A Restless Mind

A few days ago, I read with interest Wez's article where she went through an intense psychoanalytic test of her innermost desires and personality. OK, she did not actually do that, she did something called The Proust Questionnaire, which is meant to gauge one's personality. I thought it would be interesting to do it since I rarely write about myself on my blog. This is a long one, so, without further ado, here we go!

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Cup of tea and stand-up comedy dvd. Or, the probability of realising my dreams not being nil.

2. What is your greatest fear?
Being at a standstill.

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Laziness. Procrastination. Stubbornness. That's more than one...

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Close-mindedness. Disrespectfulness. That's again more than one.

5. Which living person do you most admire?
My parents. I would be nothing without them. And I am not even exaggerating.

6. What is your greatest extravagance?
I think I have a very comfortable life and that is the greatest extravangance I could wish for.

7. What is your current state of mind?
Duh!

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Piety.

9. On what occasion do you lie?
When I don't want to get my parents worried about stuff.

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My slowly receding hairline... I am letting it grow long for a last time...

11. Which living person do you most despise?
Piers Morgan.

12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
That's too private...

13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Simplicity, honesty...and boobs.

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Bloody hell!

15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Music.

16. When and where were you happiest?
1998, when I started secondary education in Mauritius. I had no worries AT ALL. I just went to school, played football all day and flirted with girls in a haphazard manner, without worrying about consequences and responsibilities.

17. Which talent would you most like to have?
I would love to be naturally funny.

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I would grow myself wings like.

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Graduating from university last year because I acquired decades of life experiences and maturity in those 3 years.

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
Gymneth Paltrow's teddy bear.

21. Where would you most like to live?
British or French countryside.

22. What is your most treasured possession?
My insanity.

23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Acute hunger.

24. What is your favorite occupation?
Throwing stones at midgets.

25. What is your most marked characteristic?
My muscular physique. Hey you at the back, did you say 'you wish'?

26. What do you most value in your friends?
Sincerity.

27. Who are your favorite writers?
The Actuarial Education Company. That's right, the companies who produce my course notes. When not studying, it's V.S.Naipaul, Michael Crichton and classic authors like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Charles Dickens.

28. Who is your hero of fiction?
It's got to be the dark knight of Gotham City!

29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
None, but I really admire Alexander The Great.

30. Who are your heroes in real life?
Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski and Kenny McCormick!

31. What are your favorite names?
Any name which carries a meaning, rather than names like Sweety and the ones you get in Mauritius where they take a popular trisyllabic girl's name (like Natasha,...etc) and just play around with vowels and consonants to end up with ridiculous names.

32. What is it that you most dislike?
This questionnaire is getting depressing now... Damn, I have just seen the next questions... Okay, the thing I dislike the most is the act of willingly restricting someone else's opportunities in life.

33. What is your greatest regret?
Not learning to play a musical intrument when I had the chance to.

34. How would you like to die?
I would love to die in a way that is not sudden. I would not mind dying of very old age.

35. What is your motto?
Be the best you can be. Always. If you still fall short of your aims, then that's how it is meant to be, because you cannot be better than your best.

There you go. Apologies to those who got bored midway through (I don't blame you, I almost got bored myself!)! I look forward to other blogger doing the questionnaire too!