Lou Tag

Since Princess Stefania has been quite so charming about tagging me with this, I am compelled by my conscience not to procrastinate further. Here lies the tag on Love and Life, affectionately called the Lou Tag by me:


If your lover betrayed you, what would your reaction be?
A very calm execution of affairs. Pun intended. I am possessive, thank you. Although yes, wounds would heal over time, a long time, but yes, they would heal.

If you can make a dream come true, what would it be?
It would be one of many dreams fulfilled… I’d have to move on to the next with promptness.

What do you do when your love is unrequited ?
Write amusingly snarky things about myself and laugh at the irony. But never admit the fact. :P

What would you do if you had a billion dollars?
Er, use them?

Would you ever fall in love with your best friend?
I think I have the liberty to laugh here.

Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone?
I dislike having to choose between Chocolate and Cats. Both are required.

How long do you intend to wait for someone you really love?
Love has never been a necessity for me neither do I take it for granted from any sphere. Love is a conscious choice made unconsciously. That should answer the question.

If the person you secretly like is already attached, what would you do?
Attached to what, pray? :P

What captures your heart the quickest?
A quick wit, a mad spark and sincerity. *bats eyelashes demurely*

What would you be, ten years from now?
As quirky as ever!

What do you fear?
Lizards taking over the world. How horrible! *shudder shudder* But seriously? Losing my identity.

What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
A very talented Pixie Princess Poet. And that was an alliteration! :D

What's the first thing you do when you wake up?
“Chirp-laugh” after realizing that I’ve overslept again. :P

Would you give all in a relationship?
Depends on the relationship, wouldn’t it? I’d give nothing to my grandmother. :P

If you love two people simultaneously, who would you pick?
It’s enough loving one person, isn’t it? And I am lazy.

Would you forgive and forget, no matter how horrible a thing that special someone has done?
Forgive, yes, with time. For my own peace of mind. Forget? Never. That’s mainly to avoid a similar incident later. A lesson learnt should be remembered.

If you get to go back in time and fall in love all over again, would it still be with the same person?
I can laugh again now, I think. And smile.


Regrettably, I haven’t tagged people in the last few tags that I have done, although that hasn’t stopped me from being tagged by others. :| Therefore, for the benefit of all tag-unfriendly bloggers out there, I tag Prince Kazarelth (who hates tags and loves tagging me), Ship (who wants to get married although the fact is irrelevant to my tagging her), Jadis, Nothingman, Lucifer (who needed something to blog about and this is just the thing to make him squirm muwhahahah), Saturnalia’s Offspring (who doesn’t like tags much either :P) and VB! That’s an even seven!

A Tag Long Overdue

DC tagged me with this sometime in March, and I have been shamelessly laid-back about it. Still, I have time on my hands this evening and a promise to keep. So here it goes. (By the way, the usual disclaimer of “I hate tags and bear no responsibility for inflicting unbearably morose writing on readers on account of this” applies).

A is for Ambiguity, Air-guitaring, ALLITERATIONS and Annoyance
B is for Books, Best buddies, Boredom and Brassiere
C is for Cats, Chocolate, Contentment and Catch-22
D is for Death, Darkness, Dreams and Doodles
E is for Entropy (of the Mind), Elightenment and Elegance
F is for Freedom, Flight, Fortitude and Fealdamar (:])
G is for Greenery, Guitar and Genes
H is for Hallucinations
I is for India, Insanity, Insufferable ineptitude in idiots, Illustrations and Integrity
J is for Jinxes, Jelly-besting, Ja, Jes and Jumping up and down like a five-year-old
K is for Kitty and Kittens
L is for Letters
M is for MUSIC, Madness, Metaphors, Moon-gazing and Mysteries
N is for Non-conformist
O is for Ostriches and Openness
P is for Piano, Penguin Army, Passive aggression and Poetry
Q is for Queen, Questions and Quirks
R is for Reading, Rising, Rebirth and Resignation
S is for Space, Spaceships, Speed, Sprains, Sparrows, Stars, Stoicism and Sentience (edit:) and Ship!
T is for Time, Torture, Telepathy and Trust
U is for Understatements
V is for Violence, Vampires and Vogons
W is for Wood, Wisdom and Woes
X is for Xylophones and XEROX (i.e. photocopying) machines
Y is for Yellow, Yearning and Yes
Z is for Zaphod Beeblebrox, Zombie, Zest and Zero

