A rag-tag writeup
I have never expended a singe brow of sweat on my blog when it comes to how I want it to look or whether I have blogrolled and, truth be told, I suck at HTML big time.
Shilpa and Snigdha have tagged me and this phenomenon sounds alien to me. But I am gonna keep the spirit alive though.
Much as Krissh Ashok would scoff, or much worse, snigger at me, a “dear friend’s” prodding has led to this latest entry.
Following are the five, among not many, idiosyncrasies of mine:
1)I hate at the sight of multiple windows’ on my task bar. I imagine a hydra-headed monster waiting to swallow me.
2)I have an amazing propensity for 700MB movie files. I download them because they give credence to the term DVDRIP.
3)Like Naipaul hated India I hate books which have a best-seller tag attached to them with the same intensity. As soon as I notice this tag I tend to dismiss the book as, to borrow a phrase from the British band “Sex Pistols”, “a piss stain.”
4)I refrain from reading on the web, if I can read it on print. I think I will be doing a great disservice to my fraternity. Moreover, the tangibility factor also comes into play.
5) I started getting newspaper at home since the Toronto Cup in 1996 when Ganguly turned out to be the Seth Rogen of Indian cricket. During those days I used to flip through the pages from back-to-front i.e., sports page to the front page. That habit stuck to me till date albeit these days I read it (newspaper).
6 Comments:
Do you realize you have written nothing really personal. Why so evasive? The list is nevertheless hilarious. You are a downloading monster.you freak.
you're going to positively loathe my taskbar. even the windows have windows :D
amen to the second one. dvdrips rock!
some of the bestseller thingies happen to be kinda ok. most of them do suck though. i read the back first :)
i like the feel of a book in my hand. if its unavailable, e-books serve just fine
i should start reading newspapers, i really should...
@Snigdha: The only thing really personal about me are my vital stats :) Thanks to someone this freak has mellowed a lot on the downloading front :P..
@ g-man: Hi thanks for your comment..
I never read the blurb.. Whats the fun in picking up a book which reveals itself even before you sense that wafting smell emanating from the book.. Remember what Voltaire said:
"The secret of being a bore is to 'reveal' everything" :)
blurb! that's the word i was lookin for. i only read the blurbs on so-called bestsellers to make sure they aren't pointless. besides, they don't reveal anything in the blurb. at least not in the books i've read so far
Do write abt ur wrk man...I was expecting to hear frm u rocking when I called u...but well I did not get you at that point.
Anyway this blog is funny :)
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