| A cop-out post |
[Nov. 26th, 2008|11:11 am] |
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If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a completely made up, fictional memory of you and me.
It can be anything you want - good or bad - but it has to be fake.
When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and I will post a fictional memory of you and me on your page.
UPDATE: Thanks to those who played. I'll cook up some zany memories and post them on your blog in just a couple of days. But one question - do I just post my memory randomly or are you guys gonna make a post about this and I leave a comment with my memory there?? |
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[Jan. 11th, 2007|02:47 pm] |
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Meme courtesy of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kampongchicken.
Layer ONE
On the Outside
Name: Resipsacrap
Birth Date: 5 August 1979
Current Status: In a relationship
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair Color: Black
Righty or Lefty: Righty
Zodiac Sign: Leo (Indian sign: Sagittarius)
Layer TWO
On the inside
Your Heritage: Indian
Your Fears: Failure
Your Weaknesses: Extreme sloth
Your Perfect Pizza: zesty vegetarian sans broccoli
Layer THREE
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Your thoughts first waking up: I need a job asap!
Your Bedtime: Varies tremendously
Your most missed memory: Being in university in S'pore
Layer FOUR
Your Pick
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
McDonald’s or Burger King: Haven't had either in a significantly long time to comment.
Adidas or Nike: Nike
Lipton tea or Nestea: Strong Indian tea, with tons of bubbles
Chocolate or vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or coffee: Coffee
Layer FIVE
Do you
Smoke: Loosely speaking, yes.
Curse: In recent times, repeatedly & heatedly
Layer SIX
In the Past Month
Drank alcohol: Yes
Gone to the mall: Yes
Been on stage: No
Eaten sushi: Yes
Dyed your hair: Yes (highlighted it red)
Layer SEVEN
Have You Ever?
Played a stripping game: No
Changed who you were to fit in: Yes
Layer EIGHT
Age you’re hoping to be married: 29
Layer NINE
In a Girl/Guy
Best eye colour: Whichever one suits him the best
Best hair colour: Dark
Short or long hair: Short
Layer TEN
What Were You Doing
1 minute ago: Doing this meme
1 hour ago: Making ramen noodle soup for sick Roommate
4.5 hours ago: Reading news
1 month ago: Doing MBE questions
1 year ago: In law school, having just started my 3.5-day weekend, with then-boyfriend 3L. Wow, life sure has changed.
Layer ELEVEN
Finish the sentence
I love: reading
I feel: calm yet anxious
I hate: uncertainty
I hide: weaknesses
I miss: my friends in S'pore
I need: a job that will allow me to stay on in the US.
Layer TWELVE
Tag 5 people
co_techie, tommybarbarella, divisadero, ice_princess69, & queencallipygos.
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| Because it is exam time... |
[May. 4th, 2006|12:02 pm] |
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... it shall also be meme time! Courtesy of queencallipygos
The idea here is that someone tags you with a letter, and you have to come up with 10 words that start with that letter that mean something to you. ….And, because this is a meme, if you want to play let me know and I’ll give you a letter next.
I got tagged with 'R'. So here goes:
1. Rain: I dislike it, very much. I know it's supposed to be romantic and it's nurturing to the flora and mother earth and all of that, and while I can see it, I still dislike it. Singapore is an equatorial country, so it rains almost constantly there. I feel like being there for as long as I was left me wanting nothing more than a desert-like arid climate, totally devoid of rain. I love cloudy weather, I think it's enormously sensuous and intense and romantic, but the minute the clouds bear fruit, that romance evapourates.
2. Romance: You knew this was coming, didntcha! This is a concept I have been pondering on a lot lately. I always thought I was a romantic fool, that I was sentimental and sweet and all of the rest of it. Apparently I'm not, according to someone. I disagree. There are a myriad of ways to be romantic, and I got too used to one way and was stuck in that run. While that may speak volumes about my adaptability, it does my very-existent sense of romance no justice. I am indeed a very romantic person. When I see a garden in bloom in the dead of winter (like I did in Williamsburg, VA), I am literally overwhelmed by an inexplicable wave of emotion, and I want to encapture that oft-vague-yet-overpowering emotion in order to then share it with the significant people in my life. I may not be poetic and I may be guilty of hammering out an armour so thick in order to protect my vulnerabilities, but I am decidedly a romantic. And that is very important to me,... to who I am, and to who I want to be.
3. Rationality (and reason): I value rationality highly. I don't believe that one has to snuff out the heart in order to have a head. As with everything else, it's a balance, and while it is essential to our species to have heart and to have compassion, it is equally important to not let emotion sap us dry. I like logic and I sometimes make decisions based solely on logic. I try to rationale (and analyse) situations in order to strike that balance between what works for me emotionally and what makes sense to me rationally. It is important to be that I understand the decisions I take, so that I am at peace with myself even if I have made a mistake in some of those decisions. I believe that in order to achieve that, I need reason to aid me and my emotions.