I tag: SHIPSHIPSHIPSHIPSHIP (Hahahahahaservesyouright)

The Stupid Recollections Tag

Life Ten Years Ago: was weird. I don’t know how to put it. The year exactly ten years ago was a nightmare, which I wouldn’t want to recall and I’m not one for nostalgia anyway. Still, things being ‘normal’ involved me getting used to a new baby in the house. I remember being fascinated with its tiny hands and feet, its whining, its ability to draw everyone’s attention towards itself, and also its rapid growth rate. Most of it was fun, apart from the diaper-changing, that is. Ten years back, however, it wasn’t that big an issue. The kid had been potty-trained.

I’m not too fond of how I used to behave in public places. I was way too honest and outspoken, and was just as likely to tell someone, “I think you’re being very stupid” if I felt so as I was to say, “I think that is really good.” So it isn’t too surprising that I wasn’t liked much by my peers. Nobody likes frankness, you see. Anyway, I don’t like musing over memories.

Life Five Years Ago: was strange, again. There’s a reason I hate these “looking back” tags. They make me seem like the protagonist in a dark comedy. I was trying to get used to a good friend’s absence, my first ‘real’ friend. It took me a while to find my bearings after she moved to another city. I suppose I’d overreacted back then, I’m not really sure. But oh well.

Five years ago, I was also quite busy rebelling against a lot of things, being a girl, for instance. I was a big-time tomboy who hated anything “girly”, had cropped hair and wouldn’t be caught dead in anything other than a pair of jeans and baggy “tent-like” T-shirts. I’d still be found bossing around the younger kids in the building complex (yes, there used to be many, then), roller-skating down the stairs and nearly breaking my wrist (I just tore a muscle), speeding on the streets on my bicycle and scaring old gentlemen, and saving up on cash given to me for transportation purposes by walking or riding my bike. I’d spend it all on ice-creams.

Oh and I think that was around the time when the singing stopped. Permanently. I got immersed into hard rock and started spending more and more time alone and withdrawn.

Life Tomorrow: will continue to be strange, with extreme lows and moments of maddening euphoria since I can’t seem to be able to get used to the fact there are certain things I should learn to live without.

Five Locations I would like to Run Away To: any place which is biting cold and has a splendid view of the mountains. I don’t know. I usually don’t “run away”. But if there was a place where I could find some comfort in my surroundings, it would be Darjeeling. I just want mountains.

Five Bad Habits I Have: It’s actually quite difficult to restrict myself to just five. I’m not my favourite person, you see. He he he. Oh well, here goes:
1. I am extremely lazy and an awful little gambler when it comes to my life. Procrastination is my middle name, and I could claim to have an extremely high IQ, if the ‘I’ were to stand for ‘indolence’.
2. I am extremely quick tempered and get very impatient with incompetence of any sort.
3. I have practically no social skills. Nil. For instance, I could ignore a friend completely and concentrate only on eating my chocolate pastry without even bothering to speak to the friend. Yes, I have done that. And I still eat like a sloppy six-year-old. Meh.
4. I am aloof and reserved, and am an extremely closed person. Bottling up issues would be something I am extremely good at. Besides, my self-sadistic tendencies ensure that I stay this way. I always beat myself up even if I don’t talk about it out loud.
5. I am much too dreamy for my own good and shall not elaborate on this since I’ve already forgotten what I intended to put in.

Five Things I Will Never Wear: I would like to say “anything pink”, although I have a T-shirt which I pass off as “coral”. No one seems to be convinced though. I wear that as little as I can. Basically, I’m not going to wear anything I feel uncomfortable wearing. Stuff that falls in that category may vary with time and my mental maturity.

Five Biggest Joys at This Moment: I just spent the entire evening on this tag instead of going through stuff for the viva I have tomorrow. It’s fun, oh yes. Nothing else, though. And that isn’t very pleasant at all. Heh.

