...things you did not know about the 'beautiful disaster' that is me...

1. Something I cannot do but definitely try is touch the tip of my nose with my tongue...everyone in my clan can and I am the only one who can't so the struggle continues! Weird really

2. I've 2 very vampire'y' looking canines... always been obsessed with the 'cold ones' perhaps?

3. I toss and turn around until I find the perfect position to sleep, funnily enough, my husband told me that I usually slept on my tummy and turned out like an Olympic Runner in freeze frame each day, smug smile on the face intact. Guess what? He sleeps the same way ;)

4. My name was apparently going to be Mrudula or Sai Lakshmi, someone even suggested Repu since I am born on Republic Day. Bless my mom she came up with the name that I go by today. Yeah different story, every one has different spelling variations!

5. I love my husband to death and cannot live without him, even though I keep telling him I can, given my fierce independent nature. He is my baby and if do not have one, I wouldn't kill myself over it.

6. Despite last line in Point 5, I would love to be called mummy by a rolly -polly angelic baby girl.

7. Someone told me chewing gum gave you a well defined Jaw line, so I lived on them for years, didn't realize that being skinny I was bound to have them. All that Ache! God... need to go back to those days, my jaw line is merging with the rest of my face!

8. My first ever boy friend took me on our 1st date to a scary movie - Johnny Depp's 'Sleepy Hollow' in the hope that I would scare easy and jump into his arms/lap. Guess who held my hands all through the movie. Thankfully he didn't feed on my nails!

9. I usually walk very fast or very slow and happen to be in contrast to my walking partner always. I've many a times unknowingly left people behind until they pointed it out to me or I've held some one unknown's hand in thinking that I caught up to my friend or had intimate conversations with complete strangers. Gosh!

10. I wear a size 4 shoe, I shop in the kiddies section much to the embarrassment of the better half!

11. When I hear a song I like, I can listen to it over and over without tiring of it. I will usually sing along if no one else is around since I know people are easily annoyed by it.

12. I loved to climb trees and jump terraces when I was a kid. Surprisingly this Jill did not tumble nor have a great fall.

13. I was a complete tom boy and had only male friends right until college. I wore plaid shirts and slipped into boots even, till I was introduced to the concept of Salon and feminine dressing by my ex. I wondered always what he saw in me until it was a year into our relationship. By God I was a babe ;)

14. My best childhood friend is still very close to me. We plan on marrying my daughter to be to her her son that is.

15. I am so passionate about cricket that in my sleep all I can talk about it is the game and mostly I am cheering someone on or telling some cricketing great how to play a game! Imagine... doesn't help my case that I played for the college team and did not go on to the state team because of a Hitler like dad.

17. I've always tried to emulate lefties when I heard they were born geniuses. Failed miserably! Chicken scrawl of my right hand looked like perfected calligraphy next to it.

19. I've broken many a heart and feel miserable about it. I wish I could say sorry to all of them.

20. I want to turn vegetarian some day! Not just to lose weight.

21. I earned my measly pocket money as a kid by cleaning and polishing dad's formal shoes, and the regular and sports shoes that sis and I wore to school.

22. Cricket was the only sport that interested me. I hated games period because girls and boys had separate areas for play and activities and they always played cricket and girls just well did girlie things!

23. I would like to write a book someday.

24. I've lived in Bangalore for my entire life almost and never ventured outside of it until I joined the company I am in. Being a travel company I was very surprised they hired me since I did not know any city except Bangalore.

24. My head is longish and more an elongated rectangle square than round at the back. Apparently no matter how many times I was placed on my back as a baby, I would turn and sleep on my side - mom's explanation!

25. I like doing absolutely nothing sometimes.

26. I am amazing with spellings and love watching spelling bee programmes to see if I match up to the best!

27. I've come second in an all India painting competition and still proudly display the certificate and goodie bag I got along with it to people who come home.

28. I was called 'Sexy Pepsi' in school even though there was nothing sexy about me. My best friend gave me this nick name as a take on my then addiction to Pepsi and svelte figure (back then - let me remind you).

29. I learned how to drive with my dad sitting at the back, more from him than my instructor. One day he yelled so much at me, I left the vehicle mid road and took a rickshaw back home, never going back to them lessons.

30. I am amazing at parking - dad said so!

31. I plan on getting a tattoo of my baby's face on the blade just below my shoulder.

32. I've worn the same watch for 9 years.

33. I loved creating shadow dramas on the wall next to my bed at night. The large windows facing the wall helped fire creative ideas.

