Ask me anything

In a continued attempt to make this site more interactive, YOU can ask me anything and I shall answer it as honestly as I can. Honest.

Anything at all.. questions of philosophy, hatred, politics, boot polishes, music, war, fridge magnets, love, concrete structures, underwear, Russian history, shoes, electrical connections, Mongolia, close circuit cable tv, cricket, the industrial military complex, the pharmaceutical conspiracy, etc. etc. ... whatever comes to mind. I'm game if you are.

So.. any questions?

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Darren asked: Right now, what's in your wallet?

- I don't actually have a wallet. I haven't kept a wallet for like four years now. What I do have a sweet silver/orange card holder that I picked up from Write Impressions in Westdale. It holds my debit cards, maxed out credit cards, citizenship card, health card, SIN card and a few business cards. I'm a complete plastic whore. i don't use cash much probably cuz it makes me sad that I don't have a lot of it in my pocket. Since I got to Qatar, I have not carried a wallet and neither have I used the card holder.
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Danny Shuster asked: If you try to fail and succeed, what have you accomplished?

- Hmm. This has never happened to me, as I am a master-failer when I do try. But, your question is interesting. I would think that in such a situation,

1. You have learnt that you do not know your own abilities (those that have silently propelled you towards success).

2. If this was a competition, then the person opposing you is truly horrible at that particular excersise of talents.

3. You have learnt, that to truly fail at something it is essential to turn off your alarm clock and stay in bed. Not much else except your own body thanks you for that exercise.

4. Most of all, you have accomplished to astonish your ownself with your magical abilities. Not to mention your wealth of sheer dumb luck.
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Anonymous asked: What song have you hated and then conequently loved?

- Soon after the confirmation of my citizenship in Canada, I became a Tragically Hip fan. I began to recite such Canadiana anthems as Wheat Kings, Bobcaygeon and 50 Mission Cap with regularity much to the astonishment of friends who knew I still secretly lusted for cricket and chappatis. You can still catch me from time to time, as a hijab clad Arab woman did a few days ago, singing Wheat Kings in the elevator.

Anyway, the song that I hated at first but have come to love due to repeated radio listenings is by the Tragically Hip. Its called Its a Good Life if you don't Weaken from their relatively recent cd, In Violet Light. My favorite song by the Hip has and always will be Blow at High Dough with Ahead by a Century being a close second.

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Colleen asked: Have you ever slipped and fallen on ice? Subquestion, what would you do if I did?

- When I first came to Canada, I was enrolled in a high school about 20 minute walk away from my house. At first, my dad would drop me off to school, but as the new school year started in September i convinced him that I was old enough to walk by myself. Little did I know that I would come to regret this argument for the next three years. Part of this stupidity arose from the simple fact that I had never actually been in a Canadian snowstorm, neither had I ever trekked through knee-high snow.

Well, along came November and everything was fine jim dandy until mother nature smacked our city with a massive snow storm. I tried talking my dad into dropping me off to school but once the chain is broken, it stays broken. So, I put on my flimsy clothes at least in relation to what the weather demanded, and started walking to school on that fateful day.

To answer your question, yes I have slipped on ice. About 15 times on the same day actually. By the time I got to school that morning, my hand was nearly broken from smashing on the frozen pavement and my tail bone had given its two hour notice, it wanted out and it wanted out now. The experience was a wake up call, people laughed at me on the trail to school. High school students might have the good sense and manners to not laugh the one time you fall, but after the same guy falls three to four times on the same walk to school, all decorum is forgotten. The experience was so horrible that I chose to wade throw snow rather than walk on the pathway on the way back from school. However, I must say that I have never fallen on ice since, no mater what shoes I was wearing or how bad the weather has been.

As to what I would do if you fell... I promised to answer questions honestly. And honestly, I would laugh. But I'm a hater, you know?
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