dislike government employees. They're too secure in their jobs to even pretend to be anything but complacent.
24) I think capitalism and communism have a good deal to learn from each other. That'd be a good system of governance.
25) People are stupid. Might as well make some money off them.
26) I like doing nothing.
27) But it can get boring after a while.
28) I don't particularly like to dress up.
29) Bodies of water any larger than a swimming pool are inherently evil.
30) I'm not all that in touch with my Indian heritage. In fact I think calling it my heritage is a bit strong. Perhaps more of a background check.
31) I like comedy.
32) In general I don't like Bollywood movies, because usually they have nothing much to offer.
33) I think I'm overcritical.
34) Old hindi movies, in general, rock.
35) I might just be too cynical for my own good.
36) I've never had a religious experience.
37) I've had many medical ones.
38) Surprisingly I'm still alive (see 18).
39) I'd like nothing more than to make a ton of cash early, and then use it to make even more.
40) I think I'm capable of doing so.
41) I prefer to start off being indifferent to people when I meet them.
42) Unfortunately, I form opinions very fast. Usually lasting ones.
43) I really think that the best punishment for rapists should be rape.
44) Not so for murderers. They should be tortured a bit first.
45) I keep hoping that there's a secret police that doesn't bother with the legal process.
46) I'd love to be its head.
47) I might just be very evil.
48) Or the nicest person ever.
49) I will, however, never be a vegetarian painter.
50) Despite all this, I have great faith in the human spirit.
posted by Mandel's Broth at 10:32
16 Comments:
You say you don't like art...but comedy is an art, especially the sort of stuff you (and I) like. Monty Python is like comedy's Theatre of the Absurd. We could get all arty-farty about it, even.
By the way, considering all your dislikes, point #50 is almost... poignant. (Is it the SF soul?)
fydmcqu: Tintin-style Comic book villain of French, Romanian and Scottish descent, who's special power was a never-ending supply of fish, which he pulled out of a trenchcoat pocket.
interesting read, and i'm scared of saying any more for fear of being labelled 'trying to be sarcy' again :P
Only two comments? This saddens me :P Anyways, sorry for not having replied earlier, just haven't found myself sitting at a comp for long enough during the past few days.
Oyhan: Let me reiterate. -Most- art, I don't get. And yes, I think it's the SF soul too :P
Kray: Danke, danke. Be as sarcastic as you want, this is my blog, not hers :D
Word verification:
An excerpt from "A Complete History of Post-modernism" by I.B. Maria:
.. there finally came a turning point where people began to feel that post-modernist literature was getting somewhat out of hand. The word that started this was zokxpqgj, from the novella "Peel slowly and pee" by A.L. Tubos, which meant "to slowly dust ash from a keyboard using a banana peel and Hiter's long lost semen samples".
Genius.
Is I.B Maria related to the celebrated Ferdinand Bloquehead-Maria?
jrkyezml: easy liquid beef jerky, measured im millilitres
Yezz indeedy! Ishmara Bloquehead Maria :D What's up?
Word Verification: dzsbvb: The sound of a dung beetle sinking into a huge pile of elephant dung.
Oy...what's up with you?
kyvegkr: kevlar-based vegetable substitute.
Oy, nothing much, really. You're the one who keeps blipping in and out of everyone's social radars these days, it would seem. Faulty computer, perhaps?
Faulty computer it was...we had to re-install windows on this 8 year old dinosaur.
So...
'Ssup, ma nigga? (You've seen Training Day?)
yosogdlw: sms lingo for "you so goddamn low!"
Allo people.
Oyhan: nothing much really. The usual mostly. Getting bored.
Fundooz: T'is me, SoD, Avinav-man.
Me coming to Bombay in about 2 weeks I think. Boredom khallaas!
(Er...can I crash in your room?)
vejvav: Wow, you're a vegetarian?
(pronounced, by Maharashrians, "wedge-wow".)
Hey, brilliant. How come, though? Also, feel free to crash in my room. No issues there :P
visknuc: Wish nook. How you wish for a secret nook.
Awesome wv, by the way.
Apparently one should do the visa thing in the place where one has resided for the last 6 months. Plus Bombay has more free dates!
So alert Pandu Bhai and reserve a chair at StaffC...I shall be there soon, inshallah!
Hey flo, so what date have you gotten? And how long are you going to come for? Willing to come on the 7th? Vanitha's going to cook dinner (as her birthday treat). I hear there's going to be a lot of good food there.
Art being defined as everything society accepts it to be. And since engineering isn't deemed to be art by society, I'm in the clear. Alles klar?
And of course, who needs to be consistent eh?
Ars Gratia Artis.
dude, you should have come to manali with me. crazy.
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