This is a lonnnggg list... but I did it!!!!

1. Am a Scorpio (very typical), lived in five cities and speak five languages fluently.. Know only one phrase in Tamil but if I ever spoke that I would get lynched in Tam land!

2. Parents had a love marriage- they were childhood sweethearts. As a kid I often thought they hated each other cos they banter a lot.. about the smallest thing!

3. My parents have taught me what love is and have given me the space to be me- will always love them for that

4. My precious sweetie is my sis, Pookins, she is 5 and a half years younger than me and I baby her all the time!

5. Pookins bullies me all the time!

6. She thinks I have no ‘sense of style’… and I beg to differ!

7. Though she is my baby sister, she mothers me all the time! Sometimes embarrassingly so!

8. I am extremely vivacious, funny (or so am told!) and sharp…

9. I used to be class clown… now am office clown

10. I have been told I am a good listener… loads of people, some even strangers, have confided in me

11. I think I just have a kind face

12. Or… I think I look like a BIG EAR!

13. I try very hard to not let people down…. I have never let down anybody who has confided in me…

14. Dodo and Addie are two of my closest friends!

15. I can never bullshit Mich no matter how hard I try... she lives in my mind!! !

16. H, Chi, Noops and R (my bestest guy buddies) are overly protective of me

17. They gave me an ‘all guys want only one thing’ lecture before I went to college. Though I squirmed then and laughed at them, I will always love them for being so mad!

18. I used to have a nasty temper as a kid, till I lost it on a close friend in Class XI and learned to control it

19. I have always been a ‘Top 3’ student.. it was like a jinx I tried breaking all my life!

20. I have pretty much done my own thing in life…and I own the consequences of it…and I don’t regret any of it

21. I fell in love for the first time when I was 17… it didn’t work out… life happened to us…

22. It took me three years to get over him and move on

23. Exs cant be friends… it was so painful seeing him again this May.. after seven years

24. I take a long time to fall in love with someone…

25. I also take an equally long time to fall out of love….… and that’s my biggest problem!

26. I find it extremely difficult to tell the guy I love him… that’s another problem!

27. I am extremely sentimental- I have too much junk in my cupboards

28. I am very sensitive- I get hurt very easily, but seldom show it

29. If I have been hurt by someone I don’t ever reach out to that person

30. Once I cut someone out of my life, I never let them in… never…

31. I try and live by one rule- don’t carry baggage.. it slows you down!

32. I knew I shouldn’t be doing an MBA on Day 1 in B School…

33. I did it nevertheless and with top honors… I don’t know why I didn’t quit and walk out!

34. I am proud… I would hate to see bad work/ assignments go out with my name on it Which is why even though I am technically not a part of the rat-race.. I am not out entirely either…

35. I believe in happy endings.. they do happen!!!!

36. I am honest- brutally and painfully so!

37. I am an intense person- I love, hate, worship, detest intensely….

38. I never lead people on… especially someone who has feelings for me I cant reciprocate

39. I hate people who lead others on- they, to me, are even worse than Hitler when he ordered the Holocaust!

40. I am an avid reader… sometimes I think I prefer books to people

41. I went through a long phase of reading only Indian authors.. I found that phase particularly enlightening

42. I was a tomboy as a kid

43. Through school and college I was into dramatics, quizzing and debating in a big way

44. Till about two years ago, I didn’t have a single salwar kameez.. now I have tons of them- love them!

45. I am a cotton person… no synthetics for me! Silk only occasionally….
46. I love fragrances… right now I own Hugo Boss Woman, CK Truth, Arden Beauty, Victoria’s Secret 33and Davidoff Cool Water *the last two courtesy Dodo*

47. I love silver jewellery.. I have loads of good silver stuff

48. I am not a fussy shopper… I usually shop from 2-3 stores in Mumbai…
49. I am not a fussy person. Period.

50. I wish I could be thinner! Maybe I will start working out.. but I know I wont… *lazy grin*

51. I am insecure about the way I look…. But b@#$s... Love me the way I am.. or there’s the door!

52. I am closer to my dad than my mom…..I have told my dad about every single guy I have had a crush on

53. My dad always found fault with all of them- typical ‘no one’s good enough for my little girl’ thing!

54. I love music.. it is a true mood enhancer….

55. ‘With or without you’ is my when-I-am-down-in-the-dumps anthem

56. I cry at the end of sad movies, even if I have seen it a thousand times

57. Shrek is one movie I really loved…and it made me cry…

58. I have always cried during the last scene of Forrest Gump.. something about it is so beautiful

59. I still am painfully naïve

60. I would like to believe that everybody is basically a nice person

61. I am very stunned whenever someone tells me they are attracted to me… I don’t understand why!

62. I have learnt that you don’t learn to appreciate love till you have gone through pain

63. Great love usually comes at the cost of great pain

64. I am very good at remembering birthdays, anniversaries…basically dates and also phone numbers!

65. I always reply to mails, SMSs and letters… and I do so immediately

66. I hate it when people turn up late.. I hate waiting

67. I don’t let even my closest friends know when I am upset or hurting.. at least not initially… eventually I let them in…

68. I always feel the need to communicate with people..er...in other words.. I talk a lot...

69. I lack ambition...of any kind.. I'd rather drift along than make plans..…

70. Five years from now I hope to have much more clarity than I do today...

71. I possess a self-deprecatory sense of humor

72. I am always drawn to people in pain... if someone is hurting, I feel restless till I don't make them feel better about life...

73. It is because of the above that I wanted to become a doctor... but then life had other plans....

74. I am thankful for people in my life who sense I am hurt and do their utmost to make things alright for me... there are not too many of them and so I hoard them like crazy!

76. I do not like people who crowd in on my space.. I need to have certain lines around me which no one (no matter how much I love them) can traverse....

75. I couldI am not particularly crazy about all kids, I only like the happy ones

77. I want to have two kids.. one girl and one boy…I want to call my son Armaan and my daughter Ananya/Anasuya

78. I love pups, especially boxer and bull dogs!!!

79. Success has never gone to my head… nothing ever seems like a BIG enough achievement

80. JRR Tolkien, Roald Dahl and Shashi Tharoor are three of my favourite authors

81. I love U2, Guns n Roses, Sting, Alanis Morrisette and Dido

82. I think I am capable of murder

83. Sometimes I could identify with Bridget Jones (‘die alone in a flat….. half eaten by Alsatians!’)

84. I watch Friends, Will & Grace, That 70s show, Titus and Roswell as often as I can

85. I hate the stench of airline food

86. I also hate the feeling of overwhelming loneliness that I feel in hotel rooms

87. I am a light sleeper.. the smallest sound wakes me up

88. The alarm clock inside my head is painfully accurate!

89. I sleep on my right side

90. I have been told I have nice eyes… haa haa.. that’s the only redeeming physical attribute I have!

91. I want to streak my hair purple… but I know I am too chicken to do it

92. I sketch and paint.. decently….

93. I laugh uproariously… sometimes embarrassingly so

94. Most parents usually take a liking to me… they think I am a good kid!

95. I am deceptively angelic

96. I am very easily embarrassed… and amused

97. I smoothly deliver white lies.. but am a bad liar when it comes to the things that matter!

98. I’d rather not watch scary movies…. *brrrrr*

99. I am scared of bikes.. the only person with whom I feel safe on a bike is Vin!

100. and I don’t believe I actually put down this list!!!!! I surprise myself…!! Though I usually surprise myself with my resilience… I can be down but am NEVER out!