Another Mortal Life

Akshay and Vibhav have tagged me. Chandni has not tagged me, because I didn't want to take up the tag she wanted me to take up but instead (I) insisted on taking up another tag which too I eventually didn't take up. And Pheonix this time actively controlled the tag, because, on a previous ocassion, her tag had passed itself on to me all by itself, thereby challenging Her authority. :P

So here it is. To Akshay, to Vibhav, and to the few drops of rain that fell on my palm at 6:59 pm yesterday evening:

Eight things I am passionate about:

-Bakaiti.
-Pulling people’s leg.
-Thinking about ‘WHY’s behind people.
-Writing she’rs. (writing a complete ghazal is too consuming.)
-Phrasing some funny one-liners.
-Sudden rains when no building is nearby.
-Walking barefoot on sand in winters.
-Finding maximum procrastination limits when put against strict deadlines.

Eight things I want to do before I die (In no particular order):

-Watch 150 movies from IMDb top 250.
-Write 50 good poems and get them published [Current count is only 5 :( ]
-Ensure a comfortable life for my parents and sister. (Obvious; so I hope nobody accuses me of plagiarism!)
-Meet E for one last time. And talk for hours no end.
-Travel. See world, as much as possible.
-Tell each and every of my good friends how much they matter in my life. (To not say it is classy, like all those movies tell us- ‘don’t ruin it’; but sadly, in real life people need to be told so as to know it.)
-Learn to play a musical instrument.
-Revive my interest in engineering, (that is if I don’t change my field of work.)

Eight things I say often:

-Chill maar!
-Shayad../Perhaps..
-Dekhte hain../ Let’s see..
-Kya baaat kar raha hai!?
-Sahi keh raha hai.
-Zindagi hai dost..
-Uda dete hain/ Let’s bunk!
-F***/S***

Eight books I’ve read recently:

-The Pearl
-Of Mice and Men
-The unnamable (short story)
-The Godfather
-Jane Eyre (dropped midway.)
-Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
-The Republic (reading..)
-A Farewell to arms (reading..)

Eight songs I could listen to, over and over:

-Wahan kaun hai tera, Sachin Dev Burman (Guide)
-O re maajhii, Sachin Dev Burman (Bandini)
-Top of the world, Carpenters
-Nothing compares 2 U, Sinead O’Connor
-Ik meri ankh kaashni, Surinder Kaur [In fact, every song on this list.]
-Ishqe di maar, Rani Randeep
-Tu kahin bhi rahe, Ghulam Ali
-Chhoti si ye duniya, Kishore Kumar
-Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (When it comes to him, we needn't talk in terms of particular songs; the whole of his music is bliss.)

[So I've not exceeded the limit of 8! ;)]

Eight things that attract me to my best friends:

-Their barking/cawing/chattering (You didn’t understand, did you?)
-Soft-spokenness. (In case they don’t meet the first criteria, this one becomes absolutely necessary.)
-Respect for everyone. (Everybody respects his/her parents, teachers, friends. It’s how you behave with a random guy on street that shows the kind of man you are.)
-A sense of humor.
-Interest in poetry. (even mine! :P)
-Craziness. Eccentricity. Some amusing sort of it.
-A not-too-close friendship, if any, with the people I don’t like. (I admit I'm possessive. I’m a Scorpio.)
-Revelation that he/she is a good old friend of the girl I happened to like, say, yesterday.

Eight people I think should do this tag:

Most guys who used to be on my erstwhile list have either done this tag, or are tagged, or are not very likely to take it up! Oh, wait! Desperado might be willing..? Also, there are some who’ve recently blogrolled me- Disha, Rashmi and somebody-who’d-do-it-right-now [:P]. Then there is someone who has me in her blogroll of around 10 people but her blog is not even accessible to me! (I assume that being in such an exclusive list, I automatically deserve an invitation :P). I’ve also spotted two 3rd-yearites and one 2nd yearite reading my blog in CSC, on different occasions.

I’d like all of you to do this.