prachi (prachi) wrote, @ 2005-03-12 22:15:00

More of something Maya started.
1. Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3. You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five (honest) answers.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.


a) What do you do and why?

I have been trained as a textile designer. Designing textiles is something I enjoy doing very much, especially print. However most of the work I'm doing now as a freelancer has no direct link to it. I style photography shoots, I design interiors, I handle photo production jobs and I'm trying my hand at brand identities and graphic design. Lucky for me, I'm currently getting paid to do things I enjoy most.


b) What was your wildest ambition?

I had quite a few over my school years and can't decide which one's the wildest. When I was in the fourth grade, some of my friends and I opened a shop in class that sold 6" by 2" 2D paper clothes and ‘stuff’. The currency was paper notes stamped with a stolen old company stamp from my mother's desk. If we were out of stock we'd show our customers designs from our own design book and made it on order. All was going great guns till the day I came up with the idea to do it in real fabric. The company was over by lunch break that day. Looking back now, I consider my first idea of selling designs on paper very 'with it' for the Indian design industry in 1993! In fifth grade I started something called a 'Goody-gang' which I'd now call a cross between 'Captain Planet' and the Rotary Club. I had big ideas about everything this club needed to do including getting all the 53 members a magic ring each and making international connections through pen-friends. Unfortunately, the summer holidays proved effectively distracting.


c) What freaked you out as a child? and now?

I always was and still am a scaredy-poo. Everything from darkness to lizards freaks me out. But my all time biggest freak-out is of being alone or of not belonging to the people I love. Not in an every day sense but as a way of life.


d) what can absolutely bring you to your knees?

Pessimism! I’m terrible with it. That is one thing that I can do without in my life and would be ready to beg if only to get someone over it.


e) What would make your life totally worthwhile? What wouldn't?

That’s a tough one. I think I’d consider my life worthwhile if in my presence or by my touching their lives, people saw an opportunity to own their lives. To see in it, the possibility of going beyond themselves and acting upon their dreams, however unreal they may seem.

My life would be worthless if all I get remembered for after dying is about having been a ‘sweet’ or ‘really nice’ departed soul.

	slumberbum 2005-03-14 00:23 (link)
	now do me! (Reply to this) (Thread)

here you go... prachi 2005-03-14 08:49 (link)

a) Name one personality trait that inspires you. Name one person with that trait. b) Name three things that you are 'sooo-not'. Name three that you 'sooo-are'. c) What is your most irritating habit? Who's most affected by it? d) What kind of people are you a magnet for? Why do you think your friends get from being around you? e) Which animal would you have been if you were one, not by choice but on the basis of charecteristics. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: here you go... slumberbum 2005-03-15 02:20 (link)

a) Patience. Seems like everyone but me. b) Patient, a numbers-person, graceful. Hyper. Anal. Qucik-tempered c)Anal hyperness. The Significant Idiot probably, cause he shares the room. d) I used to be an amazing loser magnet. And I mean LOSER. DRUNK-DRUG-ADDICTED-DEPRESSED LOSERS. Who sold gifts I gave them for DRUGS. I used to have a lot of friends who wanted to be around me cause I'm such a gullible sap. Which means I would be running to their homes in the middle of the night to console their broken hearts. Hearts broken my the man I happened to be dating at the time. Yeah, my friends feel better about themselves around me. Only a few, chosen friends hang around cause i make them laugh, give them poetry, and free access to my dogs. e) I think an ant, or a beaver. cause I need to be occupied all the time, or I get depressed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)