Seven (times ten) Wierd Things about me!
Have been tagged by Meow. Thanks for the tag! Here goes: (Sorry dear, i got carried away… i can’t figure out how Boba found it so hard to do… then again, I’m weirder than most people so what do i know? :p)
7 weird things about me (those are the ones in bold):
1. Sleeping habits
2. I have a thing for white bed sheets… with blue flowers on them
3. I spray my sheets with perfume (only flower scents)
4. I was one week away from my black belt test in Karate when my mum told me ‘Mundian nal nahin khailna’ no playing with boys and stopped me from going to the test. I’ll never forgive her for this!
5. I LOVE calligraphy and I’ve won prizes in calligraphy competitions. English calligraphy is easy to conquer; I’ve failed at being anything but okay-ish in Arabic and I’m AWFUL in Urdu. Someday, I’m going to conquer them too!
6. My worst fear is water. I never admitted it but it makes me nauseous to look at the sea.
7. I love cars and I used to be obsessed with engines and all these things till my dad decided this was a not-very-girly hobby and forbid me from buying car magazines.
8. I’ve never had a computer or an e-mail address till two years ago.
9. I can sit on the computer for 36 hours non-stop.
10. I wasn’t allowed to keep a mobile phone when I was at University because my mum reckoned the process goes: cell phone-> boy->elopement. When I finished University, I refused to buy one ‘just because’ and if I ever get one, no one from my family is getting the number; rest assured on that count O Family Members.
11. Good food, nicely presented can cure me of anything.
12. I hate roses.
13. I’m allergic to gold (this is something even the jeweler hadn’t heard of, haha)
14. I’m always extremely embarrassed (read blushing hard and wanting to disappear in the ground kind of embarrassed) to receive a present; don’t ask why!
15. I buy birthday presents at least six months before hand.
16. I don’t wear socks any color but white
17. I want to learn 8 languages before I’m 26. Four down, three acquainted with, one unfamiliar left!
18. I hate most desi food
19. I get ticked when people touch my cheek. Like REALLY irritated.
20. I don’t shape my eyebrows
21. While we’re at it, I don’t do my upper lip either because I’m one of those who never need to. Its a trait that comes from my mum’s side of the family. People still go ‘No f-ing way!’ when I tell them and have to lean close to have a good look (that’s pretty offensive).
22. I can reverse a car excellently but I’m AWFUL at driving it straight especially at roundabouts.
23. I look exactly like my mum. So much so that people have stopped me in the market at times to ask me if I was her daughter. Usually, I said no because then the aunty would ask ‘baita mujhay paichana?’ (like yeah, I was ONE year old when I saw you last, how can I ‘pehchan’ you!)
24. No one and I mean NO ONE touches my scarves. And they have to be washed every time I wear them.
25. I’m obsessed with stationery. Like, I HAVE to have good stationery. And a 0.8 pencil? I’ve used the same one for 7 yrs. You don’t even wanna touch it because if you damage it… well…
26. I hate ink/ fountain pens. I can’t ever write with one.
27. I don’t like babies. (sorry!) I practically bought up my two youngest siblings and that made me pretty OCD’d about babies. While you’d be looking at that baby in the market saying ‘Ohh, how cute!’ I’d be thinking, ‘Oh someone needs to cover the baby’s head with a cloth cap because its gonna get cold outside in an hour.’ Hence, the ‘cuteness factor’ usually escapes me.
28. I love to hold little babies who have been, as they say, ‘fed and watered’ and are happy in a dry diaper and have been powdered with Johnson’s Baby Powder. Yep, that is the kinda baby I can love, haha.
29. I’ve been told in ‘real life’ that people are scared of me. This is more common that I would like to believe 
(Even my best friend admitted to this!)
30. Fifteen people have asked me for my autograph in University. 
31. I hate clutter… messes are okay but ‘clutter’ is something awful. Sometimes, sitting in someone’s drawing room, I think my brain’s going to melt; it needs to work so fast to absorb all the ‘clutter’!
32. I make ‘things to do’ lists all the time.
33. I can learn anything new the fastest you have ever seen anyone go, but maths shuts me down. Like TOTALLY.
34. I love all kind of sports and I regret not having participated in any at a decent level. Despite that, I cannot play table tennis. AT ALL. I end up hitting the ball WAY into the air. Serves are all I can manage.
35. I have the fastest reaction times ever. If a glass starts to fall off a table, I’ll be across the room and catch it before it hits the floor. It’s very weird and has caused people to go, ‘How the hell did you do that!’ many times. I dunno how I do that either!
