Viky had me tagged on this. This is the first time I have ever been tagged and what better way for a weirdo to be tagged for writing out about his weirdness. I am sure Viky knew I would fit the tab. :) I know I would not look like a 'weirdo from another planet' to anyone on this earth but so will be the claim from a Martian on his planet too. What’s wired to one may make perfect sense to the other. Well, cutting the crap, here I move on to the tag..
Not on the same page: When I am reading a book, I invariably keep the next page ready to be turned. i.e., if I am reading page 212-213, I keep my right hand index finger between pages 214-215. I don’t know how it got started. May be because I read very fast or may be I picked it up while reading a suspense thriller and did not want to waste a single second thumbing the next page. But the habit stays!
No man's land: Whenever I am waking on a floor that has been paved with tiles etc, I avoid stepping on the line between two tiles. This is true for home/office/shopping mall etc. As again, there is no particular reason for this too. (If there was a reason, we wouldn't call it weird, will we?).
A bit too Froogle: One of my favorite pass-times is to search for things on net, find out their tech specs and prices. Although till date I have not bought a single product from Apple, B&O, Creative, Harman Kardon, iRiver, etc, I can give an authoritative review on the features, design and cost of their product line.
Try before you buy: This one is again on books. Before I buy any book, I always make sure I read at least few pages. I mostly do so on Amazon (alas, I never ordered from them for their shipping costs are bit too high for India). I prefer going to Crosswords bookstore where you can sit and read on for quite some time before the nosey salesman attacks you with the ubiquitous 'May I help you'.
Trivia Mania: I love trivia, more so than the actual useful information. I love giving extremely unlikely searches on Google and I do read up whatever comes out of it. Here is an example search which will make you wiser about one of the aspects of human history.
Oh... I am already at 5. So soon? What about the other ones? Like moist eyes of mine when characters in a movie are going through hard times? Like smelling everything I get my hands on? Like always taking the upper berth in a train? Like always using the number keypad to enter the numbers?... hmmmm, may be for the next tag ;)
And here are the people whom I would tag.
* Aditya
* Hardu
* Anand
* Reserved(1)
* Reserved(2)
Not on the same page: When I am reading a book, I invariably keep the next page ready to be turned. i.e., if I am reading page 212-213, I keep my right hand index finger between pages 214-215. I don’t know how it got started. May be because I read very fast or may be I picked it up while reading a suspense thriller and did not want to waste a single second thumbing the next page. But the habit stays!
No man's land: Whenever I am waking on a floor that has been paved with tiles etc, I avoid stepping on the line between two tiles. This is true for home/office/shopping mall etc. As again, there is no particular reason for this too. (If there was a reason, we wouldn't call it weird, will we?).
A bit too Froogle: One of my favorite pass-times is to search for things on net, find out their tech specs and prices. Although till date I have not bought a single product from Apple, B&O, Creative, Harman Kardon, iRiver, etc, I can give an authoritative review on the features, design and cost of their product line.
Try before you buy: This one is again on books. Before I buy any book, I always make sure I read at least few pages. I mostly do so on Amazon (alas, I never ordered from them for their shipping costs are bit too high for India). I prefer going to Crosswords bookstore where you can sit and read on for quite some time before the nosey salesman attacks you with the ubiquitous 'May I help you'.
Trivia Mania: I love trivia, more so than the actual useful information. I love giving extremely unlikely searches on Google and I do read up whatever comes out of it. Here is an example search which will make you wiser about one of the aspects of human history.
Oh... I am already at 5. So soon? What about the other ones? Like moist eyes of mine when characters in a movie are going through hard times? Like smelling everything I get my hands on? Like always taking the upper berth in a train? Like always using the number keypad to enter the numbers?... hmmmm, may be for the next tag ;)
And here are the people whom I would tag.
* Aditya
* Hardu
* Anand
* Reserved(1)
* Reserved(2)
[ The tags are optional. I dont want you to feel obliged :) ]
2 comments:
that's quite a weird list, well written.
Thanks Chitra!
so unfortunate that there are only 5 that I could list ;)
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