► Test of Proust.

Rhett_Bassard

45 minutes later...

1. What is your favorite hobby? Fishing, gardening, cooking, fermenting, WheresGeorge, torrenting, motorcycling and reading.   

2. What would perfect happiness be for you? Sweet dreams in Utopia.   

3. What is your great fear? A corrupt human gene pool.   

4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you? Directness.

5. What do you consider your worst defect? Procrastination.   

6. What or who is the great love of your life? The ones who got away.   

7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery? Pandemic.   

8. What is your biggest extravagance? Motorcycles.   

9. What is the worst defect that others can have? Insincerity.  

10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often? How's your day?  

11. What has been your greatest achievement? Surviving.   

12. On what occasions do you lie? Preservation of self or mission.  

13. When and where have you been absolutely happy? Post-coital.   

14. What do you think has been your biggest investment? Time.
   
15. What personal object is the most valuable to you? Health.   

16. What is your favorite occupation? Pundit.  

17. What is the quality you most admire in a man? Sincerity.   

18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman? Pert and not overly large...personality ;)  

19.Which character in the story is who else do you identify with? One with good grammar ;)  

20. How would you like to die? Painlessly and quick.  

21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be? Hawk, octopus, woman.  

22. What is your motto? Actions, not words, sir.   

23. What do you dislike about your appearance? Nose.  

24. What special talent would you like to have? Playing a musical instrument.  

25. What person do you admire? An accomplished humanitarian, e.g. FDR.  

26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person? Sincerity.   

27. What is your favorite fiction hero? A humanoid who is simple and honest, e.g. Jack Reacher, Odd Thomas.  

28. What are your favorite writers? Homo sapiens who write shorter, moving passages.   

29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends? Sincerity.   

30. What living person seems despicable to you? An unbenevolent despot e.g. Kim Jong Un (Rocket Man).

abhilasha1951

My honest reply to the questioner:

1.What is your favorite hobby?   
Other than reading I do Mural Painting

2. What would perfect happiness be for you?   
Bring a smile on a person’s face &I think I made my day

3. What is your great fear?   
I believe in Karma, So nothing is frightful to me

4. What do you think is the feature that most definesyou?  

Helpever, Hurt never

5. What do you consider your worst defect?   
Crowd  phobia, Outspokeness

6. What or who is the great love of your life?   
My eldest brother, who raised me, educated me, what I am today is because of him

7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?   
Loosing loved ones

8. What is your biggest extravagance?   
None

9. What is the worst defect that others can have?   
Hypocrisy, Double standard

10. What are the words or phrases that you use mostoften?   
Most people are other people; their thoughts are someone else’s opinion, theirlives a mimicry, their passions a quotation

11. What has been your greatest achievement?   
Achievement just like Happiness is a state of mind. I would say that ( in today"s world ) not falling into a rat race for everything is my achievement

12. On what occasions do you lie?   
Avoid lying, in difficult situation keep mum

13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?   
When one my mural creation was bought by prominent industrialist during auctionto raise money to help under privileged children’s education

14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?

I am single. So no big investment to name any.

15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?   
My books

16. What is your favorite occupation?   
Teaching. So far 15 under privileged students in three years time  have entered top engineering colleges

17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?   
Simplicity & down to earth

18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?   
Integrity

19.Which character in the story is who else do you identifywith?   
None comes to my mind

20. How would you like to die?   
Peacefully when everything is going good.

21. If you died and you were allowed to become another personor thing, what do you think you would be?   
Me again & if possible with the same set of people around

22. What is your motto?   
We are not required to save the world. We are required to stand up as truly as we can for what we love.

23. What do you dislike about your appearance?   
I don’t like to question the creator.

24. What special talent would you like to have?   
Be little extrovert for I am an introvert

25. What person do you admire?   
APJ Abdul Kalaam for his simplicity, down to earth personality even afterascending to be the President of the country

26. What is the quality that you most admire in aperson?   
Straightforwardness

27. What is your favorite fiction hero?   
None specific.

28. What are your favorite writers?   
Many .Difficult to accommodate here.

29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?  
Loyalty

30. What living person seems despicable to you?  

Nonein particular. But yes in general politicians & Actors Don’task me why?

visuarchie

1. What is your favorite hobby?  Reading books

2. What would perfect happiness be for you?   
Being healthy and contented.

3. What is your great fear?   
Fear of uncertainity.

4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you?  
Calm, composed and reserved.

