Memes have been floating around blogsphere with people talking about their *strange* habits. Out of lack of anything else more useful to write, I have decided to do the same. Wanted to come up with a witty title for this blog but I reached ‘Six strange ‘ and then couldn’t think of a third word thereby landing on ‘Saltines’! For the folks in India, saltines are a brand of wheat biscuits.
1. I am a compulsive early riser. CANNOT lie in bed and look at the ceiling unless of course, I am crashing at a friend’s place and everyone’s zzzzing away and I have nothing to do. I hate missing the early part of the day and sleep cannot compensate for the precious morning hours spent in bed. Likewise I hate sleeping in the afternoons. The few times that I have done that, I have woken up feeling awfully disoriented.
2. I sit cross-legged. Most of the time. At work, on flights, in restaurants, theatres – wherever I can get my legs to fit, I kick my shoes off, draw my legs up and sit in the half-lotus position.
3. I hate growing my nails. Makes me very uncomfortable – have to cut them off as soon as they reach a reasonable length.
4. I have three piercings in each ear.
5. I carry men’s handkerchiefs. None of those delicate, wisp-like, feminine bits of cloth or Kleenex for me. When I lived in Bombay, I used to take Daddy’s square print ones and now I take them from Pinch.
6. I have tried a helluva lot but have not been able to get into the habit of wearing perfume. Maybe I just don’t have that kind of a refined sensibility.
So much for talking about myself!
spotty_sri says:
Here are my oddities:
1. I cannot for the life of me get up early in the morning. I can stay up all night and not feel the pinch, but if I go to bed, I have to sleep for at least 7 hours or I keep falling asleep all over the place.
2. I sit cross legged everywhere (too). Mostly because my legs are too short to reach the floor if I sit on a chair/couch/anything!
3. I absolutely hate carrying a handbag. I will do anything to not carry anything in my hands – but if I am carrying something, that bag will contain almost everything. Kind of like the bag that Jennifer Lopez carries in WEDDING PLANNER – containing everything that you might *possibly* need. You say you need a scrunchie, or a pair of scissors, or maybe some needle and thread? Just dig into my bag, and you got it!
4. I get really bugged by people who talk on cellphones every chance they get – in a restaurant, at a movie, in the queue for the loo (“Yeah I’m standing in the queue for the loo” or “I’m actually using the loo now *punctuated by weird sounds”), or even while driving. I actually get bugged by such people so much that I do not carry a cellphone myself.
5. Every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is pop in my contact lens.
6. I love wearing perfume – the only problem is I forget to put it on. And when I do remember to dab some on, Sri loves it. 🙂
By the way, this is also posted to my LJ. 🙂
September 19, 2006 — 5:20 am
Lakshmi says:
4. I get really bugged by people who talk on cellphones every chance they get – in a restaurant, at a movie, in the queue for the loo (“Yeah I’m standing in the queue for the loo” or “I’m actually using the loo now *punctuated by weird sounds”), or even while driving. I actually get bugged by such people so much that I do not carry a cellphone myself.
:-)))
September 19, 2006 — 5:42 pm
spotty_sri says:
😀
September 20, 2006 — 4:22 am
fugney says:
I sit cross-legged. Most of the time.
Reminds me… wonder who came up with chairs? What’s the point of chairs?
September 19, 2006 — 7:07 am
fugney says:
As in, I prefer sitting cross-legged myself.
September 19, 2006 — 7:08 am
Lakshmi says:
Well, some situations, you cannot sit cross-legged. Like in a meeting, for e.g.
September 19, 2006 — 5:43 pm
indianethic says:
1st and 3rd odds matches with mine 😉
September 19, 2006 — 8:03 am
Lakshmi says:
and many others too, I guess!
September 19, 2006 — 5:43 pm
sumthn2say says:
Im quite like you, except tht i love perfumes.
September 19, 2006 — 11:12 am
Lakshmi says:
I don’t care too much for perfumes. Even I would buy some, in attempt to start wearing them – I am sure I’d forget.
September 19, 2006 — 5:45 pm
on9thheaven says:
I share 3 & 5 with you 🙂
3: mostly because my nails break pretty easy 🙁 – I like well manicured/pedicured nails.
as for 6 – maybe you should try a body spray 😉
September 19, 2006 — 2:20 pm
Lakshmi says:
Ahh, my nails don’t break easy – I require the full strength of my teeth to rip them…:-)
About perfume, I just don’t care for them. Guess that explains partly why I don’t wear them. I wouldn’t mind wearing them because they make you smell great – but I never remember to!
September 19, 2006 — 5:47 pm
Lakshmi says:
Looking forward to the piercing tales…:-)
September 19, 2006 — 5:44 pm
Lakshmi says:
Ahaan – and how would you deduce that?
September 19, 2006 — 8:47 pm
Anonymous says:
Ha ha….you come across as a morning person and lotus pose from your user pic(just kidding). Somehow I thought you’d definitely have more than one piercing in each ear.
You barely escaped my clairvoyancy in the case of men’s handkerchiefs. I am not that good,yet ;-P Perfumes would have just required another simple act of deduction had I met you in person.
September 19, 2006 — 11:05 pm
jayasankarvs says:
These are not odd.
September 20, 2006 — 9:54 am
Lakshmi says:
Yeah, it is relative totally.
September 21, 2006 — 3:50 pm
jayasankarvs says:
Now relatives, they are odd.
September 22, 2006 — 5:55 am
Lakshmi says:
Some of them definitely are.
September 23, 2006 — 8:11 pm
Lakshmi says:
On a different note, when I was in Montreal a few weeks back, someone asked Guruji the meaning of Om. He said, “Om is the most beautiful sound in creation also referred to as the primordial sound” At that time, I remembered Omkuttan!
He went on say, Om is composed of Aa, Oo and Mm. When one goes on top of the mountain and listens to the sound of the wind, one can hear the faint ‘Ommmmm’. When one carefully listens to the sound of the waves in the ocean, one can hear the rumbling ‘Ommmm’ in the distance. Also, reciting Om is akin to doing the 3-stage pranaayaams. The Aa part works on the stomach regions, Oo part works on the chest and Mm works on the upper regions.
September 21, 2006 — 3:53 pm