When tagged by Griz...

Nosey aunt Rita was coming home to tea today. She always had her weird ways of getting herself invited whenever she wanted to my place. Gosh she likes me and I ought not to be so mean to her I suppose, but can I help it, I broke up with Tan just last weekend and we had our final final meet at the same old coffee shop and well... I mustn't start thinking of that again now. But I was kind of preoccupied and the last thing I wanted was to entertain nosey aunt Rita! Something told me it was good thing to happen in the way of a distraction, the kinds Suzy keeps advising me about, but... 'Ting tong' Doorbell, must be nosey aunt Rita and sure enuf it was her.
After hugs and kisses and this and that and how I dont do anythign to keep in touch with her and how she does miss me, why couldn't I shift over to her place, I look so frail, I must have not been eating well, ... she went on and on. Its easy smiling through it all, because you know whats coming you dont have to really bother listening, paying attention and then fixing an appropriate expression, like what Tan said I used to do when he cribbed about his impractical manager at work, why am I thinking of Tan again...
Coming back to nosey aunt Rita, I realised she had said something to which she expected a reply, I mean really expected a reply and I hadn't heard her, off course! I said, "Hmm... now lets see, wait let me get us some tea and then I can hear that again!" and jumped up to the kitched to get black tea, biscuits and badam-corn flakes mixture! I felt her gaze on me and, is it telepathy or what, I knew she was thinking that no good was coming to me staying by myself like this and that I ought to be settling down with a nice man soon.
After one long noisy sip of tea, she starts again "I did take up that counselling course, u remember right?..." Aunt likes me so much and tells me so much, why can't I just pay more attention to her! "yeah, that course right.."
"Yeah, so they've given us this exercise... mmm let me not tell you about it, let me instead ask you a few questions, just sanswer immediately without thinking at all... its gonna be fun" she giggled!Fun!, really!
"Right now, what you thinking about?"
"Me?, Tan, I mean no, am thinking of life, well not that big, I mean just what to answer..."
Did I see her wink just now? Arrgh, I must control my stupid tongue! But before all else, I must stop control my blushing... I was hot all over!"k, sweetie, moving on, right now, what do you want to do?"
"No nothing to do with Tan aunty, I want to move on!" I managed a smile, but why I couldn't I stop blushing!?
" what do you wish for?"
"I wish I'd never ever blush when embarassed... its awful to let everyoen know you are embarassed.." Huh, now I think I got my blush in check! I seemed to be cooling, but I was feeling weird and all-frank!
"true true, blushing when embarassed is all the more embarassing!, next one, what do you hear?"
"I hear they all want me married but I want to live forever, "
"Gina!, I have a lot to say to that, but we'll come back to that ok?, quickly onto the next, What do you wonder?"
"I wonder why we're doing this! aunty, quickly the next one..."
"What do you regret?"
"I must be regretting things not working out with Tan, but I regret I refused to try. No actually aunty, I regret not doing my Phd!"
"But you can go back to that sweetie, can't you? ..."
"Should I answer that as well?"
"No, you've told me answers to that several times before, instead tell me what are you?"
"I am... your niece, Gina!? I am alert, beautiful, caring, desirable, ... arrgh, am just reading out from that chart I read last week! "
"Do you dance?"
"I have, with Tan and for Tan, but now I will, if you want, for you... "
"Do you sing?"
"I sing like a mad woman, all the time, tuneless, careless, in my mind.."
"Do you cry?" This was where it stopped being fun, somehow I just snapped...
"How long aunty..."
"a little bit more sweetie..."
"Yes I cry, for my lost pup Pista ... to my lost dog , no I dont cry for Tan...Huh!" Aunts do get painful, very painful! All I wanted to do now was sit in the rain, on the terrace and cry, for God knows what!
"What dont you do always?"
"Love, its dificult to do that, non-stop! Or am I just being hysterical!?"
"Perhaps, What do you make with your hands?"
"Nice fluffy rotis, nice brown cakes, nice rugs and nice pictures" Wow, that kind of uplifted my spirits!
"What do you write?"
"only my diary!"
"What confuses you?"
"Oh aunty, this is easiest, its people, am never able to predict them!"
"What do you need?"
"Tan, no shit! I mean, a nice new boyfriend No, double shit! just peace and distraction!"
"Finally, what you waiting for?"
"Tan's call, fffff, to regain my mental peace and equilibrium or lose it again some other way!"
Well, with that she finished her execise and started out on her extra long discourse on what was best for me now. At times she tried to extract excruciatingly personal relevant details about times with Tan. But she left me more confused and with a feeling of being robbed, somehow. I am shitty and am feeling shitty, alright!

