This is awesome!
P.S.
Why don’t you offer to help?
Learn to pick up after yourself!
This is a house and not a hotel!
Don’t walk away! Are you deaf?
How can you waste your food?
People will think that you are rude!
Be grateful for what you have!
There are hungry kids everywhere!
Why can’t you score as much as him?
Why play tennis? Why not swim?
Smile! Don’t always be so grim!
Your hair needs more than just a trim!
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
It's a 'knotty' world out there
The wedding season is upon us. Among all my high-school/college-mates, it's now a (much-too-often-repeated) question of 'when'. With all the knots being tied, I couldn't help but list the typical two-somes that I often come across.
The Vintage Pair: The high-school sweethearts or the college couplet who offer everyone they meet voluntary relationship counsel and attempt to 'cure' their single friends. When surrounded by multiple couples that fall under this category, the air is usually thick with competition accompanied by such long-drawn explanations about 'the right time to wed' that you wish you had powerpoint slides to get lost in.
The Matrimony Whammy: Before you can sing a line of "shaayad meri shaadi ka khayal…" (translation: maybe the thought of my wedding) they're uploading the honeymoon album on orkut. No mangani (engagement), fast byaah (wedding). This occurrence tends to leave the swiftly-hitched happily dazed. However, the whammy-fied friends are now extra alert not to be blind-sided again. Every nubile individual will notice a sharp rise in nosey orkut profile visitors.
The Not-so-Newlyweds: Having been married for almost half a dozen years, they now attempt to re-live their weddings vicariously through the new bakras. They set up a rendezvous of their single friends with other similar-statused individuals, narrate proposal stories of possibly-invented friends, fortuitously mention jewelry sales and furtively bet on which one of these new-born-alliances will be the first to the alter.
The AECDs: American Employed Completely-rushed Desis: The young professionals in America who are trying to conjure up vacation time in order to turn up jet-lagged for their wedding day in India. A large percentage of the arrangements are managed online and then out-sourced to parents and siblings. The two week trip includes shopping for outfits, a dozen pre- & post-wedding ceremonies and an occasional visa interview... and the 15 hr stop-over in Milan during the return flight counts as a honeymoon!
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The Vintage Pair: The high-school sweethearts or the college couplet who offer everyone they meet voluntary relationship counsel and attempt to 'cure' their single friends. When surrounded by multiple couples that fall under this category, the air is usually thick with competition accompanied by such long-drawn explanations about 'the right time to wed' that you wish you had powerpoint slides to get lost in.
The Matrimony Whammy: Before you can sing a line of "shaayad meri shaadi ka khayal…" (translation: maybe the thought of my wedding) they're uploading the honeymoon album on orkut. No mangani (engagement), fast byaah (wedding). This occurrence tends to leave the swiftly-hitched happily dazed. However, the whammy-fied friends are now extra alert not to be blind-sided again. Every nubile individual will notice a sharp rise in nosey orkut profile visitors.
The Not-so-Newlyweds: Having been married for almost half a dozen years, they now attempt to re-live their weddings vicariously through the new bakras. They set up a rendezvous of their single friends with other similar-statused individuals, narrate proposal stories of possibly-invented friends, fortuitously mention jewelry sales and furtively bet on which one of these new-born-alliances will be the first to the alter.
The AECDs: American Employed Completely-rushed Desis: The young professionals in America who are trying to conjure up vacation time in order to turn up jet-lagged for their wedding day in India. A large percentage of the arrangements are managed online and then out-sourced to parents and siblings. The two week trip includes shopping for outfits, a dozen pre- & post-wedding ceremonies and an occasional visa interview... and the 15 hr stop-over in Milan during the return flight counts as a honeymoon!
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