5. What do you consider your worst defect?  
Not very sociable.  

6. What or who is the great love of your life?  
Health and happiness

7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?   
Bad health all around

8. What is your biggest extravagance?  
Acquring items just to satisfy a long yearning, eg DSLR camera

9. What is the worst defect that others can have?   
Not being frank

10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often?   
Maybe.

11. What has been your greatest achievement?  
Stability in life

12. On what occasions do you lie?   
When it helps in avoiding an embarrassment to our loving ones.

13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?   
It has always been temporary. Paying my mortgage completely.

14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?   
Finance for my children's future. They are now not encumbered.

15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?   

16. What is your favorite occupation?   
Personal Financial

17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?
Frankness and ability to speak ones mind.   

18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?
Love and affection  

19.Which character in the story is who else do you identify with?   

20. How would you like to die?   
Peacefully in sleep without troubling anybody.

21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be?   
I am happy to be myself.

22. What is your motto?   
Be contented.

23. What do you dislike about your appearance?   
Average in all respects, nothing that stands out.

24. What special talent would you like to have?   

25. What person do you admire?   

26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person?   

27. What is your favorite fiction hero?   

28. What are your favorite writers?   

29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?   

30. What living person seems despicable to you?  

jhsurti

1. What is your favorite hobby?   
Readding & Phorography

2. What would perfect happiness be for you?   
Sitting in a cootage near the montains, river flowing by, a chef serving delicious B/L/D and a book in my hands!

3. What is your great fear?   
Suffering from a painful ailment.

4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you?  
Lazy

5. What do you consider your worst defect?   
Not being able to accept faith without proper digestibel logic.

6. What or who is the great love of your life?   
My wife.

7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?   
Insomnia

8. What is your biggest extravagance?   
Newer gadgets

9. What is the worst defect that others can have?   
People not accepting logic when it comes to faith!

10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often?   
Probably, Possibly, Fine.

11. What has been your greatest achievement?   
Not pressurising my children in any way.

12. On what occasions do you lie?   
Social gatherings.

13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?   
With my children and with my friends, place is immaterial.

14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?   
Trust in my near and dear ones.

15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?   

16. What is your favorite occupation?   

17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?   

18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?   

19.Which character in the story is who else do you identify with?   

20. How would you like to die?   
In sleep.

21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be?   

22. What is your motto?   

23. What do you dislike about your appearance?   

24. What special talent would you like to have?   
Singing

25. What person do you admire?   

26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person?   

27. What is your favorite fiction hero?   

28. What are your favorite writers?   
Frederick Forsyth, Alsitair MacLean, Agatah Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?   

30. What living person seems despicable to you?
The so called saints and religious heads.

mereeja

1. What is your favorite hobby?   

Reading/ Music/ Watching good movies[ mainly from distant cultures] and some TV Serials

2. What would perfect happiness be for you?   
Doing any of my hobbies !
3. What is your great fear?   
Out living any of my children [ putting in a different way, my great fear is my childrens death during my life time]

4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you?  
Credibility

5. What do you consider your worst defect?   
Quick Temper :-(

6. What or who is the great love of your life?   
It changes all the time...  presently it is RUNNING... [ hoping to do a Marathon/ Triathlon in the very near future]

7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?   
Short term -Having forced to spend time with people i cannot tolerate.
Long Term- Death of loved ones

8. What is your biggest extravagance?   
books, sports/games equipment.

9. What is the worst defect that others can have?   
Incredibility / Dishonesty

10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often?   
[ i guess , i have to ask that question to people who are with me :-)]

11. What has been your greatest achievement?   
On a personal level, keeping physically fit.
As a legacy, am hoping that within 3 years, i will be able to build my drean sports complex and fitness center.

12. On what occasions do you lie?
Cannot think of any...  Mostly to wife about financial matters :-)

13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?  
Am living with the philosophy of "Sambhavami Yuge Yuge", so am happy most of the time.

14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?   
Investment in properties. Keeping a healthy body.
  
15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?   
most times none ... i guess it changes with the situation. Mobile, PC.

16. What is your favorite occupation?   
spending time with family and friends.

17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?   
doing what he says and saying what he do.

18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?   
Integrity, dressing and behaving elegantly.

19.Which character in the story is who else do you identify with?   
wish to be many... but am just a normal person :-)

20. How would you like to die?   
in my sleep.

21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be?   
myself !