With this the tag now goes to Suzy...

As told to the author...

Hi, am a black cat, am also single and willing to mingle, in fact, wanting to mingle would be more appropriate. So the other evening strolling down the bylane by the pink bunglow with white windows, when I caught sight of another black cat and a female one at that, my excitement soared up and I crossed over to her path and said "Hey, we are both black cats, do you think we should mingle?..." I have been warned a million times before by friends, well wishers, family and similar experiences that to be so direct in one's approach can only prove to be disastrous and unfulfilling to the core. However, one's natural characteristics can be controlled only as long as the effect of the disaster lasts. So now that I had chanced upon a black cat whom I wanted to badly mingle with I threw all safe measures and ground checks to the winds and drew on my sword of directness. She stopped surprised in her path and looked at me. Oh she had those nice cat eyes, have you seen a black cat with them and had your heart melt over? Then you'll know precisely how I felt at that moment.
"No" she replied. Well, so she wasn't so direct, in fact rude is how some might put it, but I'll say she was merely playing it hard to get! So I played along, who wouldn't want to play with a female black cat with eyes like those ones. So I said, "But its only right that we did. If you differ you must give me your reasons." Now before I had completed this she had twined her sleek tail along her right hind leg and trotted ahead. So I had to kind of pursue her to get an answer to my query.
"No" she replied again. Twice is how many insults any self respecting black cat will take, even if it comes from a definitely mingleable female black cat. So I should have known the rules and left it at that. But when she found me still trotting along, she turned around with that nasty look in her nice eyes and said, "Am a black cat wanting to mingle only with single white cats so that I can have white kittens. Now get out of my way!" She sure had me out of her way with that 'cause nothing for a long time since my first love ever caused me to get this tongue-tied and motionless!
Now, as I sit puzzled by the warm fire dejectedly, all I can think of is 'Do cats have it too?'

So I met Liu

Liu was a cockroach who didn't really know she was one. Now you might say, what crap she writes! But I say, hold on... just wait. Think of this, is it not possible you are something that you are not aware of? Like for instance you could be the person with one of the worst walks but how are you to know, you've never seen yourself walk! Have you!? Or may be you are this person who comes across as someone with an irritating cocksure attitude at work place, how are you to know, noone's ever told you this, so what? You still can be so cocksure that noone really wants to tell you that you are cocksure! Hmmpf.. enough of you and me, lets get back to Liu. So Liu didn't know she was a cockroach.
She had 6 pairs of legs and 2 feelers just like so many other insects and then she hated cockroaches, just like so many other insects. She hated cockroaches in her cupboards or in her sink, just like so many of us and kept naphthalene balls by them to keep the cockroaches away and better still never went near cupboards and sinks, with naphthalene balls in them to keep away cockroaches. She had her ups and downs, just like the rest of us and she loved life nocturnal. Well, so do most of us!
She crawled out of her crack at the crack of dusk and rushed for the bathroom for a drink and a wash. There by the poolside lay gathered her usual gang of friends. After that and a quick game of baseball, oh yeah she loved baseball(!), they ran for the midnight feast by the kitchen shelves. Usually one of thsoe adventurous ones would have found a decent spot to grab a bite and dance safely for the rest of them. Well, thats how it went on till the crack of dawn at which time she scurried back to her crack again. That is exactly how the other day was all set out to be. So when Liu came out of her crack to go for that drink, plonk came a lizard and grabbed her head for his dessert! Ouch, I squealed when I saw Liu freeze for a moment and then dazedly scurry around without her head. Oh yes, I saw this live! Hehehe...
She didn't feel any pain, cockroaches don't, but she felt weirdly empty and she didn't really know what happened because she no longer could see, you see! So she just scurried around, dashing against objects in her way, until she went too close to the glowing lamp and slipped into the hot oil in it and then, well, she died of those burns...
Now coming back to you and me, hmm, so can we live off our entire lives and not know so many things about ourselves!?!