Embarassing Secrets -Tag

Have been apartment hunting for the past two weeks and finally moved (not completly) so will be catch up with everyones blogs soon as soon as I get all wired.

Meanwhile was tagged by Ankur and Radhika for 10 secrets and then again today for 5 embarrassing moments. Am going to combine the two together.

1) I had big problems to a point where I wanted to quit school in Kindergarten itself. Being left handed we were taught how to write "c" and "d" being a curve inside out and "b" being a curve outside in. Well at school "bad" remained "bad" but at home it became "dab" as my grandmother forced me to use the right hand. So following the instructions (I was obedient then) got rapped at school for all the homework being wrong and at home for using the left hand......so I wanted to quit school (grown ups are really crazy - I had made up my mind very early!). This was solved eventually but its another story.

2) Used to be a sick a lot as a kid.

3) In 8th or 9th standard there was a Nescafe advert playing in India - and had the ending lines "Shake Shake Shake" - I resembled that kid a lot and so I became famous in my school as the "Shake Shake Shake" guy....

Well this one turned out to be an embarrasing moment once - as we were about to go to the "Sex Education" class under a visiting lecturer and somebody shouted in front of her "Shake Shake Shake". It had to be explained in detail what it all meant.

4) Have been part of the student council in some form or the other throughout school and college as a monitor, captain, president etc etc. So I was supposed to "monitor" other students and not get reprimanded. Well I did get once and it was embarrasing - but the calender (school diary) never reached home - I threw it off the bus and lodged a complaint in school office that it is lost. Phew was saved!

5) Was an avid cricketer - playing for the school for 6 years. Practiced everyday morning from 6 - 9 and never attended the first three lectures in the school. (We were allowed to)

6) Post tenth board exams 10 of us went to a 5 day trip to Mahabaleshwar - planned, executed and booked solely by two of us. (My dads friend owned the hotel we stayed at - a secret I told all my friends only after reaching there - till then enjoying the wah wah for all the plans.

Now post this trip there was a very embarassing moment. Just out of school and off to college - we had gone and rented some "movies". Guess what one of my dear friends had to tell this to his mom and after the trip she is like "Since you planned this whole trip - you must have planned this too! - dunno what I said then but somehow got out of this situation.

7) The little finger in my right hand is dislocated - two injuries back to back injuries playing cricket. Cannot join the right little man with the rest of the fingers.

8) My craziness and funny demeanour - I attribute it completly to many of my Parsi friends and the Parsi neighbourhood I grew up in. They are a bunch of crazy people - I simply love them.

Here is something that being in such company made me do -
We had to do a "Working Model" project on something that we learned in 7th (am not sure) standard. Most students choose science or geography projects - showing volcanoes, solar system, robots etc etc.
Now me and this Parsi friend - we decided to have some fun instead of doing a serious project.
So we decided to do a project in English - it was a category never done before and we were the only submitted project.
There was a story in Balbharti "Man Eater of Chabunkwa" - we designed our project based on that story. We grew real grass for a month (arguing that we studied germination if needed). Got his grandmom to sticth an African Hunters dress for the He-Man, put a tiger in the grass (enacting the scene), researched on the author and put some of his work and finally since we really did not know if this will fly we made a thermocol cutout of the earth and put plastic animals on each continent (including science and geography - just in case).
Well again this turned out to be a bit embarrasing - since there was no "working part" in our project we did not see it necessary to attend the exhibition of all the projects - went dressed in casually - only to realize that we had won the "Best Project Award" - "Most Innovative Idea and Presentation" and ours was the first project on display. And since we were not in our "school uniform" we were not allowed to partake in the award ceremony and we became the jokers! Ah well it was fun still.

9) Had a near death experience once - fell off my bicycle in between two cabs. Luckily the signal turned red. It was close.

Most of these are experiences from the school years which were till now the best years.
Can only think of so many for now.