Saturday, June 25, 2005

favorite things

inspired to write this after reading this abandoned blog

Ok this is not going to be nowhere as good as that, but I will try to be honest:

1) Winning in CS against all the hardcore gamers in a rare visit to the arcade

2) Winning in badminton after loosing the toss and getting stuck in the unlucky side

3) This will be pretty sadistic, but learning that someone got a new Darwin out there.

4) checking your e-mail everyday, and finding that one rare one which is not generated, spam or a forward

5) Hell, finding a good forward in your inbox

6) Your parents agreeing to get you something without you begging for it

7) Your parents agreeing to get you something after you beg enough for it

8) Obeying your parents no matter how absurd it sounds in the aftermath of learning that your parents are going to get you something expensive

9) Listening to scary stories of the "real world"

10) A song that you like suddenly coming on in Radio

11) Finding out that you like a song that suddenly comes on in Radio

12) Telling the dialogues in a movie you have already watched before the charachters in the movie actually tell it, in front of friends or family who haven't watched the movie

13) A bunch of friends sitting togethere and repeating the dialogues in a move (or particularly, an episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S)

14) Suddenly going to a movie without any prior plans.

15) Loosing tickets to said movie, and finding them on the road. Has happened only once though.

16) Getting wet (from outside liquid sources, obviously)

17) Watching a taboo porn film (hey, I get my kicks alright? (atleast I don't watch regular porn (and the taboo stuff does not turn me on (I watch it because its just wierd (I have an O-C disorder for paranthesis))))

18) Listening to a joke you can predict

19) Crying over Simba's father's death in the Lion King

20) Blogging

21) Reading a book while it is raining outside

22) Eating the last mango at the end of the monsoons

23) Trying out a new flavor of ice-cream

24) Remembering all the emberassing moments of your life

25) Bringing up old school tales while talking with a bunch of old school friends

guess I will stop here and continue sometime later eh?

nyah, I guess I will just go on

26) clapping a mosquito in your palms and showin off the amount of blood that comes out

27) Playing a game with winamp playing in the background

28) Watching illegaly downloaded versions of Southpark

29) Laughing at all the outrageous stunts in a kung-fu or a Rajnikanth-Mithuenda film.

30) Trying to create music on a friend's guitar even though you have no idea how to.

31) Pulling of a sucessfukl prank on a friend. for example, making him wear underwear on his head in public, then make him remove it in disgust, which in turn makes his specs fall out, he runs behind you, catches up with you at a crowded railway station and screams at you about the consequences of a smashed specs.
Then having another friend reply back that its not his fault if he did not know how to take pout underwear in the middle of the said crowded railway station.

32) Swimming. While it is raining.

33) Watching a foreign movie with subititles.

34) Watching a foreign movie without subtitles.

35) Eating uppu - tupa rice. what do you call it in english? salt-ghee rice?

36) Getting a RAM upgrade

37) Compeleting a tough game without cheats (Deus Ex)

38) Discussing complicated occult theories with friends

39) Kunj Vihar Vada Pavs.

40) Finding out a new "amazing fact"

41) Striking up a conversation with an absolute stranger

42) Playing one of those old fashioned video games on a mitashi gameboy - like contra or super mario brothers

43) Reading a new Harry Potter book, and tell crucial plot changes to others who haven't read them, and getting the nuts bashed out of you in return (After I told a guy about Sirius Black's death)

44) Managing to read the controversial contents of a site before it goes down. (washingtonionine)

45) Managing to get hold of rare banned songs (moist vaina)

46) Somebody saving your life (has happened - many times actually)

47) Doing something illegal and getting away with it.

48) Having friends who think you are really cool

49) Having no real enemies you can think of

50) Having fifty things that you actually like in this world, and still have the energy to keep going.

51) Getting a currency note with a special number on it

52) Impressing someone deeply.

53) Managing to confuse someone

54) Making someone believe that werewolves actually exist and are out to get you

55) Eating old soggy cream biscuits

56) Doing a dare in style

57) Winning in a round of musical chairs

58) The gentle rocking motion of the train in a long distance journey while you sleep in the top berth.

59) Sitting snugly in a tourist car while it rains outside, and you are travelling through mountain country with old hindi songs playing on the bad speakers.

60) Bumping into long lost relatives

61) Getting a fever in your grandmother's house - everyone pampers the hell out of you.

62) Stargazing at night

63) Gaondevi mandir, on top of the abandoned water tank, starin up at the sky, and the trains going all round you...

64) Consoling a friend who has proiblems you can relate to

65) coming across an old computer game that you used to play a lot - and discover that you still know how to play it well

66) Buying something from the hawkers at mumbai locals

67) Cadbury's diary mil - in the rains.

68) Blowing a motherlode of cash on a useless activity.

69) Not bowin to peer pressure

70) Making someone else bow into peer pressure

71) Winning in a game of housie. winning despite the loud cries of "bogie bogie" from the crowd.

72) Someone giving you a treat

73) Givin a treat to someone

74) Finding out that someone famous came from your hometown

75) Listening to old family tales

76) wasting time doing nothing and then geting scolded for it

77) The anticpation after the exams and before the results

78) writing with a brand new gel pen on a fresh blank page

79) Painting

80) Eating as much cake as you want, alon with the cherry

81) A friend calling you and informin you about a victory or a prize in an unexpected area

82) A good bargain

83) A good waiter

84) Listening to the radio on the sly while the prof is taking a lecture

85) telling dirty jokes with a bunch of guys and laughing at the most atrocious ones...

86) Getting one shoulder wet while hanging out of a fast mumbai local in the rains

87) going trekking, crossing a river twice and finding out later that people had to be airlifted out of that place

88) Bicycling alone.

89) Taking a walk with a friend

90) Swinging from a banyan tree pretending to be Tarzan

91) Riding a bike.

92) Revving up the said bike before riding it.

93) Hogging out in front of some pretty useless television.

94) Pretending to study the moment your parents come home.

95) Spilling the beans in a game of truth and dare

96) Winning in a game of cards that you have only just learnt

97) Photographing people who are sleeping and later showing it to them

98) The computer recovering from a hang just about before you switch it off

99) The smell of damp mud just before the rains.

100) Holi.

damn, I am through to a hundred and STILL can go on. Will make another hundred ka list later on... lessee...

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