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As the 100th post, I decided to do the very self-indulging... the very revealing,....'100 things about me!'

But I can't. 50 is my upper limit for apparently. So yes, here we go:

1. first career fancied: archaeology.

2. last cooked: a bowl of oats.

3. last played with: lego blocks.

4. currently reading: Ian Rankin, black and blue.

5. current favorite author: Roddy Doyle

6. desserts: should be served after removing the cooked raisins and with extra nuts

7. movie i plan to watch next: date night

8. dream destinations: istanbul, moscow, england, ireland and this very pretty volcano the name of which i cant seem to remember

9. bond with my parents while: playing scrabble

10. one thing i wont regret about my exes: their downloads

11. mallu breakfasts: are the best ever and i only fully discovered it during my current stay at home

12. wish i had responded aptly to: so how did you get that score for the IQ testish thing? was it a fluke or did u prepare?

13. the meanest thing anyones ever told me: that i am psychologically unstable.

14. biggest fear: is being an all round nobody

15. other peripheral fears include: heights, fatal or disfiguring diseases, snakes and kerala society

16. one famous personality that irritates me: abhishek bachan

17. one celebrity i am in awe of: meryl streep

18. animals/ birds ive had as pets: dogs, goats, rabbit, kingfisher, squirrel, pigeons

19.  killed an animal? as a kid, i microwaved a half formed pigeon's egg to speed up its birth...i had a hazy concept of incubation.

20. the nicest thing anyones ever told me: you are my favorite person in the whole world :)

21. biggest turn ons: comedy and flattery

22. biggest turn offs: indoor 'quality time' which involves football or computers, flashy clothes

23. always up for: card games and shopping

24. if i were to star in a fictional bollywood movie: i wanna play abhay deol's funky lesbian sister, where we also happen to be hitting on the same leading lady

25. what gets me mad: lack of cooperation from expected sources

26. i am rather good at: planning surprises

27. i am terrible at: doing intentional sexy

28. i am disturbingly: over-analytical

29. i am constantly trying to, but not getting better at: fighting without outbursts and indignation and muddled up everything or not not fighting at all

30. two artists i recently discovered and liked: gustav klimt and marc chagall

31. my interest in music is: low

32. but my all time favorite song is: sunny afternoon by the kinks

33. and my favorite band is: death cab for cutie

34. fictional characters, people have drawn similarities with: garfield, the girl in white oleander, miss marple, andy pipkins from little britain and lata in a suitable boy

35. i want my next trip to be to: sikkim

36.i particularly admire people who are: fundamentally principled but never self-defeatingly so and those who can draw the line between sensible cunning and cheap/evil cunning.

37. of late i have buying too many: earrings

38. the last person to msg me was: sanjukta

39. one thing that i would definitely like to do for my parents is: take them on a nice, planned trip somewhere.

40. one manly thing about me: are my feet.

41. kisses: generally invoke no feelings in me, but in the off chance it does, it’s a deal maker

42. i am disturbed by: flaring nostrils

43. sing? dance? paint? cook? no, no, yes, yes

44. public display of affection: holding hands, arm over shoulders and a peck at max

45. the damnest slip of memory: was when i forgot to pick nats up from the railway station on her first visit to bombay. to top it, my phone was switched off.

46. as a parent: ill make a better dad

47. i like the smell of: apples, vanilla, freshly baked cakes

48. i have my tea: very hot, with half milk, half water, a chunk of ginger and no sugar.

49. the last time i laughed like crazy was for: isla fishers dance scene in confessions of a shopaholic

50. what i miss most right now: cocoa tree and the gang