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Friday, September 14, 2007

18 and Above

No explicit content, peepals, it's the 18 things you've all been dying to know about me. Oh, someone already died? Thou hast not died in vain, O William of Avon, thy sacrifice has been rewarded. You can read this if you can access the net from your grave. You can all thank Sreejith for this literary masterpiece.

1. Pick out a scar you have, and explain how you got it.
Healed scar, 0.5 * 0.1 cm, on the dorsum of the right hand, 1 cm below and lateral to the 2nd metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint. I had my viva exam in Forensic Medicine yesterday, so please forgive me for not speaking English. Translated, it's a small scar on the back of my right hand, below my index finger. Don't be misled by the size, I bled like a stuck pig. As is true of all of women's problems, this too was due to an MCP. Looks can be deceiving. That's him on the right.

2. What does your phone look like?
You don't know what an iPhone looks like? Tsk-tsk.* I was just dying to say that. My phone is a combination of dirty silver and a particularly ugly shade of blue, thanks to some idiot at Sony Ericsson who thought he was a designer.

3. What is on the walls of your bedroom?
Blood, and other less colourful things that splatter when people die under torture. Makes for a very unique design. I could tell you why they were tortured, but then I'd have to kill you.

4. What is your current desktop picture?
This one, from my favourite comic strip, Pearls Before Swine, by Stephan Pastis. Zeeba Zeeba Eata!

5. Do you believe in gay marriage?
Weddings are serious affairs, sometimes a little too serious, so I think a little more liveliness would do no harm. And if the bride(groom) and (bride)groom add to the gaiety, I have no objections.

6. What do you want more than anything right now?
I want mosquitoes to practice birth control.

7 . What time were you born?
My mom went to work as usual, thinking about her maternity leave which began the next day, and how her little Arjun would be born after a month. She was wrong on all counts. I came along a few hours later, and turned out to be this 2.4 kg Amazon any football team would be proud of! Everyone was expecting a boy, because of how I used to kick. Amma's sari would be lifted into the air and slowly come to rest against her tummy, waiting for me to start again. And I was a month early, the doctor said I was as developed as a baby at full term, so I didn't have to be incubated.

8. Are your parents still together?

My dad is watching TV, and my mom is in the kitchen. So technically, they're not. No mean feat, considering the Bush-heart-Osama moments, (flashback to the time Sun Tzu visited them to get tips on waging wars), but it's been 32 years. Are you listening, Nobel Peace Prize guys? I need one!

9. Last person who made you cry?
It wasn't a person, it was a weighing machine. *sob*

10. What is your favorite perfume / cologne?
I never go out and buy perfume because all my relatives in the Gelf insist on gifting perfumes, and I don't get a choice in the matter. My favourite so far was Red Door.

11. What kind of hair/eye color do you like in the opposite sex?
I can't stand guys with straightened long hair and tinted contacts, a fad that is hugely popular here. Somebody shoot me!

12. What are you listening to?
Moody Blues- Nights in White Satin.

13. Do you get scared of the dark?
I go to sleep clutching a torch and another one under my pillow so that if there's a power failure in the middle of the night and my night lamp goes off, I can scare Count Dracula away. He attacks only in total darkness. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and shine my torch around the room, to ensure that he isn't hiding behind the bookshelf. No exaggeration, this.

14. Do you like painkillers?
They go well with my migraine.

15. Are you too shy to ask someone out?
I think I would be. Anyone who could make me want to ask him out would be capable of making me tongue-tied.

16. If you could eat anything right now, what would it be?
Grapes. I'm crazy about grapes. I can eat grapes morning, noon and night, and even while I sleep.

17. Who was the last person you made you mad?
An ad for spectacle lenses with brand mark. Brand nahi to style nahi. What the bloody effing nonsense? I'd like to throw my Lacoste shoes at them.

18. Who was the last person who made you smile?
My cousin, when he rang up and asked for Dr. AP. :)

Anyone who has cats can take up this tag.

PS: Bill from Avon, stop turning over in your grave.
PPS: The guy who gave me the scar is actually a girl. He's pregnant now.

11 comments:

the Monk said...
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the Monk said...

Take a bow, Doc. Funny, funny stuff.

Now go comment on my blog. And be just as nice.

Unknown said...

well...i didn't know anything about you..well, except that you are a med student..and a blogger..
now i know 18 more.

sony phones are good..they are my precious little babies which give me endless amount of songs, quality pics, and you can talk to someone too.

cool.. I just got people's heads on my wall..sort of like a trophy collection...

sniff...i was incubated...it was horrible..so hot over there...

weighing machine... do what garfield did..reprogram it.

heh...foolish child. I do not attack only when its dark...thanks to modern advancements..I can attack whenever I wish...even in daytime..your little torch doesn;t scare me..for I now apply SUNSCREEN!
i am the drac. Fear me!
though I do fear one thing... bats..don't like bats.. whoever said vampires like bats was an idiot.

grapes...YAY FOR GRAPES!!!!
(inside joke..for more info visit :
http://hersheydesai.blogspot.com/2007/04/life-is-good.html)

and finally,
"PPS: The guy who gave me the scar is actually a girl. He's pregnant now"
ahem... "He?"

Anonymous said...

The cat's so unbelievably cool! look at it stare right into the camera! i can't get over it! i had one when i was a toddler :)

and the answers are so adorable ;)

mathew said...

. What does your phone look like?
You don't know what an iPhone looks like? Tsk-tsk.*

Lol..that was classic answer..good blend of humour in the tag..

tangled said...

You are funny :D

Tys on Ice said...

:) ...now , who is the moron who said that docs cant be funny?

AP, you are going to be my official eye doc..so finish tht exams and become one...

ToOothlEss WOndeR! said...

**I want mosquitoes to practice birth control.

I so want mice to practice birth control. My kitchen has at leat three, and i cannot use the kitchen sink, because they've eaten the tube up.

Adorable Pancreas said...

@the monk:
Thank ye, ascetic. :)

@hershey desai:
*gulp* sunscreen? And I was thinking you could turn into a bat.
You never know with cats. We used to have one called Charlie who gave birth to triplets.

@sreejith:
She loves the camera. Must have been a model in her previous life.
And thank you.

@mathew:
Thank you, Mathew. Hey, that rhymed! Maybe I should try my hand at poetry some time.

@tangled:
Good good. I love Chandler.

@tys on ice:
Not me, tys. All the wise asses in tha nation are in my class. This is a survival skill.
I'm done with the eye. I'll post again soon.

@toothless wonder:
Birth control for mice, bunny rabbits, and mosquitoes. It should make for a successful industry.

Amey said...

I see they are advertising your phone as "Never miss a date". Any relation?

The guy who gave me the scar is actually a girl. He's pregnant now.

I have heard cats like to be mysterious.

Sheryll Sampson said...

Hi. I just came across ur blog. (Yay Serendipity!) It's really good. I adore Pearls before Swine too. Didn't think anyone else did tho... so double yay.