Funny Language

In my primitive years,as many others', I was having a genuinely strong vocabulory. Education is the main culprit I suppose to have made so many words obsolete and shrinked my dictionary. Sigh!

Back in those times,

Tamplese : It meant one should not catch you when playing lock and key if you uttered the word.
(Time please it had to be.Hmm...)

Oldein: It meant that the vehicle has to stop for a while.
(Hold on it had to be.)

Ya : It meant a friend like in "No ya, it is not like that ! ".

( For a long while I thought 'Ya' meant a friend, later I realised it is "yaar" which meant friend in Hindi!)

Mys : It meant something that belonged to me.
('Mine' it had to be.)

Stomachcake : Pain in the stomach.
(Stomach ache it had to be.)

Shut : It was used to show displeasure.
(It had to be shit! Shit!)

Macs : It meant a very difficult subjects dealing with numbers.
(Maths,dude, it is!)

exectra: It meant many more to follow.
(Etcetera it had to be)

Ruf note : It meant a book where you could scribble anything.
(Rough note)

A lot others in the list like putted , cutted ,drinked,drived etc. Now they give an absolute laughter, but God knows how confused we would have been if someone had laughed at our diction then!

Day before yesterday, as I was watching a group of kids play football, a kid who was the goal keeper stopped the ball from reaching the goal using his hands for which the kids in the opposition objected to using hands calling it unfair. "Who told? Hands is there!", he said in response. I was sorry, but I couldn't stop laughing!

When I was in primary school , I was asked to get my leave letter signed by my parents.When my dad was just about to sign it, I said 'Papa, my miss has told that it has to be purely signed'. He was in total confusion what purely signing meant until he guessed that it has to be be duly signed'.

English is a funny language. Indeed.

Spy?

My Orkut Fortune for the day :"You are soon going to change your present line of work"

Someone's spying out there, huh? :D

Silver lining

On a dim evening, last Friday, to return back from work, I boarded an office shuttle that I had not taken ever for I was headed to a different destination. Pensive and all alone, although in a crowded bus, I was. When no one seemed to keep me company, I recoiled to myself and was just gaping out of the window, mindlessly. After quite a while did I realize that those heavy clouds in the sky did give me company, only to be ignored till then.They followed me, wherever I went. What was with those clouds?

Was it to say that someone does give us company and we are never alone, whether or not it gets noticed?

Was it to say that, although they were heavy and overloaded, they moved on with life, hence we can too?

Or was it to remind me that every cloud has silver lining?


Whatever, as I moved on, they moved along. I reached my destination, not sure what happened of them later. Maybe, they found another lonely soul to give company and reassurance. Maybe…

Sometimes, elements around us, inanimate or otherwise, can be such a source of inspiration. Mind-boggling!

Big Brother

Long ago, when physical growth to us, three siblings(me the eldest, a sister in between and a brother standing at the tail of the lineage), meant just the linear one as against the current secondary growth, most of the relatives who visited our house had a tough time in guessing the ascending/descending order of our age. As my sister was almost of my height (! oh yeah, I kind of gave it up early!! :P), folks were confused all the more.When a family visited our house some years ago, a natural question that got asked was who the eldest was. Spontaneously, I said ‘It’s him, my brother’. My parents were the most startled ones, not left too far by the relatives because his height at that time had still kept him eligible to be called the youngest. I had to justify my answer to all those pairs of eyes expressing wonder. If a person’s orders and demands worked, if he could boss around, if he was given all rights of the remote control of the TV whenever he wanted to, rather, if there were a couple of people to support his cause if his rights were denied, if his choice of menu for lunch was taken as order, if not the eldest, what else can he be, I said. A loud burst of laughter from relatives and a mild smile from parents (who must have realized the consequences of forcing me to give away the remote control for the poor ‘younger’ brother) ends the scene.


Not so long ago, the ‘young’ brother who has outgrown most of the tall men in our kith and kin, also called the Big B of our family, confused some people so much that he was considered the big brother, I mean the eldest of all. If marriage proposals start coming his way, what do we assume?