4. Reading: I am and always will be, a true-blue reader. I grew up escaping into the fantasy world deftly and creatively spun by my childhood hero Enid Blyton. She taught me, along with a host of other authors, how to make the most of my imagination. She opened up my eyes to new ways of looking at a tree (the magic faraway tree still remains one of my favourite Blyton tales), a group of children, at grown ups. With her around, Adventure was everywhere! As I grew older, my reading habits became more "sophisticated", but I still read primarily to escape from reality, to explore the horizons of Fantasy. I learned a lot from my reading habit and it is in huge part to that habit that my self-sufficience (what there is of it) is due. If I were to be stranded on a deserted island, I'd want to be stuck with a novelist who can churn out books as fast as I can finish them.
5. Red: One of my fave colours. It is bold, beautiful, passionate, intense, romantic. What's not to like? Not to mention, the right hue looks good on me.
6. Religion: I have no place for it in my life. Religion, to me, is nothing but a way of living one's life. That it has come to be abused is extremely sad but inevitable. For religion is nothing but a tool of asserting power over another. Sometimes the power can be well-intentioned and meant to guide and be beneficial, but it is my belief that religion simply lends itself more easily to abuse. I can be and am a good person without being a good Hindu/Muslim/Christian/Buddhist/Jain/et al.
7. Relaxation: Very important to me. I can't be the best I can without it. Enough said.
8. Reflection: It makes me a better person and internal reflection always helps me understand myself and my actions better. I think reflection sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom and is what assures us of a special place in evolution.
9. Roaches: Speaking of evolution, this creature has probably beaten that game to death! It is one of the yuckiest creatures in existence and the very thought of one makes me want to barf...uugggghhhh.
10. Rights: As a law student, it is funny how I never thought of rights until the very end! Or perhaps, it is precisely why it took me so long to come up with it... I study it to death, in order to keep it alive. Rights are important, but I think some societies cary it too far. They get so wrapped up in preserving rights that they do not reflect enough on the other side of the coin - responsibility. Sometimes I think that this is a natural pendulum swing... that puritanical society sprung up because its predecessors were too right-oriented and puritans (and other extremely rigid and conservative cultures) came into existence to get the pendulum to swing back. I'm thinking of Rome and the bacchanalian orgies it had, and also the story of Dashavatar, in particular, of Kalki. In a nutshell, the age of kaliyuga is said to be characterised by an utter lack of discipline, selfishness, excesses of every kind, and a loss of all morals. To save mankind from such a society, God will step in to save the day, so to speak. |
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| It's gonna be a very long, hard Day... |
[Apr. 13th, 2006|07:33 am] |
To ease the pain a little, I'm blogging away. Even as my deadline tries to rear-end me. What can I say, I'm perseverant. In my blogging endeavours, I found this on queencallipygos' blog.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Use what's actually next to you.
Mine is: A doctor must also warn a patient if the patient's condition or medication renders certain conduct, such as driving a car, dangerous to others.
Gah. It's a line from opinion in the famous case, Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California. No surprises here, the sentence comes from my Bioethics book, which is the book on my lap because I'm (quasi) working on the goddamn paper.
Now go forth and find your nearest book. |
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| Four is the number |
[Jan. 25th, 2006|03:27 pm] |
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Here's another meme for y'all.
Four Jobs You've Had
Substitute teacher at a middle school
2 paralegal positions at 2 different law firms
Intern with Siemens
Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over
Miss Congeniality
Michael Madana Kama Rajan (Tamil movie)
Fight Club
Any Police Academy movie
Four Places You've Lived
Hyderabad, India
Madras/Chennai, India
Singapore
Philadelphia, PA
Four TV Shows You Like to Watch
Gilmore Girls
Friends
Frasier
Law & Order
Four Places You've Been on Vacation
Phuket, Thailand
Australia
Thekkadi, India
Bintan, Indonesia
Four Websites You Visit Daily
BBC
Livejournal
Google
Lawcrossing
Four of My Favorite Foods
Aloo gobi
Burgers
Tacos
Pizza
Four Places I'd Rather Be
Singapore
Cancun
Cyprus (don't ask, I've been fascinated with this place since my first Agatha Christie book!)
New York (LOVE the pulse of that city!)
Four Albums I Can't Live Without
You all should know by now that am not really a music person, so this question is moot.
Four People to Tag With the Lists
Sorry, I don't play favourites! Feel free to consider yourself tagged. |
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| Music & me |
[Nov. 30th, 2005|08:08 pm] |
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I'm not a huge music fan. As I was telling 3L earlier today, lately I've been enjoying music only because it's associational. In the sense that listening to music brings back happy memories. So I'm not open to new music these days... I only listen & like music that evokes good feelings in me and that harkens back to my childhood or my time in S'pore. So doing this meme was a bit of a challenge. But since am a sucker for those things, here goes...
List ten songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Livejournal along with your ten songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to:
These are NOT in order of preference:
- Wagon wheel (Title) - Old crow medicine show (Artist)
- Comfortaby numb - Pink Floyd
- Unforgiven II - Metallica
- Patience - Guns n Roses
- Sweet child o' mine - GnR
- Pacchai nirame - A.R. Rahman
- Feel - Robbi Williams
- I'm a man of constant sorrow - (dunno artist) Theme song of O Brother Where Art Thou
- I will survive - Cake
- Nothing else matters - Metallica
I tag Agaricus, KampongChicken, BitsofMela, SundanceTango, Energy Spatula, Magic Cookie, Beanie, Divine Angst, and Legal Quandary. And of course, anyone else who's interested to. |
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