On A High......

The Following is the list of the Things that fascinate me/make me immensely happy /joyous or bring a smile on my face …..in no particular order

1. A long convo with dad on a totally weird/nonsensical topic with both of us ending up laughing….
2. A serious convo with mom where I end up proving my point and she has agreed to it(rarest occurrence)….
3. Bumping into a person I haven’t met for a long long time n being able to recognize him/her and vice versa….
4. Taking a long walk with a long time crush and smiling to myself (Awesome experience it is)….
5. Getting recognized by my U.K.G teacher
6. Being thanked by an elderly person for helping him/her out with something….
7. Meeting my grandma n solving some puzzle or watching a cricket match with her….
8. Finding an old note written by a friend ….
9. Seeing my Best friend play some sport like a pro….
10. Admiring my first sketch….
11. The thought of meeting my best friend by next month….
12. Meeting my cousin and fooling around….
13. Seeing through an old album and admiring myself….
14. Showing those old photos to my friends (forcibly sometimes….hehehe) and seeing their expressions change to show how cute I was (Awwwwwwwww)….
15. The smell of the first rains at the beginning of monsoons…
16. Getting to watch Sachin Tendulkar and Adam Gilchrist (My favorite players) from so close with just a thin wall in between (So close and yet so far)….
17. Finding a 5-7 year old greeting card saying “To a Loving Son”….
18. Doing Math….
19. Smiling without any reason….
20. Getting huggies diapers as a gift from my two best pals on turning 18….
21. Those terrace talks….
22. Playing Soccer and Cricket at my best friend’s parking lot….
23. Blabbering/Talking to myself (yeah…I talk to myself more than I talk to anyone else…hehe…inspiration from the following quote “If the whole world ends and o I am left alone….I will talk to and live with myself because I believe I have a friend inside myself” said by the 14th President of U.S. of A ..Abraham Lincoln
24. Being recognized for being a lefty….
25. Listening to music….
26. Dancing all around the house….
27. Narrating an event to a best friend….
28. Listening to a best friend narrating an event at his animated best….
29. Being termed as an optimist by my best friend….
30. Reading positive feedbacks….
31. Calvin and Hobbes….
32. Lot of greenery
33. Sitting in the balcony and sipping a hot cup of coffee/tea in the rainy season….
34. Traveling in the train during the day time….
35. Traveling in the flight during the night time….
36. Getting a window seat in a flight (something I just cannot compromise on)….
37. Spending time by the aquarium….
38. Cheering my favorite team along with my friends during a game….
39. Talking to my four and a half year old cousin who called me “Weird”….(yeah…hehe….that’s what you get when you try to forcibly kiss him…can’t help it actually….he’s so damn cute)….
40. Knowing the lyrics of my favorite song and singing along whenever it plays….
41. Playing Fifa with my best pal for hours together….
42. Listening to dad speak in Hindi (hehe…hilarious)….
43. Getting an STD call from a friend just to wish me luck for an internal exam….
44. Seeing old photos of dad sitting on his toy horse (he must’ve been 2-3 years old then…hehehe)….
45. Admiring my own room filled with posters and an unusually untidy “study” table ….
46. Watching monkeys (they fascinate me big time)….
47. Driving mom’s scooty (My hayabusa….hehe…I’ve screwed it up royally)
48. Sitting with my dad and uncles and listening to them talk about their schooling days….
49. Listening to mom talk about her college days….
50. Talking to a kid in his/her language….
51. Dancing on New Year’s Eve….
52. Making a small kid giggle at something I just did….
53. Talking about cricket to a complete stranger in a bus….
54. Watching snakes (they fascinate me too though they are scary)….
55. Coming up with spoonerism of the names of every cricketer and many more sports personalities (hehehe)….
56. Awesome Architecture
57. Meeting a person who has exactly the same likes and dislikes (more or less) and going on to be best friends….
58. Being praised by someone of the opposite sex (Oh! Blush blush blush blush )
59. Being remembered as a brat by my family….
60. Telling my grandpa that he’s got an awesome hairstyle (he’s got that Fredrick Ljungberg style)
61. Waiting for a friend (a real close one) for more than an hour and finally getting to see her….
62. Reading my 1500 odd saved messages in my cell (sure to leave me smiling at the end)…..
63. Passing time in a boring lecture by scribbling something in the last page of my book with Right hand!!!!! (trying hard to be ambidextrous)….
64. Finding my 2nd class report card and laughing at there comments I got (most of them being…”he is very well mannered…quiet...obedient…” my favorite comment being “Work hard in science” because I had that comment all over the report through out my 7th …8th…9th…and 10th class….because I hate that subject)….
65. Finding a certificate which reads “Master G.Prakash awarded 3rd prize for fancy dress competition studying in standard U.K.G !!!”....or a similar one for Hindi recitation in U.K.G again….hehehe
66. One of my best pal telling me “Prakash….do u realize…we’ve been friends for 10 years now…
67. Playing my keyboard….
68. “Et Tu Brute…then Fall Caesar” and Mark Anthony’s speech (Shakespeare is god-like)
69. Looking for an eye candy in Movie theatres/Shopping malls/Airports… (now. .that’s what every teenage guy does ….nevertheless it’s all in good spirit…never provocative…we respect all the eves)
70. Getting to munch on my favorite food exactly when I begin to miss it
71. Being pampered by friends (worth falling ill…hehe)
72. Watching highlights of sharjah matches which India won…(Those matches where we win the whole series courtesy Sachin Tendulkar….those step down-bang-out of the ground shots of his are a complete eye candy)
73. Watching India win a cricket match from a losing position..(Excitement excites me)
74. Sitting on top of the terrace with friends on a diwali evening and watching the sky glow with rockets….
75. A 100/100 in a Math paper…(I love the subject)
76. Watching a lefty write and think “so this is how I look when I write”….
77. Sketching Calvin and Hobbes….(these two inspire me a lot)
78. Eating Custard Apple (moi favorite fruit) n many other of them…(except papaya …hehehe)
79. Thinking of those great days at my apartment with so many people (of my age) to play with….(yeah…had so much fun at Urjitha…Cricket.. hockey…golf…football…basketball …what haven’t we played…then.. .Hide n seek…message…King…god its a long list….all those fools left me alone out here….hehe….missing all the fun and all my friends…Nostalgia rocks!!)
80. School Excursions (God...How on Earth did I forget this while making the list....Anyways...so much fun I had during those awesome trips....School life rocks ....)


****[I thank my best pal Madhu for his contribution to my long list….]****