Wednesday, February 20, 2008

I've been tagged!

Ah people, I’ve been tagged by Annie (I’m working on the basic assumption that people in blogging circles know what ‘tagging’ means). Its an open tag so all those who wish to do it can go right ahead! There's an X before all the things I've done… and the other brackets are empty… so all you have to do is copy and paste the thing and edit the X's ...

So hold on tight, the roller-coaster ride begins now!

(X) Been in love (Eternal optimist! Many times over ;))
( ) crashed a friend's car (Crashed?? No no no! I am never allowed behind the wheel!)
( ) stolen a car (Who dareth say that?)
( ) been dumped (You kidding?)
( ) shoplifted (Never!)
( ) been fired (You first need a permanent full-time job in order to get fired :-( )
(X) Been in a fist fight (Fun!)
(X) Smoked a cigarette (Ahem!)
( ) snuck out of your parent's house (Never felt the need, actually.)
(X) Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back (Sigh!)
( ) gone on a blind date (Ahem again!)
(X) Lied to a friend (Sorry!)
(X) Bunked school (Big time!! Right under my VP’s nose!! Archu! Tell him that I’, sorry! :) )
(X) seen someone die (A part of me died)
(X) had a crush on one of your Internet friends (Tee hee hee… keep guessing!)
( ) been to Canada (Neither do I plan to. But I have been to the Kannada land)
( ) been to Mexico (Nay nay.)
(X) Been on a plane (Now how else can one go the Mumbai and get back the same day if not on a plane?)
(X) Eaten sushi (Yum. Compulsive foodie!)
( ) been skiing-snow or water (No :-( But I’ve been rafting )
(X) met someone from the Internet (Er… kinda.)
(X) Been at a concert (People forget that I’m a music critic!!)
(X) Taken painkillers (Who hasn’t?)
( ) love someone or miss someone right now (Duh.)
(X) Laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by (Once. Lovely!)
( ) made a snow angel (Are you kidding? I hail from the equator zone!)
( ) had a tea party (Don’t remember, actually.)
(X) Flown a kite (Make that 'kites'. Grew up with boys!)
( ) built a sand castle (And it hurts the most to leave this one blank. I wanna pack bags to the
Caribbean )
(X) Gone puddle jumping (Fun!)
( ) played dress up (Yeah, I know it sounds weird, but NO.)
( ) jumped into a pile of leaves (No again.)
( ) gone sledding (Equator land. Stop mocking… and smirking!)
(X) Cheated while playing a game (Er… this is rare… but yeah! Uno!)
(X) Been lonely (Sigh again.)
(X) Fallen asleep at work/school (Few hours ago in college!)
( ) used a fake ID (ashamed!)
(X) Watched the sun set (Therapeutic.)
(X) Felt an earthquake (Uncommon phenomena at my side of the world, but yeah, I felt it in the Dil of Hindustan, Dilli.)
(X ) Slept beneath the stars (Drunk… on the roof. GOWRI!!! Come back!!)
(X) Been tickled (And begged to be let free… hahaha!)
( ) been robbed (No! And thank God for that!)
(X) Been misunderstood (At all times! Blame the dunderheads, not me!)
( ) pet a reindeer/goat/kangaroo (Would love to!)
(X) Won a contest (What sorta contest? Does quizzing count??)
(X) Run a red light/stop sign (Occasionally! But usually when a traffic policeman is not around. Common-sense!)
( ) been suspended from school (Almost! But daddy’s name saved me.)
( ) been in a car crash (Noooo!)
(X) Had braces (Annie! run for your life! How dare you tag me and ask questions as absurd as this one?!?)
(X) Felt like an outcast/third person (If it isn’t about me, it ought to be BORING!)
(X ) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night (And mounted on 300 gazillion calories? Yummm!!!!)
(X) Had déjà vu (Spooky, but yeah. Many a times.)
( ) danced in the moonlight (The moment’s yet to come. At least have ‘something’ to look forward to!)
(X) Liked the way you looked (Most of the time. And why not?)
( ) witnessed a crime (Does ‘witnessing’ others bunk/sneak out of classes count?)
(X) Questioned your heart (Introspection. Yeah.)
(X) Been obsessed with post-it notes (Sounds very familiar.)
(X) Squished mud through your bare feet (And LOVED it thoroughly!!)
(X) Been lost (When I was 2. Got lost in Patel Nagar! But mama found me soon enough. I was apparently eating rusk with chai at the police station. Phew!)
(X) Been on the opposite side of the country (Travelomaniac! Travelfanatic!)
( ) swam in the ocean (But swam in a pool, alright.)
( ) felt like dying (Nah. At least not in recent times... But yeah, felt like disappearing!)
(X) Cried yourself to sleep (Have mercy.)