36. I’m known as the person with a very ‘elegant’ and ‘sober’ style but I have, on one occasion, run through a fountain (yes, in Pakistan!) and also walked barefoot in the mud in a public park. (I’ll do anything on a dare b/c I think its fun.)
37. My favorite activity is to watch people. In fact, I can do it all day.
38. I’ve gone 9 days without speaking a word and no one realized anything was out of place. (I’m talking home)
39. I’ve once not seen any of my family for three whole days… and I realized, I could’ve eloped and they wouldn’t have realized it. Oh why didn’t i!
40. I have only one bottle of nail polish (beat that for weirdness!)
41. I’m not scared of any animal except those real stuffed natural history museum ones.
42. I don’t have a purse/handbag. Not even one! My sisters think its some kind of 22 yr old Guinness Record.
43. I can study finance all day and not get tired
44. I hate listening to music. It keeps on going round and round in my head and I can’t think. So, I try not to let it near me!
45. I still wish F.R.I.E.N.D.S would start again.
46. When I’m reading a book, I can go without food for three days.
47. I cannot watch TV for more than 2 hours.
48. I can type almost 100 wpm on my laptop (deceased) without looking at the keyboard… but normal key boards reduce me to 70 wpm and that’s when I’m looking down and CONCENTRATING.
49. I wear only high heels or moccasins. Nothing in between.
50. I chose my alias as ‘Miss Specs’ whereas most people in real life don’t know I wear them. I use clear contacts instead.
51. The only brand of spectacles I wear is D&G. I have problem seeing through others. Its a mental thing, i know; but D&G it is.
52. My room is messy but my cupboards are super clean. So much so that I can find things in the dark.
53. I can keep the same room settings for twenty years or more. I hate it when we move around furniture for a ‘new’ look.
54. I love big gatherings where we’re hosting. Like, totally DIG them!
55. I hate going to weddings. After the one I attended this year, the last one was 8 yrs ago.
56. As those who’ve ever chatted with me know very well, I ALWAYS spell ‘weird’ as ‘wIErd’ because it seems to make more sense to me that way!
57. I think spiders are really unappreciated. I think they’re nice and really fascinating (in spite of being bitten twice) and they deserve more than a cameo appearance in ‘Little Miss Muffet’
58. I’m an excellent shooter. The few times I’ve been let near a gun, every person has said I’m a natural talent. Because it’s not a girly thing to do, I wasn’t allowed to take that any further. But, the first moment of independence, financial or otherwise and off I go to join a club AND get a licensed firearm.
59. I’m a ‘super taster’. Your doctor can check that for you with an iodine (I think) smear on your tongue. That means I have more taste buds than normal people. That may also be the reason I dislike sharp flavors; hence most desi food.
60. I hate plants. Like totally. Freshly mown grass? Can’t think of anything more nauseating.
61. I can live off sweet stuff/ desserts all my life.
62. I’m known as a super confident person but I never make eye contact with people because that makes me feel they’re looking deeper than they should. Someone once told me that makes one look sneaky, so when I try to hold it, I come across as over aggressive or really dominating. So, I just stay ten feet away from people when I talk to them.
63. I’ve been lost in the Margallah mountains for 14 hours sparking a massive man hunt by Islamabad Police and the local hiking club. The police man even asked ME if I’d seen any lost kid and I told him no. (Hello, I didn’t know 14 hours had already gone by… I thought it was like 2 or 3… and i didn’t know being 12 qualified me as a ‘kid’) Here is the place that’s about 1/3rd of the way UP from Islamabad till the place where i was lost (’twas pretty high, see?) and this is about 2/3rds way up. Both pictures are random ones off the internet…i couldn’t find one with no people in them, sorry!
64. I wouldn’t shake hands with you if you were the prime minister of Pakistan. I don’t shake hands, like EVER. No girls, no guys.
65. I don’t share my stuff. I can give it to you if you want, and with a very happy heart at that; but share it, never.
66. I can find something funny in every single little thing; mostly where no one would think of finding anything. For example, I think of computers as gender specific. HP is female, Dell is a guy, for sure. Acer… is also a girl. (Think about it)
67. I can start laughing at the most odd times. Especially when it’s not needed.
68. I am an expert knitter and I taught myself via a book. The reason being my mum’s refusal to teach me, so I did it just to see if I can. I’ve even got a prize in it once!
