Who: Male homosexual of Pakistani origin.
Full name: Silly though this sounds, nope. You’re not getting it. Stalkers are exhausting.
Where: All over the place. Literally and figuratively.
Height: Depending on how much I’m slouching, the kind of shoes I’m wearing, and my general posture, between 5’10″ and 6’0″. That doesn’t take into account drag queen boots, heels, or platforms. Average it out if it’s that important to you.
Attitude: Generally amiable, frequently bitchy and sharp, but somehow always darling.
Favourite things to do: People-watch. Read…extensively and at length. Cook. Wax bitter on occasion. Make fun of gay men and lesbians. Get pleasantly drunk and sit and smoke with friends while we have long, often meaningless (but oh-so-profound!) conversations. Oh, and engage in staring contests with cats. I always lose, but I like to keep trying.
Belief system (of sorts):
Flagrant abuse of the comma and the semi-colon should, in my kind of world, be a crime punishable by death.
I am of the firm and considered opinion that e-mail, no matter how frequent, does not ever really compare in terms of communications value with an actual hand-written letter.
The word “bling” annoys me. Please never use it deliberately (unless it’s for the purposes of irony or mockery), especially if you’re not an ethnic minority. Hell, even if you are.
Science-fiction and fantastic fiction are completely viable literary categories. You don’t have to like them as genres, but don’t disagree with them, because that would make you a judgemental moron.
I will try to read almost anything and everything, provided it’s in an intelligible language. No guarantees that it’ll be finished if it’s awful, but it will be picked up.
My favourite colour as a child was red. Then during college, it was blue, and presently, it’s green. My therapist friend has had a field day with this, because she thought the role of primary colours in my life was significant. When I pointed out to her that green is a secondary colour, she threw a soothing aromatherapy candle at me.
I can no longer sing, thanks to my nasty smoking habit, but when drunk, that knowledge mysteriously vanishes, and I break out into a cappella song. It’s really not a worthwhile experience.
It’s a central tenet of mine that the words “I love…” should be reserved for people and pets. Loving everything is a sign of severe neediness. Differentiating between “loving” and “being in love with” is also important.
Sometimes it’s entirely possible to have a bad day for no reason whatsoever. The same applies to a good day.
Stupidity requires an utter absence of tolerance. Really. Drama’s not too far behind either.
So what sort of person am I?
According to 20 Questions to a Better Personality:
You are an SECF–Sober Emotional Constructive Follower. This makes you a hippie. You are passionate about your causes and steadfast in your commitments. Once you’ve made up your mind, no one can convince you otherwise. Your politics are left-leaning, and your lifestyle choices decidedly temperate and chaste.
You do tremendous work when focused, but usually you operate somewhat distracted. You blow hot and cold, and while you normally endeavour on the side of goodness and truth, you have a massive mean streak which is not to be taken lightly. You don’t get mad, you get even.
I can’t remember which particular website I got these quiz results from, but without further ado, here’s what the Internet has to say about my cerebral organ:
[Sin], you show a slight right-hemisphere dominance with a moderate preference for auditory processing, an unusual and somewhat paradoxical combination of characteristics.
You are drawn to a random and sometimes nonchalant synthesis of material. You learn as it seems important to a specific situation, and might even develop a resentment of others who attempt to direct your learning down a specific channel.
Your right-hemispheric dominance provides a structure that is only loosely organized and one which processes entire swatches of reality, overlooking details. You are emotional in your reactions and perceptual more than logical in your approach, although you can impose structure and a language base when necessary.
Your auditory preference, on the other hand, implies that you process information sequentially and unidimensionally. This combination of right-brain and auditory modes creates conflict, as you want to process data more rapidly than your natural processes allow. Your tendency to be creative and free-flowing is accompanied by sufficient ability to organize and be logical, allowing you a reasonable degree of success in a number of different endeavors. You take in information methodically and systematically which can then be synthesized rapidly. In this manner, you manage to function consistently well, although certainly less efficiently than you desire.
You prefer the abstract and are a theoretician at heart while retaining the ability to be practical. You find the symbolism in a great deal of what you encounter and are something of a “mystic.” With regards to your lifestyle, you have the mentality which would be good as a philosopher, writer, journalist, or instructor, or possibly as a systems designer or social worker. Perhaps most important is your ability to “listen to your inner voice” as a mode of skipping over unnecessary steps to achieve your goals.