This one is from Mads. Thank you :)

1. What does your user name mean?
Vanilla sky? I think I was watching the Tom cruise movie of the same name , some days before I created this blog. Liked the name, so kept it.

2. Elaborate on your user photo.
A girl dancing , I think. Was given by a friend.

3. How many comments do you have?
On what?

4. What's your current relationship status?
Current? always single.

5. What exactly are you wearing right now?
White pant, black tee.

6. What is your current problem?
The link of the modem going on and off.

7. What do you love the most?
Roaming aimlessly, travelling, singing, books, blah blah.


8. What makes you most happy?
Walks. Good food. Music. Friends. Family.

9. Are you musically inclined?
Yes, yes.


10. What would you do if you woke up one morning and found out you were on cocaine?
First brush my teeth ....then will think about it .


11. If you could go back in time and change something, what would it be?
Let me think....


12. If you MUST be an animal for ONE day, what would you be?
One animal only? Pigs, donkeys, squirrel, zebra ..whom will I disappoint?

13. Ever had a near-death experience?
Yes. In dreams. Every night I almost die.


14. Name an obvious quality you have.
Modesty :P

15. What's the name of the song that's stuck in your head right now?
The trailer of Delhi-6.

16. Are you happy today?
Yes. No particular reason though.

17. Who will cut and paste this first?
I think everybody has done this by now.

18. Name someone with the same birthday as you
Let me google.Ok, Greek philosopher Plato .(427 BCE; d. 347 BCE).

19. Do you have a secret crush on someone?
Umm..maybe !

20. Do you have a garbage disposal in your kitchen sink?
Below the sink, I think.

21. Have you ever been in a fight?
Recently, no. But had those fights in school bus lines, in class.

22. Have you ever sung in front of a large audience?
Yes, many times.At times, forgot lyrics, then audience started prompting. Too embarrassing. Chorus performances are safer.

23. What's the first thing you notice about the OPPOSITE sex?
Height, shoes, hair.

24. What's your biggest mistake?
With each passing day, it gets bigger and better :(

25. Say something totally random about you.
Being confused all the time.

26. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
Mayawati is a celebrity. Maduri Dixit is a celebrity. And about the answer, No.

27. Are you comfortable with your height?
Yes. Though would n't mind being an inch taller.

28. What is the most romantic thing someone has ever done for you?
*sniff*

29. What are your favourite smells?
My shampoo, vanilla essence, my bed, petrol, paint.

30. What's something that really annoys you?
People spitting, littering.


31. What's something you really like?
Roaming, travelling, singing.

32. Do you give random hugs and kisses?
Well...random hugs to mom.

33. What's the latest you have ever stayed up?
20 hrs maybe.

34. Have you ever been rushed to the emergency room?
No , no.

By the way, this bloggie has completed a year today. I know I write shamelessly bad, but thank you all for dropping in here.

Enough of my croonings about no-net show. I'm kind of assured that whatever education I have received till date has not gone waste, completely.
So, in between cursing my service provider and tossing coin to decide whether to go to a cyber cafe or not, I decided to check whether the connections in modem were fine or not. Obviously the connections were fine. I'm not that dumb that it will strike after 3 damn weeks. But what went wrong was the copper oxides deposits which were blocking the contact between the phone line and the modem port. A few rubbings with a brush , insertion of the wire and there glows the link in the modem !

Inbox full of 'How will be 2009 for you? Dial 12345 @ Rs 9/min to know' messages tells you that new year is round the corner. New year means getting a year older, one more semester less for college to end.
While flipping through the pages of a magazine , I came across this astrology section , which says 'Know what 2009 has in store for you'. Its no wonder that in times of recession temples are doing better business than before. So here's what is in store for me:

1)Get married this year because your spouse will bring you loads of good luck and happiness-
Anyone , with similar predictions?

2)Students will have a bad time as they might have to discontinue their studies-
I mean why? I do pay my college fees, don't see chances of expulsion, will not be entering Miss India contest or Roadies or Indian Idol.
Ah well, if I may comply with the first option , get married in a family which doesn't allow girls to study after marriage like in those daily soaps, then its quite possible. Duh, I should stop uttering crap.

