Now I was hoping this meme virus will pass by the rock I live under without touching me. But alas this was not to be, for Gaurav, who after heroically failing to coax folks (most of them must have been babes, I am guessing) to post silly photos of self, sent the meme in this westwards direction. Until a few months ago, when I still had a Flickr Pro account and was making pixels like crazy, this meme would have been easy to comply with. But now I had to undertake a torturous excavation to show myself in a silly photo. And kind readers, I have to report that this expedition failed.

I mostly look like a bum, a bookworm (the library belongs to my poetry guruji who allows me to drool all over it from time to time), a pensive person waiting for Godot-gandu, an understudy to Hannibal Lecter, or a pervert who should be arrested for eve-teasing. The closest I have come to a silly photo is this one, taken after a hard run, and in which I was imagining myself running across a Swiss meadow into the open arms of Scarlett Johansson* (I, the great ishq-frusth-iqi, can dream irrationally too, dudes!).

I suppose this satisfies the meme. Oh! And further infection will require some thought on my part.

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Update: I tag Sharanya and Khush.

*Since I have lost all hope of "scoring", I am thinking of opening a kisok over at Shaadi.com. So at this point, I might as well take a poll regarding which of the above photos should I use to peddle myself. Kind readers, pliss be telling me that as well, okay?