22. What is your motto?   
live happily and let others live happily

23. What do you dislike about your appearance?   
It was my bald head but now as my shaven head is my my trademark... i like the way i look :-)

24. What special talent would you like to have?   
Be jovial all the time.

25. What person do you admire?   
Everyone who come up in the world with their own hard work.

26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person?   
credibilty, honesty, keeping ones word.

27. What is your favorite fiction hero?   
Tarzen / Sherlock Holmes [ difficult to chose ]

28. What are your favorite writers?   
it will be long list.. and even then.. i will miss many.
Micheal Crichton, Wilbur Smith , Irwing Wallace, Desmond Bagley, Arthur Haely, Sidney Sheldon, Frederick Forsyth, Dan Brown, Ken Follet, Jeffery Archer...  
special mentions [ one book only ] Ken Kessy, Yan Martel , Harper Lee
and OLD GEN - Edgar rice Burroghs, Sir.Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain
the list goes on.. and on

29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?   
Loyalty

30. What living person seems despicable to you?   
Everyone who is a parasite... Politicians of Every party..

pokeris4fun

1. What is your favorite hobby?   
   
    Listening to music/Reading/Watching movies & tv shows/long bike rides (I don't think I can pick just 1!)

2. What would perfect happiness be for you?   

    Playing cricket for a living

3. What is your great fear?   

    Being bedridden and dependant on others.

4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you?  

    Good humor

5. What do you consider your worst defect?   

    Short Temper and Complacency

6. What or who is the great love of your life?   

    That girl who would never be mine!

7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?   

    Having to be fake everyday.

8. What is your biggest extravagance?   

   
9. What is the worst defect that others can have?   

    Saying one thing and doing something entirely else.

10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often?   

     I'll think about it , I'll do it later

11. What has been your greatest achievement?   

     Sadly, nothing yet.

12. On what occasions do you lie?   

     To avoid saying unpleasant truths! and to tell why I forgot calling someone

13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?   

      That night on the beach, being high on whiskey and pot and talking to my friends under the starry sky.

14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?
     
   
15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?   

     My bike.

16. What is your favorite occupation?   

     Spending time with friends.

17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?   

      Honesty

18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?   

      Patience, Listening to others without interrupting!

19.Which character in the story is who else do you identify with?   
   

20. How would you like to die?   

      Quick and painlessly

21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be?   


22. What is your motto?   

      Live and let live.

23. What do you dislike about your appearance?   
      

24. What special talent would you like to have?   

      Ability to carry a tune

25. What person do you admire?   

     A R Rahman. That man is a bloody genius and yet so humble.

26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person?   

      Being true to your word.

27. What is your favorite fiction hero?   

      There are so many! But Jack Reacher tops the list at the moment. I envy his freedom!

28. What are your favorite writers?   

     There are so many!

29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?   

      They stand by me through everything

30. What living person seems despicable to you?   

      A backstabbing friend.

darknight286

Alrighty then, Lets Give this a shot.

1. What is your favorite hobby?   
      Reading, Photography

2. What would perfect happiness be for you?   
     Travelling the world

3. What is your great fear?   
     Fear of Rejection

4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you?  
     Happy-go-lucky, easy to talk to

5. What do you consider your worst defect?   
     Easily trusts people only to find out I was just an means to an end

6. What or who is the great love of your life?   
    My Family

7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?   
     Feeling that I let someone down especially someone who was depending on me

8. What is your biggest extravagance?   
     Fine Dining or trying out new joints in town

9. What is the worst defect that others can have?   
     Arrogance and Narcissism

10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often?   
       "Damn" or "Oh crap"

11. What has been your greatest achievement?   
      The day I graduated summa cum laude from Med school

12. On what occasions do you lie?   
       Mostly white lies, usually to reassure or to not stress my folks especially my mum

13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?
       When I woke up with my college buddies and watched the sunrise while we were camping on the beach.   

14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?   
       I feel that I am blessed to have been born into this wonderful family and that is my single greatest investment

15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?   
       When I came back home after graaduation, my parents gifted me a cross pen to use when i joined for internship. I still have it and treasure it to date.

16. What is your favorite occupation?   
       Being a doctor is something I have always dreamt about being ever since I was a child. There is nothing else I would rather do. (Other than photography maybe)

17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?   
       Dependable,Trustworthy, Honest

18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?   
       Kindness, Intelligence, Honest

19.Which character in the story is who else do you identify with?   
       I know this may sound weird but I identify with Dr Watson in the Sherlock Holmes novels. I like to write, have had a mentor who was very eerily similar to Holmes and identify with several of his character traits.