3)Your friends of foreign origin will do you good in times of need-
I do have friends in foreign lands but of Indian origin. So extending the definition of foreign origin , should I expect the likes of ET or Jadoo to help me out?
2009 seems to an exciting year !

Its high time I admit my ignorance of most of the short forms doing rounds over internet and mobiles. I can claim to know that i.e is for id est, e.g is for exempli gratia, but only a few days back, I came to know what brb and ttyl stands for and I still not know what does zoth,zomg and few others stand for!!so here’s a recollection of some of the incidents that I had to face, in my effort to decipher these short forms!
Case 1: it was about 2 years back . I , along with 2 other school friends were chatting in the yahoo messenger conference. One of them cracked a joke. I being a rookie in the chat world then, only managed to put up a grin smiley. The other one wrote ‘lol’. “Whats that?”, I wandered. Neways , ignoring the trifle 3 lettered word, I continued chatting. Then the friend again cracked a joke. The other one wrote “lolzzz”, then she again wrote “lolzzzzie”. I began to wander what has happened to her, is she not getting that those were jokes? Or her keyboard or mouse is not working properly?it was only after few days that when I met her and dared to ask her what that lol business was all about, that she took out a piece of paper and explained to me as if she was solving an infinite series—
“listen , lol stands for laugh out loud….ok? and loz is the plural form…ok? See..
lol(1)…lol(2)…lol(3)…lol(4)………………lol(n)==lolz….ok? and lol(n+1)=lozz and so on….ok?
I nodded my head.
Case2: I had changed the profile photo of my orkut profile that day .
A friend of mine scrapped me” nice dp!”
I did n’t get it.
After a few days, another friend scrapped me,” awesome pp”.
“whats that ?”.
that very day, somebody scrapped me and said, “ hey liked your op very much, mind being friends?”
generally, never do I entertain those ‘lets-be-friends -kind -of -messages’ ,but that day, I was so very irritated by continuous bombarding by short forms, that I immediately scrapped him back and said,
“ya, I will be your friend, first tell me what op, pp and dp mean?”.
I did n’t have the slightest inclination to know what the person thought about this , but all I knew was, that I must solve this short form puzzle right then.
“Op stands for orkut picture, dp stands for display photo, and pp stands for profile photo”.
“thank you , and bye”, I said.
Case 3: once when I logged in to orkut, one of my friends scrapped me “sup?”.
I searched the nearest and farthest corners of my mind, but nowhere could I find a word ‘sup’. Since I was not replying(rather was not able to reply),the chap on the other side again scrapped me with the dreadful word in it! After 10 minutes, a scrap came,” are you not online? Neways , I am leaving, see you later”. I heaved a sigh of relief!
Some days later. Orkut login, same friend, same scrap ! “sup?” ohh god, save me!
10 minutes passed. Again same scrap . “sup?”. My ignorance of the word ,was taking its toll. I scrapped him back,”what is sup?”.
“ohh you were stumbling at this word?, it stands for whats up?”, pat came the reply.
“I see”.

Can any law of contraction justify the un necessary tamperings of life as lyfe, time as tyme, my as mah,cool as kewl?
Many think, the words look cute .
I had an equally tough time to get that 10Q stands for thank you and 10x is for thanks !
i mean, thanks and thank you are sensitive forms of courtesy and its kind of insult when you stick to such shortened forms of the words, at least over the internet where your words limits are aplenty, unlike sms.

the aim of language is to communicate.there are many ways to save time, but definitely language is not among them. And using these sms lingo, the task of comprehension does not always become easier, mostly it’s the other way round.
In a word where vowels are removed and the remnants are only 3 from the original 6 lettered word,the brain always has to do some extra work,to figure out what it means, by looking at the words suroounding it, which also may be similarly ambiguous .

Neways,chatting and sms ing being informal places, we can a bit of excuse those who wish to let their hair down.