Tag

Got this from Monideepa's blog...the unattainable men in my life...well, where do I begin :)


Chronologically:

Rh***: i was five and he was er, thirteen, i think
the last time i saw him i was twelve...by strange quirk of fate, he happened to be a neighbour of my then best friend from school...though i was most definitely in love with someone else at that time, i blushed, giggled, looked at him and looked away, &c (all those silly things which make you blush when you're older and wise) with my heart thumping loudly all the while

Alladdin: oh man! Brad Kane's voice added to the flawless animated smile... (and don't you dare laugh at me because i fell for an animated character)

(i'll skip a bit now, since the men in the intervening years hadn't affected me that much)

Edward Fairfax Rochester: stuff of dreams...the smell of his cigar smoke in the prelapsarian gardens of Thornfield Hall...those were the days

Marguerite Gautier (and why not?): yes a woman i loveeeed...i saw her through the eyes of Armand Duval...her skin the tint of an untouched peach, her dark eyes and hair, her tuberculosis--a beautiful tragic prostitute who was irresistible to my then unformed mushy sensibilities

Allan Donald: don't ask me why...just

Laurrie: i was so mad at Jo for jilting him...the eternal boy...the slightly more real-ish Peter Pan...the boy of my dreams (yummy!)

Leonardo Di Caprio: the Titanic back lash... and it's no surprise...apparently he was the most searched after thingy in those early days of the internet

Fitzwilliam Darcy: the handsome rich grumpy frog prince! how he transformed and how i wished that the proposal scene in the novel would be a bit more exuberant, explicit *sigh*

Prince William: not really, but because i adored his mother (and day-dreamt of becoming a princess)

Rhett Butler: now we come to the rake...the older, experienced, unscrupulous man who seems to know it all...he's so annoying and so sexy!

Amito: from shesher kobita...he shall always, always be the prototype of my dream man...the smooth-talker, the quoter of poems, the carelessly brilliant poet, the casual inflicter of soo much hurt... i will always run after such men, be embarrassed by the lack of my brilliance as compared to theirs and die humiliated and broken-hearted

Michael (Al Pacino): need i say more? the silent, handsome, inscrutable man

Bill Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes): ooh! he looked so delicious...imagine a man who really wrote those lines and made those sonnets up for you!!!

Gael Garcia Bernal: just go over the archives to see what i mean...i might have said Che...but though Che is undoubtedly one of the best looking and most attractive (a rebel, dudes!) men ever, i don't think he could have been as vulnerable and adorable as Gael in Diarios de Motocicleta...especially during the asthma attack...

Woody Allen: and lastly, the neurotic...i've always been attracted towards and wanted to emulate neurotic women...Virginia Woolf , Sylvia Plath and that pre-gothic gothic chic in 8 1/2...
the unattractive, bespectacled, neurotic man who boasts about his sexual prowess seems farthest from anyone's dreams...but i so wish my life was a Woody Allen film

and now i'd like to see some men do this tag...ok, you might all pretend to be sports loving sweaty hunks who stick out their tongues at mush, but puh-leez...go on do the tag

If I were a beginning, I would be: the Big Bang
If I were a month, I would be: April! ( no surprise there)
If I were a day of the week, I would be: Friday
If I were a time of day, I would be: after midnight
If I were a planet, I would be: mars?
If I were a season, I would be: monsoon
If I were a sea animal, I would be: a sea lion
If I were a direction, I would be: east
If I were a piece of furniture, I would be: a bean bag!
If I were a sin, I would be: gluttony
If I were a liquid, I would be: red wine
If I were a fraud/scare, I would be: Frank Abagnale Jr
If I were a gem, I would be: sapphire
If I were a tree, I would be: the tree of knowledge
If I were a tool, I would be: a hammer
If I were a flower/plant, I would be: jasmine
If I were a kind of weather, I would be: stormy, kalbioshakhi-type
If I were a musical instrument, I would be: a piano
If I were an animal, I would be: a cat (duh!)
If I were an emotion, I would be: sorrow
If I were a vegetable, I would be: alooooo!
If I were a sound, I would be: a beethoven sonata
If I were an element, I would be: air
If I were a car, I would be: a small two seater operating on battery (NOT nano)
If I were a song, I would be: love song to a stranger by joan baez
If I were a food, I would be: mutton biryani
If I were a place, I would be: calcutta
If I were a material, I would be: silk, tussar
If I were a taste, I would be: tangy
If I were a scent, I would be: smelling like the Brut Mask aftershave
If I were a religion, I would be: Roman Catholic (don't judge me)
If I were a sentence, I would be: It's elementary my dear Watson.
If I were a body part, I would be: clitoris
If I were a facial expression, I would be: a grimace
If I were a subject in college, I would be: Special Author- Sylvia Plath :)
If I were a shape, I would be: a rectangle
If I were a quantity, I would be: ???
If I were a colour, I would be: azure
If I were a thing, I would be: a book
If I were a landmass, I would be: sunderban and ladakh
If I were a book, I would be: a hitchhikker's guide to the galaxy (the real one, not the novel)
If I were a monument, I would be: the sistine chapel (is that a monument?)
If I were an artist, I would be: Van Gogh/Michelangelo
If I were a collection of poems, I would be: Collected poems of Sylvia Plath and Jibanananda Das
If I were a landscape, I would be: bumpy and very green
If I were a watch, I would be: fastrack
If I were God, I would be: Aphrodite
If I were a vowel, I would be: a
If I were a consonant, I would be: m
If I were a formula, I would be: e=mc squared (i can't remember any other formula)
If I were a Science, I would be: veterinary science
If I were a theory, I would be: feminist/queer theory
If I were a famous person, I would be: howard hughes/annie hall
If I were an electronic equipment, I would be: an electronic razer
If I were a sport, I would be: football/soccer
If I were a movie, I would be: the royal tenenbaums
If I were a cartoon, I would be: the tom and jerry show
If I were an explorer, I would be: marco polo
If I were a scientist, I would be: newton (he had a cat, didn't he?)
If I were a relation, I would be: umm?
If I were a river, I would be: I wouldn't be a river...they'd dam me up...ok maybe, Narmada
If I were intoxication, I would be: induced by shots of tequila
If I were alone, I would be: lonely
If I were a question, then I would be: where's the party, yaar?
If I were a hobby, I would be: a collection of big colourful and rare stamps
If I were a habit, I would be: nymphomania
If I were an end, I would be: the end of the universe