20. How would you like to die?   
      Surrounded by people who are near and dear to me.

21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be?   
       Dr. House? or Patch Adams?

22. What is your motto?   
        "Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire" and "We rise by lifting others"

23. What do you dislike about your appearance?   
       I need to lose some extra weight. Soon, very soon.

24. What special talent would you like to have?   
       Instantly recognize a lie.

25. What person do you admire?   
       My father. He has never said no and has always encouraged me to chase my dreams.

26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person?   
       Loyalty.

27. What is your favorite fiction hero?   
       Dr. House.

28. What are your favorite writers?   
       Oh, too many to count. Michael Crichton, Agatha Christie, Jeffrey Archer, Frederick Forsyth, Mario Puzo, Michael Palmer, Arthur Conan Doyle, Malcolm Gladwell, JRR Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Gaiman, Herman Melville, Roald Dahl, Harper Lee to name a few.

29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?   
       The way they support and rally around whenever the need arises.

30. What living person seems despicable to you?   
       Martin Shkreli.

sergyu

Now i never stayed so long to think about me in last 10 years but... here are my answers.
1. What is your favorite hobby?   
staying on my pc
2. What would perfect happiness be for you?   
to be the only men in the middle of the most beautiful women in the world.
3. What is your great fear?   
to fall in love again.
4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you?
being roughly honest
5. What do you consider your worst defect?   
when i say no to something/somebody, i know it remains no and maybe later i regret it... like a Romanian word " you took no in your arms".
6. What or who is the great love of your life?   
right now the is a girl, called ANA(translates Anne) but my mistake is that she still loves her ex and i knew it from day one.
7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?   
losing the only parent i have left
8. What is your biggest extravagance?   
it makes no sense, but my Nokia 8
9. What is the worst defect that others can have?   
the lies, even small ones.
10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often?   
i can't write them in here, they are abusive words.
11. What has been your greatest achievement?   
it has and still is... making everyone to like me in seconds... i'm a funny guy
12. On what occasions do you lie?   
only when i protect someone from something bad, but not from the law.
13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?   
i honestly don't remember, maybe when my ex told me she loved me after she came to my door at 01:00 in the night and cold.
14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?   
loving the wrong person
15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?   
my nokia 808... damn those phones.
16. What is your favorite occupation?   
if sleep counts, that's it.
17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?   
keeping his promise.
18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?   
being loyal to the one she loves.
19.Which character in the story is who else do you identify with?   
it doesn't come to my mind right now, so no answer here.
20. How would you like to die?   
if it's possibile, not feeling a thing.
21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be?   
i would be an wolf... great in a pack, great alone, and nobody can tame me.
22. What is your motto?   
money doesn't change people, it reveals their true face.
23. What do you dislike about your appearance?   
my nose is kind of big...
24. What special talent would you like to have?   
reading minds.
25. What person do you admire?   
only me, the rest, i hate them all.
26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person?   
being honest
27. What is your favorite fiction hero?   
Gokuuu... i love that guy.
28. What are your favorite writers?   
They are Romanian writers... but i love Agatha Christie too..
29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?   
since my best friend hooked up with the love of my life, i only have buddies... so no valuable thing here.
30. What living person seems despicable to you?
on the top are the politicians and after them those rockefeller/rotschild fellas who control us through the world bank.

Mandwanikamlesh

My answers...
1) Reading books and playing cricket.
2) To make my parents proud
3)  I am fearless
4) My time management skills
5) I can't remember much names
6) My love towards humanity and nature.
7) My anger may be
8) No idea about it.
9) lack of solidarity
10) hatred toward anyone
11) all india rank in cs foundation exams
12)when it comes to eating chapatis
13) everywhere
14) my time on this forum
15) obviously my kindle
16) company secretary
17)  honesty
18) loyalty
19) Shiv in shiv trilogy because my real name is shiv and school name is kamlesh.
20) Want to sleep and never to wake up
21) Again a son to my mother
22) To serve my country
23)  Nothing. I love myself
24) want to make everyone happy so i can help as much people as I can
25) Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
26) Humbleness
27) Chulbul pandey
28) Dan Brown and Amish Tripathi
29) They are my family.
30) Terrorists