And then a couple surveys to introduce myself.

First name: aparna
Middle name: sanjiv? that's actually my dad's name and my brother has it stuck in the middle of his name too, so it's technically more like last name is "sanjiv aiyar"
Last name: aiyar
Nickname(s): aps, parny, parna..
Age: 16
Birthday: april 8
Height: 5 foot 5, 163 cm
Hair color: blackz
Eye color: brown
Glasses: yeah, black rimmed
Contacts: yeah
Braces: no
Hair short or long: long
Where you were born: new delhi
Where you now live: singapore
Astrology sign: aries
Chinese zodiac sign: rabbit
Nationality: indian
Bad habits: sleeping too late but not sleeping enough, not studying enough, eating all the wrong stuff..
Piercings: ears
Tattoos: i'd like one, please


FAMILY, ETC.

Mother's name: gowri
Father's name: sanjiv
Brother's name(s): kartik
Sister's name(s): don't have a sister
Favorite aunt: i don't have one
Favorite uncle: mom's brother
Favorite grandparent: mom's mother
Worst relative: dad's sister's husband.. drunkard
Best relative: my little new york cousins! favourite uncle's daughters..
Best family memory: driving around australia, 95
Do you get along with your parents: tolerably so.
Do your parents understand you: my dad tries, my mom doesn't. but overall no.
Does anyone in your family understand you: not really.. my brother's too naive but he does maybe to a certain extent.
Are you still in school: hell, yeah.
Current grade: sec 4
Favorite grade: sec 3
Worst grade: something in primary school.. that was my hell. secondary's tough, but much more tolerable.
Favorite teacher: lina tan, she's a very interesting person. and ting, supremely amusing
Worst teacher: i'll just refrain from commenting. i have terrible things to say about just about every teacher
Favorite subject: lit..
Worst subject: tamil, without a doubt.
Buy or bring lunch: both
School sports: is dance a sport?
High school: rgs
School activities: talking, slacking, and of late, sleeping
Popular or what: no
Favorite memory: a lot, mostly involving laughing so hard that my abdomen feels very much like it's been sat on my an elephant, though how to qualify that sensation with experience i wouldn't know
Worst memory: primary school. god. i was a horrible person, everyone was horrible to me. repressed memories.


FAVORITE

Number: 8
Clothing brand: don't have a favourite. i can find clothes to like in just about every brand except the local isetan-type cheap brands.
Shoes: sandals
Saying: i have billions of sayings that i love, do i have to identify a favourite?
TV show: ALIAS.
Sport: to watch? tennis/choreography sports (gym, figure skating etc). to play - tennis
Vegetable: broccoli
Fruit: i hate fruits (time to be bombarded with astounded queries of "really?" "are you kidding?") but if i had to pick something tolerable, watermelon
Movie: chicago
Actress: lena olin for making me doubt my sexuality, jennifer garner because i'm a loyal person, nicole kidman for the drama, julia roberts for romantic comedies, renee zellweger for bridget jones. i'm not a one woman woman when it comes to picking actresses, as is painfully obvious
Actor: michael vartan. i AM the point girl, after all. for serious WOW acting, victor garber. still loyal to the ONE show.
Candy: cadbury's milk chocolate, but that's chocolate. the only candy i can remember loving is this orange stuff that i don't know the name of, used to eat a lot of it when i was small
Gum: hate gum
Scent: davidoff cool water, it's my vaughn scent
Candy bar: cadbury's milk chocolate bar
Ice cream: haägen dazs chocolate
Color: teal
Season: fall
Holiday: december. it's the longest
Band: goo goo dolls
Singer: rufus wainwright
Music: anything but pop, nu-metal, heavy metal, trance, hip-hop. sort of soft rock, alt-rockish with some country and a developing taste for punk thrown in
Fast song: california, rufus wainwright
Slow song: poses, rufus wainwright
Thing in your room: desk, with the computer and the proximity to the bed.
Place to be: borders
Radio station: class 95.. i remember how 98.7 used to be the IT station and class95 was for the fuddy-duddies. how things change. 98.7 as well as all the pop that is reminiscent of my 'younger days' just pisses me off. guess i'm getting old
TV channel: if i had to pick a singapore channel, channel 5. US channel, ABC although their execs are monkeys
Junk food: chocolate.cheese.
Fast food place: don't really like any of them particularly much
Restaurant: the tiffin room at raffles hotel, and spageddies. two places you can just get completely stuffed
Shape: spiral
Time of day: night
Country: india, because it's the most fucking colourful country in the world, IMHO
State: rajasthan, india, or new york state, usa
Boy's name: michael.. haha. i can't think of any nice indian names at all no matter how desperately i've tried.
Girl's name: tara
Mall: wisma's my haunt
Video game: i don't play.
Shampoo: currently using something by the natural source
Computer game: i don't play computer games either, but i've loved carmen sandiego and all the sims games when i had time for that stuff
Car: vintage volkswagon beetle.
Music video: i'm hardly the mtv gal, so i'll tell you that abby O makes fantastic music videos for the SV ship (alias)
Swear word: fuck
Month: april.
Cartoon: madeline, can you believe my two year old cousin got me hooked on it?
Song: isn't there a favourite song already up there? ok so this is neither fast nor slow or general song? whatever. anyway, favourite song: god put a smile upon your face, coldplay
Scary movie: dark water
Team: india's cricket team. i don't have favourites in any other sport.


WORD ASSOCIATION
Eminem: 8 mile
Hot: sun
Britney Spears: page six
NSync: justin timberlake
Real world: reality tv
Orange: juice
Fuck: you
Bisexual: lena olin, don't ask
Black: white
Insane clown: marshall
Linkin Park: avril lavigne, they're in the same category
Jack: and the beanstalk
Rainbow: colours
Cherry: ice cream
Cucumber: puffy eyes
Shark: sea
Bat: -shit crazy
Leather: germany, sex club, vaughn in a teddy ebing
Whip: dominatrix
America: manhattan
Water: bottle, hehe there's a waterbottle sitting in front of me
Volcano: maui