I’ve been tagged. If you don’t know what that means, it’s a practice in blogging society whereby you can ‘tag’ fellow bloggers and have them write stuff like 7 facts about yourself, 25 things you hate, 10 things that you’d die for and such stuff. I’ve been tagged by Lisis. What she’s basically done is to write a post in her blog in response to someone tagging her and also to pass on the batons to seven other bloggers. As the smart brains have figured out, I’m one of those seven tagged bloggers. Thanks Lisis!

Why do people tag all? It’s fun, it improves blogging network, it’s fun, it’s revealing and it’s fun. So then, I’m expected to write 7 facts about myself.  There are some self-imposed rules in tagging practice. I’m in full compliance as I’ve linked to the original tagger that is Lisis, I’d share seven facts about myself, I won’t forget to tag seven fellow bloggers and I’d let them know because they may not know otherwise.

I have about 7,000 things to write about, from which I’m writing about seven. These are not the most important seven things I want to write about. These are the seven things that came to my mind when I went about writing this post. So here are seven facts about myself. Some of these are top secrets, keep them to yourselves. To the one who knew all these: you are me.

Village: I want to live in a village like place, preferably atop a mountain. A place where there are fewer people to know, fewer houses, no multi-storey buildings, sound infrastructure, beautiful roads with very less traffic, gardens everywhere, cool weather/climate and lots of greenery and lakes. I’d like to retain all the technology I would want plus my pollution-free car. I’ve seen such beautiful places. I don’t know if those people there realise that they are living in such a divine place. Life there is simple and beautiful, not hurried and hassled.

Dreams: I don’t get dreams at all. Okay, there have been some very rare occasions but I just don’t get any dreams or nightmares. Of course, I base this conclusion on my morning recollection. It’s quite possible that George Bush was trying to hang me to death because I was hiding weapons of mass destructions in my pocket and I completely forgot about it when I woke up. Most people can remember their dreams or nightmares. From that norm, I say that I simply don’t get any dreams or nightmares. Did I say that I exclude those daydreams?

Blue: I love this colour blue. When I was a kid, I loved yellow and I don’t know when I ditched yellow and started dating blue. I’m a big fan of Chelsea Football Club but that’s not the only reason why like blue. For some reason, I like blue. That does not mean I wear blue shirts and pants with a blue underwear beneath. Sitting at home, I’m looking around to see if there is anything in blue. None except my daughter’s bicycle. But still, that’s my favourite colour. That’s the colour that’s most pleasing to my eyes.

Chess: I learnt to play Chess when I was 8. There was this house in our neighbourhood which had a chess set. That family did play a lot of chess. Watching them play and getting beaten like a fool, I learnt playing chess. Over the next few years, I think I improved from being pretty decent to pretty good at chess. We didn’t have computer at home back then but I had bought my best purchase – a chess set. Then there are these books and magazines (just in case you didn’t know) on chess with which I used to re-play the moves to improve my game. I could have taken it up as a profession. I think I was at the brink. Still, I love chess and I have a special liking for premium chess sets.

Academics: I was certainly a topper material. I had my way around in studying and cracking the exams. As long as I understood what I was reading/studying, I could knock it off in the examinations. I was never a student that studied all day all night, six months ahead of the exams or something. I was always a bit lazy, never too compromising when it came to how I spent my time. But I think, over a period of time, I had developed a formula that suited me so well in my academic life. Couldn’t top anything after school because I was also growing up.

Exciting habit: Nail-biting. Whenever I watch football or cricket. Whenever I play board games. Whenever I’m reading something in my laptop. Whenever I’m thinking about the next word. Well, I don’t really bite my nails off. Let’s say, I remove nails with the help of other nails, biting may be required on a case-to-case basis. This is one habit that disgust people but they should not have a problem as long as I don’t bite their nails. I know I end up getting very ugly fingers but that’s allright as I don’t plan to stick them up on my face.

Football: The only thing I don’t do about football is, playing on the pitch. I watch football. I follow football. I read football news all the time. I play football on the xbox. I talk about football. Now, it’s a part of my life. I was a huge cricket fan once. Football has blown me over with its charm, simplicity and excitement. What would I do if I had X million dollars? I’d buy a football club.

That’s about it. Now I’m tagging seven other bloggers. Some of them I don’t know. I know their blogs but I don’t know those bloggers. Here I go:

Venky’s Diary, Accidentally on purpose, What to name it, Life is just a bowl of cherries, My quest, 18,000 rpm and Happy Lotus.

I hope to contact these people to let them know that I’ve tagged them. By the way, I like this idea of seven this and seven that. I plan to use this structure more often.