The Wierd Tag

13/06/2006

Just when I had given up hopes that someone would tag me, the good ol Nirwa has just done that – she’s tagged me to a subject that’s pretty close to her heart.

The tag in question is: 5 weirdest things about yourself.

I immediately told Nirwa that knowing her itself was weird enough, what more could she expect?

Nonetheless, here are 5 weird things about you me you didn’t know, and after reading wished that you didn’t know :)

5 – As a youngster I had a great appetite for chalk, raw turmeric, and umm… sand. I could eat sand for breakfast lunch and dinner if someone let me have my way. If not sand I could stuff up turmeric or chalk for hours together. Legend has it that my parents would keep me locked in the house with a bottle of turmeric and go shopping. By the time they were done, I would have cleaned the bottle. Years later, maybe I have outgrown raw turmeric and sand, but I would do anything to get that chalk piece again. You remember those thin ones? Not the fat ones used in school, but the ones you use on slate? Yes – those are the tastiest.

4 – One of my nicknames in college was “Pizza”. Back then, eating “Pizza” was hip. Yeah – those were the days. And I loved Pizza until Bush made me taste his version of Pizza, after which I loathe it to no end. That’s beside the point – my friends would often call out to me as “Abbe Pizza” and such. I don’t know if it was my extra large size coupled with the fact that I loved cheese (back then) that prompted the name.

3 – I have a good record of starting things that I never finish. I became boy scout, but never progressed, started tae kwon do but those bricks scared me, learnt guitar but never mastered it, learnt tae kwon do again but this time the instructor broke his arm in a karate championship and never taught us again thereafter, started writing a book which I got bored of myself, tried learning swimming at least thrice (OK, this one I did it! Ye!) – Once started writing a “suspense” short story which began with an anonymous phone call to umm not the hero, but his mother. I actually wrote “Tring Tring” to indicate phone ring :)

2 - I cannot read old haggard books. I like my books, fresh and new – I am addicted to the smell coming from the pages of freshly printed books – umm yummy. That’s why I cannot buy second hand books either – the book has to smell good for me to read it! I am man of taste you see.

1 – From my adolescence, I have this recurring feeling that one day I will get up and declare – “its all a dream!” And then when I get up, I notice that I am still a boy of 7 years, sleeping on the terrace in Ahmedabad, and the scorching sun is hurting my vision. I laugh to myself that I had dreamt for years ahead, and go down.

Now 5 people whom I want to tag, hehheh.

Jedi – I know he’s been tagged already, but I will force him with one more vote.
Karan
Sudipta
Greatbong – it will be interesting to see what he has to say if he accepts the tag :)
Tapan
&
Pavan

:-)

There are 18 comments in this article:

  1. 13/06/2006Jo say:

    hehehe that was cool ! good to find that there are other weirdos too like me,who have thoughts about how “its all a dream”..!! I thought I was the only one !! :)

  2. 13/06/2006shark say:

    Those things are not so weird… :)

    5. I guess all children just love eating chalk… I used to eat as well… and I know most of my cousins also did the same.:D

    4. Pizza is hip even now ;-) Sometimes it’s funny how some of my aunts go ga ga.. if they are having Pizza for dinner somewhere outside :)

    3. I guess this must have been in your teenage… Most of us are like that… starting with full enthu… and then leaving it off because we are bored of it already!

    2. I also feel the same way! Ok I am not so much against old books.. because I like that “old-book-smell” also..;-)

    1. He..he.. that one was good… But you know what.. I sometimes feel that whatever is happening now has happened sometime before… it’s as if I had dreamt about it already! Kind of spoils some of the suprises I must say!

    Why do I see so much of similarity with my traits in what you have written?;-)? Are you a cancerian?

  3. 13/06/2006Pavan say:

    :) I was nodding for most of the things.. replace the chalk with whitewash.. esp when it rains :) and the old books with some dust making me sneeze is my go.. and the dream one.. soo true.. I think that I would stop at some stage one fine day, and the camera turns to my kid or grandkid and I say: so that was my story in a __ year long flashback.. interesting huh?

    PS: working on your hw masterjee :)

  4. 14/06/2006manasi say:

    Oh yes! the chalk for the slate!!!! Yummy. I cld have it today too, rather i wish i cld have it (sigh!)….. and the best part abt it is that you can nibble at it and it feels like it lasts forever!! :) )

    And the new smell of books is too good and tempting to resist. But new books cost too much for poor souls like me!! So I prefer the library ;)

  5. 14/06/2006Princess say:

    Hahaha..

    Supremus gets tagged, and he responds and how! :P

    Majha padi gayi vaanchavani! sigh.. padhne mein maza aa gaya..

    Hahaha.. eating chalks.. and parents giving turmeric bottle .. LOL .. ROFL..

    “I immediately told Nirwa that knowing her itself was weird enough, what more could she expect?” – Hahahahha

    Nirwa

  6. 14/06/2006Sudipta Chatterjee say:

    Ha ha ha ha… that was a funny tag! BTW, I never ate chalk, but toothpaste is always delicious!! (Even now!) You can subsitute the sand for grass in my case, as it is really yummy!

    But you have set me thinking, man! How many normal things do I do that I can shortlist 5 weird things? :D

  7. 14/06/2006Chetan say:

    Lol! This is wierd. I swear I could have written number 5, 4, and 3. I ate those slate sticks loved pizza as a kid and learnt guitar and tae kwon do and swimming and left all of them just when I had begun to master them. :)

  8. 15/06/2006GuNs say:

    Leaving things halfway is something I’ve done a Ph.D. in.