34. There is always music playing on my cell phone be it radio or play lists when I am travelling to work. Helps me keep calm and collect myself.

35. I took my first drag of a cigarette when I was down with chicken pox and miserably bored. Dad was the culprit who gave me the drag. P.S he gave me my first taste of alcohol even!

36. I love the smell of wet earth!

37. I love sleeping on the left side of the bed always... wonder why.

38. I have 3 scars on my forehead, shaped like a trident and my sister had hand in inflicting all three of them in separate instances. Wonder if she was trying to kill me...;) naw!

39. I played fairy god mother in the norm Cinderella drama in high school. Bummer was that I forgot to tell the girl to come home before midnight and the pin at the end of my wand refused to burst the balloon for a pumpkin which would then bring her the men who were to take her ride to the palace.

40. I should have been a masseuse going by the amount of times in a day I'm asked to help ease someone's knots or just make the Better Half feel loved and special and yeah relaxed!

41. We had to sweep our individual classrooms in class VII - X. A boy and girl paired up naturally because the boy would lift all these heavy benches and the girl coughed more than she swept the dust away.

42. I am scared about learning to swim since a horizontally challenged lady landed on me following her cruise down the slide, just I was floundering and recovering from my ride!

43. I hate ketchup sauce or anything that has tomato in it. I however am partial to tomato chutney! Go figure.

44. I scared good old sis with stories of monsters under our bed at night, so she wouldn't wake me up every 2 hours to take a loo break.

45. I hate it when people cheat in a game (be it pictionary, dumb charades or scrabble).

46. I cannot ride a bike to save my life.

47. I've slept for 24 hours in a row one day.

48. I woke up at 6 am every morning right until I finished college. Now try waking me up before 8.30. I am Groucho Max!

49. For the voice I have, I was surprisingly part of the award winning school choir.

50. A famous RJ once told me that I've a bedroom'y' voice and would be an asset to the show that is on at night. Yeah so that did not take off as a career prospect. I did bag a lot of voice overs and recordings though.

51. When dancing as the male lead in 'Gaaliad Saangli Soniachi' a Goan peppy number in high school, I managed to help my female lead get out of her saree by invariably stepping on the pleats each time we came close in a step.

52. I scored 13 for my written test to get my driver's license, the cop made me pass just because I'd the loveliest dimples he'd seen apparently.

53. My husband and I were best friends in the one year that we were together in the same school. I met him several years later on Orkut and when we did meet in person, he rubbed me the wrong way and I did not want to see him again - 3 weeks later we were a couple. I am grateful we are!

54. I used to go lie down on the terrace and look up at the sky to think, clear my mind or just relax. Forming patterns in the clouds was a favourite hobby.

55. I believed strongly that if you caught sight of a single star in the sky (in the evenings) and made a wish on it, it would come true, just because one did.

56. In school, I managed to get a big bully suspended from school for bringing a dagger to school. Yeah so then for the next 3 years he obsessed over me and even had the gall to tell my shocked mother that he wanted to marry me.

57. I can get along with almost anyone if I put my mind to it.

58. I always leave the toilet seat down at home and a once irritated husband has now made peace with this.

59. I love sleeping on my husbands arm each night and the poor fellow is scared shit about taking my pillow away from me, even though he knows an elephant walking past, trumpheting loudly wouldn't wake me up. Such a darling!

60. KFC's zinger burger is my soul food!

61. I was made a 20 round run around the school ground for being late and couldn't walk or stand for 4 days after that. One girl fainted even and then the punishment was eased by the principal, when mom gave her hell! Mom love you!

62. I know jack shit about Insurance, but cleared the exam with 74% despite zilch preparation. This was to help the better half achieve some goals. He was proud of me!

63. I was always the teams spin bowler and big hitter. Given my stature it was hard for anyone to believe.

64. I am scared of falling down and hurting my face always, when on a bike ride or running around home.

65. My blood type is a constant reminder to B+

66. I cannot bargain for nuts! I will argue but give in eventually.

67. I love cats absolutely and better half hates them. He loves dogs and we plan on adopting one soon. I've reached an agreement with him that I would only pamper the canine nothing more, since I wasn't allowed a feline!

