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Sitting at home during my sick leave, I was reminiscing about a phone call from work. Somehow I came upon these... Why do I get this feeling of deja vu?
haha. funny that, but honestly i cant relate to it :|
i'm scared, to be very honest. i've finally reached a stage in my life when i cant play around anymore. and you're already out there in the real world, doing it. hats off to you corporate band wagon folks. i'll be joining you soon. brr. :|
hey indiblogger is hosting a chennai blogger meet! http://www.indiblogger.in/bloggermeet.php?id=9 It’ll be awesome if all the chennai bloggers can make it. Hope to see you there! :)
This was a crude translation of a proverb that comedian Karunas (as pointed out by Chriz ) made famous in one movie. The Tamil original runs thus, “Kazhutha ketta, kutti suvaru” so you have the translation. I heard that line somewhere and I wondered especially having heard the translation as to what could have been the origin of the proverb. Any ideas? PS: I Googled it and did find something.
MTC bus today! As I was turning into Haddows road today a MTC bus whizzed by nearly missing a few people on the road as is the norm. Just when I was about to curse the bus and its driver and everybody connected to it, my mind drifted back to the days gone by when I used to travel by these buses. The more my mind drifted, more instances that have been deeply etched in the confines of my memory came out like a mental slideshow. It is amazing how at the most unexpected moments lost thoughts surface and make even poor memory people like me feel good about us. Coming back to the post I thought I will put together a few memorable ones for the record. It was in the days of khaki shorts and white shirts, the old uniform of Dominic Savio Preparatory school (I’m told it has graduated to a matriculation now!) and its bigger sibling St. Bede’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School (100 years now, dear school of our hearts). School was a two stop bus ride from home if you got onto a white board bus
This post was spurred by some grammar related conversations in the CBC I went through college with the tag “Peter” or the longer “Appa tie, amma gown” . If you have not got it yet, my English was flawless and for those who could not follow what I said they thought that this was payback. It was not a fluke, my parents did not have a convent education but they ensure that my brother & I got one. It was an Anglo Indian school where speaking any other language but English meant you ran rounds around the decent sized play ground. My neighbours were Anglo Indians too, a wonderful couple who also taught for a living in my school, did i forget to mention they had two daughters who were similar in age to my brother and me ensuring that we played & grew up together for a few years. As it was English near home and in school my fluency increased. But even this upbringing may not have been enough were it not for one unforgettable instance when I noticed that the washed
Wow! I'm glad I've had good bosses fortunately! :)
ReplyDeletemvr hd a boss unfortunately... or fortunately... bt lke u said 'this too shall pass... chin up!"
ReplyDeleteoh bw... r u bettr nw?
Are you feeling better now?
ReplyDeletehaha. funny that, but honestly i cant relate to it :|
ReplyDeletei'm scared, to be very honest. i've finally reached a stage in my life when i cant play around anymore. and you're already out there in the real world, doing it. hats off to you corporate band wagon folks. i'll be joining you soon. brr. :|
did i mention im scared? :O
Scared!!! About what? Dont be scared child...
ReplyDeletesick leave.. are you alright now? back to work and fit and fine?
ReplyDeletehey indiblogger is hosting a chennai blogger meet! http://www.indiblogger.in/bloggermeet.php?id=9
ReplyDeleteIt’ll be awesome if all the chennai bloggers can make it. Hope to see you there! :)