Randomness

I was not tagged in one of those '25 random things’ chain as my friends knew that I would end up writing long theories! For those ‘in between times’, I scribble random stuff on bits of sketch book paper lying around on the desk…well, now I have a blog to be able to do that!

I say I am just like “quietHappiness”…but now I have totally become that! My blog is me and I am my blog. We exchange identities every day. QuietHappiness exists because of my life…but now my life IS my quietHappiness! I am possessed. Obsessed. I have lost all productivity in every other sphere of life. Hence this randomness might help in taming the constant urge of writing something.

Don’t take these theories seriously. They are not 25 yet. But these are the sad hidden truths about me …not in order of importance (otherwise its too obvious that I am so materialistic!)

1. I hate my hair. I want to shave my head. But I am not cool enough to pull that off.You see, they are of a mid-way length and have to be tied up. But please...the term “pony tail” is only for silky smooth hair in shampoo advertisements! For “wavy” rebellious my kind of hair, its more the super south Indian “bob” or a broom …maybe that hard porous thing you use to scrub your back with! My sister is a pro at using the best adjectives for ‘Tresses Tales’.“Ship shape “ is something she called my hair when I undid my so called pony tails after school and the hair would still be in that shape! It would move as a whole....indeed, wrecked ;)

2. I despise all that motherhood melodrama…It has made my thoughts retarded! …it is something us mums use to escape the intellectual world . I think my son is way more grown up than I am.

3. I am not a fan of technology. I would have loved to live in a village …farming…pottery…climbing hills, swimming in the river….I can totally live without a phone…In fact , my pigeon must be on its way delivering those messages sent with high importance ;)

*Note – some hi fi fancy stuff is not mentioned for convenience ;)
But if you give me that kind of technology where I can transfer myself from "office" folder to "home" folder without actually having to move, I will surrender to it...

4. A bottle of wine, too many …and I can readily accept my chirpy “Lebanese twin” --- off late she surfaces as Inspector Najma who helps discipline my son in a fun accent ;)

5. I love stain removers more than potted plants. ( and I call myself a landscaper!..maybe they are right…I am a hypocrite!)

6. I was a cat in my last life. Not only do I understand a cat’s psyche but I love a cats’ approach towards life --- Never forget to relax. Strongly believe in your own awesomeness ;)

7. Ironically, quietHappiness secretly lets me be that weird girl gone wild, I need to hide from all… Even if it is open to the whole world, the one you are hiding it from never reads your blog.
(*This one is no longer true...my husband is actually reading my blog!!!...well, we dont hide anything from each other ;)

8. If you can take shortcuts, you must… They might not lead to success each time, but what the hell…life is just trial and error. Blame all that goes wrong on pms ;)

9. I write vague sarcastic hasty emails when I am restless . When you mix wit and sarcasm, its never received well.

10. Long legged spiders and most of their creepy crawling cousins can give me a mini heart attack. Those who might want to kill me for some odd/mean things I might have done, say ten years ago, heres your tip.

11. I am not really a happy, friendly,cheerful person. When I laugh loudly, I look like a witch and my son gets scared...really! I look much better when I am crying. A fairly cute boy in my class told me that when we were 8. Thats the real reason why I cry often ;)

12. I want to get married again… (don’t panic) … to the same man. (no problem there yet)There is one extremely deep and non-superficial purpose to that. Just that my lipstick shade was too bright in the extraordinary yellow lighting… and the wedding photographer(if you call him that) took more pictures of peoples' slippers , some tubelights, a sculptural blue water cooler gone kaput and hundreds of plastic chairs. Except that, everything else was pretty okay. As far as I remember.

13. Even though I love cats, when I was about 3 years old, I had picked up a kitten by its tail and dipped him in a pond to give him a swimming cum bungee jumping lesson!...well, I sensed my feline connection since then as the kitten profoundly understood my feelings …survived and continued to love me :D
(After that incident, my sister, became the’ legal’ guardian of all the cats we petted thereafter…in short, they were in safe hands :)

14. I love collecting all those extra buttons that come with new clothes(and that,my friend, is the only reason I shop ;)

15. I wanted two of my lower incisors one shade whiter, the skin on my legs one tone darker , my nose bridge rotated 0.4 degrees anticlockwise,my brows 65 mm thicker at the broader end and hair, as said earlier , either a bit more curly or a tad bit straight. Mind you, I am an admirer of inner beauty ;)

16. My random access memory isn’t in neat folders arranged as per year or importance. My mind’s recycle bin has a problem with permanently deleting stuff. My design softwares function alright but mental Excel sheets are incomplete. Mostly after Control Alt Delete, the task manager gives up. And, I think I have forgotten the password to restart my system. My son is working on it.

17. I can laugh and cry uncontrollably at the same time on the most stupid incidences until people around me get irritated and terrified at the same time.

18. In my opinion, those who are blessed with naturally fragrant arm pits are the luckiest. Eg: The Husband.

19. In the recent past I have cried over spilt milk maximum number of times…(in the real sense of the term!)

20. Someday I am going to get a ticket for slow speeding in the fast lane...heloo, atleast I have no  traffic fines yet...yup never :D

Well, let the next 5 remain as a soft copy to be edited from time to time in my head. I loved this randomness. Nothing close to “substance’ to be expected under this label…until I go back to my usual comfort zone of meaningful poetry ;)