Thx to Gypsy, have been tagged (arrrghhh, not in the mood for one of these right now) but will be a sport (see what a nice person I am?) & go ahead with it:
(20) Once during sports day in my lower secondary school I received enough points to get first place trophy. The school had called my dad to hand it over to me. I was standing on the top center of the tiered platform & I must have kinda lost my balance (I was always a hyper lil thingie) and ended up dropping the trophy right as my father handed it over to me. Ok, so these things happen. What was really naughty of me though is that I immediately yelled “DAD!!!” & nicely passed the buck to my poor innocent father!
(19) Know the NATO phonetic alphabet completely by heart. Had a friend and we’d write letters to each other using this. Yes, OK, I was quite bekaar then.
(18) My favorite of all fruits is the Apple. Next are Bananas. Think someone may have tried to teach me A is for Apple, B is for Bananas and never got down to anything else. No, I do not like Custard apples.
(17) Once when I was little & at a birthday party, I was a bit bored, so to amuse myself I found a pair of scissors and began to cut the dress of a girl who was sitting in front of me. Yes, my mum spanked the living daylights out of me.
(16) My cousin David & I used to mimic acrobats when we were little… we called ourselves the “Super Stars”.
(15) I saw the cut head of a dog in a plastic bag once when walking home from school. I later found out that it was done to sell the meat in roadside stalls… I have never eaten in ANY roadside stall since (the noise & the pollution in this city also helps)
(14) I consider people to be Dog-People or Cat-People. I am a Dog-Person. And as a good Dog-Person, I don’t like Cats. It’s kinda like a Australia V/S England Ashes thing. You choose your side and stick by it.
(13) I have perfect 6/6 vision. But as a child my sis got specs and I wanted them too. So from time to time I wore her specs in the hope I’d spoil my eyes enough to get specs. Mercifully, got over the craving for specs without spoiling my eyes.
(12) I was a tomboy growing up. I’d come home with bruises every single day. My mum used to tell me that if I had so many marks on my feet no boy would want to look at them. Boy was she wrong 
Once I even climbed a coconut tree, via the grooves made by the coconut fruit walas. I climbed to second floor level. I would have kept going, except I looked down & suddenly panicked. I started crying (yeah, wasn’t a total tomboy) and had to wait there till my dear father came to rescue me.
(11) There is a set of two speed-breakers outside my school which I consider mine. I was in third grade & my sis had gone to the Bombay High School Sports representing our senior school. Hence she didn’t come pick me up as she usually did. I decided, what the heck, I’ll cross the road myself. I don’t really remember anything but was told that I was hit by an Ambassador car.
I woke up in a hospital and was unashamed and in fact quite glad that I apparently was going to get some days off school. They subsequently put speed-breakers there. I quite earned them I think.
(09) I’ve liked all sorts of boys, in every size & shape (& pls. don’t read too much into that). It’s not looks that attract me to men. I mainly like intellectual guys whom I can talk to. And as cliched as it sounds, I love guys who make me laugh.
(08) Once for a birthday, almost everyone I knew bought me shampoo. I was very upset & wondered what sort of hint my friends were giving me. The next birthday I got only Deo’s. Changed my friends after that J/K abt the last part.
(07) I like to eat everything that’s bad for breath - love garlic, love onions, love cod-liver oil tables. In fact bite & eat them. Some friends think I’m nuts, but I like the taste. Go figure.
(06) One lady I knew once told me that to clear my then very-acne-prone skin, I should drink a glass full of my morning urine. I pooh-poohed (no pun intended) the idea but got up with a gigantic pimple in the center of my forehead and thought anything was worth trying to get rid of it.
So off I went to the loo (with a crystal glass, smart me). I almost took a sip, but was so turned off by the whole thing that I threw away the pee (& the glass!). I now see a dermi (see, there are smart alternatives for everything).
(05) I never drink alcohol (not even wine/beer) & also have never even had a single puff of a ciggy. Many people don’t believe me till they hang out with me enough to know it’s true. I don’t know why it’s such a big deal to some people but it is. Some say I’ve not “experienced” something. I say, there are a lot of things I’ve not experienced & am not inclined to (like being bashed on the head by a falling tree for example). On the other hand, there are tons of things I’ve haven’t experienced & I want to. Life is full of choices. Even the making of good choices is a choice.
(04) Technically I have only one sibling - my elder sis. Always lamented the lack of a brother, so went out and got me some 
Now have several brothers. When younger used to tie ‘Rakhi’ on a guy who stayed close by. He moved away & we lost touch completely. At present there are 5 guys who I consider my brothers: Two are priests, one’s in South India & two more here, Eli & baby Ajay.
(03) I’m all for extreme sports. Never been bungee jumping but am dying to. My doc says I shouldn’t because I have a bad back (my tail bone slipped while playing basket ball in tenth grade) but I still want to. I also want to try sky-diving at least once.
(02) Oh gosh… am I almost done??? Tons of other things: I am a complete romantic. I love surprises. I love buying people gifts for no reason at all. I cannot sleep if I’ve fought with someone I love. I usually try to make up the same day itself. I love purple orchids & long stemmed (de-thorned) red roses. If I have to buy flowers, I buy people potted flowers as I can’t bear to give gifts that don’t last. I love my family. I love my friends. I love my life. And I totally love the God who gave it to me.
(01) One thing I say & believe is “Ultimately the only thing that matters in life is your relationship with God”
Not so bad after all! I actually enjoyed that. Will pass the baton onto (without targeting anyone I’ve tagged in the past):
Akshay
Arjun
Gavin
Gopal
Jo
Mwah &
Shriram
(7 is the Biblical number for perfection, just another random fact )
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