8RF

My good friend and Cockas had tagged me quite some time back, and I conveniently chose to ignore it - flatly telling the world that I was too busy. I usually don't like lying, so here I am, responding to the tag.

Here are the rules:

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.

8RF about me:

1. I have given my parents enough reasons to believe (forcibly, perhaps) that I'm one screwed up kid they have. It all started with U.K.G, when I proposed to a girl in school. I was expecting a better reaction to a 'I love you' than the girl walking straight home and telling my mom about it. If I seriously meet his girl now (That I don't remember her much makes it rather impossible), I would like to clarify to her that I didn't really mean it then and she should stop taking things seriously in life.


2. I was a naughty kid at School. I've got sent out of class more number of times than I can remember, I'd been suspended in 9th Std for laughing at a teacher's torn Saree (at an objectionable spot) and many more such memorable incidents. Some teachers also used to have a problem with me using their full names directly in the articles I used to write in the 'writing' section of the English paper. It was embarrassing to them, apparently. For instance, I remember I wrote a short story in an English exam where I based the story on a kidnapping incident with our PT teacher as the kidnapper. I really loved writing the story, but didn't really like the scolding that followed.


3. I've had great problems with my braces, when I had them. I've broken my incisors during volleyball, I've had my lips stuck between the braces once, etc etc so much so that my dentist told me openly that I was one of the 'strangest' and 'most difficult' patients he had had. I'm morbidly afraid of braces now.


4. I consider logic to be one of the main guiding principles of my life. Everything has to be logical to me, has to 'make sense'. Otherwise I get really pissed and sometimes can't stand it. Though I've had people arguing with me suggesting that things are not entirely logical in the world. I somehow find that tough to comprehend. I wouldn't want to be a logician or anything, but I'd largely want to use logic in my professional career - whatever may be the situation. I think it's one of the best things in this world, right now.


5. I am called 'Database' by some people. The reason for this follows. I grew up wanting to be in IIT, largely because of my dad and his constant glorification of the place and imbibing this feeling into me that I should be here or nowhere else. Harmoniously, I too developed that passion for IIT, and specifically JEE. I religiously used to follow all the JEE toppers' names - those that used to come in papers etc. I just used to relate to JEE so much in life, that it was pretty laughable. One of the most memorable incidents regarding this has been the following:

Incident : Ragging in my freshie year - At Gurunath - Torso, Mahanama etc

Torso, to me: So tell me, have you heard of AT? (AT is Arvind Thiagarajan, IITM batch of 2005 - JEE 2001 topper)

Me: Of course

Torso: What of course? How do you know him?

Me: He was AIR 1 in 2001

Torso: Oh, so you're some big stud eh? All JEE 1 and all you know. Bastard. Tell me, who was AIR 1 in 99?

Me: Abhinav Kumar. He's now at Harvard

Torso: !!. 97?

Me: Arvind Sararf

Torso: Wtf! 95?

Me: Subash Ajit Khot

Torso: Floored

Don't blame me. I'm really passionate about a few things


6. One thing I just cannot do in life is to be Average. I always have this urge in me to be the best in whatever I do, and I feel miserable if I'm not. Of late, I've understood that this urge in me is not entirely practical - So I've begun to accept compromises - However, I would still want to be the best.


7. I always look for humor in life - Day to day incidents - People. To me, a person is lifeless is he/she is not funny. And I've increasingly started to dislike people who do not appreciate humor and like those who do. To me, that's something that can keep you going anytime.


8. I'm a big big Pink Floyd fan. To give you an example, I really plan to have Floyd playing in the background during my wedding reception (when_ever I get married, that is)

I don't tag anyone.