Just recently, we visited our native place to attend a ceremony. A place with extreme influence of rural culture, bearing conservative people, it is. As we all sat in the open field and chatted after the ceremony was over, my brother started pelting stones at my toe. Despite warning and scolding him, he did it relentlessly. Quite irritated with his absurd behavior and to avoid a creation of scene, I walked away from there and later forgot about the incident totally. A couple days later, my brother reminded me of that incident to invite my wrath, and he asked if I knew the reason for why he did that. I expressed my ignorance for which he reasoned out that the problem was that I was sitting with crossed legs and the conservative-rural people consider that snobbish and arrogant. As we were sitting amidst so many people, he found it difficult to express that and assuming that I would change my posture, he did that. Laughing out loud, recollecting that I had walked away, he said it had finally worked!! All the anger I had on him vanished immediately. Although, the body language that got displayed was not intended, he was right in pointing it out. Lessons of manners when came from my younger brother, I realized, he had indeed become a BIG brother, maturity-wise too.

But then, the TV-remote-control thing is unfair! I still stand by that :P

Fortune Teller

Most of the times, I am not the one to get into the traps of sms-to- win contests/surveys. However easy or obvious the question could be, I never make an effort to send my answer over sms as I have a strong feeling that I could not truly be that lucky to be the chosen one to win the contests. So, more often than not, I turn a deaf ear when sms-to-win contests get aired amidst some movie numbers and plenty of advertisements in radio broadcasts.

An early morning travel of around an hour and a half in the bus to workplace is made less painful by listening to music. And enjoying music via radio comes for a price, got to listen to the advertisements and the contests too. Just a couple of days ago, when a question was asked on Radio One as to what the lifetime of an eye-lash could be, I blindly guessed it to be 5 months, and it turned out to be the answer too. For a while at least, I felt so bad for not having answered it . Maybe I could have won the prize, just maybe,I thought. A lazy goose or a pessimistic soul I must have been to let go of that chance to own a goody bag I felt. Similarly today too, a question in the lines of ”What act that you do every time kills a couple of brain cells?” was asked, I knew that I was aware of the answer- “SNEEZE”. After a hard fight over mind I realized that it was better to text in the answer and wait for the result rather than not send and regret later. So I did the same and waited desperately, clearing my throat, to get a response call from them to inform me that I have been the lucky winner for the day. The answer I gave was as right as the guy who won the goody bag. Just that his luck worked and mine didn’t as usual. This made me regret again for foolishly have fallen into the trap when it was proved in the past that lucky draws were never meant for me! Cursed myself for having sent a message at a cost of 3 rupees!!
SMS currency is too valuable a thing to be spent like this I thought.

It was as if I paid money to a fortune teller to call me unlucky! Not something that I did not know of! Hmmmph!!

Do sms me to vote for/against the sms-contests!! :P

Women's Day

Oh yeah... It was Women's day on 8th March. I tried so much to post on that very day, but was unable to, as a result of my maid going on leave and my being the complete woman at home!! Women's day,literally, it did turn out to be! Sigh! The sadistic relief is that men-folk at home were not left alone either ... he he he

Nevertheless, here comes one post with what I wanted to share. This eve of March has indeed been a reason to celebrate for women in India. The government and the judiciary have bestowed upon women some gifts in advance giving us every reason to celebrate and feel good about being us.

1. The upper limit of the tax exemption slab for women has been revised to 1.80 lacs from 1.50 lacs.

Kudos, Mr.Chidambaram.Thanks a lot. As one of my friends said, at least this time, we can take some bucks, home :)


2. 'Disinclination to cook not a ground for divorce'

Check the link to believe it if not read before.

Unfortunate that it had to be ruled rather than being understood,in the first place. As per me, it is so implicit that one should not have claimed that as a cause for divorce! Whoever that guy is, he has got the concept of marriage totally wrong. The ruling has made the the lady guilt-free, I suppose. In fact, his wife must have divorced him for a senseless person that he has been!

Did I ever say that I dislike cooking too? Now, my husband must have lost one good chance to divorce me. 'Dude,no luck this time!!' :P