Something to Achieve By Next Year: some more freedom, space and self-sufficiency. I know that hoping for a freak road accident to take my life is asking for too much.

Something that Impacted Me Last Year:
Ending a certain chapter of my life, did help a lot. But no more on that, since it is over. The change that accompanied a certain transition did lift my spirits slightly and I am grateful for the fresh start which I wasn’t sure I’d get but did. I also made a couple of good friends. I don’t know if they’ll stick around a depressing soul like me, but I sure hope they do.

What I Will Miss About 2007: I’m not one for nostalgia so, nothing. I’ll just take a few memories into the future, with me.

Five Things I Want To Do Before I Die: Can’t I just die and get it over with? :P Tee hee. Oh well, I’d like to do something which I’ll actually be proud of. I don’t know what that is as yet. I’d also like to gain closure about some things and work up the courage to face some other issues. I don’t know. Learn to live, maybe? I still don’t have a plan.

And Ship, I am not going to forgive you for tagging me with this.

Meme

Jadis tagged me with this: The Alphabet Meme. While I find it interesting to read tags written by others, I am not too fond of getting tagged myself. Oh well, I am bored, so here it goes:

A ACCEPT reality.

B BREAK away from stereotypes.

C CREATE to set your thoughts free of the constraints of a mundane world.

D DECIDE for yourself. Live on your own terms.

E EXPLORE your possibilities. All of them, even those that appear impossible.

F FORGIVE yourself all your mistakes. Regret is not worth the energy.

G GROW with each passing year and keep an open mind. You never know when you might have to eat your own words.

H HOPE for innovation to strike the minds that matter. And yours.

I IGNORE average.

J JOURNEY into unexplored territories and break new ground.

K KNOW your limitations and learn to overcome them.

L LOVE the exalted heights that the human mind can reach and what can be accomplished from there.

M MANAGE all your resources. The precious will slip away if care is not taken.

N NOTICE life.

O OPEN the doors that lead onto greener pastures.

P PLAY for enjoyment and for laughter.

Q QUESTION arbitrary authority.

R RELAX to breathe in life instead of rushing through each day.

S SHARE freedom and tolerance.

T TRY to be your ideal self.

U USE all your faculties to their maximum potential.

V VALUE freedom ... of thought, speech and action.

W WORK putting in your best effort.

X X-RAY and analyse people. Facades often mask weak foundations.

Y YIELD to no will but your own.

Z ZOOM in to discover little details you had missed before the retrospection.


Taking up this tag is optional. If you would like to, then all you need to do this form a sentence with each word printed in uppercase.

Tagged

Ship was kind enough to tag me. *Glowers threateningly at her*

8 Simple Things About Me

1. I like talking to myself. It’s better than talking to walls, which I also indulge in (sometimes).

2. I like smelling books. They smell good. I like reading them too … a lot. But I dislike overweight intimidating textbooks which can quite easily be used for weight-training in gymnasiums.

3. I live for music. There has never been a time in my life when music has not helped. Ever. I often (privately) sing at the top of my voice, with earphones in my ears and my ’Pod held as a microphone in my hands pretending to be some sort of a rock star in concert. And I get very embarrassed when a family member catches me in this stance while I am in the middle of a song.

4. I have phases during which I am ‘hyper-loopy’. I also have extreme mood swings and a quick temper, though I’ve learnt to manage it better over the years.

5. I find ‘chicken dancing’ very therapeutic.

6. I don’t like Vitamin B Complex Syrup with Lysine. It tastes horrible. And I have to have it regularly. *Makes disgusted pukey-face*

7. I hate SMS-talk. It irritates me very much. And I get sarcastic when I am irritated. Very sarcastic, indeed.

8. I have discovered recently that I have grown quite fond of blogging. I love reading well written extremely witty posts that send me into peals of hysterical laughter and those thoughtful and insightful ones that put me into deep and silent contemplation. And reading such kind words for the rubbish that pours from my fingertips is quite gratifying too!

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Since most people on my blog-roll have already been tagged, I tag Prince Kazarelth, Princess Banter and Mademoiselle.