Hee hee !! Had one like this a few months back and I really wished it was true and then they chased me with mail after mail asking for abot 33000/- Rs so they could send the cheque !! I blocked the sender !! :)
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
hmmmm is it that chain mail you've got or are you shiftting to a new and better job.
ReplyDelete@ Pseudonym:Chain mail of course. I may shift got a few interviews lined up.
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ReplyDeleteAs the old adage goes "Erukaratha vitutu Parakarathuku aasai padarathu"
ReplyDeleteget the clue???
Easy come, easy go! Dont believe all that Clement! =p!!!
ReplyDeleteHey Ash, did u really think that I had fallen for that?
ReplyDeleteHee hee !! Had one like this a few months back and I really wished it was true and then they chased me with mail after mail asking for abot 33000/- Rs so they could send the cheque !! I blocked the sender !! :)
ReplyDeletedear sir,
ReplyDeletei resign.
now &^&%^%^*(!
...ya that sounds pretty good!