Tagged .. and Posted..

My last post was about "aimless" take-offs... and I have shown no signs of being a regular blogger as yet .. so one more time with the same resolve of being regular henceforth I open my blog .. and then I see that I have been tagged by Paapi and Spanker :)...
This is a great way for me to start off posting again .. (and hope I keep my resolve strong :) ) .. so here we go
The rules are as follows:
1. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
2. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
3. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.

So then let the facts present themselves as ....

1. I have a theory that "If There Is Heaven It Must Be Made Of Chocolate" (preferably of the 'dark' variety at places). There has to be chocolate castles, with regenerative doors and windows so that if you chip off a lump of chocolate from them and gulp it, the damage is recovered (something like the Gingerbread castle in Hansel and Gretel). Needless to say... the chocolate fairies with 'candy' wands will be something more than a treat to the eye.
P.S: It follows that it would be a huuge understatement to say that I love chocolates... anywhere, anytime.

2. The greatest social faux pas that I can rememer to have committed is to have mentioned "Mohd. Azharuddin" under "Your Latest Crush" column in a girl's slam book in school (...this was way back in time, when I obviously did not know what 'crush' meant, and was filling up a girl's slambook for the first time...)
Needless to say the girl read that, asked me if I had really written that, in reply to which I gave a very confident "Yes", and then the "damn he's a weirdo" look on her face followed by a burst of giggles. As for me, my more knowledgeable friends made sure that I realize what a blunder I had committed, and the giggles made sure I feel wretched to have done something that foolish.

3. I had nothing for music at all when I was a kid. I did not love music as such, and in fact the first time we bought a tape recorder, it was because the kid next door also had one, and he made sure that the volume knob was turned to the maximum whenever he played anything . It was only when I was down with chicken pox at the end of my 3rd standard that I started taking a keen interest in music. I was basically confined to my bed, and all I could do was to listen to music, and watch TV. It was then that my mom also thought of teaching me some beginner's stuff. This kept going on thereafter...

4. I am very enthusiastic about movies, be it good movies, or reasonably good movies or even timepass level movies. I dunno if that alone can explain the fact that I have watched a particular movie about 20 times, and would not mind watching it again. The movie is named "Anand" starring Rajesh Khanna, and Amitabh Bachchan, directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. I remember my parents telling me that when I was a kid i once cried even as I watched the ending of the movie. The movie in itself is a gem, and if anyone reading this has not yet seen it I would suggest you go watch it. Its a very toucing story, and brilliant performances by the actors. However, I still dunno if that explains why I can keep on watching it again and again.

5. I am definitely someone who has been born with the bad luck of never being able to encash a gift voucher/coupon. May sound weird, but its true. Whatever gift vouche s/coupons I have received till date have all been wasted, never have I been able to use/encash them. The causes have been different, but the outcome has always been me throwing them away or even giving them away in some cases!! All the vouchers that I got from the school fests/inter school competitions/in college etc have had the same fate, and everytime I hope that the next time at least I will be able to make use of one of them... alas !!
(P.S: The fact that I m mentioning this is (obly) because I just discovered that yet another gift coupon has suffered the same fate)

6. My kindergarten days in school has been an absolute nightmare.. not only for me but also for my school security guards, the bathroom cleaners, and the class teachers. Basically, I was not quite fond of the idea of going to school, what with the first time outside home, without my parents around and all that. And the biological manifestation to all this resentment was in a very odd manner which my bowels would be able to explain better. So it happened that every day I had to go to school with a set of spare pants, the moment my first set had been 'dechastised', I was rushed to the toilets by my teacher, then the cleaners took over, and finally with the spare set on, the security guards took me back home. This had quite become the daily schedule, till I was in the middle of my first standard, and then things changed....

7. Among the many Bong traits that I have inherited, the most notable one of them is the "Food connection". I absolutely love checking out different varieties of culinary preparations, love eating my heart out when I feel good (and people who have been around me might testify this)... but most of all ... I take great pleasure in describing how good a preparation was in great detail to someone who hasn't already checked it out. I feel like being the guide who takes people around in an exhibition of food items from different parts of the country (even world if possible) and detailing them about every item there and watch their eyes light up or their mouth water at the sight of some such dish (which I have already tasted). May be weird, but such is the "Food Guy" within me.

8. I have suffered 6 injuries all around my eyes, a couple of them have lend me permanent cut marks, but all of them have been after I started wearing spetacles and never were the specs affected at all. I guess that is some kind of record that I can claim to have achieved. My friends who have been there when I got some of those injuries wonder even today as to how they saw it all happen in front of their eyes...the injury or the smash against my face, and yet specs saved.
(P.S: for all those who are thinking why this is so please let me tell you that even then I had high power spectacles and without them I was practically a goner)
(P.S: also .. I damaged my specs a bit very recently .. so the whole issuewas fresh in my mind)

Lets see... now for tagging ... damn most of the people I wanted to tag have already been tagged ... guess I am very late into this ... anyways... I tag debanjan, louda, sayan, munnu, kawde, reeshav, dharik, galib.