68. I've learned both British and American accents.

69. I love to dance in the shower and sing of course in full volume.

70. Dad brought me a love bird when I was a kid. The tiny yellow rings that appeared around its eyes after some days, led me to think that she was sad at being caged and therefore begged him to release her which he kindly did.

71. I love talking about relationships and work, being a psychology student I guess fuels my patience and ability to help people out.

72. I love wearing heels, they give me the much needed height, good posture and confidence that I otherwise lack.

73. I can keep a constant grin on my face and not have my muscles tire at all.

74. I make generous use of smileys in emails, text messages and chats. People think I am a happy person, yeah guilty as declared!

75. My best friend at work stopped talking to me suddenly and I am finding it very difficult to keep myself from thinking about why she did especially since I wasn't offered any reasons!

76. My husband and I have been lovers in our previous births and death of either one of us has caused us to be reborn and re-enter each others lives according to a very good astrologer from God's Own Country. I'd like to believe the Janam Janam Ka Saath Concept not the death caused rebirth and reunion bit!

77. I always wanted to marry a dimpled man, so my kids had a better chance of having them to. We are 50% there, since Better Half has gorgeous dimples, now my baby needs to have them too!

78. I love mum, husband, sister, in laws and work in that order.

79. I stopped believing in God after I saw no relief in the fights and cold wars my parents had from the time I came to understand things right until today, despite my religious prayers each and every day at a temple, at a gurudwara and a church.

80. I married into a religious family and my mother in law doesn't like the fact that I am an Atheist.

81. I do small little things like tie my hair up, wear a bindi, adorn both hands with bangles all the time, irrespective of my clothing and previously free spirited nature to live up to at least some of the expectations the traditional family has from their married daughters and daughter in laws.

82. I love applying sindoor on my fore head each morning and love it even more if the better half does it for me.

83. I loveeeeeeeeeeeeee movies... absolutely love them. Obsessed with English comedy series like Friends, 2 1/2 Men and Scrubs. So much so I can watch repeat telecasts and mouth dialogues without batting an eyelid.

84. I penned many poems for the Better Half when we were courting, for the past 2 years, I've hit a bad writer's block. Pray it melts away. I miss writing stuff for him.

85. I want to name my baby girl Ashima or Bhairavi and if it is a boy then Shiven.

86. Once I'd a all black ward robe. Mom decided to take matters into hand and now I've all possible colours under the rainbow in my wardrobe. Husband's wardrobe has become my pet project too and he now has some colours he would have otherwise not dreamt of wearing. Looks delectable in them of course!

87. I love flowers and each month, the love of my life gave me a bunch of 31 roses for the 1st year of our courting on the date, we officially became a couple. 9th October 2006 to be precise.

88. I've pitch black hair that refuses to behave, refuses to be coloured and thankfully refuses to gray!

89. I am very good at predicting the Bad Guy in Thriller / Mystery movies. Comes from my childhood obsession with Agatha Christie perhaps. Never liked them M & B's. Read one and that was the end of it.

90. I can be blank literally and not thinking anything! Maybe that is why I have '0' stress and no grays?

91. I love Calvin & Hobbes - the imagination of the creator is simply mind boggling. I've a website link to the entire series and I never tire going through it if I need a instant 'pick me up.'

92. If I Had A Lot Of Money I’d skip the 'Miss Universe / Miss Earth / Miss 'Who gives a damn!' statements - secure my children's future.

93. On being challenged, I downed 4 pitchers of beer one after the other, now you know why I slept for 24 hours straight!

94. There are books I can finish in 4-5 hours even if they are 800 pages long and still remember the story and then there are books that I cannot finish even a year down the line, forget their being less than 500 pages long!

95. 'Liquid Music' is a word combination I love... creates so many images in my head! I thought I came up with it, until Channel V came up with a programme by the same name! Talk about copy rights issue!

96. I'd like to term myself a 'beautiful disaster' following the many mishaps I've cornered myself into.

97. My greatest compliment yet coming from my not so generous with them sister: Man you have patience and calmness of a saint. Bet you can live with Bin Laden in a cave for years and change him into you!'

98. I am a walking talking oxy-moron. Love this about me!

99. Communicating verbally is sometimes difficult for me. My brain and mouth do not work in co-ordination with each other. I prefer writing things.

100. My feet are always cold. They would have been an Eskimos’ in their previous birth. They are frozen solid every single time I touch them. The rest of me feels very hot no matter what time of the year. I have to have the fan / a.c on.

There is your walking talking oxy-moron for a woman, namely me!