Chez Moi

1. I can argue my point convincingly, even when I am not too sure I am right or even half-way there. Until I am proved irrevocably wrong, there’s no way you’ll get me to retract my statement.

2. I blag my way through most things by knowing the bare minimum about something. For eg, I read the tidbit ‘Elegy by Grey’ in a Jennings & Darbishire book and the next day at school, took part in a discussion about poems and elegies by saying one thing of note: ‘The Elegy was written by Grey’.

3. I insisted my parents take me out of my ‘comfy as old slippers’ school to this rather posh one solely because my brother was going to it and I wanted to stamp out any unfair favouritism, refusing to listen to reason. Then I have spent the rest of my life moaning about my crappy school.

4. When I hit my late teens, I developed this major desire to have big brothers (!). I tried to find a solution to this by tying rakhi on a few friends’ wrists. (Am sure to hear more of this as at least one of them checks this blog out now and then!!)

5. I love curd. (Anti-thesis of that curd-hater Ams!) I always need thayir sadam to complete a meal. When I was new to the UK, I used to have a bowl of curd rice even after a main course of pasta or noodles! (sariyana thayir sadam!)