ONLY for @ketpan - 20 confessions:

1. I am addicted to music. The first thing I do in the kitchen, car, work, set up my music/channel. Maybe it's cause of my mother and Radio Ceylon! Jagjit Singh’s gazals, Kishore Kumar's sad songs can make me bawl. I drive according to the mood of the music I am listening to. I used to be a good singer at one time but now I am amazingly besura. I have never attended a concert just a few live shows.

2. I still don’t know how I managed to get where I am. The man I married, the job I do, the place I live in, .... I, at times, feel I am living a surreal life and there is another place I should have been in!! I miss my father more than ever before. He would have loved this world of technology.

3. I end buying similar things when I cannot choose between them. I have to watch my spending if not for my bank balance, for the lack of space. I also get bored with those things and I give them away and when I do that, I start to miss them!

4. I can be friendly with all sorts of people and understand their rationale for doing things. People I take to are stuck with me. I will end up offering advice, giving you gyan, pampering you, fighting with you, for you ... I have some very good, patient friends. Some I wonder why I still insist on thinking of as "friends" - but that's me. I miss being an enigma or a mysterious creature.

5. I cannot handle mean/evil/sick/negative people. And if they have "used" me or betrayed my trust, they are worse than scum for me. Actually, I don't like weak or clingy people too much either. I will sympathize and then block them in my head.

6. I have very little patience but now with age I am getting to the state where I can live without instant gratification.

7. I believe in the power of astrology and esp. effects of shani. Although, I am confused about the cycle of births, destiny, luck, and/or free will. It makes me feel very powerless and angry.

8. I detest domestic violence and any form of torture on children or any weaker person. Parents who screw up their children deserve a special place in hell, if you ask me.

9. I end up worrying about people who create misery for themselves in their quest for peace or attention. I also feel that those who give you attention or time when they want to and not when you need are very selfish and I think I am more selfish than most.

10. I have a fetish for reading all sorts of things that merge reality and fiction. If it’s a historical book, I am addicted. I don't think I will ever write a book. I like people who can write well. And poems get special points :)

11. I think I am a passive smoker!I will never ever smoke. The idea of that dark smoke IN me. Eeeks!!!! But thanks to a smoker dad and hubby, I think the smell just calms me down! Scary!!!!

12. I love, hate, and end up constantly reliving experiences – the power of smell and memories! A whiff of a perfume on a saree that’s in a suitcase, can take me back to feeling exactly what I felt the last time I wore it.

13. I hate being flatfooted esp when I am on a beach or when I had to do the "walk into the in-laws house". I love all sorts of footwear! I own a lot of stuff, but land up with comfy slip-ons.

14. I really have no answer when people ask me "Where do you see yourself in XYZ years?" Errr .... alive and well?

15. I realized how much I love my sister when I was told she has a tumor.We cannot be together for more than 5 hours without fighting but that's okay. We sisters have a really bizzare love/hate relationship. I guess that's normal. My mother is my source of peace and strength.

16. I rarely have fever but catch a cold in a jiff.

17. I like papaya more than most people. I don't like strawberries. So much for the strawberry and cream experiences!

18. I love chocolate but never as chocolate icecream! And I ONLY like vanilla ice-cream. Hmm... maybe tooti-fruity and orange bar too :)

19. I cannot handle supari - even a small piece can make my head swim. I don't deal with alcohol very well either.

20. I can never, ever drive in a left-hand drive country. I cannot drive a two-wheeler since my accident and I miss having that ability.

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