Bihari?...Naaah...Johari!

Here are the results of a Johari window survey that i had asked my friends to fill up. Well its pretty interesting and there's nothing much for me to say! Take a look....

Arena (known to self and others) cheerful, happy, witty	Blind Spot (known only to others) bold, calm, complex, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, friendly, helpful, intelligent, knowledgeable, logical, mature, modest, reflective, relaxed, searching, self-assertive, sensible, spontaneous, trustworthy, wise
Façade (known only to self) adaptable, brave, observant	Unknown (known to nobody) able, accepting, caring, clever, giving, idealistic, independent, ingenious, introverted, kind, loving, nervous, organised, patient, powerful, proud, quiet, religious, responsive, self-conscious, sentimental, shy, silly, sympathetic, tense, warm

Dominant Traits

54% of people think that Vikram is friendly

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (9%) brave (0%) calm (9%) caring (0%) cheerful (36%) clever (0%) complex (9%) confident (18%) dependable (36%) dignified (9%) energetic (18%) extroverted (36%) friendly (54%) giving (0%) happy (36%) helpful (18%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (18%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (27%) logical (9%) loving (0%) mature (27%) modest (9%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (9%) relaxed (36%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (9%) self-assertive (9%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (9%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (45%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (27%) warm (0%) wise (9%) witty (27%)

Created by the Interactive Johari Window on 26.2.2006, using data from 11 respondents.
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In the NICK of time

Yesterday, I sat to ponder upon all the nick-names that i have been given since my chidhood. And here is the evolution of my name into something unexpected at the end!


First nick name: Vicky - Its quite a normal and common spin-off from Vikram and extremely widepread. My mom was the one who started off with this and so everybody in the family started calling me 'Vicky'..But in later years, as I kept outgrowing the image of a 'Vicky', it was the same parents who felt that it sounded more like a dog's name or the name of a tamil movie villain! So they started correcting everybody around, spreading the rumour that I was getting offended with the name 'Vicky' and that I demanded to be called 'Vikram' henceforth! But in reality, it felt strange when near and dear ones started calling me by my real name, after i had gotten accustomed to Vicky for a loooong time.

Second nickname:Vicks - Quite obviously from the popular 'kich-kich' candy.

Third nickname: Vikram.H - Since my class had a total of 3 Vikrams, people started referring to us along with our nicknames. Thus, I became associated with my inital more than my maiden name.

Fourth nickname: H - Slowly, people started getting more comfortable with just calling me by my nickname. Thus, I became unique with everybody remembering me by just one alphabet! The H became as synonymous to me as the middle finger was to the holy word!

Fifth nickname: Hay-ch - Now, I had a brilliant English teacher whose english aptitude was extremely high. She was a permanent member of the British Council's teaching group. She started correcting people and telling them that the actual pronunciation of 'H' was indeed 'hay-ch'...So there it stood, as the butt of jokes. I came to be mocked as 'H', not because it had any double meaning but simply because people found the new pronounction to be very funny!

Sixth nickname: Ai-ch - This very 'hay-ch' spread around as badly as messages do in the game Chinese whispers. The pronounciation got so distorted in everyday speech that people started calling me 'Ai-ch'

Seventh and final nickname: Now this was precisely the same time when awareness about a killer virus was causing panic waves all over the world. The unfortunate part was that its name sounded quite similar to my own 'Aich', which led people to call me.....'AIDS Vikram'. :(...So, that I was for a long time to come. A man who was a killer disease!

Apart from my sad nickname of Aids, I found out the meaning of my real name too. 'Vikram' means a 'Glorious king'!! :)

P.S. A sir in college used to pronounce my name as 'Viggirum'. And another childhood school aaya used to call me 'Vikrawwwwwwn'! :)

Unexpected Guests!

Recently I had bought a box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates to gift a friend for her birthday and guess what we found in the box apart from the delicious chocolates?...A few squirmy little wormy friends!

When I took it back to the shopkeeper he immediately apologised and blamed the stockist's poor storage conditions for this mishap. He then proceeded to show me the rest of the boxes from that rotten batch, and unbelievably they all had loads of worms moving inside along with some cob-web like dirt hanging from one side of the box to the other! I was then given another fresh one from a new batch after opening up and scrutinising every one of it's corners.

The pic below is not of good quality because of the antiquity of the camera that was used, but then its proof enough....

My Dream Girl (Tagged)

Owing to a number of compelling reasons such as my computer's crash after repeatedly unheeded threats and also the stubborness of my mom to entertain any of my requests due to my seemingly unhygienic room, I had been busy for quite a few days! The computer has been painstakingly re-installed, although its in a near senile state as of now!

Well, this is the first time that I have been tagged. And the culprits here are Matty and Revatechnic. Both for the same questionaire. And what better time to fill up a 'Dream Lover' questionaire than during the season of love, with Valentine's Day having just passed by. As for me, just like any other single out there, it was only an 'Independence Day'! :)

Well to be frank, I have never ever given a thought to this before, cos everytime I do I've only ended up becoming more confused than before!

But lemme try to explore this time around. She....

1. Should be nagging: After all, what is life without some irritation and argument? ;)
2. Should be health conscious but at the same time be a complete foodie! She must also be able to dish out new recipes at my insatiable demand rate!
3. Should to a certain extent love intellectual talk, but never expect too many inputs from my side!
4. Should be able to appreciate things for what they are, and look at the lighter side of things.
5. Should LOVE music and movies as much as I do!
6. Should be a balancing force and should be able to bear with my idiosyncrasies!
7. Must be able to smile unconditionally and also during times of adversity.
8. And last but not least...Should be reeeeeally good in bed too! Oh come on people, I'm sure everybody thinks about it but wouldn't actually blog it out! :P
   

P.S. No, I'm not gonna make anybody cry by tagging them!

Turbulent tongues!

One of the most fascinating languages around is the chinese language, simply because the speakers always seem to be musically expressing the language to each other! They sing, they chant, they hum, and they also yawn the language out but very rarely 'speak'! Their funny nasal twangs have become trademarks of their own!

I had been wanting to know more about the language ever since I heard that there were no 'tenses' in the Chinese language. I had also known that the language doesnt have a prescribed set of alphabets but instead a series of symbols some of which conveyed a whole sentence by themselves. The only way people expressed the time factor in the language was by altering the tone of the spoken word. I recently got to discuss more about the language with a friend in Singapore who threw a generous amount to light on the subject.

Some of the shocking facts that i learnt were...

• Chinese has a set of 10,000 characters which are never completely mastered by anyone in a single lifetime!
  
• Students generally carry a Chinese dictionary into the exam hall!
• Even a minor change in a single stroke of a symbol will result in a completely different word or phrase!
• A single sound such as 'ma' can be expressed in 4 different tones viz. starting with a high and ending with a low tone, starting low and ending high, a flat tone, and then another where it starts with a high, goes low and then ends with a high tone again!!! And each of these carry completely contrasting meanings!
• The natives speak at such blistering speeds that the sound has to be reduced to a super slow-motion inorder to pick the actual word!

Now then, since when did languages cease to exist as a communication medium and instead begin to test the frontiers of human creativity and retention power?

Om Shanti...Chinese-aaya namahuh!