(X) Played cops and robbers (My nutty cousins made sure I did that.)
(X) Recently colored with crayons (I’m OLD! But I did this with my nephew :) )
( ) sang karaoke (Don’t you love your glasses?? Spare them the trouble... and the damage! Hmph!)
(X) Paid for a meal with only coins (School friends and coins… old association!)
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't (Talk of daredevilry!)
(X) Made prank phone calls (But only as a kid.)
( ) laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose (Gawk! NO! How yeeeewww! Yeah… I’m too uptight!)
( ) caught a snowflake on your tongue (Boo hoo hoo! Enough with the Equator zone jokes!)
(X) Danced in the rain (GOWRI!!! Come BACK!!!)
(X) A letter to Santa Claus (nailed to the wall in a white, sparkling stocking!)
( ) been kissed under the mistletoe (No mistletoes :x)
( ) watched the sun rise with someone you care about (Are some people ACTUALLY that fortunate?? I’m green with envy!)
(X) Blown bubbles (Responsible for half the bubbles blown in this planet.)
( ) made a bonfire on the beach (Hmmm…)
( ) crashed a party (Nay.)
(X) Gone roller skating (Tried, fell… bloop!)
(X) Had a wish come true (More often than not! Touch wood.)
( ) jumped off a bridge (Do I look crazy? Or suicidal?)
( ) ate dog/cat food (Again, do I look crazy?? Or suicidal? LOLZ!)
( ) told a complete stranger you loved them (Why would I do that?)
(X) Kissed a mirror (Ok now forget I just said that!)
(X) Sang in the shower (Always!! The most recent being this morning)
(X) had a dream that you married someone (Ahem!)
( ) glued your hand to something (You think we can’t just yank it off? Or to glues come with "You can’t get rid of me" warnings these days? Lol! I crack myself up!)
( ) kissed a fish (Er… just eating would suffice for now.)
( ) climbed a water tower (I’m no Tarzan… incarnated or otherwise.)
(X) Screamed at the top of your lungs (But only when fighting… to drive my point home, obviously!)
( ) done a one-handed cartwheel (Nah.)
( ) talked on the phone for more than 5 hours (Nonstop? What do you talk about for so long???)
(X) Stayed up all night (Insomniac by profession. It IS night right now!)
( ) picked and ate an apple right off the tree (No apple trees here. Pooh!)
(X) Climbed a tree (was born a tomboy)
( ) had a tree house (What is this?? The US of A??)
(X) Been too scared to watch a scary movie alone (Braveheart!)
(X) Believe in ghosts (Err… MOMMY!!!)
( ) have more than 30 pairs of shoes (But close estimate nevertheless!)
( ) worn a really ugly outfit to school (Why would I do that?)
( ) gone streaking (Na.)
(X) gone doorbell ditching (If it means what I think it does, then yeah!)
( ) been pushed into a pool/hot tub with all your clothes on (People who know me wont dare!)
(X) Told you're hot by a complete stranger (But in less express terms of course.)
( ) broken a bone (Nah. I’m bro’s strong boy. He brought me up as no case of fragile bones.)
(X) Been easily amused (The habit persists!)
( ) caught a fish then ate it (Never even gone ‘phishing’!)
( ) caught a butterfly (Tried though!)
(X) Laughed so hard you cried (Yeah! Actually... I usually laugh that hard!)
( ) cried so hard you laughed (So that’s not just confined to maniacal soap stars?? Revelation!)
(X) Cheated on a test (Sorry teachers!)
(X) Forgotten someone's name (And found yourself feeling awkward and embarrassed! Hey, cant blame me! I know a lotta people! You don’t expect me to remember EVERYONES name!)
( ) French braided someone's hair (Nay. People don’t trust me with their hair! But Gowri has done that a million times with my hair)

( ) gone skinny dipping in a pool/hot tub/river (And where would I do that? In my ‘indoor heated pool’? Bah! Bill Gates daddy, I want a new pool.)
(X ) Been threatened to be kicked out of your house or been kicked out of your house (threatened! Loads! Thank you momma!!)
(X) Loved someone so much you would gladly die for THEM (But see… that’s a thing of the past! Next!)
( ) cheated on someone (Even loathe the idea.)
(X) Talk to yourself when no-ones around (Brief self-rationalizing talks and all. Nothing major!)
(X) Hate someone you once loved (A fairy-tale gone sour.)
(X) Love someone you once hated (Yeah, that has also happened.)

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Annie, that was a long long tag (fun, nonetheless)! Hope the ‘thirst’ is adequately quenched ;)

P.S. Thanks all for bearing with my smart-ass jokes and comments.

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