Shruti's questionnaire!!!! yay!!!

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

I have a tiny oval shaped below the eyebrow next to my right eye. I slipped and fell in the bathroom the first time I tried to bathe by myself when I was about 4 or 5... And I am pretty sure I was dancing to " Theeradha vilayattu pillai" or some such thing during my first attempt to bathe alone... Obviously I needed my nanny and I don't mind having one now either... Doing laundry SUCKS!
2. What is on the walls in your room?

A bedsheet is pinned across one of the walls so that the room doesn't look completely like a mental asylum cell... A dancing ganesh sticker gifted by Rémy (I myself didn't bring any remembrance of even a single God from our Pantheon) Photos from back home and a bunch of super photos shot with a brilliant slr, full aperture, featuring ME ( feeds my narcissism ) A calendar to score out the days as I wait to get out of this village, A metro map of Paris framed against an orange pillow cover!!! Drawings my school children made for me... A metro ticket from my first day in Paris...

3. What does your phone look like?

Errr its a sony ericson walkman phone...

4. What music do you listen to?
Can't go naming genres... musically challenged... Jaques Brell and his witty snazy songs I dig!

5. What is your current desktop picture?

A scene from one of my plays "The curse of Urvashi" I am princess Uthara and am confronting/accusing Arjuna who is walking away from our "relationship"

6. What do you want more than anything right now?
To get out of Romorantin, live in Paris before I come back home... I really really really REALLY want this...

7. Do you believe in gay marriage?
Hey yes!!!! Its just love, man!

8. What time were you born?
A little past 7 in the morning :D

9. Are your parents still together?

My dad is dead so....

10. What are you listening to?
An empty silent corridor.... Otherwise I was listening to Jaques Brell, Elvis Presely, Budha Bar and Maati kahé!!! haha!!!

11. Do you get scared of the dark?
Not really maybe I am concerned about tripping over something and breaking my face but thats all...

12. The last person to make you cry?

Hmmm Me I guess... did badly in an exam but was glad to cry after some bloody 4 months!! yay!!!

13. What is your favourite perfume/cologne?

Aiyo I like bath and body works chick peas scented body spray!!!! hahha

14. What kind of hair/eye colour do you like on the opposite sex?

Any!

15. Do you like pain-killers?

No!!! But chocolate yessssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!! :D Kinder bueno!!!!!

16. Are you too shy to ask someone out?

hmmm Not shy per say but the one time I asked someone out it was not really fun so maybe now yes....

17. Fave pizza topping?
Mushrooms and sun dried tomatoes!!!!

18. If you could eat anything right now, what would it

Sambhar sadam and maanga thokku

19. Who was the last person you made mad?

My friend Niranjani.... I sent her too many of my bollywood numbers in TEXT medium ...scraps on Orkut actually

20. Is anyone in love with you?

Can I be shy now????? :D

Refining the art of doing nothing!!!

Do you work long hours? Do you have so much to do that you never find the time to do it all? Are you convinced you are doing too many things at the same time? If you are telling yourself you need a break and you wish that you could just do nothing, well, be CAREFUL what you wish for because it might just come true.
Contrary to popular opinion, doing nothing, is NOT an easy job. It takes a lot of effort and time and risks being painstaking. Its an art. All you are allowed to do is nothing. Even the occasional activities to get away from nothingness become less alluring. Its a state of existence that leaves you alone with yourself, your thoughts and your deepest darkest desires. So it is full of surprises too ( provided you are slightly more interesting than the average television show). It is the perfect platform to start with obsessive compulsive disorders, impulsive tendencies and really bad eating habits. Coupled with sleeping too much or too little, you are all set for becoming the curiously wise character on the sit com of your choice. Try spending a Sunday without ever stepping out of the house or talking to anyone with not more than 2 sentences, no texting or telephoning either and to still be humane, you of course have internet and can rejoice in reading random blogs!!!
Its bizarre how even your favorite author cannot make you read, how easy it is to think that staring at the ceiling, stretched out on your back can some how kill time faster!!!
To resist this dark side teeming with regression something that an easily amused friend of mine said....look at the sun, the moon and the stars and tell yourselves that your friends are looking at the same thing....
Statutory warning: Doing nothing can be extremely dangerous to physical and mental health, to be consumed in moderation.