    I didnt eat weird things

    I love smell of new books and when in school, every year I got new books, I grabbed the bunch and smelled all the books. [:-P]Old books (I mean books older than 10 years or so) develop a different smell alltogether. Mostly old novels that I got from the school library or bought from the raddiwala. I spent 10% of my reading time smelling the books. Petrol also smells awesome. So does the earth in the first rain.

    That dream thing is something I saw in Vanilla Sky. I had a weird feeling after I came back from watching swades at 2:30 in the night from the theatre and had a bad cold and headache. That night, I dreamt of being in Mohan Bhargav’s shoes and doing what he did. One of the very few times I got up in the middle of the night with a shudder.

    Entertaining read !!

    I so wish we can all do our childhood things again. Climbing trees, playing cricket in the morning till noon, riding the bicycle to school, fighting for the slides and the swings in the park….wish we could all do that again. I mean, we still could but then people would think we are bonkers !!

    [:oD] A wicked idea strikes me. Why dont we all bloggers meet in Mumbai and do just that….FREAK OUT !!

    -PeAcE
    –WiTh
    —GuNs

    P.S.:Where do you live these days? If you live out of India, when do you next come here?

  9. 15/06/2006Princess say:

    An afterthought – turmeric – is that the reason for your komal twacha? :P :P :P hahahahahaha

    Nirwa

  10. 15/06/2006Karan say:

    What a treat, eh! The raw turmeric gorging part was the weirdest. Doesn’t turmeric stick all over inside if you just have it like that? How am I to know that anyways LOL Its a proven antiseptic so I am sure you must have been like Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, or rather uninfectionable.

    Never pursuing random hobbies, inability to read old books and lucid dreaming can be a part of my weird resume too. Hell, rush to my blog and read my quirks NOW hehe…

    Keep rocking,

    Cheers!

    Karan
    PS: Oi Guns, thanks for spoiling Vanilla Sky for me. Had wanted to see that movie for ages now for that twist in the end. By the looks of it you have killed it for me. Very bad LOL

  11. 15/06/2006Veni, vidi, vici » Blog Archive » I, me, myself, Pavan and kumar say:

    [...] Suyog has asked me to write on: "5 weirdest things about yourself" (the title of this post answers the q). I had earlier, without any prediction super-powers, written on this topic. Then, the count surpassed 10. But, out of respect for the tagging ritual, I shall try to dig deeper into myself…. and before I start, I have a question: is tagging communicable like flu? [...]

  12. 15/06/2006Tapasya Patki say:

    I am quite new to the blogging world, and I was blog skipping when I landed up on your page. The post is quite interesting and humored. The weird things that you mentioned are probably quite common, for evem I have done similar things before (like binging on pizzas, and starting of with the process of writing a novel with a friend, getting bored with it and never finishing it).

    I, however, could not very well understand the philosophy of ‘having dreamt for the years ahead.’ #1 did make me think a bit, I must say.

  13. 15/06/2006Supremus say:

    @Jo: Welcome to the “Its all a dream” club :D

    @Shark: Mmmh – no I am not a cancerian, but i do get along well with cancerians. Ha!

    @Pavan: Old books with dust sneezing hahahaha! now thats something I can’t stand – the dust I mean.

    @Manasi: Eh – u too chalk lover eh? Me too – i can still eat it if someone gave ‘em to me!

    @Nirwa: aree LOL kaisa? Eat turmeric one and see what kind of joy u shall recieve :P

    @Sudipta: Now, toothpaste is one thing which I never liked :D – maybe it was too minty when I tasted it hehe… looking forward to your tag.

    @Chetan: Ailla! Hehehe – Looking forward to your list buddy – you were in my mind when I was abt to tag, but knew Manasi had already tagged you. Ha!

    @Guns: There are many blogger meets in Mumbai – check out desipundit.com; they occassionaly come up with those notices every now and then. Attend the next one :)

    @Nirwa: Of course it is :P – what did u think?

    @Karan: I still use turmeric If i have a cut – I think of turmeric as the best antiseptic there is. Honestly. As for Vanilla Sky, hehe – it won’t maketh a difference – the movie is pretty terrible.

    @Pavan: Wah Wah! Responses so soon. Must check it out.

    @Tapasya: I didnt know this was the new way of spamming! Wow!

    Thanks a lot everyone…

    Cheers,

    Suyog

  14. 15/06/2006Greatbong say:

    Give me some time—will surely take up the tag.:-)

  15. 16/06/2006GuNs say:

    Hey Suyog, you didnt tell me where you live now. Amreeka? Which city?

    And Karan…mainey tera picture spoil nahi kiya re…Suyog ne kiya. Usne saari story bataayi. Maaro saaleko !! [:-P]

    Eagerly looking forward to further posts from both of you.

    -PeAcE
    –WiTh
    —GuNs

  16. 16/06/2006Shruthi say:

    Chalk!! Ha ha!! and Turmeric! Double ha ha!!!!
    Weird indeed! :) )))

  17. 17/06/2006Supremus say:

    @Greatbong: Sure! I will be waiting for your take on this one!

    @Guns: Oops :P – I live in D.C

    @Shruthi: Yes I am wierd – old habits die hard :P

    Suyog

  18. 17/06/2006jEDI say:

    Ahem! I would really interested in reading this short story. Any chance of you posting it? :)

    All my time these days is being eaten up with the “wold cup coverage” lol. But I’ll surely try and respond soon.

    jedi