December 13th, 2005

My Favourite things

Posted in Neha Jhingon, Non-fiction by Neha

Last night I couldn’t sleep. There was a lot of traffic on the road. I have decided to take a break from my cell phone, so it remains switched off most of the time. Having nothing to do, I thought of my favourite things in the world and made a small list.

1. Making soap bubbles while washing hands.
2. Making pot pourries out of the dried garden flowers.
3. Staring at the moon in the wee hours.
4. Playing with stray dogs.
5. Sitting on the dividers in the busiest of roads.
6. Bike rides on cold nights.
7. Bunking economics classes.
8. Drinking coffee at D’Pauls.
9. Sneaking out from my house and going to an expensive restaurant in pyjamas or night shirts.
10. Playing hop-a-scotch in mud slush.
11. Oiling my hair.
12. Speaking on the phone in hushed whispers.
13. Muffins.
14. Jumping in all the puddles on rainy days.
15. Dancing on dark nights in the headlights of a car.
16. Smiling for no reason at all.
17. The smell of the morning aarti.
18. Peanuts in the winter afternoons.
19. Karaoke Bars.
20. Caramel Popcorn.
21. The colour lavender.
22. Hugh Jackman.
23. Butterscotch or french vanilla flavoured icecreams.
24. Meeting unexpected people in unexpected places.
25. Carpools.
26. My mom’s smell.
27. Bitter chocolate.
28. First day first shows.
29. Sarah Mclachlan.
30. Thinking about someone in a boring lecture.
31. Going to an exam unprepared and writing pages after pages of bullshit.
32. Writing with a pencil.
33. Morning walks.
34. Mustard fields.
35. Volvo buses.

- Neha

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7 comments

  1. Z says:

    Great list. Thanks for sharing.

    December 13th, 2005 at 05:45 pm

  2. K. says:

    damn i havent experienced even one of them except for pencil on paper :sad:

    December 13th, 2005 at 07:47 pm

  3. Neha M says:

    oh wow i’m mad bout hugh jackman as well. and a lot others on your list.

    December 13th, 2005 at 07:50 pm

  4. Chetali says:

    wow thats a long list and a great one too.i’v seen u crave for some of them also..but u know wut i can make a list of the things u hate..wanna give it a try??:lol:

    December 16th, 2005 at 04:34 pm

  5. chetna says:

    i wish i cud sit and think about mine…but i think for u! there shud be more in ur list..!Good stuff though…

    December 16th, 2005 at 04:55 pm

  6. Kruz says:

    other than Hugh Jackman and Lavender, I think this is your first unisex article. :)

    May 17th, 2006 at 08:07 pm

  7. Baba says:

    Neho i was going to ask for a list like this!:) but since yer in baroda Ill send you mine here:wink: all 35 of them that equate to your enjoy:)

    1. Playing guitar with a chewing gum
    2. Walking alone in a park
    3. Reading till the wee hours
    4. Playing with street kids
    5. Sitting on dividers on the busiest streets
    6. Richshaw rides at 1:00 a.m when i go home
    7. Bunking English lit class
    8. Drinking tea at this dhaba near me office
    9. Ok the ninth one was such a turn on yaar:)
    10.Feeling dust
    11.Shaving my head
    12.Talking very low
    13.Cookies
    14. Same
    15. Running through a road with fast cars whizzing by
    16. same (but there always is a reason:)
    17. the smell of rain
    18. same
    19. ok singing badly to loved songs and everybody stares:)
    20. Butter popcorn
    21. Broken dusty stuff
    22. Martin Sheen in Apocalypse now
    23. Coffee icecream
    24. same
    25. getting free rides (refuse to learn how to drive:)
    26. my dad’s smell
    27. same
    28. yup
    29. Joni Mitchell/Tori Amos
    30.same and then making drawings
    31. man i love you! i loveed doing that, wrote Raaja gidh (its a novel) in my islamiat test and flunked yupee:)
    32. with anything love pens though
    33 Night walks
    34. Industrial hells
    35. Richshaws
    3

    May 18th, 2006 at 12:07 am

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