69. Most people, seeing my studious nature hope/ are of the firm conviction that I am zero at householdy stuff, (I mean, who can be all THAT hateful) but I’m excellent at it, hahaha
70. I was asked to write 7 things and I wrote 70… can you beat that for sheer weirdness?!?
I tag: ‘Liya, Toseef (Don’t use your old one, make a new one!), Marigold, Studentin , Ordinary Girl and Haleem. Not tagging the rest of you because I want to leave someone for the next person to tag!
**updated**
Haleem’s been tagged twice (this is why you should not write posts at 2am in the morning like me:( ) so, I tag Shazia.
I finally decided to write a comment on your blog. I just wanted to say good job. I really enjoy reading your posts.
Specy, I am convinced that you are weird. You’ve got be weirder than us mere mortals if you can think up of SEVENTY things for this list. I feel I’ll have a hard time coming up with even 7!
I feel oh-so-boring and normal now.
What does that say about you? {grins}
JEEEEEEEEEEEEZ LOUIIIIIIIIIIIZE!!!!!!!!!! Let me just say that before I even read your list….. woman, you ARE wierd. LOL!!!!
Phew!!
I don’t think anyone can doubt this one 9. I can sit on the computer for 36 hours non-stop.
Yep. Anyway, you come across as a very smart young woman indeed. Bravo!
70!! You know how long it took me to come up with 7!!!! I even had to ask friends, and they couldn’t come up with anything!
“driving it straight especially at roundabouts”, umm, isn’t that a good thing? I mean, going straight in a roundabout would cause some chaos no, hahaha!
I got tagged by Meow and now you … I will count that as one of the weird things.
I have a feeling I did this before and yet I can’t think of 7… and here you are with 70.
I tag you to think of 30 more to make it an even 100.
was that seventy things??? like Seven Zerooo?
honetly, that did not feel like seventy. no joke. more like a 17 tbh.
I can understand mojo of ur weirdness. But number: 35 is pretty interesting
im with Haleem on the plus 30.You’ll make it =]]
Woohoo , that was one huge weird list. You sounded bipolar and extremist at some places. Only advice I can give you is to count the blessing of living with your family. You did not talk them for 9 days, did not see them for 3 days ? You would regret those days believe me, don’t do that and do conscious effort to make the most of your time with your family.
Eric Lee- Thank you.
Ordinary Girl- Heeey you’re an ‘ordinary girl’, remember? that is why i was thinking, ‘what could be weird about her?’
You’re right on one count though; either I’m excessively weird, as you say, OR I’m totally in touch with my inner self, ha ha ha!
iMuslim- Only that i’m oh-not-so-boring i.e vewy vewy interesting {insert wink} and super normal!
Marigold- Yes i know how much you like me. No need to say that here. :p
Marigold-”Anyway, you come across as a very smart young woman indeed” Er, okay, now i think this statement is weird!
Amir- Heheheh, i meant keeping it under control. Usually it goes in the opposite direction of the one i want it to go… and it doesn’t turn as much as i think ‘this much of a turn of the wheel should do it’.
Haleem- You been jinxed then, haven’t you? Now you gotta stand in the rain one night under the full moon and chant incantations to remove it. Anyways… I’ve changed my tag.
There.
@ 100 things, i was about to but then i thought about not burdening my friends with ‘too much information’ because I’m weird like that.
[[[ x Sparkling Smiles x ]]]- Tell me about it. Didn’t seem this long to me either! I think i can make a list 100 long, but the creative burst is kinda over and i don’t think i can come up with seven more now.
Refugee- *sigh*
omg… we hav so many freaky things in common… lol !!!
It was SEVEN weird things? I did eight, haha.
The word weird is making my head hurt.
Sami- Yeah, brother!
Nice to know another person like that!
Boba That’s okay.. we all have our ‘W’ moments.
wow, ok, that was a read!!!
” I have the fastest reaction times ever. If a glass starts to fall off a table, I’ll be across the room and catch it before it hits the floor. It’s very weird and has caused people to go, ‘How the hell did you do that!’ many times. I dunno how I do that either!”
i think that’s called being a superhero girl!!
You are SO COOL! You are officialy my most FAVOURITE person on this planet and others. I WISH I could meet you. That would be amazing, my dream come true, LOL.
“…cell phone-> boy->elopement.” Ya, my family too. I aksed my dad onceif I was allowed a mobile when I turned eighteen and he said “dekhney ah.” Oh the well.
PS. You are not weird,you are just…uber cool.
Shaz-Aw you’re making me feel awesome! Looking forward to reading yours!
Srtuba-Jeez, you made me blush!
@ cell phone, you’re not 18 yet and already asking? I ASKED when i was already way into my masters b/c i couldn’t work up the guts before then!
