One easy method of stepping around the writer's block is to use the prompts provided by blogging challenges. They make for an easy and lightweight starting point. Here is one that was doing the rounds last year.
1. Do you floss your teeth?
Nope, never have. Flossing isn't as big a deal in India as it is generally in the west. I haven't found a need to floss, but I do brush my teeth thoroughly twice a day.
2. Tea, coffee, or water?
This is complicated. Water is my favorite beverage, but I like to have a cup of cold/warm milk (depending on the season) with my breakfast. Even when going out, rather than going for coffee or tea, I generally prefer a drink with milk as the primary ingredient. My wife is a huge tea lover, so since my marriage I have been getting more and more comfortable with tea also.
3. Footwear preference?
These shoes from the "Bata – Power" brand are what I find the most comfortable. In summers they only get worn outdoors, but winters see a separate pair come out specifically to be worn indoors.
4. Favourite dessert?
If we are talking about cold dessert, then generally some flavour of ice-cream, I tend to enjoy a variety of different flavours.
If we are talking about warm dessert, then walnut brownies are the ones who take the crown.
5. The first thing you do when you wake up?
Drink a lot of water. I generally tend to not wake up in the middle of the night, and as a result am generally parched by the time morning comes around.
6. Age you'd like to stick at?
On the one hand, I am fine with my current age. But if I could keep accruing the wisdom and experience, then I would like to keep my fitness levels from back when I was 22–23 years old.
7. How many hats do you own?
None. Caps are the preferred mode of sun-protection in India. I have four caps and three beanies. I don't think I have bought any of those, my dad generally gets me cool caps and beanies that he finds. Thanks dad ❤️
8. Describe the last photo you took?
It is of a makeshift cloth-tent that me and my wife made in our balcony to protect the papdis that we put out for drying.
9. Worst TV show?
No idea. If I find a show bad, then I generally don't tend to watch it any further. So I can't rank any of them as being the "worst".
10. As a child, what was your aspiration for adulthood?
There were different phases, including being an archeologist, being a soldier, a sports-person, etc. But the one that remained the longest was being a rocket-scientist. My parents (love you both ❤️) even got me a nice poster built of famous astronauts and rocket scientists to hang by my bedside.
This challenge was initiated by David over at Forking Mad. I found it from one of Abhinav's posts last year.
