Total number of books owned
I'm not sure. Quite a few between the four of us.

Last book(s) I bought
The Outsider, The Grapes of Wrath

Book(s) I'm currently reading
The Second Sex, Grapes of Wrath, Heart of the Matter

Five books that I have really enjoyed or have influenced me
Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mocking Bird, On the Road, The Collected Stories of Roald Dahl, Of Mice and Men (also - The Great Gatsby, Blues for a Black Cat, Nine Stories, The Sound and the Fury, The Old Man and the Sea, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Books I plan to buy next
Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik, Slaughter House Five - Kurt Vonnegut, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson, Tortilla Flats - John Steinbeck, One of those cool coffee table books with loads of pictures - either about films, retro music or art down the ages.

Books that caught my attention but have never read
Dharma Bums, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, a lot of stuff by Vonnegut, Hemmingway and Capote, Terry Prachett's Discworld series - there's a lot I need to read.

Books I own but have never got around to reading
Catch-22, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Bridge Across Forever, Women in Love - and a whole lot more actually.

I pass this onto Sudu and Vatsala.

Yes, me too.

I was actually quite happy about filling this out. Purpose, finally.

1. Pick out a scar you have, and explain how you got it:
A very deep and prominent one on the left middle finger. I was, ahem, sharpening a pencil, with a pocket knife and things went out of control. Oh well.

2. What is on the walls in your room?
Oh lots of stuff - Paint, lights, pictures, calendar, bulletin board with the usual shit.

3. What does your phone look like?
A little abused actually. I keep dropping it. A lot.

4. What music do you listen to?
Whatever drifts into my ears. They usually play Himesh outside my building all the time. Also on the radio. Given a choice though, I like listening to a lot of retro and mood dependent stuff.

5. What is your current desktop picture?
A very moody picture of Kurt Cobain. Very 90s I know.

6. What do you want more than anything right now?
Sleep.

7. Do you believe in gay marriage?
Sure. What’s there not to believe?

8. What time were you born?
2.53 a.m.

9. Are your parents still together?
Yeah, knock on wood. They’re good for each other.

10. What are you listening to?
‘Fake Pallindromes’, Ma doing Pujo, rumbling clouds.

12. The last person to make you cry?
Calcutta University – person(s) running, controlling, populating.

13. What is your favourite perfume/cologne?
I really like that Gillette Pacific Blue Aftershave smell, Fahrenheit, after rain smells, the way Ma, Baba and Dada smell- Clean, bathed and cool, kerosene, fresh paint, bel phool, cuticura powder, orange peels, freshly cut grass. Yeah, smells are important.

14. What kind of hair/eye colour do you like on the opposite sex?
Oh anything. As long as it’s natural, and not Zee horror show-ish.

15. Do you like pain killers?
I need. I don’t like. Or not-like. I just need.

16. Are you too shy to ask someone out?
Not if he's stuck inside a storm drain or something, no. I'd help, encourage - do all of the baywatch stuff, I would. I truly would.

17. Fave pizza topping?
Pineapple.

18. If you could eat anything right now, what would it be?
Chocolate. More like, Cadbury Crackle. Do they still have Crackle? In that yellow-purple wrapper? I have a Crackle craving.

19. Who was the last person you made mad?
I don’t know whom I made mad…all seem to display certain amounts of insanity. I dunno if it was me, or if they were like that to begin with. Fuck knows.

20. Is anyone in love with you?
Oh, the entire world daahlings, the entire world. I'm irresistable.

I tag Sudu, Preeta (who's too lazy, I know), Srin (who may have already done this before) and anyone who wants to do this, actually,