Wow, well that certainly was fasinating and ues i agree with srtuba you are uber cool, and the cell phone thing? It wasn’t my dad who had the problem it was my GRANDMOTHER who said she would leave the house if my dad got me a cell..that has not only scared me for life but totally put me off phones. Btw, it takes you three days to read a book?
i think i m in love with all this weirdness i think u r perfect
-Outcastrebelchic- Yar, you got one cool grandma!
I read seven novels a week, without fail. It takes me 2 1/2 to 3 hours to finish a 500 page one. The only ones that took me that long were ‘IT’ by Stephen King and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ (all three parts in one book). I like to re-read the parts i like and sometimes, in the morning, i go back about a 100 pages just to keep the story connected in my mind. Second readings are much faster! But yeah, basically, these two are the only ones which took me 3 days of consecutive reading… the first time i.e.
Sappa- Er, right. Thanks.
Ha ha, I was only asking becuase EVERYBODY in my class has one…well except a few of my friends. I have realised that they are a lot of hassle and the boy thing is pretty true, so I don’t want one anymore, also, if you can last that long without a mobile, then so can I!
Srtuba- Everyone in my UNIVERSITY had one.
And the boy thing is not pretty true except of people who want it to be. How come no cool guy ever calls on my mum’s mobile? LOL, get it?
No. 4 point really make me laugh but all of sudden i felt sad that why people double-cross their own daughters? for sons their methodology is totally different but for girls this sentence is common that: ‘Mundian nal nahin khailna’ no playing with boys
mujay to ulta treatment hi milla hai humesha…
kurryan naal nai khelna :O !!
JazzainButt- Welcome to my blog. @ point 4, tell me about it!
Sami- LoL! Aw, poor you!
I think I misquoted the Punjabi here: it should be ‘mundian nal nahin kedna’
‘Khelna’ is Urdu for ‘playing’, right? Hmmm…
*sighs* You think my grandma is cool?
*wonders what on earth went wrong with the world*
Im only saying this- you dont have to live with her.
That was amazing! It didn’t feel like 70, that’s for sure. You’re a very, very interesting person Specs
Funny how much you find in common with another person after doing something like this. 25? OMG! hahahah me too!! My paper and pen/pencil have to be PERFECT, or I might as well not write anything. You mind if a jack the idea off of you? I don’t think I could go to 70, but I loved it!!!
I’ll get to this when I come back to the blogging world!
Can I get your autograph too?
Do your computer a favor next time; grab a chair.
(Okay, that was lame.)
And for some very strange reason, I find most of these things not weird. Weird, huh?
OMG…wow..bravo! seriously..70? its a big figure
definitely a weirdo
30…can i hav an autograph plz ;P
and ppl ask my mum ’shes YOUR daughter?’ lol
27…weird,,weirdly evil i must add :p
25…high five girl! i am obsessed with my stationery,pens and pencils and when i lend them to someone my heart skips a beat lol.
23..lucky you! i love my mum’s features especialy her eyes but sadly i have inherited none of hers
20…so it was ur list i came to b4 when i read number 20! i dont do them either
7… i have this recent obsession with cars esp old ones…i can drool over the pics hehehe
yes i read ur post starting from number 70 eheheh
good job weirdo
outcastrebelchic- I was joking. Because my mum doesn’t even know how technology basically works. I told my mum laptops cannot connect to the internet and my dad thinks we should let her keep that view. Hahaha; keeps him (and me) safe because its assumed: when you’re on the laptop, you’re working.
souvenirsandscars- Really? Seems i’m not-so-wierd, then!
I think i’ve started this bad bad trend of doing more than 7… every blog i visited recently has more than 7 things! You’re welcome to do it too!
‘Liya-I’ll send you ten if you want. Anything for dear Liya
Saadat- At least you’re realistic
Maybe most of these things are because we drink the same water (i.e. live in the same city)? The water corrupts; it isn’t me, then!
Mubi-27 is weird because I’m the woman who knows too much!
Jesus @ my mum, you don’t know the story, do you? LOL, the LAST thing i want to do is look like her!!
From a person who started the list upside down; you’re one to call me weirdo!
ehehehe,,,i thought that way the list wud become less longer
hahaha! you are not weird. everyone else is just different. actually i found that list very interesting, not weird at all. maybe that makes me weird? and now i’m all confused on how to spell weird. it no longer looks right…
Mubi- Oh, right. Now that yo say it, that makes sense. Weird, huh?
Shabana- LOL! No worries, keep on spelling whichever way you want it. I’m okay with both!