Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 16 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 16 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

Iffat, thanks for the tag. 

1.) People have always thought I was from somewhere else. I have been asked on many occasions if I were Indian, Philippino, Trinidadian.   

2.) I can’t dance but sing/hum one song a million times especially advertisement jingles.

3.) I love veggies with all my heart that I decided to convert about 4 years ago to only eating them. In the process of conversion, abstaining from meat, my mother has tried many tactics to hide the meat, in cutlets. She gave up only about 6 months ago.

4.) I have lived in Canada for the past 17 years and every year I complain how cold it is and every year I complain how short summer is.

5.) Walking has become a passion of mine. One summer day a friend and I walked 10.4 km in about 1.5 hours, from downtown to where we live. To date I haven’t bought the metropass and enjoy my walks around the city. I can walk anywhere but ask me to drive is like putting a compass in a MRI machine, I loose my sense of direction.

6.) Oblivious to everything, I remember exclaiming in front of friends how little the surprise gift had cost only realizing that I had thought that aloud.

7.) On two separate times, I have dropped cellphones into coffee, this is a true story. One was my own, it was alive about an hour later and the other time it died a cruel death. I cried after that.

8.) 4 years ago I worked for an all women’s gym next to my house, a woman came up to me and told me her husband had read an article on how gym-goers in the US were contracting horrible skin diseases from the machines, she went on to say that she wouldn’t get any because there was an employee that always kept the machines really clean. She was talking about me. I didn’t know how to take this.

9.) One broken leg, 7 stitches and 4 teeth removed for braces have been the major health-related issues I have met. The broken leg healed well, the stitches left a scar on my right eyebrow and the braces were basically a waste of money.

10.) In the 90’s lightening shoes were really all the rage for your standard 6 to 8 yr old. I had a pair that I wore for exactly 3 weeks after that they were stolen from my cubbie hole at school. When I was 10, I lost my watch and told my mother the wind took it. Today I obsess about not losing things.

11.) In contrast to number 10, I have found other people’s things, wallet and cell phone, and made a concerted effort to return the lost item to them. On returning one man’s wallet, I was on the phone telling him how I had found it and when the conversation ended, a student next to me turned to exclaim that the wallet belonged to him. I thought he was whack arguing I had just talked to the guy that it belonged to. The cellphone was easier to return to the owner. 

12.) My father’s father was a tea taster for the ceylon tea company and my mother’s father worked for the Sri Lankan Harbour. My father’s mother died at 75 in the middle of the 95 displacement, we still don’t know how she died or when. My mother’s mother is only 16 yrs older than my mother which I think is absurd. I would like to meet all these people in one room.

13.) You will never see me without my agenda, writing utensil and a ring on my middle finger, left hand. I have all my agendas since I was 12 yrs old. I have written poetry to quotations to drawings in all of them. My favourite pens have always been hotel freebees, I don’t know why but they are the only one’s that actually work in my opinion, that is they preform their art simply and don’t complicate with twist caps or clickers. I can’t leave the house without a  ring on my left hand, and also a watch. It has become almost as me as putting on my glasses. 

14.) I have been told to have a phone voice at a call centre I used to work for. At this very centre, I had the longest recorded phone conversation, 1 hour and some minutes. The person on the other end told me her life story before I asked her to become an annual donor. She asked I send her some more information. This reminds me of another call: I called someone to ask for a Mr.Bates. The caller said there was no one by that name but I could talk to masturbates. They hung up before I could tell them about our annual campaign, darn!

15.) Making things is really cool. I have made scarves and would like to start knitting my own side bag. My favourite art project to date has been my apple men. Dehydrated apple with my mother’s make-up, they are the most interesting things to look at and feel.

16.) Picture-taking is my newest hobby, I don’t call it photography for the simple reason of, I’m not really trying to do anything, no playing with light or trying a new lens, no its simple just picture-taking. So if you are on flickr, I’m beautiful floating lotus.